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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
Net Vegas
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/08/0151240
[0]Makarand writes "Vegas has to have the best of tech to keep the
plotters away. [1] Popular Science has an online [2]article on how
networks are playing an important role in Las Vegas. Welcome to Net
Vegas where slot machines are networked and surveillance grids monitor
everything that goes on. Net Vegas proves to be the best and the
harshest test pad for new tech. Net Vegas will eventually move out of
the city and into your homes using the web."
Links
0. mailto:{theJunta@;HotMail}
1. http://www.popsci.com/
2. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,385529-1,00.html
Tidal Power a Reality
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/1714227
updog writes "Here's an interesting story about a city in Norway using
an [0]underwater turbine to generate electricity. It doesn't produce
much power (300kW) but maybe it'll pave the way for these types of
power plants. Maybe one under the Golden Gate someday??"
Links
0. http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/11/11072002/reu_48896.asp
GNU/Hurd Delayed To Fix Disk Size, Serial I/O Limitations
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/08/017242
gregger writes "This [0]Infoworld article indicates that the GNU/Hurd
is still waiting to stampede. Evidently they have to switch from the
GNU Mach implementation they're using now to OSKit's Mach which will
help them support faster serial I/O and larger hard discs. Currently
GNU/Hurd will only support somewhere between 1 to 2 GB partitions."
Links
0. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/06/021106hngnudelay.xml?s=IDGNS
Microsoft Hypes XP Tablets
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/201229
Dejohn writes "Just got back from the Microsoft Tablet PC launch event
here in Seattle. Aside from a couple of application lock-ups during the
demonstration (they claimed internet access was down at the demo center
and was causing the difficulties), the new technology looks very cool.
Microsoft Claimed it 'will recognize all your handwriting unless you
can't read it yourself.'" They clearly haven't seen my handwriting. I
ran into one of the [0]Motion guys at a Starbucks in Boston and I got
to see one of these machines in person and it was quite pretty. No
reason you can't run Linux on them from what I saw. Additionally,
[1]Dan writes "Sure, CNET's editors got a [2]good look at them and even
[3]the mainstream (free registration required) likes this stuff, but
didn't South Korea supposedly have these last year, and running Linux
at that?"
Links
0. http://www.motioncomputing.com/products/
1. http://www.deusxmakina.com
2. http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1027-8-20636466-1.html?tag=ld
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/07/technology/circuits/07stat.html?8ict
Slashback: Eldred, Cruise, SOAP
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/015240
Slashback tonight with several updates, ranging from patent
encumbrances to SOAP 1.2 to the transcript for Eldred v. Ashcroft, with
more bits in the middle on the recent Geek Cruise in the Caribbean, the
all-important cable TV lineups, and more. Read on below for the
details!
MySQL AB Settles With NuSphere
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/1942254
PCM2 writes "It appears that MySQL AB has [0]settled its dispute with
NuSphere over use of the MySQL trademarks. CEO Marten Mickos has
punctuated the occasion with a donation to the FSF -- but there's no
mention of what the actual terms of the settlement were, and there's no
statement on NuSphere's site either (yet)."
Links
0. http://www.mysql.com/press/release_2002_14.html
Embedding Data Signals In White Noise
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/1952254
[0]Anemophilous Coward writes "ZDNet has the following [1]article which
describes a company that 'has devised a method for sending wireless
signals over ordinary audio speakers so that humans can't hear them.
With this same technology, radio stations can unobtrusively transmit
ads, Web site URLs, or information about music and artists to in-car
cell phones.'" Here is some [2]further reading about the company,
Intrasonics.
Links
0. http://anemophilous_ut AT yahoo DOT com
1. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-964884.html
2. http://www.thecommslab.com/tech_casestudy_intrasonics.asp
Is Mac OS X Slow?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/2142256
Junks Jerzey asks: "Every time there's a mention of Mac OS X on
Slashdot, there's a flurry of responses about how unbearably slow Mac
OS X is. To anyone who has done software development under both Mac OS
X and Windows or Linux, is there any truth to this or is it simply a
knee-jerk reaction from non-Mac users who see low numbers like 800MHz.
I'm talking about average priced Macs here, like the LCD iMac line, not
the dual 1.25GHz machines that sell for $4500+." Having the fortune of
using a Titanium Powerbook for over a month, I don't find Mac OS X that
slow at all, however, there are some things that do take a little
longer than I am used to, but I think these things are
application-specific. For those Mac OS X users out there, have you
noticed operations that seemed slower using Mac OS X compared to
similar operations on other operating systems?
