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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
Peercast Source Available
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/13/0252204
[0]jilles writes "Peercast, a p2p streaming program, has had some
attention on slashdot recently. Now the source code has been released
under GPL. Please find the [1]announcement + source code here."
Links
0. http://www.xs4all.nl/~jgurp/weblog
1. http://www.peercast.org/code/cvs.php
Go Go Gadget Minisaw
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/13/0233200
weighn writes "The [0]SMH has this [1]story about an eccentric
Frenchman who carries about 1300 useful items attached to his body by
various means. A digital camera is mentioned, so I guess there may be
some form of computing device nearby. Anyone else a bulging pocketed
geek-scout?"
Links
0. http://www.smh.com.au/
1. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/13/1037080776940.html
State Coalition Approves Internet Sales Tax Plan
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/2317202
An anonymous reader submits this story about the U.S. states [0]banding
together to figure out a way to tax mail-order transactions.
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40364-2002Nov11.html
OpenGL 2.0: Chasing DirectX
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/2254225
MJ writes "[0]Is OpenGL 2.0 All That? Hopefully you will be able to
answer that yourself after reading this article from XtremePcCentral.
They have cool looking leap frog graphics with lots of arrows and a
quote from John Carmack, what else could you ask for? Robert Richmond
does a great job of delving into this subject. Carmack says, 'The
implementation went very smoothly, but I did run into the limits of
their current prototype compiler before the full feature set could be
implemented. I like it a lot. I am really looking forward to doing
research work with this programming model after the compiler matures a
bit. While the shading languages are the most critical aspects, and can
be broken out as extensions to current OpenGL, there are a lot of other
subtle-but-important things that are addressed in the full OpenGL 2.0
proposal.'"
Links
0. http://www.xtremepccentral.com/articles/opengl2/
NSA Approves First 802.11b Product for Secret Data
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/1934247
joehoya writes "I realize this is a couple of days old, but the
[0]National Security Agency recently certified the [1]Harris Corp's [2]
Secnet-11 as the first 802.11b system permitted to carry US SECRET
level data. See [3]press release. The system integrates NSA crypto with
commercial chipset based 802.11b PCMCIA cards and access points to
create a secure wireless LAN. Unfortunately, you and I won't be able to
buy them, as they are only available to organizations with an NSA
COMSEC account."
Links
0. http://www.nsa.mil/
1. http://www.harris.com/
2. http://www.secnet11.com/
3. http://www.govcomm.harris.com/news/view_pressrelease.asp?act=lookup&pr_id=1023
Antibiotic Resistant Staph Infections
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/1931243
[0]LinuxGeek8 writes "There's a news [1]update on a previous [2]article
about the first case of antibiotic resistant staph infections. The
woman who has the infection is being kept up to 6 months in an
isolation room. She is taking an antibiotic that is working, after many
others did not. "In the scheme of public health threats, this has to
rank close to the top," David Ropeik, director of risk communication at
the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, said of antibiotic resistance."
Links
0. mailto:mpol@;gmx.net
1. http://www.freep.com/news/health/nstaph12_20021112.htm
2. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/24/1717236&tid=134
Jedi Archives In Dublin Library?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/1548249
bill_gates_jnr writes "When Attack of the clones came out many
Dubliners thought that the Jedi Archives looked similar to a landmark
in Dublin, the [0] Long Room in [1] Trinity College Dublin. The library
administrator of TCD, Robin Adams has story [2]written a letter to
Lucasfilms suggesting the company should acknowledge a debt to the
original architect Thomas Burgh. " I was in the Long Room a few years
ago - it's a gorgeous room. But while we're acknowledge debts, perhaps
Lucas can also acknowledge [3]a more significant debt.
