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Sourceforge
Mailman 2.1 beta 6
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=234869
This is the sixth and last planned beta release for Mailman 2.1. This
is primarily a bug fix release. This version is in production use at
python.org. Mailman is the GNU mailing list manager. It provides
standard list management features, integrated with a web interface.
Fire 0.32.a released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=234899
This is a huge release with improvements across the board. The
highlights include Oscar support (AIM file send, .mac support, typing
notifications, away message reading, direct IM receive), upgraded ICQ
library, MSN file send and receive, upgraded Yahoo library, Jabber SSL
support, updated Help files, and improved handling of server buddy
lists in AIM Oscar, MSN, and Yahoo. Many thanks to Graham, Alan, Matt,
Nick, Stephane, Heimir, Martin, and Alessandro for all their hard work
in putting this together. Happy Holidays and enjoy!
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.a.dmg?download
Fink 0.5.0a released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=234951
Fink, the free open source UNIX porting project for Mac OS X, reached
another milestone December 8th with the release of version 0.5.0a. This
release brings full Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) compatibility. Applications
included in Fink range from well-known UNIX desktops such as KDE3 and
GNOME, open-source alternatives for graphics editing such as the Gimp,
and special-purpose applications for genetic and molecular modeling. In
total, over 700 binary packages for Mac OS X as well as over 1800
source packages can be easily installed (and removed) with the aid of
fink. Fink 0.5.0a is available at http://fink.sf.net/
BZFlag 1.7g0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233929
OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform battlezone capture the
flag. World file caching, team killers die, tank labels on roaming, new
GUI options including a smaller display for slow systems (set opacity
all the way up), and much more!
Sixth release of ReAIM
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233848
ReAIM is an AOL Instant Messenger Proxy for iptables-based firewalls.
It allows direct connections to be made to hosts behind an
address-translating firewall. MSN and Windows Messenger are also
supported. It has been quite a while, but with the fixes to Messenger
transfers, and the new support for NetBSD, it seemed like time to cut
the next release. IMPORTANT: Please be aware that you have to add a new
range of ports to your firewall rules for direct connections to work
with this release. Thank you to everyone for your emails with bug
reports, thanks and for testing out changes for me.
NSIS 2 beta 0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233845
The first beta version of NSIS 2, the new version of the popular win32
installer/uninstaller system is ready. NSIS 2 supports highly
customized user interfaces, multiple languages, easy usage of plugins
and more. And it's even smaller than before, with an overhead of only
34KB. A lot of time has passed from the release of Alpha 7, but not
even a second of it was for slacking around. New features were
constantly added, tons of bugs fixed. All was done to make NSIS
quicker, smaller, easier and more powerful. This release, unlike
earlier alphas is no longer an unofficial modification. As of Beta 0
this is an official beta as we work correspondingly with Justin
Frankel, the original author of NSIS. The main changes from Alpha 7
are: * Easier Modern User Interface with lots of new features * New
paging system which makes is easier to add custom pages to your
installer * New multilingual user strings * Lots of new and improved
plug-ins which you can use to download files from the internet, display
additional graphics, run console programs and more! * Over 15 new
translations * New documentation format
seahorse2-0.4.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233851
Seahorse is a Gnome front end for GnuPG. It is a tool for secure
communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature
creation can easily be performed through a GUI, and Key Management
operations also can be performed. This release just contains minor
updates to 0.3.7, but more importantly is the beginning of the move to
seahorse-0.6.0. Please use and test and send us any bug reports.
Planned features for seahorse-0.6.0 are a file manager, basic key
editing, and support for key servers.
Major ScummVM update - 0.3.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233861
ScummVM, the premier (eg, only) interpreter/emulator designed
specifically for LucasArts (tm) and AdventureSoft (tm) games, has
reached a new major version - 0.3.0. This release includes major
bugfixes, and new support for several games. New game support includes:
The Dig, Simon the Sorcerer 2, and Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade...
