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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
abcm2ps 3.1.17 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106824/
abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to
PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to
print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one
or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to
the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
Anjuta IDE 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106839/
Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C
and C++ in GNU/Linux. It has been written for GTK/GNOME, and features a
number of advanced programming facilities. These include project
management, application wizards, an onboard interactive debugger, and a
powerful source editor with source browsing and syntax highlighting.
bash programmable completion 20021217
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106825/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend
its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with
just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to
complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3
str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the
UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported
file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would
complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to
produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX
commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need
to do on a daily basis.
Beautylabs Panorama Viewer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106768/
Beautylabs Panorama Viewer is a Java Swing applet for displaying
scrolling images. It was initially developed for displaying room
interiors, but can be used for any 360 degree panoramic image.
Cannon Smash 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106858/
Cannon Smash is a 3D table-tennis game. This game represents various
strategies of tabletennis on the computer.
Caudium 1.2.22 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106846/
Caudium is a single process multi-threaded Web server. It has a
built-in pre-processing language and an early stage of XSLT-support.
The server also comes with a fast log parser. Configuration is easily
done using a WWW-GUI.
CheckRDF 30.5000
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106834/
CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program,
for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and
in an HTML file. It is highly configurable.
ferriscreate 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106851/
ferriscreate is a libferris client which can be used to create new
objects in the filesystem.
GneleMixer 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106841/
Gnelemixer is yet another OSS mixer. It has a good looking GUI, and
supports loading/saving settings.
gnome-mlview 0.0.3rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106829/
MlView is a tree-oriented XML editor for GNOME. It is written in C and
is heavily based on GTK, libgnomeui, and libxml2. Its aim is to ease
XML editing, with or without validation.
grafist 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106843/
Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth
utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev
file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily,
weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it
executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a
summary for each file. Grafist provides localization support for 15
languages.
Hydra 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106849/
Hydra is a high performance multi-threaded HTTP server. Unlike
traditional multi-threaded Web servers, it uses a constant,
configurable pool of threads, and each thread can handle several
connections by multiplexing the connections. This is even better than
non-blocking servers, since Hydra will use every available CPU in a
multi-CPU system. It also has features such as host-based virtual
hosting, HTTP 1.1 features, CGI 1.1, SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, and more.
Jconsole 1.39
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106827/
Jconsole is a JMX console for JBoss that provides a pre-built Web
client for the JBoss application server. It deploys the JMX features of
JBoss.
Kewl Session Manager 1.1-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106820/
The Kewl Session Manager provides a nice menu that allows you to choose
which window manager, program, or script you wish to launch for the
session after logging in. It uses Tcl/Tk and is designed for people
that can not settle on one window manager or desktop environment.
Koynacity Blue 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106797/
Koynacity Blue is a clean, elegant theme. It supports all of the
Metacity styles, including shade mode and border-only windows. It
renders relatively quickly for themes in its class.
LBreakout 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106832/
LBreakout is a breakout game with nice effects, graphics, and sounds.
It's got a menu to configure a lot of things and a high score chart. It
can be played either by mouse or keyboard. New levels can also be
created, and most other aspects of the game can be customized.
libferris 0.9.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106852/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all
kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each
datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various
data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting
EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event
updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount
a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox
(mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation
decoders.
man-pages-ja 20021215
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106828/
man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for
Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU
tools, and ones for various opensource applications.
Modified Platinum 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106816/
Modified Platinum is a theme which uses window decorations which
emulate the Platinum appearance of the Mac OS 8.
Network-Accounting Daemon for Netfilter 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106840/
ulog-acctd is a userspace network accounting daemon which generates log
files of network traffic for accounting purposes. It collects headers
of IP packets that travel through the Linux 2.4+ netfilter. It writes
accounting information to a log which can include protocol type, source
and destination address, port numbers, byte and packet count, and
incoming and outgoing interfaces. It is easily possible to generate
CISCO "IP accounting output-packets" style logs with this
tool.
OSCAR Cluster 2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106853/
OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resource) is a snapshot of the
best known methods for building, programming, and using clusters. It
consists of a fully integrated and easy- to-install software bundle
designed for high performance cluster computing.
PHP Text Editor 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106780/
PHP Text Editor allows any file residing on a server to bed opened for
editing. It includes a small task list at the bottom of the page and is
handy for quick, clean, online editing.
