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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
Pipeline Mass Transit?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/03/0133226
[0]pipingguy writes "'[1]Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is a new kind
of transportation system that requires less than two percent of the
energy of current transportation methods. It is also much safer, and
can be faster. [...] Anyone can visualize 2 tubes (one for each
direction) along a travel route. Air is permanently removed from the
tubes; so travel takes place without friction. Pressurized passenger
capsules (like a 2 Â 8 person airplane cabin), travel in the tubes on
thin steel wheels or on nearly frictionless Maglev. Airlocks allow
access without admitting air to the tubes. Linear motors (as used on
new rollercoasters) accelerate the capsules. During most of the trip
the capsules coast; using no power. When the capsules slow down, linear
generators recover most of the electrical energy used to accelerate the
capsules.' Some CG images and drawings [2]here, the FAQ is [3]here."
MSNBC had an article on [4]monorails a few days ago. Don't bother
making Simpsons jokes, the article has them covered already.
Links
0. http://pbowers AT pipingdesign DOT com
1. http://www.et3.com/intro.htm
2. http://www.et3.com/images.htm
3. http://www.et3.com/faq.htm
4. http://www.msnbc.com/news/829257.asp
Beware the Haunted Cordless keyboard
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/02/2041205
dr. greenthumb writes "The norwegian newspaper [0]Aftenposten reports
about an incident where a computer suddenly seemed to develop a life of
its own. A game which the user could not remember using that day
suddenly appeared on the screen. When he went over to shut it off the
screen displayed a message asking him if he "really wanted to delete
this file?" His computer was receiving keystrokes from another computer
(with the same type of wireless keyboard) 150 metres away! Check out
the [1]full story and a [2]follow-up, where experts warns against using
wireless keyboards." /me plans to destroy Hemos' sanity...
Links
0. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/
1. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=427668
2. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=427797
Why Do Games and Game Studios Fail?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/02/2024254
[0]LukeG writes "This new [1]article discusses the reason behind games
and their developers failing, noting the distance of those selling the
games, from those that buy them as one possible cause. Doomed games
such as Bablylon 5 come under the spotlight, while the ubiquitous Duke
Nukem Forever is also touched upon." For me, this article brought to
mind the twin disasters of Fallout Tactics and the Farscape based game.
Links
0. http://www.ferrago.co.uk
1. http://www.ferrago.co.uk/story/689
International Space Station Turns Two
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/02/2014209
RedWolves2 writes "Today is ISS's [0]second anniversary of Operations.
Two years ago today NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts
Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev first boarded the ISS. In two years
the station has grown to more then 200,000 pounds and has had 112
visitors."
Links
0. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/iss_anniversary_021102.html
Trailer of Pixar Movie 'Finding Nemo'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/02/209247
[0]tjansen writes "The trailer of the next [1]Pixar movie, Finding
Nemo, [2]is out. Only Quicktime, as usual, so you need [3]CrossOver on
Linux machines." Actually's [4]Disney's site has Real and Windows Media
formats, so you can pick your poison.
Links
0. mailto:tim@;tjansen.de
1. http://www.pixar.com/
2. http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/finding_nemo/
3. http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/
4. http://www.findingnemo.com
LaGrande, TCPA, and Palladium
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/02/1840243
An anonymous reader writes "Intel's Paul Otellini [0]gave a talk to
developers where Intel's project called "LaGrande" was mentioned. This
project is aimed to create a "safer computer environment", that would
consist of an advanced [1]TCPA implementation. Some of the features it
has deal with physically "protected execution, protected memory, and
protected storage". When talking on LaGrande, Otellini said "it's a
core technology that things like the Microsoft Palladium initiative can
take advantage of to build much more stable platforms.""
Links
0. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/otellini20020909.htm
1. http://wintermute.homelinux.org/miscelanea/TCPA%20Security.txt
The Politics of Technology
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/01/2327235
airrage writes "An interesting [0]Washington Post article today,
concerning technologyÂs voice on Capital Hill, talks about how the
high-tech sector is no longer the belle of the congressional ball.
Apparently, circa 2000, politicos were simply tripping over themselves
to be seen as pro-technology. Currently, it's much harder to get
congressional leaders to embrace pro-technology initiatives. Seems like
technology in general is trending towards more regulation as the
industry is seen as staid as railroads, coal, or shipping."
