O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER October 30, 2002 DEVELOPER SERIES
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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 Never Mind The 25th Anniversary http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/30/0243212 [0]jonerik writes "Considering that much of the controversy surrounding [1]the Sex Pistols was centered around Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee, it's somewhat ironic that the band is now celebrating their own: The group's seminal album, [2]"Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" was released 25 years ago today, according to [3]this article from [4]Reuters. Interestingly, although the album was hugely influential (and remains so), like most punk albums of the time, it wasn't a huge success in the U.S. at the time, taking until 1987 to be certified gold and another five years to be certified platinum. God save the Sex Pistols - we mean it maaaaaaaaan." Yeah, so it's not precisely topical - but still, whata band. Links 0. mailto:jonerik@;@gis.net 1. http://www.sex-pistols.net/ 2. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=SEARCH&sql=Auwa9qj6bojda 3. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=1632627 4. http://www.reuters.com/ OpenBSD 3.2 Readies For Release, pf Matures http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/30/0118210 An anonymous reader writes "Just over a year ago, OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt ripped ipfilter out of the OpenBSD code leaving "the world's most secure OS" temporarily without a packet filter. Here's [0]an interesting interview with Daniel Hartmeier, author of pf, the stateful packet filter developed as a replacement. Now just over a year old, it sounds like pf has already become a serious contendor in the world of stateful packet filtering. This interview is of particular relevance with [1]OpenBSD 3.2 to be released on Friday, 11/1." Links 0. http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=477 1. http://openbsd.org/32.html Premature Rumors about Stargate Season 7? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/1336251 An anonymous reader writes "While some were excited about the [0]news of Stargate's renewal, others remained cautiously skeptical. Those is who did might be interested in reading [1]this story posted on [2]Zap2it." I for one hope the show keeps going. With the loss of Farscape, SG1 is possibly the best straight up sci-fi on TV- and the last show on the SciFi channel I watch. Links 0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/2131214&tid=129 1. http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?28661 2. http://www.zap2it.com/ Dr. Robot Watches Over Home And More http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/30/0014229 [0]jverbov writes "A Canadian [1]firm has created what they call an 'intellgent personal robotic companion.' It can be wirelessly connected to your home Internet connection, has a built-in camera and speech recognition software. There's a recent [2]article about it at the [3]Toronto Star." This thing promises a lot, and while the price is steep, it's a lot cheaper than some other household robots due out. Links 0. mailto:vahoo@;mailcity.com 1. http://www.drrobot.com/ 2. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035773773207&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News 3. http://www.thestar.com/ AIM And ICQ to be Integrated http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/2152222 sam writes "According to this [0]InfoWorld article the next version of America Online's Instant Messenger will allow users to communicate with ICQ users in a move that will bridge the gap between the company's two popular chat services. Maybe AOL finally woke up and realized people were using IM clients that have both in them." I still use only IRC for messaging, but this is gonna make things easier for a lot of users. Links 0. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/29/021029hnaimicq.xml?s=IDGNS Adult Swim Revamps; Removes Most Anime http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/0256236 [0]E. Megas writes "According to a Collegiate Presswire story, [1]Cartoon Network (Probably due to its recent [2]acquisition of Futurama) is [3]expanding its Adult Swim schedule to Monday through Thursday starting January 12th. The "Comedy" block on Sundays will stay, but except for Inu-Yasha and Cowboy Bebop (Which will replace the Toonami Midnight Run block on the weekday slots) the Saturday "Action" block will be gone. This means that the legendary series [4]Mobile Suit Gundam will not be aired in full for the second time in a row on CN. Future airings of Yuu Yuu Hakusho and Outlaw Star-And the planned re-airing of [5]Gundam 0080: War In the Pocket-Are thrown into doubt by this decision as well. More schedule details in [3]the article. (Anyone else as frustrated by this as I am?)" Links 0. mailto:emegasREMOVE@;REMOVEonemainREMOVE.comREMOVE 1. http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/ 2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/1633243&tid=167 3. http://www.cpwire.com/archive/2002/10/22/1173.asp 4. http://www.mahq.net/animation/gundam/series/msgmain.htm 5. http://www.mahq.net/animation/gundam/0080/80main.htm Yahoo Moving to PHP http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/2052239 [0]Erek Dyskant writes "[1]Yahoo has decided to switch from a proprietary system written in C/C++ to PHP for their backend scripting. Here's the [2]notes from a presentation by a Yahoo engineer at PHP Con 2002." Links 0. mailto:dysk@;nbtsc.org 1. http://www.yahoo.com/ 2. http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm PPC Linux vs. Mac OS X Server: Linux Edges Out http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/191216 [0]Spencerian writes "Mac OS X is a very promising new BSD variant, but how does it rate as a server? [1]Byte.com writer Moshe Bar has made an extensively balanced [2]performance comparison of Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 versus SuSE Linux PPC with the 2.4.19 kernel. Both operating systems ran on the same hardware: [3]an Xserve 1U rack mount server from Apple. While /.ers may guess (correctly) at his results, Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 wasn't as far behind the curve as you might think. Performance might've been better if Moshe had Mac OS X Server 10.2, with its faster GUI and other enhancements, but still, it appears that Mac OS X Server 10.1 was doing pretty good for a 1-year old." Links 0. http://macosprose.blogspot.com/ 1. http://www.byte.com/ 2. http://www.byte.com/documents/s%3D7692/byt1035828368066/1028_bar.html 3. http://www.apple.com/xserve Microsoft: You Need Permission to Sell Our Software http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/1853202 IEEEmember writes "Microsoft has objected to the sale of bankrupt KMart's Bluelight.com Internet unit to United Online. Microsoft's objection to the sale is based on the non-transferability of software licenses protected by copyright law according to the Reuters [0]story on Yahoo! News. This action by Microsoft should serve as a warning to any corporation that has a significant investment in Microsoft licenses. Dependency on Microsoft licenses may grant Microsoft the ability to veto your business decisions." Links 0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=1&cid=582&u=/nm/20021029/wr_nm/retail_kmart_bluelight_dc Slashdot is Moving. Help Load Test! