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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
Quicktime 6 Becoming Mobile-Phone Standard?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/230217
[0]k-hell writes "It [1]seems [2]like Apple's QuickTime 6 is becoming
standard on some 44 million Japanese mobile phones. Apple and many
other companies are pressuring hard to make [3]MPEG-4 the industry
standard for video-on-demand services in 3G cellular networks, and to
keep Microsoft and its proprietary Windows Media out of the mobile
phones market."
Links
0. http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kjetihel/
1. http://www.onlinereporter.com/charts/tor327/tor327.html#2
2. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1218nttdo.html
3. http://www.m4if.org/
Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2247214
[0]Magamo writes "[1]Console Talk has the story on a [2]settlement
between [3]Sony and [4]Nintendo over the rights to the "[5]PlayStation"
name, which was originally a joint owned copywrite, given to a CD and
Cartridge based system to play SNES games. The settlement is for 10% of
Sony's proceeds, past and present on the "PlayStation" name, currently
amounting to approximately $2.3 billion. Nintendo is allowing Sony to
pay it off in installments over the next 20 years. Nintendo currently
plans on using the money to create a new game studio comprised of
members of some of the biggest in the japanese industry, in order to
create titles exclusively for the [6]GameCube. Hmm, my guess is that
Sony's next console will be shying away from the PlayStation
moniker..."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.consoletalk.com/
2. http://www.consoletalk.com/News/FullStory.php?id=146
3. http://www.sony.com/
4. http://www.nintendo.com/
5. http://www.playstation.com/
6. http://www.gamecube.com/
New Software Secures Data when Owners Walk Away
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2241201
[0]Makarand writes "Leave an operating laptop unattended on your desk
and your sensitive data is accessible to anyone who gets hold of it. To
limit this risk many users configure their systems to fall into a
"sleep" mode after a period of inactivity and ask for a password before
the system can be awakened. This constant re-authentication proves to
be a headache for many users. Now a Professor and his graduate student
at at the University of Michigan have come up with a system called [1]
Zero-Interaction Authentication (ZIA), [2]described in this article in
The Age, to protect data on mobile devices. The system works by
starting to encrypt data the moment the owner walks away from the
system. The owners wear a token with a encrypted wireless link with the
laptop. If the token moves out of range the ZIA re-encrypts all data
within 5 seconds. If the cryptographic token moves within range the
system decrypts the information for the owner. The token, which could
take many forms, is currently a wristwatch with a processor running
Linux designed by IBM."
Links
0. mailto:{the-Junta(@)HotMail.}
1. http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/mobicom/2002/papers/p002-corner.pdf
2. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/17/1039656378113.html
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2047205
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new Quicktime [0]Trailer
avalible for Terminator 3 up and avalible to download. Features include
shiny chrome, blue LED's a-plenty and a few seconds of a CGI'ed army of
Terminators." Looks like a pretty fun movie.
Links
0. http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/t3/
Opera Gives That C64 Feel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/1328245
[0]howcome writes "[1]Opera yesterday relased beta2 of the forthcoming
7.0 version. Opera now supports mulitple user style sheets and by
selecting "Nostalgia" from the menu all web pages suddenly resemble
Commodore 64 ([2]screendump1 [3]screendump2) from 20 years back. Also,
there is a [4]handheld emulator to see what a page will look like on a
handheld device running Opera. To get you through Christmas, you can
also use the "fast-forward" button. Try it on Google ([5]screendump)!"
Links
0. http://people.opera.com/howcome
1. http://www.opera.com/
2. http://people.opera.com/howcome/2002/opera/sdsd2.png
3. http://people.opera.com/howcome/2002/opera/sdsd.png
4. http://www.opera.com/products/smartphone/smallscreen/
5. http://people.opera.com/howcome/2002/opera/sdjj.png
FTC Moves Forward With National Do-Not-Call List
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2043243
netringer writes "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is proposing some
new regulations [0]creating a national 'Do Not Call' list to keep US
phones from being rung by telemarketers. Telemarketers who call a
number on the list could be fined up $11,000. The new FTC rules also
require that telemarketers have Caller ID enabled and limit abandoned
'hang up' calls from predictive dialers. The new rules have some
loopholes, allowing calls from charities and businesses that have
somehow gotten your permission or have done business with you before.
