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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
WineX (And Warcraft3) On FreeBSD
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/29/063229
[0]Dan writes "[1]Kenneth Culver has implemented the Linux ftruncate64,
truncate64, and mmap2 syscalls in the linuxulator on his computer,
(mostly cut 'n pasted the mmap2 from regular mmap with a couple of
changes) and with these changes it is possible to [2]run the Linux
version of WineX (the one you have to pay for) to run Warcraft 3 on
FreeBSD." If WineX is interesting to you, this earlier article on
[3]playing Windows games with WineX (under Linux) may be worth a read.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4793
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/30/1219208&tid=125
ZDNet Australia Interviews Richard Alston
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/2253215
[0]ynotds writes "ZDNet Australia has an [1]interview with notorious
Australian IT Minister Senator Richard Alston which could even be read
as suggesting that he, like some others in the Australian government,
has learned a little about his portfolio during his 7 years at the
helm. He responds openly about his censorhip regime, lack of action
against spam and his antipathy towards [2]Electronic Frontiers
Australia but refuses to get into details on cyberterrorism response
and security expenditure."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000024993,20270255,00.htm
2. http://www.efa.org.au/
Linux Kernel 2.4.20 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/29/0343249
[0]punkmac writes "It's that time again to do the thing we all love to
do, compile your shiny new kernel. This time its [1]2.4.20. The
[2]changelog can be found at the usual places, and please use a
[3]mirror for all your downloads"
Links
0. http://www.punkmac.com/
1. http://www.kernel.org/
2. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.20
3. http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/
Hark! I Hear a Dropped Packet!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/29/0017255
aarondsouza writes "The [0]New Scientist has an article about [1]Chris
Chafe, a cellist and director of the [2]Center for Computer Research in
Music and Acoustics at Stanford University in California, who has the
idea that one can use sound as an audible measure of the health of an
internet connection. By sending a bunch of sound pulses across the line
and measuring echo time, an average ping time of 10ms would be heard as
a 100Hz tone. The idea is that the human ear is much more sensitive to
variations in pitch, and thus "listening" to the connection would be a
better indicator of its health. The article is short on technical specs
but the project page ([3]SoundWIRE) has more."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993112
1. http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~cc/
2. http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/
3. http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/soundwire/
Problems With OEM ATI Cards And ATI's Linux Driver
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/2237218
[0]Doug Bostrom writes "Over at [1]FlightGear.org, Andy Ross
[2]describes how ATI's new Linux drivers only seem to work with
"official" ATI cards (made by ATI), why that does not make sense, and a
possible [3]fix that unfortunately would mean booting Windows, if only
for a few minutes."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.flightgear.org/
2. http://seneca.me.umn.edu/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2002-November/013461.html
3. http://www.xcl-clan.com/
24 Hours Of Beethoven's 9th Symphony
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/1249251
[0]Ermintrude the Flying Cow writes "Ever wonder what "Ode to Joy"
would sound like if stretched to 24 hours? Now you can find out. [1]9
Beet Stretch is the result of running Beethoven's 9th Symphony in a
digital stretching program, turning the one hour piece into a 24 hour
attention span acid test. Thankfully, for those of us who know our
limits, it's been cut into 19 parts."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.notam02.no/9/index.html
Interview With Martin Fowler
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/2044248
[0]Arjen writes "[1]Artima has had a conversation with [2]Martin
Fowler, one of the gurus on software development today. It consists of
six parts. Parts [3]one, [4]two, [5]three, and [6]four are available
now; the rest will appear the next weeks."
Links
0. http://poutsma AT yahoo DOT com
1. http://www.artima.com/
2. http://www.martinfowler.com/
3. http://www.artima.com/intv/refactor.html
4. http://www.artima.com/intv/principles.html
5. http://www.artima.com/intv/evolution.html
6. http://www.artima.com/intv/flexplex.html
British To Release UFO Files
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/2021250
[0]Sean Stidman writes "Looks like the Brits are [1]planning to release
their secret files on many UFO sightings, including the famous
[2]Rendlesham Forest incident. These files should be ready for download
by the end of this week, which I guess means by tomorrow. Are their
servers going to be able to handle the load?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20021128/sc_nm/space_ufos_dc
2. http://www.unexplained.info/directory/aliens_and_ufos/rendlesham_forest/
When Personalization Runs Amuck
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/150213
pamar writes "According to this [0]article from the Wall Street
Journal, your TiVo could definitely get the wrong impression about your
interests, or even your sexual preferences. And what you need to do to
get "a clean slate"? Most of the users who have been "targeted" by TiVo
usually try to "correct" the profiling by showing an abnormal interest
in something wildly different." Yep, it's a dupe.
