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Sourceforge
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Release Candidate 1
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Legend of the Wonderer TCG
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battle system in the project Docs
Advanced Simlulation Toolkit
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Recruiting
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PHPortal version 0.1.9 released!
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PCGen 2.6.3 is available
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SMySQL version 0.7.0
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Slashdot
Electronic Ballots In The Brazilian Presidential Election
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/06/0112240
[0]jorlando writes "On Sunday (06-Oct) Brazil will again use electronic
ballots for its Presidential Elections. Since a lot of /. readers from
time to time talk about the pros and cons of this type of technology,
it's a chance to see how it perform well (at least in Brazil...).
Representatives from NGOs, ONU and foreign Governments were invited as
observers and to see a working electronic votation system in a huge
scale, since there are more than 115 million of voters in Brazil ...
usually the results of the election are given 4 hours after the closing
of the ballots (17:00 Brasilia -3GMT), with a small margin of error,
since only 98% of the votes are computed in 4 hours ... some ballots
are in places (mostly in far-away rural areas and in the Amazon region)
that need to be taken to larger cities to be connected to the
vote-download system ... [1]ballots are made by Procomp, the
comunication sytem is a VPN-like [2]made by Embratel. The election can
be accompanied by the main Brazilian notice sites
([3]http://www.uol.com.br , [4]http://www.estado.com.br,
[5]http://www.globo.com and others), mostly only Portuguese, so [6]use
the fish!"
Links
0. mailto:jorlando@uol.!nospam!.com.br
1. http://www.procomp.com.br/sitenovo/projesp.asp
2. http://www.embratel.com.br/empresa/tse.html
3. http://www.uol.com.br/
4. http://www.estado.com.br/
5. http://www.globo.com/
6. http://babelfish.altavista.com/
ICFP 2002 Contest Winners Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/06/0121249
[0]Georgwe Russell writes "The Winners have been announced at the
[1]official web site. Looks like [2]OCaml and functional programming
have won again, with the 3 member TAPLAS team. There is somewhat of an
upset, though. Second place goes to 3-member team Radical TOO, whose
entry was written in C! In the lightning round, the virtues of
[3]Python as a quick prototyping language were shown in the lightning
division's winning entry by the OaSys one-man team. Does the skill of
the programmer prevail over the limitations of the language and
paradigm used, or is C nearly as good a language as OCaml?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://icfpcontest.cse.ogi.edu/
2. http://www.ocaml.org/
3. http://www.python.org/
Judge In RIAA Test Case Calls DMCA Unclear
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/05/2337242
otisaardvark writes "BBC News has an interesting article about how the
judge has chided Congress for being [0]inept and unclear. There are
repercussions for both sides; primarily that the initial verdict will
take far, far longer."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2300113.stm
First Kramnik vs DeepFritz, In Progress
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/05/2111208
An anonymous reader writes "Reigning world chess champion Vladimir
Kramnik [0]played the first match in a series of eight against the
world's strongest chess computer. 'After the game Vladimir Kramnik said
that he was never worried about losing the typical Berlin endgame that
arose in his first game against Deep Fritz. The World Champion is the
master of this line and Fritz was unable to take advantage of the white
pieces.' There is [1]live coverage of the event at the main website."
We've [2]mentioned this match a few times before.
Links
0. http://62.73.175.4/dynamic/articles/1041635502.html
1. http://www.brainsinbahrain.com/
2. //slashdot.org/search.pl?query=kramnik
E-Book Copy Protection, For What It's Worth
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/05/213200
[0]AudioBooksForFree.Com writes "WHSmith have challenged
AudioBooksForFree.Com to breaks Microsoft Reader e-book protection. It
[1]just took 30 minutes." No, they didn't break the encryption;
instead, this is just an application of the idea that it's very hard to
make something which can be displayed but not copied.
Links
0. http://www.AudioBooksForFree.Com
1.
http://www.onlinereporter.com/#audiobooksforfree.com%20Director%20Breaks%20Microsoft%20Reader
Casemodding Enterprise Hardware
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/05/200246
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Think your tower case with led fans, a cold
cathode and a window is cool? See what [1]this guy did to two [2]Sun
Enterprise 15Ks -- a casemod on $1.3 million dollars of hardware! Will
mainframes start shipping with light and window options now?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.rm-r.net/~bri/casemod/
2. http://www.nvcsales.com/sun/servers/highend/15000.html
Review: RedOctane Game Rental Service
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/05/1820203
An anonymous reader writes "Are you thinking of subscribing to the
[0]RedOctane game rental service? If so, you may wish to read [1]this
review before signing up. Bottom line? Slow turnaound times make it
uncompetitive with local rentals."