Links
0. http://www.tcd.ie/Library/Visitors/longrm.htm
1. http://www.tcd.ie/
2. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/021112/80/degzr.html
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/06/1522207&tid=97
Supreme Court to Hear CIPA Case
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/1810209
Ruger writes "The Supreme Court of the United States will "decide if
public libraries can be forced to install software blocking sexually
explicit Web sites," according to this [0]article from the
[1]Associated Press. US lawmakers have passed three laws to 'protect'
children from Internet pornography, but the Court struck down the first
and blocked the second from taking effect. 'A three-judge federal panel
ruled the Children's Internet Protection Act violates the First
Amendment because the filtering programs also block sites on politics,
health, science and other non-pornographic topics.'" Our [2]previous
story on this ongoing case will bring you up to speed on the issues.
Links
0. http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021112/D7N8J1980.html
1. http://www.ap.org/
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/31/1423219&tid=123
Bind 4 and 8 Vulnerabilities
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/1823213
[0]eecue writes "The world's most popular [1]DNS package is once again
[2]vulnerable. Even the advisory says it's only a matter of time before
worms are written.... just like [3]a couple years ago. I guess this is
why i run [4]tinydns."
Links
0. mailto:slashdot@;eecue.com
1. http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
2. http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21469
3. http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-03.html
4. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns.html
Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/116241
[0]Michael_Angel asks: "If your hard drive has started to show garbled
characters in the BIOS at boot, or just does not pick up. You may be
victim to what could be the biggest hard drive manufacturer failure
rate yet! Our company is small OEM system builder and we have been hit
by a failure rate of %90 of the hard drives we purchased a year ago. We
might be lucky because we stopped buying after rumors of hard drive
issues 3 months after Fujitsu Limited made some major changes. IBM had
a pretty crazy rate of failure and was telling people to turn off smart
mode. I've called Fujitsu and they said that there is no problem!
However, a simple search for bad fujitsu hard drives on any search
engine will point to some angry folks. One notable link is [1]this
Register story." Has this problem followed Fujitsu drives into other
countries, or might they be limited to the UK markets? Have you noticed
an unusual failure rate in Fujitsu drives compared to hard drives from
other manufacturers?
Links
0. mailto:ilovecds@;hotmail.com
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/63/27926.html
Freshmeat
aEGiS nanoweb 1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103298/
Nanoweb is a modular HTTP server written in PHP 4. It has decent
performance, an HTTP/1.1 implementation, CGI support, a nice
configuration system, name-based virtual hosts, server side includes,
authentication, gzip content encoding support, Apache combined format
and MySQL logging, and many advanced features.
aewm++ 1.0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103265/
aewm++ is rewrite and fork of aewm in C++. It keeps the same look and
feel of aewm but adds more features. Its aim is to provide a more
modern feature set than aewm.
alterMIME 0.1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103275/
alterMIME is a set of utilities designed to assist in the modification
of MIME-encoded mailpacks often used by Inflex, XaMime, and other
email-scanners. alterMIME can add disclaimers and nullify specified
attachments. alterMIME is part of the commercial XaMime software suite,
but is being offered back to the OpenSource community.
Alvaro's Messenger 20021112 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103303/
Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl client for MSN Messenger. It has many
features, including multi-language support: Català, Danish,
Galician, German, English, Spanish, Euskera, French, Italian, Dutch,
Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan),
Turkish, and Swedish; smileys, email notification, sound, support for
'ñ', tildes, accents, dieresis, and other special characters,
address book, group managing, and file transfers.
asterisk-oh323 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103304/
asterisk-oh323 adds H.323 support to the ASTERISK soft PBX. It does
this by interfacing the OpenH323 library to ASTERISK through a loadable
module. The package provides the channel driver as well as a wrapper in
a shared library form. It is able to initiate and receive calls to and
from H.323 endpoints, and has been successfully tested with the H.323
terminals on the OpenH323 site (ohphone, openphone) and Microsoft
NetMeeting.
