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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
Gamecube Finally Plays GBA Games
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/0432205
[0]ytzombe writes "Gamespot News is reporting that for about 5000 yen
an [1]attachment will be available to play GBA games on the Gamecube.
The serial port underneath the system will be the gateway to the device
and will include a port to enable multiplayer games. This will finally
allow me to play the Castlevania games without fusing my naked retina
to the screen."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2897947,00.html
Putting P2P To Work
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/0330211
An anonymous reader writes "Looks like [0]some folks at IBM have had
moderate success in getting P2P adopted within the corporate
enterprise. One new paper on the site describes experiences in
deploying a decentralized search network spanning machines in 43
countries. Another describes a system for peer-to-peer sharing of
dynamic web applications instead of static files. The idea is to
support development and distribution of simple modules that themselves
form meta p2p networks. Neat."
Links
0. http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/bayardo/userv/
Microsoft vs. Modded Xboxes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/2121213
[0]hikeran writes "The Register has an article about how Xbox live
service is now apparently [1]banning Xboxes that have been mod chipped.
Basically it seems this is one of the many uses of those unique id's
used in Microsoft's software. Next up bannings for using foul language
on Xbox live service?? Be careful what you say.. you may be playing
with an Xbox Live admin..."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/28180.html
Which Desktop Distro Will Die First?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/2338210
Over at NewsForge, Roblimo asks the musical question of which of the
several recently released "desktop oriented" Linux distributions
[0]won't survive the coming year. It's nice to see user-centric
distributions at all, but it really is a niche market for now. Apropos
that, [1]psykocrime writes "The fine folks at [2]UnitedLinux have
issued a [3]Press Release announcing UnitedLinux 1.0. Should be
interesting to see whether this sinks or swims, considering the general
ambivalence (at best) or even outright hostility (at worst) that most
of the talk about United Linux has met, from the Linux community.
Questions about GPL compliance, per-set licensing terms, etc... is this
the future or Linux or just another albatross?" And [4]J. J. Ramsey
writes "[5]BeyondUnreal reviews not only [6]Xandros Desktop's
installation, but also shows what this distro's $99 price tag actually
gets you. [7]Read more here. [8]LinuxPlanet also has an [9]in-depth
review of its own."
Links
0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/11/19/2211211.shtml?tid=23
1. http://www.cpphacker.co.uk
2. http://www.unitedlinux.com/
3. http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.111902/223232577
4. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
5. http://www.beyondunreal.com/
6. http://www.xandros.com/
7. http://www.beyondunreal.com/content/articles/32_1.php
8. http://www.linuxplanet.com/
9. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4539/1/
Slashback: Newton, Wal-Mart, Eats
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/0133235
Slashback tonight brings you quick updates on the stolen copy of
Newton's Principia, Linux at Wal-Mart (dot com), Free software vs. free
software in India, and food for the desperate computerist. Read on!
Scientific American Reviews 'Simputer' PDA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/234216
[0]Bill Kendrick writes "The '[1]Simputer' (Simple, Inexpensive,
Multilingual Computer), a Linux-based PDA developed by the Indian
Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, and [2]released a few weeks
ago, has been [3]reviewed by Scientific American, and they seem to like
it!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.simputer.org/
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/27/0118252&tid=100
3. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000454AE-7675-1D7E-90FB809EC5880000
SGI NUMAflex Linux System On Display @ SC2002
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/1711257
[0]jarrod.smith writes " According to [1]SGI will unveil its Intel®
Itanium® 2 NUMAflex shared-memory [2]supercomputer architecture (which
runs Linux as its OS) at [3]Supercomputing 2002 which runs this week in
Baltimore, MD. The link at SGI says the system will be on display at
the show. The exhibit floor opens this evening. Unfortunately I did not
go this year. Can those lucky enough to be at the meeting scope it out
and post comments?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.sgi.com/features/2002/nov/hpc
2. http://hpc.devchannel.org/
3. http://www.sc2002.org/
Report from the ACM DRM Workshop
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/2054212
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "There's open skepticism from researchers
about the ability of DRM to solve Hollywood's copy protection problems.
Read [1]Edward Felten's review here... [2]Papers from the workshop are
available online as well."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000199.html
2. http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/prog.html
Fact and Fiction Behind Bond's Gadgets
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/1850221
bubblegoose writes "With the [0]new 007 movie coming out soon MSNBC is
running a story about [1]some of the fact and fiction behind the Bond
gadgets."