Downloads, Release Notes and more info can be found on our homepage, at
http://www.scummvm.org/
bogofilter-0.9.1.1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233454
This is a bug fix release with updated documentation and a minimum of
code changes. The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam
filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan
For Spam" . It is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD,
Solaris and OS X.
samba-vscan 0.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233291
This new release provides some smaller bug fixes, a quarantine feature
and virus notification via windows message service. samba-vscan is a
proof-of-concept module for Samba, which uses the VFS (virtual file
system) features of Samba 2.2.x/3.0 alphaX to provide on-access virus
scanning. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides
seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.
Slashdot
Mechanical Butterflies?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/0423230
MImeKillEr writes "According to an [0]article on BBC News, two
researchers from Oxford took highspeed photographs of an Admiral
butterfly in a specially-designed windtunnel to study how butterflies
fly. The resulting research brings insight into small-scale flight
dynamics. Although the article doesn't give an ETA on this, they expect
to be able to build an aircraft with a 10cm wingspan that will be
either autonomous or radio controlled. This will allow them to be used
in rescue missions, cave exploration and possibly even on Mars."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2566091.stm
Google's new toys
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/102223
Google labs just released for your pleasure, some new toys to play
with. The first is [0]Google's Viewer, just type few words and see a
fully working preview of the web site. Another new idea: [1]Google's
Webquotes, View search results with quotes about them from other sites,
and the last one is [2]Google's Froogle, which aims to be the world's
largest catalog.
Links
0. http://labs.google.com/gviewer.html
1. http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/webquotes
2. http://froogle.google.com
eBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/0338219
hether writes "Customers of the auction site [0]eBay have been targeted
by a site called [1]ebayupdates.com. The site attempts to steal credit
card details from eBay's 55 million customers. The [2]SANS Institute
Internet Storm Center issued the warning on this one. Info about the
scam can be found on the [3]BBC site, [4]CNN, [5]CNet, [6]vnunet, and
[7]more. Funny enough there's no mention of this on the eBay site..."
Links
0. http://www.ebay.com/
1. http://www.ebayupdates.com/
2. http://www.sans.org/newlook/home.php
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2564725.stm
4. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/12/11/ebay.email.reut/
5. http://news.com.com/2100-1017-976862.html
6. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137513
7.
http://news.google.com/news?q=cluster:www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/12/11/ebay.email.reut/
Sun Security Patch Introduces Security Hole
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/0335254
Rich0 writes "Sun is [0]announcing that their 'Security Hardening
Package' for their Cobalt RaQ 4 Linux servers allows remote users to
execute arbitrary code. Ironically, the solution is to remove the
package, potentially removing protection from other compromises.
There's a [1]CERT advisory, as well as [2]an article posted on
[3]Extremetech." Yikes, one would hope there's a forthcoming patch in
the works.
Links
0. http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/49377
1. http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/810921
2. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,763032,00.asp
3. http://www.extremetech.com/
Tivo 2 Features On the Horizon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/12/2319241
[0]Lemuel writes "Tivo has finally [1]pre-announced its music and photo
pictures for the Tivo 2. Users will be able to play MP3s and view
photos that come from their computer. It will also be possible to
program the Tivo via a web site. An official announcement is due in
January. There will be revenue associated with these items. Only the
remote programming sounds interesting to me, but I'm glad for anything
that would keep Tivo afloat."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://news.excite.com/tech/article/id/177368%7Ctechnology%7C12-12-2002%3A%3A14%3A11%7Creuters.html
LucasArts Embraces Game Mod Community
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/12/234243
An anonymous reader writes "LucasArts has taken a great step in
promoting the modification of their titles and supporting the
communities that love them! According to [0]this press release,
LucasArts has teamed up with [1]LFNetwork to open [2]LucasFiles.com.
The site is dedicated to all files that fall in the LucasArts realm."
Given competing games like [3]Neverwinter Nights, which have a
phenomenal amount of user-created add-ons, this is a very smart move
for LucasArts.
