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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
13.8MP Kodak Tops Previously Leaked Canon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/24/0133236
[0]MadCow42 writes "With the professional imaging trade show
[1]Photokina opening this week in Koln Germany, digital camera
manufacturers are announcing a stunning new lineup of professional
digital cameras. These include a [2]13.8 megapixel monster from Kodak,
and a [3]11.1 megapixel camera from Canon. I'm sure Nikon isn't too far
behind, but no news yet on their offerings. These cameras are
positioned for the professional photographer, but with list prices from
under $4k to $6k, they're not out of reach for the 'pro-sumer' market
either. The best news is that new products like this will push prices
down on the 4-6MP cameras at the high end of the consumer level." We
mentioned the premature release [4]giving Canon's hand away; like
MadCow42, I want to see what Nikon has to say.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.photokina.de/
2. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/0922story4_business.shtml
3. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2C4149%2C528206%2C00.asp
4. //slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/11/2255210&tid=126
Purchase Your Personal Gene Map
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/1844200
dstone writes "Craig Venter, Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2000
has a new hobby: collecting rich people's DNA. [0]Millionaires are
lining up to buy their personal gene maps for the cool price of
USD$621,500. The process takes a week and you get some insight into
your genetic mutations that may correlate with illnesses, cancers,
Alzeimer's, etc. Venter is a high profile character in the genetic
sequencing scene and the Human Genome Project. More info on him may be
found [1]here(1) , [2]here(2), and [3]here(3) . If you had the pocket
change, would you give this man your business?"
Links
0. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/reuters20020923_392.html
1. http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/mag/venter.html
2. http://www.house.gov/science/venter_06-17.htm
3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4403109,00.html
DRM: How To Boil A Frog
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/2345215
[0]symbolic writes "This [1]article on the Register explains their
experience with Creative's first attempt at supporting DRM, and also
reviews a sneaky little technique for 'easing' DRM into peoples' lives
via a free Costello preview CD. Two of the tracks are free from any
DRM, but for the two that are DRM-enabled, you have to activate the
right to listen to them (up to four times), by accessing a central
server via the net. For those in the know, the doublespeak used to
inform users of any actions they need to take to enable their DRM
rights might be quite amusing. To wit: 'The content you are accessing
requires an additional level of security. In order to play it, you will
need to update your Digital Rights Management Installation.' Others,
however, will think they're getting something, when they're actually
having something taken away from them. It's a matter of time to see if
consumers will flat-out reject this new 'enabling' technology, or let
it seep into and infect their lives like the disease that it is."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26387.html
Bite My Shiney PC-Metal Game
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/129204
dagashi writes "'The ingenious, creative mind of Matt Groening (The
Simpsons) now brings arguably his greatest creation yet, Futurama, to
the interactive entertainment screen.' Looks like Futurama is [0]signed
to become a game. Yeha!"
Links
0. http://www.uds.se/games/?iId=10
Graphics Memory Sizes Compared: How Much Is Enough?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/1953204
[0]EconolineCrush writes "Trying to decide between whether or not to
get a 64MB graphics card, or spring for that 128MB version? Hit up
[1]this article, which explores the performance of ATI and NVIDIA-based
cards with 64 and 128MB of memory, before swiping your credit card. Not
so long ago 32MB was the top end for graphics memory on consumer video
cards, but now even budget cards are available with 128MB. 128MB might
seem excessive now, but a year from now 64MB cards might just be
obsolete."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.tech-report.com/etc/2002q3/graphicsmem/index.x?pg=1
The Days of SysAdmin Numbered?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/173250
[0]gmkeegan writes "The [1]Economist is running a [2]story about Sun's
new N1 operating system whose purpose is to make today's system
administrators redundant. The idea is to virtualize the computer system
so that the automated resource management software can add, remove and
manage everything dynamically. The article mentions similar efforts by
[3]IBM, [4]HP, and [5]Microsoft."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus berry
1. http://www.economist.com/
2. http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1338410
3. http://www.ibm.com/
4. http://www.hp.com/
5. http://www.microsoft.com/
Snail Mail Still Winning The Bandwidth War
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/1719234
LR_none writes "Today's [0]New York Times has [1]this short piece
suggesting snail mail is the leading broadband technology, at least for
video movies on demand. The article states that the 8 to 9 gigs of data
on a DVD would take two weeks to download at 56kb, making [2]Netflix'
three-day distribution by mail seem speedy. (Since they can send three
or more movies at once, Netflix compares favorably with DSL download
speeds, too.) The author estimates Netflix alone distributes 1,500
terabytes a day, which is impressive considering the Internet carries
2,000TB a day (by estimates cited in the article). The 'immediate
gratification' aspect of Internet consumerism has given a huge boost to
companies like [3]FedEx and [4]UPS, but it's surprising to think of
[5]the post office as being the leading infrastructure provider for
digital entertainment, in terms of market share and efficiency, for the
forseeable future. (Disclaimer: I don't work for Netflix or the post
office.)"
