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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
National Virtual Observatory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/01/0243214
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]According to this Technology Review article,
U.S. astronomers (compliments of a $10M grant from the National Science
Foundation) are building a [2]National Virtual Observatory to make
accessible terabytes of astrononomical data to a web browser. One
interesting challenge is how the scientists are going to query so many
*different* distributed databases (which they're leaving in their
respective places to avoiding clogging network bandwidth)."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_essex112202.asp
2. http://www.us-vo.org/
Sega Master System is Reborn
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/01/0115228
Nick of NSTime writes "Various [0]sources are reporting that a
Brazilian company is releasing a new version of the venerable Sega
Master System, dubbed the Sega Master System III. The case is a radical
departure from the old SMS and SMS II. The thing to get excited about:
it will include [1]74 games built-in. The translated page can be found
[2]here."
Links
0. http://www.classicgaming.com/
1.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.tectoy.com.br/consoles/master/jogos.html&prev=/language_tools&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
2.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tectoy.com.br%2Fconsoles%2Fmaster%2Findex.html&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
Ogg/Vorbis on Palm OS
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/01/019235
[0]loshwomp writes "We have built an audio player for [1]Palm OS, and a
public beta is [2]available now. The beta includes support for
[3]Ogg/Vorbis audio, and a future beta will include plug-ins for more
formats, as well as the plug-in SDK itself."
Links
0. http://www.AerodromeSoftware.com
1. http://www.palmsource.com/
2. http://www.aerodromesoftware.com/
3. http://www.vorbis.com/
DreamHack Winter 2002
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/216220
[0]JJC writes "[1]DreamHack, a huge LAN party, is taking place this
weekend in Sweden. Here's some [2]information in English and a [3]daily
report from sponsors ASUS. [4]This and [5]this ought to give you an
idea of the scale of the thing. Here's the [6]obligatory webcam and
their [7]Internet bandwidth graph. It's a massively impressive event,
wish I was there! :-)"
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~JJC
1. http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/index.php4
2. http://event.asus.com.tw/se/dreamhack2002/
3. http://event.asus.com.tw/se/dreamhack2002/daily.htm
4. http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021125_bordsbygge.jpg
5. http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021126_jolt.jpg
6. http://194.0.4.238/cam0.html
7. http://stat.event.dreamhack.org/
Star Control 2 Released Under the GPL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/2222225
Jagasian writes "The classic computer space adventure role playing game
known as [0]Star Control 2 has been officially ported from its obsolete
mono-platform source code to modern multi-platform C++/SDL source code.
The game is open source, and compiles and runs on Linux! The alpha
release binaries are available for [1]download now!"
Links
0. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
1. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
5 Predictions for 2012
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/212259
[0]Structured Audio writes "Mike Langberg of the Merc put up his 5
technology [1]predictions for 2012. Well chosen, although of course in
2012 speech recognition will still be 10 years away :-)."
Links
0. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html
1. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/business/4635704.htm
Equilibrium
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/2019211
The_Hiro writes ""Farenheit 451 - meets - Brave New World - meets -
Matrix" (minus the overdone wire work). Created on a limited budget,
Equilibrium combines the best of sci-fi with the action genre.
Unfortunately, the marketing droids at Dimension have neglected to
promote the film (release date: Dec. 6th). [0]Chud.com has a [1]glowing
review of the film and some pretty pictures. Check out the [2]trailer
also."
Links
0. http://www.chud.com/
1. http://www.chud.com/news/oct02/oct28equilibrium.php3
2. http://www.hollywood.com/multimedia/popup_Main.asp?media=1701124
TMDC5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/2015233
[0]TMDC Organizing writes "There's less than two weeks left to the
[1]fifth pseudoannual text mode demo compo submission deadline. The
web-submission system is finally online, and you can also chat about
[1]TMDC5 on ircnet #tmdc5. Even if you haven't started on an entry yet,
there's still time!"
