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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
Palm Tungsten Models Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/28/0427215
[0]Jason Weill writes "MSNBC has a slightly premature [1]review of
Palm's brand-new Tungsten models. These models, currently (as of 11:10
PM EST Sunday) unavailable on [2]Palm's own web site, are the Tungsten
T and Tungsten W. The Tungsten T includes a fold-out Graffiti area, new
cross-key keypad, 144 MHz ARM processor, Palm OS 5, a 320x320
full-color screen, and 16 MB of on-board RAM. At $499, it's more
expensive than most handhelds currently on the market. The Tungsten W
replaces the Graffiti area with a thumb keyboard and includes GSM/GPRS
phone capabilities. Unlike the [3]Handspring Treo devices, the Tungsten
W only works with a handset -- you can't put it up to your ear. The
Tungsten W will cost $549, although most American service providers
will subsidize at least part of the cost. These models will officially
be unveiled Monday, October 28."
Links
0. http://weill.org
1. http://www.msnbc.com/news/826009.asp?0bl=-0
2. http://www.palm.com/
3. http://www.handspring.com/
DivX DVD Players Arrive
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/28/0242228
[0]division21 writes "Geeks rejoice -- [1]DivX Enabled DVD Players
finally surface! (With all the goodies: MP3, SVCD, etc.) I remember
when MP3 compatability appeared back in the day -- And it looks as
though [2]DivX Compatibility could be a real possibility for the
mainstream ..." And if you can live without the compression,
[3]cherrypi points out this surprisingly [4]favorable review of perhaps
the cheapest (under $200) portable DVD player with a built-in screen.
Links
0. mailto:division21@;hotmail.com
1. http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/021022/047810.html
2. http://www.divxnetworks.com/certified
3. mailto:acurrent@;hotmail.com
4. http://www.msnbc.com/news/825454.asp?0bl=-0
Stargate SG-1 Gets A Seventh Season
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/2131214
An anonymous reader writes "Farscape [0]may or [1]may not have been
cancelled [does anyone know?], and Enterprise is so politically correct
I can [2]barely bring myself to watch it, but with [3]MacGyver onboard,
it looks like Stargate SG-1 will be [4]back for a seventh season."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/0813208&tid=129
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/1737226&tid=167
2. http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/girl_780.html
3. http://us.imdb.com/Name?Anderson,%20Richard%20Dean
4. http://www.savedanieljackson.com/home/news.asp
The Very Verbose Debian 3.0 Installation Walkthrough
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/2159216
Gentu writes "Cited the general displeasure which accompanied the
Debian 3.0 release, mostly regarding its dated installation procedure,
Clinton De Young wrote an [0]easy-reading but long article for OSNews
going through the Debian installation step by step. Of course Progeny
released recently the [1]PGI graphical installer, but it is not as
complete as the current Debian text-based installer and it will
definately be quite some time before it get adopted by the project."
Links
0. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2016
1. http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/
Lik-Sang Back Online
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/2140217
[0]Alexander Burke writes "Lik-Sang appears to be [1]back online (until
we slashdot them). However, their selection of [2]PlayStation,
[3]PlayStation 2, and [4]Xbox "backup and import" (pronounced modchip)
items seem somewhat lacking. Coincidence? Surely not..." This
[5]previous posting should provide some good background reading if
you've not been following this episode.
Links
0. mailto:slashdot@;nospamthanks.alexburke.ca
1. http://www.lik-sang.com/
2. http://www.lik-sang.com/list.php?category=40
3. http://www.lik-sang.com/list.php?category=41
4. http://www.lik-sang.com/list.php?category=88
5. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/10/123248&tid=127
New Spam Frontier: Referer Logs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/2136233
[0]geoffsmith writes "[1]Wired News is reporting that spammers are
using referer logs as a cheap new way to [2] spam small sites. Anyone
running a website has probably already seen this phenomenon; I'm
thinking of writing a script to remove these entries from my access_log
by looking for hits that don't grab my images. (sorry lynx users!)"
Links
0. http://www.stumbleupon.com/
1. http://www.wired.com/
2. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56017,00.html
Grokker Search Engine Provides Visual Search Results
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/192225
KeatonMill writes "The New York Times (as always, free registration)
ran this article about a [0]new search engine, called Grokker, created
by a company called [1]Groxis. Grokker builds a map of content
catagories using metadata. So far, it is used in the [2]Amazon.com
online catalog and the [3]Northern Light search engine. Groxis is also
developing a version to use to search your own computer."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/technology/27SOFT.html
1. http://www.groxis.com/
2. http://www.amazon.com/
3. http://www.northernlight.com/
Microsoft's Political Lobbying Record
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/1745257
pierreduFwench writes "With the U.S. national elections just around the
corner, you may find this interesting: Opensecrets.org, a website
focusing on 'Responsive Politics' recently published lobbying and
donations info for the 2002 elections (to date). You can see the
breakdown of [0]Microsoft's individual dossier here. Also, looking at
the 'Top Donations by Industry', you may notice that Microsoft is,
conspicuously, [1]the only entry under 'Computers/Internet.'" Very
interesting graphs.