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/23/technology/23NECO.html
2. http://www.netflix.com/
3. http://www.fedex.com/
4. http://www.ups.com/
5. http://www.usps.gov/
IBM, MS Critique MySQL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/1652243
magellan writes "InfoWorld has an [0]article reporting how both IBM and
Microsoft are dissing MySQL. While it is understandable from Microsoft,
it is interesting that IBM, who often claims to be a defender of Open
Source Software, would be so negative. Sun Microsystems and Yahoo are
quoted as providing positive opinions on MySQL." On the credit site for
MySQL, though, Bingo Foo writes "[1]MySQL has finally answered its
detractors who complained about its lack of transactions. A [2]press
release today reveals that [3]InnoDB is now fully integrated with the
stock MySQL product, allowing ACID-compliant transactions, rollback,
and crash recovery. Let the religious wars begin!"
Links
0. http://infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/09/23/020923pldman.xml
1. http://www.mysql.com/
2. http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.092302/222660241
3. http://www.innodb.com/
The Coming Time for 802.11a?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/1516222
[0]abhikhurana writes " [1]This article on [2]80211-planet.com predicts
a real boom in the market for 802.11a in the coming year. An excerpt
from the article: In tests in my SOHO LAN, I found that in real world
conditions, 802.11a averaged four times faster than 802.11b. In
addition, with its 5GHz frequency, 802.11a avoids the interference
slow-downs that b must suffer with microwave ovens, high-end wireless
phones, and other 802.11b networks. Also makes an interesting read for
knowing about the technologies which maybe driving the wireless
bandwagon in the coming years."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article/0,4000,1781_1465111,00.html
2. http://www.80211-planet.com/
Ethical Lines of the Gray Hat
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/1417249
Facter writes "There is a [0]great article on CNET about the ethical
debate between white/gray/black-hat hackers - interesting to note is
that it reports the "fading away" of the "gray" definition between
white and black, due to the DMCA hindering anything in between.."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2009-1001-958129.html?tag=fd_lede
Freshmeat
abcm2ps 3.1.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98007/
abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to
PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to
print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one
or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to
the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
Agenda 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98002/
Agenda is a project tracking and team management system. Its features
include group and personal tasks list, visual representation of
maturity of projects and tasks, various reports, employment scheduling,
a common address book, and birthday reminder.
Ampoliros 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98018/
Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web
applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface.
It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment
system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast
deployment of Web solutions.
Bessie the Annihilator 0.8.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98001/
Bessie the Annihilator allows teachers to post assignments and grades
for their classes on the Web.
Business::OnlinePayment::WorldPay::Junior 1.02 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98005/
Business::OnlinePayment::WorldPay::Junior is a Perl module to track
transactions made via the WorldPay Select Junior online payment service
and to verify callbacks from WorldPay indicating that a transaction has
been authorised or cancelled. The module handles the standard 3
currency offering from WorldPay (USD, GBP, and EUR) and will correctly
handle transactions where the payment was made in a different
(supported) currency from that set by the merchant (with a small
permitted deviation). A script is included to be run from cron to
update the exchange rates to those used by WorldPay each day.
darkstat 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98024/
Darkstat is an ntop-workalike network statistics gatherer. Built to be
faster and smaller than ntop, it uses libpcap to capture network
traffic and serves up Web page reports of statistics such as data
transferred by host, port, and protocol. It also has a neat bandwidth
usage graph.
Electron Cloud Caller ID 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98004/
Electron Cloud Caller ID is a program to send out UDP broadcast packets
with caller ID data in XML format when the phone rings, and includes
several clients to receive and display them (for Unix/Linux/X and QNX
so far).
