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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
The End Of Minix?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/16/004244
[0]Otter writes "[1]Minix is best known as the Unix clone for x86 that
inspired Linus Torvalds to write one himself. It's pretty much dropped
off the map since. The [2]latest patch for XFree86's xterm drops
support for Minix. As the changelog notes, 'Juliusz Chroboczek noted it
was removed from XFree86 server; there have been no users since 1996.'"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
2. http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_169
Quiet Desk (Not Desktop) PC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/15/2059223
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Rusty took a wholly different approach to
PC noise: he built his XP1900+ machine [1]right into the desk! While it
may not make the PC industry scramble to define a new *desk* (not
desktop) form factor, Rusty's inventive techniques will surely have
computer hardware enthusiasts poring over his fine work."
Links
0. http://www.silentpcreview.com
1. http://www.silentpcreview.com/goto.php?t=s&id=44&a=1
OpenSSH 3.5 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/16/0133221
[0]Dan writes "[1]Markus Friedl announces that [2]OpenSSH 3.5 has just
been released with notable updates since 3.4. It will be available from
the mirrors listed at [3]http://www.openssh.com/ shortly. Enhancements
include bug fixes, improved support for Privilege Separation
(Portability, Kerberos, PermitRootLogin handling), RSA blinding in
order to avoid timing attacks against the RSA host key and much more.
Congratulations are in order for the OpenSSH team's hard work and
efforts."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=3756
3. http://www.openssh.com/
Questions for a Lecture on Microsoft's Palladium?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/15/2245243
An anonymous reader asks: "Microsoft is going to be giving a lecture on
[0]Palladium for my Computer and Network Security class at [1]MIT this
Thursday. We're told that it's going to be the most technically
detailed lecture publically given to date, and that we should be armed
with questions as a result. Any suggestions from the Slashdot crowd?
What technical details have you been dying to know about Palladium?" It
would be interesting to hear back from someone who is planning on
attending this. For those who wish they were, but can't for one reason
or another, what would you have asked by proxy?
Links
0. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
1. http://web.mit.edu/
Slashback: Dataplay, XviD, PPC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/13/051229
Slashback's updates tonight (read on below) have more on Dataplay,
background on the PowerPC that Apple and IBM have been brewing, the
return (triumphant?) of XviD, Neal Stephenson's next opus, and more.
What To Expect From KDE 3.1
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/15/2119230
[0]Moritz Moeller - Her writes "As most of you desktop users already
know, the KDE Project recently released KDE 3.1beta2, which will be the
final development release before KDE 3.1. The good news is, KDE 3.1 is
scheduled for release in just a few weeks. The following page gives a
[1]nice overview about what is coming with many screenshots. It will
certainly be the best KDE ever."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://promo.kde.org/newsforge/kde-3.1.html
Unmaking The Game
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/15/2114209
[0]Teknogeek writes "Player2Player has just posted [1]an interesting
article concerning the massive amounts of platinum being sold on sites
like [2]PlayerAuctions, and how it might have been obtained. Quite an
interesting read, to be sure!" This is in Everquest, BTW.
Links
0. mailto:moc3q001 AT sneakemail DOT com
1. http://player2player.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=724
2. http://www.playerauctions.com/
Sklyarov Denied Visa to Return to U.S. for Trial
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/15/218210
[0]Kurt Foss writes "Visa applications for Alexander Katalov and Dmitry
Sklyarov of ElcomSoft were [1]recently denied by the American Embassy
in Moscow, jeopardizing their return to the U.S. in time for the
company to face criminal charges for allegedly violating the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) last year. The already rescheduled
trial is presently set to begin in the U.S. District Court of Northern
California on October 21."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2400
15" OLED Display Prototype
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/15/2017237
[0]crwulff writes "The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle today is
carrying a story about Kodak's newest OLED display venture.
Unfortunately only a prototype to look at [1]here but at least it is on
the way in a couple years." It's worth it just for the photograph.
Maybe best to hold off on a plasma TV ...
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1015story105824_businessshtml
SETI@Home Faces Funding Problems
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/15/1956247
blamanj writes "The [0]aussie version of ZDNET is reporting that money
to continue the SETI@Home project is in jeopardy, and it may fall by
the wayside unless further funding can be found."
Links
0.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000024993,20269078,00.htm
Freshmeat
abcm2ps 3.1.11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100295/
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.
Anubis 3.5.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100270/
Anubis is an outgoing mail processor. It goes between the MUA (Mail
User Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent), and can perform various
sorts of processing and conversion on-the-fly in accordance with the
sender's specified rules, based on a highly configurable regular
expressions system. It operates as a proxy server, and can edit
outgoing mail headers, encrypt or sign mail with the GnuPG, build
secure SMTP tunnels using the TLS/SSL encryption even if your mail user
agent doesn't support it, or tunnel a connection through a SOCKS proxy
or WinGate proxy server. It also supports anonymous remailers.
