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Sourceforge
GT.M V4.3-001D now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235708
GT.M V4.3-001D is now available (binary, source, and release notes).
This includes a couple of fixes relevant to VistA, including in the
areas of error trapping, and pattern matching (see the Change History
section of the release notes). GT.M[tm] is a vetted, industrial
strength, transaction processing application platform consisting of a
database engine optimized for high TP throughput and a compiler for the
M (aka MUMPS) programming language. -- Bhaskar
Aqsis 0.7.2 available for download
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235777
There is a new version of both the Win32 installer and the source
archive available for download, see the change notes for details. Aqsis
is a Renderman(tm) compliant photorealistic 3D rendering toolkit. It is
based on the Reyes rendering approach. Features include - programmable
shading, true displacements, NURBS, CSG.
ircu2.10.11.03 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235828
Undernet's IRC daemon, version 2.10.11.03 has been released. This is a
stable release and fixes several nasty desync bugs as well as fixing
several minor bugs and adding a few minor features.
KBear 2.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235869
We are very glad to announce the release of KBear 2.1 KBear is a
graphical FTP client for KDE/Linux with ability to concurrent
connections to multiple hosts. This release contains several bug fixes,
as well as new features including SOCKS support, firewall support, and
new translations of the GUI and documentation. This release contains
several bugfixes as well as new features: ->SOCKS support ->Directory
synchronizations localremote (experimental) ->Firewall support.
->Ability to use a single connection for all operations. ->Ability to
set character encoding for remote site so for example chinese file
names are displayed correctly. -->Ability to automatically shut down
application, internet connection and even system after finished
downloads. ->Updated documentation translated into following languages:
-->English -->Swedish -->French -->Czech ->New GUI translations. Full
translations available in following languages: -->English -->Swedish
-->German -->Italian -->French -->Traditional Chinese -->Dutch -->Czech
-->European Portuguese Partly translated languages: -->Russian
-->Romanian -->Hebrew -->Indonesian For a complete feature list and
downloads see: http://kbear.sourceforge.net/
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
Slashdot
More On Airplanes And Internet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/0244223
[0]fonixmunkee writes "as a sometimes-traveler for work, and a huge
nerd, I am always excited about news like this. it appears that [1]some
airlines may start offering internet access next year when you need to
get that internet fix at 35,000 feet. I was pleased when they started
selling wireless internet in airports, so this is another welcomed
suprise for techie travlers. apparently they want to use satellite to
get high-speed connections to the planes in the air. pretty cool. " Too
bad [2]Northwest isn't going to have it for my DTW -> NRT -> KUL -> PER
for [3]CALU.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=1&cid=528&u=/ap/20021215/ap_on_hi_te/in_flight_internet
2. http://www.nwa.com
3. http://conf.linux.org.au/
Kiwi Flight Before the Wright Brothers?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/0338254
[0]houseofmore writes "The [1]Toronto Star is is reporting that New
Zealander Richard Pearse may have very well [2]made several flights
beginning almost nine months before the Wright Brothers ever got off
the ground. It also notes that "Mad Pearse's" machine was in some ways
more advanced than the first Wright Flyer."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.thestar.ca/
2.
http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035775620594&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154
Googling For Dates?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/0218225
[0]JAK writes "The New York Times' down-to-earth ethicist Randy Cohen
writes on the moral implications of searching for a date's past on
Google. He suggests that the practice is ok (even admitting to doing it
himself) but warns against jumping to conclusions based on a quick
search or confusing someone for others with the same name. He also
writes that "the verb ''to Google'' is now a familiar neologism"
(neologism: a new word, usage, or expression, I looked it up). You can
read about it [1]The Times (free reg blah blah)"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/15ETHICIST.html
Decentralization
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/2224208
jamesgregory writes "'Geeks make new stuff primarily because it's fun,
because it's useful, and [0]because they can. Suits make new stuff
primarily because they hope to earn a profit. Yes, that is an
oversimplification, and there's overlap between the two types -- there
are plenty of profit-seeking geeks and geeky business folks. Still, the
distinction is real.'"
Links
0. http://salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/12/13/supernova/index.html
Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/2024207
An anonymous reader writes "Ever feel like not being a marketing
statistic? Well just by playing certain store-bought compact discs in
your home or office computer, your new music disc may be transmitting
your listening habits in real time to the respective record
company...." Charming. Read on for more...
Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/1941255
A wisely anonymous reader writes "Following my company's Christmas
party on Friday, I found myself the proud recipient of... a bobble head
doll of the company CEO! Needless to say I was PISSED. They didn't even
comp. parking at the site of the party, let alone a bonus. yeah, yeah,
times are tough. I should be happy just to have a job. but getting a
damn doll of the guy who made 65 million last year just makes me angry.
So... What did you get from your Company for Christmas?"
Web Zeitgeist
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/182240
An anonymous reader writes "[0]CNN has a [1]story about Lycos and its
50 top "searched for" items of the year. After excluding "sex",
"Dragonball" was #1, followed by "Kazaa", "tattoos", "Britney Spears",
and the "NFL" (american football) rounding out the top 5. IRS was #7,
and taxes acheived #14. "The Bible" is #21 followed by "Marijuana" at
#22. It appears that pop-stars, supermodels, computer games, sports,
and september 11th related words heavily dominate the rest of the top
100. How about the biggest declines? Boy bands. nSync down from 36 to
163, and Back Street Boys tumble to 250 from 58. Lycos is hosting the
top 100 results this year [2]here with some commentary. Google also has
[3]their own comprehensive lists (and cool charts) as well."
Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/
1. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/12/13/lycos.search/index.html
2. http://50.lycos.com/
3. http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/1759227
[0]Bowie J. Poag notes this Register story about an [1]RIAA copyright
infringement bust in New York. The RIAA claims the operation had [2]the
equivalent of 421 CD-burners, which, translated from RIAA-speak, means
"156 CD-burners but some of them were fast". How they expect anyone to
take their statistics seriously is beyond me.
Links
0. http://www.ibiblio.org/propaganda
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28574.html
2. http://riaa.org/PR_Story.cfm?id=592
NYTimes Year in Ideas
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/1752251
jonbrewer writes "The New York Times is back again with their "[0]Year
in Ideas" and one that Slashdot missed this year was the [1]RatBot. As
featured in the [2]BBC and [3]Business 2.0 earlier this year, these
critters are trained to navigate mazes based on [4]remote stimuli.
Ethical? Doubtful. Cool? Yes."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/index.html
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/15REMO.html
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1961798.stm
3. http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,42699,FF.html
4. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0501_020501_roboratshtml
Google vs. Evil
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/1746203
wideangle writes "'The world's biggest, best-loved search engine owes
its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don't be evil. Now
the geek icon is finding that [0]moral compromise is just the cost of
doing big business. Take Brin's decision to refuse all alcohol and
tobacco advertising. The fact that Google accepts advertising for adult
content sites is an intriguing commentary on Brin's morality:
Cigarettes and booze are evil; porn is not. It's a policy that would
become progressively harder to defend were Google to go public.'"
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google_pr.html
Freshmeat
Accounting 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106625/
Accounting is software that was developed to keep track of money lent
and owed. I use it from my RIM wireless pager. It is easy to install
and use, and uses basic double-entry accounting.
bin86 0.16.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106638/
as86 and ld86 provide a complete 8086 assembler and loader which can
generate 32-bit code for the 386+ processors. These tools are used to
create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries for linux. The syntax
is not compatible with the GNU assembler.
Blassic 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106618/
Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory,
and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs
written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting
language.
BrainSplatPHP 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106622/
BrainSplatPHP (BSPHP) is a simple single-user journaling program that
supports commenting.
Buildtool 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106630/
Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more
portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.
cmv 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106615/
cmv is a Perl script that lets you easily rename multiple files in
complex ways on Unix systems. The main advantage of cmv over other
methods is that it finds the right order to rename files so that no
files get clobbered. For instance, something like "cmv
'tr/abcd/bcda/' a b c d" will rename all the files without any of
them disappearing.
CORBA::MICO 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106617/
CORBA::MICO is a Perl interface to the MICO ORB. Its most distinctive
feature is that it is completely dynamic. It is not necessary to
pregenerate "stubs" or "skeletons"; all necessary
information is retrieved at runtime.
CRUX 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106611/
CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at
experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is
"keep it simple", which is reflected in a simple tar.gz-based
package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small
collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of
new Linux features and recent tools and libraries.
Dav 0.7.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106595/
Dav (Dav Ain't Vi) is meant to provide a stable text editor that is
efficient in both memory and processor usage. Its user interface is
designed to be intuitive and to increase productivity.
dbacl 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106596/
dbacl is a digramic Bayesian text classifier. Given some text, it
calculates the posterior probabilities that the input resembles one of
any number of previously learned document collections. It can be used
to sort incoming email into arbitrary categories such as spam, work,
and play, or simply to distinguish an English text from a French text.
