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Sourceforge
TixApps 1.8
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235913
Announcing the release of TixApps 1.8 - the Tix Application Framework
for Tcl and Python. Tixapps provides a set of widgets utilities and
applications that make use of Tix's object-oriented intrinsics.
Applications included are: Tixinspect - a dynamic inspector for Tcl/Tk
and Python/Tkinter Tixdebug - a dynamic debugger for Tcl/Tk Tixinfo - a
GNU info browser
JFoxMX Release 1.0
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235906
This version fully implements JMX specification 1.1. JFoxMX brings 15%
performance increment than JMX RI.
XPS 0.1.5 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=236149
The first release of the eXtensible Programming System is now
available. This version provides an initial version of the XPL Compiler
that performs schema validation on XPL programs. The main focus of this
release is to provide a sane build environment, various utilities, and
a skeletal framework for the various XPS programs (xplc, xvm, xvmsh).
The next release 0.2.0 will provide a working version of xplc and
better documentation.
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/
Slashdot
FCC Approves 802.11b Phased Array
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/0237221
n6zfx writes "802.11b Networking News is [0]reporting that [1]vivato
received FCC approval for the [2]802.11b AP that has a range of 4
miles... This was [3]discussed recently here on slashdot -- There were
[4]comments that it might not be totally legal. Hopefully, this paves
the way for more WISPs, bigger hotspots, and replacement of [5]outdated
wireless technology that seemed to be the only competitor to DSL and
tv-cable for the last mile."
Links
0. http://80211b.weblogger.com/
1. http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.121602/223500131
2. http://www.commsdesign.com/news/OEG20021104S0025
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/2053258&tid=137
4. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=4598554&sid=44174&tid=137
5. http://www.sprintbroadband.com/
Aussie Uni Dumps Dual-Boot In Favor of Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/2224251
[0]kNIGits writes "[1]News.com.au is [2]reporting that the
[3]University of Wollongong have dumped their previously dual-boot
installations in favour of booting Linux only. Among other reasons,
staff enjoy the ease with which they can 'lock down' first year
students, stopping them messing with the systems prior to learning
anything about them."
Links
0. http://www.dual-enforcers.net/
1. http://www.news.com.au/
2. http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5687204%255E15306,00html
3. http://www.uow.edu.au/
A Conference About Spam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/0056249
[0]zonker writes "January 17th will be the first (annual?) meeting of
the [1]Spam Conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The informal
meeting will feature [2]Paul Graham, [3]John Graham-Cumming, [4]John
"Cap'n Crunch" Draper among others (possibly including [5]ESR though he
hasn't yet confirmed). The free conference will consist of a number of
talks about new ways to combat the growing spam problem, after which
everyone's going out and getting some Chinese food. Should be an
informative and fun meeting and a chance to meet some interesting
people."
Links
0. http://monkeysvsrobots.com/
1. http://spamconference.org/
2. http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html
3. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
4. http://shopip.com/
5. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/
Who Owns Science?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/006254
immerrath writes "The New York Times has an [0]article [Sorry,
tomorrow's article, no Google link yet] on a movement that is rapidly
gaining support in the scientific community: the [1]Public Library of
Science(PLoS). The founders, [2]Nobel Laureate [3]Harold Varmus,
Stanford biologist [4]Pat Brown and Berkeley Lab scientist [5]Michael
Eisen, argue that scientific literature cannot be privately controlled
or owned by the publishers of scientific journals, and must instead be
available in public archives freely accessible by anyone and everyone.
This has very important implications for the fundamental principle that
Science must transcend all economic, national and other barriers. For a
while now, PLoS has been trying to get scientific journals to release
the rights to scientific papers; many major [6]journals have not
complied -- in response, PLoS is starting PLoS-standard-compliant
[7]journals (for which they received a $9 million grant from the
[8]Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), to demonstrate the validity of
the idea and persuade academic publishers to adopt the free access
model. They even have a GPL-like open access [9]Licence, and their
journals have some very prominent scientists on the [10]editorial
board. Here is the text of an earlier [11]Newsweek article about PLoS,
and here is a Nature [12]Public Debate explaining the issues. Michael
Eisen received the 2002 [13]Benjamin Franklin award for his work on
PLoS. Don't forget to sign the [14]PLoS open letter!"
