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Cube Fodder: Tangle Desktop Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5a38.shtml
Gadgets: Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a3c.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Tshirts: Kids: newbie
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59cc.shtml
Caffeine: Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/5a35.shtml
Gadgets: Super Bright GREEN Laser Pointer!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1d.shtml
Gadgets: SoundBug - Turns Glossy Surfaces Into Speakers!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a15.shtml
Tshirts: It Must Be User Error
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59fe.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher Privacy Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Gadgets: Mini Wireless Color Video Cam (for RC rovers)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59eb.shtml
Cube Goodies: Levitron Desktop Levitation Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59a9.shtml
Tshirts: Bug Off, I'm On My Break
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/5a00.shtml
Watches: onHand PC Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1a.shtml
Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/beer.shtml
Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml
Cube Fodder: New Desktop Mini Fridge/Warmer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5991.shtml
Mods: New Lian-LIi Cases
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/cases-mods.shtml
Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59e0.shtml
Cube Fodder: Rogers Connection Magnetic Set
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59b4.shtml
Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/59de.shtml
Sourceforge
Automated Security Tools
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51027
Release Candidate 1
phpLotto
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53340
phpLotto 1st Release
Legend of the Wonderer TCG
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44698
battle system in the project Docs
Advanced Simlulation Toolkit
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48818
Recruiting
PHPortal
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28568
PHPortal version 0.1.9 released!
PCGen -- A d20 Character Generator
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576
PCGen 2.6.3 is available
MySQL Objective C API for Cocoa
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42424
SMySQL version 0.7.0
i810 Framebuffer Device Driver
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39579
Video Overlay Support for the Intel 810 and 815 Framebuffer
'Just For Fun' Network Management System
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46041
JFF Network Management System 0.6.4
VietPad
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46758
VietPad 1.0.2 Release
Slashdot
A First Look At The Xandros Desktop
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/0252255
Gentu writes "[0]OSNews has an [1]exclusive article regarding the
awaited Xandros Desktop. [2]Xandros is the company who purchased the
Corel Linux source code and rights, so in essense, this is the second
generation of the once promising, Corel's Linux. OSNews previews beta
3b and they say that this distribution, along with Lycoris, Lindows
(and possibly Red Hat 8), is the one to compete for the
purely-for-the-desktop Linux market."
Links
0. http://www.osnews.com/
1. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1762
2. http://www.xandros.com/
CA Court Favors Employees in Trade Secret Decision
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/1824217
legal_tinker writes "At [0]grep.law, Tait Graves [1]writes: 'In a
majority of states, you can be enjoined from starting a new job because
of what you know, even if you have done nothing wrong.' A California
court just [2]rejected that idea in California."
Links
0. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/
1. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/1236247&mode=thread
2. http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/G028382.PDF
Slashback: Courseware, Warranties, Subscraption
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/2052202
Slashback brings you word on open courseware, The Big Switch as seen by
Tim O'Reilly, another update on the man-made "moon," more on the
in-progress clampdown on Chinese Internet searchers, and a
disheartening note about hard drive warranties. Get 'em before they
disappear completely ;) Read on for the details.
Getting Help Building Your Computer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/1236236
An anonymous reader submitted an excellent story about [0]getting help
when assembling a PC from scratch. I'm sure many readers here know how
harrowing the experience can be, and will appreciate this entertaining
tale of lilliputians helping in this rite of passage.
Links
0. http://lego.dave.dk/
Hitchikers Guide To Be Made Into A Movie
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/2226217
[0]tonywestonuk writes "The Beeb are reporting that The Hitchikers
Guide to the Galaxy series [1]will be made into a Hollywood Movie.
