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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
OSI Starts Selling Preleveled UO characters
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/19/0334258
[0]NinjaPablo writes "OSI has started a new service, detailed [1]here
which allows you to pay $29.95 to get a decent character premade for
you, and bypass the hours of working skills at lower levels. Most of
the player community is in an [2]uproar about the whole thing, since it
basically means a newbie can pay a little extra and be as good as an
average player right off the bat."
Links
0. mailto:olding@nc a t s.net
1. http://support.uo.com/advancedcharacter.html
2.
http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/uo/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=uouhall&Number=3323534&page=0&view=&sb=5
Lawrence Lessig's Personal Past and Supreme Court Future
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/229249
Slyfox writes "Ever wonder how Lawrence Lessig became one of the most
notable figures in the fight over free speech and intellectual property
on the internet? Wired has an [0]excellent article about Lawrence
Lessig's life; it beginings with his start as a right-wing Republican,
and continues by following the events of his life through law school,
contributing to the Microsoft anti-trust case, and becoming a top
cyberlaw expert. The article describes both his successes and failures,
and it forshadows Lessig's biggest challenge yet: arguing [1]Eldred v.
Ashcroft before the US Supreme Court in October."
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/lessig_pr.html
1. http://eldred.cc/
Skydriving
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/1440245
[0]SanLouBlues writes "Autoweek has this article about a group of guys
in Arizona who will [1]drop your car out of a cargo jet for $15k.
Parachutes for the car are optional. Their ultimate goal is to drop a
Greyhound with forty people inside. More pictures [2]here and [3]here)"
Links
0. http://www.growthsector.com/
1.
http://autoweek.com/cat_content.mv?port_code=autoweek&cat_code=carnews&loc_code=&content_code=00923873
2. http://www.skydivingstunts.com/Pages/ord_ext_cars.html
3. http://www.skydivingstunts.com/Pages/skydriving.html
New York Times Staff Editorial Promoting Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/2344253
cotyledon writes "Today's New York Times [0]editorial (Free
Blah-Di-Blah) describes Linux as good for consumers and good for
programmers. It recommends "Government units abroad and in the United
States and individual computer users should look for ways to support
Linux and Linux-based products. The competition it offers helps
everyone." This is the paper's opinion, btw, and not a guest
columnist."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/18/opinion/18WED2.html
An Overview of Quad Band Memory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/1828234
tedgyz writes "[0]AnandTech has a short [1]article on a new memory
technology from [2]Via, called Quad Band Memory (QBM). Rather than
using dual-channel DDR to increase bandwidth, they use phase-shifting
inside the memory modules to accomplish the same goal. The end result
is simpler (and presumably cheaper) motherboard designs that are
backwards compatible with current DDR modules. The downside? It is
currently only going to available in a P4 chipset that Intel has not
authorized."
Links
0. http://anandtech.com/
1. http://anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1709
2. http://www.via.com.tw/
Federal Cyberspace Policy Draft Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/2123200
[0]mh_cryptonomicon writes "The initial public draft of the National
Strategy for Securing Cyberspace was released today. This document
outlines the Administration's plan for ensuring that the Net remains a
'good neighborhood.' Following the release of the plan, the
Administration's Cybersecurity team will take it on the road for
discussions with the people about what can and should be done to
protect and defend the net. More information (and the 65 page draft)
[1]can be downloaded from the White House's Critical Infrastructure
Protection site. This draft is considerably smaller than the 3300 page
monster it was reported as being. Commentary is starting to pop up
everywhere, including [2]www.cryptonomicon.net/blog/."
Links
0. http://www.cryptonomicon.net/blog
1. http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/
2. http://www.cryptonomicon.net/blog/
Patents for the Little People?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/2012227
_ph1ux_ asks: "I have an idea that i would like to patent. I have
called several patent attorney's in the San Francisco Bay Area and
inquired about the costs associated with doing a patent search and
filing. I was quoted a flat fee for the search by some, ranges by
others - and some more sound sounding advice from others. Some
attorney's want $450 for the search and a range of $3-6,000 for the
filing - with up to six months before they are ready to just file the
application for you. I have been researching on [0]USPTO website to see
if there are any pre-existing patents that cover my idea now for
several days, and so far have found none. In the past I was able to
quickly locate existing patents that thwarted my previous patent
attempts - so this time it looks promising. My personal feelings for
attorneys and lawyers aside - I want to know what have other
slashdotters done with regards to pursuing patents, specifically if it
is at all possible for an IANAL to successfully apply for a patent
(cheaply)? Can you tell me what other avenues there are for me online
or otherwise, while not giving away a large stake in my invention?"
