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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
Abiword's PayPal Donation Fund Robbed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/042226
SabberFlapper writes "According to this [0]Announcement to the
developer list of [1]Abiword the Abiword fund was robbed. Dom Lachowicz
writes: 'I'm duty bound to let you all know that the AbiWord Fund/Tip
Jar has been robbed approximately three weeks ago. I'm telling you this
now, rather than sooner, since I believed that Paypal would do
something about my complaints during the interim, and that this would
all be resolved quietly. Today, 23 days later, this does not look like
it will happen. [..] I do however, recommend doing several things: 1)
Writing to Paypal, in letter, email, or fax form alerting them to this
travesty. 2) Calling Paypal on AbiWord's behalf. 3) Writing or calling
your Congressman/woman, pointing out that Paypal is acting like a bank,
but not operating under formal banking laws. 4) Boycotting Paypal
because of these reasons, and the fact that their system is notoriously
insecure, and encouraging others to do the same.'" Of all the groups to
steal from -- AbiWord?
Links
0. http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Oct/0422.html
1. http://www.abisource.com/
Open Blade Servers?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/026214
[0]Greg Smith points to this ZDNet story on new [1]Intel chips aimed at
blade servers, writing "Proprietary blade servers are coming on strong
from IBM, Dell and HP. Where are the open blade servers? How did Google
roll out 10,000 servers at such a low cost?"
Links
0. mailto:gregs@;advantatech.com
1. http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,5104972,00.html
The Movie Studios' Next Step in Online Movie Delivery
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/019230
[0]Con Zymaris writes "Here's [1]another piece on the how the movie
studios are trying to co-opt the movie delivery mechanisms of the
'counter-culture' set, but instill major restrictions such as
IP-address range verification to ensure country of origin, and maximum
24-hour-play lifetime for each downloaded movie."
Links
0. http://www.cyber.com.au/users/conz/
1. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/25/1035504877321.html
What Math Actually Sounds Like
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/007221
cellophane writes "If Verdi had a math fetish and a computer, would he
be [0]John Greschak? Greschak composes music based upon the
mathematical properties of various mathematical objects (e.g. a
six-sided die or pentominoes). He writes computer programs to realize
devised algorithms and uses the results of these processes as source
material for musical pieces. Greschak's newest addition, [1]Platonic
Dice: Dodecahedron for 12 woodwinds, was created by using musical
material derived from the mathematical properties of one of the
Platonic dice. Well, its not Verdi, but its definitely interesting."
Links
0. http://www.greschak.com/index.htm
1. http://www.greschak.com/m78mid.htm
Hilary Rosen Defeated at Oxford Union
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/26/2153231
yogi writes "Oxford University Students' Union had a debate last
Thursday, titled [0]This House believes that 'the free music mentality
is a threat to the future of music.'. Ordinarily, not too exciting, but
since it is the Oxford Union, they get [1]Hilary Rosen to speak. She
lost the debate, and had to have [2]pictures like this taken. Read the
writeup at [3]NTK, or [4] a more detailed one here. I especially like
the bit where she asked all the file downloaders whether it made them
buy more music."
Links
0. http://www.oxford-union.org/mod.php?mod=calendar&op=show_event&event_id=10
1. http://www.riaa.org/
2. http://alumni.ox.compsoc.net/~agk/photos/CDR/full/C0889.jpg
3. http://www.ntk.net/
4. http://tirian.magd.ox.ac.uk/~nick/UnionDebate/
Online Banking And Browser Support
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/26/2028224
[0]robbo writes "Earlier this week, The Register ran a piece on major
UK banks and E-commerce sites' [1]refusal to support alternative
browsers for online banking, and they followed up with a list of
[2]saints and sinners. The reasons vary from requiring support for
[3]proprietary technology to [4]security. My [5]own bank only recently
started supporting Netscape 6 (but they still don't support Mozilla).
Clearly, support for Mozilla, Konqueror, or Galeon are absolutely
necessary if projects like [6]GNUCash can successfully integrate online
banking. How does the Slashdot crowd find their banking support? Is
your bank a sinner or a saint?"
