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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
US Busts Military Network Hacker
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/0159203
[0]yorgasor writes " [1]KATU has an [2]article announcing the case of a
mysterious hacker who has broken into roughly 100 military networks has
been solved. The hacker is a British citizen and authorities were
considering extradition for the case. Although no networks containing
classified information were compromised, they do consider the hacker to
be a professional rather than recreational due to the large number of
networks he hacked."
Links
0. mailto:yorgasor@;DALIcs.pdx.edu minus painter
1. http://www.katu.com/
2. http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=52023
Newton's "Principia" stolen
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/0013242
[0]Silverleaf writes "[1]O2 have a [2]story on the theft of Isaac
Newton's revolutionary "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica"
from a Russian museum. For the non-physicists among you, Newton first
published his famed three laws of motion and his law of universal
gravitation in "Principia" in 1687. I'm surprised this theft hasn't
attracted more attention in the mainstream media, since "Principia" is
generally considered the most important scientific works in history."
Links
0. mailto:thenine@;trinity.sa.edu.au
1. http://o2.co.uk/
2.
http://o2.co.uk/news/OLGBTOPNEWS/2002-11-10T173943Z_01_L10426000_RTRIDST_0_OUKTP-LIFE-RUSSIA-NEWTON.html
Secure Wireless Through Infrared Antennas
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/0031227
[0]oogamrm writes "Everyone knows the main problem with Wi-Fi:
Security. It's relatively easy for intruders to sniff packets out of
the air and even connect to the wireless net. While most wireless
companies have responded by trying to beef up the encryption, the
[1]University of Warwick's engineering department has developed an
optical antenna that operates in the infrared band. This means almost
no energy leaking through walls, and simple filters to block it from
exiting through windows. The antennas can be so well tuned that several
networks can be co-located in the same physical space. The whole story
is available at [2]news.com.com."
Links
0. http://oogamrm
1. http://www.eng.warwick.ac.uk/csp/
2. http://news.com.com/2100-1033-965239.html?tag=fd_top
Classic Computer Magazine Archive
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/11/2227249
[0]savetz writes "I think /. readers will find this of interest: the
[1]Classic Computer Magazine Archive serves up the full text from old
compter mags: three years of [2]Creative Computing plus every issue of
[3]Antic, [4]STart, and [5]Hi-Res. There's also a bit of text from
[6]Compute! and [7]Compute!'s Gazette. Everything is there with
permission from the publishers."
Links
0. mailto:savetz@;northcoast.com
1. http://www.atarimagazines.com/
2. http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/
3. http://www.atarimagazines.com/antic/
4. http://www.atarimagazines.com/start/
5. http://www.atarimagazines.com/hi-res/
6. http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/
7. http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/gazette/index.html
Evolution Reaches A New Milestone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/11/2315200
[0]dalutong writes "Ximian has recently released [1]Evolution v1.2 to
the masses. New features include (among other ones that don't affect me
as much) optional Emacs and XEmacs bindings in the email composer and
much faster mailbox indexing (and thus loading.) It's nice to know
evolution hasn't stopped."
Links
0. http://.gro.llaroflla. .ta. .yesnatjd.
1. http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/
Detecting 802.11 Discovery Apps
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/11/1915230
[0]Joshua Wright writes "I have written a [1]white paper on detecting
802.11 Wireless LAN Network Discovery applications. Wireless LAN
discovery through the use of applications such as NetStumbler,
DStumbler, Wellenreiter and others is an increasingly popular technique
for network penetration. The discovery of a wireless LAN might be used
for seemingly innocuous Internet access, or to be used as a "backdoor"
into a network to stage an attack. This paper reviews some of the
tactics used in wireless LAN network discovery and attempts to identify
some of the fingerprints left by wireless LAN discovery applications,
focusing on the MAC and LLC layers. This fingerprint information can
then be incorporated into intrusion detection tools capable of
analyzing data-link layer traffic. "
Links
0. mailto:Joshua.Wright@;jwu.edu
1. http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/papers/l2-wlan-ids.pdf
Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update Available
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/11/2219207
Fork420 writes "Apple has released the 10.2.2 update. According to
Apple: The 10.2.2 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved
reliability for the following applications and technologies: Address
Book, iChat, IP Firewall, Mail, Print Center, Rendezvous, Sherlock and
Windows file service discovery. The update also includes the updated
services previously delivered in Security Update 2002-09-20. For
detailed information on this Update, please visit
[0]http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n107140 (when this story was posted,
this link was not yet working) Enjoy..."