Links
0. http://www.lucasarts.com/press/releases/62.html
1. http://www.lfnetwork.com/
2. http://www.lucasfiles.com/
3. http://nwn.bioware.com/
Lessig Spins Copyright Law
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/12/2258222
ceebABC writes "In the always riveting [0]CIO Insight magazine,
tech-pundit (and professor) Lawrence Lessig [1]examines the copyright
laws and how they can be applied to e-books and other electronic forms
of rights management... i.e., in today's world, the author doesn't
receive a royalty everytime someone reads a book from the library. Will
they in the future?"
Links
0. http://www.cioinsight.com/
1. http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,3959,762935,00.asp
MS Proposes Disclosing Windows Source To India
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/12/2046255
[0]raghuram writes "Interesting news from [1]Economic Times of India, I
found an interesting story, [2] Microsoft Planning to Share Code with
India." He excerpts from that article: "Microsoft has already made a
proposal to the ministry of information technology (of India) for
sharing the Windows source code with one government body. The nature of
the body has not been spelt out; it will presumably be worked out after
discussions between the company and the government officials.
Interestingly, the offer comes at a time when state governments are
showing interest in rival Linux operating system as the latter's source
code is free and downloadable from the internet."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/
2.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=31102968
Update On The Jon Johansen Trial
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/12/2117232
[0]nordicfrost writes "The trial against Jon Johansen goes on. Today,
John Hoy of the DVD CCA was [1]examined by phone by the defense and the
prosecutor in Oslo. We have set up a page to follow the main events in
the trial [2] here, in English. The documentation of evidence, and the
fact that Hoy didn't answer the phone when the court called, delayed
the trial so the final proceedings may not be finished before Monday
afternoon." Update: 12/12 23:50 GMT by [3]T: This wasn't really a
Science story ...
Links
0. http://www.vg.no
1. http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=4410823
2. http://www.vg.no/spesial/bakgrunn/?id=698
3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
MacAddict Tracks Down eBay Scam Artist
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/12/2113222
[0]OS24Ever writes "A future high school history teacher, Jason Eric
Smith, sold an 867MHz PowerBook G4 on eBay right before finals. He
found out the hard way that people are out there to rip you off, and he
went to [1]great lengths to catch this guy with the help of Mac heads
everywhere. A great read and agreat way for us little guys to get back
at these scammers."
Links
0. http://www.nomorestars.com
1. http://www.remodern.com/caught.html
Freshmeat
Aegir CMS 1.0 beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106343/
Aegir CMS is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) built on
the reliable Midgard framework. Key features include an MS
Word-compatible content editor, staging/live setup, multi-company
hosting (ASP) support, and a flexible templating and layout system.
Aegir CMS is derived from the Nadmin Studio M5 code base.
BeOS Developer Edition 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106336/
BeOS Developer Edition is an updated CD image of BeOS Personal Edition
R5. It has updated drivers with better hardware support, with Patches
and Apps from the original BeOS Personal Edition 5.0.3 release by Be.
Inc. Unlike the original, it can be installed on its own partition.
Botan 1.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106332/
Botan (formerly OpenCL) is a library of cryptographic algorithms,
written in C++. It currently includes a wide selection of block and
stream ciphers, public key algorithms, hash functions, and message
authentication codes, plus a high level filter-based interface.
centericq 4.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106353/
centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that
supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, and Jabber protocols. It
allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both
through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis),
contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful
features.
Chat Everywhere 0.0.14a (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106342/
Chat Everywhere is a set of programs to build a powerful but
easy-to-use chat area on a Web site. A server, written in C,
communicates with clients (only a Java applet as of now, but some C
clients are in development). Its main goals are to be easy to use but
powerful, to have an out-of-the-box working installation, a small
footprint, no requirement for the client to install software, and
IRC-like commands.
COnfigurator for Gnome 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106340/
COnfigurator for Gnome is a program for editing advanced GNOME settings
in an easy way.
Content management module for PHProjekt 0.4.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106313/
This module let users manage content pages for PHProjekt. It uses a
directory-based model and role-based security. Features include file
upload capabilities, a comment system, a search facility, and simple
statistics generation.
