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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
Rosen, Valenti Warn Colleges About P2P
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/13/0354209
fini writes "The RIAA and MPAA just sent a letter to 2,300 colleges or
so, asking to crack down on P2P. Juicy nugget: 'Not only is piracy of
copyrighted works illegal, it can take up a significant percentage of a
university's costly bandwidth.' Also mentioned, some quasi-FUD on
security issues. Six higher-ed honchos also sent a concurring letter.
From the RIAA website, here's the [0] story and [1]the [2]letters (PDF
only). Mentioned as examples of model policies: [3]Drake [4]
University, [5]UNC [6]Chapel Hill and [7]University of [8]Michigan .
Interestingly enough, there is no threatening 'or else' stuff in those
letters. Not yetÂ
"
Links
0. http://www.riaa.org/PR_story.cfm?id=575
1. http://www.riaa.com/pdf/Universityletter.pdf
2. http://www.riaa.com/pdf/Copyrightletter.pdf
3. http://www.drake.edu/it/cio/AcceptableUse.html
4. http://www.drake.edu/it/cio/Copyright.html
5. http://www.unc.edu/policy/copyinfringe.html
6. http://www.unc.edu/policy/copyright_primer.html
7. http://www.umich.edu/~policies/responsible-use.html
8. http://www.umich.edu/~policies/digital-media.html
Surprising Science Demonstrations?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/0031238
An anonymous reader writes: "I have been called upon to conduct some
science workshops for children of various ages, and I'm looking for
some good demos. In particular, I've found that demos are most
effective at getting students to think when they give a surprising or
unexpected result, such as the classic two-slit experiment (or, for the
extreme crowd, demonstrating the Leidenfrost effect by [0]sticking
one's hand into a vat of molten lead [PDF]). I'd like the Slashdot
crowd's suggestions." Please don't do the lead one.
Links
0. http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/phy/halliday320005/pdf/leidenfrost_essay.pdf
Archos Jukebox Multimedia Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/235249
An anonymous reader points to [0]Richard Menta's review of the
[1]Archos Jukebox Multimedia (mentioned in this [2]earlier Slashdot
posting). Here's a snippet from the review: "Right now my wife and I
are watching an old episode of a TV show no longer broadcast in our
area or available tape. How are we watching it? We are playing it off
of a 9oz. MP3 player -- where I have digitally stored the episode --
hooked up to the small TV in our room and inconspicuously placed on
top."
Links
0. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2002/archosmultimedia.html
1. http://www.archos.com/lang=en/products/prw_500347.html
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/06/2318230&tid=137
Smaller Than The Mini PC, The P4/2400 Micro PC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/225242
fist_187 writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has a story on the smallest PC
since the Mini-PC: [0]The MicroPC. It's a Pentium 4/2400 MHz machine,
but you'd probably mistake it for a cable modem. I'm sure this trend
will continue on to the Nano-PC, Pico-PC, and the [1]Dick Tracy Watch."
Links
0. http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q4/021009/index.html
1. http://www.aps.org/apsnews/0699/069910.html
Newly Released WineX 2.2 Supports EverQuest
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/2037231
Mattzilla writes "The latest release of [0]Transgaming's WineX (details
available [1] here) now supports EverQuest. You asked for it, here it
is. This release also has Direct 3D and Direct Show updates as well as
fixes for Mandrake 9.0 and RedHat 8.0 CD device auto-detection. With
EverQuest now under Linux I'm sure a great deal of people won't find a
need to be dual-booting any longer." The EverQuest support is called
"preliminary"; check out those release notes for a few known problems
and workarounds.
Links
0. http://www.transgaming.com/
1. http://downloads.transgaming.com/files/winex-2_2-releasenotes.txt
New Linux Configuration Tool
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/1926242
[0]paul.dunne writes "Looks like we are finally well on the way to
getting a replacement for the old Linux configuration tools. Details in
a [1] thread on the linux-kernel mailing list. Basically, Linus likes
it; it's written in C, so there are no "language issues"; and feedback
on the mailing list so far seems positive and constructive."
