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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
FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/0117207
[0]noackjr writes "'The FreeBSD Project is proud to announce the
availability of the second Developer Preview snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0
(5.0-DP2). This snapshot, intended for widespread testing purposes, is
the latest milestone towards the eventual release of FreeBSD
5.0-RELEASE, currently scheduled for mid-December 2002.' See the
[1]announcement, [2]early adopter's guide, and the [3]release notes."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3139+0+current/freebsd-announce
2. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/early-adopter.html
3. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/relnotes.html
Bradley Trainer Support in MAME 0.62
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1930254
[0]TheAlchemist writes "The Bradley Trainer was a modification to
Atari's [1]Battlezone arcade game created for the US Army to help train
personel in the use of the [2]Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Supposedly only
two of these machines were built, and of the two only one of them is
known to exist today. The latest version of the arcade enumator [3]MAME
(0.62) has support for the Bradley Trainer, which hasn't been emulated
until now. Pictures and more information of the Atari Bradley Trainer
be found on [4]this site, and screenshots of it running in MAME can be
found [5]here."
Links
0. http://www.atariage.com
1. http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=B&game_id=337
2. http://www.army-technology.com/projects/bradley/
3. http://www.mame.net/
4. http://www.safestuff.com/bradley.htm
5. http://www.atariage.com/news/Bradley/index.html
Supercomputer To Use Optical Router
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/201201
Izmunuti writes "From a NYTimes article: 'Highlighting a radical
departure in the design of the fastest computers, the California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology plans to
announce on Monday that it will use an optical router [0]designed by a
Texas company as the heart of a [1]campus-wide supercomputer that will
be woven together with optical fibers.'"
Links
0. http://www.chiaro.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/technology/18OPTI.html
Escher Paintings with Lego Bricks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1242251
sciuro writes "a couple of guys (A Lipton & D Shiu) have built three of
M C Escher's 3D-distorting paintings [0]using Lego bricks (and some
carefully chosen camera angles). Balcony, Belvedere & Ascending and
Descending are all down at the bottom of the page. Nice!" Some other
pretty pieces as well.
Links
0. http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/lego.htm
Black Ops of TCP/IP: Paketto Keiretsu 1.0 Release
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/2032225
[0]Effugas writes "After [1]pushing OpenSSH to perform feats of secure
tunneling far beyond what I ever expected it could do, it became clear
that some genuinely useful modes of network operation were simply
inaccessable without either replacing or manipulating core network
protocols. Since the basic infrastructure of the Internet isn't likely
to change any time soon, that left...creative manipulation and
reconstruction of the Lingua Reseaux: [2]TCP/IP. Taking advantage of
expectations, pitting layers against eachother, finding new uses for
old options and data fields -- instead of simply unleashing the latest
incarnation of some "Ping of Death", could such work unveil hidden
functionality within existing networks? As I discussed at [3]Black Hat
2002 and the inimitable [4]Defcon X, the answer is yes. And now, proof
of this is ready. BSD Licensed (in deference to the very source of
TCP/IP), [5]The Paketto Keiretsu, Version 1.0, is a collection of five
interwoven "proof of concepts" that explore, extract, and expose
previously untapped capacities embedded deep within networks and their
stacks, at Layers 2 through 4. The five -- [6]scanrand, [7]minewt,
[8]lc [9]( linkcat [10]), [11]paratrace, and the [12]OpenQVIS
cross-disciplinary-a-go-go [13]phentropy -- demonstrate Stateless TCP
Scanning, Inverse SYN Cookies, Guerrila Multicast, Parasitic
Tracerouting, Ethernet Trailer Cryptography, and quite a bit more. (For
details, stop by [14]DoxPara Research or check out [15]the latest
slides. The academic paper is coming "soon".) In terms of actual
usefulness, scanrand is no [16] nmap, but it's still interesting:
During an authorized test inside a multinational corporation's class B,
scanrand detected 8300 web servers across 65,536 addresses. Time
elapsed: approximately 4 seconds."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.doxpara.com/Advanced_OpenSSH.pdf
2. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt
3. http://www.blackhat.com/
4. http://www.defcon.com/
5. http://www.doxpara.com/paketto/paketto-1.0.tar.gz
6. http://www.doxpara.com/read.php/docs/scanrand_logs.html
7. http://www.doxpara.com/read.php/docs/minewt_logs.html
8. http://www.doxpara.com/read.php/docs/lc_logs.html
9. http://www.wholesaledirectschoolsupply.com/html/plastic_safety.html
10. http://www.allartsupplies.com/item.asp?cid=584
11. http://www.doxpara.com/read.php/docs/paratrace.html
12. http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Persons/Rezk/Research/VolRen
13. http://www.doxpara.com/pics/index.php?album=phentropy/
14. http://www.doxpara.com/
15. http://www.doxpara.com/Black_Ops_Hivercon.ppt
16. http://www.insecure.org/nmap
Meet The Leonids
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1727240
[0]Kathy Miles writes "The Leonid meteor shower is promising to be a
'once in a lifetime event.' It's not hard to photograph meteors, a
simple 35mm camera that you can lock open the shutter on works fine.