Cream for Vim 0.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106309/
Cream is a configuration of the famous Vim text editor that makes it
easier to use, like an Apple- or Windows-style text editor. It uses
Vim's own extensibility to improve menus, keyboard shortcuts, and
editing behavior. Cream seamlessly maintains Vim's insertmode to access
all the power of the original Vim plus many custom Cream extensions.
Decoy 20021212
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106307/
Decoy is program that acts as no-ad Squid redirector. It reloads a
configuration runtime if changed, and can produce profile logs for
later statistics of pattern usage. An optional access log is available
as well.
distcc 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106314/
distcc is a program that distributes compilation of C code across
several machines on a network, resulting in speed increases of 1.5 to
10 times. It does not require machines to share a filesystem, have the
same libraries or header files, or superuser privileges.
fBuilder Plus 2.4.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106339/
fBuilder Plus is a Web-based utility for building and configuring your
ipchains/iptables-based Linux firewall. There are two versions of
fBuilder: fBuilder Lite, a free version that includes a standard set of
features, and fBuilder Plus, which includes edit, insert, and delete
capabilities for firewall rules, rule shifting, support for DHCP
clients, DMZ creation through firewall wizard, NAT capabilities,
support for IP aliases, automatic log rule creation, state checking,
log reporting, email alerts, and export capabilities.
genJBean 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106316/
genJBean is a simple JavaBean generator made in C++.
GNUsound 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106341/
GNUsound is a sound editor for Linux/x86. It supports multiple tracks,
multiple outputs, and 8, 16, or 24/32 bit samples. It can read a number
of audio formats through libaudiofile, and saves them as WAV.
Helma Object Publisher 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106335/
Helma (also called Hop, for Helma object publisher) is a scriptable web
application server written in Java. It lets you define object
prototypes and map them to relational database tables. These so-called
HopObjects can be created, modified, and deleted using a comfortable
object/container model. Hence, no manual fiddling around with database
code is necessary. HopObjects are extended JavaScript objects which can
be scripted using server-side JavaScript. Beyond the common JavaScript
features, Helma provides comfortable skinning and templating
functionalities which facilitate the rendering of objects via a web
interface. It's also possible to use the skin-and-macro layer
separately from the persistence layer, providing a nice scriptable
presentation layer to arbitrary Java object models.
IFG 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106193/
IFG is a tool to generate iptables rules. This program can work with
the INPUT and OUTPUT chains of the filter table. It can create rules
for diferents protocols (TCP, UDP, ICMP), IP addresses, and ports. You
can choose different interfaces (lo, eth0, ppp0), choose the state of a
connection, and LOG all the rules. It also has an option to save all
the rules that you made into a file. The program was written in GTK+ 2,
and the interface was made with glade-2.
JRTPLIB 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106337/
JRTPLIB is an object-oriented library written in C++ which offers
support for the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), defined in RFC
1889. It makes it very easy to send and receive RTP packets and the
RTCP (RTP Control Protocol) functions are handled entirely internally.
KBillar 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106351/
KBillar is a billiard game in which everything is user-definable: the
table, borders, ball properties, gravity, etc. The user can choose to
play billiards on surfaces such as a sphere, a cylinder, or a torus, or
in any map which can be expressed as z(x,y). To parse complex
mathematical maps, KBillar uses methods from Kalamaris.
Libxml 2.4.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106322/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The
library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems,
etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml
implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages,
including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, RFC 2396,
XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In
most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a
relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the
following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP
client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas
is in progress.
lvs-kiss 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106317/
lvs-kiss is designed to make load-balancing with fail-over simpler. The
primary design-goal is for you to get load-balancing with fail-over up
and running withing an hour or so. The secondary design goal is to be
able to make this software as flexible as possible. Embedding of perl
in configuration-files and load-balancing with custom made tests should
be possible without too much hassle.
