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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
Taiwan Rejects US Copyright Extension Demands
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/1948244
An anonymous reader writes "Taiwan has rejected the US's demand to
extend copyrights from 50 years to 70 years. Here's the [0]news article
on the [1]Mercury News."
Links
0. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4260499.htm
1. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/
If Programming Languages Could Speak
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/1829256
[0]HealYourChurchWebSit writes "BurningBird's "[1]The Parable of the
Languages" offers a delightfully playful answer to the the question,
"[what] if programming languages could speak, really speak, not just
crunch bytes and stream bits, they would have much to say that is both
wise and profound.""
Links
0. http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com
1. http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/000581.php
The Coming Air Age
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/1950256
[0]Lovejoy writes "Sixty years ago in [1]The Atlantic Monthly, [2]Igor
Sikorsky wrote [3]The Coming Air Age. "Any of us who are alive ten
years after this Second World War is won will see and use hundreds of
short-run helicopter bus services." He goes on to write about personal
helicopters which fit in large garages and that helicopters that are
easier to drive than cars, etc.. So, will personal flight ever be
viable? Do wildly wrong predictions like this give futurists pause? I
think they should."
Links
0. http://www.oc.edu/staff/dan.lovejoy
1. http://www.theatlantic.com/
2. http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/
3. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/42sep/sikorsky.htm
Dealing with the RIAA?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/09/0334204
This hasn't been a good year for music lovers since the RIAA has
removed the kid gloves. In the past 3 months they have [0]declared war
on their own customers, [1]silenced Internet Radio, and are
[2]targeting 3 other P2P networks for shutdown. At about this time last
year, they wanted [3]unprecedented access to your personal property,
but fortunately [4]saner heads prevailed here. [5]It has been 4 years
since Slashdot posted it's first story containing the phrase "RIAA",
and in that time the RIAA has waged war on the Internet rather than try
and use the technology for the benefit of their artists. Now there are
people willing to play by the rules, but the RIAA is unresponsive, and
their web site seems to provide more questions than clear answers. Who
do you need to contact? What forms need to be filled? What agreements
need to be signed? By whom? What do you have to pay? How is this value
determined? If you are planning on offering the RIAA's music, what do
you really have to do to play their music legally?
Links
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/13/183206&tid=141
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/08/040252&tid=141
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/03/125243&tid=123
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/15/138258&tid=158
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/15/1715233&tid=99
5. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=older/9841913610&tid=95
The Case of the Missing Rocket Belt
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/1942222
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "[1]ABC News is running a very interesting
article about the story behind those rocket belts you've seen in some
movies. Apparently there are only three known to exist but one of them
has gone missing [2]leaving a trail of death and intrigue in its wake.
From the article: 'One of its developers was found beaten to death in
his Houston home, another is a suspect in the killing, and a third
faces a possible life sentence for kidnapping the second and holding
him hostage for seven days with a hood over his head.'"
Links
0. http://home.earthlink.net/~kspandle
1. abcnews.go.com
2. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/rocketbelt_021010html
Gentoo Linux Reloaded
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/187222
[0]nitro322 writes "Daniel Robbins, the leading developer for [1]Gentoo
Linux, has written an excellent [2]O'Reilly Network article covering
many of the various features of Gentoo, what's coming in version 1.4
(due out SOON), and why you should give it a try. If you haven't tried
Gentoo yet, what are you waiting for?"
Links
0. mailto:anon0322@;yahoo.com
1. http://www.gentoo.org/
2. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/10/10/intro_gentoo.html
Predicting User Behavior to Improve Security
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/1736242
[0]CitizenC writes "New computer-monitoring software designed to
second-guess the intentions of individual system users could be close
to perfect at preventing security breaches, say researchers. [1]Read
more." The [2]paper (pdf) is online as well.
Links
0. http://citizenc.livejournal.com
1. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992913
2. http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shambhu/resume/milcom02.pdf
More on Underwater Gliders
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/1718222
ianjk writes "Abcnews.com is reporting on two [0]underwater gliders
developed by the University of Washington and Webb Research. Both use
very little energy and have quite long ranges (thousands of
kilometers). Of course, the US Navy is showing quite an interest in the
project." We [1]mentioned these earlier.
Links
0. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/CuttingEdge/cuttingedge021011html
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/10/2013231&tid=160
Dinosaur Mummy Found
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/1629240
[0]sckienle writes "Although the dig was a year ago, MSNBC has an
article about a [1]very rare dinosaur find. It starts off with "A
mummified dinosaur, unwrapped from the rocks of Montana, has revealed
how the creature looked and how it lived 77 million years ago  down
to the texture of its skin and the contents of its stomach, scientists
say." Unfortunately, the details are mostly missing in the article.
This isn't the first [2]mummified dinosaur found but it is the first in
a long time."