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51434-2002Nov1.html
Ghost for Unix
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/02/1752208
[0]junyoung writes "Hubert Feyrer released the latest version of [1]g4u
("ghost for unix"), a [2]NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM image that
allows one to easily clone PC harddisks by using FTP. Since it reads
the disk bit by bit, it can create an image of any operating system and
any file system. Besides, it's free (under BSD style license)."
Links
0. mailto:junyoung@;netbsd.org
1. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u
2. http://www.netbsd.org/
Knoppix for Rapid Desktop Deployment
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/02/1729247
heretic108 writes "From first boot to full desktop in 20 minutes!
[0]Knoppix has shot into the spotlight as a GNU/Linux distro suitable
for [1]demonstrating quality Open Source Software, standing out for its
ability to self-configure itself into a vast range of hardware, and to
run entirely off a CD boot without interfering with any existing system
setup. That, plus its [2]fat catalogue of pre-installed desktop
software. But OSS enthusiast David McNab has poked a bit deeper, and
found that Knoppix can install itself to disk, resulting in a
completely configured GNU/Linux desktop system, ready to use, in 20
minutes, hassle free. CD no longer needed! Best of both worlds - use as
a GNU/Linux demo disk, and if the user likes it, it's a snap to install
permanently. I can't think of any distro that comes close to this, for
ease and speed of setup. I found McNab's short [3]Knoppix Installation
Howto which gives a very brief and easy guide. With this rapid setup
ability, [4]Debian-based Knoppix makes a great contribution to the
[5]catalogue."
Links
0. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/04/000205&tid=106
2. ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/packages.txt
3. http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html
4. http://www.debian.org/
5. http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html
ISP Sued Over Suspended Email Account
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/02/167234
[0]Saint Aardvark writes "A Canadian woman is suing [1]her former ISP
over their suspension of her email account. Their accounting system
screwed up, and they suspended her account while they sought payment
from her. What she didn't realize was that email sent to that address
continued to pile up, without any notification to the sender that she
had no access to it. She lost a chance at a $65,000 contract job at the
Discovery channel because of this. Read [2]the article at CNet, the
complaint she brought to [3]the Canadian Privacy Commisioner, and
further details from the woman herself on [4]Cryptome.org."
Links
0. http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com
1. http://www.inter.net/
2. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963631.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed
3. http://www.privcom.gc.ca/cf-dc/cf-dc_020828_e.asp
4. http://cryptome.org/isp-hijack.htm
Freshmeat
A Plea for Clear Theme Copyrights
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/598
This is a brief request on behalf of distribution maintainers, intended
for those who produce and edit themes and their content. In it, I make
a request for clarity and thoroughness in the copyright and license
terms applied to themes, to make it easier to include your themes in
Free Software distributions.
Axis Runner 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102225/
Axis runner is a 3D game inspired by the Apple II game "Lode
Runner". It features a built-in graphics engine and runs fine
without hardware acceleration. All direction is relative as characters
climb up on the walls and ceiling, reminiscent of the fighting scenes
in movies such as "The Matrix".
BZFlag 1.7e6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102216/
BZFlag is a 3D multiplayer tank battle game that pits players against
each other in a networked environment. It runs on Linux, Windows
95/98/NT/2000, Irix 5.3 or higher, and Solaris. An OpenGL accelerator
is highly recommended, but it is playable with 3D in software.
centericq 4.8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102241/
centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that
supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, and IRC protocols. It allows
you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through
the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts,
and email express messages, and it has many other useful features.
DaveDAP 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102206/
DaveDAP is a PHP-based engine to browse, search, and edit an LDAP
server over the Web. You can browse your LDAP server in tree mode, or
you can search for users based on any number of easily configurable
criteria. DaveDAP aims to be a Web-based replacement for GQ.
dbacl 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102219/
dbacl is a digramic Bayesian text classifier. Given some text, it
calculates the posterior probabilities that the input resembles one of
any number of previously learned document collections. It can be used
to sort incoming email into arbitrary categories such as spam, work,
and play, or simply to distinguish an English text from a French text.
It fully supports international character sets, and uses sophisticated
statistical models based on the Maximum Entropy Principle.
eboxy 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102222/
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.