Mamory 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106210/
Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It
also has a CLI client.
motor 3.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106350/
Motor is a text-mode integrated programming environment for Linux. It
consists of an editor with syntax highlighting, a project manager, a
makefile generator, gcc, ctags, gdb, autoconf/automake and grep
front-ends. CVS integration is also provided. It allows one to edit,
compile, and debug programs without a need to leave the IDE,
automatically check in/out files from a CVS repository and import
projects into CVS, and generate distribution packages (tar.gz and RPM).
The color schemes are customisable.
MySQL Database Server 3.23.54 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106310/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a
client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld)
and many different client programs/libraries.
OpenTop 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106321/
OpenTop is a cross-platform, high-performance C++ class library that
extends the standard C++ library to provide features similar to (and
modelled on) core Java facilities such as resource management,
networking, I/O, multi-threading and support for the full Unicode
character range. OpenTop also contains a supplementary C++ XML Toolkit
which features a SAX-based validating XML parser.
PHP 4.3.0RC3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106328/
PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language
that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into
HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn.
PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone
executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has
excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various
Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible
via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a
talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and
commercial PHP-based application packages are available.
PHP Backup Maker 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106324/
PHP Backup maker is a small PHP script which reads a given source
directory (with its subdirectories) and then creates a set of
directories filled with the content of the source directory, arranged
in groups to fit a given capacity. It can be used to create CD sets for
backups. It also supports ISO image creation, direct CD burning via
cdrecord, automatic file index creation, and more.
PHP Live! Support 1.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106347/
PHP Live! Support is an alternative to the popular Human Click (a.k.a.
Live Person) Live Customer Support Chat system. It uses simple database
tables, PHP, and Javascript. It also features multiple departments,
load balancing, new request sound alarm, and much more.
The Tamber Project 1.1.30 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106345/
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.
ThinkPad Buttons 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106327/
ThinkPad Buttons enables the special keys that are found on the
keyboard of an IBM ThinkPad. It is possible to bind a program to each
of the buttons. It has an on-screen display (OSD) to show volume, mute,
LCD brightness, and some other things.
UPPAAL 3.2.13 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106354/
UPPAAL is an integrated tool environment for modeling, validation, and
verification of real time systems, modeled as networks of timed
automata, extended with data types (bounded integers, arrays, etc.).
Typical application areas include real time controllers and
communication protocols, in particular those where timing aspects are
critical.
Verlof 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106331/
Verlof is a Web application for registering and viewing leave
information. It records hours of leave rights and hours of leave within
categories like normal leave, special leave, reduced working-hours
(ADV), and the begin and end dates for the leave's period. The few
rules imposed on the entries are mainly sanity checks like "begin
date is in the weekend". The act of entering a new leave entry
sends an email to the group manager and a copy to the employee. The
advantages of this electronic version over the paper version are: there
is a single information location (no employee-card and mother-card
discrepancies), questionable entries immediately draw the manager's
attention (with email), and various up-to-date views of the leave
history are available (total, year, and list). Verlof is a Dutch-only
application and a little specific to Leiden University.
VisualRoute 7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106346/
VisualRoute is a graphical Traceroute program that automatically
analyzes Internet connectivity, and identifies the geographical
location of IP addresses/routers, showing them on a global map. It
includes an email tracking tool for troubleshooting email problems, and
pop-up Whois information. The VisualRoute Server package allows access
via a Web browser, so users may access Traceroute information from
behind a firewall and from remote locations.
VServer 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106338/
VServer virtual servers operate like a normal Linux server, but allow
many independent servers to be run simultaneously in one box. These can
involve normal services such as telnet, mail, Web, and SQL servers - in
most cases using a standard configuration. The services are unaware of
the virtual server concept. Each virtual server has its own user
account database and root password. Each vserver uses standard packages
and runs at the same speed as a non-VServer installation.