Links
0. http://dunne.home.dhs.org/
1. http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-40/0842html
New "Secure" Xbox Cracked In Under A Week
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/1742226
ilsie writes "Numbnut says it all in [0]his post at [1]xboxhacker.net.
To quote his post, 'On behalf of the [2]Xbox Linux Team, I am proud to
announce that at 10:45BST the 'v1.1' secure version of the Xbox was
proven to be running arbitrary BIOS code in a normal 256KByte modchip -
with no additional hardware required. In short, in under a week we were
able to normalize the new box to enable it to interoperate with Linux
properly.'"
Links
0.
http://www.xboxhacker.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3da7ede1778bffff;act=ST;f=7;t=7264
1. http://www.xboxhacker.net/
2. http://xbox-linux.sf.net/
AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/1710205
nutznboltz writes "According to [0]the Peng project website AOL has
sent them a cease-and-desist letter claiming that Peng, a GPLed
software project is commerically exploiting AOL and has until Oct 15th
to hand over the pengaol.com domain name." Update: 10/12 17:45 GMT by
[1]T: As several readers have pointed out, the domain name in question
is actually pengaol.org, rather than pengaol.com.
Links
0. http://www.peng.apinc.org/eng/
1. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
A Digital Certificate For Every Canadian
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/1618212
[0]thepacketmaster writes "September 27 of this year, the Canadian
government took a quiet step into the online world. Called
[1]Government Online, this broad project involves giving every Canadian
citizen a digital certificate, which will allow citizens to access
their personal government records online. So far they only have the
[2]Custom & Revenue Agency online with a simple [3]Change of Address,
but there are over a hundred more applications from various agencies
ready to be put online. Could this be the start of something good, or
is this Big Brother? How about voting online?"
Links
0. mailto:slashdot@;jamesstewartsmith.com
1. http://www.gol-ged.gc.ca/
2. http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/
3. http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/eservices/tax/individuals/aco/menu-e.html
A Distributed Front-end for GCC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/12/1440212
format writes "[0]distcc is a distributed front-end for GCC, meaning
you can compile that big project across n number of machines and get it
done almost n times as fast. The machines don't have to be identical or
be running the exact same GCC version, but having the same OS is
helpful." With the advent of faster hardware, I can't complain about
kernel compile times anymore, but larger source trees could definitely
benefit from this.
Links
0. http://distcc.samba.org/
Freshmeat
The Antidesktop
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/581
Over the years, I've used 4Dwm, Afterstep, Blackbox, Enlightenment,
FVWM, Icewm, KWM, PWM, Sawfish, Window Maker, and wmx, and played with
many other window managers. I used Window Maker more than any other,
but generally would only stick with one for a couple of months before
getting restless and trying something else. Finally, though, I settled
on a setup I've used exclusively for over a year. It's decidedly not
for everyone, but may be of interest to some.
Bayesian Mail Filter 0.9.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99984/
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.
Chemical Development Kit 20021012 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100002/
The Chemical Development Kit (CDK) classes are Java utitility classes
for chemoinformatics and computational chemistry. They are a complete
re-write of the CompChem classes that were the basis of JChemPaint, a
Java Editor for 2D chemical structures, and of JMDraw, a Java package
for the graphical layout of 2D chemical structures.
CLIP 0.99.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100007/
CLIP is a Clipper/XBase compatible compiler with initial support for
FoxPro, Flagship, and CAVO syntax. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
and Win32 (via Cygwin). It features support for international languages
and character sets, including two-bytes character sets like Chinese and
Japanese. It also features OOP, a multiplatform GUI based on
GTK/GTKextra, all SIX/Comix features (including hypertext indexing),
SQL, a C-API for third-party developers, a few wrappers for popular
libraries (such as BZIP, GZIP, GD, Crypto, and Fcgi), multitasking,
mouse events, and more.
echoping 5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99999/
echoping is a small program to approximatively test the performance of
a remote host by sending it TCP "echo" packets. It is able to
use the following protocols: echo, discard, chargen, HTTP (with SSL if
you wish), ICP, and SMTP. It uses UDP instead of TCP for the protocols
which accept it (like echo), it can repeat the test and display various
statistics, and it can use T/TCP on systems which support it.