Apparently they are getting some other script writer to finish off
Douglas Adams final installment (I pessimistically wonder how awful
this will make it.). It seems a shame that Hollywood had to wait until
his death before they took him seriously...."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2264265.stm
Bon Jovi Tries New Approach To Fight Piracy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/1644238
Dudio writes "80s-era rock band [0]Bon Jovi is taking a [1]novel
approach to fighting piracy of their upcoming album, Bounce. Retail CDs
will be distributed with a unique serial number with which the
purchaser can register in order to receive such exclusives as
prioritized concert ticket purchases and unreleased music. Finally,
somebody in the entertainment industry is attempting to adapt to the
changing market rather than rushing to protect an outdated business
model." All Bon Jovi jokes aside, it is nice to see a fresh approach.
Links
0. http://www.bonjovi.com/
1. http://americanxs.bonjovi.com/bj/pitch-eng.html
Nintendo Embedding Classic Games on Trading Cards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/2030220
[0]bacontaco writes "Here's a [1]quick article over at Adrenaline Vault
about Nintendo's plan to put out old-school Nintendo games with the use
of a e-Reader that plugs into the Game Boy Advance and trading cards
that can be swiped with the device. The article flips back and forth on
which console's games will be supported, saying either NES or SNES
games will be used with the cards. It's kind of eye-opening when you
think about how games that seemed so great so long ago can now be fit
on something so small as a card."
Links
0. mailto:taco@;[ ]sgiver.com ['sal' in gap]
1. http://www.avault.com/news/displaynews.asp?story=9172002-53655
More on Bayesian Spam Filtering
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/1746248
michaeld writes "The "Bayesian" techniques for spam filtering recently
publicized in Paul Graham's essay [0]A Plan for Spam doesn't actually
seem to have anything Bayesian about it, according to Gary Robinson (an
expert on [1]collaborative filtering). It is based on a non-Bayesian
probabilistic approach. It works well enough, because it is frequently
the case that technology doesn't have to be 100% perfect in order to do
something that really needs to be done. The problem interested
Robinson, and he [2]posted his thoughts about trying to fix the
problems in the Graham approach, including adding an actual Bayesian
element to the calculations."
Links
0. http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
1. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/COLLFILT.html
2. http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/stories/2002/09/16/spamDetection.html
Advertising on a Free Wireless Network?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/0815209
[0]Mischievous0ne asks: "I had an idea yesterday, and I wanted to run
it past the Slashdotcommunity. Would you use a honeypot (free wireless
access point) that covered a large downtown area (3-4 blocks of
restaurants, coffee bars, an iceskating rink, a small park, and general
hangout) if you had to have a framed banner ad at the top of every page
you visited while on the network? Do advertisers still pay for banner
ads? Are banner ads, effective? I live in a college town in Indiana,
and I know there are wireless users here, but the campus wireless
network is severly limited. I'm also not sure how people would react to
the banner ad space in exchange for free access."
Links
0. http://www.mischievoustimes.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi
Charles Simonyi leaves Microsoft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/1635218
[0]tibbetts writes "The New York Times [1]reports (printable version)
(Free blah di blah) that Charles Simonyi, the former chief architect at
Microsoft and creator of Bravo, a text-editing program that later
became Microsoft Word, has left the company to form his own startup.
The focus of his new company is to "simplify programming by
representing programs in ways other than in the text syntax of
conventional programming languages," which is highly ironic in light of
his infamous [2]Hungarian Notation style of naming variables. Perhaps
more amazingly, 'Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft with the right to use
the intellectual property he developed and patented while working
there.'"
Links
0. http://`tibbetts' `at' `acm.org'
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/technology/17SOFT.html?ei=5007&en=32d4d1af8909b6e6&ex=1032840000&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=print&position=top
2.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvsgen/html/hunganotat.asp
Freshmeat
Alist 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97332/
Alist is a program that collects hardware and software information
about systems and stores it in a database for users to browse and
search via a Web interface. The program consists of three parts: a
client portion that collects the information, a daemon that receives
data sent from clients, and a CGI that displays and lets you search for
information. Clients for Solaris, Linux, FreeBsd, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X
are currently available.