Webtop 1.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106325/
Webtop is a Web-based POP3 email client that includes many filter
options, spam fighting features, custom folders, and email-to-PDF
generation. The Webtop also includes a calendar, notepad, Webdrive,
automated email reminders, contacts, and Web-based administration. One
installation can support multiple users and each user can set up as
many POP3 accounts as they need.
wmnetload 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106355/
wmnetload is a network interface monitor dockapp for Window Maker. It
is designed to fit well with dockapps like wmcpuload and wmmemmon. It
tracks whether the interface is functioning and displays current
network interface throughput, along with an auto-scaling graph of
recent network activity (the graph separates upstream and downstream
traffic load cleanly without resorting to colors).
xmlto 0.0.12 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106352/
xmlto converts an XML file (DocBook or XSL-FO) into a specified format
(PS, PDF, HTML, man, ASCII, XSL-FO, etc.) by applying an appropriate
XSL-T stylesheet and then performing whatever post-processing is
necessary.
Your Operating System 3.2.1-12122002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106312/
YOS is a compact, personalised, and optimised OS with support for RPM,
deb, and tgz packages, with 200 packages carefully selected and
compiled for speed and stability. It has an automatic hardware
detection system, which should detect most modern hardware.
Slashcode
Kinosis.com - Health, Fitness, and Weight Loss New
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/1758242
Two formerly fat engineers have created a website to help people learn
the correct methods and principles of permanent weight loss. We are
serious about answering your questions and seeing that you get results,
having been there before and knowing how much it sucked. Yes, we know
there are a lot of Twinkie-lovin', Coke swilling UNIX gurus reading
this right now who need to get buff for the dates they don't have (yet)
so head on over and check it out! ;) We chose LRSE Hosting and they've
been very responsive and know how to get things done. Three thumbs up!
(yes, I'm a mutant)
Proven developer & Slashbox needed
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/1756244
We are looking to implement a Slashbox to drive several medically
related slash sites. We are searching for developers (preferably in the
NY/NJ area) with a proven ability to implement, deploy and manage the
collection of sites. The ability to manage all aspects of
implementation including but not limited to networking, firewalling
& security , databasing & querying, archiving, GUI
modifications, hosting and general maintenance. We have not evaluated
third party hosting due to the sensitivity of our data. Obviously,
expertise in Perl, Apache, Linux, and MySQL are prerequisites. We have
a creative services team that will design any artwork, banners/headers,
buttons, and other artistic aspects of the interface one given
requirements from the program lead. We are open to contracters or
potential employment on a contract to permanent basis. We are only
looking for people with past Slash deployment experience as we will
need to deploy in mid Q103. Please contact (send resume and cover
letter with links to deployed slash site(s)) to Michael Vinegra.
Geekgirl's Chronicle
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/0752207
The Geekgirl's Chronicle - with current events, science, technology,
media, celebrity info, music & commentary! Participate in the
growing trend of geekgrrls exploring the realms of information
technologies. --LazyGirl
Cyberlodge.org
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/09/0244205
We just launched Cyberlodge.org - it's a new site exploring the
possibility of a 19th century-style trade guild for tech workers. As
the person entrusted with making this all work, I'm anxious for
feedback on the site, the concept, and what you think might make this
concept fly. Thanks! --Ian
Problem with slashd repeatly crashing: Solved.
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/08/0915230
Here at LRSE we had a problem with slashd crashing. I've seen others
mention this, with no real definitive answer as to the cause or the
solution. Here's what we know: Using: Slash 2.2.6 Perl 5.6.1 MySQL 3.23
FreeBSD 4.5 we were seeing the following in slashd.log: Thu Nov 28
06:55:23 2002 freshenup.pl updated articles:00/01/25/1236215 (Now
What?) perl in malloc(): warning: recursive call Out of memory! perl in
free(): warning: recursive call perl in free(): warning: recursive call
perl in free(): warning: recursive call perl in free(): warning:
recursive call perl in malloc(): warning: recursive call Out of memory!