Links
0. mailto:simra@;cim.mcgill.ca
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/27756.html
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27777.html
3. http://www.microsoft.com/com/tech/ActiveX.asp
4. http://www.marksandspencer.com/disallowed2.html
5. http://www.pcbanking.cibc.com/
6. http://www.gnucash.org/
Proposed Next-Generation Space Station
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/26/1910258
[0]WallytheWalrus writes "This [1]NewScientist.com article discusses
the proposed next generation of telescopes and space stations. The
concept presented with little fanfare by the NASA Exploration Team
(NEXT) consists of placing a space station about 5/6ths of the way to
the moon at one of a handful of local [2]Lagrangian Points. This
station would act as a springboard for constructing new telescopic
mirrors, maintaining the telescopes that use them, and as a haven for
future manned exploration missions. If only NEXT's budget was more than
$4 million a year...."
Links
0. mailto:nsteffel@;mn.rr.com
1. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992955
2. http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wlagran.html
Delivering Software, Electronically?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/26/0319228
[0]zpengo asks: "I'm trying to find the best way to implement a
large-scale Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) service for my software
company. I've been able to find very little information online (after
weeks of research) so I must take it to America's best and brightest.
Have you ever worked with ESD on a higher than plain-vanilla FTP level,
and if so, what did you learn from it? When do you consider the product
'delivered'? Was it worth it? (I'm planning to put together a public
domain whitepaper on the subject with the information I gather, to help
fill in the gaps I found while researching online)."
Links
0. http://www.threering.net
Big Brother Lifetime Award Goes To Microsoft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/26/1753220
D4C5CE writes "Microsoft's ceaseless "success" in bringing instability,
insecurity and breaches of privacy as well as a deplorable lack of open
standards to almost Every Desktop on Earth has now earned them an
[0]"Oscar" for Data Leeches, the [1]Lifetime Award for "outstanding
mis-achievement" from the [2]BigBrotherAwards 2002 in [3]Germany.
Microsoft's Data Protection Officer actually attended the ceremony to
collect the prize (probably delighted that unlike the [4]"laureates" of
last year's event in Austria, at least he would not receive [5]live
cockroaches), and this unlucky winner took the opportunity to make some
[6]critical remarks on the company's communications regarding the
Windows Media Player and Digital Restrictions (or, euphemistically, in
his words: Rights) Management technologies which he deemed crucial for
modern business models, rather than acknowledging that it's in fact not
just the advertising but the approach itself which is fundamentally
[7]flawed."
Links
0. http://www.big-brother-award.de/en/docs/why.html
1. http://www.big-brother-award.de/2002/.life/
2. http://www.big-brother-award.de/en/2002/
3. http://www.bigbrotherawards.de/en/
4. http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/2001/winners/2001.shtml
5. http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/2001/report/p04.shtml
6. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-25.10.02-015/
7. http://newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=02/10/21/1449250
When Mac Freaks Congregate
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/26/1648239
[0]abhikhurana writes "Wired.com has an interesting story about a
[1]recent get-together of [2]Mac Freaks in Amsterdam. Apparently to
pass the time, they amused themselves by [3] tossing Windows PCs,
making [4] Mac porn and holding a [5] look-alike competition to find
the best [6] Ellen Feiss look-alike, the teenage star of one of Apple's
new [7] 'Switch' commercials. I especially enjoyed Mac porn, but hey,
if you are under 18, don't click the above link ;-)."
Links
0. mailto:abhikhurana@;crosswinds.net
1. http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,55998,00.html
2. http://www.macfreak.org/
3. http://www.schlijper.nl/series/apple.htm
4. http://sleazy.macfreak.org/
5. http://feiss.macfreak.org/
6. http://www.apple.com/switch/ads/ellenfeiss.html
7. http://www.apple.com/switch/
Freshmeat
Linux Routers: A Primer For Network Administrators
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/596
Linux Routers is a quirky, very personal look at implementing TCP/IP
networks using Linux servers by an obvious master of the field. Despite
the book's subtitle, however, this book is much better suited for Linux
system administrators thrown into the world of network administration
than it is for network administrators who are looking to save money on
hardware costs by moving to Linux.
bash programmable completion 20021026
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101497/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend
its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with
just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to
complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3
str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the
UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported
file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would
complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to
produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX
commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need
to do on a daily basis.
