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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
Critical Kerberos Flaw Revealed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/25/0026210
doi writes "[0]ZD Net is carrying a [1]story about '...a critical flaw
that could allow hackers to circumvent the secure networking
system...The problem lies with software in MIT Kerberos 5 called
kadmind4 (Kerberos v4 compatibility administration daemon), which
allows compatibility with older administrative clients. A buffer stack
overflow allows an attacker to use a specially formed request to gain
access to the KDC with the privileges of a user running kadmind4.' It
affects all MIT-derived versions of Kerberos 4 and 5."
Links
0. http://zdnet.com.com/
1. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-963250.html
Flash Version of Adventure
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/131207
chefmonkey writes "Of course, everyone remembers the old Atari 2600
game "Adventure." While you've been able to play it on a wide variety
of emulators for a while, now playing in your web browser is just one
click away. Yes, that's right, someone has gone and created a [0]flash
version of Adventure." I haven't checked it yet to see if you can get
the "dot".
Links
0. http://www.scottpehnke.com/programming/flash.htm
Cascading Molecules Drive IBM's Smallest Computer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/2326257
[0]Benoit Fries writes "[1]EE Times reports that IBM researchers have
created a simple computation engine that's more than 250,000 times
smaller than the most advanced silicon circuitry. Called the [2]world's
smallest computer, the system relies on a '[3]molecular cascade' that
pushes a handful of carbon monoxide molecules across a copper surface
to perform digital logic functions. 'Even if CMOS density follows
Moore's Law for 40 more years, molecular cascades are still going to be
smaller,' they said."
Links
0. http://myweb.vector.ch/cv#sorry_it_s_in_french
1. http://www.eetimes.com/
2. http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/OEG20021024S0047
3. http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20021024_cascade.shtml
Slashback: BitKeeper, Maine, Novell
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/2331207
Slashback is back, with a largish handful of updates and new
information about previously run stories. Topics this go-round include
Xbox sales in Australia, the Novell / MySQL connection, Adam Smith (no,
not that Adam Smith)'s bizarre anti-GPL statement mentioned yesterday,
and more. Read on for the details.
Calling Cell Phones Could Cost More
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/2153209
[0]tusixoh writes "[1]CNN.com [2]reports on another reason to keep a
close eye on your phone bill. This fall, a subtle realignment in
America's phone systems could cause a dramatic increase in what we pay
to call cell phones that were once considered local now incur higher
toll charges from landlines. The report states that it is unclear how
many customers will be affected by these changes. No phone company
would provide details on where people could be affected."
Links
0. mailto:tusixoh@;yahoo.com
1. http://www.cnn.com/
2. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/10/23/calling.phones.ap/index.html
Burn A Song For 99 Cents
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/2144234
[0]tusixoh writes "[1]CNN is running [2]an article about an online
music company, [3]Listen.com, who has signed deals with Warner Music
Group and Universal Music Group allowing users to burn songs from both
companies' catalogs (more than 75,000 available tracks) on Listen's
Rhapsody music subscription service for 99 cents per track. Until now,
Rhapsody had primarily offered only streamed music to subscribers from
all of the world's largest record labels as well as several independent
labels." The upside of this, of course, is that it won't be necessary
to pay for songs that are just "album filler".
Links
0. mailto:tusixoh@;yahoo.com
1. http://www.cnn.com/
2. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/10/24/music.listen.reut/index.html
3. http://listen.com/
The Most Dangerous Server Rooms
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/174246
Ymerej writes "[0]The Register has an article on [1]dangerous server
rooms. Have you seen worse?" Perhaps The Register would like a picture
of my desk if they really want to be scared.
Links
0. http://theregus.com/
1. http://theregus.com/content/28/26754.html
Berman Retreats, But Only To Regroup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/1815203
thefinite writes "It looks like the P2P vigilante bill sponsored by
Berman is going to have to be rewritten even just to be considered.