Links
0. http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n107140
Ideas for a Recording Industry Alternative?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/11/1035226
[0]icewalker asks: "There has been a lot of news ([1]here, [2]here, and
[3]here) lately about music, copy protection, and other related issues.
What I find interesting is that there are literally thousands of free
bands out there that are more than worthy of listening too. Free as in
they have not sold their souls (not to mention music rights) away to
the [4]devils of the music industry. But how does one get to [5]listen
to these pioneers of music? The solution could be sites like [6]mp3.com
(until the [7]mp3 royalties are forced). But what people want is a
locals only site that streams, guess what, the music from free local
bands only. Not just for your community but local bands from all over
the US (and the world). We need a [8]site that collects these bands and
we need a [9]streamer that plays them. No [10]CARP royalty problems
since these bands are unsigned and own the music themselves. Make it so
that the artists can [11]hopefully sell their own CD's or single songs
from the same site. Anyway, mix and bake at multiple bit rates and you
have a solution to the copy protected CD (I haven't bought one yet from
an Indie Band). The big guys go down because they can't compete with
free, better than great music on the web with a low cost distribution.
So, where is this utopia? Oh! And dump the necessary registration
required to listen (are you listening mp3.com?)."
Links
0. http://caligari at email dot com
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/08/1759224&tid=141
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/2144242&tid=141
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/1312259&tid=141
4. http://www.riaa.com/
5. http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html
6. http://www.mp3.com/
7. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/27/1626241&tid=155
8. http://www.indiebands.com/
9. http://www.wopn.org/
10. http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html
11. http://www.youmaybenext.com/
Microsoft Responds to Leaked Memo
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/11/1819239
[0]AbbeyRoad writes "[1]CNN, has a [2] story on Microsoft's response
the [3] internal memo previous leaked: "Microsoft believes many of its
efforts to market its products against Linux and open source are
backfiring, according to a memo posted on the Internet. ... Microsoft
declined to comment on the authenticity of the memo, and did not answer
when asked if it believes its marketing against Linux and open source
has been effective. ... Microsoft spokesman Jon Murchinson said: ''The
document in question seems to suggest that the basis for evaluating
products has been long-term customer value, and that's something we
agree with. I think our marketing is geared toward that issue, toward
long-term customer value.'' ""
Links
0. http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/
1. http://cnn.com/
2. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/biztech/11/08/microsoft.memo/index.html
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/12/136243&tid=109
Microsoft Targeting Indian Developers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/11/185237
Pranjal writes "An Indian Business magazine, [0]Business World is
reporting that in it's war against Linux, Microsoft is taking the
battle to the Indian developers. The logic is simple. India has 10% of
the developer population of the world. If a significant number of these
developers commit to work on MS platforms then the number of developers
working on Linux platforms can decrease significantly and thus the
number of applications. As Dilip Mistry, a director at Microsoft
India's Bangalore office puts it, "This country can affect our
(Microsoft's) destiny." [Quote From article] Local linux user groups
are trying to counter this threat by targetting school and university
students and increasing the awareness about development on a linux
platform. Read the full story [1]here. [[2]Nice cover don't you
think?]"
Links
0. http://www.businessworldindia.com/
1. http://www.businessworldindia.com/cover.htm
2. http://www.businessworldindia.com/c11nov02.jpg
Freshmeat
animmaker 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103107/
animmaker is a tool for combining a number of image files (TGA for
example) and an audio stream to create a raw unindexed AVI file. It can
then be encoded and compressed with other utilities like mencoder.