Links
0. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000115&Name=Microsoft+Corp
1. http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/toporgs/sector.asp
Examples of Programming Gone Wrong?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/26/2223230
[0]LightForce3 asks: "I'm a beginning CS student, and in my studies
I've come across examples of programmer error causing very large
problems, such as the [1]Ariane 5 failure and the [2]Therac-25
accidents, often as tales of caution to beginner programmers such as
myself. My (morbid?) curiosity has been piqued, and I'm looking for
other examples of programmer error leading to serious problems. After
all, it is better to learn from the mistakes of others than from your
own, right? ;) What programming-related accidents, incidents, and
failures, both well-known and obscure, do Slashdot readers know about,
and are there any good resources for researching these?"
Links
0. http://lightforce3&hotmail,com
1. http://java.sun.com/people/jag/Ariane5.html
2. http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.html
Helix DNA Client Source On Oct 29
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/1741202
nexex writes "Real's [0]Helix DNA Client's source [1]will be released
on October 29. The Helix DNA client is available through both the
[2]RCSL and the [3]RPSL licenses. More information on these licenses at
their [4]licensing page. Intial platform support is planned for Win32,
OSX, and Linux. More [5]technical details available here."
Links
0. https://www.helixcommunity.org/content/client.html
1. https://www.helixcommunity.org/
2. https://www.helixcommunity.org/content/rcsl.html
3. https://www.helixcommunity.org/content/rpsl.html
4. https://www.helixcommunity.org/content/licenses.html
5. https://www.helixcommunity.org/content/tech/client.html
Freshmeat
AutoRPM 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101588/
AutoRPM is a program that can do any combination of the following:
mirror RPMs from an FTP site, keep installed RPMs consistent with an
FTP site or local directory and keep installed RPMs in a cluster or
network of systems consistent. It is highly flexible and contains a
fully command-line driven interactive install mode (for installing RPMs
from the queue or for installing RPMs from your system interactively).
It also handles recursive dependencies, multiple versions of the same
RPM, the same RPM with multiple architectures, and more. It does some
of the same tasks as up2date and AutoUpdate.
BanShee Linux/R 0.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101582/
BanShee Linux/R is a two-floppy rescue system using uClibc and Busybox
to make sure that the system is as small as possible.
BusyBox 0.60.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101565/
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a
single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most
of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc.
The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their
full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included
provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU
counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for
any small or embedded system.
CARE 2002 beta 1.0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101585/
Care 2002 is a multilingual, user configurable, modular, scalable piece
of software for hospitals and health care organizations. It is designed
to integrate the different information systems existing in these
organizations into one single efficient system. It solves the problems
inherent in a network of multiple programs that are incompatible with
each other. It can integrate almost any type of services, systems,
departments, clinics, processes, data, communication, etc. that exist
in a hospital. Its design can even handle non-medical services or
functions like security, maintenance, etc. All of its functions can be
accessed with a Web browser, and all program modules are processed on
the server side.
Chump 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101581/
Chump is a table-driven assembler and dissembler with a very fast new
architecture input format. Both the assembler and disassembler are
created using a single description. It comes with descriptions for ARM,
MIPS, Stump, and 6809. It is intended for use as a library compiled
with other programs to allow line assembly and disassembly.
Daisy 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101587/
Daisy is a very basic forum/discussion/message board system. Users have
the ability to post and reply to messages, and adminstrators have the
ability to remove messages, change their administrative password, and
ban or unban users either by a single IP address or by entire
netblocks.
eboxy 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101566/
eboxy is an application for building simple user interfaces for
entertainment PCs, suitable for use with a remote on a TV screen. It
uses SDL for graphics and XML-based interface description files, and
supports TrueType fonts and PNG alpha transparency.
FireHOL R5 v1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101586/
FireHOL is an iptables firewall generator, producing stateful packet
filtering commands. Its goal is to be completely abstracted and easy to
use, audit, and understand. It has been designed with the production
data center in mind. It provides the means to have consistent and
simple firewalls for Linux hosts and Linux routers with any number of
interfaces, and has been proven very helpful, especially for the
security QA people. FireHOL is pre-configured for the following
services: SMTP, IDENT, IMAP, POP3, SSH, TELNET, TFTP, DHCP, IRC, LDAP,
HTTP, HTTPS, MYSQL, LPD, RADIUS, VMWARE GSX, NETBIOS NS, SYSLOG, SNMP,
RSYNC, NTP, PORTMAP, HEARTBEAT, SAMBA, PPTP, NFS, DNS, FTP, ICMP, RNDC,
NNTP, FINGER, ECHO, and DAYTIME. You can also configure FireHOL to
support any service you like.