Links
0. http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1038261936872356908,00.html
Software Choice Group Tells DOD Not to Use Open Source
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/1358233
[0]ducomputergeek writes "A group calling themselves the Initiative for
Software Choice, backed by Microsoft and others, is [1]recommending
that the DOD drop plans for further adoption of Open Source software.
This comes after MITRE, a defense contractor, published a report
stating that not only does the Department of Defense use opensource,
but is recommend on using it more. The article is at News.com and you
can read it here."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975578.html?tag=fd_top
Freshmeat
Ampoliros 3.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104924/
Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web
applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface.
It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment
system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast
deployment of Web solutions.
Aphex-][ 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104913/
Aphex-][ is a clean and elegant theme for Enlightenment DR16. It is an
update to the author's previous aphex theme, with new fonts and window
borders, and improved readability and usability.
Bubbling Load Monitor Applet 2.0.1 (Gnome 2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104912/
The Bubbling Load Monitor (or "Bubblemon" for short) is a
system load monitor for the GNOME panel. It looks like a vial
containing water. The water level indicates how much (electronic)
memory is in use. The color of the liquid indicates how much swap space
is used. The amount of bubbles reflects the system CPU load. A message
in a bottle indicates there is unread mail. A reed-like graph shows
network load.
BW-IPFM 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104954/
BW-IPFM uses ipfm log files to generate easy-to-read reports. It can
provide daily and monthly reports and reports for a specific period.
Cerberus Helpdesk 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104938/
Cerberus Helpdesk is an email response system built to diminish the
need for redundant, time-consuming human interaction with your
customers. The system is built to allow your support/sales/billing/etc.
department to react quickly to inbound customer email inquiries. It was
written originally as a trouble ticket system.
DocTaur 0.86 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104940/
DocTaur is a developer's directory useful for searching in and
classifying documentation, reference manuals, etc. It can search in one
or all directories. It is easy to add (remove) documentation to (from)
a directory. It is powered by ht://Dig.
EtherMux Server 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104230/
Ethermux is a DMX512 lighting remote control application which is based
on a client-server model. The client is run on a PocketPC based device
(such as an iPaq), while the server is run on a Linux based PC running
DMX4Linux and a DMX interface card.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104937/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable
script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done
through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall
is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic
shaping, and more.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104925/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by
both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured
documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The
program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts.
It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra
systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language,
which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs,
and even to extend the editor.
GPG-Ezmlm encrypted mailing list 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104895/
GPG-Ezmlm contains a set of scripts which adds the ability to handle
OpenPGP-encrypted email to Ezmlm. Email encrypted to the list key is
re-encrypted to the keys of the subscribers. Key exchange during list
subscription is supported.
grafist 1.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104936/
Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth
utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev
file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily,
weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it
executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a
summary for each file. Grafist currently supports the English, Turkish,
Russian, German, Azeri, French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Arabic,
and Greek languages.
Gringotts 1.3.0pre2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104933/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data
(passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read,
easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use
of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among
eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256,
SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing
algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and
BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to
use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative
to the usual text string, giving additional choices.
gsieve 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104944/
gsieve is a Sieve script editor with a GNOME/GTK frontend. It is
written in Python and has multi-language support.
JRoar 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104945/
JRoar is a streaming sever for Ogg in pure Java. It casts live Ogg
streams to Ogg Vorbis players as IceCast2 does and shouts live Ogg
streams to IceCast2 and JRoar. JRoar also accepts live Ogg streams from
Ices. The uniqueness of JRoar is that JRoar works as a proxy for live
Ogg streams and enables you to share single stream with others.
KEGS 0.63 (KEGS-SDL)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104917/
KEGS is an actively-developed Apple II emulator, originally written for
HP workstations, improved and customized for Linux. It runs under X at
any display depth, and supports changable memory sizes, joysticks, and
sound. KEGS boots all Apple II OS variants, and supports all of the
Apple II's graphics modes. It requires a copy of the Apple II system
ROMs.