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/172253 We're moving the Slashdot cluster from Exodus East to Exodus West in the next couple days. In good Slashdot Tradition, we've opened up [0]brak.slashdot.org for you to help load test the new cluster. Currently its almost an exact copy of our existing setup (missing a couple of webheads which will be up soon). The actual move will occur late at night (most likely tonight or tomorrow depending on how things go), and will hopefully involve only a few minutes of downtime as we copy the last of the data over the continent. Thanks for your help. Links 0. http://brak.slashdot.org Freshmeat Alist 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101788/ Alist is a program that collects hardware and software information about systems and stores it in a database for users to browse and search via a Web interface. The program consists of three parts: a client portion that collects the information, a daemon that receives data sent from clients, and a CGI that displays and lets you search for information. Clients for Solaris, Linux, FreeBsd, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Irix, Windows, and Mac OS X are currently available. Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101791/ The Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module is a replacement module for mod_access that provides functionality for fighting off DoS attacks. It does this by rejecting rapidly repeated requests for the same URL from the same addresses using an internal hash table on a per-child basis. BKchem 0.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101806/ BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python. bogofilter 0.7.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101822/ Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail. Cell Phone SMS AIM 1.61 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101800/ Cell Phone SMS AIM uses the Net::AIM Perl module, signs on a screen name, and routes messages to your cell phone via SMS. It requires lynx. daemontools-conf 0.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101815/ daemontools-conf is a configuration tool for daemontools. It makes/deletes/enables/disables services for supervision by daemontools. dbtcp 0.1.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101809/ dbtcp is a package of libraries which provides applications on Linux access to ODBC datasources on remote machines running Windows. It allows a Linux application to access data held on a Windows machine (such as MS SQL Server on NT), and includes a command line client, a DBD, and a PHP driver. FvwmProxy 0.91 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101794/ FvwmProxy allows the user to locate and control windows obscured by other windows by using small non-overlapping proxy windows. The current capabilites include raising and lowering the proxied windows. Holding the Alt key activates the proxy windows, which are always on top and try to center on the regular window they proxy. A simple collision algorithm tweaks the positions of the proxy windows to prevent them from overlapping, and pressing the left or right mouse buttons on a proxy window raises or lowers the associated proxied window respectively. GTK-Lsof 0.9.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101821/ GTK-Lsof is a simple GTK 2 GUI for lsof. Helix DNA Client Developer Release 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101803/ The Helix DNA Client is the media playback engine used by the RealOne Player. It contains standards-compliant H.263 and MP3 decoders, RealAudio and RealVideo binaries, and sample user interfaces. The media engine is capable of playing multiple streams simultaneously, maintaining synchronization between streams, and handling RTSP, RTP, and HTTP network playback. iftop 0.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101804/ iftop provides real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified interface, listed by host pairs. IPA 1.2.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101807/ IPA allows one to perform IP accounting based on FreeBSD IPv4/v6 Firewall (including IPFW2), OpenBSD Packet Filter, and IP Filter accounting rules on Free/Net/OpenBSD. It supports limits for accounting rules, and limits events such as "limit is reached" and "reached limit is expired." It also has a flexible configuration file with many sections and options. jpgind 0.62 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101819/ jpgind is commandline tool for generating Web pages or just a single image index file from multiple JPEG files. Each image's Web page can be supplemented with EXIF info and HTML metadata from a separate text file. JSwat Java Debugger 1.7 (1_x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/101799/ JSwat is a graphical, stand-alone Java debugger, using the JPDA library. It offers breakpoints with monitors and conditions, colorized source code display, single-stepping, displaying variables, viewing stack frames, and expression evaluation. jui 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101787/ jui is a Java GUI builder that uses true separation of model and GUI. It works with an easy-to-use absolute layout system without losing resizing capabilities. It also allows modification and replacement of delivered GUIs. LogJam 4.