ASEM-51 1.3b3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100204/
ASEM-51 is a macro assembler for the Intel MCS-51 family of
microcontrollers. It is based on the standard Intel syntax, and
implements conditional assembly, macros, and include file processing.
The assembler can output object code in Intel-HEX or Intel OMF-51
format as well as a detailed list file. The package includes support
for more than seventy 8051 derivatives, a bootstrap program for MCS-51
target boards, and documentation in ASCII and HTML format. It runs on
MS-DOS, Windows, and Linux.
auditunlink 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100233/
auditunlink is a Linux shared library that intercepts the unlink system
call, and logs which process, program, and user called initiated it,
and to which file the call was applied. It is designed to be loaded
with LD_PRELOAD or /etc/ld.so.preload, and allows system administrators
to log file deletions even if a user has the proper file system
permissions to perform the deletion.
Bayesian Mail Filter 0.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100252/
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.
Castor 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100285/
Castor is the shortest path between Java[tm] objects, XML documents,
SQL tables and LDAP directories. It provides Java to XML binding, Java
to SQL/LDAP persistence, and then some more. Features include Castor
XML: Java object to XML document, Castor JDO: Java object persistence
to RDBMS, Castor DAX: Java object persistence to LDAP, Castor DSML:
LDAP directory exchange through XML, XML-based mapping file specify the
mapping between one model and another, in memory caching and
write-at-commit which reduce JDBC operations, OQL query mapping to SQL
queries, and EJB container managed persistence provider for OpenEJB
Cloxten - The Clock Extension Tool 0.1.5 Pre-Alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100283/
Cloxten is a digital alarm clock and counter. It is able to execute a
variety of events and actions at set times, such as send messages, play
sounds or music, show a reminder window, open a file, or execute a
program.
dbm 0.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100301/
dbm is a very simple Perl script which allows you to manipulate/read
DBM files from the command line, or using your favourite editor. It
supports any DBM formats which your system has Perl modules for.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100284/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web
interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with
the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be
categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on
these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new
entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C
program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in
plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
exiftags 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100271/
exiftags parses a JPEG file looking for Exif (Exchangeable Image File)
data, formatting, and printing image properties. Digital cameras
typically add Exif data to the image files they produce containing
information about the camera and digitized image. exiftags includes
support for some camera manufacturer-specific properties.
FFT 2.0 beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100263/
FFT is an alternative traceroute program for displaying the route
packets take to an IP network host. Unlike Van Jacobson's traceroute,
which is available on almost every platform today, FFT uses TCP in
order to elicit ICMP TIME_EXCEEDEDs or other IP route data. As a
result, FFT often executes much faster and sees behind some
configurations of firewalls. Its stateful engine lets the user know
when it encounters a stateful firewall or other interesting conditions.
It also does AS number and netblock name lookups en route. Most
importantly, FFT can trace specific TCP-based protocol routes (not just
IP) to assist network engineers with manual fault isolation of network
application problems.
Firewall by Jim 1.25 Alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100266/
This is a firewall that takes advantage of tcp_wrappers information to
block users. It also uses separate files for configuration ease. It is
designed to work out of the box with eth0 for internet and eth1 for the
LAN.
ftpcopy 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100303/
ftpcopy is a small mirror-like utility to copy files or directory trees
with FTP. ftpcopy understands EPLF and traditional listing formats.
FvwmProxy 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100269/
FvwmProxy allows the user to locate and control windows obscured by
other windows by using small non-overlapping proxy windows. The current
capabilites include raising and lowering the proxied windows. Holding
the Alt key activates the proxy windows, which are always on top and
try to center on the regular window they proxy. A simple collision
algorithm tweaks the positions of the proxy windows to prevent them
from overlapping, and pressing the left or right mouse buttons on a
proxy window raises or lowers the assiciated proxied window
respectively.
GL-117 0.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100275/
GL-117 is an OpenGL- and SDL-based action flight simulator written in
C++. It provides a random terrain generator, lighting effects, sounds,
and joystick support.
GoFish Gopher Server 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100268/
GoFish is a very simple gopher server. It is designed with security and
low resource usage in mind, and uses a single process that handles all
the connections. This provides low-resource usage, good latency, and
good scalability. It also runs in a chroot environment. While GoFish
must run at root privilege to be able to use port 70, it drops to a
normal user while accessing files.