The Direct Marketing Association is threatening to sue to save U.S.
consumers from the potential loss of buying opportunities."
Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/849058.asp?0dm=C14LT
Killing Unwanted Text Messages from Yahoo! Alerts?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/1335225
[0]Creighti asks: "When I first got my new cellphone I immediately
received several automated Text Message 'Alerts' from Yahoo and MSN
which recurred on a daily basis. My guess was (is) that the previous
owner of my cell phone number signed up for these things. Six months
later I'm still getting unwanted text messages from Yahoo! Alerts. I
managed to get rid of the MSN messages by signing up with MSN (gack),
registering the phone number as mine, and de-selecting all text
messages. I've tried the same trick with Yahoo. I've tried filling out
the Yahoo! Help form that appeared to apply (interestingly enough, the
Yahoo Help entry I've used several times to request they stop sending
the unwanted alert appears to have been removed, but clicking the 'No'
button on [1] this page would work). I've even tried emailing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone else getting text-message spammed by Yahoo! (or
any other service)? Any suggestions for what I should do next to try
and get Yahoo! to stop sending these unwanted messages?" Why aren't the
text message preferences deleted when the cancellation notices comes
thru?
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/alerts/alerts-05.html
Sony, Matsushita Back Linux For Consumer Goods
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/1948257
malx writes "Says the Financial Times: 'Matsushita and Sony have
[0]agreed to jointly develop the Linux operating system for digital
consumer electronic products, in a highly unusual and cooperative deal
between two of the fiercest rivals in the industry.' Interesting
because Sony and Matsushita are bitter foes: this shows they're even
more scared of Microsoft." Sorry, [1]it's a dupe.
Links
0.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1039523785796
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/1125229&tid=106
Video Streaming Goes Peer-to-Peer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/189233
[0]CMU ESM Project writes "Our research group at Carnegie Mellon
University has developed a peer to peer streaming video content
distribution system called End System Multicast (ESM). The system
constructs a self-organizing and adaptive overlay network using the
receivers that are tuning into the broadcast events. The system has
been used fairly successfully for [1] quite a few events. Now we want
test the system with a lot of more users and different user join
patterns. We are streaming some very cool video, such as Triumph of the
Nerds by Bob Cringely, distinguished lecture by Eric Schmidt, CEO of
Google, ACM SIGCOMM conference paper presentation by Dave Clark, and
2002 Sony Legged Robot Soccer Championship. [2]Here is the detailed
schedule. So please tune in, enjoy, and help test our system!" The
streaming is based on QuickTime; for Linux users, the project page
steps through installation of CodeWeaver's CrossOver plug-in.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~ESM-streaming/broadcast.html#pastbroadcast
2. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~ESM-streaming/
LOTR: The Two Towers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/1622249
Let's try to mash all the LOTR submissions into one. Reviews:
[0]comingsoon.net, [1]Empire Online (UK), [2]CNN, [3]Slate, [4]Salon.
The LA Times has a story about animating Gollum which we can't link to
because it requires registration. [5]Lord Satri writes "Ents, elves and
mages being on every orc's lips, new versions of [6]Tales Of
Middle-Earth are available. It is an open source, one player and
[7]online multiplayer game. It is [8]ported to many OS's. Yeah, no
terrific graphics, but the game is really worthwhile. It is based on
the famous roguelike [9]Angband (variants [10]here). Faithful to
Tolkien's writings."