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101812/ LogJam is a GTK+ client for LiveJournal.com, the free community of Web-based journals and diaries. It allows you to post entries, edit your previous entries, and edit your friends, all without loading your web browser. mytop 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101808/ mytop is a Perl program which allows you to monitor MySQL servers by viewing active threads, queries and overall server performance numbers. RealizationEngine 1.0.14rc1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/101829/ The RealizationEngine is designed from the ground up to facilitate group communication. It is accessible from any Web browser or Web-enabled device. Classified information is easily restricted to authorized individuals. Information can be compartmentalized, restricted, or published openly, as appropriate, all from the same system. Ideas are coherently threaded, and every message is searchable in a single location and in the context of the messages related to it. Spyce 1.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101816/ SPYCE is a Web server plugin that supports simple and efficient Python-based dynamic HTML scripting. Those who like Python and are familiar with JSP, PHP, or ASP, should have a look at this engine. It allows one to generate dynamic HTML content just as easily, using Python for the dynamic parts. Its modular design makes it very flexible and extensible. It supports FastCGI, CGI, mod_python, and proxying to work with Apache and most other Web servers. It can also be used as a command-line utility for HTML pre-processing. Spyrius 1.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101795/ Spyrius is a multithreaded superdaemon that provides TCP connectivity to services that are implemented as loadable modules ("plug-ins"). The daemon was designed with extensibility, ease-of-use, and performance in mind. It was implemented on Solaris 2.x but should be generally portable to other POSIX systems. Spyrius is a prototype and is not a fully-implemented, release-quality package; it is made available in the hopes that it may prove to be useful in other open source projects. Syslinux 2.01-pre1 (Test) http://freshmeat.net/releases/101793/ SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates off of MS-DOS floppies. It is intended to simplify first-time installation of Linux, rescue disks, and other uses for boot floppies. A SYSLINUX floppy can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once it has been created, and requires only a ~ 9K DOS program or ~ 18K Linux program to create it in the first place. It also includes PXELINUX, a program to boot off a network server using a boot PROM compatible with the Intel PXE (Pre-Execution Environment) specification, ISOLINUX, a program to boot off ISO 9660 CD-ROMs in native mode, and MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems (e.g. DOS) using a Linux boot loader regardless of medium. Terminal Server Client 0.16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101786/ Terminal Server Client (tsclient) is a frontend for rdesktop. It supports most of the rdesktop 1.1/1.2 arguments, can read .rdp files in the Microsoft Unicode format, writes new .rdp files in ASCII (which can also be read by the Microsoft RDP Client), and looks and functions very much like the Microsoft RDP Client. Tulip 1.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101801/ Tulip is a software system dedicated to the visualization of huge graphs. It manages graphs with up to 500,000 elements (node and edges) on a personal computer (PIII 600, 256MB RAM). Its SuperGraph technology architecture provides the following features: 3D visualizations, 3D modifications, plugin support, support for clusters and navigation, automatic graph drawing, automatic clustering of graphs, automatic selection of elements, and automatic coloring of elements according to a metric. uschedule 0.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101797/ uschedule is a job scheduler aimed to replace cron and at which is secure by design. Unsafe concepts like set-user-id and set-group-id files and programs, communication between programs of different privilege levels, etc. have been removed. X Application Server System 0.42 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/101790/ X Application Server System (XASS) allows for the creation of 'application servers' and clients which request that applications be run on a server but displayed locally. Servers can be queried for an application or services can be broadcasted. Authentication is provided, and applications are run as the user who requested them, although this is configurable. It allows applications to be served in heterogeneous, load-balanced, or distributed environments. XPde 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101805/ XPde aims to recreate the Windows XP desktop environment on Linux in order to allow Windows users to "feel at home" in front of a Linux computer. ypserv 2.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/101802/ The Network Information Service (NIS) provides a simple network lookup service consisting of databases and processes. It was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality of the two remains the same, only the name has changed. Its purpose is to provide information, that has to be known throughout the network, to all machines on the network. Zeus Load Balancer 1.6 (stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/101820/ Zeus Load Balancer is a traffic management solution for providers of clustered network services. It improves the performance, reliability, and scalability of TCP/IP-based network services such as Web, mail, news, FTP, and database protocols through a combination of content-aware traffic management, performance and health monitoring, and automatic fail-over in the event of hardware or software failure. It can add traffic management intelligence to existing hardware load balancing solutions. Request-aware traffic management enables performance optimization and resilience across a Web server cluster, whether it contains Zeus Web Servers, Apache, IIS servers, or any combination. Throughput and responsiveness are measurably improved.. Slashcode www.vorlonspace.org http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/2232226 It's still in development for other things, but vorlonspace.org is now up and running (for the most part). Thanks to the guys on the irc channel that helped me with some of the configuration issues I had. This site is going to be a nexus of Babylon 5 information stemming from the television show to the out of print customizable card game. 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. 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