Links
0. http://www.tAAt.fi/tmdc/
1. http://www.taat.fi/tmdc/
PostgreSQL 7.3 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1815200
[0]rtaylor writes "Nearly a year's worth of work is out. The new
[1]tricks include schema support, prepared queries, dependency
tracking, improved privileges, table (record) based functions, improved
internationalization support, and a whole slew of other new features,
fixes, and performance improvements. [2]Release Email - [3]Download
Here - [4]Mirror FTP sites (at bottom)."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html#RELEASE-7-3
2. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2002-11/msg00004.php
3. http://advocacy.postgresql.org/download/
4. http://www.postgresql.org/
Immobile Robots
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1738214
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "Wade Roush wrote a long and
well-documented article for the Technology Review about this new
concept, the immobot, short for "immobile robot." He gives different
industrial examples, from NASA to the water utility in Porto Alegre,
and from Toyota cars to some new Xerox photocopiers. And he looks at
the programming model behind the immobots. No "heuristic" programs
here, but model-based programs instead. [1]Check this column for
details." The [2]original article has more information.
Links
0. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2002/11/30.html
2. http://techreview.com/articles/roush1202.asp?p=0
Freshmeat
Window Managers
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/639
The freedom of choice offered by GNU and Linux, combined with the
technological design of the X Window System, gives desktop users a
windowing environment with a flexibility and capability that is
unrivaled. In recent times, the desktop Linux world has been enriched
beyond recognition by the KDE and GNOME projects, but window managers
are still at the heart of these environments, as well being used widely
on their own. In this review, I'll delve into this exciting world and
look at the development and the state of the art of some of the most
significant and most popular window managers.
adcfw-log 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105110/
adcfw-log is a tool for analyzing firewall logs in order to extract
meaningful information. It is designed to be a standalone script with
very few requirements that can generate different kinds of reports,
such as fully formatted reports of what had been logged, with summaries
by source or destination host, the type of service, or protocol. There
are also options to filter the input data by date, host, protocol,
service, and so on.
aviManager 0.8beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105081/
aviManager helps you manage your (large) movie (DVD, DivX) collection.
It ships with an intelligent voting system for many users, and attempts
to find the best movie to watch. There is also a nice IMdb grabber for
fast movie adding.
Buildtool 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105107/
Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more
portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.
CDRX 0.3.1p1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105096/
CDRX is a menu-based Perl script designed to help you use your CDRW
with mkisofs and cdrecord to handle ISO creation, CDROM/CDRW device
scans and setup, CDRW blanking, and CDRW burns. It is designed to
supplant the need for an X-based CD burning utility, to provide
features not found in other Unix CD burning programs, and to be easy
for beginners to use.
chrpath 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105111/
chrpath allows you to modify the dynamic library load path (rpath and
runpath) of compiled programs and libraries.
CLIP 0.99.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105109/
CLIP is a Clipper/XBase compatible compiler with initial support for
FoxPro, Flagship, and CAVO syntax. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
and Win32 (via Cygwin). It features support for international languages
and character sets, including two-bytes character sets like Chinese and
Japanese. It also features OOP, a multiplatform GUI based on
GTK/GTKextra, all SIX/Comix features (including hypertext indexing),
SQL, a C-API for third-party developers, a few wrappers for popular
libraries (such as BZIP, GZIP, GD, Crypto, and Fcgi), multitasking,
mouse events, and more.
DNews 5.6e2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105102/
The DNEWS News Server is a (USENET) news server. Installing your own
local news server software gives you complete control to create your
own discussion forums for communication. DNews News Server software
provides many features, including ease-of-use, reliability, and
scalability.
DOM Tooltip 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105078/
DOM Tooltip allows developers to have dynamic and configurable tooltips
on HTML pages. This library supports Mozilla/Netscape6+, IE 5+,
Konqueror, and Opera 7. The tooltips are configured through three class
definitions in a stylesheet, and consist of two parts, the caption and
the content, where the caption is optional. Tooltips can be either
greasy or sticky, where sticky tips stick around after mouseout and
require a click to close. Sticky tips are also draggable. The key to
this project is that it is powerful, yet simple. "Tooltips"
can also mean dynamic embedded windows (using iframes, hidden HTML, or
even hidden forms) or custom context menus for mouse click events. The
infamous select box z-index bug in IE/Mozilla is also handled by this
library automatically.