FilterTools 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99977/
FilterTools is an easy to use SQL driven Web- based solution for
keeping people out of an unsecured 802.11b wireless network or shared
wired networks.
Free Fields 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99935/
Free Fields is an Ampoliros module for the Magellan content management
system. It allows the user to define their own template tags.
Funkyou 1.2.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99966/
Funkyou is a solution for DJs that includes MP3-mixing, light
controlling via RS-232 or DMX interface, wav-samples, and a crossfader.
It is designed for easy use, and can function optionally with a
touchscreen. It has support for radio DJs and a switchable speaking
clock.
Gammu 0.60 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100003/
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various
mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410,
3510, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 7110, 82xx, 8310, 9110,
and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, WaveCom, IPAQ, and
other). It has a command line version with many functions for
ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, etc. It
can also make full backups and restore them. It works on various Unix
systems (like Linux) and Win32.
gnetload network load meter 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99959/
The gnetload network load meter is a network and ISDN load meter that
is similar to xisdnload, but works in a distributed environment. It
includes an agent (devstata) that runs on machines with interfaces to
be monitored and periodically sends status information over the
network. A display program (gnetload) collects and displays the data.
Both can be run on the same machine, or be used to report on the state
of a dedicated router on another machine. Using multicast or broadcast
addresses, data can be fed to more than one instance of gnetload. A
menu for taking network interfaces up and down is also provided.
GNU Coreutils 4.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99980/
GNU Coreutils are a set of basic file, shell, and text manipulation
utilities for the GNU operating system that are expected to exist on
every operating system. Previously, they were offered as three
individual distributions: fileutils, shellutils, and textutils.
grdesktop 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99998/
grdesktop is a frontend, written in C using the GTK 2 toolkit, for the
remote desktop client (rdesktop). It can save several connections
(including their options), and browse the network for available
terminal servers.
Group Enabled Cluster Compiler 20021012
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99992/
The Group Enabled Cluster Compiler (gecc) distributes the compilation
(of C/C++ code) on a cluster of hosts. Compiled code is cached, so
rebuilds with little or no changes to the source are much faster. gecc
can use any C/C++ compiler but has been tested with gcc.
GtkDiskFree 1.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99997/
GtkDiskFree is a small GUI application written with the Gtk+ library
which shows how much free space is available on your filesystems, as
well as some other information related to the filesystem.
HTTrack Website Copier 3.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99994/
HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to
download a Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building
recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from
the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's
relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the mirrored Web site in
your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you
were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored
site, and resume interrupted downloads.
Jaxor 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99963/
Jaxor is a simple but powerful tool for creating an object to
relational mapping layer. It allows developers to painlessly insert,
update, and delete rows from tables, but can be expanded on to create
an extensible mapping layer that creates a full domain model,
transparently mapping to database tables.
jMoney@Home 0.50d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99990/
jMoney@Home is a small financial software package that lets you manage
your household. It uses MySQL for its data, supports networking, and
has multiuser support.
JSX2 0.1 (Object Export)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99826/
In one line, JSX2 exports data out of objects and into the world,
processes it independently of the objects themselves, and can import it
back again in another call. Because it is object-based and fully
customizable, you work in Java with your existing objects. No
"glue" is needed, nor conceptual shifts to XML or relational
tables.
KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99982/
KDevelop is an integrated development environment which makes the
creation and development of GNU Standard Applications an easy task even
for beginners. Highlights of the current release are: an application
wizard for easy creation of KDE 2&3, Qt 2&3, GNOME, and
terminal C/C++ projects, full project management, a syntax-highlighting
editor, an integrated dialogeditor for the Qt/KDE GUI libraries, an
internal debugger, a full-featured classbrowser with classtools, CVS
support, an integrated HTML-based helpsystem offering manuals and
class-references, and extensive search mechanisms to browse sources and
documentation.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.42_001 (For Linux 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99988/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user
programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can
access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user
programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege
level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it
seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such
methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so
forth.