Links
0. http://www.comingsoon.net/reviews/lotrttt.php
1. http://www.empireonline.co.uk/features/events/thelordoftherings2/default.asp
2.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/17/sproject.ca02.review.two.towers/index.html
3. http://slate.msn.com/?id=2075650&device=
4. http://salon.com/ent/movies/review/2002/12/18/two_towers/index.html
5. http://www.alexandre.leroux.net
6. http://t-o-m-e.net/
7. http://t-o-m-e.net/main.php?tome_current=1
8. http://t-o-m-e.net/download.php?tome_current=0
9. http://thangorodrim.angband.org/
10. http://www.angband.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html
Freshmeat
Arch Linux 0.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106974/
Arch Linux is an i686-optimized Linux distribution. It is lightweight
and contains the latest stable versions of software. Packages are in
.tar.gz format and are tracked by a package manager that is designed to
allow easy package upgrades. Arch is quite streamlined compared to some
other distributions. Things that are relatively unused are not kept
(info pages, for example). A default Arch install leaves you with a
solid base; from there, you can add packages to create the custom
installation you're looking for. Arch has a package build system that
allows you to easily create your own packages, which makes it very easy
to rebuild a package with your own custom configuration. Arch also aims
to use the newer features available to Linux users, such as
reiserfs/ext3 and devfs.
Ariadne 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106967/
Ariadne is a multi-language Web Application Server and Content
Management System built with PHP. It has a rich user interface which
includes wizards, pulldown menus, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Data is
stored in a structured object store and can be accessed via
filesystem-like calls (ls, find, get). It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL,
and MSSQL.
Audioq queue system 0.96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106991/
Audioq is a queue system that allows several users from different
computers to play songs sharing the audio resources in a fair way.
CDox 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106960/
CDox generates, edits, and prints CD documents like CD covers, back
sides and booklets. It features many image processing options like
sharpen, contrast, etc. One can use images and text as elements, and
those elements can be flipped/rotated/resized in any way. The program
has easy-to-use features for previously made images that are meant to
be CD covers.
DaveDAP 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106976/
DaveDAP is a PHP-based engine to browse, search, and edit an LDAP
server over the Web. You can browse your LDAP server in tree mode, or
you can search for users based on any number of easily configurable
criteria. DaveDAP aims to be a Web-based replacement for GQ.
DCP-Portal 5.0.1 (Final)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106944/
DCP-Portal is a content management system with advanced features like
Web-based update, link, file, member management, poll, calendar, etc.
Its main features include an admin panel to manage the entire site, a
smart HTML editor to add news, content, and annoucements, the ability
for members to submit news/content and write reviews, and much more.
DOM Menu 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106925/
DOM Menu allows developers to add dynamic, hierarchical popup menus to
Web pages. Menus can be horizontal or vertical and can open or pop out
in either direction. It features screen edge and element detection for
browsers that cannot hide form elements. Styles are controlled almost
entirely using CSS, and the menus are created and hidden using the
Document Object Model. Configuration is performed using a custom Hash()
class. The menus emulate the look and feel of well known GUI toolkits.
Mozilla, IE 5+ and Opera 7 are supported.
E-Xoops Beta 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106935/
E-Xoops is a content management system written mainly in object
oriented PHP. It includes everything you'd expect from a portal system,
including downloads, links, sections, polls, forum, news, a FAQ, RSS
feeds, members lists, and customizable blocks and themes. It also
integrates XMLRPC and the ability to manage users as groups with
module- or block-specific access permissions.
Easy Integrity Check System 1.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106939/
Easy Integrity Check System is a tool for system administrators that
performs filesystem integrity checks. It is easy to set up and use, and
makes use of the mcrypt and mhash libraries for encrypting its
database.
echolot-pinger 2.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106995/
Echolot-pinger is a pinger for anonymous remailers, which works by
regularly sending messages through remailers to check their
reliability. It then calculates reliability statistics which are used
by remailer clients to choose the chain of remailers to use.
Additionally, it collects configuration parameters and the keys of all
remailers, and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients.
Exim 4.12 (exim4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106952/
Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of
Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. In style
it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are much more extensive.
Exim is in use at many sites around the world.