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/science/17JOUR.html
1. http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
2. http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1989/
3. http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Harold_Elliot_Varmus.html
4. http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem/brown.html
5. http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/GEN/eisenm.html
6. http://www.sciencemag.org/
7. http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/journals.htm
8. http://www.moore.org/
9. http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/licence.htm
10. http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/cgi-bin/plosEditors.pl
11. http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/arch_July02.html#NerdNapster
12. http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/Eisen.htm
13. http://bioinformatics.org/franklin/2002/
14. http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/openletter.shtml
Airships Tested As Two-Way Telecom Beacons
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/001206
[0]sgups writes "[1]The Toronto Star (no registration required:)) is
[2]reporting about this firm which will supply spherical airships that
will be used as high-flying telecommunications platforms to supply
two-way Internet access across the United States and into Mexico and
Canada. The article explains little of the technology though."
Links
0. mailto:sgups@ho[ ]il.com ['tma' in gap]
1. http://www.thestar.ca/
2.
http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035775623359&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851
AOL Wins Anti-Spam Case
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/2150255
[0]saikou writes "CNet [1]writes in this story: 'A Virginia federal
court awarded America Online nearly $7 million in damages as part of
the Internet service providers' legal victory over a junk e-mail
operation, AOL said Monday.' Now, given tough times we should see more
and more ISPs sue (and, hopefully win) the evildoers if not for their
users mailboxes sake, then for their own budget. How long until there
will be a major ISP whose plans include discounts for spam-fighters?
(Help us to sue every spammer than sent mail to you and get $9.95
disount on your next bill :) )"
Links
0. http://www.masmol.com/
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978019.html?tag=fd_top
Acacia Steps Up Content-Transfer Patent Claims
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/1949240
[0]MarkRH writes "Over at [1]ExtremeTech we've got an [1]in-depth story
on the 20-odd suits being filed against the online porn industry by
Acacia Research Corp., which has been [2]previously covered on
Slashdot. Now, several online porn companies are forming an association
called IMPA (the 'Internet Media Protective Association'). We sat in on
conference calls held by the industry, and interviewed Acacia
executives. Bottom line: the porn industry is just the beginning."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,767313,00.asp
2. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/106259&tid=155
Vanishing Features Of The 2.6 Kernel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/1928258
[0]chromatic writes "[1]Jerry Cooperstein has written an excellent
article summarizing the [2]features removed from the upcoming 2.6
kernel. One controversial change may be tightening restrictions on
binary-only modules." And [3]Lovechild writes with some more 2.6 news:
"I recently did an inteview with famous kernel hacker extraordinare and
all round nice guy Robert M. Love for [4]Tinyminds.org, about [5]kernel
2.6 and what can be expected for desktop Linux users, when the new
kernel series is released.
Links
0. http://wgz.org/chromatic/
1. http://www.axian.com/
2. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/12/vanishing.html
3. http://Lovechild at foolclan dot com
4. http://www.tinyminds.org/
5. http://www.tinyminds.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=845
Whither America's Technological Edge?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/1724232
[0]baldass_newbie asks: "Ben Stein wrote an editorial titled, '[1]How
to Ruin American Enterprise'. To me, technological innovation is a big
outward sign of a successful economy. Sometimes it appears like the
U.S. is losing its edge in technology. Well, I was wondering what the
Slashdot community at large thinks is wrong (or right) with the U.S.
and technological innovation?" The article deals less with technology
and more with the society on which said innovation is based, and the
problems that may bring it down around our collective ears. Give the
article a read, and share your thoughts on whether or not you think
it's an accurate assessment on the current and future situation of
America's technological advantage.