Links
0. mailto:steven.c.kienle@;pharmacia.com
1. http://www.msnbc.com/news/819818.asp
2. http://www.fhsu.edu/currentevents/dinomummy.html
Cringley Asking for 12 Month Predictions
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/1437231
[0]sckienle writes "[1]Robert X. Cringely is asking in his [2]pulpit
this week for help in determining what's going to happen in the tech
industry in the next 12 months." I expect that robots will take over
the world, and openly hunt humans in a post apocolyptic landscape. This
will occur in January. For the rest of the year, technology will take a
vacation.
Links
0. mailto:steven.c.kienle@;pharmacia.com
1. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/bobsworld.html
2. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20021010.html
Freshmeat
Astaro Security Linux 3.210 (Stable 3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99890/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet
inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus
scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and
much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the
ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage.
It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most
daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel
capabilities.
Cerberus Helpdesk 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99892/
Cerberus Helpdesk is an email response system built to diminish the
need for redundant, time-consuming human interaction with your
customers. The system is built to allow your support/sales/billing/etc.
department to react quickly to inbound customer email inquiries. It was
written originally as a trouble ticket system.
CSBuddy 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99860/
CSBuddy is a tool designed to help Counter-Strike server owners,
particularly those running AdminMod. It maintains a queryable database
of all players that have been seen on the server, and it filters the
raw logs of a Counter-Strike server and distills them into a single
CSBuddy log which shows only high-level activity such as excessive
friendly fire incidents, admin activity, and players complaining about
misbehavior or saying suspicious things. This tool is built upon an
included Counter-Strike log file parser which is provided in a simple
derivable class.
db2ssd 0.1.4a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99891/
db2ssd is a Perl script that connects to a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL,
or any ODBC), extracts its structure, and produces a diagram readable
by TCM's "Static Structure Diagram" (UML) editor.
gGo 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99882/
gGo is a Go board and SGF editor and client for the Internet Go Server.
Go is an ancient board game, very common in Japan, China, and Korea.
gGo was formerly named qGo for Java.
GNU Smalltalk 2.0d (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99856/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
GrabCartoons 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99861/
GrabCartoons is yet another comic-grabbing utility. It is modular, and
it is very easy to write modules for new comics. To avoid depriving the
comic Web sites from their hits, grabcartoons does not download a copy
of the images, but only generates a page with links to them.
Gringotts 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99889/
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.
ipkungfu 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99878/
IPKungFu is a script aiming to simplify the configuration of your
firewall/NAT/port forwarding. It takes advantage of advanced features
of iptables and tcpwrappers.
Knoppix 3.1-10-10-2002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99885/
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software,
automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards,
sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a
Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to
install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.
KutttPech 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99871/
KutttPech is a MPEG-player in Java, capable of playing MPEG-1 within
your browser without downloading any irritating plug-in. It is
specialized in handling live MPEG streams, but can play files just as
easely. It plays Layer 2 audio on most browsers with java 1.1/1.2 and
on all browsers with 1.3. It can cut P-FRAMES and B-FRAMES if the
machine is too slow to handle them, so as to maintain a small lag. It
can run outside a browser as an application and is reasonably fast.
LinkBase 2.0-RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99883/
LinkBase is a Web application written in PHP that helps manage the
Internet bookmarks of an organization by centralizing those links in a
single multi-user database (SQL). You can then access this database
with any Web browser. It is currently available in French, English,
Norwegian, German, and Spanish.
LlamaChat 0.4beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99841/
LlamaChat is a chat server/client pair. It supports many advanced chat
functionalities including secure connections, emoticons, administrative
class users, and more.
lsof 4.65
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99859/
Lsof is a Unix-specific diagnostic tool. Its name stands for LiSt Open
Files, and it does just that. It lists information about any files that
are open by processes currently running on the system. It can also list
communications open by each process.
Mmucl 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99873/
Mmucl is an extremely flexible mud client written in Tcl that provides
a number of different interfaces. The graphical interfaces use GTK and
Tk.
Newsleader 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99881/
Newsleader is an offline NNTP newsreader for Linux. It is optimized for
modem users, to be online for as short a time as possible.
NRH-up2date 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99870/
NRH-up2date provides a generic, easy-to-use server for the Red Hat
up2date utility. It can be used to distribute updates to client systems
without being dependent on the Red Hat network servers.
Portable PHP/MySQL Corporate Intranet System 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99865/
PPCIS is a portable, modular, intranet system. It features a news page
with topic filtering, user submission, and admin authorisation, a
directory with support for internal lists, external contacts, and Web
links, a helpdesk, with call logging, history, and a F.A.Q. database,
and a file store, with hierarchical file storage and group-based
security. There are several levels of administrative rights, meaning
that different people can be responsible for maintaining different
parts of the system. The system has a centrally configured colour
scheme and logo, so rebranding is easy.