AppWrap 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97409/
AppWrap is a self-organizing Content Management System using a Web GUI
and an SQL table as its fundamental building blocks. The site
administrator creates a table in SQL, then runs a script to store
information about the table. Users can then add and edit data stored in
the table, as well as sort and filter it, chart it, calendar it, and
track changes. Reports also are easily created and displayed onscreen.
Data can be downloaded in a spreadsheet-friendly format. AppWrap is
intended for companies wanting to manage mildly dynamic data without
the labor of hand-coding and managing multiple CGI forms and templates,
or the expense of CRM systems.
Automatos Server Agent 3.3.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97356/
Automatos provides tools for automated performance analysis, capacity
planning, and real-time monitoring of services across multiple
platforms (Linux, NT/2000, AIX, Solaris and HP-UX). The performance
analysis service assists in identification or prevention of problems
with computers within a company's network. The capacity wizard provides
hardware upgrade planning support, suggestions being based on current
(or simulated) growth rate. Real-time monitoring allows users to
remotely monitor their machines from either a web or a WAP console,
generating notifications based on user-defined thresholds. Automatos is
a low-intrusion system that uses strong encryption and compresses data
for optimal and minimum bandwidth usage. Reports are generated in PDF
format in several different languages. Ad-hoc online report generation
and customization is also available.
BASH Debugger 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97423/
BASH Debugger provides a patched BASH that enables better debugging
support as well as improved error reporting. It also contains the most
comprehensive source code debugger for BASH that has been written. It
can be used as a springboard for other experimental features (such as
adding hashtables), since development is maintained openly and
developers are encouraged to participate.
Bid Monkey 1.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97372/
Bid Monkey is a command line tool, written in Perl, created to
automatically place a bid on an eBay auction at the last minute. It
will run in the foreground or background, and only requires basic
information from the user, such as username, password, item number, and
the maximum bid to place. Its most unique feature is that it will
automatically determine the auction ending time. All you have to do is
tell it how long before the end of the auction you would like to place
your bid. Bid Monkey will work internationally (eBay.de for example)
due to the fact that any item number can be viewed through any eBay
site.
BSDsar 1.10 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97374/
BSDsar generates a history of usage on a FreeBSD machine. It logs data
such as CPU usage, disk activity, network bandwidth usage and activity,
NFS information, memory, and swap. It is similar to atsar (for Linux)
and sar (for Solaris).
b^2 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97419/
b^2 (B Squared) is a PHP bulletin board system that runs off of a MySQL
database. It comes with an installation script and is easy to get
running in minutes.
C->Haskell 0.10.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97384/
C->Haskell is an interface generator that simplifies the development
of Haskell bindings to C libraries. The tool processes existing C
header files that determine data layout and function signatures on the
C side in conjunction with Haskell modules that specify Haskell-side
type signatures and marshaling details. Hooks embedded in the Haskell
code signal access to C structures and functions; they are expanded by
the interfacing tool in dependence on information from the
corresponding C header file.
ChkTeX 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97412/
ChkTeX finds syntax and typographical errors in LaTeX text.
Chronos 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97415/
Chronos is a Web agenda calendar for intranets, although it can be used
from anywhere. It can send reminders by email, and it allows you to
schedule multi-user events. It is fast and light on resources. The
balance between size and speed can be tweaked by tweaking mod_perl and
Apache.
DAVfs Linux file system driver 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97386/
DAVfs Linux file system driver is a Linux file system driver that
allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a disk drive. WebDAV is an
extension to HTTP/1.1 that allows remote collaborative authoring of Web
resources, defined in RFC 2518. DAVfs allows a remote Web server to be
edited using standard applications that interact with the file system.
For example, a remote Web site could be updated in-place, using the
same development tools that initially created the site. DAVfs also
supports SSL.
dnotify 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97407/
dnotify is a simple program that makes it possible to execute a command
every time the contents of a specific directory change in Linux. It is
run from the command line and takes two arguments: one or more
directories to monitor and a command to execute whenever a directory
has changed. Options control what events to trigger on: when a file was
read in the directory, when one was created/deleted, etc.
