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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
Doom Ported to Nokia phone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/05/1656257
[0]HellKrisp writes "UK based game developers [1]WildPalm have released
a [2]port of [3]id software's [4]Doom for the [5]Nokia 7650. Features
of the port include audio support and bilinear filtering. The download
weighs in at around 1.5MB as it is just the shareware version featuring
only the first episode. The port was made using the source code
publicly released by id software in 1997."
Links
0. mailto:o0_kingping_0o@;hotma[ ]com ['il.' in gap]
1. http://www.wildpalm.co.uk/
2. http://www.wildpalm.co.uk/Doom7650.html
3. http://www.idsoftware.com/
4. http://www.idsoftware.com/games/doom/doom-final/
5. http://www.nokia.com/phones/7650/
Indecision 2002
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/0242209
The most common story submission about the U.S. elections held today
seems to be that the consortium which typically conducts and reports
exit polls has [0]encountered technical difficulties. If only they'd
had an open beta program... There have also been a number of stories
[1]highlighting problems with new electronic voting machines, a topic
Slashdot has hit several times in the past. [2]CNN, the [3]NY Times,
and essentially every other U.S. news outfit are following the election
results as best they can.
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20021105/ap_on_el_ge/eln_voter_news_service
1. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/11/05/touch.screen/index.html
2. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2002/
3. http://nytimes.com/pages/politics/campaign/index.html
Linus Explains his Patch Policy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/05/2019235
An anonymous reader writes "For everyone who has been wondering the
method behind Linus's seeming madness of accepting or dropping patches,
he has finally given a [0] thorough explanation. A must read for anyone
who wants to get their favorite feature into the next release of the
kernel."
Links
0. http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-44/0094html
Laser Shoots Down Artillery Shell In Flight
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/05/2226219
An anonymous reader writes "The [0]Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser is
a joint project between the US Army and the Israeli Defense Ministry,
with much of the work being done by [1]TRW. Tuesday they had a
spectacular success when [2]they shot an artillery shell out of the
air."
Links
0. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/nov02/army.html
1. http://www.trw.com/thel/
2.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=2&u=/nm/20021105/tc_nm/arms_usa_laser_dc
Transmeta Needs Microsoft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/05/223200
An anonymous reader writes "Faced with dwindling sales, it looks like
Transmeta [0]needs Microsoft's new tablet PC to survive." Or, if not
Microsoft, some company who can spark the long-overdue tablet-computing
revolution.
Links
0. http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/11/05/cx_ld_1105mta.html
NASA Wasting Time and Money on Moon Landing Doubters
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/05/2013255
[0]Rob Miles writes "Yahoo! News has [1]this article about how NASA is
paying aeronautics engineer James Oberg $15,000 to write a monograph
gathering up materials answering the skeptics of the 1969 Apollo Moon
Landing, point by point. It's a shame that even $1 has to be spent to
debunk these conspiracy theorists with too much time on their hands.
And it's unfortunate that the nutters will see this as validation of
their ridiculous claims ('if our charges weren't true, NASA wouldn't
bother answering them' they'll snivel.)"
Links
0. mailto:wantobe1@;msn.com
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=1&cid=585&u=/nm/20021105/sc_nm/space_moon_dc
Chocolatier Fights PanIP Uber-Commerce Patent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/05/2121249
synerr writes "In October, Slashdot reported how [0]PanIP sued 10
companies. Since they were so successful, they have launched 50 more
lawsuits. The Ft. Wayne [1]News-Sentinel has an [2]article about how
one local small town chocolate company, DeBrand's, is planning to fight
back against San Diego based [3]PanIP LLC's claim that they hold the
patent over any automated commerce done by text and graphics on a video
monitor. The owner of DeBrand's has even set up a web site to organize
the different e-merchants, [4]www.youmaybenext.com."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/22/015241&tid=155
1. http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/
2. http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/4441222.htm
3. http://www.panip.com/
4. http://www.youmaybenext.com/
Competitive Cross-Platform Development?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/05/0759214
[0]Avalonia asks: "I work for a software company in the oil and gas
exploration industry with a software development team of seven. Our
software and development environment is cross-platform on Solaris,
Irix, Linux and Windows. Most of our customers are on Solaris and Irix
64-bit systems, but Linux and Windows are increasingly important. Our
environment is based around an elaborate command-line system of
Makefiles controlling four different compilers (gcc 3.1, Sun Forte,
Irix MIPSpro and Visual C++ 7). Needless to say, maintaining this
system and producing modern multi-threaded C++ that will go through the
four build systems is time-consuming in the extreme. A large proportion
of our time is spent finding C++ code that just works rather than being
creative and competitive with new functionality. What tools and
strategies can we use to increase our productivity and regain our
competitive advantage, without going for Windows only?"