[0]A ZDNet story talks about the likelihood that the bill will get
anywhere as currently written. Hopefully, the second time around will
make it clear that the idea is flawed, not just the text."
Links
0. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-963087.html
Registrar Told To Stop Direct-Mail Scare-Tactics
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/1659231
kiwimate writes "[0]This article says the Domain Registry of Europe has
been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority to cease and desist
on a direct mail campaign that was "distressing and intimdating to
recipients" and "misleadingly exaggerated the importance and status of
its content". The letter suggested that domain names should be renewed
at least 30 days before they expired, and gave recipients an easy
option of renewing through the DR of E. Having had to deal with this
from an almost identically named company in America, the quoted phrases
don't seem nearly as sneaky and dirty as some I've seen, but it's good
to see a precedent."
Links
0. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/021024/152/dd0p8.html
Donating Time To Goodwill Projects?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/22/0243211
[0]jukal asks: "I am in the process of writing a proposal for
co-operation between [0]Openchallenge and [1]UNITeS ([2]United Nations
Information Technology Service) which is 'creating a global volunteer
programme aimed at bridging the digital divide between industrialized
and developing countries'. Currently & traditionally contributing as a
volunteer means relocating yourself to the developing country to take
part as a project developer/manager/specialist. My proposal to UNITeS
is, in short, will be that people could participate in such software
projects via [0]Openchallenge - while staying in their home country, on
their spare-time and while keeping their jobs. The local team in the
developing country would, after defining and creating requirements
specifications post sub-projects as tasks to Openchallenge. All the
contributions submitted to Openchallenge are published under an open
source license. My question is: would you for example consider donating
some hours to help a goodwill project - if you could do that from home.
This is of interest to me, as I would like to be sure that the time we
put into building co-operating with a big organization like UNITeS and
others in the future. Is not wasted. There is [3]this thread about
'Volunteer Work Abroad' - which is good reading related to the subject.
But it did not quite provide me with the answer."
Links
0. http://www.openchallenge.org/
1. http://www.unites.org/
2. http://www.un.org/
3. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/30/0647245&tid=99
Freshmeat
Archi´s Homepagehoster Admintool 0.3b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101264/
Archi´s Homepagehoster Admintool (!aha!) is a HTML based tool
which Web hosting providers can run on their servers. !aha! allows the
customers to administer various features of their hosting accounts. At
the moment, only the email administration is implemented.
AutoTrace 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101292/
AutoTrace is a program for converting bitmaps to vector graphics. The
aim of the AutoTrace project is the development of a freely-available
application similar to CorelTrace or Adobe Streamline. In some aspects
it is already better. Originally being created as a plugin for the
GIMP, AutoTrace is now a standalone program and can be compiled on any
UNIX platform using GCC.
cgipaf 1.2.0pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101288/
cgipaf is a combination of three CGI programs. passwd.cgi, which allow
users to update their password, viewmailcfg.cgi, which allows users to
view their current mail configuration, and mailcfg.cgi, which updates
the mail configuration. All programs use PAM for user authentication.
It is possible to run a script to update SAMBA passwords or NIS
configuration when a password is changed. mailcfg.cgi creates a
.procmailrc in the user's home directory. A user with too many invalid
logins can be locked. The minimum and maximum UID can be set in the
configuration file, so you can specify a range of UIDs that are allowed
to use cgipaf.
CLEX 3.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101280/
CLEX is a file manager with a full-screen user interface written in C
with the curses library. It displays directory contents (including file
status details) and provides features like command history, filename
insertion, or name completion in order to help the user to construct
commands to be executed by the shell (there are no built-in commands).
CLEX is easily configurable and all its features are explained in the
on-line help.
Cute PHP Library 0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101276/
Cute PHP library is a small collection of classes for PHP. The purpose
of the classes is to simplify functions for daily work with PHP (e.g.
conversions, formatting, DB session, and so on).
Cxmame 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101240/
Cxmame is a simple console-based frontend for xmame using the ncurses
library. It was originally intended for xmame.svgalib, but works with
all xmame targets.