Links
0. mailto:jay.brew-masters@com
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=64&e=3&u=/fo/20021213/bs_fo/2002_12_how_to_ruin_american_enterprise
Will We Need A SmartCard to Watch Digital TV?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/1846202
An anonymous reader writes "This story on EE Times points out that
[0]Hollywood and major electronics manufacturers are in agreement on a
SmartCard requirement for digital video interconnectivity. Note that
the article talks about them 'closing the analog hole.'"
Links
0. http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20021213S0034
Freshmeat
Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.7.3BETA-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106696/
Arno's IPTABLES firewall script was originally derived from Seven's
(single-homed) IPTABLES script. The biggest differences are that this
script has support for dual-homed machines, support for masquerading
(NAT), support for ethernet ADSL/DSL modems (for both static and
dynamically assigned IPs), support for all IP protocols, and support
for IPSEC (Freeswan). It also features (stealth) portscan detection,
extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to prevent log
flooding, port forwarding, optimizing the throughput of your internet
connection, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding (DoS attacks), and
much more. It's easy to configure and highly customizable. It
additionally includes a filter script (fwfilter) to make your firewall
log more readable.
Baroque 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106685/
Baroque is an applet for the ROX Desktop. It shows the battery state of
APM and ACPI systems.
BASHISH DR7.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106698/
Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to
customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt,
font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to
add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.
buildpkg 0.0.2r28-pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106706/
Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to
create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def)
which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be
also used to track installations and create packages of the installed
files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this
mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable)
list of programs and the installation will be done here.
ClarkConnect Internet Gateway 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106746/
ClarkConnect is a software package that transforms an old beat up PC
into a smart, simple, and secure Internet gateway and server for your
home or small office network. In addition to connection sharing, the
software comes with a strong firewall, Apache, dynamic DNS utilities,
and Samba filesharing. The software is based on Red Hat Linux.
cplay 1.46
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106728/
cplay is a Curses frontend for various audio players. It aims to
provide a power-user-friendly interface with simple filelist and
playlist control. It is written in Python and can use either pyncurses
or the standard curses module. The list of currently supported players
includes ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod.
CStyleX 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106697/
CStyleX provides ref.xsl, man.xsl, and proj.xsl XSLT transforms that
will convert an XML input file describing a library of C routines into
an HTML references, man pages, and a project Web page.
Echelog 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106748/
Echelog is a distributed system consisting of one or more agents and
one or more servers. Agents, distributed on computers over network, are
monitoring the network's and hosts' state. Gained information is sent
using SSL protocol to a safe server where the data are archived.
elf 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106719/
elf is a comfortable command-line ELF object file header analyzer.
Unlike many other similar projects, this project is aimed at the
analysis of the ELF header, so as a large feature-set as possible is
planned.
Flash Plugin for Browsers 6.0.69 (Flash 6)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106678/
The Flash Player plugin for x86 Linux lets users experience Web
animation and entertainment in their Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, or
Konqueror Web browser.
FSlint 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106740/
FSlint is a toolkit to find various forms of lint on a filesystem. At
the moment it reports duplicate files, bad symbolic links, troublesome
file names, empty directories, non stripped executables, temporary
files, duplicate/conflicting (binary) names, and unused ext2 directory
blocks.
FUDforum 2.3.6RC4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106736/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either
MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a
multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a
private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll
file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable
forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum
operators.
fwlogview 0.3.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106731/
fwlogview is a graphical, realtime, colorized logviewer for netfilter
and other logs written in Java. It displays the logentries which are
related to the firewall action. You can hide unimportant columns or
change the order in which columns are shown.
Genuts Framework 0.3.1b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106709/
The Genuts project provides a consistent Java framework for game
development. It contains a library with classes primarily intended for
sprite-based games, including functions for sprite manipulation and
collision detection.
gnocl 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106738/
gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It
provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user
interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support.
It is loosely modeled after the Tk package.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106693/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by
both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured
documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The
program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts.
It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra
systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language,
which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs,
and even to extend the editor.
GNUsound 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106689/
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. GNUsound
supports a large number of high-quality audio effects through the
LADSPA plugin architecture (see http://www.ladspa.org).