GRASS GIS 5.1.0 (Experimental)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100277/
GRASS (the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a software
raster- and vector-based GIS (Geographic Information System), image
processing system, graphics production system, and spatial modeling
system. GRASS operates in the UNIX environment through a shell, and can
also work under the X Windowing System. It contains many modules for
raster data manipulation, vector data manipulation, rendering images on
the monitor or paper, multispectral image processing, point data
management and general data management. It also has tools for
interfacing with digitizers, scanners, and the PostgreSQL, DBF, and
ODBC connected databases.
Internal Affairs 1.1.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100296/
Internal Affairs is a Web-based groupware system written in PHP, using
MySQL as the backend. It includes modules for group calendaring with
repeating appointments and email-based reminders, a task management
system to manage your open tasks based on priorities and due dates, a
Webmail client to read email from anywhere in the world, a status list
to read your co-workers' availability at a quick glance, and an email
management system coupled with an auto-responder to manage your email
at times when you're not able to read it. All modules are tightly
integrated with each other, the application is multi-language capable
and can be highly customized to the customers needs.
IPSquad Packages From Scratch 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100279/
IPFS (IPSquad Package From Source) is a system which allows you to
trace an program's installation from sources and register it in your
favorite packaging system. (Only Slackware 8.1 is currently supported.)
IPFS watches a command (generally make install), collects the list of
added files, and then registers them in the chosen packaging system as
if the install was made from a normal package. Unlike other similar
products, IPFS is able to track both shared and statically linked
programs. A Slackware 8.1 package for IPFS is available for download.
JasperReports 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100254/
JasperReports is a report-generating Java library. XML report templates
are used to generate ready to print documents using data from
customizable data sources, including JDBC. The output can be delivered
to the screen, printer, or stored in XML or PDF format.
JObfuscator 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100278/
JObfuscator is a Java obfuscator that seamlessly integrates with
development environments. After an XML project file has been defined,
the obfuscator can be run either as an ANT task, or as a command-line
tool. It supports automatic removal of unused classes from JAR files,
transparent support for dynamic class loading, support for J2SE and
J2EE applications, integration with the ANT build systems, amd support
for JDK 1.1 through 1.4 and UNICODE
junkie 0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100281/
junkie is a GTK 2 GUI FTP client with a raw FTP library and a
configuration library. It currently supports pre-caching of FTP sites
and basic upload and download functions. Support for hammering and FXP
is in development.
Karapan Sapi 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100262/
Karapan Sapi is a generator that automatically create files for Struts
framework based Web applications. From XML meta-data it will generate
database creation scripts (SQL DDL), validation.xml, StrutsAction,
StrutsForm, DAO, JSP, an Ant build file, and more.
KCachegrind 0.2a (1.0.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100290/
KCachegrind visualizes traces generated by profiling, in various ways,
including a TreeMap visualization of the calls happening, and a
condensed version, the Coverage analysis. It's designed to be fast and
to provide a quick overview of very large programs, such as KDE
applications. It uses Cachegrind as profiling backend, which uses the
CPU simulator in Valgrind. Thus, profiling does not need any
preparation, can cope with shared libraries and plugin architectures,
and allows for profile runs to not influence the measuring by the
profile itself, however, the disadvantage to this is slower profile
runs.
KSambaPlugin 0.3a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100236/
KSambaKonqiPlugin is a complete SAMBA configuration plugin for KDE 3.
It consists of a KControl Center Module for configuring nearly every
option on a SAMBA server and a Konqueror properties dialog plugin for
quick sharing of single directories.
lcrzo 4.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100273/
Lcrzo is a network library for network administrators and network
hackers. It is designed to make it easy to create network programs. It
supports spoofing, sniffing, and client/server creation. This library
has been successfully installed under Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
and Solaris.
libmng 1.0.5 beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100300/
libmng is the reference library for MNG, the animation extension to the
popular PNG format. It provides powerful animation features combined
with PNG's robustness and patent freedom.
LinuxTrade 3.14 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100260/
LinuxTrade is a curses (text-based) implementation of the Scottrader
Java application, plus additional features inspired by the excellent
MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own set of unique
features. It is lightweight, yet full featured. It can save a session
to a file and replay it. It has portfolios, real time quotes, charts
with live updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical
indicators, top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, and Level
2 market depth indications from Archipelago and the Island Book.
Makin' Bakon Typing Tutor 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100248/
Makin' Bakon Typing Tutor is a terminal-based typing tutor game written
in C++ (with STL) and Curses. It contains both structured and
fortune-based lessons. Learn to type to a professional standard while
you're saving Pig's bacon! Warning: Includes material that may offend.