Boot Scriptor 1.2.13b (Pre-release (binaries))
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103261/
Boot Scriptor is a program that allows a high degree of interactivity
when booting from a CD- ROM drive. It provides a set of commands that
enable users to boot a system in a number of ways, as well as providing
interactive menus. Boot Scriptor runs on top of a specialized version
of Isolinux and can act as a front end to it, as well as expanding on
the Isolinux feature set to allow more complex boot scenarios. It
supports a simple scripting language.
Clock randomness gathering daemon 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103302/
The Clock randomness gathering daemon gathers system randomness from
fluctuations between different physical high-frequency clocks in a
system. The randomness is tested with FIPS, and if this is successful,
fed into the system entropy pool. It is especially useful for systems
without real hardware random number generators.
distcc 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103285/
distcc is a program that distributes compilation of C code across
several machines on a network, resulting in speed increases of 1.5 to
10 times. It does not require machines to share a filesystem, have the
same libraries or header files, or superuser privileges.
DoctorJ 3.3.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103308/
DoctorJ is a set of applications that analyze Java code. Documentation
is verified for compliance with the standard and for accuracy against
the code, beyond what javadoc does. Statistics for a file or project
can be generated, including the number of lines of code per class and
method, and the overall total. A syntax analyzer is in development.
evilwm 0.99.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103288/
evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. It
maximises screen real estate and provides good keyboard control. It is
currently based on aewm.
FireString 0.1.23 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103272/
FireString is a library to make string handling easier in C. It
provides replacements for some non-ANSI libc string functions, binary
and length-safe string functions, and an interface for easy,
intelligent configuration file parsing.
FUDforum 2.3.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103312/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either
MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a
multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a
private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll
file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable
forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum
operators.
GAim SHell 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103284/
gash (GAim SHell) is a simple Perl plugin for gaim. It allows you to
send messages as if they were auto-replies, to change your idle time,
to use fortune as an auto-reply, and a few other random things.
Geki3 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103274/
Geki3 is a 2D horizontal scrolling shooting game.
GNU Robbo 0.57
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103300/
GNU Robbo is a port of an Atari XE/XL game in which the player has to
rescue Robbo the robot from an unfriendly planet and help him collect
all the parts of a capsule so he can go to another level.
GPLIGC 0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103306/
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.
grafist 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103305/
Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth
utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev
file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily,
weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it
executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a
summary for each file. Grafist currently supports the English, Turkish,
Russian, and German languages.
Ion 20021104 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103293/
Ion, based on PWM, is a keyboard-friendly window manager with a very
text-editorish interface and no overlapping windows.
libxml++ 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103289/
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.
linksysmon 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103270/
linksysmon is a tool for monitoring Linksys BEFSR41/BEFSR11 firewalls
under Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It accepts log
messages from the Linksys, and logs the messages to
/var/log/linksys.log. It handles the standard activity logs, as well as
the "secret" extended logging, and can handle logs from
multiple firewalls. When using extended logging, it can detect external
IP address changes (if you are using either DHCP or PPPOE) and can call
an external program to process the change.
mkautosmb 1.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103291/
mkautosmb autodiscovers the local SMB (Windows) network using
smbclient, sets up an autofs configuration, and can optionally create a
"virtual" directory hierarchy with symlinks. This makes the
network completely transparent for all applications. Most of the smbfs
mount options are supported.
Motodo 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103280/
Motodo is a todo manager written in the Moto Programming Language. It
allows setting a date for the todo, and when the date nears, the
listing can be highlighted to stand out. It handles multiple users and
allows everyone to have their own todo list.
MWChat 6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103311/
MWChat (My Web based Chat) is a Web-based chat system that uses PHP4
and an SQL backend database. It has support for multiple rooms and
languages, a large number of IRC-like commands, private messages and
rooms, message encryption, buddy lists, logging, registered users, chat
profiles, file sharing, and more. It is a very lightweight,
full-featured, and secure chat room.
