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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
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Watches: onHand PC Watch
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Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
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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
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Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
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Cube Fodder: Rogers Connection Magnetic Set
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Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
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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
The New Webcasting Compromise
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/08/0425253
arkham6 writes "According to a story on Yahoo, it appears that the RIAA
and negotiators for webcasters have reached a tentative [0]deal for
reduced rates for 'small' webcasters. However, it appears now that the
artists themselves are going to jump into the fray because the record
companies now may be able to weasel out of paying the artists."
Links
0.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/bpihw/20021006/en_bpihw/web_royalty_rate_deal_reached
LinuxBIOS, BProc-Based Supercomputer For LANL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/08/0324241
An anonymous reader writes "LANL will be receiving a 1024 node (2048
processor) LinuxBIOS/BProc based supercomputer late this year. The
story is at [0]this location. This system is unique in Linux cluster
terms due to no disks on compute nodes, using LinuxBIOS and Beoboot to
accomplish booting, and BProc for job startup and management. It is
officially known as the Science Appliance, but is affectionately known
as Pink to [1]the team that is building much of it."
Links
0. http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/releases/archive/02-106.shtml
1. http://www.acl.lanl.gov/cluster/
ENUM Protocol in Australia?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/1218220
[0]Master Kai writes "Looks like Australia's thinking about
implementing [1]ENUM, an internet protocol that will convert a simple
phone number into a URI. The benefits are obvious, use one number to
contact you on any communications medium. Your website, fixed phone,
fax, mobile (cell) and email address. But at what cost to our privacy?
I know that personally I prefer to give out my email address, because I
can change it at the click of a button. And what about spam? Not only
would spamers have your email address, but your contact numbers too.
Eeeep! Anyway. It looks good nonetheless. Check out [1]the news article
, and for the [2]Australian Communications Authority Discussion Paper.
"
Links
0. http://www.kaimarna.com
1. http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5238651%255E15306,00.html
2. http://www.aca.gov.au/committee/nsg2/implementation.rtf
Turning a Blind Eye to Big Brother
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/2343227
[0]SiliconRedox writes: "An article in the NYTimes (user reg.) details
what many of us who have worked with video or electronics have known
for quite awhile: Shine a laser beam (or infrared, but the article
doesn't get into that) at a video camera, and you can [1]effectively
blind certain viewpoints of the camera. The article follows one man
trying to cope with the surveillence society by removing his own image
from everyday video footage using this technique. The most interesting
part? What kind of culpability does the individual or institution have
in utilizing this kind of technology?"
Links
0. http://www.digilutionary.net
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/technology/07ZZAP.html?8hpib
Laptop Fuel Cells Approved For Air Carriage
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/2212208
[0]gilgsn writes "According to reports in [1]BusinessWeek, the US
Department of Transportation has ruled that a new fuel cell developed
by US company Polyfuel can be taken on airplanes. The announcement
clears the way for the commercialisation of fuel cells as an
alternative to batteries in notebook computers. The use of direct
methanol fuel cells on aeroplanes has been questioned as they contain
methanol, which is flammable. According to Jim Balcom, Polyfuel's CEO,
the US DOT said that a fuel cell designed by his company could be taken
into aircraft cabins when it goes on sale because it contains a
relatively low concentration of methanol. Fuel cells are viewed as a
promising power source in notebook comptuers as they are instantly
refuellable (using fuel cartridges) and will power laptops two to three
times longer than standard batteries. [2]Full Story." This will be more
exciting news when the fuel cells are actually available.
Links
0. http://planenews.com
1. http://www.businessweek.com/
2.
http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1471,1888,00.html
Cell Death Nets 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/2154243
An anonymous reader writes "The [0]recent press release at the Nobel
website details the first of the 2002 Nobel Prizes. This year the
Medicine prize goes to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John E.
Sulston for their discovery of programmed cell death (also called
apoptosis). Their seminal work in the model organism C. elegans
established the foundation of cell suicide as a normal physiologic
process. The implications are wide ranging including understanding
organ development and cancer."