BannerFilter 1.21 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103139/
BannerFilter is a redirect script for the Squid proxy server, designed
to block advertising banners on the Web. Unlike most other solutions,
it also automatically closes popup windows.
binpatch 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103123/
binpatch is a program designed for the automated patching of binary
files. It uses the binpatch scripting language (bps) to control how
patches are applied to files.
Bugzero 2.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103143/
Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and
incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software,
hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database
system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects,
group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email
notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced
search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control
integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project
configuration and user account management.
Cycles3D 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103101/
Cycles3D is an action-arcade simulation where you drive a futuristic
motorcycle that leaves a wall trail, and you must coax opponent
motorcycles into hitting your wall.
dchub 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103149/
dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with
some extra features dedicated to file sharing.
DCTC 0.83.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103147/
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the
direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.
Debian Utilities 1.16.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103077/
Debianutils includes installkernel, mkboot, mktemp, readlink,
run-parts, savelog, sensible-editor, sensible-pager, tempfile, and
which. Though the name indicates a Debian specific package, some of the
utilities are useful on other distros as well, especially Linux From
Scratch.
dpkg-changes 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103125/
dpkg-changes is a simple script designed to run from a daily crontab
upon a Debian GNU/Linux system. It will report to the system
administrators any packages which are added or removed to the system
via the dpkg system.
EasyLicenser License Manager 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103071/
EasyLicenser is a simple, low-cost, powerful software license manager
focused on ease-of-use for both the ISV and the end-user. It also
includes eCommerce and Customer Relations Management functionality, and
protects Java products on all Unix or Windows platforms, and C/C++ or
Visual Basic 6 products currently on Windows only. Most commonly-used
license models are supported, and ISVs can further customize the
licensing options to meet their own unique requirements. It also
supports the import and export of customer, product, and license-key
data in a variety of formats, including XML for post-processing and
data interchange with contact manager and relational database systems.
GNOME Quran 20021111
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103134/
GNOME Quran is an application that displays sura and aya of the Holy
Quran in multiple languages. It relies heavily upon the libquran
library.
InterXim 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103081/
InterXim is an international, locale-independent XIM server. It
translates ASCII key sequences to Unicode. The converter uses the Yudit
kmap files to transform the ASCII string to Unicode KeySym.
JACK Rack 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103129/
JACK Rack is a stereo LADSPA effects rack for the JACK audio API.
Java Serialization to XML 1.0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103141/
Java Serialization to XML allows data to be exported out of Java and
into another module, language, or place using XML and one line of code.
It can be used to glue together disparate components, integrate legacy
systems, and overcome impedence mismatches, and has been deployed in
many commercial applications.
JSwat Java Debugger 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103146/
JSwat is a graphical, stand-alone Java debugger, using the JPDA
library. It offers breakpoints with monitors and conditions, colorized
source code display, single-stepping, displaying variables, viewing
stack frames, and expression evaluation.
Kadet Server 2.07b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103070/
Kadet is a multi-threaded, multi-purpose server written in C. It is
highly extensible, well written, and equipped with a great set of
libraries including built-in scripting, a persistent database, object
memory management, etc. It is very easy to develop. The server protocol
is currently HTTP/1.1. SSL is supported via OpenSSL.
libESMTP 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103155/
LibESMTP is a library to manage posting (or submission of) electronic
mail using SMTP to a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as
Exim. It may be used as part of a Mail User Agent (MUA) or another
program that must be able to post electronic mail but where mail
functionality is not the program's primary purpose. LibESMTP is not
intended to be used as part of a program that implements a Mail
Transport Agent.
libquran 20021111 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103133/
libquran is a base library for reading the Holy Quran XML files
provided by http://www.arabeyes.org. The main goal is to provide a data
abstraction layer for any Holy Quran frontend application, no matter
what sort of interface it provides.
libtlen 20021110 (CVS)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103157/
libtlen is an API for programmers who want to communicate using the
tlen.pl protocol. Tlen.pl is a very popular Polish instant messaging
system based on Jabber, but with some differences. It is similar to
libgadu, a Gadu-Gadu client library.
