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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
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Watches: onHand PC Watch
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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
Seattle Monorail & California High Speed Rail Move Forward
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/21/0156225
[0]bscottid writes "Woo-hoo! The [1]monorail passed in [2]Seattle!.
And, it was driven by an amazing grass-roots effort of people who saw a
way to use technology to get us moving again here in The Emerald City.
Everyone mark your calendars, because in 2007 you're invited up here to
take a quick, scenic ride around the beautiful city of Seattle! (Begin
Simpsons references now)" It's also worth pointing out that in the
recent california election, a [3]pair of bills were passed which put
aside approximately $10b for the construction of [4]California's high
speed rail project.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.elevated.org/
2. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/96307_monorail19ww.shtml
3. http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/whats_new/default.asp
4. http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/
Real Time Vehicle Tracking Made Easy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/21/017201
[0]Makarand writes "The [1]Washington Post has an [2]article about a
vehicle tracking system built by a start-up [3]10-20.com. The system
uses low orbit satellites for exchanging location information making it
available anywhere in the US. The tracking device, the size of a
paperback, can be installed in any vehicle and powered by a battery. A
small antenna installed on top sends signals to satellites marking its
position on a web-based map. The equipment costs around $1000 and
monthly fees range from $20 to $65. The service plan will determine how
often your position will be updated by the system. The tracking system
[4]FAQ on the company website is pretty detailed."
Links
0. mailto:{theJu-nta(@)HotMai-l}
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64808-2002Nov16.html
3. http://www.10-20.com/
4. http://10-20.com/faq.html
Delta 4 Inaugural Launch A Success
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/21/0055233
brandido writes "[0]Space.com is [1] reporting that the Delta 4 has
lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 5:40 pm EST. According to the
Article: 'Boeing's Delta 4 has lifted off from pad 37 at Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station. Everything appeared to be working normally with the
rocket as it made its initial climb out over the Atlantic Ocean during
the first minute.' It will now take the two-stage rocket some 37
minutes to deliver the Eutelsat W5 spacecraft to orbit, so keep your
fingers crossed all continues to go well.'" Looks like everything went
swimmingly well.
Links
0. http://www.space.com/
1. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html
Japan Takes A Look At Open Source Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/2137219
irish_spic writes " Accorting to this [0]AP story (in yahoo news), the
public management ministry is setting up a panel of scholars and
computer experts, including Microsoft officials in order to study the
use of Open Source software in the government. The article cites
concerns about costs and security as the reason for the study. Me
wonders if they are serious or just trying to get discounts from MS."
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=2&cid=528&u=/ap/20021120/ap_on_hi_te/japan_linux
Robots Approved For Cardiac Surgery
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/2134242
An anonymous reader writes "CNN has an article up on a [0]new robotic
heart-surgery system. By making 4 relatively small incisions into the
patients chest the [1]da Vinci Surgical System, guided by real
surgeons, uses its pencil sized "tools" to conduct several different
heart procedures including closed-chest coronary bypass surgery. By
operating on a patient with their chest closed, patient recovery times
have reduced from weeks to just days. Despite the robotic surgery
taking longer than traditional operations, this reduced recovery times
makes the robotic surgery cost less overall than traditional open heart
surgery. Fortunately, if anything goes wrong with the robot, the human
surgeons can jump right in and pick up where the robot has stopped.
Already the robot (in place in over 130 hospitals world wide) has been
[2]FDA approved for Mitral Valve repair surgery. More insightful
[3]info on the da Vinci System here." It's [4]not the first such
system, either.
Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/11/19/heart.robots/index.html
1. http://www.vmmc.org/dbSurgery/sec146094.htm
2. http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/news_room/fda_clear.html#FDA
3. http://www.masc.cc/davinci.htm
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/28/2321245&tid=126
Armadillo Flies... Briefly
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/1534235
[0]david.given writes "[1]Armadillo Aerospace did their first
untethered test flight last week, at the [2]Oklahoma Spaceport, using
their new tube-shaped rocket. Predicted height was fifteen hundred
feet; unfortunately a computer failure caused the vehicle to tip over
and dive into the ground from a hundred feet up, causing severe damage
(i.e., it requires a rebuild, not a repair). See the [3]report and the
slightly depressing [4]video footage."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
2. http://www.okspaceport.state.ok.us/
3. http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=182
4. http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2002_11_16/flightUnsuccessful.mpg
Another Stab At Internet Access By Satellite
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/2024227
[0]dpilgrim writes "As someone who probably won't live long enough to
see DSL or cable Internet reach my rural neighborhood, I follow the
'Satellite Wars' pretty closely. Looks like [1]Echostar is claiming
once again they have a viable high-speed Internet access satellite
under construction. Really. They do. According to [2]this AP story,
they have pictures and all. The big news is that based on this 'new
evidence' the FCC has rescinded their revocation of Echostar's license.