Filesystem Charset Converter 1.0 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106946/
Filesystem Charset Convertor (fcc) converts file and directory names
from one character set to another.
GeekLog 1.3.7-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106973/
GeekLog is the weblog software that concentrates on performance,
privacy, and security. It features Web-based administration, surveys
(polls), user-customizable boxes, a friendly administration GUI with a
topic manager, an option to edit or delete stories, an option to delete
comments, a search engine, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF
format), calendaring, and much more.
Genuts Breaker 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106949/
Genuts Breaker is a remake of the popular classic Break-Out game. The
object of the game is to avoid losing your ball and to catch it with
your racket. Sometime a new ball will appear. Six levels are available.
gtkglextmm 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106956/
gtkglextmm is C++ wrapper for GtkGLExt, an OpenGL extension to GTK.
HTML::TextToHTML 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106948/
HTML::TextToHTML converts plain text files into HTML. It supports
headings, tables, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and
is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of
the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and
attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML. This Perl module
can be used inside Perl scripts or called from the commandline, making
it versatile and easy to use.
I fixed this (with Linux) 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106932/
A smooth, creamy-pistachio-green theme with a penguin and the statement
"I fixed this with linux".
JFtp 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106954/
JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the
basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive
directory upload, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume
downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API
is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party
applications or in a command-line mode.
JSch 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106959/
JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to
an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer,
etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.
KricketScoreboard 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106940/
KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches.
It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing,
batting and bowling statistics, etc.
LDasm 0.04.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106981/
LDasm (Linux Disassembler) is a Perl/Tk-based GUI for objdump/binutils
that tries to imitate the look and feel of W32Dasm. It searchs for
cross-references (e.g. strings), converts the code from GAS to a
MASM-like style, and much more.
Lepton's Crack 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106957/
Lepton's Crack is a generic password cracker. It is easily-customizable
with a simple plugin system and allows system administrators to review
the quality of the passwords being used on their systems. It can
perform a dictionary-based (wordlist) attack as well as a brute force
(incremental) password scan. It supports standard MD4 hash, standard
MD5 hash, NT MD4/Unicode, and Lotus Domino HTTP password (R4) formats.
libmcrypt 2.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106938/
Libmcrypt is a library which provides a uniform interface to several
symmetric encryption algorithms. It is intended to have a simple
interface to access encryption algorithms in ofb, cbc, cfb, and ecb
modes. The algorithms it supports are DES, 3DES, RIJNDAEL, Twofish,
IDEA, GOST, CAST-256, ARCFOUR, SERPENT, SAFER+, and more. The
algorithms and modes are also modular so you can add and remove them on
the fly without recompiling the library.
MasarLabs NoArp 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106980/
MasarLabs NoArp is a Linux kernel module that filters and drops
unwanted ARP requests. It is useful when you need to add an alias to
the loopback interface to use a load balancer.
MiddleMan 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106971/
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to
remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like
configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to
filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies
to and from certain sites, redirect requests, forward requests through
another proxy using NTLM or Basic authentication, block inappropiate
content using a keyword scoring system, and manipulate the contents of
files using either its builtin rewrite feature or an external program
or script. It fully implements the HTTP/1.1 protocol, including
persistent connections and gzip encoding.
monfarm 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106963/
Monfarm is an alarm-enabled monitoring system for server farms. It
produces dynamically updated HTML status pages showing the availability
of servers. Alarms are generated if servers become unavailable.
mysqlSendmail 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106993/
mysqlSendmail is software for sendmail access, sendmail.cw, and aliases
file management. It features virtusertable management for multiple
domains, a built-in scoreboard signature-based anti-spam system, and
support for managing POP3 users and their quotas. It has tie-ins for
both SMTP-after-POP and SMTP-after-auth (see mysqlRadius) via modified
a Cistron 1.6.6 radiusd and qpopper 4.0.4. It is part of the mysqlISP
suite of GPL ISP management tools.
mysqltcl 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106990/
mysqltcl is the Tcl interface to mysql realtional database. It is the
next version of mysqltcl1.53 (new contributor) with many new futures:
Tcl8.0-Object support, Unicode support, configure support, no
connection limitation, nested queries, handling of binary files
(containing null values), and many extra commands: seek on result
block, escaping of string, last inserted id, introspection of
connection and query state, and query metadata (schema).