DocBook SVG module 1.0CR1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97404/
DocBook is an XML and SGML dialect that enables you to author and store
document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the
logical structure of the content. Using the modular DocBook stylesheets
and related resources, you can transform, format, and publish your
DocBook content as HTML pages and PDF files, and in many other formats,
including TeX, RTF, FrameMaker MIF, JavaHelp, Microsoft HTML Help, UNIX
man pages, and TeXinfo.
DocBook EBNF module 1.1-CR1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97402/
DocBook is an XML and SGML dialect that enables you to author and store
document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the
logical structure of the content. Using the modular DocBook stylesheets
and related resources, you can transform, format, and publish your
DocBook content as HTML pages and PDF files, and in many other formats,
including TeX, RTF, FrameMaker MIF, JavaHelp, Microsoft HTML Help, UNIX
man pages, and TeXinfo.
DocBook Simplified DocBook 1.0CR3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97398/
DocBook is an XML and SGML dialect that enables you to author and store
document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the
logical structure of the content. Using the modular DocBook stylesheets
and related resources, you can transform, format, and publish your
DocBook content as HTML pages and PDF files, and in many other formats,
including TeX, RTF, FrameMaker MIF, JavaHelp, Microsoft HTML Help, UNIX
man pages, and TeXinfo.
echolot-pinger 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97375/
Echolot-pinger is a pinger for anonymous remailers, which works by
regularly sending messages through remailers to check their
reliability. It then calculates reliability statistics which are used
by remailer clients to choose the chain of remailers to use.
Additionally, it collects configuration parameters and the keys of all
remailers, and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients.
Enterprise Gantt 13-09-02 (Snapshot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97405/
Enterprise Gantt is a Gantt chart library, and is becoming a generic
charting library to support a variety of charts. The library strongly
conforms to the Model View Controller architecture recommended by Sun.
A lot of effort has been put into this library, from the design
perspective rather than the feature perspective, to make this the most
flexible library of its kind.
eXchaNGeR 0.1 (XHTML Service)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97406/
The eXchaNGeR XML browser is a browser and editor framework, written in
Java, that visualizes elements in a XML document. The user can browse
through and manage the visible elements in the document with external
services, or she can make changes to the content of the XML document
with the built-in XML editor.
JBoss 3.2 Beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97414/
JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans
application server implemented in pure Java. JBoss provides
JBossServer, the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure, JBossMQ
for JMS messaging, JBossMail for mail, JBossTX for JTA/JTS
transactions, JBossSX for JAAS based security, JBossCX for JCA
connectivity, and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. It integrates with
Tomcat Servlet/JSP container and Jetty Web server/servlet container,
and enables you to mix and match these components through JMX by
replacing any component you wish with a JMX-compliant implementation
for the same APIs. The goal is to provide a full J2EE stack in the
Free/Open Source software world.
Linux 2.2.22 (2.2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97382/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
Linux 2.5.35 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97381/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
log 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97371/
log is a command-line work log and to-do list maintainer. It maintains
a searchable list of items that you can add to, modify, and delete
from.
Lou Portail 1.3 (1.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97422/
Lou Portail is a modular Web portal that runs on MySQL and PHP. It can
manage a layout system to position the modules on a page, enhanced by a
powerful CSS + PHP theme manager. This allows the admin position the
login box in one place on the main page, at a different place on the
forum page, and not at all on other ones. The modules range from news
to comments, forums to editors (for a Web zine), statistics to polls,
link directories to download sections. Community modules are also
available (chat, mini messages, user directories, and affiliate sites).
Administration is also done with the help of modules. It can be
distributed, and is simple thanks to automatic functions such as
statistic archiving and monthly table optimisation.
LRs-Linux 0.3.0-rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97379/
LRs-Linux is based upon Linux From Scratch (LFS). In contrast to LFS
and most common distros, LRs Linux has the ability to compile directly
from the CD. This means that binaries can be natively compiled for the
target host during the install, enhancing the performance of the
resultant system. The install process is largely automated.