Links
0. http://www.jamesbond.com/
1. http://www.msnbc.com/news/835195.asp
Organizing Sim Protests
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/175232
Shadow Wrought writes "[0]Alternet has an article about how to go about
protesting McDonald's in the Sims Online universe. According to the
story "A deal struck between Sims publisher Electronic Arts and the
fastfood mega-corporation allows Sims players to open up their own
McDonald's kiosk and improve their game stats by consuming McD's greasy
goodies." This then tells how to vent any rage that such may conjure.
Mayhaps a venue to protest other issues as well?"
Links
0. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14530
Freshmeat
C++ Elliptic Curve Cryptography library 0.4.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104048/
Libecc is a C++ elliptic curve cryptography library that supports
fixed-size keys for maximum speed. The goal of this project is to
become the first free Open Source library providing the means to
generate safe elliptic curves, and to provide an important source of
information for anyone with general interest in ECC.
Crypt Class 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103960/
Crypt Class is a wrapper around the libmcrypt functions that offers a
simplified interface and new features such as embedded IV. It provides
an easy way to encrypt and decrypt data, and automatically creates and
extracts IVs, storing them along with the encrypted string. It supports
all of the ciphers in libmcrypt, including Twofish, Blowfish, and AES,
and makes it easy to switch between them.
Directory administrator 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104018/
Directory administrator is a UNIX users and groups manager for LDAP
directory servers. It also allows you to manage your users' associated
address book information, per-server access controls, and Sendmail mail
routing. Its virtues are simplicity and user friendliness.
Dummynet 3.4-STABLE
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103959/
Dummynet is a flexible tool originally designed for testing networking
protocols, and since then (mis) used for bandwidth management. It
simulates/enforces queue and bandwidth limitations, delays, packet
losses, and multipath effects. It also implements a variant of Weighted
Fair Queueing called WF2Q+. It can be used on user's workstations, or
on FreeBSD machines acting as routers or bridges.
EXIF-O-Matic 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103996/
EXIF-O-Matic is a Java application that allows EXIF information tags
within the images created by digital cameras to be viewed and exported
to HTML or text. It is capable of processing folders of images.
FX-Zacman 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103944/
FX-Zacman is a maze game similar to Pacman. It uses the portable FOX
Toolkit library.
geskoctrl 0.2.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104042/
geskoctrl is an application to download/upload firmware for GESKO
PBXes. geskoctrl is also useful for controlling these PBXes.
GIMP Text Colorer 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104038/
GIMP Text Colorer is a GIMP plug-in that converts an image and the
desired source text into colored HTML/XHTML text.
googleware 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104054/
Googleware is a little Web application that let you request for several
queries to be regulary asked to Google. You will be notified by mail
each time a new entry is found, and you may browse query results with
any regular Web browser.
HTML Forms generation and validation 2002.11.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104036/
HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates HTML
forms supporting keyboard navigation, server side and client side field
validation, the ability to stop the user from submiting a form more
than once, sub-form validation, composition and generation of the HTML
output with fields displayed as fully accessible or in read-only mode,
generation of Javascript field related functions, and automatic
capitalization of the text of a field.
iptacct 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104063/
iptacct is an iptables/netfilter accounting tool written in perl. It
uses an XML configuration file and stores the data in a completely
user-configurable, modular way. You can use any backend you want to use
in order to store the data, instead of being forced by the software to
save the accounting data in a SQL database, a text file, or an RRD
database.
irssi 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104055/
Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode
frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no longer
being maintained.
Jaffm 0.4.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103955/
Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for
Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It
is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will
have Unix-handy features such as instant command execution, an
interactive location bar, and a simple but elegant user interface.
Jconsole 1.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104047/
Jconsole is a JMX console for JBoss that provides a pre-built Web
client for the JBoss application server. It deploys the JMX features of
JBoss.
JGraph 1.0.6 (For Java 1.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104041/
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.
kavi2svcd 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104001/
kavi2svcd is a GUI for generating MPEG files from an AVI file using
transcode and mplex. It then generates a Video CD image using vcdimager
and burns to CD with cdrdao. It can generate m1v, m2v, and mpa files,
multiplex the MPEG file, generate cue and bin files, and allows the
generated command lines to be edited before executing them.
kmuser 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104045/
kmuser is a User-Administration-Tool for the KDE-Desktop. It is
designed for administrating a school network. Therefore it has built in
a lot of useful features to manage many users and groups of users. If
the quota filesystem is installed on your system managing of user
quotas is supported as well.