N-View 2.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106968/
N-View is a network monitor for small and medium-sized networks. It
features automatic scanning of subnets for host addresses, monitoring
of ICMP responses from all hosts, signalling of timeouts and delays in
the GUI and by mail, a portscanner, an SNMP client (MIB browser and
trap receiver), a graphical display of network traffic for network
interfaces, connectivity to hosts by telnet, HTTP browser, or an
arbitrary external program (such as ssh), printing of network diagrams,
automatic generation of HTML pages, and more.
Nessus 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106943/
Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other
Unices. It is plug-in-based, has a GTK interface, and performs over 900
remote security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML,
XML, LaTeX, and ASCII text, and suggests solutions for security
problems.
oxygen XML editor 1.2.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106961/
Oxygen is a Java-based XML editor with support for XML, XSL, TXT, XSD,
and DTD documents. It has FOP and Unicode support and the interface
messages have been translated to English, French, German, Italian, and
Romanian.
Package Structure Analysis Tool 1.0 Beta 5 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106994/
The Package Structure Analysis Tool is a tool for analyzing and
refactoring the structure of Java programs. It takes Java sources as
input and visualizes the dependencies between packages and classes with
UML class diagrams, detects cycles in the dependency graph, recovers an
intended architectural layering from a polluted implementation,
suggests which dependencies should be removed to improve the structure,
allows refactoring of the source model, immediately shows the effect of
the refactoring on the dependency structure, allows the refactoring to
be applied to the source code, and allows source code to be verified
against a design model.
Paper Archiving Software Sysytem 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106920/
The Paper Archiving Software Sysytem turns streams of data into a
series of image files that can be interpreted by humans to recover the
original data. It is intended to be used for long- term archival use
and was created in response to the doomsday book currently being
recovered in Europe.
Pauker 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106958/
Pauker is a generic flashcard program written in Java. It uses a
combination of ultra-shortterm, shortterm, and longterm memory. You can
use it to learn all the things you never want to forget, like
vocabulary, capitals, important dates, etc.
pdfcrypt 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106988/
pdfcrypt allows you to set permissions on a PDF file. For example, you
can publish a document without permitting users to print it. The button
to print the file will be disabled in the Acrobat Reader application.
It can be used as a batch application to set permissions on a large
group of PDF files, or as a filter in a Unix pipeline, or within a CGI
application. Only binary executables are distributed, but the original
Perl source code may be requested.
pipebench 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106649/
Pipebench shows the current throughput and amount of data going through
a pipe. It can be used to show the progress of a large md5sum process:
cat bigfile | pipebench | md5sum.
Ring Dependencies Tool beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106964/
Ring Dependencies Tool provides an interface for finding and analyzing
circular dependencies within Unix libraries. The tool finds rings and
generates a dependency table overview, within which you can find each
symbol table ordered according to "supplies",
"needs", and "needs from".
Rosegarden 0.8.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106966/
Rosegarden is an integrated MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor.
The stable version (2.1) is a simple application for any Unix/X system.
The development branch (Rosegarden-4) is an entirely new KDE
application.
screen-scraper 0.8.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106934/
screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It
consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS
requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract
information from Web sites using special patterns and regular
expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and
contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be
manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database.
Siteseed 1.4.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106975/
Siteseed is a full Web Development and Content Management System. It
provides bases for site building and uses PHP for extensions and site
programming. Advanced features include intercomunications with other
Siteseed sites, XML export/import, multiple backoffice staff with
detailed permissions, visual WYSIWYG editing and previews, three
internal cache layers for maximum flexibility and top performance,
internal message system for project management, easy setup, on-line
editing, on-line image manipulation, and Word documents import. Staff
members can access their backoffice in English, French, Spanish,
German, Dutch, and Portuguese.