Multi-Display Graphics Suites Compared
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/1836227
Bender writes "There's an [0]interesting comparison at TR between the
major graphics players' multi-desktop software/hardware suites, like
NVIDIA's nView and Matrox DualHead. These suites provide monitor
positioning, application-level window memory, multiple virtual
desktops, and the like. This is necessarily a Windows-centric
comparison, but it's interesting to consider how Linux, X, and various
desktop managers would match up with these solutions in terms of
features and abilities."
Links
0. http://tech-report.com/reviews/2002q4/multimon/index.x?pg=1
Root Zone Changed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/1613256
An anonymous reader writes "The day before yesterday the root zone was
silently changed for the first time in 5 years. The change was to
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET that is now managed by Verisign. The [0]usual
[1]sites don't breathe a word about this change however as one would
expect for such a change to be properly announced. An interesing
sidenote is this [2]thread on the IETF discussion list." the_proton
writes "The server j.root-servers.net has changed IP address to
192.58.128.30. The new root zone hints can be grabbed from
[3]ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root or
[4]ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root. The new zone serial number
is 2002110501."
Links
0. http://www.internic.net/
1. http://www.verisign-grs.com/
2. http://www.ietf.org//mail-archive/ietf/Current/thrd2.html#17970
3. ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root
4. ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root
Freshmeat
Annoyance Filter 1.0-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102727/
Annoyance Filter sifts mail you wish to read from junk arriving in your
mailbox by an adaptive process which gives priority to mail you're
interested in reading, and evolves to block cleverly disguised junk
mail.
BoolStuff 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102739/
BoolStuff is a small C++ library that computes the Disjunctive Normal
Form of a boolean expression binary tree.
Bound Hinata 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102634/
In Bound Hinata, the Love Hina characters Naru Narusegawa (left) and
Mutsumi Otohime (right) are bound together with a red ribbon. This is
on a dark red background.
CD Detect & Execute 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102744/
CDDE is a program that detects when a CDROM drive has a disc inserted.
When it finds a disc inserted in the drive it will attempt to determine
the type of disc, and execute a specified command. This means a DVD can
be inserted and your favorite DVD software will start, or a data CD can
be automatically mounted.
Cygwin 1.3.15-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102742/
Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for
Windows. The Cygwin environment provides a complete port of such
development utilities as gcc, binutils, gdb, make, etc., as well as a
number of useful utilities.
Directory administrator 1.1.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102736/
Directory administrator is an application for managing UNIX users and
groups on LDAP directory servers. It also allows you to manage your
users' associated address book information, per-server access controls,
and Sendmail mail routing.
DivePix 0.4 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102709/
DivePix is a PHP-driven image gallery with an integrated imageviewer.
DRT 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102750/
DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications
running under X Windows. The tool automatically captures actions
performed while using such an application. Functions particularly
relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the action itself is
described visually from fragments of the application display. One can
search and browse these actions to learn about the design of an
application.
Exult 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102756/
Exult is an open-source game engine for playing Ultima7 on modern
operating systems, using the game's original data files.
fbpanel 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102734/
fbpanel is a lightweight X11 desktop panel. It requires only GTK-1.2
and X11 to compile, and works with any ICCCM or NETWM compliant window
manager (ie. sawfish, enlightment, kvm). It features a tasklist,
launchbar, clock, and desktop switcher.
Free Bangla Fonts 0.3-1 (Likhan)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102746/
The Free Bangla Fonts project is a volunteer run project dedicated for
creating Free, high quality, completely Unicode compliant Open Type
Bengali fonts. This project aims to be the central resource for getting
and developing Free Bengali fonts. The initial aim of this project is
to release a full set of Bengali fonts that supports all the major
Bengali Yuktakhars (conjuncts).
Frost 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102732/
Frost is a compiler wrapper which makes it possible to use functions
with virtual arguments and multi methods in C++ programs as if they
were a native feature.
Gamazons 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102752/
Gamazons is a game played on a 10x10 chess board. Each side has four
pieces (amazons) that move like chess queens (in a straight line in any
direction). Instead of capturing pieces like in chess, the game is
determined based on who moves last. Each move consists of two parts.
First an amazon moves to a new square and then fires an arrow to
another square (the arrow is fired in a straight line in any direction
from the square the amazon landed on). The square the arrow lands on
becomes a permanent block for the rest of the game. No one can move
over it, or fire an arrow over it. Every turn an amazon must move and
fire an arrow, so every turn there is one less square available on the
board. Try to block in your opponent, or section off a good chunk of
the board for yourself.