Free Htmltemplate 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101248/
Free Htmltemplate is a high-performance HTML templating engine for
Java, based on the syntax of HTML::Template Perl module. It aims for
simple and natural separation of HTML and Java. The HTML code is stored
in templates that contain ordinary HTML extended with a few
template-specific HTML-like tags. The Java code instantiates a template
object from the file and uses an easy to use API to feed it with
run-time data (e.g. obtained from the database). When the processing is
initiated, the data gets inserted at the appropriate places in the
template. The engine implements most features of HTML::Template,
including transparent caching of pre-parsed templates.
GnomeMeeting 0.94.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101277/
GnomeMeeting is a H.323 compatible videoconferencing application that
allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users with H.323
hardware or software (such as Microsoft Netmeeting). It supports all
modern videoconferencing features, such as registering to an ILS
directory, gatekeeper support, making multi-user conference calls using
an external MCU, and using modern Quicknet telephony cards.
Gringotts 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101275/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data
(passwords, credit card numbers, PINs, etc.) in an easy-to-read,
easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use
of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among
eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256,
SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing
algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and
BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to
use any file as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string,
giving additional choices.
Hibernate 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101281/
Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence
and query service for Java. It lets you develop persistent objects
following common Java idiom, including composition, association,
inheritance, polymorphism, and the Java collections framework. To allow
a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the use of code generation
or bytecode processing. Instead, runtime reflection is used and SQL
generation occurs at system startup time. It supports Oracle, DB2,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Interbase, Microsoft SQL Server, Mckoi SQL,
Progress, SAP DB, and HypersonicSQL.
Infernal Contractor II 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101279/
Take on the role of the Infernal Contractor and raise mayhem in this
fast-moving 3D office simulation. This episode sees you racing round
the office against the clock in an attempt to prove your fitness to the
demanding recruiters. Slippery floors and dodgy ergonomics are all that
stand between you and gainful employment. Hear encouraging phone calls
from your agent, the harsh judgements of the recruiters, and the final
countdown as you race for the finish line in this interactive
simulation.
Iperf 1.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101242/
Iperf is a tool to measure IP bandwidth using UDP or TCP. It allows for
tuning various parameters, and reports bandwidth, delay jitter, and
packet loss. It supports IPv6 and multicast.
Itnas 0.79
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101254/
ITNAS is business management software for IT corporations that writes
missions and bills, as well as managing Internet provider data. It
offers both automatic data evaluation and detailed overviews of booking
entries in the financial area. It works with all popular Web browsers.
KernelDriver 5.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101259/
KernelDriver automates your Windows 2000/NT, Windows Me/98/95 and Linux
device driver development by providing you with powerful tools for
hardware debugging, driver code generation, and driver debugging.
KernelDriver supports PCI / USB / ISA and EISA drivers. KernelDriver
for Windows and Linux includes the powerful Driver Wizard. Using the
Driver Wizard you can graphically debug your hardware by
"peeking" and "poking" at it without writing a
single line of code. After your hardware is diagnosed, use the Driver
Wizard to generate a complete kernel mode device driver which will
drive your hardware.
KExchange 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101252/
KExchange retrieves up-to-date currency exchange rates from the PACIFIC
Exchange Rate Service and lets you convert between 70+ currencies. It
may also be used as a Euro converter. It can refresh exchange rates
automatically on startup or it may use locally-stored data.