Falling Block Game 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102199/
Falling Block Game is a block-stacking game similar to Tetris. The
timing and scoring are similar to the original Gameboy game, but the
visuals and piece control are much improved.
FLAT Assembler 1.41 Beta 5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102223/
FLAT Assembler is an assembler that supports extended memory, 8086-
80486/Pentium/MMX/SSE/SSE2 instructions, 16-bi and 32-bit code, macro
instructions, code optimization, and binary, MZ, PE, and COFF output
formats.
giFTcurs 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102247/
giFTcurs is a curses frontend to the giFT daemon.
gpppkill 1.0.3 rh73
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102212/
gpppkill is a program for Linux that ends a ppp connection if it
doesn't receive a minimal amount of bytes during certain time. It shows
a bar plot according to the amount of bytes received per second. All
resident ppp daemons are recognized and gpppkill lets you choose which
one to kill. It is written in C++ using the GTK+ toolkit.
Group Enabled Cluster Compiler 20021101
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102211/
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.
Hackedbox 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102208/
Hackedbox is a stripped down version of Blackbox, the X11 window
manager. The tool bar and slit have been removed, as the goal of
Hackedbox is to be a small "feature-set" window manager with
no bloat. There are no plans to add any functionality, only bugfixes
and speed enhancements whenever possible.
iBackup 2.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102213/
ibackup lets you automate (with cron) the backup of system
configurations. It is easy to extend it for your systems and adapt to
your needs. It supports exclude lists, upload, and encryption of your
backups.
Jaim 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102232/
Jaim is a Java library that implements the AOL TOC Instant Messaging
protocol. The intention of Jaim is to simplify the creation of AIM
"bots" in Java.
Javadoc Search 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102091/
Javadoc-search is a CGI script for indexing and searching HTML files
produced by the JavaDoc tool. It allows fast and convenient regular
expression searches for class and class member names, and for full
method signatures that include argument types. It examines pages
generated by JavaDoc and builds its own index.
KBiff 3.6.2 (KDE3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102230/
KBiff is a KDE "biff" or new mail notification utility. It is
highly configurable but very easy to use and setup. It supports session
managment (it "remembers" the last state it was in before you
logged off) and can be docked into the panel. It has support for mbox
(Unix-style), maildir (qmail-style), mh, POP3, IMAP4, and NNTP
mailboxes.
LILO 22.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102209/
Lilo is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems.
Lilo is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy
or a hard drive and giving it control of the system. It can also be
used to boot many other operating sysetms, including the BSD variants,
DOS, and OS/2. The Lilo distribution includes full source,
documentation and support files, but no pre-compiled binaries. Lilo is
capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS
supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface.
LiVES 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102192/
LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is intended to be a simple yet
powerful video effects and editing system. It will use commonly
available tools (mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+, and in the future
possibly gstreamer or xine), so it should work on most systems. It is
currently usable for small video files.
Lush 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102234/
Lush is an object-oriented Lisp interpreter and compiler with a
seamless interface to C, a vector, matrix, and tensor engine, a huge
numerical library, a GUI toolkit, and bindings to GSL, SDL, OpenGL,
V4l, and others. It is an alternative to Matlab, Python, and Scheme,
and allows Lisp and C to be mixed within a single function, providing a
unique combination of flexibility and efficiency. Lush is an ideal
programming language for researchers in AI, computer vision, audio,
image, and video processing, machine learning, statistics,
bio-informatics, as well as for interactive graphics and multimedia
applications.
MetaL meta-programming language 2002.11.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102236/
MetaL is a meta-programming language that works by generating source
code in a target language from a program specification in a higher
level language. MetaL programs are based on XML. The compiler engine
generates programs in potentially any target language - PHP, Java, and
Perl are currently supported.
MoviX 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102246/
MoviX is a CD-ready tiny (~5MB) Slackware-based Linux distribution
containing all you need to boot a PC from CD and automagically play all
the movie files (noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG, WMV, and ASF) you put in
the CD root with mplayer through the framebuffer. You can use it to
play all your movies, even on a diskless PC.