It does this for quite some time, and dies. We discussed this with the
slash team, however given that this is not happening with CVS code, and
only with the current release, there wasn't much interest there in
finding and fixing the problem.It wouldn't have helped in anycase we
suspect. Not everyone has this problem, and the slash code itself
doesn't seem to really be at fault - rather, this seems to be a problem
with perl itself. Upgrading perl to 5.8.0 on our production server
seems to have made the problem go away. We haven't had to restart
slashd for nearly 24 hours since we rebuilt with 5.8.0, and we were
doing it sometimes as quickly as every few minutes before with 5.6.1.
As such, I wanted to get this information out there for anyone having
the same problem. --Scott Lockwood
Problems After Upgrading to CVS release (dec 2002)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/07/2135235
I'm having problems with an upgrade of an exisiting 2.2.6 slash site up
to the current CVS tree. It appears index.shtml is not being generated
correctly after the upgrade, and this effectively breaks the site. If I
start up apache after the upgrade, and go to the front page of the
site, I get an error 404 page, (a slash generated error 404 page). If I
go to /index.pl, the site displays fine (my templates are a little
messed up with the new code base, but I think I can work all that out
myself, if it is unrelated to this problem, like I think it is). If I
then start "slashd", it will eventually generate an index.shtml file,
but the file only contains stories and slashboxes. The "header(122)"
template is not used in the creation of the index.shtml file. This
makes the site look horrible, and pretty much unusuable. My work around
has been to edit the apache configuration file for my site so that it
does not look for the index.shtml when doing directory indexing, and
only loads the index.pl script. This works for now, but it is
completely sub-optimal, and I want to change it back ASAP. I also don't
want to move the information from the header template into the
templates that slashd is using to generate the index.shtml. That is a
sloppy fix, and would most likely cause more problems in the future.
This problem appears with the CVS code regardless of if I start with a
fresh "install-slashsite" database, or if I upgrade using my current
running database. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong, or have
suggestions on what to try? Your help is greatly appriciated. Side
Note: There are some SQL and filesystem errors during the
"install-slashsite". The SQL stuff I'm not so sure about (I'm still
learning, but catching on really quickly). The filesystem stuff appears
to be mis-named or or mis-filed plugin support files. (I think a
template in the Repository plug-in is misnamed, and during the Stocks
plugin install, it's not looking in the template directory for the HTML
templates, but in the plugin template's parent directory.) I don't
think these are related to my problem above, but I thought I would
include the information in case it helps. (and in case I did something
wrong during the initial install to get those errors.) --Robert
Getting Slash to email properly
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1813256
I managed to get a slash site up and running, but cannot get it to send
mail (passwords, etc) to remote email addresses. Everything (slash,
mysql, sendmail wrapper for qmail, apache) is on one box. Is there a
way to get Slash to support SMTP-AUTH? Or is there a way to get Slash
to directly reference the sendmail command on the local box? Or is
there another preferred solution? Please spell it out for me--I'm a
newbie:-) Thanks in advance --Stefan Geens
Mail bombing by our slash site
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/207255
We have a problem with our slash site. For the seond time now the site
has mail bombed us. I have set it up to send me stories and headlines
and I and all others that have signed up get over 3000 of them. The
strange thing is that this does not happen every day. Anyone got a clue
to how we can resolve this problem? We are using slash-2-2-4 ,Debian
Linux version 2.4.17 and exim veriosn 3.35. Gunnar --Gunnar Lunde
Collaborative News Networks
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/1720236
Anita J. Chan's thesis for MIT's Comparative Media Studies MA on:
Distributed Editing, Collective Action, and the Construction of Online
News on Slashdot.org Slashdot as a Collaborative News Network, Social
Constructivism, Segregating Audiences and News Sourcing, Integrating
Audiences and News Analysis, Distributed Editing and the
Decentralization of Editorial Control, Community, Contest and
Collective Action on the Network. gO | Open Source Intelligence
Scylla
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/1927219
Scylla is an English language slashsite dedicated to everything that's
wrong in the world. What anyone might think is wrong is of course open
to debate, be it political, cultural, or just unhappy circumstance.
Visitors, comments, and input are welcome.
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