Yes, this submission came to you 44,000 miles over Starband's satellite
link, and Starband is an Echostar partner. Wonder how long that
relationship will last?"
Links
0. http://digitalpilgrim.com
1. http://www.echostar.com/
2. http://apnews.myway.com//article/20021120/D7NDTATO0.html
An Informal Study Of K12 Classroom Software Costs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/1923249
[0]PGillingwater writes "Rob Lineweaver has written a concise
[1]summary of how much it would cost (and the savings that can be
achieved) to set up the (almost) complete infrastructure in the
Harrisonburg City Public Schools. He estimates that using commercial
packages instead of open source would have cost the K12 schools an
extra $27,000 in software license costs. More interestingly, he states
that this is not only about cost. He says: 'This makes it apparent that
not all of the benefit of open source software deployment in is the
form of cost savings; much of the benefit is in terms of capabilities
gained. In other words, through the use of free software, I am able to
do more within my budget than I could if I only had commercial
solutions available.'"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://staff.harrisonburg.k12.va.us/~rlineweaver/
Salon, Nearly No Money and Ultramercials
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/1629252
[0]Adam9 writes "As [1]Salon fights for survival, they have introduced
a new advertising program that allows you to receive a free 12 hour
pass by clicking through about 10 seconds of advertisements. Currently,
the advertisements are from Mercedes-Benz. According to the [2]article,
they've lost about $79.7 million from their start in 1995. They also
have about 45,000 subscribers right now." Jamie also pointed out this
[3]article from the WSJ, as well as the words from Salon [4]themselves
about it.
Links
0. http://www.darkfire.net/
1. http://www.salon.com/
2. http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/021119/salon_ads_1.html
3. http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,BT_CO_20021114_006015,00.html
4. http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2002/11/13/birthday/index.html
Retailers Swing DMCA To Stop "Black Friday" Sale Info
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/1753238
[0]zoid.com writes "It looks like a few of the big retailers have sent
out [1]DMCA notices to a few of the consumer deal sites. So now they
are claiming that sale prices are covered under the DMCA. I would like
to know what part of the DMCA states that you can not share the price
of merchandise. Also, why would they want to stop this free
advertising?"
Links
0. http://choward2zoid.com
1. http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=18&threadid=126042
Freshmeat
freshmeat's moving
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/631
As many of you might have followed along, all OSDN websites are being
moved from a co-location center from the east coast to a different
co-location center on the west coast. freshmeat's next (or last) to
move starting today, so if you see any service disruption, bear with us
as we move all machine duties from here to there. OSDN netop have
already duplicated the freshmeat cluster in the new center so moving
should actually not be very noticable for users. But as usual, one's
not always aware of all things that can possibly break. Thanks for your
attention and have a nice day.
aewm++ 1.0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104151/
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.
Aqua Data Studio 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104152/
Aqua Data Studio is an SQL editor and developer tool that allows
database structures to be browsed. and SQL scripts to be easily
created, edited, and executed. It provides an integrated database
environment with a single consistent interface to all major relational
databases, allowing DBAs and developers to tackle multiple tasks
simultaneously. The sophisticated Query Analyzer features RDBMS-
specific syntax highlighting and auto- completion, detailed client
statistical information, and multi-grid results. Table structure and
dependencies in the database schema can be viewed, and queries can be
saved in many formats, including HTML and XML.
BioConductor: software for bioinformatics 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104150/
Bioconductor is a set of packages for R (a GPLd statistical data
analysis language) which focus on bioinformatics data analysis,
especially gene expression arrays (Affymetrix, cDNA spotted arrays).
There are tools for statistical normalization, differential expression,
genomic visualization, and biological annotation. Future work includes
implementation and development of better statistical methods,
distributed computing, visualization, and extensions to related
high-throughput laboratory assays. The primary developers are research
statisticians.
Brain Storm 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104130/
Brain Storm is a chess engine that is able to play unusual versions of
chess, such as Synchron and 3D chess.
cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels 2.4.19-fnk12 (2.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104156/
cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels provide patchsets that focus on
optimizations, bugfixes, and security enhancements to the current
stable Linux Kernel. They are suitable for workstation or high-end
server use in both production and development environments.
Coriander 0.27 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104174/
Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394 digital video camera
interactively. It features SDL display, FTP image posting, file saving,
and Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for consumer grade DV
cameras.