Links
0. http://www.redoctane.com/
1. http://www.thewonderverse.com/news/1033514368/index_html
Open Debate Between RIAA VP And DMCA Critic
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/05/1659240
A GW student writes "[0]The George Washington University's [1]School of
Engineering and Applied Science along with the [2]Cyberspace Policy
Institute are sponsoring some kind (hasn't really been decided yet) of
debate between Stanley Pierre-Louis, Vice President Legal Affairs for
the Recording Industry Association of America and Professor James Boyle
of Duke Law School. Remember, Prof. Boyle [3]just received an anonymous
$1 million to fight the DMCA. The event is open to the public. It will
take place on Tuesday October 8 in Washington, DC on GW's campus. The
[4]abstract and other details are here. Stick around, and the next day
you can go to the Supreme Court to see [5]Lawrence Lessig argue
[6]Eldred v. Ashcroft."
Links
0. http://www.gwu.edu/
1. http://www.seas.gwu.edu/
2. http://www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu/
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/05/1942206&tid=103
4. http://home.gwu.edu/~cmika/cpi.html
5. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/18/229249&tid=123
6. http://eldred.cc/
Russian Snared By The FBI Sentenced To 3 Years
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/05/1614200
[0]Mark Cantrell writes "Vasiliy Gorshkov, one of two Russian crackers
who were arrested in November 2000 after the FBI broke into their
computer systems were sentenced Friday. Taking pity on Gorshkov's
family, they sentenced Gorshkov to [1]3 years in prison and a fine of
nearly $700,000 USD. They also mention how a U.S. judge found that the
FBI wasn't breaking any laws in breaking into a Russian computer
system, despite the fact that they were breaking a Russian law doing
so. So apparently, it's ok for Americans to break Russian law if
they're in the U.S., but not ok for [2]Russians to break U.S. law, even
while in Russia."
Links
0. http://www.nwinfo.net/~mcantrell/
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=1&cid=582&u=/nm/20021005/wr_nm/tech_russianhacker_dc
2. http://www.freesklyarov.org/
eBay finishes PayPal Acquisition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/05/151201
Aidenn writes "As some may [0]remember, eBay was in the process of
merging with PayPal. It is finally finished. eBay has [1]information
here. [2]news.com has a more [3]complete story."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/08/1316250&tid=99
1. http://www.ebay.com/paypal/
2. http://news.com.com/
3. http://news.com.com/2100-1017-960658.html?tag=cd_mh
Freshmeat
Linux DVD Players
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/568
With DVDs quickly ousting clunky old video tapes from the realms of
video rental stores, and DVD-ROMs no longer the expensive beasts they
once were, software to turn your everyday Linux box into a home
entertainment system is becoming increasingly popular. This review
looks at the four major DVD players available to Linux users and the
general state of DVD playback under Linux.
Jawa Open Eyes JOpenEyes 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99233/
Jawa Open Eyes is a visual network monitoring tool developed in Java
using SNMPv1/2/2c for collecting MIB-II information. The main features
include visual monitoring, an enhanced network topology designer, email
alert, trap receiver, trap agent, and real time logging to DB and Web.
keychain 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99234/
keychain helps you to manage RSA and DSA keys in a convenient and
secure manner. It acts as a frontend to SSH-agent, but allows you to
easily have one long running SSH-agent process per system, rather than
the norm of one SSH-agent per login session. This dramatically reduces
the number of times you need to enter your passphrase - with keychain,
you only need to enter a passphrase once every time your local machine
is rebooted. keychain also makes it easy for remote cron jobs to
securely "hook in" to a long running SSH-agent process,
allowing your scripts to take advantage of RSA and DSA keys.
Wuff's MovieDB 2.00beta4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99225/
Wuff's MovieDB (WMDB) is a MySQL database with a nice PHP frontend to
catalogue DivXs, VCDs, SVCDs, DVDs, movies, or anything else you might
want to catalogue. It connects to Amazon's IMDB (Internet Movie
Database) to get most information about the movie and stores it in the
database. If covers are available they will be shown with the complete
movie information.