NARC 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103307/
NARC (Netfilter Automatic Rules Configurator) is a free firewalling
package for Netfilter/Iptables, released under the BSD license. It
attempts to simplify the setup of a firewall (stateful packet filter)
via the iptables tools. It is a bash shellscript that generates
(hopefully) sensible and secure rules for Netfilter based on a simple
configuration file. It features quick setup via a simple configuration
file, connection tracking (and fragmentation reassembly), customized
logging, probe detection (TCP & UDP), and much more.
Nightfall 1.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103299/
Astronomy for fun (education, science, whatever). Nightfall is an
interactive application to simulate eclipsing binary stars, and to
produce animated views, synthetic lightcurves and more. Takes into
account the non-spherical shape of close binary stars, mutual
reflection, and some other effects. Comes with documentation, on-line
help, and lots of observational data of real binary stars. Supports the
Gnome desktop, but doesn't require it.
noattach 1.1beta1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103309/
noattach is a milter that parses the body of email messages from
sendmail, checks if the filename of attachments matches one of the
regular expressions in a given pattern file, and rejects those emails
that match. Filenames are RFC 2047- or RFC 2231-decoded if needed.
Papercut NNTP Server 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103277/
Papercut is a multi-threaded NNTP server written in Python. Its main
objective is to integrate existing Web-based message board software
(Phorum is one of the supported ones) with a Usenet front-end. However,
its extensibility enables developers to write their own containers for
the storage of the Usenet articles (messages). That means that the code
is extensible enough that you could write new containers to integrate
the news server with other Web message board projects or even other
ways to store the messages.
PhpCommander 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103287/
PhpCommander is a Web-based file manager that manages Web accounts
without FTP access. It can create directories, copy, move, delete, and
rename files and folders, upload files, download files, view the
contents of the files, and communicate in English and other languages.
Pynfo 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103278/
Pynfo is a combination IRC info, search, and network relay bot. It
supports basic fact definition (with persistence between runs) and
searching of Google and Freshmeat. In the network relay mode it
"bridges" channels on different networks by passing messages
between them. It also has a plugin interface, allowing users to easily
define new commands.
ripMIME 1.2.16.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103276/
ripMIME extracts attachment files out of a MIME-encoded email pack.
StarOffice Converter 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103297/
The goal of the StarOffice Converter project is to produce filters for
StarOffice 5.x documents which convert them into plain text. It is
meant to be similar to catdoc, ppthtml, and xls2csv, which work for MS
Office documents. A search engine can use these filters to index .sdw
files.
Sulk 0.23-snapshot-20021112
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103279/
Sulk aims to duplicate the gameplay of the first edition of the Space
Hulk board game. It features support for two players.
teng 0.96b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103271/
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.
tlogsim 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103231/
tlogsim is an extensible graphical logic circuit simulator for GTK 2.
ToyViewer 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103292/
ToyViewer is a GNUstep port of the NeXTStep, OpenStep, and MacOS X
image viewer of the same name. It is a simple image viewing,
converting, editing, and filtering program that can read and display
image files in many formats, adjust the brightness, contrast, and color
tone of images, perform typical operations such as enhancement and
embossing, provide image conversion filter services for other
applications, and much more.
uClinux 2.5.47-uc0 (2.5.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103273/
uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors.
It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would
otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives
the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack
of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and
efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux.
Uncle Unc 0.24.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103294/
Uncle Unc allows network admins and developers to keep track of many
services on a network in a flexible extendable fashion from a single
client program. The underlying protocol aims to be as generic as
possible, and offers a clean usable model for interacting with many
services. In Uncle Unc, client implementation is carefully separated
from the core protocol, allowing clients to be implemented as GUI apps,
Web front-ends, or console programs. Once adapted to Uncle Unc, a
service becomes instantly accessible from any Unc-aware client. As new
service implementations are developed, every client implementation is
able to use them. The ever-expanding list of adapters currently covers
filesystems, Java class libraries, relational databases, log-files and
jini networks, and a feature-rich, fast desktop GUI client.