GDM Penguin Theme 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102506/
GDM Penguin theme features a photograph of penguins.
gEDA 20021103
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102740/
gEDA is a GPLed toolset to aid electronic design. Currently it consists
of a schematic capture program, a netlist generator, a symbol checker,
and a bunch of utilities. The initial goals are to satisfy the
electronic hobbyist needs, but the usefulness of gEDA does not have
stop there. gEDA has the future potential to be used for serious EDA
work.
gimp-print 4.2.4-pre1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102730/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for
UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality
and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the
GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and
IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This
driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to
enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various
printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the
quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or
exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
Gringotts 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102754/
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.
Gwenview 0.15.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102725/
Gwenview is a simple image viewer for KDE. Image loading is done by the
Qt library (so it supports all image formats your Qt installation
supports). It features a folder tree window and a file list and
thumbnail window to provide easy navigation in your file hierarchy and
uses docked windows, allowing you to alter the layout in any way you
want.
htmlcrunch 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102747/
htmlcrunch speeds up your HTML pages by removing things that are
ignored by browsers anyway, such as superflous blanks, line feeds and
comments.
iHook 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102729/
iHook is a graphical frontend for any command-line executable. It gives
scripts a pleasant Aqua face, and allows script writers to provide
graphical feedback without having to learn one of the higher APIs
available for Mac OS X. iHook accomplishes this through its ability to
understand a set of directives. When a script writes an iHook Directive
to stdout, iHook will modify its own interface based on the content of
the Directive. In this way, a simple shell script can have an Aqua
interface, complete with a progress bar and drawer. When launched in
the Finder, iHook prompts the user to choose a script to run; iHook
also accepts file drops on its icon, and will attempt to run the
dropped file. When no user is logged in, iHook tries to execute
/etc/logout.hook. This makes iHook highly useful as an interface for
Mac OS X LogoutHooks.
IP Blocker 1.0.20021107
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102755/
IP Blocker is an incident response tool for network admins that
automatically updates access control lists (ACL) on Cisco routers and
other devices. Web and CLI are both supported. Logging, email
notification, and automatic expiration of blocks using policy-based TTL
values are all supported.
Japana 2.0.2 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102759/
Japana is a small HTTP proxy written in Perl. It converts Japanese
characters (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji) into ASCII (Romaji) on the
fly. The translation is done with the kakasi library (an older version
without the need for kakasi still exists).
libdbi 3rd-party drivers 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102724/
The libdbi 3rd-party drivers is a collection of database drivers for
libdbi, a database abstraction library written in C. The first driver
implements an embedded SQL engine using the SQLite library.
Logtalk 2.14.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102726/
Logtalk is an open source object-oriented extension to the Prolog
programming language. Integrating logic programming with
object-oriented and event-driven programming, it is compatible with
most Prolog compilers.
Lyric Display System 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102735/
The Lyric Display System is used to edit/display song lyrics on a
second screen/projector for use at singing events such as church
services.
Macrosoft Desktop Environment 0.3.3-devel
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102749/
Macrosoft Desktop Environment is a Microsoft Windows 98 desktop clone
for X windows.
mailsync 4.4.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102766/
Mailsync is a way of synchronizing a collection of mailboxes. The
algorithm is a 3-way diff. Two mailboxes are simultaneously compared to
a record of the state of both mailboxes at last sync. New messages and
message deletions are propagated between the two mailboxes. Mailsync
can synchronize local mailbox files in many formats and remote
mailboxes over IMAP, POP, and IMAPS.
MIME Email message class 2002-11-06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102745/
The MIME Email message class composes and sends email messages. It
features user- definable headers and body parts, MIME encoding of text
and HTML body parts with user-defined character encoding using
quote-printable, support for attachments with automatic content type
detection, support for multipart/alternative and multipart/related
messages (for HTML messages with embedded images), encoding of message
headers with user-defined character encoding using q-encoding,
definition of the error delivery address setting the Return-Path
header, and several sub-classes for sending messages by different
methods: PHP mail() function, sendmail, qmail, SMTP. It also includes
support for sending personalized bulk mail by replacing the message
parts that differ for each recipient.
Multi-Genome Navigator 20021107
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102765/
MuGeN is a package for interactively exploring multiple annotated
genomes simultaneously, possibly mixed with computational analysis
results. Map information can be loaded from various sources, and
resulting images can be exported in different formats. Both an
interactive GUI based environment and a batch mode program are
provided.
mutant storm 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102733/
Mutant Storm is inspired by RoboTron, Smash TV and Jeff Minter's
Llamatron. It has separate move and shoot controls, allowing the player
to run away and still fire back at the pursuing hordes. Set in over 89
levels of psychedelic 3D environments, getting ever more crowded with
nasty beasties, all generated in a state of the art game engine, Mutant
Storm is for gamers who want pure action.
No Bananas 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102637/
No Bananas is an simple, attractive theme.