Links
0. http://www.smallshire.org.uk
FBI Bugging Public Libraries
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/05/177237
[0]zamiel writes "Bill Olds writes in the Hartford Courant: 'I know my
librarian, and I believe she would [1]tell me if the government were
tracking my computer use at the library. Don't you agree? No way.
There's a gag order. When the FBI uses a court order or a subpoena to
gain access to library computers or a list of the names of people who
have borrowed certain books, librarians can't tell anyone - not even
other librarians or you. They face a stiff federal penalty if they do.
It's unfair that librarians should be placed in such a position.'" The
American Library Association has a page with [2]advice to librarians
and links to previous news stories on the subject.
Links
0. mailto:sam@;musiccentre.ca
1. http://www.ctnow.com/features/lifestyle/hc-privacy1103.artnov03col.story
2. http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usapatriotact.html
"Seamless" Integration of Mac OS X w/ Active Directory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/05/0124210
[0]eexlebots asks: "I work for a small college which has a few Mac OS X
10.2 machines and a fairly standard Active Directory setup. Actual
deployment of these clients rides on getting them to authenticate at
login to our Active Directory server. [1]Apple has stated that this is
possible (easy! seamless!) with Jaguar without the use of an additional
Mac OS X server, but I have found the case to be quite different. It is
possible, but not without a good deal of nightmarish configuration
issues. Documentation? HA! No sign of it anywhere on Apple's site. I'm
not alone: at [2]macwindows.com I found a good many people who think
that Apple's claims of seamless Windows Network integration to be a bad
joke and nothing more. I was wondering who else out there is having
this problem, and what they have done to solve it."
Links
0. mailto:eexlebots@;subrevolt.com
1. http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/compatibility.html
2. http://www.macwindows.com/jaguar.html
Freshmeat
0sys 3-pre (0sys-3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102507/
0sys is an effort to create a slim platform- and kernel-independent
implementation of a Unix variant from scratch. It features NeXTStep
3.3-like configuration files and boot scripts, the latest stable
version of GNUstep, and a NetInfo server. The userland is modeled after
the 4.4BSD userland, and most of the code has been compiled and tested
on Mac OS X, NEXTSTEP 3.3, Linux, QNX, and NetBSD.
aMember 1.8.1 (Pro)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102509/
aMember is a flexible user management script. It has support for PayPal
and Clickbank payment systems, and allows you to setup paid membership
areas on your site. It also can be used without any payment system (you
can manage users manually). Unique features are support for multiple
payment systems at the same time and support for multiple products
(subscriptions) with different levels of access, pricing, and time
periods.
Animail 2.0-pre13 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102525/
Animail is a multiserver POP3/APOP/IMAP4 (with or without SSL) mail
retrieval utility. It features an advanced filtering system based on
blacklisting, whitelisting, or a combination of both. It is possible to
send an autoresponse which prompts people to reply and add themselves
to the 'autoaccept' file. It also allows filters based on regular
expressions which match against the email headers. (If a message is
filtered, only the header is downloaded, not the entire body.)
Combining external filtering programs (e.g. SpamAssassin or Bogofilter)
as message post-download plugins is also easily acomplished, thus
extending filtering capabilities in an unlimited way. Available
delivery options include mailbox, maildir, local SMTP, and pipe to a
command.
Anjuta IDE 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102538/
Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C
and C++ in GNU/Linux. It has been written for GTK/GNOME, and features a
number of advanced programming facilities. These include project
management, application wizards, an onboard interactive debugger, and a
powerful source editor with source browsing and syntax highlighting.
ARSC Really Simple Chat 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102559/
ARSC Really Simple Chat is a Web chat system that uses PHP and MySQL.
It works with every browser in existence, even text-based ones, and it
uses the server push technique or, if possible, its own socket server.
It is very simple to install and use ARSC. It includes some important
features, such as operators, kick-ing, whispering, and more. Multiple
rooms and different languages are available. To run ARSC on your site,
you need a Web server that understands PHP, and can connect to a MySQL
database.
Broadcast Oracle Select 2002-11-03 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102369/
Broadcast Oracle Select is a simple and powerful Ruby/Perl script. It
is useful for sending an SQL statement to many Oracle instances.
Cambozola 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102540/
Cambozola is a Java viewer for image streams often produced by Webcams.