MOOzilla 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100265/
MOOzilla is an HTML rendering MOO/MU* client developed as an add-on
component for Mozilla. It allows inline HTML text to be rendered as
part of a MOO/MU* session, similar to the Windows-only Pueblo client,
but with the power of the Mozilla rendering engine.
Mowie 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100293/
Mowie is an interactive, graphical netstat that uses GNOME and GTK+ for
its GUI. It is pre-release material, but works for showing current open
connections.
Musicus 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100264/
Musicus is a component of the Cjukebox music management system. It is a
command line tool that uses xmms plug-ins for playing back music.
Musicus can be either used in batch mode or an interactive mode where
the user can type in commands to start and stop songs, inquire about
song length, and more. Musicus is generally designed to be controlled
by another piece of software.
Network-Accounting Daemon for Netfilter 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100297/
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. It is easily possible to generate
CISCO "IP accounting output packets" style logs with this
tool.
Nimages PR1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100250/
Nimages is a simple image gallery script featuring a Web-based
installtion and configuration (no editing of the script is needed).
Other features include MySQL support, automatic creation of thumbnails
(if supported), themes, and ease of use and configuration. Nimages is a
complete rewrite of the JCS Image Display script.
oRTP 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100280/
oRTP is a library implementing the Real-time Transport Protocol
(RFC1889), written in C. Based on glib, it should be portable to all
Unix species. It includes a packet scheduler, blocking and non blocking
I/O, and multiplexing I/O so that several RTP sessions can be managed
by a single thread.
Pan 0.13.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100267/
Pan is a newsreader, loosely based on Agent and Gravity, which attempts
to be pleasant to use for new and advanced users alike. It has all the
typical features found in newsreaders, and also supports offline
reading, multiple connections, yenc, and a number of features for power
users and alt.binaries fans.
Pattern Recognition API 0.2b-20021015
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100294/
The Pattern Recognition Application Programmer's Interface aims to be a
fully-featured, easy-to-use general C++ framework for various pattern
recognition tasks, especially image analysis. It features support for
many image formats, well-known image analysis methods, classification
and feature analysis tools, XML serialization, etc.
pekwm 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100218/
pekwm is a windowmanager based on aewm++, but has a number of new
functions such as window grouping and configurable keygrabber.
PGDesigner 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100261/
PGDesigner is a simple data modelling tool for PostgreSQL. It currently
supports graphically creating tables and columns, drag and drop foreign
key creation, loading and saving models to a file, and is able to
generate SQL code from your graphical model. It also has a simple query
window that allows arbitrary SQL commands to be executed. It is
available for Linux and Windows.
PIKT 1.16.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100306/
PIKT is a cross-platform, multi-functional toolkit for monitoring
systems, reporting and fixing problems, and managing system
configurations. It consists of an embedded scripting language with
unique, labor-saving features, a script and system config file
preprocessor, a scheduler, an installer, and other tools.
Qurl 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100257/
Qurl is a small QT popup program that takes a URL as input, and opens
it in the Web browser or FTP client of your choice. It is intended to
be used with the Logitech Cordless Desktop, but works with any
keyboard, or even as a desktop shortcut.
Request Tracker 2.1.15 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100274/
RT is an industrial-grade trouble ticketing system. It lets a group of
people intelligently and efficiently manage requests submitted by a
community of users. RT is used by systems administrators, customer
support staffs, NOCs, developers, and even marketing departments to
track issues, outages, bugs, requests, and all kinds of other things at
thousands of sites around the world.
SpecialValue 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100245/
SpecialValue is a C++ library that allows special numeric values to be
represented accurately. This is useful for fractions that would
normally be approximated as floating point, or numbers that are
normally impossible to store, such as sqrt(-2).
T.E.A.R. 1.0_rc1 (Devel)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100259/
T.E.A.R. (pronounced Tair) is a console-based frontend for common
MP3/OGG creation tools which automates all of the settings involved in
ripping and encoding a CD. TEAR uses the CDDB database at freedb.org to
name, organize, and add ID3 tags to each encoded file. It can use
either cdparanoia or cdda2wav to rip .WAV files from the CD and it can
use lame, bladeenc, gogo, or OggEnc to encode them. TEAR also supports
SMP.
UDDI Registry Extensions 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100235/
The UDDI Registry Extensions are designed to enhance IBM's WebSphere
UDDI product with advanced search capabilities. It allows complex
queries to be formed, which can comprise of search criteria from two
standard UDDI "find" APIs, find_business, and find_service,
all in one query. It can be used to find businesses with services of
specific names, or in a specific category, and vice versa. With other
UDDI search systems, these types of searches cannot be made without
much effort.