Slashcode
install troubles
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/05/1639245
Just trying to get some slashcode going and all looked well. Started
apache, and get the following in the error log [Sat Oct 5 09:06:42
2002] [error] Undefined subroutine
&Slash::Apache::User::userdir_handler::handler called. [Sat Oct 5
09:06:42 2002] [error] Undefined subroutine
&Slash::Apache::Log::handler called. I tried to install
Slash::Apache, but to no avail, getting the following error on make
test Can't load '../blib/arch/auto/Slash/Apache/Apache.so' for module
Slash::Apache: ../blib/arch/auto/Slash/Apache/Apache.so: undefined
symbol: perl_cmd_perl_TA KE1 at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux/DynaLoader.p m line 206. I am
running Apache 1.3.19 and red hat 7.1. I know both are sort of old, but
I will shortly switch to my new box. Thanks
Slash on a VPS (Virtual Private Server)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/04/069222
Does anyone have experience running Slash on a VPS. I use one of these
Virtual Private Servers (running FreeBSD) that companies like Verio,
Interland and many others offer. You have what might be called 'virtual
root'.
Time stamp on blog site
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/04/067251
The time stamp on my submissions is 6 hours in the future. How do I
correct this problem? Is this in the safe_mysql script where I set the
TZ=GMT? Please help as having the correct time on the posts is critical
to the success of this site as it contains time sensitive information.
Also, how do I prevent postings to the site from users that do not have
an account?
Displaying multiple categories on home page?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/01/2037208
I'm sorry if I've missed something here, but I've just set up a slash
site, and can't quite figure out how to get my home page to work like I
want: My goal is to deploy a slash site internally where I work, with
sections for the various groups on our project; R&D, CM, QA,
marketing, etc. Then, each group can have "private" articles in their
own section, and then front-page anything that would be of interest to
everyone else (a new customer, major feature, reached a milestone,
etc). As far as I can tell, however, right now, R&D guys would have
to explicitly check both the R&D section, and the main section.
Convincing people to regularly hit one web page will be hard enough;
getting them to frequent two will be near impossible. The closest I can
find to what I want is the "Collapse Sections" option, but in that
case, R&D would be forced to see all the marketting drudge, and
vice versa. You can blacklist certain categories, but then it defeats
the whole purpose of doing this. Is there something I'm just being
dense and missing?
Themes how to
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/01/1733226
I have just finished making the HTML templates for a new site and have
slash 2.2.5 up and running. How do I make and install these templates
as a theme ? How are template-tool, template check and install theme
involved in this process ? What is boilerplate ? thanks - Bob
Changing comment display?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/30/078259
I have noticed a surprising behavior in slashcoded sites. It seems like
a bug to me, but as a lay user I may be missing the Big Picture of why
one would want things this way. Specifically, I was surprised to find
that when changing the comment display parameters (e.g., threshold,
nesting, ordering) of a displayed article, the resulting page does not
display the original article; the comments are shown as requested, but
the initial paragraph is not drawn. I first noticed this switching to a
nested display on a recent Slashdot article, but some quick testing
revealed that the behavior is consistent across various sites and
browsers. Clearly, this is a systemic condition. Is this a deliberate
choice? Is there some reason to prefer this approach to one that allows
a user to display the entire article with the comments organized as
he/she chooses? From where I sit, I don't see why one would, but I was
interested to hear what the community thought before submitting a bug
report/patch. What do you think?
Updating portald blocks
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/27/1928216
My site portald blocks have gone insane! When portald runs, the blocks
are actually updated - I check in backSlash, and the current content
comes up when I edit a block, say 'slashdot'. On the main page, the
block is still displaying content from the last time apache was
restarted. Everything else on the page is showing new content (stories,
recent topics, older stories, etc). What is going wrong??!
The Ethics of Weblogging
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/27/0322250
Okay, this is a bit different kind of question, but it's been
concerning me a lot lately. What is the "netiquette" of weblogging? For
example, I saw a cool story on Slashdot that points at a page on
Fortune magazine. The subject of the article is right on topic with the
Slash site I'm developing. Do I quote Slashdot, or Fortune, or both?
And in general, how ethical is it to create a site, the majority of
which is content that others have worked to create?
How to fetch a list of users?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/27/0322208
Hi All, I'm new to slash and have installed one. Now i got a simple
question as how to fetch a list of users from the users table? my
@my_query = $slashdb->sqlSelect('nickname', 'users', 'uid!=1'); #
uid 1 = anon coward Now @my_query only results in the nickname of uid
2, but I need all the users' nickname listed. How to do that? Sure
other sqlSelect* give me some clues, but I kind of short on time,
despite of my new acquiantance with perl and slash. Thanks for all
help.Usef
Does Slash work on Lindows?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/25/167217
Has anyone successfully installed Slashcode on Lindows? Before I try it
for myself, I wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions. Should I
use software available through Click-N-Run or download everything
manually?
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