PHPChart 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106856/
PHPChart generates charts "on the fly". It is a collection of
PHP3 scripts that create bar charts and line-point charts (and someday
perhaps some other types). This project is under heavy development.
pork 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106819/
pork is a UNIX console-based AIM client mostly fashioned after the
look-and-feel of ircII.
PowerAdmin 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106830/
PowerAdmin is a Web-based frontend for the PowerDNS DNS server. It
interfaces with PowerDNS's generic database backends, such as MySQL,
PostgreSQL, and Oracle, to add/modify/delete both forward and reverse
zones, with full IPv6 support.
Radiator Radius Server 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106818/
Radiator is flexible, extensible, and authenticates from a huge range
of auth methods, including SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+,
password, NT SAM, Emerald, Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external,
OPIE, POP3, EAP, and Active Directory. It runs on Unix,
Win95/98/NT/2000, MacOS 9, MacOS X, VMS, etc.
Ruby Dataquery Shell 0.4.0a (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106826/
RDQS (Ruby Data Query Shell) is a text-based shell for querying SQL
databases. It features connection bookmarks, shortcuts, history,
completion, paging, shell interaction (via backtick operator),
CSV/INI/XML/Table output, output redirection, numerous configuration
options, multiconnect with fast switching, and a watch command (execute
given query/shortcut in a fixed interval).
Securepoint Firewall and VPN Server 3.051p1 (Securepoint3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106836/
Securepoint Firewall and VPN Server is a high-performance application
designed to offer full protection for network assets. The Security
Manager offers a graphical user interface with many features, different
configurations, and advanced reporting functions. The Securepoint
server is a complete firewall and VPN software system with an operating
system based on a secure Linux. VPN operation supports PPTP and IPSec
(X.509 certificates, preshared, RSA signature). You can use the
firewall on a standard PC with 2 to 16 network cards (including
Ethernet, ADSL, ISDN). It is very easy to install and administer. The
Securepoint Security Manager is available in English, German, and
Spanish, and works in online and offline mode.
Sherlock Holmes 2.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106847/
Sherlock Holmes is a modular system for gathering and indexing textual
data and searching in it. The most popular application is, of course,
indexing of Web pages ranging from small Web sites to whole top-level
domains, but other data sources, parsers, and user interfaces can be
added easily.
Simple Instant Messenger 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106814/
Simple Instant Messenger is a simple ICQ client with v8 protocol
support (2001) for X.
SmartEiffel 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106842/
SmartEiffel (formerly named SmallEiffel,) is The GNU Eiffel Compiler.
This is a free Eiffel compiler distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. It is intended to be a complete, though small
and very fast, free Eiffel compiler. The current distribution includes
an Eiffel to C compiler, an Eiffel to Java bytecode compiler, a
documentation tool, a pretty printer and various other tools. Eiffel is
an advanced object-oriented programming language that emphasizes the
design and construction of high-quality and reusable software.
Spamcup 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106850/
Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same
actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web
browser, but from the commandline.
symposium 1.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106831/
symposium is a simple talker written in Perl. Suitable for use in an
office setting, it is configurable, well-written, and extensible.
Commands can be easily added to provide local flavour.
TTY-Grin 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106822/
TTY-Grin is a screen-oriented interactive news and email client with
MIME support, the ability to browse multiple news servers, and LISP
scripting capabilities.
Turbo Vision 2.0.1 RC1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106837/
Turbo Vision is a C++ library that provides a very nice user interface
for console applications. This UNIX port is based on Borland's version
2.0 with fixes. It was made to create RHIDE, a nice IDE for gcc and
other GNU compilers. The library supports /dev/vcsa devices for fast
access to local consoles, and it uses ncurses to run from telnet and
xterm. This port, in contrast to the Sigala's port, doesn't have
"100% compatibility with the original library" as goal.
Instead, many modifications were made for the sake of security
(especially buffer overflows). This port is also available for the
original platform (DOS).
VGATron 0.3.1 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106854/
VGATron is yet another clone of the well-known game called
"Tron". It uses svgalib and is a two-player game.
xcave 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106844/
xcave is a wine cellar manager which allows you to browse wine stock,
grouping bottles by country zones, add, modify, or suppress wine from a
cellar, and print all stock. It is available in French, English, Dutch,
and German.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106855/
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server
and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is
written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant
searching and threading of your email messages.
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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