Links
0. http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/2002/press.html
Phoenix 0.2 Web Browser: Lean, Mean Mozilla
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/1739241
[0]GonzoJohn writes "Linux Orbit [1]reviews the Phoenix 0.2 web
browser: 'I've never been a huge fan of the Mozilla web browser. It's
too big and too slow in my opinion. I like the Opera web browser a lot,
but it is closed source, ad supported (for the free version) or costs
money (if you want to get rid of the banner ads). Opera is almost
exactly what I'm looking for in a web browser as far as features are
concerned: fast, browser window tabs, mouse gesturing, and I can
configure the interface a little. It has its problems, no doubt. Java
and Javascript are big tripping points for it to name just a few. But
speed is what I'm looking for. Then along comes Mozilla's Phoenix web
browser. Phoenix still uses a lot of the Mozilla code. In fact, Phoenix
code is based completely on Mozilla code, so the development should
move rather quickly. Here is a link to a road map for what it's
developers think is a close time-line for its development. Although
still in heavy development, I have found Phoenix quite useable and
stable even in the early 0.2 release and I continue to download the
nightly release every day.'"
Links
0. http://www.linuxorbit.com
1.
http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=20
Review of SuSE 8.1 Professional
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/186210
Gentu writes "[0]SuSE 8.1 is out and it seems to be the main competitor
of Red Hat 8. OSNews [1]has the review of its Professional version. The
new SuSE 8.1 seems to be sleekier and more powerful than ever."
Eugenia, as usual, isn't shy about saying what she doesn't like.
There's a [2]review on Linuxlookup.com as well.
Links
0. http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/i386/index.html
1. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1887
2.
http://www.linuxlookup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=45
Kazaa And Exportation of U.S. Copyright Laws
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/1655202
Mr. Vidster writes "Interesting article in the NYTimes about the
potential [0]issues the U.S. justice system must face when dealing with
Sharman Networks and KaZaA. Apparently Sharman and KaZaA have servers
in Denmark, source code in Estonia, and the developers live in the
Netherlands. How far does the long arm of US copyright law reach?"
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/technology/07SWAP.html
IT Trends In and Out of Downturn
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/1429204
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Washington Post has an interesting
[1]article talking about how IT industry is changing its business
models to survive (IBM: "Pay As You Save"; HP: universal printer
driver; Consulting weak; Oursourcing booming), as well as how outsiders
view the downturn (Merrill Lynch: it's just another bust after PC and
mainframe, but the good thing is, "each 'wave' has so far represented a
tenfold increase in the number of technology users."). I'm particularly
interested in the outsourcing story. It might explain why IBM will
benefit and other vendors like Sun Microsystem which don't have a
strong service arm will suffer."
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35421-2002Oct2.html
Freshmeat
Abbot 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99418/
Abbot is a framework for testing Java GUIs. Using simple XML-based
scripts or Java code, you can launch a GUI, play back arbitrary user
actions on it, and examine its state. It also includes the Costello
editor which facilitates creating, debugging, and modifying scripts.
The editor supports recording arbitrary user semantic actions into a
script, exploring the component hierarchy, running the script, and
other features you'd expect from a script editor. Test scripts may be
run as a JUnit TestCase.
abcm2ps 3.1.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99430/
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.
avidemux 0.9pre18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99422/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit AVI. It allows you to multiplex
and demultiplex audio to/from video. It is able to cut video, import
BMP, MJPEG, and MPEG video, and encode them. You can also process video
with included filters. It requires divx4linux and GTK/GDK.
Bayesian Mail Filter 0.82
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99423/
This is a mail filter which uses the Bayes algorithm as explained in
Paul Graham's article "A Plan for Spam". It aims to be
smaller, faster, and more versatile than other filters. The
implementation is ANSI C and uses POSIX functions. Supported platforms
are (in theory) all POSIX systems. It is independent from external
programs and libraries, supports multiple database formats (flat files,
libdb, and MySQL), and uses efficient zero-copy processing.