Links
0. http://www.uspto.gov
The Ulltimate DVD Burner?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/1822224
[0]prostoalex writes "The DRU500A by Sony [1]burns DVD-R/-RW,
DVD+RW/+R, and even CD-R/CD-RW discs. The price sticker is relatively
high, but for those worried about the compatibility issues of DVD
burners this one looks like a solution." FYI: I recently ran a [2]poll
on this very topic.
Links
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/jobs
1.
http://www.sonystyle.com/home/item.jsp?hierc=9683x9714x9715&catid=9716&itemid=50044&telesale=null&hidden=null&cps=null&type=s
2. http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=845
Lindows 2.0.0 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/1641252
[0]meisenst writes "Lindows 2.0.0 is out, and features, among other
things, the ability to browse Windows network shares and map them as
you would on a Windows machine. The ISO release notes are [1]here(1),
the announcement is [2]here(2) (for now, anyway), and some screenshots
are [3]here(3). Looks good!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.lindows.com/lindows_products_updates.php?info=iso
2. http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes.php
3. http://info.lindows.com/screenshots/screenshot_gallery.htm
Sun To Sell Linux PCs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/1720227
Rubbersoul writes "Reuters.com is reporting that in "a bid to undermine
arch-rival Microsoft Corp" [0] Sun is going to jump into selling low
cost Linux PCs. The article is a bit low on technical details, but is
interesting none the less. Also if you take this new news with a [1]
story from yesterday about Sun pushing StarOffice for schools around
the world, you really start to get an idea that sun wants to beat MS
like a red headed step child ..." An [2]editorial in the
WorldTechTribute argues that Sun's education-market giveaway is exactly
the sort of behavior that Microsoft has been attacked for in the past.
Links
0. http://www.reuters.com/printerfriendly.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1462071
1.
http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/17/020917hnstaroffice.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html
2. http://www.worldtechtribune.com/worldtechtribune/asparticles/buzz/bz09182002.asp
Freshmeat
AlsaPlayer 0.99.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97531/
AlsaPlayer is a new PCM player written with the ALSA sound system in
mind. It also includes support for JACK, OSS, NAS, and ESD. It makes
extensive use of multi-threading and supports OGG, MP3, WAV, CDDA (CD
Digital Audio), MOD, S3M, IT, and many other input types. Features
include a real- time effects stream, variable speed/pitch control,
multiple active visual scopes, command line mode, playlists, plugin
architecture, low-latency mode, and more.
Anna .6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97486/
Anna is a set of AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) files
that constitute a chat bot. Unlike other Chat Bots, Anna declares
herself to be human, and then has a past, personality, and identity
built up from there. Anna is designed to win the 2002 Loebner Prize
Competition, and is based on the landmark work of the ALICE AI
foundation.
Apache Toolbox 1.5.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97491/
Apache Toolbox provides a means to easily compile Apache (IPv4/6) SSL,
PHP(v3/v4), MySQL, Jakarta, a large number of modules (61 3rd party
modules and 36 default Apache modules, static or as DSOs), and GD
libraries with PNG+JPEG+Freetype2+zlib support. It is fully
customizable and menu-driven. Everything is compiled from source, and
wget is used to download any missing modules. It can also check for
RPMs that might cause problems and create an RPM with your selections.
archivemail 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97497/
archivemail is a tool written in Python for archiving and compressing
old email in mailboxes. It can move messages older than the specified
number of days to a separate mbox-format mailbox that is compressed
with gzip, or optionally just delete old email. It supports archiving
mbox, MH, and maildir format mailboxes.
Argo/UML 0.11.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97545/
Argo/UML is a pure Java open source CASE tool that provides cognitive
support for object-oriented design. Argo/UML provides some of the same
editing and code generation features of a commercial CASE tool, but it
focuses on features that enhance usability and support the cognitive
needs of designers. Uses XML file formats: XMI and PGML.
Article Manager 1.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97478/
Article Manager is a fully featured Web content management system that
makes it easy for non- technical users to easily update and manage
articles, news stories, headlines, and editorials. It includes the
following features: supports multiple users with different access
levels (Administrators, Editors, Trusted Writers, and Writers), uploads
up to 10 images per article, password protected login screen, advanced
setup options to make it easy to customize the program, a powerful
search engine, a customizable database, the ability to customize the
HTML templates, and much more.