LiVES 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100008/
LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is a simple, yet powerful video
effects and editing system. It uses commonly-available tools (mplayer,
ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it should work on most systems.
Localis 0.3 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99995/
Localis is a GIS (Geographic Information System). It is a phpmapscript
implementation intended to provide an easy end user workspace and
frontend. It links a MySQL database and classic arcview-type files
(.df, .shp, and geotiff).
Luola 0.9.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99974/
Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a
small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game
is simply to destroy all other players.
N-View 2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100001/
N-View is a network monitor for small and medium-sized networks. It
features automatic scanning of subnets for host addresses, monitoring
of ICMP responses from all hosts, signalling of timeouts and delays in
the GUI and by mail, a portscanner, an SNMP client (MIB browser and
trap receiver), a graphical display of network traffic for network
interfaces, connectivity to hosts by telnet, HTTP browser, or an
arbitrary external program (such as ssh), printing of network diagrams,
automatic generation of HTML pages, and more.
Network-Accounting Daemon for Netfilter 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100000/
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.
NotFTP 1.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99989/
NotFTP is a fully-featured and easy-to-use Web-based HTTP-FTP gateway
written in PHP. It supports all common FTP functions and allows the
administrator to set a maximum transfer size and a daily transfer quota
for users. It is particularly well-suited for making FTP accessible to
users behind an HTTP-only proxy.
PHAT 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99952/
PHAT is a browser-based network management solution with a heavy lean
toward switches, routers, and other traffic handlers which can be used
to control either a single node, subnet, or vlan. It uses PHP's
built-in networking and SNMP functionality.
procps 3.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99986/
procps is a package of utilities which report on the state of the
system, including the states of running processes, amount of memory
available and currently-logged-in users.
Radio Active 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99993/
Radio Active is a theme inspired by a theme for windows XP.
Raw Socket Constructor 2.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99970/
Raw Socket Constructor is a tool that uses the Libsock library to
create arbitrary TCP, ICMP, UDP, TCP6, ICMP6, or UDP6 packets.
ripMIME 1.2.16.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100010/
ripMIME extracts attachment files out of a MIME-encoded email pack.
SASL Library 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99981/
Libgsasl is a library that implements the IETF Simple Authentication
and Security Layer (SASL) framework and some SASL mechanisms. SASL is
used in servers (e.g. IMAP, SMTP, etc.) to request authentication from
clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers.
SPOPS 0.71 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/100005/
SPOPS (Simple Perl Object Persistence w/ Security) is a robust and
powerful Perl module that allows you to serialize objects. It is unique
in that it also allows you to apply security to these objects using a
fairly simple but powerful scheme of users and groups. It's also unique
in that for most objects, you will not need to write any code. All you
need is a fairly simple configuration file, and you can have a class
for your object ready to go, right out of thin air.
SystemX's Spooky Fluxbox Theme 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99976/
SystemX's Spooky Fluxbox Theme is a theme with a matching GTK theme.
TCDR 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99973/
TCDR is a dialog-based console frontend for mkisofs, cdrecord, cdrdao,
cdparanoia, cdda2wav, bladeenc, mpg123, and sox written in bash.
Workrave 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99954/
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of
repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to
take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily
limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using
GTK/Win32).
xvkbd 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99978/
xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program for X which provides a
facility to enter characters onto other clients software by clicking a
keyboard displayed on the screen. It also has facility to send
characters specified as the command line option to other client.
Y Object Database Adapter 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99983/
Y Object Database Adapter (YODA) is an environment for creating and
running network accessible applications. It can permanently store
objects of any type and complexity, and supports attributes of most
types (with the exception of only a few Python types, such as thread
locks). It can be extended with YODA- server applications, and an
application compiler and loader are provided.
YAMM 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99972/
YAMM (Yet Another Mozilla Modern) is an attempt to be true to the
Mozilla Modern button style in an IceWM theme.
Zorbstats 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/99985/
ZorbStats is a simple Web statistics generator using PHP and MySQL. It
is simple to install an features visitor logs, browser stats, OS stats,
and number of visits. It also allows you to search all logs.
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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