It fully supports international character sets, and uses sophisticated
statistical models based on the Maximum Entropy Principle.
Dialog CD Writer 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106639/
Dialog CD Writer is a dialog front end to burn CDs under GNU/Linux and
Unix. It can write data and audio CDs, make MP3 files, and ISO images,
and burn on-the-fly copies. X is not need to run the script.
E-AcpiPower 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106624/
The E-AcpiPower epplet is based on E-Power. It is modified to read
battery status information using the new acpi kernel module, making it
much more accurate and reliable than the old apm method.
Elm ME+ Elm 2.4ME+ PL100 (25)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106602/
Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character
set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass
mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It also includes modules for TLS/SSL,
iconv, and SMTP.
Fast File Search 0.9.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106613/
Fast File Search crawls FTP servers and SMB shares (Windows shares and
UNIX systems running Samba) and stores the information about files to a
database. A Web interface is then used for searching files.
GNOME Installation Guide 12/2002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106616/
The GNOME Installation Guide was written to help unfamiliar users
install a stable GNOME system that includes more than the default
applications. It teaches readers how to compile GNOME on their own
instead of installing precompiled packages. It also covers installation
of extra GNOME programs, both those hosted by the GNOME project and
those which are not.
GNU Anubis 3.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106621/
GNU Anubis is an outgoing mail processor. It goes between the MUA (Mail
User Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent), and can perform various
sorts of processing and conversion on-the-fly in accordance with the
sender's specified rules, based on a highly configurable regular
expressions system. It operates as a proxy server, and can edit
outgoing mail headers, encrypt or sign mail with the GnuPG, build
secure SMTP tunnels using the TLS/SSL encryption even if your mail user
agent doesn't support it, or tunnel a connection through a SOCKS proxy
server.
Java Aspect Components 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106634/
JAC is a Java framework that provides some facilities to achieve
Aspect-Oriented Programming and to separate concerns when programming
(distributed) applications (for instance, the persistence or
authentication aspects can be considered independently from what the
application is doing). It provides a runtime execution environment that
supports Aspect-Oriented applications written with the JAC framework
that provides visualisation, administration, and configuration tools
for the applications and for their aspects.
Java XiangQi .5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106593/
Java XianQi lets you play Chinese chess with yourself (not the
computer) or an online opponent.
KDE DivX subtitles editor 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106644/
ksubeditor is a DivX subtitle editor for KDE 3.x. It is able to edit
and convert subtitles between different subtitle formats. It is able to
easily change the time of the subtitle and fit it to the movie.
KHeiseReg 0.7 (KDE 3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106642/
KHeiseReg is a utility to search offline within the article data base
("Heise Register") of the magazines "c't" and
"iX" from the German publisher Heinz Heise.
Knoppix 3.1-12-12-2002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106599/
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software,
automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards,
sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a
Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to
install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.
KPortage 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106640/
KPortage a graphical frontend for the Gentoo Linux portage system.
libchipcard 0.7beta1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106594/
Libchipcard is a C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards
via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by
the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip
cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and has been tested
with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel.
Linux 2.4.21-pre1 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106605/
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.
LiVES 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106610/
LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is intended to be a simple yet
powerful video effects and editing system. It will use commonly
available tools (mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+, and in the future
possibly gstreamer or xine), so it should work on most systems. It is
currently usable for small video files.
mailtrace 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106598/
mailtrace reads a mail header on stdin and dumps a trace of SMTP hosts
in a human readable manner on stdout. This is quite useful to check
which host is responsible if a particular message is not delivered in a
few minutes.
Mozilla 1.3alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106609/
Mozilla is a Web browser that is being developed by the Free Software
Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape. The current
Mozilla is a completely new software based on the "NGLayout"
layout engine and runs on almost all current operating systems.
Mozilla's user interface is written on top of NGLayout using XUL and
JavaScript. The Mozilla project only develops and tests the source code
for other projects / companies to use. Netscape 6 (the Web browser from
Netscape) and Beonex Communicator (an open-source project to make a
Mozilla for end-users) are directly based on Mozilla. Many other
projects use/embed Mozilla's rendering engine (e.g., Galeon).