Here's [1]complete instructions for 35mm, video and digital
cameras.And, [2]on the same site is information such as lore and myth,
best way to watch meteors and times and skymaps for all US timezones.
Happy Meteor watching!" And [3]Geert Barentsen writes "As the
adrenaline for the final [4]Leonid meteor storm (November 19th) rises,
one site seems to do a call to everybody to [5]count the meteor
activity and help science. With a few thousand meteors predicted per
hour, it's going to be a busy night for true geeks :-)" [6]Kevin
Smolkowski writes "For the second year in a row, NASA will have [7]
Live Coverage of the 2002 Leonid meteor storm on Monday. Perfect for
those of you surrounded by city lights. The all night show is hosted by
NASA astronomers. They'll offer observing tips, answer phone calls from
sky watchers, and tour the skies with a video camera located at the
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama." Update:
11/18 22:40 GMT by [8]T: [9]McGravin writes "Everyone should also
[10]keep an ear on the extraplanetary visitors, too. I'm going to go
add some ear-flaps to the tin foil helmet that protects my brain from
them, so I can hear the meteors."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://starryskies.com/The_sky/events/meteors/photograph-meteor-showers.html
2. http://starryskies.com/leonids
3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
4. http://www.imo.net/leo02/index.html
5. http://www.urania.be/leoniden/genreport.php
6. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
7. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/16nov_leonidstv.htm
8. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
9. mailto:mcgravin@ c a n ada.com
10. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast26nov_1.htm
Real PDA Wristwatch
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1427246
[0]Larry Groebe writes "Just before COMDEX, Fossil announced a new PDA
in a wristwatch. Based on the Palm OS, this is nothing less than a
complete Palm Pilot on your wrist. See [1]here for features and a
picture. This is completely UNLIKE Fossil's *first* attempt at a wrist
PDA, which was a hopeless view-only gadget. This new model allows
regular Graffiti input and appears to run all Palm programs! At $149, I
may be the first in line when it comes out next spring."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.fossil.com/tech/TechPDAPalmInfo.asp?Tier1=Tech&ID=tech
Nvidia GeForceFX(NV30) Officially Launched
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1824202
egarland writes "Tom's Hardware has a new article [0] previewing the
new GeForceFX chip and discussing its architecture. 0.13 Micron, 16
GB/s memory bandwidth, 128-bit DDR2 memory interface, 125 M
transistors, support for 8x FSAA. Sounds like an interesting chip. They
stuck with a 128 bit memory bus so ATI's R300 still has more memory
bandwidth (19.8 GB/s) but NVidia has new lossless memory compression so
we will have to wait for benchmarks to see if NVidia comes up a winner
here. The reference card also sports a [1]massive new cooling system
which is worth a look." Readers Oliver Wendell and JavaTenor add links
to additional stories [2]at The Register and [3]at AnandTech.
Links
0. http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q4/021118/index.html
1. http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q4/021118/geforcefx-03.html
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/28153.html
3. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1749
Movielink Snubs DRM-less Macs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/176225
[0]mcwetboy writes "CNET reports that [1]the Macintosh is being shut
out of online movie services like Movielink, and connects it to the
Mac's lack of digital-rights management. From the article: '[Apple VP]
Schiller says Apple has not released much in the way of protective
technology ... because effective techniques for securing content
without interfering with the experience of consumers have not yet been
invented.' A consumer-friendly attitude towards DRM may be a
double-edged sword (content may not be made available for that
platform), but if the content is locked out of the Mac for that reason,
do I really want it anyway?" In other news, the USSR provided free
bread only to the poor people.