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.1-dev
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106743/
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) comprises an XML
schema for historical events, and xslt/Java, which transforms
conforming documents into useful and possibly new views, including
charts, time-lines, and maps generated in SVG. It is not meant to be
the one and only language for marking up historical events, however it
does aim to be a most information-rich interchange format for
historical data, and thus add an historical component to the growing
movement for a 'Semantic Web.'
HTML Forms generation and validation 2002.12.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106680/
HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates HTML
forms supporting keyboard navigation, server side and client side field
validation, the ability to stop the user from submiting a form more
than once, sub-form validation, composition and generation of the HTML
output with fields displayed as fully accessible or in read-only mode,
generation of Javascript field related functions, and automatic
capitalization of the text of a field. A plug-in filter is provided for
composing forms with the Smarty template engine.
IDE Studio 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106677/
IDEStudio is an enhanced version of the standard Python Idle IDE, using
the Tix extension widgets to Tkinter. It features an Embedded Idle
Editor (including syntax highlighting, command and method syntax tips,
an integrated graphical class browser, and an integrated graphical
debugger), a visual class and method inspector of editor files,
integrated PYDOC on-line help, and integrated productivity tools such
as find, grep, and execute scripts. It also works with GNU Emacs.
IlohaMail 0.7.9-RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106749/
IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to
use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require
databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library
(it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It supports all
essential functionality, including a full contacts list and a user
customizable interface. Other features include support for multiple
domains (virtual hosts), built-in spam prevention, and activity
logging.
Java Serialization to XML 1.0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106688/
Java Serialization to XML (JSX) allows you to write and read any Java
object graph as XML data with one line of code. You can verify your
data and manipulate it with standard XML tools like DOM, JDOM, and
XSLT. JSX automatically creates a file format/wire protocol for all
Java objects, so that it is always up to date as the code evolves. When
you need backward compatibility, JSX provides the evolution techniques
of Java Object Serialization, and you can also modify the XML directly.
Unlike databinders, such as JAXB and Castor, no explicit mapping is
required, and JSX works for all objects.
JOELib 2002-12-16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106739/
JOELib is a computational chemistry library which supports SMARTS
substructure search, descriptor calculation, processing/filtering
pipes, and conversion of different chemical file formats. It is written
in 100% pure Java, and interfaces to external programs are available.
jpgind 0.64
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106716/
Jpgind is commandline tool for generating Web galleries from JPEG/Exif
files. Each image's page can be supplemented with EXIF info and HTML
metadata from a separate text file.
JpGraph 1.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106702/
JpGraph is a OO Graph drawing library for PHP 4.0.2 and above.
Highlights of the available features are: text, linear, and log scales
for both the X and Y axes, anti-aliasing of lines, color-gradient
fills, support for GIF, JPG, and PNG formats, support for two Y axes,
spider plots (a.k.a Web plots), pie-charts, lineplots, filled line
plots, impulse plots, bar plots, and error plots, support for multiple
plot types in one graph, intelligent autoscaling, and extensive
documentation (145 pages).
Kaspaliste 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106710/
Kaspaliste is a literature database. It handles all kinds of books,
articles, journals, Web pages, etc. The database goes beyond storing
bibliographical information. It is possible to create annotated links
between pieces of information (like the content of a book chapter) and
to group links into categories. The user interface works just like a
Web browser. You may walk back and forward through previously edited
records, change fields, and create or delete links, publications,
authors, etc. Kaspaliste stores files as well as information about
publications, and it handles various formats like HTML, PDF, PS, DVI,
and pictures. The fulltext search covers these files. Another feature
is the automatic generation of BibTex files.
KDE Pocket PC Contacts Import 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106720/
KDE Pocket PC Contacts Import lets you import your Windows CE (or
PocketPC) contacts into KDE's address book.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.52_001 (For Linux 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106676/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user
programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can
access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user
programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege
level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it
seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such
methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so
forth.
Kyro Linux Tools 0.165
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106745/
Kyro Linux Tools allows owners of the Kyro 1/2 graphics cards to
configure and tweak it to get the most out of it. It is currently
translated into English, Catalan, Spanish, French, German, and Dutch.