Enterprise Gantt 22-09-02 (Snapshot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97951/
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.
ezContents 1.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98019/
ezContents is a Web site content management system based on PHP and
MySQL. Features include maintaining menus and sub-menus, adding authors
that can write contents, permissions, work flow, and simple settings to
customise layout and the look of the site. It is possible to integrate
external scripts, and frames as well frameless Web site designs are
supported. The HTML output is correct for Explorer and Netscape
browsers.
GLAsteroids 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97983/
GLAsteroids is a 3D clone of the arcade classic 'Asteroids' coded in C
using OpenGL and SDL. It features sounds effects, a menu system, a high
score table, and fuel drops. Tou can 'fly' around in outer space
blowing up chunks of spinning space rock with a high power dual plasma
cannon until you get smashed to pieces, run out of fuel, or save the
earth from being pulverised.
GNOME ALSA Mixer 0.1.0beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98011/
This project is a sound mixer for GNOME written for the Advanced Linux
Sound Architecture (ALSA).
Gtk Transform 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97985/
Gtk Transform is a time/frequency graphical visualization tool for
tabular text data with selectable windows, time scrolling, and
selectable transform length.
IaraJS 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98026/
IaraJS is a set of JavaScript templates for the construction of Web
sites, using JavaScript components.
IRC Services 5.0pre13 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98000/
Services for IRC Networks (or just Services for short) provides for
definitive nickname and channel ownership, automatic channel mode
setting, memo (short message) storage and retrieval, and greater IRC
operator control over the network.
Java MSN Messenger Library 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97992/
This project is an MSN Messenger library developed in Java for the
express purpose of easing the development of MSN Messenger clients.
Java Parser/Parser Generator 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97945/
Java Parser is a Java-based parser and parser generator
package/utility. The generator builds parsers from straight EBNF
notation files.
Java Serialization for XML 1.0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97997/
Java Serialization for XML (JSX) enables all objects to be written and
read as XML, using Java's standard Serialization API. Objects from your
present application version can be migrated to the next version,
despite class evolution, by processing the XML with XSLT, SAX, DOM, or
JDOM. Unlike java.beans.XMLEncoder/Decoder, JAXB, and Castor, JSX works
for all objects.
Java SOS 3.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98009/
Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site building,
including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc.
JDebugTool 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97988/
JDebugTool is a standalone Java debugger built on top of the standard
JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture). It features a graphical and
intuitive Java Swing GUI, and integrated Java Help.
Linux Firewall 2.0rc5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97998/
Projectfiles.com Linux Firewall is a robust, well-designed firewall for
Linux 2.4 based on netfilter/iptables. It supports advanced features
for both servers and routers such as port forwarding and connection
logging. It has verbose success and failure messages, and is easy to
install and configure.
Mckoi SQL Database 0.94
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98022/
Mckoi SQL Database is a relational database management system written
in Java. It supports a useful subset of ANSI SQL-92, including
transactions. The software can run as either a dedicated multi-client,
multi-threaded database server, or as an embedded database within a
Java application. The engine is designed to be simple and extendable.
The software also comes with a JDBC 2.0 driver.
mnoGoSearch-php 3.2.0.beta7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97995/
mnoGoSearch-php is a PHP frontend for the mnoGoSearch free Web search
engine (formerly known as UdmSearch). It supports most of all original
search.cgi features including cache mode, phrase search, weight
factors, spell daemon, and others.
mod_securid 1.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98016/
The mod_securid Apache module implements RSA SecurID authentication for
the Apache Web server. It allows administrators to restrict access to
Web sites (or parts of Web sites) to users authenticated using a
SecurID token and an ACE server.
Netclipboard 0.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98012/
Netclipboard provides multi-platform clipboard synchronization over a
local broadcast-capable network. It is based on the QT toolkit, and
will build and run on Linux/X11 as well as Microsoft Windows. When used
in combination with either KDE2.0+ or MS Windows, it will dock itself
in the system tray. This mode of operation is effective and
unintrusive.
Network-Accounting Daemon for Netfilter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98010/
ulog-acctd is a userspace network accounting daemon which generates log
files of network traffic for accounting purposes. It collects headers
of IP packets that travel through the Linux 2.4+ netfilter. It writes
accounting information to a log which can include protocol type, source
and destination address, port numbers, byte and packet count, and
incoming and outgoing interfaces.