Enterprise Gantt 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105116/
Enterprise Gantt is a Gantt chart library, and is becoming a generic
charting library to support a variety of charts. The library strongly
conforms to the Model View Controller architecture recommended by Sun.
A lot of effort has been put into this library, from the design
perspective rather than the feature perspective, to make this the most
flexible library of its kind.
fixbb 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105095/
fixbb repairs the incorrect bounding box for PostScript files created
by many Windows applications. It uses bbfig to compute the bounding
box, and then fixes any existing bounding box that is in the file. (It
currently doesn't add a bounding box to PostScript files that do not
have it.)
GMasqdialer 0.99.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105114/
GMasqdialer provides a GNOME/GTK client for the Masqdialer system. The
masqdialer system provides a user-friendly cross-platform method of
controlling a masquerade box's modem connection from any computer on a
LAN.
googleware 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105099/
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.
icoutils 0.17.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105098/
The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images
in Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have
the extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in
executables and libraries (.dll-files). Icoutils can also create icon
and cursor files.
ifGraph 0.4.7rc1 (Release Candidate)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105100/
ifGraph is a set of Perl scripts created to help network administrators
to visualize network flow on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly
basis. The graphics are created with RRDTool, and it shows bytes
(in/out) and errors for each interface. It also shows the
current/average/max use and the respective link/interface usage in
percentages. The program also outputs HTML files to make the
visualization of the PNG/GIF/GD images more friendly and easy.
Jumpgate 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105108/
Jumpgate is a TCP connection forwarder that provides many enhancements
and improvements over the existing programs that do the same thing.
kbarcode 1.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105118/
kbarcode is a KDE3-based program for creating, handling, managing, and
printing barcodes for private or business purpose. kbarcode is able to
handle all major types of barcodes, like UPC, EAN, CODE39, and ISBN. It
comes with a label designer to create customized labels and a batch
print function. It's designed to print several thousands barcodes in
one pass, but also allows you to easily print a single label. kbarcode
uses SQL to store all information about articles, barcodes, customers,
etc.
Linux 2.4.20 (2.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105094/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
lookat 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105119/
"lookat" (or "bekijk" in Dutch) is a program to
view text files and manual pages. It is designed to be more
user-friendly than more conventional text viewers such as less.
Megamek.NET 0.2953
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105092/
Megamek.NET is a Java application that allows one to chat and play
MegaMek Games (which are very similar to Battletech). It also allows
one to enroll into the ongoing campaign to fíght for one of the
5 houses or the Periphery. Currently it has a campaign set in 3025 but
will soon feature another campaign set in 3060.
Network system locator 2.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105097/
Netinfo uses SNMPv2 to collect information from CISCO switches and
routers. It combines the data, providing IP-to-MAC mappings and the
physical network location of each IP/MAC address. It monitors changes
of IP addresses, MAC addresses, or network location. It also reports
duplicate IPs or MACs that are using more than one IP address. It is
meant as a NOC tool.
NoX-Wizard 0.82rc2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105113/
NoX-Wizard is a cross platform Ultima Online server emulator written in
C++. It provides a powerful scripting engine and many other features.
Openwall Linux kernel patch 2.4.20-ow0 (Linux 2.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105083/
The Openwall Linux kernel patch is a collection of security
"hardening" features for the Linux kernel. In addition to the
new features, some versions of the patch contain various security
fixes. The "hardening" features of the patch, while not a
complete method of protection, provide an extra layer of security
against the easier ways to exploit certain classes of vulnerabilities
and/or reduce the impact of those vulnerabilities. The patch can also
add a little bit more privacy to the system by restricting access to
parts of /proc so that users may not see what others are doing.
Openwall Linux kernel patch 2.2.22-ow2 (Linux 2.2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105075/
The Openwall Linux kernel patch is a collection of security
"hardening" features for the Linux kernel. In addition to the
new features, some versions of the patch contain various security
fixes. The "hardening" features of the patch, while not a
complete method of protection, provide an extra layer of security
against the easier ways to exploit certain classes of vulnerabilities
and/or reduce the impact of those vulnerabilities. The patch can also
add a little bit more privacy to the system by restricting access to
parts of /proc so that users may not see what others are doing.