libbadpenguin 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104049/
libbadpenguin is a small static library used in many utilities that are
part of the "Bad Penguin" GNU/Linux distribution. It provides
functions to manage the filesystem, doubly-linked lists (chains), the
terminal (cursor and color), and to handle TAR archives. The goal of
libbadpenguin is to speed up the development of console tools and
utilities without requiring big static libraries such as 'ncurses' or
'GNU glib'. It is intended to be as small as possibile in order to be
linked statically to avoid dependency problems.
libCapsiNetwork 0.2.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104056/
libCapsiNetwork is a C++ network library for fast development of server
daemons. Creating a server daemon is as easy as adding a few lines of
code and writing a handler function for input events.
libgringo and gringosh 3.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104052/
libgringo and gringosh is a library to writes applications that run
both in console (using ncurses) and under X-Window (using gtk).
libgringo detects if you are running from the console or under
X-Window, and selects the right library to use without recompiling your
code. gringosh is a parser that uses libgringo to replace cdialog. It
was written to make some configuration scripts work both in console and
under X-Window without any modification. gringosh also provides
features more powerfull than cdialog - for example, the ability to have
more than two buttons per form.
libhardware and scanmodule 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104051/
libhardware is a very small static library used in many utilities that
are part of Antonio Gallo's (AGX) GNU/Linux distribution, "Bad
Penguin". It provides functions to access information about your
system hardware, to detect the hardware, and to handle kernel modules
automatically. It is able to enumerate all PCI devices, enumerate all
EIDE disks and CDROMs, enumerate all SCSI disks and CDROMs, enumerate
all EIDE/SCSI disk partitions, and check if a detected device is
supported in the Linux kernel using a custom PCI database. The included
shell scripts 'probedisk' and 'probepart' detect disks, CDROMs, and
partitions. The included 'scanmodule' utility allows you to detect and
load kernel module automatically.
LibTPT 1.10.3 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104043/
TPT is a template scripting language implemented in C++. The LibTPT
parser transforms TPT templates into text. The parser, which integrates
with your C++ code through a simple class API, is small and fast,
focusing on functionality instead of rich feature sets. Uses include
on-the-fly HTML and source code generation.
Linux Intrusion Detection System 2.0.1 for 2.5.47 (LSM)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104016/
The Linux Intrusion Detection System (LIDS) is a patch which enhances
the kernel's security by implementing a reference monitor and Mandatory
Access Control (MAC). When it is in effect, chosen file access, all
system/network administration operations, any capability use, raw
device, memory, and I/O access can be made impossible even for root.
You can define which programs can access specific files. It uses and
extends the system capabilities bounding set to control the whole
system and adds some network and filesystem security features to the
kernel to enhance the security. You can finely tune the security
protections online, hide sensitive processes, receive security alerts
through the network, and more.
mod_authenticache 2.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103993/
mod_authenticache provides a simple and generic method for caching
authentication information on the client side in order to enhance
performance. It has been tested with several Basic HTTP authentication
modules, and has an Apache 2.0.x optional function exporter for caching
credentials from any custom authentication module.
NeoStats 2.5.0 RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104058/
NeoStats provides unique services to IRC via loadable modules. It does
not provide the traditional NickServ/ChanServ services, but instead
provides services like "HostServ", which can automatically
set a user's virtual host upon logging onto a IRC network, or
"StatServ", which can provide detailed statistics about the
network, individual servers, or channels, and produce an HTML page. It
also includes a number of "Fun" services, like
"LoveServ" and "MoraleServ". Additional modules are
available via the NeoStats Web site or through third party developers.
Currently, NeoStats supports UnrealIRCd, UltimateIRCD, Hybrid7, and
NeoIRCd, with more IRCD support being developed.
Open Proxy Scanning Bot 1.0RC3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104060/
open proxy scanning bot (formerly NeoBOPM) is a loadable module for the
NeoStats IRC Services. It scans clients connecting to the IRC network
for insecure proxies, and also looks up a DNS blacklist for previously
registered insecure proxies. It caches the results of scans to increase
perfomance, and with multiple bots, can be configured to load
balancing. It currently supports Hybrid7, Unrealircd, and Ultimate,
with support for other ircds planned.
OpenSSL 0.9.7 Beta 4 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104062/
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing
the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS
v1) as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.
Paketto Keiretsu 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103978/
The Paketto Keiretsu is a collection of tools that use new and unusual
strategies for manipulating TCP/IP networks. They tap functionality
within existing infrastructure and stretch protocols beyond what they
were originally intended for. It includes Scanrand, an unusually fast
network service and topology discovery system, Minewt, a user space
NAT/MAT router, linkcat, which presents a Ethernet link to stdio,
Paratrace, which traces network paths without spawning new connections,
and Phentropy, which uses OpenQVIS to render arbitrary amounts of
entropy from data sources in three dimensional phase space.