Links
0. http://www.mcwetboy.com/
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-966115.html
Moving Your Kids to Linux?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/0548240
telecaster asks: "My kids are aged 11, 7 and 3. All of them are
computer savvy. They use the computer for basically three things:
Games, writing papers and chatting with friends, as well as browsing
sites that are frequented by children their age ([0]Nick, [1]Cartoon
Network, [2]How Things Work, Yahoo!Kids, and others). All of this is
supervised and watched by my wife and I -- we don't use any parental
filters since we've found they just don't work, and it's just better to
keep a watchful eye anyway. I would like to move them off Windows XP
and introduce them to something less expensive (free) and more
reliable. I'm rebooting this machine probably four and five times a
week, not to mention the forever problem of lockups and hangs which
seem to happen during the times where the 3 year-old is using the
machine. I know the crashes are mainly due to the older games that the
kids play which are not totally compatible with XP, but hey, they USED
to run just fine under Windows98."
Links
0. http://www.nick.com/
1. http://www.cartoonnetwork.com
2. http://www.howthingswork.com
Freshmeat
ABYSS X1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103941/
ABYSS aims to be a fully HTTP/1.1 compliant Web server. Its main design
goals are speed, low resource usage and portability. ABYSS works on
most UNIX based systems and on Win32 systems (Win95/98/2000/NT).
adevs 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103903/
adevs is a C++ library for developing discrete event simulations based
on the Parallel DEVS and DSDEVS formalisms.
Astaro Security Linux 2.031 (Sun Cobalt)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103920/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet
inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus
scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and
much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the
ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage.
It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most
daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel
capabilities.
c2lib 1.2.25 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103930/
c2lib is a library of basic structures and memory allocators for C. It
is designed to look similar to the C++ STL with many powerful string
features borrowed from Perl.
cd_create 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103885/
cd_create allows users to interactively create CDs of an arbitrary
size. Image creation and burning is supported via mkisofs and cdrecord.
Crash Recovery Kit for Linux 2.4.19 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103861/
Crash Recovery Kit (CRK) for Linux is a tool which can recover your
crashed PC.
duplicity 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103894/
duplicity is an incremental backup tool that backs up files and
directories by encrypting tar- format volumes with GnuPG and uploading
them to a file server. It supports local, FTP, and ssh/scp back-ends.
Because it uses librsync, archives only record the parts of files that
have changed since the last backup. It supports deleted files, full
Unix permissions, directories, symbolic links, and fifos, but currently
not hard links.
Filepp 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103935/
filepp is a generic file preprocessor designed to allow the
functionality provided by the C preprocessor to be used with any file
type. It supports the full set of C preprocessor keywords (#include,
#define, #if, etc.). filepp is also highly customisable and allows
users to easily add their own keywords or modify the behaviour of
existing keywords.
Firestorm NIDS 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103926/
Firestorm is an extremely high performance network intrusion detection
system (NIDS). At the moment, it just a sensor but there are plans are
to include real support for analysis, reporting, remote console, and
on-the-fly sensor configuration. It is fully pluggable and hence
extremely flexible.
Freddy 0.70 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103946/
Freddy is a programmer's editor, written in Qt. It has a nice look, and
is easy to use. It is extendable with its module support, and you can
configure almost everything you want.
Freeside 1.4.1beta5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103940/
Freeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs.
GNU Enterprise Common Library 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103906/
GNUe-Common is the basis for the GNUe tools, such as Forms, Reports,
and Designer. It implements a database abstraction layer that provides
support for most major databases. A built in XML-to-Object parser and
Object-to-XML marshaller are used by Forms, Reports, and Designer to
save and read Forms/Report definitions to and from an XML file. Work
has begun on an RPC abstraction layer that will allow server processes
to define their public methods once and have them available to CORBA,
XML-RPC, SOAP, and DCOM clients.
GNU Enterprise Designer 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103907/
GNUe-Designer is the IDE for the GNUe tools. It allows you to visually
layout your forms in a RAD-style environment. It has a built in forms
client, so you can quickly test your forms while still in Designer. It
also has support for form creation wizards: answer a few questions,
attach your form to a table, select the fields to include, and a basic
form is created.
GNU Enterprise Forms 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103909/
GNU Enterprise Forms is a platform and UI-independent forms system. It
reads an XML-based forms definition and creates GUIs for Win32 and GTK.
It has a fully data aware widget set and can be used in both 2-tier and
n-tier environments.
GNU Enterprise Navigator 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103910/
GNUe Navigator is a menuing system for GNUe Forms and Reports. It
presents a consistent menuing interface (in a GUI or text) based on an
XML "process definition." It uses the GNUe Forms or GNUe
Reports clients to run the actual forms and reports.
GNU Enterprise Reports 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103908/
GNU Enterprise Reports is a platform and output-independent reporting
system that reads an XML-based report definition and generates
arbitrary XML output that can be further translated into any format for
which there is an adapter. It has outputs for text, HTML, and CSV.