Preferences.app 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99834/
Preferences.app is, functionally, a clone of NeXTstep/OPENSTEP tool of
the same name. Just like the original program, it's a simple
application for setting preferences for the GNUstep system, with a
friendly interface. The program is simple, but powerful, in that people
can create new modules, called "bundles", that add new things
to the program that its original developers did not think of or even
intend, that don't require recompiling the main program.
Project Steve Guttenberg 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99863/
Project Steve Guttenberg is a PHP-driven diary/journal/blogging
application that integrates seamlessly into an existing Web site. It
provides many of the core features (including comments, archives,
searching, and an RDF feed) and administrative controls (all Web-based)
of other, larger systems, but doesn't use a database, is XHTML
1.0-compliant and its look can be completely customised via CSS. It can
easily be scaled to host several journal sites with a single
installation.
Q-Midi 1.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99869/
Q-Midi is a MIDI interface module which allows you to write MIDI
applications in the Q programming language. It runs on top of Grame's
MidiShare package. Most basic MidiShare functionality is available,
including timing functions for realtime programming and MIDI file
access.
ReadyExec 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99875/
ReadyExec is a client-server system designed to alleviate the problem
of high-startup-costing applications, such as those written in Python,
which are run repeatedly (e.g., in procmail) and use stdio files, argv,
environment variables, and exit codes to interact with their
environment. A small 'conduit' program is used to send such
process-specific information to the server, and acts as an intermediary
while the 'heavy' application code runs in the server, only needing to
be loaded once. A server for Python code is available.
Siag Office 3.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99858/
Siag Office is a free office package which consists of the spreadsheet
Siag, the word processor PW, the animation program Egon, the text
editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu. Siag is
easy to use, yet infinitely flexible through multiple embedded
interpreters and a plugin mechanism that allows other programs to run
inside the main document. The supported interpreters are SIOD, Guile,
Tcl, and Python.
Spirit Parser library 1.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99880/
Spirit is an object-oriented, recursive descent parser generator
framework implemented using template meta-programming techniques.
Expression templates allow Spirit to approximate the syntax of Extended
Backus Normal Form (EBNF) completely in C++. The Spirit framework
enables a target grammar to be written exclusively in C++. EBNF grammar
specifications can mix freely with other C++ code and, thanks to the
generative power of C++ templates, are immediately executable.
tk120 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99874/
tk120 is a multiplatform programming and cloning utility for the
portable Yaesu VR-120 receiver. It can read the memory image from the
radio, display the information graphically, and save it to a file.
Memory channels may be exported to or imported from a .CSV
(comma-separated values) file.
TypeFast 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99888/
TypeFast is a curses-based typing practice/tutoring program. It has
rudimentary weighting on letters for which you are more prone to
failure, and it features a mode where it will only prompt for
characters from either the left or right side (conformant to generic
Dvorak layouts, as well as QWERTY).
uClinux 2.5.41-uc0 (2.5.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99876/
uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors.
It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would
otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives
the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack
of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and
efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux.
Virtual Object System 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99886/
The Virtual Object System (VOS) is an infrastructure and collection of
applications for building a multiuser object-oriented virtual reality
for the Internet. An abstract messaging layer (the VOS core) provides a
powerful abstraction, presenting a peer-to-peer distributed system as a
single unified whole. The 3D client (Ter'Angreal) enables any number of
users to interact in a virtual environment by communicating with one
another and by modifying and building onto the virtual environment
itself. This projects aims to realize the vision of a free 3D immersive
Internet.
webcam_server 0.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99879/
webcam_server is a server that can be used to host a video4Linux
supported Webcam. It features caption text, image rotation and
flipping, HTTP support, and logging. It allows a client to connect with
the included Java applet and watch a real time video feed. The applet
allows for frames/sec control. In addition, the browser can be pointed
directly at the webcam_server listen port to grab the current frame as
a JPEG.
WebCleaner 0.59
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99862/
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.
xmlenc 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99864/
xmlenc is a light-weight XML encoding library for Java. It fills the
gap between a light-weight parser like SAX, and a heavy-weight XML
output library, like JDOM.
xmms sndfile 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99857/
Xmms_sndfile is an input plugin for XMMS. Using xmms_sndfile extends
the capabilities of XMMS to open and play any file which can be opened
and read by libsndfile, including WAV, AIFF, AU, and SVX files and many
compressed version of these file formats.
YAML For Ruby 0.44
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99872/
For Ruby developers, YAML is a natural fit for object serialization and
general data storage, as their semantics are similiar. YAML4R is a
fully-featured YAML parser and emitter for Ruby. Use it as a drop-in
replacement for PStore, or use one of its several APIs to store object
data in the friendly and readable YAML style.
Slashcode
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
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?
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