Matrix Public Net 0.3-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97408/
MPN (Matrix Public Net) is a peer2peer network, based on people that
trust each other. Messages are broadcasted over these links between the
members of the net. Everyone gets the messages from friends and other
persons he or she trusts. Then they are recommended to the ones that
trust him/her. At each step the credibility of a message is decreased
and if it is too small, the message is discarded and not recommended to
friends. Part of the MPN is a XMMS/Winamp-Plugin that puts newsblocks
into your music, whether it is Internet radio or MP3s from your hard
disk/CD-ROM. The news are coming from your friends and other
trustworthies (and from the friends of those, and so on). To publish a
message you use the greporter program, which lets you easily record an
audio message though a microphone.
Meta-CVS 0.95 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97378/
Meta-CVS provides a more intelligent and capable version control system
which uses CVS as a backend. It interactively handles file types when
adding and importing. It simplifies parallel development by keeping
track of what has been merged between any two branches. It avoids the
classic CVS glitches that arise when concurrent file adds conflict,
when there is a race between changing and removing a file, or when dead
files are resurrected. Lastly, it treats the directory structure as a
versioned element, allowing files to be renamed and moved without
losing history or merge context. As the user navigates the repository
using the update command, Meta-CVS automatically rearranges the
directory structure of the sandbox to match.
MIT Photonic-Bands 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97380/
MIT Photonic Bands (MPB) is a free program to compute the band
structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic
dielectric structures, and is applicable to photonic crystals (photonic
band-gap materials), optical waveguides, and a wide range of other
optical problems. Its features include: fully-vectorial 3D
computations, a flexible user interface based upon the GNU Guile
scripting language, output in HDF format, and iterative, targeted
eigensolver methods to address very large problems by solving for only
a few states near a specified frequency. It runs on both serial
machines and parallel machines with MPI.
monit 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97410/
monit is a utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar
programs running on a Unix system. It will start specified programs if
they are not running and restart programs not responding. It supports a
daemon mode (poll programs at a specified interval, and start, stop,
and restart programs), logging (syslog or your own logfile),
configuration (with a comprehensive controlfile) runtime and TCP/IP
port checking, process status, and timeout. Alert notification is
flexible and customizable. It provides an HTTP interface.
Nifty PHP Utilities 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97376/
Nifty PHP Utilities is a collection of small utilities written in PHP
that do an assortment of things. Currently, the collection includes a
Bandwidth Monitor, a Directory Synch tool, a Filename Beautifier, a
Host IsAlive Monitor, an Interactive PHP Monitor, and an RPM Up-To-Date
checker.
Object Relational Membrane 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97416/
The Object Relational Membrane is a Python package that provides
similar functionality as an Object Relational Layer like EJB and other
Persistence Storage systems. It tries to be as small and simple as
possible, providing a good deal of functionality with minimum
complexity.
Pancho 6.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97424/
Pancho is a utility that allows network administrators to make changes
to the configuration for a single node or group of nodes through SNMP
and TFTP. It also provides archiving functionality by allowing you to
copy the device configurations to a remote server through a scheduled
cron or at job.
PHP-Authentication 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97397/
PHP-Authentication works like the Tomcat authentication. You give the
source to authenticate against (DB, file, XML-RPC, etc.) and the
directories that shall be protected, and the class handles the rest. No
including of any call to a class method on every page is necessary. You
can also use it as if it were a standard Auth-class, using a call to
"isLoggedIn" on every page that shall be protected.
Piccolo toolkit 1.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97390/
The Piccolo toolkit is a revolutionary way to create robust,
full-featured graphical applications in Java, with features such as
zooming and multiple representation. It is based on the Java2D API.
pyblosxom 0+5i
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97391/
pyblosxom is a CGI-based Weblog program written in Python. It uses
ordinary text files as your entries, and in addition to the features of
blosxom, on which it is based, it can be easily extended with
preformatters.
qconfirm 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97403/
qconfirm is an implementation of a delivery confirmation process for a
mail address or ezmlm mailing list. It is invoked by qmail-local
through a .qmail file, and can reduce the amount of junk mail hitting a
mailbox or the mailboxes of mailing list subscribers.
