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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
Sun Releases Open Source Tool for Project Liberty
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/20/0033227
ruisantos writes "After [0] submiting the technical specifications for
the [1] project , Sun has finally launched an open source [2]tool for
its upcoming Sun ONE Identity Server version 6.0, the news can be found
on [3]CNET news."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/15/1910201&tid=172
1. http://projectliberty.org/
2. http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/codesamples/liberty.html
3. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-958526.html?tag=fd_lede
Miyazaki's Spirited Away U.S. Release
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/19/1239254
[0]soupforare writes "Spirited Away is slated for a US limited theatre
release in on Sep. 27th [1]nausicaa.net has a theatre listing and some
more info. It looks like some theatres are even going to be showing the
subtitled version." No showings near me, but hopefully those prints
will make it around. Been wanting to see this one for a long time.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.nausicaa.net/
Blizzard Announces New Starcraft Game
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/20/017240
About a zillion readers wrote in to tell us about all the commotion
over at the [0]Blizzard site. Following a countdown, they've
[1]announced the latest Starcraft game, [2]Starcraft: Ghost. Note that
this game will be console-only, and the [3]FAQ is very adamant that
this is not a Starcraft 2.
Links
0. http://www.blizzard.com/
1. http://www.blizzard.com/ghost/pressrelease.shtml
2. http://www.blizzard.com/ghost/
3. http://www.blizzard.com/ghost/faq.shtml
Slashback: Bugfixed, Attribution, Atkins
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/0051255
Slashback brings you another flurry of updates (below) on the recently
reported Mozilla security leak, the Greek gaming ban (you'll never
guess), the mega-hour TiVO mod mentioned earlier today, the long-term
healthiness of the Atkins Diet, and more. Read on for the details.
A Universal Roaming Profile?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/19/2014256
[0]Arnaud Sahuguet asks: "I have a cell-phone with my phone book, a PDA
with my calendar info and my address book. I have my home desktop
bookmarks, my work desktop bookmarks, my laptop bookmarks, my PDA
bookmarks, etc. They are all mine, but somehow they are not, because
they live in different networks (or on the same network but with
different operators).Everybody keeps talking about convergence, but I
don't see any convergence on the user profile front (data that matters
to me). Microsoft is pushing for .NET MyServices, Sun et al. are
pushing for Liberty Alliance, Apple is pushing for .Mac. Is it the
right way to go?" One of the large major issues surrounding such a
system would be implementing it in a way where the user can control the
flow of data: where it is stored, when a certain piece of data can be
sent, and who is allowed to get it. Sounds like a fine idea to me, what
do you all think?
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenSSL Gets Cryptography Gift From Sun
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/19/2058257
[0]Kataire writes "[1]C|Net posted this story about how Sun
Microsystems' [2]has donated 'elliptic curve' encryption technology,
(developed by Whitfield Diffie of Diffie-Hellman public key fame) to
the [3]OpenSSL project. This potentially means better encryption for
lighter-weight systems such as PDAs."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cnet.com/
2.
http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1001-958679.html?type=pt&part=msnbc&tag=alert&form=feed&subj=cnetnews
3. http://www.openssl.org/
How The DMCA Is Enforced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/19/1926222
[0]Hank Scorpio writes "Bob Cringley's [1]latest column talks about a
company, [2]BayTSP, that performs most of the enforcement of the DMCA
on the Internet. This is the company that collects data about who is
sharing music or movies online, and this is the company to go after
when you get busted! They claim to "go to the same places any user
could go, look at the same files anyone else could look at, and we only
probe the ports on your computer that you have made public."
