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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
Attempts To Stop Music Sharing Pointless?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/24/0546213
job0 writes "An interesting [0]paper (Word document) has been submitted
by some Microsoft employees (although they are careful to state that
that the views are theirs and not necessarily MicrosoftÂs) to the
[1]2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management stating that attempts
by the record industry to stop music copying will fail simply because
a) the growth and availability of affordable broadband and cheap data
storage devices and b )ability of users to circumvent any DRM measures
means that the number of people willing to swap is growing and will
soon outstrip attempts to shut them down. The paper goes to suggest
that the record industry should concentrate their efforts on trying
music cheaper and easier to get hold off. I wonder if Hilary and
friends have had a read. The BBC is [2]also carrying the story."
(OpenOffice has no problem with the paper, btw.)
Links
0. http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc
1. http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2502399.stm
AMD Announces A Shift In Focus From PC Processors
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/24/0556252
[0]slughead writes "Forbes Magazine is reporting that AMD [1]will no
longer compete with Intel to make faster, smaller, and more efficient
processors. Just as Mac users would be worse off if Windows didn't
exist, Intel users will be much worse now that AMD will no longer
compete. You see, there's this thing called demand, and when there are
no competing products in a market, a good or service will always
increase the price to the economic equilibrium, unless forced not to by
the state (forget that right now, communists!!). In English: you're
going to get less new technology, and higher prices on existing
technology." On the other hand, AMD is definitely not exiting the chip
business -- they're just trying to branch out from chips for
microcomputers.
Links
0. http://www.tenthousandpercent.com
1. http://www.forbes.com/newswire/2002/11/19/rtr799607.html
Defense Department 'eDNA' Plan Withdrawn
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/24/0143254
An anonymous reader points out this [0] report on News.com from Declan
McCullagh of a far-reaching plan (now withdrawn) to curtail much online
privacy through the use of biometric markers, excerpting "The idea
involved creating secure areas of the Internet that could be accessed
only if a user had such a marker, called eDNA, according to a report in
Friday's New York Times." Perhaps they'll withdraw the [1]plan to track
everything you buy next.
Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/838773.asp?0si=-
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/09/2242250&tid=158
Please Don't Ask Me About Windows On Christmas
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/2353217
Like many Slashdot users I spend a wee bit of my otherwise leisure time
doing gratis tech support for people I may not even know. I usually
donÂt mind too much but last Christmas I got more than one call from
distant relatives that, along with wanting to spread holiday cheer, had
me weigh in on whatever might be wrong with their new gadget. I was
pleased as punch to see [0]this article in the [1]NYT (F.R.Y.Y.Y) about
where I might be able to send the less techo hip. If you do *Windows*
tech support for grandma after hours this article might also come in
handy." Here are a couple of [2]previous [3]articles about the sorry
state of conventional support options -- perhaps articles like this
will spark some entrepreneurial ideas, too.
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/21/technology/circuits/21supp.html
1. http://www.nytimes.com/
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/28/1755252&tid=126
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/0234212&tid=99
Software For Ransom
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/2313213
[0]rbp writes "I just received a message from Adam Theo on the
[1]Jabber [2]Developers Mailing List about what he calls [3]"The Ransom
Model" for software publishing. The principle, according to the above
linked site, is that the "rights to the source code remain restricted
until a set amount of money is collected or a set date passes, at which
point the code is freed". Seems like a very interesting way to make
money and produce free software. I think it's worth discussion. Take a
look at the [3]Ransom Model webpage and join the [4]Ransom mailing
list! (You might also be interested in recent news about [5]Blender)"
Reader Apreche adds a link to a [6]Freshmeat editorial piece which
draws on Theo's idea, writing "This has some obvious problems, but it
is worth discussing. The biggest problem I see is where vaporware fits
into the equation."
Links
0. mailto:rbp@isnomor[ ]et ['e.n' in gap]
1. http://www.jabber.org/
2. http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
3. http://www.theoretic.com/?Ransom
4. http://mailman.autopackage.org/mailman/listinfo/ransom
5. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/13/1754204&tid=117
6. http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/636/
Portable.NET Now 100% Free Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/2214215
rhysweatherley writes "Finally after months of hard work and bucket
loads of caffeine, the [0]DotGNU community has finally got
[1]Portable.NET to the point of building our C# libraries on many Free
Software platforms with our own C# compiler. This is a big deal!