Speakimage 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97401/
Speakimage is a rescue CD based on Linux 2.4.19 with ext3, ReiserFS,
XFS, JFS, BeFS, and speakup for the blind. It provides everything
required for partitionning and formatting hard disks and making backups
of system partitions. It also includes parted, partimage, gpart,
sfdisk, fstools (including mkfs, and fsck) for all journalized file
systems, LVM tools, midnight commander (mc), vim, zile (an
Emacs-clone), cdrecord, and support for most network cards.
TUTOS 1.0.20020917
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97413/
TUTOS (The Ultimate Team Organization Software) is a groupware or
ERP/CRM suite that helps small to medium teams manage various things in
one place. Its features include personal and group calendars, an
address book, product and project management, bug tracking,
installation management, a task list, notes, files, mailboxes, and
useful links between all of the above.
Tux Paint 2002.09.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97393/
Tux Paint is a simple and entertaining drawing program geared towards
young children. It has a simple interface, sound effects, and a cartoon
character (Tux, the Linux penguin). Along with drawing brush strokes,
lines and shapes, you can also enter text and place "rubber
stamp" (or "sticker") images on the picture. Tux Paint
is extensible, and could be useful in an educational environment (such
as a grammar, elementary, or grade school). It's portable across
numerous platforms, and runs well even on slower systems like the
Pentium 133MHz.
TuxPuck 0.7.116
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97387/
TuxPuck is a shufflepuck game written in C using SDL. The player moves
a pad around a board and tries to shoot down the puck through the
opponents defense.
UgLy Game Search Engine rc 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97377/
The UgLy Game Search Engine quickly searches the network for game
servers, and then lists them in a qstat-formatted file and html for use
by other programs, such as Server Query and Gametrakker. The script
itself uses very little memory and bandwidth and will happily run in
the background. It supports games such as Quake 1/2/3, Unreal, Jedi
Knight 2, Half Life, and many more.
User-mode Linux 0.59-2.4.19-5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97421/
User-Mode Linux lets you run Linux inside Linux. It is a safe, secure
way of running Linux versions and Linux processes. Run buggy software,
experiment with new Linux kernels or distributions, and poke around in
the internals of Linux, all without risking your main Linux setup.
User-Mode Linux gives you a virtual machine that may have more hardware
and software virtual resources than your actual, physical computer. You
can assign your virtual machine only the hardware access you want it to
have. With properly limited access, nothing you do on the virtual
machine can change or damage your real computer or its software.
Slashcode
Upcoming XHTML/Accessibility Slash theme
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/2237203
I'm working on a theme based on the slashcode theme from CVS. The main
goal with this theme is making Slash (more) accessible, usable and
comply with the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. This
includes: Make Slash valid XHTML 1.1 Control layout with a external
style-sheet ( should be valid Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 ) Remove
all tables that are used for design Use <th> tags in all tables
Add the <label> tag to all form labels use <h1>..<h6>
to add structure to pages, not to get larger fonts add <abbr> and
<acronym> tags where needed Remove light mode, since it won't be
needed anymore I hope that I can finish this and do a first release
real soon. This will also include a more complete list of changes.
Since many of the Slashcode.com users have their own Slash sites, it
would be interesting to hear if someone has some experience in making
Slash more accessible / usable that they are willing to share. Any
questions about the theme should be added as comment to this story
and/or mailed directly to me.
Chemical-Engineering.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/0555233
A site dedicated to creating, maintaining resources for chemical
engineers or individuals working with chemical informatics. Future
development of information of chemical engineering issues: Refurbished
Chemical hardware: Company directories and contacts: Open Source
CAD/CAE chemical engineering software AMAZING! Site has sources for
industrial contacts as well as academic research, programming in the
emerging field. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further participation.