UPS 3.38 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/102530/
UPS is a source level C and C++ debugger that runs under X11. Fortran
is also supported on some systems. It's a very light debugger, but is
quite efficient and works well.
WebConference LiveHelp! 2.5-Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103258/
WebConference LiveHelp! is a Web-enabled suite of customer care tools
designed for use with Web sites and private intranets. The LiveHelp
suite of tools includes a feature-rich one-on-one customer service chat
environment, searchable chat transcript knowledge base, real-time Web
site visitor tracking and pro-active invitation tool, a Web-enabled
shared email system for answering customer service email, and a
feedback collection and reporting tool. Advanced features include
support for multiple "call queues", seamless redundancy and
load balancing, direct uploads (from your desktop to the customer), and
reporting tools.
Westhawk's SNMP stack in Java 4.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103198/
Westhawk SNMP is a lightweight SNMP stack in Java, with Java applet,
application, and servlet examples. The stack provides manager
functionality for SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 (authentication and
privacy). It is capable of sending and receiving traps, but has no
other agent functionality.
Wolverine Firewall and VPN Server 1.0.283 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103246/
Wolverine is a firewall and VPN server that is based on the Embedded
Coyote Linux distribution of Linux. This product is intended as an
alternative to commercial devices such as the Cisco PIX, the FireBox,
etc. Wolverine features a hardened Linux 2.4-based stateful firewall
along with IPSEC and PPTP VPN services. As it is intended to be an
embedded solution, the overall installation size is roughly 8Mb.
x86info 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103290/
Unlike other `cpuinfo' tools which just parse /proc/cpuinfo, x86info
probes the CPU registers to find out a lot more information. It can
discover the contents of model-specific registers, discover CPU silicon
revisions, and lots more.
XAO Base 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103263/
XAO Base provides a dynamic object loader, a configuration context
switcher and some other classes and utility modules for use in other
XAO modules.
XAO Commerce 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103266/
XAO Commerce provides a set of objects and templates for building a
modern eCommerce site. The functionality supported includes shopping
cart, wallet, address book, category browsing, product database,
searching, and administration tools. It also includes a complete
working sample of an e-commerce site that can serve as a template for
extensions. It is a full re-build of Symphero 3.1, which uses XAO
Foundation Server and XAO Web Developer packages.
XAO Foundation Server 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103268/
The XAO Foundation Server provides an API on top of any relational
database (such as MySQL); it provides an object-oriented view of the
information while retaining the speed of relational database queries.
The hierarchical data storage model allows it to perform
highly-optimized deep searches on the data. The XAO Foundation Server
can be used on its own or in tandem with the XAO Web Developer (and
other XAO modules) to develop fast, dynamic web and data conversion
applications.
XAO Web Developer 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103269/
XAO Web Developer makes creating and maintaining dynamic,
database-driven Web sites easy. It has some distinguishing features
that make it stand out from other Web development tools: code and
template separation, out-of-the-box database integration, an OO
architecture, multi-site hosting support, a rich set of ready to use
Web objects, extendability, and more.
xmlenc 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103310/
xmlenc is a light-weight XML encoding library for Java. It fills the
gap between a light-weight parser like SAX, and a heavy-weight XML
output library, like JDOM.
Slashcode
How to kickstart meta-moderation?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/13/0311207
I have a small slash site with a small number of users (by design) with
a few dozen stories and probably fewer than 200 comments posted so far.
The slash engine is handing out moderation points, perhaps because I
reset some of the configuration variables. But meta-moderation is not
operating.I recall that this has something to do with the number of
moderations (I'd look in the archives but the search function on
slashcode has been down for a while...). Unfortunately, I have one user
who could stand some meta-moderation NOW, before he drives other users
away with his down-mods. Yet I don't see any configuration variables or
anything else I can tweak to make meta-moderation start up. I would
rather the enforcement of community standards come from the community
rather than some heavy-handed act by the site administration. Any way
to force meta-moderation on?
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"?
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