Ascend Web Content Manager 2.02.02 (Main engine)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97483/
Ascend is an advanced profesional Web content manager. It supports
multiple OSes, multiple database connections, multiple languages,
multiple presentation schemes, multiple browsers, XLM integration, a
Java editor, advanced security management for both users and
administrators, integrated CRM, and CVS integration. It can also use
CGI scripts or ascend-specific plugins to extend the software for tasks
such as e-commerce, portals, intranets, Unix system administration, and
editorial systems.
backup2l 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97477/
backup2l is a command line tool for generating, maintaining, and
restoring backups on a mountable file system. The main design goals are
low maintenance effort, efficiency, transparency, and robustness. In a
default installation, backups are created autonomously by a cron
script. It supports hierarchical differential backups with a user-
specified number of levels and backups per level.
BANG! R6-V2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97516/
BANG! is a news CGI script written in Perl. It generates an HTML file
(news.txt) containing your news that can be included in your site via
SSI #include directives.
BannerFilter 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97508/
BannerFilter is a redirect script for the Squid proxy server, designed
to block advertising banners on the Web. Unlike most other solutions,
it also automatically closes popup windows.
CherryPy 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97542/
CherryPy is a Python-based tool for developing dynamic Web sites. It
sits between a compiler and an application server. Compiling source
files generates an executable containing everything to run the Web
site, including an HTTP server. CherryPy lets you develop your Web site
in an object-oriented way, using both regular Python and a templating
language. It also comes with a handy standard library for things like
cookie-based authentication, form handling, HTTP authentication, etc.
DMZS-Carte v0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97459/
DMZS-Carte processes wireless scanning output information and creates
inverse distance weighted overlays on top of TerraServer satellite
maps.
DocBook Website 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97538/
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 XSL Stylesheets 1.55.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97535/
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.
doclifter 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97507/
doclifter is a tool that transcodes {n,t,g}roff documentation to
DocBook XML markup. It parses man, mandoc, ms, me, or TkMan page
sources, does structural analysis, and recognizes common troff-markup
cliches. The result is usable without further hand-hacking about 95% of
the time.
Enhanced Dispositioned Keyboard 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97515/
Enhanced Dispositioned Keyboard consists of a C++ library (libedk), a
keyboard layout editor (edk), and a simple test application. It
supplies support for multiple keyboard layouts in one application
without the need for additional keyboard switches, and makes it simple
to create applications that use English (Latin), Russian (Cyrillic),
Chinese, and every other Unicode character set.
FUDforum 2.3.2RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97546/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either
MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a
multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a
private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll
file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable
forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum
operators.
gdiva 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97528/
gdiva provides an interface for uploading files to DIVA MP3 players.
You can build a list of files to copy, optionally using playlists,
reorder the list, and see the elapsed and remaining time as the upload
progresses.
GL-117 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97522/
GL-117 is an OpenGL- and SDL-based action flight simulator written in
C++. It provides a random terrain generator, lighting effects, sounds,
and joystick support.
gpsdrive 1.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97485/
Gpsdrive is a map-based navigation system. It displays your position on
a zoomable map provided from a NMEA-capable GPS receiver. The maps are
autoselected for the best resolution, depending of your position, and
the displayed image can be zoomed. Maps can be downloaded from the
Internet with one mouse click. The program provides information about
speed, direction, bearing, arrival time, actual position, and target
position. Speech output is also available.
GridFlow 0.6.2 (Experimental)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97499/
GridFlow is a plugin for Ruby, jMax, and PureData. It adds the ability
to process images and video as N-dimensional arrays
("Grids"). It consists of a framework for grid transmissions,
elementary grid processing objects, picture-oriented processing
objects, and input/output objects.
GWhere 0.0.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97489/
GWhere allows you to manage a database of your CDs and other removable
media. GWhere makes it easy to browse your CDs or to quickly search
without having to insert each of your CDs into the drive.
HAP-Linux Kernel Patches 2.2.22-hap-1 (2.2.x Kernels)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97504/
HAP-Linux is a collection of security-related patches to the 2.2
kernel, designed to be applied after the Openwall Project patch.
Includes various chroot(2) hardening, network stealth and bad-TCP-flag
patches, ptrace(2) protections, and additional logging of various
suspicious, unusual, or privileged events.
imgv portable image viewer 2.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97513/
imgv is a cross-platform, open source image viewing application written
entirely in Python using the Pygame library. Includes standard features
(file/directory browser, slideshows, zoom in/out, flip/rotate, etc.)
and unique features (multi-view, adjustable thumbnail sizes, image
playlists and more).
IndexedCatalog 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97495/
IndexedCatalog is an extension to the Zope Object Database (ZODB) that
makes object retrieval easier and faster. This is accomplished by
indexing all fields by type (string/integer/float) and by a simple
query language. The IndexedCatalog does not require any additional
extensions apart from the ZODB, and it is made for applications that
use StandaloneZODB and not Zope. It is completely untested with Zope at
this time.
jdoc 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97521/
jdoc is a set of slang functions that provide tab completion for java
buffers, designed to work with the Jed text editor.