Interesting."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020919.html
2. http://www.baytsp.com/
WorldCom Forced To Block Questionable Sites
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/19/1748217
[0]Cutriss writes "Seen on [1]Wired, [2]this article briefly mentions
how the Pennsylvania State Government is forcing UUNet to block access
to five child pornography sites, under their new state law. No mention
was made as to whether they were domestic or foreign. I'm certainly no
fan of kiddie porn, but this ruling also serves as a blow to the
'common carrier' status that any whatever-tiered ISP should have in
theory, and in practice. Also, this is a state law, not a federal one,
but the end result is nationwide. This isn't a whole lot different from
Yahoo! France being sued for making auctions of Nazi propaganda
viewable by French citizens."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~cutriss
1. http://www.wired.com/
2. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55248,00.html
Is UnitedLinux Violating The GPL?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/19/1730217
mmayberry writes "NewsForge has posted an article, [0]UnitedLinux might
not be very GPL-friendly. With a closed beta that includes an NDA, UL
may be on the verge of angering a large part of their target market.
You'd think that the likes of Suse, Turbo, SCO, and Conectiva would get
the point by now..."
Links
0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/09/18/1629242.shtml?tid=51
Tivo Quadcard Promises Thousand-Hour PVR
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/19/135234
edrock200 writes "The folks over at [0]9thtee are developing a [1]quad
card for Tivo series 1 and Tivo/DirecTV combo units...it will allow you
to [2] add 4 hard drives to your Tivo and also break the 133gb limit
for each drive....this will effectively give you a 1200-hour unit with
4 320GB drives. Theres also a fairly [3]detailed thread of the
development process over at the AVS forums." Gonna need the space since
scifi has decided to air 4 episodes of SG1 a day!
Links
0. http://www.9thtee.com/
1. http://www.9thtee.com/tivoquaddrive.htm
2. http://www.silicondust.com/quaddrive/quaddrive.html
3. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74723
Freshmeat
Bugzero 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97625/
Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and
incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software,
hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database
system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects,
group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email
notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced
search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control
integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project
configuration and user account management.
cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels 2.4.19-fnk7 (2.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97631/
cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels provide patchsets that focus on
optimizations, bugfixes, and security enhancements to the current
stable Linux Kernel. They are suitable for workstation or high-end
server use in both production and development environments.
Favorin Time 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97640/
Favorin Time is a client-server group calendar for Linux using the KDE
desktop. The Free/Open Source calendar client is available for
stand-alone or networked use. The commercial server provides calendar
management and scheduling for teams and organizations.
flyspell.el 1.6i
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97636/
Flyspell is a minor Emacs mode performing on-the-fly spelling checking.
Gringotts 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97633/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data
(passwords, credit card numbers, PINs, etc.) in an easy-to-read,
easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use
of the MCrypt and MHash libraries for encryption, and uses GTK+ 2 for
the user interface. It lets the user choose from among eight strong
encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT, TWOFISH,
CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD
160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with four
compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to use any file as a
password, as an alternative to the usual text string, giving additional
choices.
Gyach 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97616/
Gyach is a GTK+-based Yahoo! Chat client which can use your existing
Yahoo! logins for chatting in Yahoo! Chat. It supports colors,
emotes/aliases, PMs, set status, remote user status display, ignore
lists (local, non-Yahoo! based), a regex list of triggers to cause
users to be automatically ignored, command-line recall via arrow keys,
and tab completion of usernames.
htmlrecode 1.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97635/
htmlrecode applies modifications to a HTML file. An example of these
modifications is changing the character set. It does it without making
any characters unreadable.
Jamie's Fabulous Radial Velocity Program 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97630/
Jamie's Fabulous Radial Velocity Program calculates the radial velocity
of each star in a user-configurable binary star system. It includes
menu-driven input for most properties of the system, including (but not
limited to) stellar mass, orbital eccentricity/inclination, and
frequency of calculation. Output includes the radial velocity of each
star and its position in orbit.
JpGraph 1.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97643/
JpGraph is a OO Graph drawing library for PHP 4.0.2 and above.