Crystal Mud Client 0.1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104142/
Crystal is an adequate MUD client. At first glance it looks like
telnet, but has full line editing and scrollback, character set
conversion support, Unicode support, prompt grabbing, xterm titlebar
setting, and windowsize negotiation. It's got support for a decent
subset of ANSI, and properly ignores things it doesn't recognise.
cvscop 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104158/
cvscop is a CVS policy program that is launched by the CVS
administrative files, commitinfo, loginfo, taginfo, and verifymsg. It
can deny CVS actions or launch external scripts based on the configured
rule set. Rules can ensure that commit comments follow specified
formats, restrict which users can delete tags, and much more.
Docker 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104173/
Docker is a docking system tray that allows KDE and GNOME system tray
applications to be run without needing to run a KDE/GNOME panel. It was
primarily designed for Openbox 2, but should work in any window manager
that supports WindowMaker Dock Apps. The window manager also needs to
support the KDE system tray protocol for KDE icons to work.
DRT 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104161/
DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications
running under X Windows. The tool automatically captures actions
performed while using such an application. Functions particularly
relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the action itself is
described visually from fragments of the application display. One can
search and browse these actions to learn about the design of an
application.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104185/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web
interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with
the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be
categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on
these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new
entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C
program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in
plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
Graphics cm 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104088/
Graphics cm is a tool for plotting graphs of mathematical functions
such as "y=sin(x)" and "y=x^(sin|x|)". or others.
It operates in a manner similar to gnuplot and is very accurate.
hping2 2.0.0-rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104171/
hping2 is a network tool able to send custom ICMP/UDP/TCP packets and
to display target replies like ping does with ICMP replies. It handles
fragmentation and arbitrary packet body and size, and can be used to
transfer files under supported protocols. Using hping2, you can: test
firewall rules, perform [spoofed] port scanning, test net performance
using different protocols, packet size, TOS (type of service), and
fragmentation, do path MTU discovery, tranfer files (even between
really Fascist firewall rules), perform traceroute-like actions under
different protocols, fingerprint remote OSs, audit a TCP/IP stack, etc.
hping2 is a good tool for learning TCP/IP.
Jmol 5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104180/
Jmol is a Free, Open Source molecule viewer and editor. It is a
collaboratively developed visualization and measurement tool for
chemical scientists. Jmol is an active project, and there are new
features being added to it on a daily basis. Users are encouraged to
modify it to fit their needs and to contribute their changes to the
project.
Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104099/
The Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler is a multi-platform Occam 2.1
compiler that is designed to allow the Occam programming language to be
used on non-Transputer platforms.
libxml++ 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104182/
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.
NGSecureWeb 2.10 (NGSA)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104165/
NGSecureWeb is a security module for Web Servers. It acts as an HTTP
IDS/firewall, preventing security bugs from being exploited. It has the
ability to check for shellcodes (even polymorphic ones), buffer
overflows, forbidden words, long URLs, long GET arguments, long POST
arguments, long HEADERS, etc., in the HTTP request. If the IDS engine
detects a possible attack, the firewall engine stops the request. The
Apache, Netscape Enterprise/IPlanet, and IIS Web servers are supported.
Openbox 2.2.1 (Testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104162/
Openbox is a window manager with an enhanced Blackbox style-engine that
supports the KDE and GNOME2 desktop environments and their
applications. It provides a familiar environment to Blackbox users with
added customizability. The key handler, epist, provides full
key-chain-combo support, support for bindings without modifiers, and
the ability to pop up Openbox menus.
Phrame 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104115/
Phrame is a Web development platform for PHP that is based on the
design of Jakarta Struts. It provides a basic Model-View- Controller
architecture, and adds standard components such as HashMap, ArrayList,
and Stack.
procps 3.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104157/
procps is a package of utilities which report on the state of the
system, including the states of running processes, amount of memory
available and currently-logged-in users.
PycURL 7.10.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104164/
PycURL is a Python module interface to the cURL library. PycURL can be
used to fetch objects identified by an URL within a Python program.
py_ecc 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104092/
py_ecc is an implementation of Reed-Solomon codes, which are used for
erasure correction, and a collection of routines for finite field
arithmetic and generic matrix operations. Erasure correcting codes let
you divide information, such as a file or a packet, into n pieces, of
which k are required for reconstruction. It provides a clear, easy to
understand reference for other implementations of linear error
correcting codes, and contains extensive documentation and a number of
detailed examples and tests.
retawq 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104160/
retawq is a multi-threaded Web browser for text terminals on computers
with Unix-like operating systems. It is fast, small, nicely
configurable, and comfortable; e.g. the low-level network
communications are performed in a non-blocking way, and you can keep
open as many "virtual windows" as you want and work
simultaneously in two of them in a split-screen mode.