BINS photo album 1.1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101510/
BINS is a valid HTML 4 photo album generator with support for
internationalization, EXIF, and customizable charset encoding,
including UTF-8 (Unicode). Albums can contains other sub-albums. The
appearance of the album can be fully personalized by using template and
configuration parameters. The number and size of scaled pictures can be
chosen in pixels or percentage of the original image. Several
description fields (date, location, etc.) can be associated with the
pictures, and you can add additional description fields. A command line
utility or a GTK+ GUI can be used to set or edit description fields.
BINS can use the EXIF data structure found in some pictures to
automatically fill some fields (most notably, date and time) and to
produce a page providing all information available on the picture, as
well as the DigiCam settings when the photo was taken. All image
meta-data are stored in XML files.
cbench 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101505/
cbench is a compiler benchmark utility that was implemented to measure
the effect of using different compilers, compile time flags, and
runtime libraries on a set of synthetic micro- benchmarks of C/C++
code. The set of small benchmarks is easily extended.
Chaos2 XMMS 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101508/
Chaos2 is a skin based on Omar Hussain's Chaos skin. The colors have
been changed to match the WMaker-simple themes. A Window Maker logo has
been pasted into "main.bmp".
cledit 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101481/
Cledit is a change log editor that uses the default editor. It converts
text change logs to colorized HTML and checks spelling using aspell.
Contact Form 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101484/
Contact Form is a Perl script that allows users to send you email
through a Web interface. It is designed to thwart spammers by not
allowing email to be sent to unknown addresses, or revealing the
addresses that it knows. In addition to this, it does not contain cross
site scripting vulnerabilities or allow arbitrary code to be run on the
host. It provides adequate information in the headers it sends to trace
spammers, can check the validity of all data before sending emails, and
features a customizable interface that allows for arbitrary fields.
Encod 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101506/
Encod is a GNUstep frontend that allows one to extract tracks from
audio CDs and encode them into a compressed audio format like Ogg
Vorbis.
Familiar Linux Distribution 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101492/
The Familiar Project is composed of a group of loosely knit developers
all contributing to creating the next generation of PDA OS. Currently,
most of our development time is being put towards producing a stable,
and full featured Linux distribution for the Compaq iPAQ h3600-series
of handheld computers, as well as apps to run on top of the
distribution.
gMUDix 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101501/
gMUDix is an improved version of MUDix, a MUD client for the Linux
console. It is designed to run as an X application, and was developed
with GTK+ 2.0. gMUDix has all the features of MUDix and more, including
ANSI color mapping, aliasing, macros, paths, tab completions, timers,
triggers, variables, and an easy-to-use script language.
Hot Lead 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101486/
HotLead is a utility for downloading full albums from Emusic.com. It
currently supports showing the album cover while downloading, saving
the album to a playlist, and playing the album when finished
downloading.
KavCalc 1.0e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101507/
KavCalc is a simple calculator that works on any platform that supports
Python and Pygame.
KickPIM 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101499/
KickPIM is an applet for KDE's Kicker panel which displays your
KAddressbook entries in a popup menu. You can view and edit address
data and send email messages very easily. It will also remind you about
birthdays.
LeanEdit 1.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101479/
LeanEdit is a platform-independent XML editor written in Java. You can
configure it for a great number of XML DTDs.
linuxsms 0.57
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101502/
Linuxsms is a Perl script to send SMS to GSM phones. There is support
for multiple servers/gateways (some servers require registration). The
script has an adressbook, the ability to compress SMS, and the ability
to check for new versions.
Menu Workshop 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101500/
MenuWorkshop is an HTML menu generator. It can build 2-level menus with
images in the background and a mouseover effect on each menu item. It
is very easy to set up. The generated file is pure HTML4/XHTML and
doesn't need any PHP preprocessing to be done on your final page once
the menu is built.
Moodle 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101494/
Moodle is a learning management system for producing Internet-based
course Web sites. It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use
on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has been designed to support modern
pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and includes
activity modules such as forums, resources, journals, quizzes, surveys,
choices, and assignments. It offers a free alternative to commercial
software such as WebCT and Blackboard, and is being used by a growing
number of universities, schools, and independent teachers for distance
education or to supplement face-to-face teaching.