KISGB 4.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101250/
KISGB (Keep It Simple Guest Book) is an advanced PHP guestbook program
that does not require sessions, cookies, or an RDBMS. It can be public
or private through HTTP Authentication. Some features include
individual message editing, a theme builder, private messaging, a
flexible logging capability, Web-based password protected Admin
functionality, internationalization support for 24 languages, and a lot
more.
libGringotts 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101274/
libGringotts is a small, easy-to-use, thread-safe C library originally
developed for Gringotts. Its purpose is to encapsulate data in an
encrypted and compressed file. It uses strong cryptographic algorithms
(RIJNDAEL 128/256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST256, SAFER+, LOKI97, and 3DES
for encryption, and SHA1 and RIPEMD-160 for hashing) to ensure the data
are as safe as possible, and allow the user to have the complete
control over all the encryption, hashing, and compression algorithms
used in the process. It also provides functions for encrypting
temporary files and to securely manage memory. It is based upon
libmcrypt and mhash, and supports pkgconfig.
maildrop 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101287/
Maildrop is a powerful email filter/delivery agent. It supports
mbox-style mailboxes and maildirs (a mail storage format used by
Qmail). Its mail filtering language supports RFC822 parsing and
GDBM/Berkeley DB database files. The maildrop package also includes a
command-line tool to perform various operations on MIME messages.
Market Analysis System 1.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101244/
The Market Analysis System (MAS) provides tools for technical analysis
of financial markets, including stock and futures charting and
automated generation of buy and sell signals.
Mojo Mail 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101249/
Mojo Mail is a light-weight Web-based email mailing list manager. It
supports announce-only lists and group discussion lists, as well as
archiving, double opt-in subscriptions, and double opt-out
unsubscriptions. List mailings can be sent using sendmail, qmail, or
even with a straight SMTP connection (either all at once, or in timed
batches). All list administration can be done through your browser via
Mojo Mail's administrative control panel. Creating new lists and
administrating them is easy. Mojo Mail is a great alternative to
programs such as Majordomo if you want to give more control to the
actual list owners, who may not have much experience with such
applications. Mojo Mail can be run simply as a CGI script and needs no
special modules installed. The entire look of html pages created by
Mojo Mail can be customized with any template you can provide, on a
list by list basis.
monopd 0.6.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101267/
monopd is a dedicated game server daemon for Monopoly-like board games.
Clients such as Atlantik can connect and allow users to play various
games with other users of the network.
mSQL 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101251/
Mini SQL is a lightweight database engine offering a subset of SQL as
its query language.
OpenVPN 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101268/
OpenVPN is a robust and highly configurable VPN (Virtual Private
Network) daemon which can be used to securely link two or more private
networks using an encrypted tunnel over the Internet. You can tunnel
any IP subnetwork or virtual ethernet adapter over a single UDP port,
use all of the encryption, authentication, and certification features
of the OpenSSL library to protect your private network traffic, use any
cipher, key size, or HMAC digest (for packet authentication) supported
by the OpenSSL library, choose between static-key based conventional
encryption or certificate-based public key encryption, use static or
TLS-based dynamic key exchange, and tunnel networks whose public
endpoints are dynamic such as DHCP clients or dial-in users.
PHP Generic Access Control List 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101295/
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.
Qixite 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101289/
Qixite is a program for creating Web sites. The user has to provide the
information and structure of the site, while Qixite does the rest. It
uses predefined templates for site generation, and it is possible to
create or edit them using XSL.
QScintilla 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101271/
QScintilla is a port of the Scintilla C++ editor class to the Qt GUI
toolkit.
ROX RPN Calculator 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101239/
ROX-RPN is an RPN calculator for the ROX desktop. It is fairly
featureful, having most of the common scientific and trigonmetric
functions. Also, you can view the top 3 items of the stack and do
primitive operations such as swapping, editing, and deleting.
SILC 0.9.4 (Toolkit)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101263/
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.
slaf 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101260/
Slaf is a new "LookAndFeel" for Java/Swing, which aims to be
faster, consume less memory, be easily configurable, and be completely
parameterized. It can be used by the end user and/or integrated by the
developer. It provides many themes, including Gnome, KDE, Pilot, Aqua,
BeOS, Redmond, Aluminium, and Alien.
softflowd 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101261/
softflowd is a software flow-based network monitor. It tracks network
traffic flows and report aggregate statistics as well as (optionally)
export Cisco Netflow v1 compatible datagrams. It can listen on a
promiscuous network interface or read store pcap capture files, and
includes a sophisticated control interface.
sonar 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101243/
sonar is a network reconnaissance utility. It runs all its scans from
plugins. The currently supported plugins are an ICMP scan (a la the
original sonar) and an ACK scan which can see if hosts that don't
respond to ICMP are online. With the ability to create your own
plugins, sonar is becoming the most extensible security scanner
available.