rip 1.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104159/
Rip is a commandline-based Perl script which rips Compact Disc tracks
to either Motion Picture Expert Group Layer 3 (MP3) files, Ogg Vorbis
files, or FLAC files without user intervention between the steps of
ripping. It supports cdparanoia and cdda2wav for ripping, BladeEnc,
LAME, notLAME, and GOGO for WAV to MP3 encoding, oggenc for WAV to Ogg
Vorbis encoding/tagging, FLAC for WAV to flac encoding. In addition, it
supports CDDB for automatic renaming of files and MP3::Info for MP3
tagging.
RKWard 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104111/
RKward provides an extensible, easy to use GUI for the R project, which
will one day seamlessly integrate with KOffice. It attempts to combine
the power of the R language with the relative ease of use of commercial
tools such as SPSS.
Securepoint Firewall and VPN Server 3.051 (Securepoint3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104175/
Securepoint Firewall and VPN Server is a high-performance application
designed to offer full protection for network assets. The Security
Manager offers a graphical user interface with many features, different
configurations, and advanced reporting functions. The Securepoint
server is a complete firewall and VPN software system with an operating
system based on a secure Linux. VPN operation supports PPTP and IPSec
(X.509 certificates, preshared, RSA signature). You can use the
firewall on a standard PC with 2 to 16 network cards (including
Ethernet, ADSL, ISDN). It is very easy to install and administer. The
Securepoint Security Manager is available in English, German, and
Spanish, and works in online and offline mode.
sipsak 0.7.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104168/
sipsak is a command line tool for performing various tests on Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP) applications and devices. It can make 4
different tests, send the contents of a file, and interpret and react
on the responses.
Subversion 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104155/
The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system
that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community.
Tksql 0.7.17 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104167/
Tksql allows you to edit the tables of PostgreSQL databases. You can
use it from the shell prompt, specifying the name of a table, or an SQL
satement, or just the name of a database. It has filter capabilities
which are very easy to use. Two views are possible (tables and form)
and both views can coexist. Tksql can edit a join of two tables
(limited to the first of such tables). Totals and subtotals can be done
quickly, and displayed inline with the data or in a separate window.
Queries can be created in no time and all working conditions can be
saved at once (comprising subtotals, relative time constraints, layout,
etc.).
ToDo Manager 0.66.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104154/
ToDo Manager is a simple task manager that is easier to deal with than
keeping track of pieces of paper or text files. The interface is
designed to be uncluttered and easy to navigate while still having most
of the functionality you would expect. It is written in Python.
W3Mail 1.0.6a (Version 1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104172/
W3Mail is Webmail server application. It allows an organization to give
its email users Web access to their POP3 email. It provides support for
address books and MIME attachments.
Westhawk's SNMP stack in Java 4.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104176/
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.
white_dune 0.20beta114 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104181/
VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modelling Language) is the ISO standard for
displaying 3D data over the web via browserplugins. It has support for
animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound).
Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the
scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml
format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators.
It also has support for stereoscopic view via
"quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.
Xfstt 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104040/
Xfstt means "X11 Font Server for TT fonts". TT fonts are
generally regarded to be the best scalable fonts for low resolution
devices like screens. Examples where good scalable fonts improve the
visual quality considerably are netscape(tm), gimp and java(tm). A
fonts.properties file for use with java is provided. Xfstt is freely
available under the LGPL.
XQF 0.9.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104153/
XQF is Quake/QuakeWorld/Quake2/Quake3 server browser and launcher for
Linux/X11. It's a frontend to QStat, a program by Steve Jankowski. XQF
uses the GTK+. For more information, screenshots, source code,
precompiled binaries, see the XQF Homepage.
XStow 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104184/
XStow is a replacement for GNU Stow written in C++. It supports all
features of Stow with some extensions. XStow and GNU Stow are programs
for managing the installation of software packages. It keeps each
package in its own directory while making it appear that all packages
are installed in the same place. Unlike GNU Stow, XStow does not depend
on Perl, and can be compiled statically for such uses as rescue disks.
XStow is fully compatible with GNU Stow, meaning that you can switch
from one to the other at will.
Slashcode
What exactly is isolation mode for?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/074249
Each section has an isolation mode property, that determines (I think)
wether or not sories from that section will be displayed on the front
page or not. In addition, each story has it's own DisplayMode property,
that, in effect, does the same thing. Which takes precedence? If Slash
always uses the individual story's displaymode to determine whether to
display the story, what's the point of the section-level isolation
mode?
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.
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