Msn4Lin 0.4e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102250/
Msn4Lin is a Microsoft network messenger client for X. It supports
plugins, skins, and multiple languages.
multiCD 1.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102224/
multiCD provides an easy way to backup a large number of files to
multiple CDs. Give multiCD the files/directories you want backed up and
it will create as many CDs as it needs to, prompting the user to put in
a new disc whenever needed. It can be configured to run in a
multi-threading mode, where it will burn one image to a disc while it
is copying files to another image. This feature can be disabled for
slower machines.
MUSCLE 2.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102220/
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is a messaging
server and networking API. It is portable to any OS with a sockets API
and a C++ compiler. It lets programs communicate via streams of
PortableMessages (very similar to BeOS's BMessage class) layered over
TCP streams. The included server program ("muscled") lets its
clients message each other, and/or store information in its serverside
hierarchical database. The database supports queries via regex and
"live" updates via a subscription mechanism, and may be
subclassed to if application-specific logic is needed.
Network Traffic Generator 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102201/
Network Traffic Generator is used to check what massive amounts of
traffic of certain types will do to an intervening network. It does not
try to measure throughput or response times.
Noname 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102214/
Noname is a simple Perl script that updates your zoneedit.com domains
with your current IP address, which is useful if you receive
dynamically assigned addresses.
OpenBSD 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102226/
The OpenBSD project produces a free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based
UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts place emphasis on portability,
standardization, correctness, security, and cryptography. OpenBSD
supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris),
FreeBSD, Linux, BSDI, SunOS, and HPUX.
Pascal To Doxygen Convertor 0.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102197/
Pas2Dox (Pascal To Doxygen) is a pre-processing filter for Doxygen. It
allows Kylix/Delphi programmers to comment their code using JavaDoc
style tags and then have Doxygen build the application documentation.
peakster 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102235/
peakster is a real-time data visualization tool that allows data to be
viewed graphically as it is generated. It features an intuitive GUI
written in Python, monitors data at regular intervals, and uses gnuplot
to render 2D, 3D, and superimposed plots.
Perl IRC Statistics Generator 0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102195/
pisg is a smart Perl script which generates statistics from IRC
logfiles.
PHP-GTK 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102111/
PHP-GTK is a PHP extension that implements language bindings for GTK+.
It provides an object-oriented interface to GTK+ classes and functions
and greatly simplifies writing client side cross-platform GUI
applications.
ProFTPD 1.2.7RC2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102251/
ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written from
scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of
configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on
the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax,
modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including
support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and
permission-based directory visibility.
PyRAF Pipeline 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102194/
PyRAF Pipeline is an HST WFPC2 data reduction pipeline written in PyRAF
and Python. The pipeline takes in multiple WFPC2 datasets of the same
sky region in different filters, co-adds all the datasets in the same
filter, and extracts a point source catalogue from the co-added images.
It then performs aperture photometry on the point source catalogues.
The end result of the pipeline is a near-science quality
color-magnituide diagram.
QuaD-Pres 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102238/
QuaD-Pres is a Perl tool for creating HTML presentations that can
optionally work in conjunction with WebMetaLanguage. It organizes a
lecture into a tree with meaningful URLs, generates a table of contents
and navigation links, and links to a common CSS stylesheet.
ReactOS 0.0.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102086/
ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system
that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.
RoadMap 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102239/
RoadMap is a program for Linux that displays street maps. The maps are
provided by the US Census Bureau, and thus only cover the US. Specific
areas are displayed by selecting a street address (street number,
street name, city, and state). RoadMap has been designed to be usable
on both a desktop or laptop computer, or on a PDA.
RubyInline 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102242/
Ruby Inline is an analog to Perl's Inline::C. It allows you to imbed C
external module code in your Ruby script directly. The code is compiled
and run on the fly when needed.
Scintilla 1.49
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102244/
Scintilla is a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+.
As well as features found in standard text editing components,
Scintilla includes features especially useful when editing and
debugging source code. These include support for syntax styling, error
indicators, code completion and call tips. Styling choices are more
open than with many editors, allowing the use of proportional fonts,
bold and italics, multiple foreground and background colours and
multiple fonts.
SciTE 1.49
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102245/
SciTE is a GUI-based single-document editor which uses the Scintilla
editor component. It rapidly styles most common programming languages
with good control over how syntactic elements are displayed, and
features folding for C++, C, Java, JavaScript, and Python. Styling of
HTML also styles embedded scripts written in VBScript, Javascript, or
Python.