Naamah 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106614/
Naamah is a Web application that stores the ID3 tags from your MP3s and
details of your audio CDs in a MySQL database. It scans drives for MP3
files and can generate LaTeX listings.
OpenGLavity 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106608/
OpenGLavity simulates gravity between several bodies using a full
N-bodies algorithm. It has an OpenGL interface.
OpenSSL 0.9.6h
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106604/
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing
the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS
v1) as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.
Pam_mount 0.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106623/
The pam_mount module allows users to have NCP (Netware), SMB
(Windows/Samba), or loopback-encrypted volumes mounted upon login,
using the same passwords they typed to log in. A remote volume can even
be used as a user's $HOME. Volumes mounted this way are automatically
unmounted on logout.
Perl IRC Statistics Generator 0.44
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106646/
pisg is a smart Perl script which generates statistics from IRC
logfiles.
Personal File Manager 1.65 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106641/
pfm is a terminal-based file manager written in Perl. All pfm commands
are one- or two-key commands (case-insensitive). It features colored
filenames according to extension or type, a single-file and
multiple-file mode, support for executing user-defined commands
(including wildcards) with only two keystrokes, and use of the ReadLine
library for friendly commandline editing.
printquota 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106620/
Printquota is a printing service quota tracking tool. It allows an
administrator to group the printer queues and users and to set
permissions to control which user can use which printer. PostgreSQL and
MySQL are supported.
procps 3.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106597/
procps is a package of utilities which includes ps, vmstat, top, w,
skill, snice, pgrep, pkill, free, sysctl, pmap, uptime, and kill. These
utilities report what is running, who is logged in, how long the system
has been running, and what is using up memory. They can be used to kill
processes and change run-time kernel configuration values.
ReMedial 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106600/
Remedial aims to be an easy-to-use player for Windows media files under
Linux. It is a front-end to the excellent avifile library, and provides
a look and feel similar to that of Realplayer.
Scribus 0.9.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106601/
Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an
easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as
professional as possible.
SmartPost 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106612/
SmartPost is a complete email platform based on Davide Libenzi's xmail.
It has Web interfaces for adding and managing email domains, for
postmasters to manage their email users, and for users to send and
receive email.
updatedd 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106628/
Updatedd is a client to update a dynamic DNS. At the moment, it
supports dyndns.org, ovh.net, no-ip.org, ods.org, and hn.org.
VetTux 2.0-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106648/
VetTux is a modern animal clinic management and POS system. It aims to
provide the veterinarian with a complete solution for running a clinic.
Video Disk Recorder 1.1.20 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106637/
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux
and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output
the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3
playback and more.
VISUAL 0.0.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106606/
VISUAL is a collection of programs to allow a computer running Linux to
interface with programmable controllers, exchange data with them, log
data, run HMI (human machine interface) screens, and control a machine
from a local computer or over an intranet. The live state of the
machinery can be viewed in any browser using Java applets.
Web Package Surfer 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106607/
Web Package Surfer is a PHP-based package management system that lets
you browse, search, and administrate a set of files contained in
packages that are classified by (possibly nested) categories. It is
particularly useful for maintaining a repository of downloaded files.
WebGUI 4.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106592/
WebGUI is a platform built to allow average business users to build and
maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform
independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content
to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time
of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an
intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer.
Slashcode
Spacesci
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/0843216
G'DayWe have launched our new slashcode site. spacesci.org is "News and
Information for Australian Space Researchers".Our next project will be
a peer reviewed online journal.
Stuartdrama.org - JEB Stuart High School Drama Dep
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/0643259
I have setup a new slashsite for the JEB Stuart High School drama dept.
- Stuartdrama.org. While this isn't really as publically oriented as
many other sites, if you live in the Washington DC area, and enjoy high
school theatre, visit us! I warn you however - the site is hosted on a
DSL line, so speed isn't something we have much of.
Undocumented Things You Should Set In Apache?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/234233
I've recently discovered a problem with blocks being updated but not
appearing to be updated when the main page loads. I believe this has
been discussed here. I'm wondering if anyone has written anything about
configuration directives for Apache that are going to make your
Slashcode site work correctly. Things like limiting the Max requests
per child and stuff like that. I'd be happy to collect everyone's
replies and make a guide to be posted here or somewhere. The
documentation from Mister Orange has been a lifesaver for many I'm
sure.
Kinosis.com - Health, Fitness, and Weight Loss News
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
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