Otak 1.2.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105104/
Otak provides a visual interface to command line programs that don't
have one, that allows users to select arguments from a menu. For
example, it can be used as an address book program with Mutt (the
default), or as a phone book with SMS sending software, or even as a
list of hosts for SSH or FTP.
perltrash 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105063/
perltrash is a Perl script that emulates a "trash can".
Instead of permanently deleting files, they are moved into the trash
can. Files can be restored in the future if they are needed again.
phpDnsZoneAdmin 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105089/
DnsAdmin is a PHP-based application designed to take some of the
headaches out of running a BIND nameserver. It features a simple to use
interface for adding, deleting, and modifying zones, user management,
and server management functions. The main goal of DnsAdmin was to allow
remote admins to manage zones on the server without needing access to
the commandline.
Python Cyrus Utils 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105076/
Python Cyrus Utils is a collection of utilites that are useful for
administering the Cyrus IMAP server and its sasldb database.
PyTone 1.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105117/
PyTone is an MP3 jukebox written in Python with a curses-based GUI.
While providing advanced features like crossfading and multiple
players, special emphasis is put on ease of use, making PyTone an ideal
jukebox system for use at parties.
Rational PIC Assembler 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105091/
Rational PIC Assembler is an assembler for the mid-range
microcontrollers from Microchip. It features Intel-style mnemonics and
target- first operand ordering, and was designed to feel comfortable
for PC assembly programmers.
SMS Server Tools 1.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105080/
The SMS Server Tools were made to send and receive SMS from one or many
GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts
to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The
daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them.
It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call
any external program for incoming or outgoing notification.
StarEnli-DR16 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105040/
StarEnli-DR16 (based on a previous Star Trek-inspired theme by Canin)
is a fully Enlightenment 0.16.x compliant theme with support for
epplets, an Eterm theme, and a variety of border types. Many of its
features are shown in the screenshot. The background in the screenshot
comes from digitalblasphemy.com, and is not included in the theme. GTK
and Xdefaults themes are also available.
Stern Shortnews Viewer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105082/
Stern Shortnews Viewer is a viewer for the German language Stern
Shortnews that produces text or HTML output and can view specified
categories and subcategories.
Stringprep 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105112/
Libstringprep implements the IETF stringprep specification, and is used
to prepare internationalized strings (such as domain name labels,
usernames, and passwords) in order to increase the likelihood that
string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for
typical users throughout the world.
SynCE 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105090/
The purpose of the SynCE project is to provide a means of communication
with a Windows CE or Pocket PC device from a computer running Linux,
*BSD, or another Unix system.
tlogsim 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105103/
tlogsim is an extensible graphical logic circuit simulator for GTK 2.
ulim 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105120/
Ulim is a Linux kernel module which enforces resource limits on every
process in the system. There are already solutions like pam_limit, but
there are some places where the user can execute his programs, but PAM
is not used (for example .forward or .procmailrc files, or CGI
scripts). Ulim works in the kernel and sets the limits whenever a
process changes its real UID, so every process run by a user will have
the correct limits.
wmDrawer 0.9.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105115/
wmDrawer is a dockapp which provides a drawer (button bar) from which
applications can be launched.
XPLC 0.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105093/
XPLC is a component framework similar to Microsoft COM or Mozilla's
XPCOM, but with a number of differing goals. For example, transparent
remote execution and exceptions are not supported, but in exchange it
features ease of use, high performance (low overhead), and high
flexibility. It is currently under development.
xsel 0.04.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105087/
Xsel is a quick hack to give access to the X selection from the
command-line. You can then copy stuff between stdin/stdout and the X
selection buffer. For example, 'echo puppa | xsel -c' makes
"puppa" the current X selection. 'xsel -p | less' pastes the
current X selection to less.
YAZ 1.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105077/
YAZ (yet another Z39.50 toolkit) is a portable C/C++ programmer's
toolkit which supports the development of Z39.50v3 clients and servers.
Sample clients and a server are included with the distribution.
yaz++ 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105106/
YAZ++ is a C++ programmer's toolkit supporting the development of
Z39.50v3 clients and servers. It includes an implementation of the ZOOM
C++ binding, a generic YAZ++ client/server API, and a powerful Z39.50
proxy.
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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