Pixory Beta-1.15 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104028/
Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store
your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums,
and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web
interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All
user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image
metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most
digital cameras and scanners.
PXES Linux Thin Client 0.5.1-9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104032/
PXES is a micro Linux distribution for thin clients that converts any
suitable machine into a versatile thin client within minutes. It can
access XDM servers presenting a graphical login screen, Microsoft
Terminal Servers, Citrix ICA, and VNC servers. A graphical
configuration tool allows parameters such as the server to be set.
Local devices can be accessed, including sound, printers, and disks. It
boots on a variety of hardware, and does not require NFS.
Q 4.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104025/
Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on
the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an
arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite
rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific
programming and other advanced applications, and also as a
sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the
Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing
to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode.
RAdmin 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104029/
RAdmin is a Web-based Radius user administration package that works
with Radiator and any SQL database on any platform. It provides pages
that allow you to add/change/remove users, and to view usage summaries,
online modems, service profiles, per-user and per-service Radius check
and reply items, and more. The pages available to end users provide
usage summaries and facilitate password changing.
Ragel State Machine Compiler 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104046/
Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular languages into
runnable C code. It allows you to embed actions at any point in your
regular language and to control the non-determinism in the resulting
machines. It understands concatenation, union (the "or"
operator), kleene star, subtraction, and intersection, as well as some
helpers like "!", "?" and "+". Ragel's
finite state machines are closed under all of its operators. This
property allows for arbitrary regular lanuages to be described. It can
be used to create a parser for any language that is regular.
rpm-update 2002-10-19 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104034/
rpm-update is a Python script that automates the downloading,
reporting, and installation of errata RPMs on a RedHat Linux
distribution. The goal of the utility is to be simple and transparent
(making it clear what it is doing) while still being easy to use. It
can be automated (via cron) or run interactively via the command line.
A configuration file is used to store commonly used options.
ServletSurvey 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104022/
Survey is a Web-based survey program that uses XML files to describe
surveys. It provides a friendly and powerful user interface without
requiring cookies or JavaScript, and a powerful rule system for
controlling user movement through the survey and conditional question
requirements. Answers are recorded in a database and can be exported to
CSV and HTML.
Share360 by Cybozu 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104015/
Share360 by Cybozu is an instant, cost-effective Web-based groupware
suite integrating a customizable intranet portal page with key
collaborative applications including document management, project
management, contact databases, a group scheduler, a bulletin board, a
to-do list, and Web-based email. A 60-day free trial download is
available.
shorten 3.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104027/
shorten is a lossy/lossless audio compressor.
sqlopus 3.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104026/
sqlopus is a Web interface for controlling up to 20 database servers.
It features total user and group management, server monitoring, and
scheduled generation of HTML, PDF, Excel, CSV, and XML reports. Reports
can be shared to other users within the same group or made publicly
visible, and can contain exceptionally advanced database diagrams. It
also supports "locked down" servers, large binary objects,
image thumbnails, remote backups, and overridable styles.
STPHPLibrary 0.8.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104044/
STPHPLib is a suite of software components for developing object
oriented Web-based applications. It uses PHP objects to encapsulate
common GUI controls such as the check box, radio button, and tool bars,
which are not necessarily present in HTML language, and allows them to
be used to create sophisticated Web applications.
Tnefclean 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104033/
tnefclean is a Perl script that allows users of any mail client to
receive email and attachments from MS Outlook and Exchange users
without having to decode winmail.dat files. Email is disassembled and
reassembled on the fly to make them conform more closely to accepted
standards.
XChat-XMMS 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104030/
XChat-XMMS allows XMMS to be controlled from within XChat. It can send
out messages to channels or other IRC users, and supports searching
playlists with Perl regular expresions, DCC transfers, understands MP3
and Ogg-Vorbis tags, caches playlists for quick searches, and allows
remote playlist browsing via /msg. It also supports auto- messages and
auto-topics.
Slashcode
Restricting Article Access?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/073238
I've just started up a new slash site, however one feature that I would
like, which doesn't seem to exist, is the ability to restrict users
from reading certain stories. I know this seems counter-productive,
however I have a valid reason. Namely that I have a subset of users who
have more privileges, and thus stuff applies to them that wouldn't
apply to regular users. It seems like the concept of a "security
level", which users have, might be an ideal way to restrict Article
viewing. I'm sure I can kludge something myself, but if there's already
a supported/good way to do this, then that would be great.
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?
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