Linux trustees 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106741/
The main goal of the Linux Trustees project is to create an advanced
permission management system for Linux. The solution proposed is mainly
inspired by the approach taken by Novell Netware and the Java security
API. Special objects (called trustees) can be bound to every file or
directory. The trustee object can be used to ensure that access to a
file, directory, or directory with subdirectories is granted (or
denied) to a certain user or group (or all except user or group).
Trustees are like POSIX ACLs, but trustee objects can affect entire
subdirectory trees, while ACLs a single file.
Luminance Panel 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106744/
Luminance Panel is a panel application written in GTK 2.0 for the
Luminance Desktop project. The intent of the project is to produce a
lightweight, visually appealing panel application. This project does
not intend to rival other applications in number of features.
Lutel Firewall 0.65 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106700/
Lutel Firewall Script is a Linux iptables shell script written in bash
for use as a firewall and NAT/masquerade router for home networks or
multiple subnet applications. It shares access to an Internet
connection from multiple workstations. Its main features are support
for interface aliases, per subnet traffic definitions, UID and GID of
packet owner restrictions, length of packet restrictions, SYN / flood
protection, disabling routing between subnets, masquerading setups per
subnet, transparent proxy support, port redirection, anti-spoof
protection, TOS optimization, predefinied netfilter marking for 3rd
party traffic shapers (such as tc), DHCP support, FTP active and
passive mode support, and ZorbipTraffic.
mailgraph 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106715/
Mailgraph is a very simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix
that produces daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of
received/sent and bounced/rejected mail.
Mainstreet Credit Verification Engine 2.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106724/
Mainstreet Credit Verification Engine (MCVE) is a scalable Credit Card
Processing Engine for Linux and UNIX. MCVE is designed to handle credit
card authorizations and is certified to support major clearing house
protocols. Features include support for multiple modems, multiple
merchant accounts, and multiple processors, all simultaneously -- as
well as IP and SSL connectivity along side SQL database support.
Designed in C, conforming to POSIX standards, and utilizing light
weight processes (threads), this product is able to handle a large
number of transactions with high speed and minimal CPU usage.
mcGallery 1.10 (Professional)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106679/
mcGallery is a photo gallery management script that allows you to
display several albums. Each album and each photo can be shown with a
title, a name, and a description. Thumbnails are automatically
generated. The password protected admin panel lets you add or delete
individual photos or entire albums, and shows the most popular photos.
English and French language files are provided.
MemCheck Deluxe 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106718/
MemCheck Deluxe is a memory usage tracker and leak finder. It allows
developers to find memory leaks quickly, as well as providing some
memory usage information.
MiniXML 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106694/
MiniXML provides a simple API used to generate and parse XML. Its
advantages are ease-of-use and the fact that no additional libraries
are required. The set of classes allows developers to access XML data
and create valid XML output with a tree-based hierarchy of elements.
The PHP and Perl classes are independent and do not require any
additional libraries.
Moto 0.16.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106737/
Moto is a server-side scripting language much like PHP or ColdFusion.
The difference between Moto and other server-side scripting languages
is that Moto pages can run interpreted (like PHP) or be natively
compiled into dynamically loadable Apache modules (an entire Web site
could be compiled into one .so file). It comes with a full suite of
objects and functions for state and session management, MySQL and
PostgreSQL database connectivity, and a slew of utility classes like
stacks, hashtables, string buffers, etc. There is also an included
interface definition language for exposing C functions to Moto. All
object allocation occurs in a shared memory segment, so maintaining
state in objects between page views is a snap.
MyDNS 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106701/
MyDNS is a free DNS server for Unix which was implemented from scratch
and is designed to serve DNS data directly from an SQL database.
MyPFXAdmin 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106686/
MyPFXAdmin is a set of Web-based PHP scripts that allow easy
administration of a Postfix setup. It allows adding and editing of
domains, aliases, and users, without direct manipulation of the
database.
MySQL Database Server 3.23.54a (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106687/
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.