Self for Linux 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102227/
Self is a object-oriented programming language. It has a syntax is
similar to Smalltalk but uses prototypes and delegation instead of
classes and inheritance. The original Self system was developed by Sun
Microsystems and Stanford University. Self4Linux is a port of the Self
system to Linux.
ShadowJAAS 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102240/
ShadowJAAS is a JAAS-compliant authentication provider that uses shadow
passwords. It allows Java applications to authenticate using Linux
usernames and passwords.
SML/NJ 110.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102228/
sml/nj (Standard ML of New Jersey) consists of a compiler, compilation
manager, and libraries for Standard ML. Included are CML (Concurrent
ML) and eXene (a toolkit for X based on CML). The compiler produces
efficient code for most popular architectures (Intel x86, Sparc, Alpha,
Mips, HP-PA, PowerPC) and runs under Unix, Linux, or Windows
(95,98,NT).
SMSC-Gateway 1.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102207/
SMSC-Gateway can send/receive SMSes from/to cellular phones using
different connections.
swfdec 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102218/
Swfdec is a library for rendering Flash animations and games. It was
originally designed to be used for creating Flash plugins for
GStreamer, but is a fully standalone library that only requires the
libart library for drawing. It includes a GTK+ player (swf_play) and a
Mozilla plug-in.
TCDR 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102231/
TCDR is a dialog-based console frontend for mkisofs, cdrecord, cdrdao,
mkzftree, cdparanoia, cdda2wav, bladeenc, lame, oggenc, ogg123, mpg123,
and sox written in bash.
The Parma University's Recurrence Relation Solver 0.0.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102237/
PURRS (the Parma University's Recurrence Relation Solver) is a C++
library for the (possibly approximate) solution of recurrence
relations. To be more precise, the PURRS will solve: (a) linear
constant coefficient recurrence relations of finite order (when the
order is 1, parametric coefficients will be allowed); (b) linear
recurrence relations of the first order with variable coefficients; (c)
systems of linear recurrence relations with constant coefficients; (d)
some non-linear recurrence relations of finite order; (e) some linear
recurrence relations of infinite order and other generalized
recurrences, like those arising from the complexity analysis of
algorithms.
The Tamber Project 1.1.24 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102173/
The Tamber project is a componentized n-tier Web site engine that uses
open languages such as XML and JavaScript. Content is stored in
separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects. Business
functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP. Presentation is
controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over
multiple channels such as HTML, WAP, and MHEG. Currently, Tamber can
deliver to HTML and WAP, and contains modules that support e-commerce
shopping carts, secure sign in, data access and conversion services,
and advanced session management.
Video4Linux Grab 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102203/
The v4lgrab project is real-time capturing software for a Video4Linux
device.
web2ldap 0.11.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102196/
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAP client written in Python and designed
to run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web
server with FastCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi).
WebUtils 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102198/
WebUtils is a Java library and toolkit for making the development of
Web portals much more rapid and routine. It provides generic styles of
reporting and look-and-feel, database connectivity, and much more.
Slashcode
Upgrading to MySQL 4?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/03/015232
In order to support some other projects I need to roll out on my
server, I need to upgrade to a real ACID database, which supports
transactions. Has anybody yet tried using Slash running on MySQL 4.0,
which now supports transactions? Are there any caevats or tricks to
doing the switchover, beyond the general upgrade notes for MySQL?
Slash plugins and version 2.3
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/01/0552241
I've been looking at a lot of modules (specifically email.pm and
Galleria), and it appears that they all require Slash version 2.3. Is
upgrading from 2.2.6 to one of the 2.3 versions dangerous? Is it as
simple as compiling and installing? Are there places to get these
plugins written for the release version of Slash? Or am I being a
nincompoop?
How to Make Users Authors?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/30/200220
What is the proper way to turn users into authors? I'm interested in
this because I would like to use Slash as something my group uses to
communicate with each other and the world. I would like the people in
the group to function as the authors since it is their site. I've been
looking around in documentation and FAQs but can't find this documented
anywhere.
SubnetID is masked using what?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/30/1959257
When Slash stores the SubnetID in the database, what Subnet mask is it
using? I was hoping to find this in the vars table, but no luck. Any
ideas?
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?
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