Highlights of the available features are: text, linear, and log scales
for both the X and Y axes, anti-aliasing of lines, color-gradient
fills, support for GIF, JPG, and PNG formats, support for two Y axes,
spider plots (a.k.a Web plots), pie-charts, lineplots, filled line
plots, impulse plots, bar plots, and error plots, support for multiple
plot types in one graph, intelligent autoscaling, and extensive
documentation (145 pages).
koaLaGML 0.1.0_alpha2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97611/
koalaGML, the koala GUI Markup Language, allows developers to rapidly
generate graphical user interfaces by writing XML documents that define
the layout and content of the interfaces. It is both a markup language
and a toolset for generating Java GUI code from the markup. Inspired by
Java Server Pages (JSP), it consists of a rich and growing set of
features, including session beans, custom imports, exception handling,
custom error forms, relative layout of elements (with tables a la
HTML), and a huge set of widgets.
libieee1284 0.2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97637/
libieee1284 is intended to be used by applications that need to
communicate with (or at least identify) devices that are attached via a
parallel port.
LobTraceStream 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97644/
LobTraceStream is a C++ trace/log mechanism which aims to be easy to
use, as the programmer only needs to manipulate 5 macros for a very
flexible trace output. It features the ability to define modules and to
set different trace levels for each module, no need to recompile to
change trace levels, multi-thread capabilities, logging of traces to
cout or file(s), and exception handling.
MiddleMan 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97651/
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to
remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like
configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to
filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies
to and from certain sites, redirect requests, and even manipulate the
contents of a Web page or file using the built-in rewrite feature or an
external program. It fully implements the HTTP 1.1 protocol, including
persistent connections, and can forward requests through another proxy
or SOCKS4 firewall.
mod_mp3 0.39 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97626/
mod_mp3 turns the Apache Web server into an MP3 or Ogg streaming
server. It can play from a list of files, either in order or randomly.
It can also be used to cache MP3s into memory and have the server
operate entirely from memory. It has an XML-RPC interface for you to
write interfaces around and supports retrieving information via
XML/RSS.
MPlayer 0.90-pre8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97596/
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of
file formats, including ASF, Quicktime, and Vivo. It has many
MMX/SSE/3Dnow optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using
XAnim's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic
VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports
many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every
existing interface is supported. It's also able to convert any
supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video
grabbing from V4L devices.
MyPhpTracker 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97639/
MyPhpTracker is a Web tracking system that shows you every page/file a
visitor requested. Every page needs a server-side include, or the
referring link must be changed. If you only use PHP files, and not
HTML, there should not be a need to change any link.
PHP Generic Access Control List 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97622/
This project is a set of PHP functions giving Web developers a simple,
yet immensely powerful "drop in" permission system to their
current Web-based applications.
picoSQL 1.0beta-20020917
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97646/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial
project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
PowerDNS daemon 2.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97653/
PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a
host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads
information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases.
Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl
backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a
Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.
Q 3.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97647/
Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on
the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an
arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite
rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific
programming and other advanced applications, and also as a
sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the
Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing
to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode.
Q-Midi 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97648/
Q-Midi is a MIDI interface module which allows you to write MIDI
applications in the Q programming language. It runs on top of Grame's
MidiShare package. Most basic MidiShare functionality is available,
including timing functions for realtime programming and MIDI file
access.
RealizationEngine 1.0.13rc1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97618/
The RealizationEngine is designed from the ground up to facilitate
group communication. It is accessible from any Web browser or
Web-enabled device with access to the server. Classified information is
easily restricted to authorized individuals. Information can be
compartmentalized, restricted, or published openly, as appropriate, all
from the same system. Ideas are coherently threaded, and every message
is searchable in a single location and in the context of the messages
related to it.
Roomba 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97632/
Roomba aims to provide a complete PMS (Property Management System) and
CRS (Central Reservation System) for hotels of all sizes. Roomba is a
J2EE-based application.
RubyInline 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97627/
Ruby Inline is an analog to Perl's Inline::C. It allows you to imbed C
external module code in your Ruby script directly. The code is compiled
and run on the fly when needed.
sed 3.02.80 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97553/
Sed, the GNU Stream Editor, copies the named files (standard input
default) to the standard output, edited according to a script of
commands.