MZiq 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106713/
MZiq is a Perl frontend for mpg123. Its main feature is the deployment
of Perl's regular expressions for ease of playlist creation. It also
supports other miscellaneous helping options like nice, caching, and
the ability to read its options and patterns from a file.
nALFS 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106747/
nALFS is used for parsing the ALFS profiles (simple instructions in
XML) and, following those profiles, do various things (like executing
commands), one by one, to compile some packages from source.
OpenAFS 1.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106732/
AFS is a distributed filesystem which offers a client-server
architecture, transparent data migration abilities, scalability, a
single namespace, and integrated ancillary subsystems.
OSSP al 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106723/
OSSP al defines an abstract data type of a data buffer that can
assemble, move, and truncate chunks of data in a stream but avoids
actual copying. It was built to deal efficiently with communication
streams between software modules. It especially provides flexible
semantical data attribution through by-chunk labeling. It also has
convenient chunk traversal methods and optional OSSP ex based exception
handling.
pimentech-dbutils 1.0.20 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106707/
pimentech-dbutils provides a set of tools for designing a database in
XML, computing the SQL database generation code and the diagram (in
dot), and doing other useful tasks.
SCMxx 0.6.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106722/
SCMxx is a console program that allows you to exchange certain types of
data with mobile phones made by Siemens. Some of the data types that
can be exchanged are logos, ring tones, vCalendars, vCards, phonebook
entries, and SMS messages. It works with the following phones: S25,
C35i, M35i, S35i, ME45, S45, SL45, and probably some others, too. It
basically uses the AT command set published by Siemens (with some other
additional resources).
Siege 2.57b2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106714/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a
single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can
read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program
reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response
time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1
protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and
basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user
basis.
SmokePing 1.18 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106725/
SmokePing is a network latency monitor which works in a way that is
similar to MRTG. It measures network latency to a configurable set of
destinations on the network, and displays its findings in easy-to-read
Web pages. SmokePing has special support for monitoring hosts with
dynamic IP addresses. SmokePing uses RRDtool as its logging and
graphing back-end, making the system very efficient. The presentation
of the data on the Web is done through a CGI which creates graphs on
demand.
The EDDIE Tool 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106705/
The EDDIE Tool is a system and network monitoring, security, and
performance analysis tool developed entirely in threaded Python. Its
key features are portability, powerful configuration, and ease of
expansion.
Thy 0.2.153 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106717/
Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful
enough to serve many hits a day.
Tixapps 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106675/
Tixapps is a suite of development applications that run with Tcl/Tk or
Python, using the Tix widget set. Applications currently included in
Tixapps are tixinspect (an inspector for Tix/Tk applications), tixdebug
(a debugger to work with tixinspect), and tixinfo (an info browser for
GNU documentation).
Trickster Streaming Server 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106703/
Trickster Streaming Server is a pure Perl MP3 streaming server with a
Web interface. It allows you to manipulate and browse the queue. The
queue management API is done in a fairly simple UNIX manner, so you can
easily extend it.
Virus Update Server 1.4.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106712/
Virus Update Server (vsuserver) helps you maintain an updated mirror of
the antivirus updates from the McAfee/Network Associates servers
without having to download the entire list of updates every time a new
antivirus update is available. It mirrors all the files needed for
serveral OSes, and it also includes a FAQ on how to configure clients
to update for their version of the product.
Web components 1.00 (FormForge)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106708/
Web components is a collection of visual programming elements that can
be used when creating a PHP-based Web site. It is similar in spirit to
ASP.NET.
Web components 2.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106681/
Web components is a collection of visual programming elements that can
be used when creating a PHP-based Web site. It is similar in spirit to
ASP.NET.
Slashcode
Integrating Slash with e-commerce?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/2223251
Does anyone know of sites that have integrated Slashcode with some sort
of e-commerce / shopping-cart system? Or, how that might best be done?
I'm looking at open-source e-commerce packages such as, for instance,
phpShop (http://www.phpshop.org) and osCommerce
(http://www.oscommerce.com/) and wondering if and how they could be
melded with Slashcode. thanks, Tim.
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
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