Syslinux 2.00-pre11 (Test)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101255/
SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates
off of MS-DOS floppies. It is intended to simplify first-time
installation of Linux, rescue disks, and other uses for boot floppies.
A SYSLINUX floppy can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any
other OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once it has been
created, and requires only a ~ 8K DOS program or ~ 16K Linux program to
create it in the first place. It also includes PXELINUX, a program to
boot off a network server using a boot PROM compatible with the Intel
PXE (Pre-Execution Environment) specification, ISOLINUX, a program to
boot off ISO 9660 CD-ROMs in native mode, and MEMDISK, a tool to boot
legacy operating systems (e.g. DOS) using a Linux boot loader
regardless of medium.
tftp-hpa 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101253/
tftp-hpa is an enhanced version of the BSD TFTP client and server. It
possesses a number of bugfixes and enhancements over the original. It
has been made portable and will work on pretty much any modern Unix
variant.
Timo's Rescue CD Set 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101282/
Timo's rescue CD set provides an easy way to generate bootable CDROMs
with a ready-to-use rescue system on them. The system is designed to be
fully customizable and easy to build. The rescue system includes
reiserfs, parted, partimage, nmap, w3m, bash, sshd, telnetd, ftpd, and
nfsd. It is based on Debian's "woody" release. LILO,
syslinux, isolinux, and GRUB are supported. The project is evolving
more and more into a "Debian on CD" project, which means that
its use is not limited to a rescue CD; it is also possible to install a
whole Debian system on CD.
TM4J 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101270/
TM4J is a topic map processing toolkit and a set of topic map
processing tools. Topic maps are an ISO standard for the interchange of
information structures which can be used to represent ontologies,
business data and processes, individual knowledge and opinions, and
more. The goal of the TM4J project is to develop high-quality, Open
Source software for the creation, manipulation, and exchange of topic
maps.
WinDriver 5.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101258/
WinDriver is a professional PCI/ISA/ISAPnP/EISA device driver
development tool for Linux 2.0.31 and above. It lets you use powerful
wizards to access and diagnose your hardware from an intuitive user
mode interface. The wizard will also automatically generate your
skeletal driver. Drivers written using WinDriver will also compile and
run in Solaris 2.6, 2.7 (both x86 and Sparc), Windows NT/2000/XP,
Windows 95/98/Me, Windows CE, and VxWorks. It also supports cPCI and
USB in Windows. It has API support for multiple interface USB devices,
dual processor and SMP support on Linux, and scatter/gather DMA support
on Linux 2.4.
wmufo 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101237/
Wmufo is a dockable application that monitors and controls multiple
SETI@Home clients. It can either display statistics on the current SETI
workunit or run an animation of various alpha-blended glowing ball UFOs
and a spinning saucer flying back and forth across a starfield.
Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 3.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101269/
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.
wxAtaxx 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101256/
wxAtaxx is a strategy game based on Ataxx. It was written using the
wxWindows cross-platform GUI library which is available for Windows,
X11/GTK, and MacOS. You can play against the computer, against another
human on the same host, or against a user on a remote host over a
TCP/IP connection.
XScreenSaver 4.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101246/
XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for the X Window
System. It is highly customizable and allows the use of any program
that can draw on the root window as a display mode. More than 140
display modes are included in this package.
Youhp3 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101257/
Youhp3 (Youpee's One Unlimited HTML PreProcessor) is an HTML
preprocessor that allows you to embed code of any script language, as
well as calling any external program to generate text files. It is
specifically designed to work with HTML/XML documents, and provide
traditional features, such as define, include, macro, conditional
tests, and loop.