Netscape can display these correctly, refreshing the images as they are
streamed in. Internet Explorer and others do not, and only display the
first image. Cambozola is a drop-in replacement for use on Web pages,
and can be used in pages for Internet Explorer in addition to Netscape.
It also allows access to the streams from the command line.
Cell Phone SMS AIM 1.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102541/
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.
Disk ARchive 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102552/
dar is a shell command that makes backup of a directory tree and files.
Its features include splitting archives over several files, CDs, ZIPs,
or floppies, compression, full or differential backups, proper saving
and restoration of hard links and extended attributes, remote backup
using pipes and external command (such as ssh), and rearrangement of
the "slices" of an existing archive. It can now run commands
between slices, scramble archives, and retrieve individual files from
differential and full backups.
DotGNU Portable.NET 0.4.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102551/
DotGNU Portable.Net is a portable suite of tools (including a C#
compiler, assembler, and runtime engine) for non-Microsoft platforms
such as GNU/Linux. It is a part of the DotGNU meta-project.
EditWorksPro 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102532/
EditWorksPro is a browser-based WYSIWYG editor that can be used to edit
complete HTML files or snippets. It uses JavaScript and features an
image manager, link manager, table and form creation, stylesheet
support, integrated help, edit, source, and preview tabs, and an easy
to use ASP/PHP API.
eXchaNGeR 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102542/
The eXchaNGeR XML browser is a browser and editor framework, written in
Java, that visualizes elements in a XML document. The user can browse
through and manage the visible elements in the document with external
services, or she can make changes to the content of the XML document
with the built-in XML editor.
Film Gimp 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102526/
Film Gimp is the 16-bit per channel variant of Gimp, and Gimp is
similar in features to Photoshop. It has been in use for many years in
motion pictures. Note that the vast dynamic range of Film Gimp is only
useful in working with film.
gcompressor 2.0-0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102534/
gcompressor is a GUI interface for GNOME. It can decompress and
compress files, and create self-extracting archives with an aXa
extension.
Genuts 0.2.1b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102555/
The Genuts project provides a consistent Java framework for game
development. It contains a library with classes primarily intended for
sprite-based games, including functions for sprite manipulation and
collision detection.
GPLIGC 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102557/
GPLIGC is a program to analyze IGC flight data from GNSS flight data
recorders used by glider pilots. It can be used to optimize flights for
the online contest (2003 rules). It uses Perl/Tk and gnuplot. The
openGLIGCexplorer (written in C++) allows one to view the data in 3D
with OpenGL, and can also be used as a digital elevation model terrain
viewer.
Gringotts 1.2.0pre2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102536/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data
(passwords, credit card numbers, PINs, etc.) in an easy-to-read,
easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use
of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among
eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256,
SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing
algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and
BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to
use any file as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string,
giving additional choices.
histofile 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102386/
histofile displays a histogram of the used byte-values in a given file.
In other words, how many As, how many Bs, how many Cs, etc., for the
entire range from 0 to 255. It includes a graphic view and a table
view. The table is sortable by any column.
Keep It Simple Stock Quote 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102516/
KISSQ will link to Yahoo's financial site, download the information,
and then format it for your browser. Setup is very simple. The
application can be run as a PHPNuke module, PostNuke module, or stand
alone application. You can retrieve historical prices and download
them, as well as see a chart of the current day's data. A portfolio is
allowed using MySQL or other RDBMS. It also provides live quotes.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.46_001 (For Linux 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102527/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user
programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can
access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user
programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege
level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it
seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such
methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so
forth.
libxml++ 0.14pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102561/
libxml++ is a C++ interface for working with XML files, using libxml
(gnome-xml) to parse and write the actual XML files. It has a simple
but complete API.
M.E.S.H. 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102545/
MESH (Measuring Error between Surfaces using the Hausdorff distance) is
a tool that measures distortion between two discrete surfaces
(triangular meshes). It uses the Hausdorff distance to compute a
maximum, mean, and root-mean-square errors between two given surfaces.
Besides providing figures, MESH can also display the error values on
the surface itself through a GUI (Qt-based).
MiddleMan 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102556/
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to
remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like
configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to
filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies
to and from certain sites, redirect requests, and even manipulate the
contents of a Web page or file using the built-in rewrite feature or an
external program. It fully implements the HTTP 1.1 protocol, including
persistent connections, and can forward requests through another proxy
or SOCKS4 firewall.
ModLogAn 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102560/
ModLogAn is a modular logfile analyzer that combines speed with
flexibility. It parses the logfiles generated by Apache and friends
(common/combined), MSIIS 5.0, Wu-FTP/ProFTP, Squid, and RealServer, and
provides all the well-known statistics and some very specialized
statistics like pages that were indexed by a robot, bookmarked pages,
cache hit ratio, and many more. Stats for non-web logfiles (hicom116,
elmeg, isdnlog) can also be created.