SNARE 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97649/
SNARE (System iNtrusion Analysis and Reporting Environment) is a
dynamically loadable kernel module and daemon that provide a host
intrusion detection facility and C2-style auditing/event logging
capability for Linux similar to the Basic Security Module (BSM) for
Solaris, or the Windows Event Log.
SpamProbe 0.7b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97617/
SpamProbe is a spam detection program that uses a Bayesian analysis of
the frequencies of terms used in the email. Because it filters email
based on content rather than on general rules, it easily adapts itself
to the types of email that each individual user normally receives.
Ultra Tic Tac Toe 0.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97620/
Ultra Tic Tac Toe is a console-based Tic Tac Toe game that supports a
number of features including single-player and two-player games, and
board sizes from 3x3 to 6x6. It can be compiled using MPI or pthreads,
if available.
Web shell 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97645/
Wsh is a remote UNIX shell that works via HTTP. The client script
provides a shell-like prompt, encapsulating user commands into HTTP
POST requests and sending them to the server script. The server script
extracts and executes commands and returns STDOUT and STDERR output.
Features include command line history support, file upload/download,
and it can work through an HTTP proxy server.
wmmixer-dockapp 2.0.0beta1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97634/
wmmixer is a small dockable mixer application that allows toggling the
record source, muting individual channels, adjusting volume and
balance, and has mousewheel support. There's nothing in the program
that makes it require WindowMaker, except maybe the NeXTStep look and
the fact that it properly docks. It can be used with other window
managers without problems.
Xrefactory 1.5.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97652/
Xrefactory is a refactoring browser for Emacs and XEmacs providing
multiple projects support, source browser, intellisense code
completion, refactorings for safe symbol renaming, parameter
manipulations, function/method extraction, field encapsulation, moving
of fields/methods, etc. It is based on full pre-processing, parsing,
and static analyzing of sources. It works for C and Java languages, and
contains stand-alone cross referencer, and a generator for HTML
documentation.
xxdiff 2.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97623/
xxdiff is a graphical browser for viewing the differences between two
or three files, or between two directories, and can be used to produce
a merged version.
Zoinks 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97654/
Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for
Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors
like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring.
It supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and
other Asian languages).
[incr Widgets] 4.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97624/
[incr Widgets] is an object-oriented mega-widget set which extends
Tcl/Tk and is based on [incr Tcl] and [incr Tk]. This set of
mega-widgets delivers many new, general purpose widgets like option
menus, comboboxes, selection boxes, and various dialogs whose
couterparts are found in Motif and Windows. Since [incr Widgets] is
based on the [incr Tk] extension, the Tk framework of configuration
options, widget commands, and default bindings is maintained. In other
words, each [incr Widgets] mega-widget seamlessly blends with the
standard Tk widgets. They look, act and feel like Tk widgets. In
addition, all [incr Widgets] mega-widgets are object oriented and may
themselves be extended, using either inheritance or composition.
Slashcode
AxKit and Slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/19/0531203
Has anyone tried running AxKit in the same mod_perl instance as Slash?
I just tried but get the following errors on startup. I wonder if
anyone could point me in the right direction for analysing this. What I
don't understand is why simply adding in another perl handler would
affect slash this way. httpd started Prototype mismatch: sub
Slash::Apache::SlashVirtualUser vs ($$$) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Sl ash/Apache.pm line
71. Prototype mismatch: sub Slash::Apache::SlashSetVar vs ($$$$) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Sl ash/Apache.pm line
76. Prototype mismatch: sub Slash::Apache::SlashSetForm vs ($$$$) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Sl ash/Apache.pm line
81. Prototype mismatch: sub Slash::Apache::SlashCompileTemplates vs
($$$) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/Sl
ash/Apache.pm line 129. The line I am enabling in the httpd.conf is
PerlModule AxKit I'm using Slashcode 2.2.6 and the latest AxKit release
as of a few days ago.
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?
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