Keepalived for LVS 0.7.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97498/
Keepalived for LVS aims to add a strong and robust keepalive facility
to the Linux Virtual Server project. This project is written in C with
multilayer TCP/IP stack checks. It implements a framework based on
three family checks: Layer3, Layer4, and Layer5. This framework gives
the daemon the ability of checking a LVS server pool states.When one of
the servers in the LVS server pool is down, keepalived informs the
Linux kernel via a setsockopt call to remove this server entry from the
LVS topology. In addition, it implements a VRRPv2 stack to handle
director failover.
KProf 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97543/
KProf is a visual tool for developers that displays the execution
profiling output generated by gprof(1). Since the output of gprof is
usually difficult to read, KProf presents the information in list-views
or tree-views that make the execution profiling information very easy
to understand.
LANforge FIRE & ICE 3.5.1-beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97518/
The LANforge is a unified multi-protocol network traffic generation and
WAN simulation application. It allows testing and verification labs to
simulate real world customer traffic. The WAN simulator allows the
injection of latency and other network oddities like dropped,
duplicated, and re-ordered packets. The LANforge provides a scriptable
command line interface with Perl libraries as well as a graphical user
interface.
LinuxTrade 3.06 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97500/
LinuxTrade is a curses (text-based) implementation of the Scottrader
Java application, plus additional features inspired by the excellent
MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own set of unique
features. It is lightweight, yet full featured. It can save a session
to a file and replay it. It has portfolios, real time quotes, charts
with live updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical
indicators, top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, and Level
2 market depth indications from Archipelago and the Island Book.
Log::Log4perl 0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97502/
Log::Log4perl is a pure Perl port of the widely popular lib4j library
for Java.
Mnet 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97425/
Mnet is a universal file space (a single, global virtual space into
which you can put, and from which you can get, files). It comes with a
single global namespace so that there is no conflict over filenames. It
is also an emergent network, one in which the important features of the
network result from the interactions of nodes operated by autonomous
people or organizations who do not explicitly coordinate with one
another. There are many interesting applications that can be built on
top of an emergent network and a universal file space. The first
application that has been written for the Mnet project is a
file-sharing application which lets you search for and download files
of all kinds from the universal file space. Mnet is descendant of Mojo
Nation.
MOSIX Kernel Patch 1.8.0 for Linux 2.4.19 (K-MOSIX)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97544/
MOSIX is a unique clustering package that can make any size Linux
cluster of x86 nodes (workstations and servers) run almost like a
single system with multiple processors. The core of MOSIX contains
adaptive management algorithms that monitor and respond to uneven
resource distribution among the nodes by preemptive process migration.
In addition to automatic load-balancing, MOSIX supports massive
parallel I/O by partitioning the data of a file to several nodes so
that parallel processes will migrate to the node which has their
portion of the data. The algorithms of MOSIX are geared toward maximal
performance, overhead-free scalability, and ease-of-use.
Nav4 Search Engine Patch Kit 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97496/
Nav4 SEPK adds in-context related article links to any Web or Intranet
site. Use it to automatically generate lists of related articles in rss
and HTML and insert them into Web pages, portals, and search results
using server-side includes. You can also display related documents in
the provided results UI. SEPK does its own spidering and indexing to
create precise Document Genomes and adapts to new content dynamically
without any taxonomy maintenance or training. Used with an existing
search engine, it significantly reduces the time spent looking for
information. It also works stand-alone.
Not A Commander 1.0-SNAP-020917
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97490/
Not A Commander is yet another file manager modeled after the Norton
Commander. Good integration with the command line is the primary goal.
NRH-up2date 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97494/
NRH-up2date provides a generic, easy-to-use server for the Red Hat
up2date utility. It can be used to distribute updates to client systems
without being dependent on the Red Hat network servers.
Openwall Linux kernel patch 2.2.22-ow1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97492/
The Openwall Linux kernel patch is a collection of security
"hardening" features for the Linux kernel. In addition to the
new features, some versions of the patch contain various security
fixes. The "hardening" features of the patch, while not a
complete method of protection, provide an extra layer of security
against the easier ways to exploit certain classes of vulnerabilities
and/or reduce the impact of those vulnerabilities. The patch can also
add a little bit more privacy to the system by restricting access to
parts of /proc so that users may not see what others are doing.
