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Sourceforge
EVMS 1.2.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=236792
The EVMS Project uses a layered, plug-in model to provide unparalleled
flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. This allows for easy
expansion or customization of various levels of volume management for
Linux. This release is primarily bug-fixes and minor enhancements to
the 1.2.0 release. It is available for download at the project web
site: http://www.sf.net/projects/evms/ Please see the notes and
changelog at: http://www.sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=128619
oc4ware 0.4.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=236847
The oc4ware developers team is happy to announce the immediate
availability of oc4ware 0.4.1. Software 4 Open Communities (oc4ware)
provides Web community portal software in the scope of the Semantic Web
initiative for distributed content, knowledge management, online
publishing in self-organised online journals. ### Release Notes ### The
installation wizard has been improved, a new component for access
statistics has been integrated (based on phpOpenTracker
http://www.phpopentracker.de). ### What is oc4ware? ### Software 4 Open
Communities (oc4ware) provides Web community software in the scope of
the Semantic Web initiative for distributed content, knowledge
management, online publishing in self-organised teams. ### Changelog
### See for the changes:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/oc4ware/oc4ware/CHANGELO
G?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup ### Download ### You
can download the latest release from our project homepage at
Sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48146 ###
Installation and Configuration ### Installation and configuration
instructions are available at the homepage of oc4ware: oc4ware
Installation and Configuration A Comprehensive Guide on Setting Up the
Software 4 Open Communities http://www.oc4ware.org/ddo:1.2.15/14 ###
Support ### If you have problems with installation and configuration
issues, the oc4ware developers team is looking forward to answer you
questions in the Help Forum http://www.oc4ware.org/ddo:1.2.22/1en or
the general mailinglist
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Introducing oc4ware ### The ideas, objectives, and concept of oc4ware
are explained in this introductory article: The Software 4 Open
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are ### Contributing ### Please report bugs to
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on how to contribute as a developer can be found in the "oc4ware
Guidelines for Developers" http://www.oc4ware.org/ddo:1.2.15/21 or the
developers mailinglist
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Furthermore, a mailinglist of the people designing the graphical user
interface of oc4ware is available at
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fun! oc4ware developers team
RCSoccerSim 9.1.5 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=237006
The RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a research and educational tool for
multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence. It enables for two
teams of 11 simulated autonomous robotic players to play soccer
(football). The latest stable release of RCSoccerSim is now available.
This version fixes a few defects and introduces a new keepaway mode.
leJOS version 2.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=237044
leJOS is a Java-based replacement firmware (OS) for the Lego Mindstorms
RCX brick that comes with Lego's Robotics Invention System. leJOS is
meant to be a more complete (although less compact) alternative to
TinyVM. This release includes USB support for Linux, a Vision API for
Lego Vision Command, and a new remote control package. There are plenty
of new features in this release, including: - a Vision API for Lego
Vision Command - 100% Java versions of the lejos tools - USB support
for Linux - exhanced USB Mac OSX support, including josx.rcxcomm - a
new remote control package See the release notes for more details.
Thanks to David Glance for making this a reality, along with the usual
suspects.
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.
Slashdot
Taxing Text Messages?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/21/0418215
[0]Makarand writes "SMS is a very popular way of communication in the
Phillipines with an estimated 14 million phone subscribers sending an
average of 10 text messages a day. However, that may all change if a
proposal from the IMF to impose a tax on SMS is implemented to solve
the country's fiscal problems according to an [1]article in The Straits
Times. The IMF is basing its suggestion on the fact that the country's
tax base currently rests on the troubled sectors of the economy-
banking and manufacturing, which cannot be squeezed anymore. Hopefully,
our political think tanks will not get any such ideas."
Links
0. mailto:{theJunt-a(@)HotMail.}
1. http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,161684,00.html
Next-Gen Pop-up Ads
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/21/0414257
bje2 writes "[0]CNet has a [1]disconcerting story about a new
generation of pop-up ads that use a "kick through" technique such that
you don't even need to click on the pop-up ad anymore, you just need to
mouse over it...wow, can they make our web surfing experience any
worse?"