FreePop 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101558/
FreePop is a multi-platform isotile-based game based on the classic
Populous series by Bullfrog. Play god and manipulate your followers in
order to expel those who worship your opponent.
gGo 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101569/
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.
GNOME Structured File Library 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101570/
The GNOME Structured File Library is a utility library for reading and
writing structured file formats. Support for MS OLE2 streams is
complete, as is zip import. There is also support for document metadata
and some initial work on decompressing VBA streams in OLE files for
future conversion to other languages. This library replaces libole2 and
is used in gnumeric, mrproject, and eventually abiword.
Gnumeric 1.1.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101574/
Gnumeric is a powerful and easy to use spreadsheet program from the
GNOME project. Its goal is to compete with proprieetary offerings;
users of Excel should be already familiar with Gnumeric's advanced
features. A plugin system lets you extend Gnumeric, and optional
Python, Guile, and Perl plugins let you define complex functions in
those popular languages. It is capable of reading and writing MS Excel
spreadsheets, and reading many other formats.
GraphThing 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101557/
GraphThing is a tool that allows you to create, manipulate, and study
graphs. These "graphs" are mathematical objects, that
describe the relationships between sets; they are not 2D plots, charts,
or any other sort of visual object.
GTK-Lsof 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101578/
GTK-Lsof is a simple GTK 2 GUI for lsof.
hl-webadmin 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101575/
hl-webadmin makes it possible to control a dedicated Half-Life server
via the Web. It allows you to start or stop the gameserver and to
change maps.
Java MSN Messenger Library 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101562/
This project is an MSN Messenger library developed in Java for the
express purpose of easing the development of MSN Messenger clients.
LFS-Build 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101560/
LFS-Build is a program to automate the process of building the
LinuxFromScratch project. It works by first parsing the LFS XML book
and generating a large text file containing the commands that need to
be run. The second part of the program takes this text file, breaks it
down based on package, and then runs the Bash shell with the proper
commands to build the package.
Macrosoft Desktop Environment 0.3-devel
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101579/
Macrosoft Desktop Environment is a Microsoft Windows 98 desktop clone
for X windows.
Mango 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101576/
Mango is recipe management software. The main motivation of the project
is to provide an open source Mealmaster compatible application.
PCSX 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101584/
PCSX is a working Playstation emulator for Linux.
Penetrator 3.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101572/
Penetrator is a tool for indexing big trees of text files, as your
local HTML documentation or home directory. It's able to use DBM files
or DBI databases and be used as a command line tool or a CGI. The files
to be indexed can be selected by extension or using external file
identifying programs as /usr/bin/file.
Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101573/
The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL
screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is
intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.
Scripting Plugin for Scribus 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101567/
This project adds Python scripting capabilities to Scribus.
spews2fw 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101556/
spews2fw is a Perl script that will automatically download the Level 1
or Level 2 listings from spews.org and generate firewall rulesets for
ipchains, iptables, pf, ipf, and Cisco. It then writes out the
generated ruleset to a file, which can be loaded onto the specified
firewall type.
wmnetload 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101563/
wmnetload is a network interface monitor dockapp for Window Maker. It
is designed to fit well with dockapps like wmcpuload and wmmemmon. It
tracks whether the interface is functioning and displays current
network interface throughput, along with an auto-scaling graph of
recent network activity (the graph separates upstream and downstream
traffic load cleanly without resorting to colors).
XBellD 0.2-beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101559/
XbellD is a small daemon for replacing the standard X Window System
terminal bell with a more interesting set of sounds. This is useful for
systems where the terminal bell is handled by the PC speaker, or where
different sounds are desired for different classes of X clients. XbellD
works by intercepting terminal bell requests on the server side, and
then playing user-specified sounds through a PCM capable sound card.
The resource class of the client making a terminal bell request is used
to match a corresponding sound file which should be played when such a
request is made.
xbox-linux 26-10-2002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101583/
The Xbox Linux project aims to create a version of GNU/Linux that runs
on the Microsoft Xbox gaming console.
YSM 2.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/101555/
YSM (You Sick Me) v7 is an ICQ console client. It was originally meant
to run in Linux, but it has been successfully tested in Linux, BSD,
Win32, BeOS, and QNX. The client requires no extra libraries, and is
written in the C language. YSM is based on the last ICQ protocol
version, v7/8.
Slashcode
www.toborguru.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/28/037201
I have a new site up and running, not Much in the way of content but I
do have some information about one of my projects up at this point.
Enjoy.
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?
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