SpamAssassin style passthru mode and headers are supported.
cdrecord 1.11a36
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99429/
Cdrecord creates home-burned CDs with a CD-R/CD-RW recorder. It works
as a burn engine for several applications. Cdrecord supports CD
recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc and ATAPI/mmc
compliant drives should also work. Supported features include
IDE/ATAPI, parallel-port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and
mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CD-RWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO
and human-readable error messages. Cdrecord includes remote SCSI
support and can access local or remote CD-writers.
CSer Prerelease 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99403/
CSer is a library for C++ serialization, also called 'persistence'. It
allows developers to write out a network of objects to a file, then,
later, recreate the network (including multiple pointers to the same
object) from that file. Although there are other libraries that do this
(including MFC), CSer only does serialization, and nothing else, and
its only external dependency is on the STL.
DansGuardian 2.4.6-3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99407/
DansGuardian is a Web content filtering proxy that uses Squid to do all
the fetching. It filters using multiple methods including, but not
limited to, phrase matching, file extension matching, MIME type
matching, PICS filtering, and URL/domain blocking. It has the ability
to switch off filtering by certain criteria including username, domain
name, source IP, etc. The configurable logging produces a log in an
easy to read format. It has the option to only log text-based pages,
thus significantly reducing redundant information (such as every image
on a page).
distcc 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99410/
distcc is a program that distributes compilation of C code across
several machines on a network. It does not require machines to share a
filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or
header files installed.
EasyDiff 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99385/
EasyDiff is a GNUstep application that lets you easily see the
differences between two text files.
EnderUNIX spamGuard 1.6beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99433/
spamGuard is a collection of small applications that automagically
monitors spammer activity in mail server logs. The program supports
qmail (multilog/syslog), sendmail, and postfix.
GSburn.app 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99369/
GSburn.app is a GNUstep-based CD burning program. It serves as a front
end for cdrtools, cdrdao, and cdparanoia.
GSDict.app 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99386/
GSDict.app is a GNUstep frontend to the dict program, which looks up
the definitions of words in a dictionary.
Hanzi Quiz 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99414/
Hanzi Quiz randomly generates multiple-choice questions from a list
containing Hanzi (Chinese characters), Pinyin (pronunciation), and
English. Questions and choices can be from any category.
JavaCA 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99413/
JavaCA is a text interface tool to run a X.509 (aka SSL) Certificate
Authority that aims to be more user-friendly than OpenSSL. It also
should run on non-UNIX operating systems where OpenSSL may not be
available.
JaxMe 1.46
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99405/
JaxMe is a Java/XML binding framework based on SAX2. It consists of a
set of code generators that read an XML schema and generate code for
parsing conformant XML documents into corresponding Java objects,
saving those objects into a database or, vice versa, reading such Java
objects from a database and converting them into XML. JaxMe supports
namespaces, relational databases, and Tamino. JaxMe comes with an
integrated application framework and a generator for EJB entity beans
with BMP (bean managed persistence).
JDebugTool 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99406/
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.
JOELib 2002-10-07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99428/
JOELib is a computational chemistry library which supports SMARTS
substructure search, descriptor calculation, processing/filtering
pipes, and conversion of different chemical file formats. It is written
in 100% pure Java, and interfaces to external programs are available.
JSwat Java Debugger 2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99425/
JSwat is a graphical, stand-alone Java debugger, using the JPDA
library. It offers breakpoints with monitors and conditions, colorized
source code display, single-stepping, displaying variables, viewing
stack frames, and expression evaluation.
kanjidrill 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99419/
kdrill helps people learn Japanese 'Kanji' characters. It originally
started as a simple multiple choice Kanji quiz program, to help people
learn Japanese characters, but it now has a few different guess
formats, history options, and also has a dictionary function. Words can
be looked up in a variety of methods, including Romaji, SKIP,
four-corner, cut-n-paste, radical lookup, and English search.
knetfilter 3.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99435/
Knetfilter is a KDE frontend to iptables. It is used with Linux 2.4 to
manage the functionality of netfilter. Knetfilter lets you set up most
common firewall configurations, as well as perform more sophisticated
management of a complex firewall. It is also possible to use an
integrated interface to tcpdump and nmap.