Portable.NET is now 100% pure Free Software, with no dependencies on
third party C# tools. The compiler, which is written in C, bootstraps
off gcc, so there are no icky 'how to compile the compiler' problems.
And it's fast! The DotGNU team consists of lots of contributors, many
of whom are coincidentially named 'Rhys Weatherley,' but this wouldn't
have been possible without the support of the DotGNU community,
especially the Weekend Warriors. .NET is not the only thing we are
doing. We're playing around with JVM and Parrot (of perl6 fame)
backends to the compiler. And we have a C compiler front-end that
generates pure bytecode apps that can run on any decent CIL
implementation (Portable.NET, Mono, etc). We are about 95% of the way
towards our first milestone of an ECMA-compatible C# implementation.
There are lots of things still to be done in the low-level C#
libraries, runtime engine, and the compiler. So, if you have some time
on your hands, and like messing with languages and stuff, like yours
truly ... have look and maybe have some fun!"
Links
0. http://www.dotgnu.org/
1. http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html
Genesi Introduces Dedicated MorphOS PCs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/1945241
[0]Velcro_SP writes "When was the last time a company had the nerve to
attempt a worldwide introduction of an all-new desktop computer with
dedicated OS? Genesi has been demonstrating [1] prototypes all around
Europe, most recently in Poland, in the USA, and is even making noise
about Moscow. Throwing all caution to the wind they are moving past
beta stage, announcing the [2]consumer release scheduled to occur at an
Aachen, Germany convention on December 7th and 8th. The Pegasos is a
PPC processor-based computer designed and manufactured in Europe. It
runs MorphOS, a PPC OS based on the Quark microkernel."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://linux.tc3net.com/daclmi/three.html
2. http://www.morphos-news.de/
Lik-Sang To Take On The Big 3?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/1848253
[0]kableh writes "According to a [1]press release on [2]Lik-Sang's
website, the gaming accessory company has new management, and is
prepared to mount a strong defense in their upcoming lawsuit against
Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. "Just a few days after having received
High Court Orders not allowing us to sell Mod Chip products for the
Playstation 2 and Flash Linker products for the Nintendo Gameboy
Advance, Lik Sang realized that the powers of those three multi-billion
dollar corporations are simply infinite compared to the budgets and
resources businesses like Lik Sang have available. Their legal actions
have been hurting our customers and our business a lot in the last
couple of weeks, so that we have finally decided to let somebody else
take over Lik-Sang.com and solely concentrate on the lawsuit", says
Alex Kampl, Director of Lik Sang International Limited."
Links
0. http://mack at rebellands dot net
1. http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=2712
2. http://www.lik-sang.com/
Library Censorware Blocks Own Site
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/1912212
squiggleslash writes "The Daily Dayton News reports that a
demonstration of a new website for a library in Piqua, Ohio, [0]went
horribly wrong when the site was blocked by the library's own
censorware. Why? Because the library, founded by and named after
businessman Leo Flesh 70 years earlier, had the domain name
www.fleshpublic.lib.oh.us. And that key word, 'Flesh,' was a no-no as
far as Flesh Public Library's copy of Net Nanny was concerned." And for
an extra dose of tragicomic priority reversal, the library actually
decided to change its domain name rather than have Net Nanny fix the
erroneous blocking. I hope no one at the library wants to read about
the [1]fleshpots of Egypt.
Links
0. http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/daily/1122flesh.html
1. http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/hartman/customs.html
The Internet: Your Next Remote Control
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/1812231
[0]Makarand writes "According to this [1]article on NewsFactor, a
Hungarian company, Timothy Technologies, wants to turn the Internet
into a pervasive Remote Control. This device, called [2] FlatStack,
allows users to operate home appliances using the web. The FlatStack is
an entire web server on a tiny circuit board which can be connected to
the Internet and wired to the device needing remote control. Later
versions of FlatStack will connect to appliances wirelessly. The
FlatStack, with a variety of applications at home, can also be adapted
in offices, factories and agricultural settings. It is expected to sell
for around $75."
Links
0. mailto:{the-Junta(@)HotMail.}
1. http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20037.html
2. http://lea.hdsnet.hu/flatstack/
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
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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