Links
0. http://www.cnet.com/
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978616.html
Multi-User Subversion
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/21/048202
[0]chromatic writes "Rafael Garcia-Suarez has just penned an article
about [1]adopting Subversion for multi-user projects. (He also has a
previous article on [2]Single-User Subversion). With the recent release
of [3]Subversion 0.16 (see the [4]File sharing link), the successor to
CVS looks very good."
Links
0. http://wgz.org/chromatic/
1. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2002/12/19/svn2.html
2. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/10/31/subversion.html
3. http://subversion.tigris.org/
4. http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList
MPAA Countersues 321 Studios
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/21/042221
[0]Squash writes "[1]321 Studios, makers of [2]DVD X-Copy, is being
[3]Counter-sued by the MPAA. You may [4]remember them filing suit to
allow thier software to be produced and sold. Interesting point: the
MPAA wants to claim all profits from sales of the software, which is
now being [5]bundled with some DVD burners."
Links
0. http://www.brokedown.net
1. http://www.321studios.com/
2. http://www.dvdxcopy.com/
3. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108133,00.asp
4. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/23/1944249&tid=123
5. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107637,00.asp
The End of Solotrek
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/2043215
bobetov writes "For those of us fed up with gravity and gridlock, the
[0]Solotrek XFV personal VTOL aircraft has been the real IT. A Segway
is a nice scooter and all, but this thing can fly. But it all comes
down to dollars in the end, and, with a recent test-flight accident and
a missed milestone, [1]Trek Aerospace is [2]calling it quits."
Links
0. http://www.solotrek.com/mjet/solotrek.html
1. http://www.solotrek.com/
2. http://www.solotrek.com/mjet/news/index.htm
Unintended Aural Consequences of MP3 Compression
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/2029212
[0]zenst writes "A rather interesting [1]read about possible damage to
your hearing due to the way most audio compression techneques work.
They mainly work by presenting a signal that the brain perceives to be
the same as the original and it is this assumption that could effect
our hearing and the way we hear."
Links
0. http://www.cotse.com
1. http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logologie/MP3-Gefahr/MP3-risk.html
Rise of the Triad Source Code Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/2033208
[0]Woody writes "[1]3DRealms gave us an early Christmas present this
year: they've released the complete [2]Rise of the Triad source code in
memory of William Scarboro, one of the game programmers who died
earlier this year. The source is being released under the GPL, so
everyone should be happy. If you ever played ROTT, you might remember
that under all of the silliness and gore there was an incredible
deathmatch and capture-the-flag element. Discussions are currently
starting in the [3]3DRealms forums. Thanks, 3DRealms!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.3drealms.com/
2. http://www.3drealms.com/rott/
3. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=001833
Mandrake Appealing to Community, Again
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/1815214
An anonymous reader writes "It seems that MandrakeSoft's short-term
financial problem is worse than was thought. A [0]new page on the
Mandrake web site says: 'Everyone who is concerned with the company's
future is encouraged to read and distribute the following message. In
order to reach the next release, MandrakeSoft currently needs to raise
cash, and quickly complete the Increase of Capital.' Darn, and I
thought they were almost over this hump. Looks like a good time to help
recruit Mandrake supporters for the Club."
Links
0. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/future.php3
Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/1742241
[0]TheViewFromTheGround writes "Why have the years since the merger
with Time Warner been so hard on America Online? Michael Wolff, a
consultant who advised Time Warner not to buy AOL in the early 90's,
says that the the big problem is Time Warner's [1]denial of AOL's core
value: a monopoly on dirty chat. The argument says that AOL was
successful because they had a critical mass of people and that it
skillfully marketed talking dirty by appearing to be family friendly.
Now, the old media bedfellow is pushing AOL to stop its pimping ways."
Links
0. http://www.viewfromtheground.com
1.
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/n_8135/index.html
IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/1717224
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Seems that someone has finally come out
with IDE/ATAPI to SCSI converters to bridge the gap between the
high-cost SCSI world and the low-cost IDE world. [1]Addonics is the
company and [2]LinuxHardware.org has a [3]full review of these two
devices. The review does a good job of laying out installation and
performance. These are just what I've been looking for and although a
little pricey, they seem to do the job."