--M. Felzien
Daylight Savings Time
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/1915232
I run a (relatively) large internal Slash site at my company. The user
base is pretty far flung, with people accessing and posting from the
western, central and eastern US timezones, as well as overseas
(BST/GMT). I did manage to get everyone to set up their timezones
appropriately once user accounts are created. The problem is long term
maintenance of these zones, as daylight savings time comes and goes.
How do other sites with geographically diverse readerships deal with
the DST problem? Is there a script I can run, or am I missing something
here?
Machinists
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/09/0529215
slash site for and about machinists. Still new and a little rough
though. http://www.netwhit.net
Slash or other weblog on school server?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/08/0514220
I'm a college student building a site for a student organization. We
were given a directory on the server which allows cgi scripts and has
perl installed, but that is about it. No sql database. Not even cron
jobs can be run in this space. I want to use what I've got, which is
perl and the ability to write text files, and run a weblog with nice
looking threaded discussions and user info pages. From what I can tell,
Slash needs not only cgi and sql, but also several other parts of the
server which are even less likely to be provided on a school account.
Is there an easy way to adapt Slash to my tight constraints? If not,
can anyone recommend a good alternative? That is, a well-used,
well-tested blog application that uses text files instead of a backend
database? Fingers are crossed.
Zoo2
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/06/174240
Zoo2, which is the friends and foe system, is now running on Slashcode,
UsePerl, and Slashdot. This allows one to not only mark friends and
foes, but to see second level relationships like friends of friends and
foes of friends. There are still bits and pieces to the interface to
happen but the base code is complete. Check it out from CVS If you
login you can see the additional URL's for zoo in the lefthand menu
bar.
The Bookiejoint is back for 2002
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/05/0451223
The Bookiejoint is back for another season of pro football picks! The
Bookiejoint is an online game that's beat-the-spread. It's based on
Slash, and it's free to anyone who wants to take a shot at the glory of
winning it all. Sign up before the regular season starts at
http://bookiejoint.org/!
Sectional Topic Icon Spreads?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/04/0557202
I like the way slash puts the most recent topic icons at the top right
of the front page. What I don't like is that the ones for the front
page ("articles") are the ones that show up on every section. Even if
none of those topics are eligible to be used in that section. Is there
some way to get the topic icons on sections to reflect what's actually
showing on the front page of that section rather than what is on the
front page?
Passing variables to templates through Story
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/03/1534246
I have only been playing with SlashCode for the last couple of days
and am afraid that my theme is already getting me into a lot of
trouble. I decided that it would be neat if the heading for the
stories/boxes on the page where different colors. I do not want random
colors I want the colors to go in a specific order which I just set in
an array in the .pl files in htdocs for now. When you click read more
and view the story in article.pl I want to the corresponding title box
etc. on this page to match the color that the story was on the main
page. I have this pretty well working now however the only way that I
can find to do it is very sloppy at best. I have been pulling the
functions such as displayStory() from the module and including it in a
.pl file that I am calling with require from these scripts. The only
thing that I change in these functions is the hash that is being passed
to slashDisplay() in order to pass the variable on to the template
file. I know that it would be slightly better doing this with modules
and overriding these functions to add in that variable but even so
upgrading my theme for the next version of slashcode still seems like
it would be hell. I am wondering if the functionality could be added so
that with functions such as displayStory() or displayLink() would take
a hashref that would have the values I want to pass along to the
template? I know what I am doing is kind of odd and won't be done often
but it seems that it may often be valuable to pass special variables
along to the templates that change each iteration through a loop (such
as the loop in index.pl of the slashcode template).
RDF/RSS not automagically updating
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/02/0635259
Our rdf file hasn't automagically updated in 3 days... is there
something I can do to force it to update? I've also noticed that the
deletion queue wasn't getting completed until I kicked freshenup.pl. It
looks like everything else is being done properly (stories being moved
to older stories, authors tables being refreshed, etc.) Does anyone
have any ideas? Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
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