VideoLAN::Client 0.4.5 (Ourumov)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100243/
The VideoLAN Client (VLC) is an MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player for
Unix, Windows, MacOS X, BeOS and QNX. It can play video streams from a
file, from a network source, or directly from a VCD or DVD. There is
video support for X11/XVideo, GGI, SDL, the Linux framebuffer device,
DirectX, BeOS, and QNX, audio support for OSS, Esound, ALSA, and GNOME,
GTK+, Qt and KDE interfaces.
Visuel Hexdiff 0.0.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100282/
Visuel Hexdiff is a curses-based application designed to make it easy
to visually detect the differences between two binary files. It has
only been tested on Linux and OpenBSD, but is reported to work on
Solaris and Irix.
WebCleaner 0.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100258/
WebCleaner is a filtering HTTP proxy. It can disable animated GIFs,
compress documents on-the-fly (with gzip), add/remove HTTP headers, and
remove unwanted HTML (adverts, Javascript, etc.). It can be customized
to your needs.
Wineinput 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100148/
Wineinput is an effort to port a Windows IME (Input Method Editor) to
XFree86 using WINE. It can be used to input CJK characters using a
Windows IME directly through XIM.
WStab 1.25Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100244/
WStab, the Wolfenstein Statistics Bot, attempts to be a completely
passive daemon to track RTCW players in realtime via RCON status and
pb_sv_plist queries in conjunction with the games.log file. At the end
of every round, it inserts new statistics into a MySQL database and
prints statistics during warmup. It can be run on any Linux RTCW
server, but no PHP code is included for displaying the stats on a Web
page. You can either roll your own, or, preferably, join the WSN
(Wolfenstein Statistical Network), a free service offered to all
servers who use WStab. WSN will maintain a database and Web page for
each of your servers, including Web-based administrative control.
Slashcode
Back to slash1toslash2.2 hell
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/14/164221
Moving from slash 1.n to 2.2 i have 2 strange problems when running
slash1toslash2.2 First i get 1003 lines of (after ÂProcessing
users_index message): Use of uninitialized value in split at
./slash1toslash2.2 line 205, line 3. Use of uninitialized value in
split at ./slash1toslash2.2 line 205, line 3.... and so on and second
problem is that i get 1392 lines of (after ÂProcessing moderatorlogÂ
message ) Warning: NULL CID found for '02/05/31/0329257' #5 - record
not imported. Warning: NULL CID found for '02/06/18/1627202' #5 -
record not imported.... and so on I can not figure out what is wrong
with those stories. Really like to get this site updated. Thanx for any
help ;)
Slash install (or not) on Redhat V 8.0
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/13/0636212
slash 2.2.6 does not install on Redhat 8.0 it seems that redhat has
moved to perl 5.8 from perl 5.6 and much has changed. anyone looking
into this?
International characters and slashbox
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/1634257
Looks like Slash 2.2.6 still has the problem understanding characters
like õ, ä, ö, ü etc. in the rss feeds that are used for slashbox.
How can I fix this bug?
UBB & Blogger conversion scripts TO Slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/10/1835206
I have a large website that I am about to change to be Slash-based, but
I have a truckload (800+) users already registered to my UBB
installation. Is there an off-the-shelf script to create them as
slash-users ? (same username / password) Also any other scripts to move
the UBB topics to slash-format ? (I read the article here already) I
also have a bunch of blogger blogs - is there a tool to migrate those
posts to slash also. (I did a heap of looking around all over but
couldn't find anything)
StackAttack.ca
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/10/1648202
http://www.StackAttack.ca is up and running, come by to check out the
news and more in the Canal+ vs. NDS satellite piracy lawsuit! Come
Register Today... http://www.StackAttack.ca --xXx
Instant Karma
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/10/025233
I'm trying to figure out where exactly Karma comes from. This may seem
like a stupid question, but is there a direct one-to-one correlation
between moderation points and karma points? If a comment receives a +1
moderation, does that give the poster +1 Karma? I know there are other
factors (submission_bonus, goodkarma, badkarma, etc...), but this is
the one part I'm not sure about...
Slash and Bugzilla in harmony?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/09/1519247
I am considering running Slashcode and Buzilla on the same server. Do
any of you have experience with this setup? I plan to run them on the
same daemon, using virtual hosting.
No comments on polls
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/08/159249
I have a slash site recently upgraded to 2.2.6 It does not seem to
offer users the chance to add comments to polls. Any idea why that
might be? Is it a template issue that I have broken? or a bug in
slashcode 2.2.6? eg http://news.diversebooks.com/pollBooth.pl?section=
&qid=17&aid=-1
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
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