Office Tournament 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97959/
Office Tournament is a tool for keeping track of office tournaments,
such as foosball. You may enter data from the command line or from the
CGI Web interface. It outputs all kinds of stats and even a nice chart
if you use the Imager::Graph::Pie Perl library available from CPAN. It
currently requires no database to run, but there are plans to migrate
the text (flat file db) to MySQL.
PHP Generic Access Control List 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97993/
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.
PHP-Nuke 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98014/
PHP-Nuke is a Web portal and online community system which includes
Web-based administration, surveys, access statistics, user customizable
boxes, a themes manager for registered users, friendly administration
GUI with graphic topic manager, the ability to edit or delete stories,
an option to delete comments, a moderation system, referer tracking,
integrated banner ad system, search engine, backend/headlines
generation (RSS/RDF format), Web directory like Yahoo, events manager,
and support for 20+ languages.
phppdflib 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97987/
phppdflib is a PHP class that allows dynamic generation of PDF files.
It focuses on being simple and easy to use but currently only supports
a small subset of the full capabilities of PDF files. It was developed
to provide predictable printing capabilities to Web-based applications
written in PHP.
Ports4linux 20020922
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98008/
Ports4linux will download the software you asked to install, compile it
with the options you specified, create a package for your packager, and
install the package.
REXML 2.4.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97991/
REXML is an XML 1.0 compliant, reasonably fast, non-validating XML
parser. It has an API that is designed to be intuitive,
straightforward. and terse. REXML includes a tree model parser, a SAX2
streaming parser, and a pull parser. It also includes a full XPath
implementation. All of REXML's parsers pass 100% of the Oasis XML
non-validating tests.
SOAP for Tcl 1.6.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97984/
The SOAP package provides a mechanism to bind Tcl command procedures to
remote procedure calls using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
over HTTP.
uClinux 2.5.38-uc0 (2.5.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97981/
uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors.
It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would
otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives
the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack
of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and
efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux.
Uptime Client 5.0b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97996/
Uptime Client is a little program that keeps track of your uptime and
sends it to a server where you can compare it to many other hosts and
browse through various statistical information.
Vobcopy 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97990/
Vobcopy copies DVD .vob files to harddisk, decrypting them on the way
(thanks to libdvdread) and merges them into 2 GB files (or larger) with
the name extracted from the DVD. It checks for enough free space on the
destination drive and compares the copied size to the size on DVD (in
case something went wrong during the copying).
WebSeller 3.0.1.47
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98003/
WebSeller is a modular construction system for setting up your own
Internet shop, e-commerce site, or virtual department store.
white_dune 0.20beta54 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98020/
VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modelling Language) is the ISO standard for
displaying 3D data over the web via browserplugins. It has support for
animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound).
Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the
scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml
format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators.
It also has support for stereoscopic view via
"quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.
Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 3.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98021/
The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides
development kernels for testing purposes only. These kernels provide a
service for developers and end users who can't be up-to-date with the
latest kernels/patches but want to test new kernel features. Patches
may be added upon request.
Workrave 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97971/
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of
repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to
take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily
limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using
GTK/Win32).
Zabbix 1.0beta6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/98006/
Zabbix is software that monitors your servers and applications. Polling
and trapping techniques are both supported. It has a simple, yet very
flexible notification mechanism, and a Web interface that allows quick
and easy administration. It can be used for logging, monitoring,
capacity planning, availability and performance measurement, and
providing the latest information to a helpdesk.
Slashcode
Slash moderatorlog table a black hole of mystery
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/1650226
Does anyone have the lowdown on the sturcture of the moderatorlog
table? I assume this keeps track of individual moderations, etc. but
part of the structure puzzles me: uid - moderator uid val - ?? sid -
Story ID? (or discussion id?) ts - ?? cid - comment id cuid - uid of
the comment poster (??) reason - mod reason ("offtopic", etc.) active -
?? m2count - number of metamods on this mod? If anyone has some insight
into thie table structure, or can confirm or deny some of my guesses,
it would help me a lot. --dbworrier
theabstract.org
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/20/0652205
Announcing a new slash site devoted to digital film and media. The site
aims to be a creative community in which users can share their work
online, and engage in open discussion, review, and collaboration.
http://www.theabstract.org --mbulat
No Mail Sent?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/19/0532208
When I select "Mail Password" for a forgotten password i get this
message, but no mail is ever sent (no entry in the sendmail maillog):
retrying in 1 seconds... retrying in 1 seconds... The password for jim
was just emailed.
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.
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