MaildirSync 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99398/
Maildirsync is a utility for Maildir synchronization. It is designed to
be used in online (live) Maildir folders, be fail-safe, and is
optimized for minimal bandwidth.
MemCheck Deluxe 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99444/
MemCheck Deluxe is a memory usage tracker and leak finder. It allows
developers to find memory leaks quickly, as well as providing some
memory usage information.
mnoGoSearch-php 3.2.0.rc1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99442/
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.
moodss 16.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99443/
Moodss (the Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) displays data
described and updated in one or more modules loaded at startup time or
dynamically. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers,
summary tables, free text viewers, and threshold entries can be created
from any number of table cells. Moodss has full drag'n'drop support in
the UI, and comes with numerous modules for system, database, network,
and other types of monitoring. New modules can be developed in Tcl,
Perl, Python, or C. A monitoring daemon (moomps) for UNIX is included.
MPEG Menu System 0.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99411/
MPEG Menu System is a menu system for the dxr3. It can also be used as
a text based audio player. It supports Lirc.
MT2 Thumbnailer 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99412/
MT2 Thumbnailer (Make Thumbnails 2) is another program for generating
HTML photo albums from pictures. It gives users a great deal of control
over the comments shown alongside each picture, and the way the
pictures are ordered and grouped. Having descriptions, reflections,
quips, and quotes in a picture album makes it much more memorable and
fun to write.
Music Library 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99396/
Music Library is written in PHP and based on tunez. However, instead of
it being a voting system for a streaming icecast server, it is a
Music-on-Demand Library built to work with phpGroupware. It searches
recursively through a directory full of files for audio formats you
specify and dumps their artist, album, and track names into a MySQL
database. You can then browse, search, or listen over HTTP. Bandwidth
is desirable long distance, but performance will depend on your
encoding bitrate. It also comes with an MP3 renaming script to ease the
task of administration.
Nekit Applet 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99434/
Nekit Applet is a HTML editor Java applet which supports a small subset
of HTML. It supports just enough HTML to edit a significantly formatted
document for the text section of an HTML page. It does not currently
support images, tables, or nested lists. It features communication with
the server via XML-RPC connection for opening, saving, and getting site
structure info. It interacts with the browser to handle the window
containing the applet. Nekit also has the ability to define three types
of anchors: normal links to other HTML pages, internal links to other
parts of the same dynamic Web site, and file download links which point
to a particular download area.
Netfilter logs analyzer 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99421/
IPTables log analyzer displays Linux 2.4 iptables logs (rejected,
accepted, and masqueraded packets) in a nice HTML page. The reports it
produces are easy to read and understand, reducing the manual analysis
time. They contain statistics on packets and links to more detailed
information on a given host, port, or domain.
obliquid 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99437/
obliquid is a PHP/XML application framework for building groupware Web
portals. Any data which is handled by any module is highly
configurable. It has a core allowing to build pages using templates
blocks, multilingual support and themes. It also has a
users/groups/operation module and a calendar supporting availabilities,
calls, and meetings.
Parallel port powerSwitch 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99432/
pp_powerSwitch is a TCP/IP based server which controls a power
switching device through the parallel port. It can be used to control
heating, lamps, computers, and coffee machines amongst other things.
Parse::PlainConfig 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99427/
The Parse::PlainConfig module provides OO access to parsing and
generating human-readable conf (or rc) files. All of the normal data
types for values are supported: scalar, array, and hash.
poeb 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99417/
Poeb is a fully functional IRC bot written in Perl. It is comparable to
a base eggdrop. It supports user administration, nick registration,
channel operator commands, all CTCP events, some common channel events,
log manipulation, multiple channels, and communication with a channel.
rda 0.2.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99441/
RDA is a computer forensics tool to remotely acquire data. Usually disk
cloning or disk/partition imaging means one has to move the disk onto
another system, and things are more complicated if its a laptop disk.
The alternative provided by rda is to boot the data source machine with
a minimal Linux system from a floppy or CD, and simply run rda. Some of
the options provided are data transfer verification with MD5 and/or
CRC32 checksums, skipping read errors, and spanning over multiple
files.
reflect 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99390/
reflect is a symlink-style package management tool similar to depot,
stow, graft, epkg, etc. Unlike these, it has much less prerequisites,
in that it only requires bash, test, and sed. Currently, configuration
is per-package.