Reports can output directly to a file, as an email attachment, to a
printer, or to a HylaFax server.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103929/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by
both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured
documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The
program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts.
It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra
systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language,
which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs,
and even to extend the editor.
GnuCash 1.7.3 beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103927/
GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income, and
expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is
based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books
and accurate reports. It is backed by an active development community
and is blossoming into a full-fledged accounting system.
GoFish Gopher Server 0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103897/
GoFish is a very simple gopher server. It is designed with security and
low resource usage in mind, and uses a single process that handles all
the connections. This provides low-resource usage, good latency, and
good scalability. It also runs in a chroot environment. While GoFish
must run at root privilege to be able to use port 70, it drops to a
normal user while accessing files.
grafist 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103945/
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, German, Azeri, French, and Italian languages.
Gringotts 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103936/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data
(passwords, PINs, small files, 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 or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative
to the usual text string, giving additional choices.
GSburn.app 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103937/
GSburn.app is a GNUstep-based CD burning program. It serves as a front
end for cdrtools, cdrdao, and cdparanoia.
gstat 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103868/
gstat is a suite of tools to keep track of what your young child is
doing during the day so that your working spouse can vicariously enjoy
the "fun" via the Web from the comfort of his/her office.
i8kkmon 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103862/
i8kkmon is a KDE tool for monitoring temperatures on a Dell Inspiron
notebook.
Internet Task Management System 1.0 (Build 107)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103892/
ITMS uses PHP to formalize the task delegation process in a business
environment. Functionality includes the ability to create individual
tasks and then combine them into a process of work items which can be
easily delegated to any user of the system. Assignment and reminder
emails are recieved based upon user preferences. Administrators of the
system have the ability to manage all users and their task properties.
It supports MySQL, Oracle, LDAP, and SSL.
JGraph 1.0.6 (For Java 1.3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103914/
JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than
many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component,
you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It
can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a
custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.
K Time Tracker 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103902/
K Time Tracker is a small program aimed at contractors which allows
them to keep track of billable time. Currently it allows users to set a
rate and a time increment to bill by.
Kavlon Courier User Manager 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103919/
Kavlon Courier User Manager is a graphical tool to manage virtual users
in CourierMTA with authMySQL.
kcurses 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103872/
kcurses is a set of simple widgets and UI abstractions for ncurses, to
handle list boxes, vi-like field-editing, and mouse selections. It will
probably include some database-connection abstractions as well in the
future.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.48_001 (For Linux 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103917/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user
programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can
access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user
programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege
level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it
seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such
methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so
forth.
KISGB 4.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103899/
KISGB is an advanced PHP guestbook program that does not require
sessions, cookies, or an rdbms. It can be public or private through
HTTP authentication. Features include message editing by users, a theme
builder, private messaging, flexible logging capability, a Web-based
password protected admin section, email notification, IP logging, IP
banning, a bad word filter, smileys, automatic link recognition, flood
control and multi-language support.
KUDD 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103804/
KUDD is a small Content Management System for Internet radios. It
includes a live show calendar, an artist database, and more.
Libxml 2.4.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103921/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The
library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems,
etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml
implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages,
including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, RFC 2396,
XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In
most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a
relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the
following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP
client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas
is in progress.
Mambo SiteServer 4.0 Build 9 BETA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103860/
Mambo SiteServer is a dynamic Web content management tool that is
capable of building sites from several pages to several thousand. It
comes complete with 10 built-in modules, a WYSIWYG editor, site
statistics, an admin interface, and much more.
MCatS 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103876/
MCatS is a modular catalog system that makes it very easy to convert
between different formats.
MiddleMan 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103942/
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to
remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like
configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to
filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies
to and from certain sites, redirect requests, and even manipulate the
contents of a Web page or file using the built-in rewrite feature or an
external program. It fully implements the HTTP 1.1 protocol, including
persistent connections, and can forward requests through another proxy
or SOCKS4 firewall.
Monolith 1.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103932/
Monolith is an application framework for Web applications. It provides
basic widgets for labels, buttons, images, input fields, and so on. The
programmer uses these to construct whole applications or reusable
"super-widgets" which can be embedded in other applications,
distributed, or even sold. Writing Monolith widgets and applications
strongly resembles tools like Java/Swing, Windows MFC, Motif, GTK,
Tcl/Tk, etc. There are comprehensive manual pages for every widget and
method, and a set of example programs.