MIME Email message class 2002.11.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103138/
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.
Moodle 1.0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103151/
Moodle is a learning management system for producing Internet-based
course Web sites. It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use
on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has been designed to support modern
pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and includes
activity modules such as forums, resources, journals, quizzes, surveys,
choices, and assignments. It offers a free alternative to commercial
software such as WebCT and Blackboard, and is being used by a growing
number of universities, schools, and independent teachers for distance
education or to supplement face-to-face teaching.
moodss 16.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103156/
Moodss (the Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) displays data
described and updated in one or more modules loaded at startup time or
dynamically. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers,
summary tables, free text viewers, and threshold entries can be created
from any number of table cells. Moodss has full drag'n'drop support in
the UI, and comes with numerous modules for system, database, network,
and other types of monitoring. New modules can be developed in Tcl,
Perl, Python, or C. A monitoring daemon (moomps) for UNIX is included.
It can react to thresholds and record data history in any database for
later analysis or for presentation using common software.
NBook 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103087/
NBook is a simple to use, simple to install guestbook. It includes a
Web-based configuration, Name, Email, Homepage, Location, and Comments
fields, and a commented out IP.
NetSplitter 20021110
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103119/
NetSplitter is a 'reverse' load balance like EQLPlus or bounding, but
at the firewall/NAT level. If more than one internet connection exists,
it will balance the NAT connections on those links. It runs on FreeBSD
and Linux.
pam_realm 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103114/
pam_realm is a PAM module that checks that the username is of form
"user@realm", and converts it to just "user", which
can then use other PAM modules.
ProjectButler 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103145/
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.
RvSnoop 1.1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103085/
RvSnoop is a Swing-based GUI that provides developers and operations
support personnel with a sophisticated, feature-rich interface for
tracing Rendezvous messages. Benefits include the ability to filter out
subjects that you are interested in, and the ability to reduce the time
required to locate specific messages. Features include real-time
subject filtering, a customizable logging table view, a subject tree
with navigation and filtering, full text searching of logged messages
and subjects, the ability to save configuration for later sessions, the
ability to configure the number of log records to be displayed
simultaneously, customizable record colors, configurable font face and
size, customizable log table column layout, integration with Tibco
rvscript, and display and filtering of MTrackingInfo tracking IDs.
seq2 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103152/
seq2 is a clone of the unix program called "seq" with some
additional options, such as specifying a delay after each number, or
specifying your own text to prepend each number. Features like for,
while, and executing programs are in development.
Speex 1.0beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103144/
Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for
speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in
the 8-32 kbps/channel range. Possible applications include Voice over
IP (VoIP) applications, Internet audio streaming at low bit-rate, and
archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail).
Swfx.org Unicode Flash Generator 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103148/
Swfx.org Unicode Flash Generator is a Flash generator that provides
support for dynamic Unicode text in Flash movies through generation of
SWF files.
XML::Twig 3.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103140/
XML::Twig is a Perl module built on top of XML::Parser. It is designed
to process XML efficiently, with a tree-oriented interface that builds
the tree only for parts of the documents. It has many convenient
methods to simplify XML processing. A complete tutorial is available
from the home page.
Zorum 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103150/
Zorum is an easy-to-install Web-based forum, message board, or bulletin
board. It requires a MySQL database, and the PHP4 script module.
Features include an easy Web-based install, embedded administration, a
style manager, personalization, threaded and linear views, moderators,
password reminder, post blocking rules, bb code, mark unread messages,
and much more.
Slashcode
Show Domains: Explain, please.
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/10/057254
On the user comments options page, an option exists to "Show the links
domain only in recommended situations". What are the "recommended
situations", exactly? How does this differ from the option to "Always
show link domains"?
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.
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