KEGS 0.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104916/
KEGS is an actively-developed Apple II emulator, originally written for
HP workstations, improved and customized for Linux. It runs under X at
any display depth, and supports changable memory sizes, joysticks, and
sound. KEGS boots all Apple II OS variants, and supports all of the
Apple II's graphics modes. It requires a copy of the Apple II system
ROMs.
KnowIt 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104952/
KnowIt is a simple KDE tool for managing notes in a manner similar to
TuxCards. Notes are organized in tree-like hierarchy and can store data
in a rich text format, so that bold, italics, and lists are supported,
as well as any character set.
libwebserver 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104951/
libwebserver is a library for adding Web-based remote interfaces to
your programs. It is independent of other Web servers, easy to use, and
supports HTTPS with OpenSSL.
LightGrey 0.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104896/
LightGrey is a very clean theme that's easy on the eyes.
MacOS9 for Metacity 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104901/
MacOS9 for Metacity is a set of MacOS 9 themes, icons, and backgrounds.
MasarLabs NoArp 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104950/
MasarLabs NoArp is a Linux kernel module that filters and drops
unwanted ARP requests. It is useful when you need to add an alias to
the loopback interface to use a load balancer.
MasqMail 0.2.17 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104948/
MasqMail is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) designed for hosts that are not
permanently connected to the Internet. It handles outgoing messages
specially and delivers them only when explicitely told to do so in the
ip-up script. It can also retrieve mail via pop3. It has support for
multiple providers. When offline, it behaves like any MTA (like, for
example, sendmail, though it's not as powerful as sendmail).
MiddleMan 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104949/
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to
remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like
configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to
filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies
to and from certain sites, redirect requests, and even manipulate the
contents of a Web page or file using the built-in rewrite feature or an
external program. It fully implements the HTTP 1.1 protocol, including
persistent connections, and can forward requests through another proxy
or SOCKS4 firewall.
N-View 2.3a (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104928/
N-View is a network monitor for small and medium-sized networks. It
features automatic scanning of subnets for host addresses, monitoring
of ICMP responses from all hosts, signalling of timeouts and delays in
the GUI and by mail, a portscanner, an SNMP client (MIB browser and
trap receiver), a graphical display of network traffic for network
interfaces, connectivity to hosts by telnet, HTTP browser, or an
arbitrary external program (such as ssh), printing of network diagrams,
automatic generation of HTML pages, and more.
NAI VirusScan DAT/Engine file updater 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104934/
This script will check the local and remote VirusScan DAT/Engine file
versions. If there is a newer version available from NAI, it will
retrieve it and install it. A lot of checks are done to make very sure
you will always have a working DAT/Engine file.
neo-Portal 2 fx a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104943/
neo-Portal is a data presentation and delivery system. When data is
output in DHTML, it behaves like a portal. It features full i18n
localization support, OS, Web server, and database independence,
support for WSDL Web services, and output in XHTML, PDF, RSS, TXT, RTF,
WML, and more.
NGSecureWeb 2.10 (NGSNES)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104914/
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.
Note Editor 2.0.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104946/
Note Editor is an editor for music notation that supports an unlimited
number of staffs and up to 9 voices per staff. The import formats are
MIDI files, recorded from MIDI keyboards and TSE3. The export formats
are MIDI, MusiXTeX, LilyPond, PMX, MUP, and TSE3.
Pipe Viewer 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104930/
pv (Pipe Viewer) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress
of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline
between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data
is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it
is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
PowerDNS daemon 2.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104942/
PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a
host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads
information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases.
Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl
backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a
Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.
SMaNT 0.1 (Libraries)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104922/
SMaNT is a Systems Management and Network Toolkit. It makes it easy to
develop dynamic plugins to allow for interactive or scripted remote
access and configuration of a server or groups of servers via almost
any GUI, or from the command-line, in real time.
SMaNT 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104921/
SMaNT is a Systems Management and Network Toolkit. It makes it easy to
develop dynamic plugins to allow for interactive or scripted remote
access and configuration of a server or groups of servers via almost
any GUI, or from the command-line, in real time.