Openglad 0.95.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103916/
Openglad is an SDL port of an old DOS game called Gladiator, which was
developed by FSGames in the mid 90's. It is a top-down gauntlet-style
RPG in which you hire team mates, go on missions, and improve your team
with the spoils you reap. It can be played by up to 4 players (using
split-screen), and features many classes, special abilities, and a
scenario editor.
Phone Box Log Analyzer 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103891/
Phone Box Log Analyzer allows you to capture and view the logs from a
PBX. By connecting to the serial port of the PBX (usually used for
printing to a serial printer) the logs may be captured and fed to a
PostgreSQL database. A PHP Web interface to this database is provided.
PHP DB Form Creator 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103905/
PHP DB Form Creator is a set of PHP scripts to help manage a HTML form
to administer data in MySQL and PostgreSQL. It features easy
management, customization, easy drop-down lists, filters, images,
regular expressions, and more.
ProFTPD 1.2.7RC3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103913/
ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written from
scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of
configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on
the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax,
modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including
support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and
permission-based directory visibility.
ProxyAuth 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103895/
ProxyAuth is a transparent Web authentication daemon for FreeBSD,
NetBSD, and Linux. It uses the ipnat API and a small internal Web
server to prompt for a login and password. If the login and password
are correct, it creates an ipnat rule that redirects all Web packets to
the proxy port.
pthrlib 3.0.15 (stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103931/
pthrlib is a comprehensive library and toolkit allowing programmers to
easily and quickly write small, fast, HTTP/1.1-compliant Web servers in
C. It includes examples, full manual pages documenting every function,
and a production quality micro-webserver called rws.
qconfirm 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103918/
qconfirm is an implementation of a delivery confirmation process for a
mail address or ezmlm mailing list. It is invoked by qmail-local
through a .qmail file, and can reduce the amount of junk mail hitting a
mailbox or the mailboxes of mailing list subscribers.
QuickASCII 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103900/
QuickASCII is a movie player and picture viewer that works in your
commandline, converting movies into ASCII animation on the fly.
referer logger 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103915/
referer logger is a simple statistic system written in PHP. It logs all
incoming hits to your site and stores referers. It can display a list
of top-referring domains and a list of most recent referring sites.
ReViewer 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103939/
ReViewer is an image viewer in Rebol that lets you view and sort
images, drag and drop thumbnails, and build a Web site with your
images.
S tar 1.5a09 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103925/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes
POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives.
Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It
saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for
speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive
sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags,
automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition,
automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and
special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental
backups. It includes the only known platform independent
"rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The
"rmt" server from the star package implements all
Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client
from any OS to contact any OS as server.
Scoutplans 4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103901/
Scoutplans was originally developed as a method for Scout units to
share calendars with each other. It has evolved into a general-purpose
calendar (called "Plans") with many useful features. These
include recurring events, support for multiple organizations, merged
calendars, event icons, "skinnable" stylesheet-based look
& feel, MS outlook export, online help, and more.
SpeedDemon Internet Accelerator 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103911/
SpeedDemon is an Open Source Java tool to accelerate your Internet
downloads. It works by downloading different parts of a file
simultaneously and then recombines them to a location you specify. It
also allows you to resume disconnected downloads. If you specify mirror
links, SpeedDemon will download the file such that the load on the
servers are evenly distributed. It has been designed to support
different protocols; support for any protocol can be developed by just
implementing an Interface, packing it into a JAR file, and then copying
the JAR file into a specific directory.
Stuffed Tracker 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103924/
Stuffed Tracker is used to track Return on Investment. It might be very
useful for any site that uses advertising to attract visitors and that
have some sort of ordering process (registration, selling products,
etc.). With the help of the Stuffed Tracker, the site owner can learn
how many visitors that came from online advertising were converted into
customers (i.e., registered, bought something, etc.).
SynCE 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103947/
The purpose of the SynCE project is to provide a means of communication
with a Windows CE or Pocket PC device from a computer running Linux,
*BSD, or another Unix system.
The XSLT C library for GNOME 1.0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103922/
Libxslt is a C library for GNOME which allows developers to work with
XSLT. It is based on libxml for XML parsing, tree manipulation, and
XPath support. It is written in plain C, making as few assumptions as
possible, and sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX for easy embedding. It
should work on Linux, Unix, and Windows. Though not designed primarily
with performances in mind, libxslt seems to be a relatively fast
processor. It also include full support for the EXSLT set of extension
functions as well as some common extensions present in other XSLT
engines.
WebGUI 4.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103898/
WebGUI is a platform built to allow average business users to build and
maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform
independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content
to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time
of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an
intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer.
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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