Slashcode
Comment Status "Read-only" means what, exa
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/1558218
There are 3 posible commentcodes defined in the default installation of
the code_param table: "Comments Enabled", "Comments Disabled", and
"Read Only". The first two options are fairly obvious, either allowing
or disallowing comments in the discussion (I presume). But what is the
"Read Only" option for? How does it differ from "Comments Disabled"?
Unable to start slashd?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/0723238
I have an up and running slash site ToborGuru.com I have been playing
with the templates and the general look and feel of the site and am
very happy with the capabilities of slashcode. However I have had a
couple of problems and I think I MAY know what is causing them now.
First off the index page is not displaying an "X comments" link in the
linkStory Template, and portald boxes are not updating/ being displayed
(they show up if they had content before (slashdot, slashcode) but they
have old stories, and the new ones are not getting any content at all
and are not being displayed). After reading some of the earlier
questions to this site and looking at it myself it SEEMS as though
slashd is not actually starting (would my site still run at all?). I
have no running slashd processes, and when I run "slashd start" by hand
this is the message I get: "DBIx::Password returned *nothing* for
virtual user start DSN (is the username correct?) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i586-linux/Sl ash/DB.pm line 46.".
I JUST tested DBIx::Password with the following results:
"##################Note!######################### If you are not on the
machine that will be using these passwords this will most likely fail.
Now, lets test getDriver() by itself Finding driver:mysql Now, lets see
if we can make create objects Trying: virtual_userFinding driver:mysql
ok 2" So everthing appears to be working correctly there. I have also
noticed that I do not have any slashd log entries for more than a
month, I installed slash JUST over a month ago, and am curious as to
what I may have broken since the site IS still working other than the
symptoms listed above. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sections: Special cases
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/23/1640227
I've been poking about in the source for Slash, and I was wondering:
There are two sections that seem a little "special", the "index"
section which doesn't appear in the sections table, but is (I think)
used to represent the front page of the site, and the "All Sections"
section, which (I think) is meant to represent all the sections of the
site. Can anyone tell me how these two sections are treated as special
cases? How do they differ from other, "normal" sections, and which
parts of the site should care about these special values? If I set my
app variable "defaultsection" to empty (blank), does this mean the
defaultsection is "All Sections", since "All Sections" doesn't have a
section name?
Installation: Apache seg faults on perl scripts
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/22/0711224
I've read many, many posts on google, etc. about this problem, but no
real solutions that have worked for me. I've downloaded the latest
apache, mod_perl and slashcode. I can install everything, but when I
try to access a perl script the browser sends a couple of requests, and
then I get a "Document contains no data error" and the general server
error log has child pid 3305 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) I can
access the shtml files just fine and the slash daemon is running no
problem. Thank you for your help, Sean Forman
--------------------------------------- [root@ns1 root]#
/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -V Server version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)
Server built: Oct 22 2002 02:22:46 Server's Module Magic Number:
19990320:13 Server compiled with.... -D HAVE_MMAP -D HAVE_SHMGET -D
USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD -D USE_MMAP_FILES -D HAVE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D HAVE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT -D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D HARD_SERVER_LIMIT=256 -D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr/local/apache" -D
SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/local/apache/bin/suexec" -D
DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid" -D
DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/httpd.scoreboard" -D
DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/httpd.lock" -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types" -D
SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf" -D
ACCESS_CONFIG_FILE="conf/access.conf" -D
RESOURCE_CONFIG_FILE="conf/srm.conf" [root@ns1 root]# perl -v This is
perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall
[root@ns1 root]# mysql -V mysql Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23.51, for
pc-linux-gnu (i686) I did not compile perl or mysql myself as they were
already on the server
UConn Multiplayer Videogame Club
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/21/1610230
We've had our site running for about a year now. No complaints yet.