Steel Bank Common Lisp 0.7.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104941/
Steel Bank Common Lisp is a development environment for Common Lisp,
with support for almost all of the ANSI standard: garbage collection,
lexical closures, powerful macros, strong dynamic typing, incremental
compilation, and the Common Lisp object system (multimethods and all).
It also includes some extensions, such as an interface to call out to
C. These are all available through an integrated native compiler, plus
the usual Lispy integrated interpreter and high level debugging
support.
SuccubAmp 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104806/
SuccubAmp is a "nothing special" skin that works for both
XMMS and WinAmp.
SuperWaba 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104956/
SuperWaba is a JavaVM for handhelds. It can run in PalmOS and Windows
CE devices, and is fully emulated under JDK and browser. It has support
for exceptions, threads, lots of user interface controls, and double
and long 64-bit types. It has grayscale and color support, a beautiful
set of 3D controls in PalmOS, and support for JNI and Java libraries.
It is also is fast and small, lets you use all device's memory if
needed, and supports Symbol scanners, sockets, and serial/IR.
Sweep 0.5.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104911/
Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports many music
and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, and MP3, with
multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky
little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your
files.
The Tamber Project 1.1.27 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104953/
The Tamber project is a componentized n-tier Web site engine that uses
open languages such as XML and JavaScript. Content is stored in
separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects. Business
functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP. Presentation is
controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over
multiple channels such as HTML, WAP, and MHEG. Currently, Tamber can
deliver to HTML and WAP, and contains modules that support e-commerce
shopping carts, secure sign in, data access and conversion services,
and advanced session management.
Trackballs 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104920/
Trackballs is a simple game similar to the classic game Marble Madness.
By steering a marble through a track filled with vicious hammers, pools
of acid, and other obstacles the player collects points. When the ball
reaches the destination, the player continue to the next, more
difficult track - unless, of course, time runs out first.
translucency loadable kernel module 0.5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104932/
translucency is a loadable kernel module for Linux that virtually
merges two directories, making it possible to overwrite files on
read-only media and compile projects (such as the Linux kernel) with
different options without copying sources each time. No user-space
tools have to be changed. The process is also known as inheriting
(ifs), stacking, translucency (tfs), loopback (lofs), and overlay
(ovlfs).
Twisted 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104955/
Twisted is an event-based framework for Internet applications. It
includes a Web server, an SMTP/POP3 server, a telnet server, an SSH
server, an IRC server, a DNS server, a multiplayer RPG engine, a
generic client/server pair for remote object access, and APIs for
creating new protocols. It supports integration with GTK+, Qt, Tkinter,
wxPython, and Win32 event loops.
webFonts4Linux 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104926/
webFonts4Linux is a shell scripts that automates the process of
downloading and installing Microsoft's Web Core Fonts, a collection of
high-quality True Type fonts designed for use with low resolutions.
webFonts2Linux exists because although these Microsoft distributes
these fonts for free, strong redistribution restrictions makes it
impossible to distribute a tarball or package containing them.
Webminstats 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104929/
Sysstats module for Webmin adds a graphical log of historic
information. It's modular in design, as to be able to log everything
from CPU usage to email box size.
xmlenc 0.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104919/
xmlenc is a light-weight XML encoding library for Java. It fills the
gap between a light-weight parser like SAX, and a heavy-weight XML
output library, like JDOM.
Zaval File Search 1.3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/104935/
The Zaval File Search solution is a local area network tool designed
for fast file search on SMB shares and FTP servers. It supports lots of
features like regular expression usage and search based on
custom/predefinded extensions.
Slashcode
Slashcode install on RedHat 8.0
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/29/090250
I just got Slashcode installed on RedHat 8.0 and I documented the
process here: http://www.heltzel.org/slashcode.html I hope this can
help others trying to do the same thing.
CTDATA.com Publishes Its 1,000th Story
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/0059255
I'm pretty proud of the fact that CTDATA.com published its 1,000th
article at 10:56am this morning. Not bad for a site that's still
running some pretty ancient code. We've done some interesting stuff
with Slash in the past year, but most of it is hidden from the casual
visitor to our three Slash-based sites. Hopefully, we'll get on the
main branch of the project in the next few months-- we can't be relics
forever.
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?
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