Northern Alaska Sea Ice 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102581/
Northern Alaska Sea Ice is a simple dual monitor theme using an image
of the Beaufort Sea from the MODIS satellite. It is very minimalistic.
PHP Accelerator 1.3.3r2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102761/
PHP Accelerator is a plugin PHP Zend engine extension that provides a
PHP script cache and is capable of delivering a substantial
acceleration of PHP scripts without requiring any script changes, loss
of dynamic content, or other application compromises.
Ragel State Machine Compiler 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102731/
Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular languages into
runnable C code. It allows you to embed actions at any point in your
regular language and to control the non-determinism in the resulting
machines. It understands concatenation, union (the "or"
operator), kleene star, subtraction, and intersection, as well as some
helpers like "!", "?" and "+". Ragel's
finite state machines are closed under all of its operators. This
property allows for arbitrary regular lanuages to be described. It can
be used to create a parser for any language that is regular.
Saké Mail web-mail servlet 2002-11-06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102704/
Saké Mail is a very high performance Web-based email system,
designed for scaling to large numbers of concurrent users. It takes
advantage of the Java Servlet API's memory-resident architecture and
multi-threading HTTP response model. It avoids file system accesses
through memory caching at every possible point, and never needs to
touch the file system at runtime at all if coupled with an IMAP server.
It supports POP3, IMAP, and SMTP, including authenticated SMTP. It also
provides an extremely sophisticated message rendering system that can
easily handle even complex HTML encoded messages with attachments that
have been forwarded multiple times.
SASL Library 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102741/
Libgsasl is a library that implements the IETF Simple Authentication
and Security Layer (SASL) framework and some SASL mechanisms. SASL is
used in servers (e.g. IMAP, SMTP, etc.) to request authentication from
clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers.
SILC 0.9.8 (Client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102764/
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides
secure conferencing services in the Internet over insecure channels.
SILC superficially resembles IRC, although they are very different
internally. The purpose of SILC is to provide secure conferencing
services. Strong cryptographic methods are used to secure all traffic,
and all messages are encrypted and authenticated. The SILC also
supports secure file transferring. The SILC is delivered as SILC Client
for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit
for application developers.
Socat 1.3.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102723/
Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two
independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file,
pipe, device (terminal or modem, etc.), socket (Unix, IP4, IP6 - raw,
UDP, TCP), a client for SOCKS4, proxy CONNECT, or SSL, etc. It provides
forking, logging, and dumping, different modes for interprocess
communication, and many more options. It can be used, for example, as a
TCP relay (one-shot or daemon), as a daemon-based socksifier, as a
shell interface to Unix sockets, as an IP6 relay, for redirecting
TCP-oriented programs to a serial line, or to establish a relatively
secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell
scripts with network connections.
Space Hulk 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102763/
Space Hulk is a great board game which takes place in the world of
Warhammer 40000. It is a two player turn-based game where one player
plays the 'Marine', the other player plays the alien called
'Genestealer'. This video game is a complete conversion of the board
game with the 2nd edition rules. It features playing over the network,
either in real time or asynchronously via email.
ssync 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102757/
Ssync is a minimalistic filesystem synchronization utility. Primary
development goals are correctness, simplicity, speed, low resource
consumption, and portability. Ssync is written entirely in ANSI C and
should work on most UNIX-like platforms.
Tnefclean 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102702/
tnefclean is a Perl script to convert attachments from Microsoft
Outlook to a readable format. Previously, people would have to find a
way to decipher the winmail.dat attachments that came from Outlook
users. This tool will either remove the attachment if there is nothing
in it, or change it to represent the proper attachment if it actually
exists.
ToDo Manager 0.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102751/
ToDo Manager is a simple task manager that is easier to deal with than
keeping track of pieces of paper or text files. The interface is
designed to be uncluttered and easy to navigate while still having most
of the functionality you would expect. It is written in Python.
UPPAAL 3.2.12 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102762/
UPPAAL is an integrated tool environment for modeling, validation, and
verification of real time systems, modeled as networks of timed
automata, extended with data types (bounded integers, arrays, etc.).
Typical application areas include real time controllers and
communication protocols, in particular those where timing aspects are
critical.
WebLogic JRockit 7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102681/
WebLogic JRocket is a high performance Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for
use on servers, fully implementing the latest Java standards from Sun.
zisofs-tools 1.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102743/
The zisofs filesystem is an extension to the ISO9660 filesystem that
allows files, on a file-by-file basis, to be stored compressed and
decompressed in real time. The zisofs filesystem is supported by recent
versions of Linux (2.4.14 or later). Legacy systems can still read
uncompressed files. zisofs-tools contains the tools necessary to create
such a compressed ISO9660 filesystem and to read compressed files on a
legacy system.
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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