Customize RSS?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/21/0115220
i've noticed that this site includes the intro copy of a story in the
/slashcode.rss file. i'd like to do the same to the site i work on
(sagewire.sage.org), but am not sure the fastest/best way to accomplish
it without breaking other things. searching here, google wasn't
particularly enlightening. what's the trick?
Switching Domains Following a Re-Design
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/18/1921254
We are upgrading servers and as part of that would like to upgrade our
CMS to slashcode as well. Our new server and old server
(http://www.baseballprimer.com/) are located elsewhere, so I can't hold
the new server off-line to get the site up and running before taking it
live. I'm wondering if I were to use one of my spare domain names on
the new server, how should I configure the new slash site, so that I
can switch it over to our baseballprimer.com domain when it is time to
lauch the slash site. For instance, A) install the slash site with
http://www.otherdomain.com and //www.otherdomain.com as the dirs, and
then switch them when the new site is ready to go. B) install the slash
site with http://www.baseballprimer.com/ and // as the dirs and then
point to that directory with the other domain and use
http://www.otherdomain.com/ to test everything out. Will method (B)
work? I think that would be the easiest to use option, if it works.
Thanks, sean
Mozilla sidebar
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/18/1920223
I've built something that I think was sorely lacking on Slashdot: a
Mozilla sidebar. It's pretty cool, if I may toot my own horn:
http://r2d2.easydns.com/~cmv/slashdot/ The headlines and info comes
from the XML feed. The icons are grabbed from Slashdot as needed,
resized, PNG-ed, and stored locally. Now, the sidebar is *NOT*
available to the entire world, so don't go posting that URL everywhere
(I've taken off the link to load the sidebar). That server isn't
designed to handle huge loads. However, I've had an email convo with
Rob Malda where I said I'm happy to share the source code so that
Slashdot could provide this service directly from their site. His
response was: If you ported that to Slashcode (www.slashcode.com) I'm
almost certain it would be live on Slashdot a week or 2 later. The only
thing you'd have to make certain is that the page itself was a static
piece of HTML and regenerated every 30 minutes, so millions of sidebar
loads wouldn't kill us. Very cool tho. I've seen several attempts to
make a good sidebar, but thats the first that looks good. So ... that's
why I'm posting here. I don't know the first thing about slashcode. My
code is written using PHP to parse the XML feed and format the output,
with a few calls to the ppm image functions to resize the icons. Is
there somebody here who would be interested in helping me port my code
to slashcode? I suppose, once it is ported, it would be an additional
server for not only Slashdot, but any site that uses the same code ...
which is pretty cool. Comments?
Storybody mediumtext or longtext?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/18/0255219
Recently, one of my editors posted a review which exceeded the 64KB
limit set by the story_text.bodytext row type of "text" (meaning the
story needed to be cut into 2 parts - which is not very desirable). I'm
wondering if anyone has experienced the same problem. Is there any
problem modifying the row type to mediumtext (allowing for up to 16MB
to be posted)? If I did make this modification, how would I go about
limiting the size of user submitted stories (as there's a possibility
someone could post text to the maximum HTTP packet size). Any help
appreciated.
Mysterious Error Messages
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/17/1655203
The error logs for my Slash apache instance are filling up with
mysterious error messages that I am having problems tracking to the
source. The error messages are: null: Use of uninitialized value in
string eq at /usr/local/slash/site/vertebrae/htdocs/index.pl line 19.
null: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/local/slash/site/vertebrae/htdocs/index.pl line 30. (also lines
31, 32) null: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris- 64int/Slash
/Display.pm line 168. (also lines 172, 183) Argument "" isn't numeric
in numeric comparison () at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-
64int/Template/Stash.pm line 179. null: Use of uninitialized value in
concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-s
olaris-64int/Slash/DB/MySQL.pm line 1701. This site has been in
production for some time - any ideas as to why these errors have just
started appearing would be greatly appreciated!! The site is running
Slash 2.2.6 + Apache 1.3.26 + mod_perl 1.27
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