NeoBorg 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102547/
NeoBorg is a Perl IRC bot that sits in any number of channels, learns
words, and repeats things back to the channel. It uses a MySQL database
to store word information, and can be configured on a per-channel
basis. Multiple copies running on different servers can share the same
words database.
PhpMyLibrary 2.0.2-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102518/
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.
phpSmartIRCclass 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102517/
phpSmartIRCclass is a PHP class for communication with IRC networks. It
conforms to RFC 2812 (the IRC Protocol). It was mainly made for
creating IRC bots or chats in PHP. It handles connections and messages,
and acts like an API.
PostgreSQL 7.2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102531/
PostgreSQL is a robust, next-generation, Object-Relational DBMS
(ORDBMS), derived from the Berkeley Postgres database management
system. While PostgreSQL retains the powerful object-relational data
model, rich data types and easy extensibility of Postgres, it replaces
the PostQuel query language with an extended subset of SQL.
ProjectButler 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102543/
ProjectButler is a distributed multi-user project management software,
especially designed for project-oriented companies. Users can log on
from everywhere over the Web or an intranet, manage projects,
appointments, tasks, effort lists, customers, customer contacts,
project advances, and more.
ROX Tasklist 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102488/
ROX Tasklist is a tasklist for the ROX desktop system. It is much like
the one in GNOME. It lives on the panel, lists windows, and allows you
to change aspects of a window's state. It is highly configurable, and
provides a way to create a list of "filters" that cause it to
ignore certain windows. It was created to better the use of ROX in
conjunction with Sawfish.
SmartGDB 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102533/
SmartGDB is a modified version of the GDB debugger that features
enhanced and expanded capabilities. It integrates with Tcl/Tk and
supports threads.
SpaceMapper DataStore 0.7a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102546/
DataStore is a Java-based document repository server for storing,
querying, and fetching unstructured text or semi-structured XML based
documents. The documents are stored in conventional relational
databases, leveraging their advantages and reliability. It is built on
top of the Avalon Phoenix framework and is managed through a BEEP or
XML-RPC interface using a subset of the SEP protocol.
SpaceMapper MN8 0.7a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102548/
MN8 is an experimental object oriented scripting language that is
tightly integrated with the Net. It emulates concepts at the core of
XML to simplify and make transparent the process of manipulating and
extracting information from the Web and XML documents.
Sympa 3.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102553/
Sympa is scalable and highly customizable mailing list manager. It can
cope with big lists (780,000 subscribers), and it comes with a complete
Web interface for both the user and the administrator. It is
internationalized, and supports the us, fr, de, es, it, fi, hu, cz, et,
ro, and Chinese locales. A scripting language allows you to extend the
behavior of commands. Sympa can be linked to an LDAP directory or an
RDBMS to create dynamic mailing lists. Sympa provides S/MIME and
HTTPS-based authentication and encryption.
Tcl/Tk Project Manager 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102537/
Tcl/Tk Project Manager is a full IDE for programming in Tcl/Tk. It
includes a project and file manager, a source editor with syntax
highlighting and procedure navigation, a context-sensitive help system,
and much more. It requires Tcl/Tk (http://www.scriptics.com), BWidget
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib), or ActiveTcl
(http://tcl.activestate.com).
teng 0.91b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102529/
teng is a Template ENGine that provides a way to organize text into
modular segments to reuse design elements and apply changes across many
documents.
Uptimed 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102558/
Uptimed is an uptime record daemon keeping track of the highest uptimes
the system ever had. Instead of using a pid file to keep sessions apart
from each other, it uses the system boot time. Uptimed has the ability
to inform you of records and milestones though syslog and e-mail, and
comes with a console front end to parse the records, which can also
easily be used to show your records on your Web page.
Whiteboard Courseware System 1.0.0 (Whiteboard)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102521/
Whiteboard is a fully-featured integrated courseware system targeted
toward colleges and universities. It supports multiple departments and
courses including cross- listed courses, simple migration of courses to
new semesters, grade storage, checking, and calculation, assignment
submission, testing, and retrieval, documents, announcements, and
discussion boards. It is written using PHP and MySQL, and is
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xmlclitools 1.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102539/
xmlclitools provides four command-line tools for searching, modifying,
and formating XML data. The tools are designed to work in conjunction
with standard *nix utilities such as grep, sort, and shell scripts.
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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