OSAccess 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97468/
OSAccess is an entitlement security engine for prodividing fine grained
security access. At the moment, the security spec for J2EE is silent on
entitlement level security, so this project is an attempt to make a
truly portable and reusable entitlement engine that can work with
multiple backend security data repositories and be hosted on different
application servers.
parprouted 0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97525/
parprouted is a daemon for transparent IP (Layer 3) proxy ARP bridging.
Unlike standard bridging, proxy ARP bridging allows to bridge Ethernet
networks behind wireless nodes. Normal Layer 2 bridging does not work
between 802.11 wireless nodes because wireless does not know about MAC
addresses used in the wired Ethernet networks. parprouted makes
automatic transparent proxy ARP bridging possible by adding direct /32
routes to hosts learned by ARP via appropriate interface. This way, the
Linux kernel knows where to route the proxy ARPed packet once it
receives it.
pfmds 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97529/
Pfmds (PHP Fast Mailer Delivery System) is a very fast mail delivery
system written in PHP. Pfmds is a text-based application. It features a
simple INI-style configuration file, load balancing through multiple
SMTP servers, and multiple simultaneous process control.
PHP Bookmarks 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97519/
PHP Bookmarks is a simple, easy to configure PHP/MySQL bookmark system
that supports themes.
PHP Client Sniffer 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97505/
PHP Client Sniffer is a PHP class file that allows one to quickly
determine the client's browser and system information based on the
HTTP_USER_AGENT string. It can be used to generate browser specific
HTML markup and other client-side scripting.
Postfix 1.1.11-20020917 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97511/
Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used
Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and
hopefully secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible
enough to not upset your users.
Quake2Forge 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97514/
Quake2Forge is The QuakeForge Project's version of id Software's game,
Quake II. It aims to be a stable, portable codebase focusing on
improving the quality of the game whilst maintaining backwards
compatibility with the original.
Room Juice 0.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97509/
Room Juice is a multi-user jukebox Web frontend. It currently supports
mpg123, ogg123, mikmod, and xmp to play music. It's designed to be
simple to use, understand, and hopefully, not too difficult to install.
No database is required.
rpmrebuild 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97526/
rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has
already been installed. It has only been tested on Red Hat Linux.
Ruby/Password 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97520/
Ruby/Password is a set of useful methods for creating, verifying, and
manipulating passwords. It includes an interface to CrackLib, a library
commonly used for checking password strength. It is intended to be used
by system administrators who need to write Ruby programs that prompt
for, generate, verify, and encrypt passwords.
SPIP 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97548/
SPIP is an open-source, free publication system on the Internet, mainly
targetted at individuals, informal groups, and non-profit
organizations. It allows contributive writing and managing of Web sites
having a magazine-like structure (i.e., articles and short stories
contained in nested sections), while not needing any HTML skills
(except for defining the layout templates).
TriviaShock 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97512/
TriviaShock is an interactive Web trivia game/quiz creation system
which uses PHP, MySQL, and Flash 5. Unlike other systems, trivia games
are not played through HTML forms but through a fully-animated Flash 5
interface. It supports unlimited trivia games, question categories,
time limits to answer questions, points system, user registration, high
score lists, multiple choice and true false questions, and more. A
robust Web control panel allows for configuration and customization of
the software including a template system. A "skins" system
allows for full customization of the Flash 5 game frontend.
Umbra 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97493/
Umbra is a simple computer role-playing game, written in Python. The
world is randomly-generated for new play every time, but there is an
eventual goal and storyline. It was heavily influenced by rogue-like
games, Alternate Reality, console RPGs, and the works of H.P. Lovecraft
and Clark Ashton Smith.
VNC Reflector 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97536/
VNC Reflector is a specialized VNC server which acts as a proxy between
a real VNC server (a host) and a number of VNC clients. It was designed
to work efficiently with large number of clients. It can switch between
different hosts on the fly, preserving client connections. It supports
reverse host-to-reflector connections, it can save host sessions on
disk, and it also has other unique features.
Slashcode
Comment Color Coding Code Complete
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/0459236
I have just submitted a patch that allows for the color coding of
comments based on "freshness". Using a cookie set by article.pl and
read by comments.pl the template makes the color of the table cell
behind the comment subject one color if the comment was there the last
time the user viewed the page and another color if the comment is new
to that user. (note that this is being done on a site locked into
Nested view, so every comment is visible and in a table box). This was
not as easy as I thought it would be, and I would like to acknowledge
the efforts of the entire team of people I work with [
http://openflows.org ], as well important advice and help that was
provided by Jamie in #slash and members of the slashcode-general
mailing list. You can see the code in action at
http://boards.sportsnet.ca
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).
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