Remote Tea 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99446/
Remote Tea is a pure Java implementation of Sun's ONC/RPC protocol.
Complete client and server functionality is available, as is client
access to the portmapper. The package contains an rpcgen-like
precompiler for converting .x files into Java classes. Also included is
a Java-based portmapper.
ResourcePool 0.9909 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99420/
The Perl ResourcePool provides a generic way to use connection caching
for any kind of resources like Net::LDAP or DBI. It includes a
LoadBalancer to spread load across different servers and increase
overall performance and availibility of service. The ResourcePool and
LoadBalancer are easily extendable to cover your needs.
SASL Library 0.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99404/
Libgsasl is a library that implements the IETF Simple Authentication
and Security Layer (SASL) framework and some SASL mechanisms. SASL is
used in servers (e.g. IMAP, SMTP, etc.) to request authentication from
clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers.
SILC 0.9.6 (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99424/
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides
secure conferencing services in the Internet over insecure channels.
SILC superficially resembles IRC, although they are very different
internally. The purpose of SILC is to provide secure conferencing
services. Strong cryptographic methods are used to secure all traffic,
and all messages are encrypted and authenticated. The SILC also
supports secure file transferring. The SILC is delivered as SILC Client
for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit
for application developers.
Space Hulk 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99436/
Space Hulk is a great board game which takes place in the world of
Warhammer 40000. It is a two player turn-based game where one player
plays the 'Marine', the other player plays the alien called
'Genestealer'. This video game is a complete conversion of the board
game with the 2nd edition rules. It features playing over the network,
either in real time or asynchronously via email.
strunk 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99378/
strunk applies rules from Strunk and White's "The Elements of
Style" to Staroffice and Openoffice documents.
Terminal.app 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99376/
Terminal.app is a terminal emulator for GNUstep.
Tipograf 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99384/
Tipograf is a frontend for the powerful anything to PostScript
converter a2ps. It encapsulates a2ps's plethora of command-line options
into a user friendly GUI and provides some additional functionality. It
has been translated to English and German.
tk7 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99389/
tk7 is software for configuring the ICOM IC-Q7A walkie-talkie radio. It
lets you read a memory image from the IC-Q7A walkie-talkie, a native
tk7 file, or from a Q7 file. A graphical user interface is used to
display and edit settings, then write the image back to the radio or
save it in a file. Memory channel information can be imported from, or
exported to a .csv (comma-separated) file. Users may sort memory
channels by frequencies within one or both banks.
Wellenreiter 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99409/
Wellenreiter is a GTK/Perl wireless network discovery and auditing
tool. Prism2, Lucent, and Cisco based cards are supported. Its scanner
window can be used to discover access-points, networks, and ad-hoc
cards. It detects ESSID broadcasting or non-broadcasting networks and
detects WEP capabilities and the manufacturer automatically. DHCP and
ARP traffic are decoded and displayed to give you further informations
about the networks. A flexible sound event configuration lets it work
unattended. An ethereal/tcpdump-compatible dumpfile can be created. GPS
is used to track the location of the discovered networks immediately.
Automatic association is possible with randomly generated MAC
addresses.
Slashcode
install-slashsite needed for 2.2.5 -> 2.2.6?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/1535237
I'm in the process of upgrading from slash 2.2.5 to slash 2.2.6. I've
done the make and make install steps, and everything seems to have gone
fine so far. But I'm confused about the next step. The INSTALL file
doesn't mention needing to run install-slashsite as part of the "Slash
2.2.x -> Slash 2.2.y" section, so I thought maybe I didn't need to.
But it mentions that my template customizations will likely have been
overwritten by the install process, and gives instructions on how to
deal with that, and at least in the steps I've performed so far, that
hasn't happened. My modified templates are still showing up on the
site. Which makes me think I haven't done something important, and
running install-slashsite is my best guess as to what that might be.
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
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