Snail 1.0 (Light)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106969/
Snail is a blue theme.
SnipSnap 0.3.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106942/
SnipSnap is an easy to install and use Web log and Wiki engine written
in Java. It has no external dependency on Web servers or databases, as
both are built-in.
Software 4 Open Communities 0.4.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106950/
Software 4 Open Communities (oc4ware) provides Web community portal
software in the scope of the Semantic Web initiative, making possible
distributed context-sensitive online publishing and retrieval in
self-organised groups of interest. It is currently useful for
distributed content management and online publishing systems (Web
services, online journals, etc.).
TaskJuggler 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106965/
TaskJuggler is a project management tool for Linux and UNIX
system-based operating systems. Projects can be defined in a simple
text format, listing tasks and their dependencies. Reports are returned
in HTML or XML format. TaskJuggler does not only honor the task
interdependencies but also takes resource constrains into account.
Using its powerful filtering and reporting algorithms, the user can
create task lists, resource usage tables, status reports, project
calendars, and project accounting statements.
URLFetch Java 0.9.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106933/
URLFetch Java is a small library that handles HTTP and HTTPS
transactions, including support for GET and POST requests, basic
authentication, setting and retrieving HTTP headers, tracking cookies,
proxy servers, and automatically following redirects.
User Dialog Perl Module 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106941/
User Dialog Perl Module is an OOPerl interface for dialog-based
applications such as dialog, cdialog, whiptail, gdialog, and kdialog.
It features extensive documentation with detailed compatability charts,
enhanced usage of cdialog font attributes, and text element alignment
for curses based dialogs. It is useful for writing Unix system scripts
in Perl, or for when quick, portable, and robust interfaces are
required.
Verlof 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106951/
Verlof is a Web application for registering and viewing leave
information. It records hours of leave rights and hours of leave within
categories like normal leave, special leave, reduced working-hours
(ADV), and the begin and end dates for the leave's period. The few
rules imposed on the entries are mainly sanity checks like "begin
date is in the weekend". The act of entering a new leave entry
sends an email to the group manager and a copy to the employee. The
advantages of this electronic version over the paper version are: there
is a single information location (no employee-card and mother-card
discrepancies), questionable entries immediately draw the manager's
attention (with email), and various up-to-date views of the leave
history are available (total, year, and list). Verlof is a Dutch-only
application and a little specific to Leiden University.
Very Simple Network Monitor 2.0.0 beta (Monitoring)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106986/
Very Simple Network Monitor is a bash shell script CGI that monitors a
number of services on a network. It currently checks for node-up, TCP
service up, and UDP service up. A service or system can be put in
maintenance status to avoid repetitive alarms. It is easy to customize,
trigger alarms by email, or whatever you like (depends on nmap for
TCP/UDP service checks). Installation is also simple. It generates HTML
with all statuses, and for all services just in one view.
Watchfolder 0.3.1-p2 (Experimental)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106945/
Watchfolder watches specifed folders for incoming files and processes
them with programs assigned to those folders. Afterwards, the files are
removed from the inbound directory.
Web Services Toolkit 3.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106915/
IBM Web Services Toolkit is a runtime environment as well as
demo/examples to design and execute Web-service applications to find
one another and collaborate in business transactions without
programming requirements or human intervention.
xmlenc 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106936/
xmlenc is a light-weight XML encoding library for Java. It fills the
gap between a light-weight parser like SAX, and a heavy-weight XML
output library, like JDOM.
Your Operating System 3.2.1-17122002-RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106930/
YOS is a compact, personalised, and optimised OS with support for RPM,
deb, and tgz packages, with 200 packages carefully selected and
compiled for speed and stability. It has an automatic hardware
detection system, which should detect most modern hardware.
zengpan's mail system 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106962/
zengpan's mail system is a very tiny and simple mail system.
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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