Otak 1.2.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101496/
Otak provides a visual interface to command line programs that don't
have one, that allows users to select arguments from a menu. For
example, it can be used as an address book program with Mutt (the
default), or as a phone book with SMS sending software, or even as a
list of hosts for SSH or FTP.
pam_krb5_migrate 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101488/
pam_krb5_migrate is a stackable authentication module that takes a
username and password from an earlier module in the stack and attempts
to transparently add the user to a Kerberos realm using the Kerberos 5
kadmin service. The module can be used to ease the administrative
burdens of migrating a large installed userbase from pre-existing
authentication methods to a Kerberos-based setup.
Phone Box Log Analyzer 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101491/
Phone Box Log Analyzer allows you to capture and view the logs from a
PBX. By connecting to the serial port of the PBX (usually used for
printing to a serial printer) the logs may be captured and fed to a
PostgreSQL database. A PHP Web interface to this database is provided.
PhpMyLibrary 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101503/
PhpMyLibrary is a PHP/MySQL Web based library automation application.
The program consists of cataloging (for handling
adding/editing/deleting/searching of materials), circulation (so the
librarian can handle user related management items), and the webpac
module (where the World searches the catalog of your library). The
program also has an import export feature, and strictly follows the
USMARC standard for adding materials.
PHPRecipeBook 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101487/
PHPRecipeBook is a Web-based cookbook with the ability to create
shopping lists from recipes selected. The lists can be saved and later
reloaded and edited. The shopping list also attempts to combine similar
items so that duplication does not occur.
SDL_sound 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101495/
SDL_sound is a library that handles the decoding of several popular
sound file formats such as .WAV and .MP3. Designed to make the task of
sound playback easier, SDL_sound accepts files or other input through
an abstraction layer and returns the decoded waveform. SDL_sound can
decode a whole sound file and hand back a single pointer to the
waveform, or SDL_sound can process sound data in programmer-specified
blocks when resource constraints are a concern. SDL_sound can also
handle sample rate, audio format, and channel conversion on-the-fly.
SoulSeek for Linux 0.4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101480/
Soulseek (http://www.slsk.org) is a communication and file-sharing
system. It is quite similar to Napster: it lets you exchange files,
search for files, chat with other users in public and in private,
browse their files, and get recommendations for music. SoulSeek for
Linux is a GUI client for the system written in Python/wxPython. It
includes all the major functionality: chat, searches and downloads.
squid_redirect 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101493/
squid_redirect uses a list of patterns to zap annoying ad banners from
Web pages, inserting a placeholder image. It lives in a Web proxy and
so requires no special browser facilities. It's readily customizable,
small, fast, and easy to install.
tk150 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101482/
tk150 is a multiplatform programming and cloning utility for the
portable Standard (Yaesu) VR-150 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.
tk3 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101509/
tk3 is open source, multi-platform software for configuring the ICOM
IC-R3 portable radio/television receiver. It can read a memory image
from the radio, from a native tr3 file, from an IC3 file created by
Butel's ARC3 program, and from an ICF file downloaded from the Percon
FCC web database. Memory channel information may be imported from and
exported to a CSV (comma-separated values) file.
txObject Python Modules 1.3.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101475/
The txObject Python Modules provide an interface to the txObject
Application Tool Kit and Libraries.
XML Indent 0.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101498/
XML Indent is an XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is
analogous to GNU indent.
Xnee's not an event emulator 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101468/
Xnee can record, distribute, and replay X protocol data. This is useful
for automated tests of applications or benchmarking of applications.
Think of it as (almost) a video recorder for X11.
XOSD 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101485/
XOSD is a simple library to display shaped text on your X display, like
a TV On Screen Display. It also contains an XMMS plugin, and a simple
example program that can display system logs overlayed on your desktop.
Slashcode
Code for Moderator Status Headline on Front Page?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/26/1952222
Slashdot is now running a very useful banner on the front page when the
user is a moderator: "You have X Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose
'em!". My users have been asking for something like this for weeks. Can
someone point me to the appropriate template mod please?
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.
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