Links
0. http://www.linuxhardware.org
1. http://www.addonics.com/
2. http://www.linuxhardware.org/
3. http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/19/145230&mode=thread
Freshmeat
AdvanceMAME 0.62.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107180/
AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME, MESS, and PacMAME emulators for
arcade monitors and TVs, but also for normal PC monitors.
AdvanceMENU 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107181/
AdvanceMENU is a frontend for AdvanceMAME, MAME, MESS, RAINE and other
arcade emulators. It supports extended features like PNG/MNG/MP3
animated snapshots, up to 192 previews at the same time, and many other
features.
Alarm Pinger 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107148/
Alarm Pinger (apinger) is a little tool which monitors various IP
devices by simple ICMP echo requests. Unlike most Perl or shell script
tools, it does not spawn processes or use much CPU time, and is ideal
for when one wants continuous monitoring and fast response upon target
failure. It is written in C and supports both IPv4 and IPv6.
Apache Tomcat 4.1.18 (4.1.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107135/
The goal of the Jakarta Project is to provide commercial-quality server
solutions based on the Java Platform that are developed in an open and
cooperative fashion. Tomcat 3.x is an implementation of the Java
Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 Specifications. Tomcat 4.x is an
implementation of the Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2
Specifications, and is a re-implementation of the Tomcat servlet engine
from the ground up.
AutoUpdate 4.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107173/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's
up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and
upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also
handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server
with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
aviManager 0.8rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107186/
aviManager helps you manage your (large) movie (DVD, DivX) collection.
It ships with an intelligent voting system for many users, and attempts
to find the best movie to watch. There is also a nice IMdb grabber for
fast movie adding.
bakonf 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107121/
bakonf is a tool for making backups of configuration files on GNU/Linux
or Unix-like systems. It uses various methods to reduce the size of the
backups it creates, and is designed to be useful for unattended remote
servers.
Bugloo 0.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107156/
Bugloo is a commandline-based debugger for the Scheme compiler Bigloo.
It aims to help programmers in debugging programs written for the JVM
backend of Bigloo. It is written mostly in Java and uses JVMDI and
JVMPI, the standard APIs provided by Sun to make debuggers. It can
debug Scheme programs written for Bigloo, Java programs, or a mix of
both by instrumenting their execution. It is based on the debugging
model used in GDB and provides features that allow users to debug
programs in a more practical manner than conventional debuggers. Users
can control it by typing Scheme-like expressions into a prompt. For the
sake of simplicity, it includes a debugging environment for GNU Emacs
or XEmacs.
cgdb 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107126/
cgdb is a lightweight, but fully functional curses frontend to gdb. The
goal of cgdb is to be lightweight and responsive, not encumbered with
unnecessary features. The interface retains the familiar GDB text-based
interface with 100% of the original functionality. The interfaces also
provide additional features, such as a source code window, shortcut
keys, visual setting of breakpoints, regex searching capabilities, and
more.
cs-ircd 0.1.1beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107134/
cs-ircd is an IRCd based off of bahamut 1.4.35 that includes IPv6 and
SSL support.
darkstat 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107123/
Darkstat is an ntop-workalike network statistics gatherer. Built to be
faster and smaller than ntop, it uses libpcap to capture network
traffic and serves up Web page reports of statistics such as data
transferred by host, port, and protocol. It also has a neat bandwidth
usage graph.
Dia2Postgres 20021220 (CVS Snapshots)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107136/
Dia2Postgres is a Perl script that can be used to convert Dia diagrams
into PostgreSQL scripts or PHP mirror classes which can add, update,
and modify table entries automatically. It has support for inheritance,
simple references (limited to a single field), and a fake enum type
which creates a table.
DiBa.pm 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107176/
DiBa.pm is a Perl module that provides customers of the German bank
"DiBa" with the ability to fetch their account information
over the Web from within Perl-scripts.
EMS MySQL Utils 1.2.0.1 (Import)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107130/
EMS MySQL Utils are powerful data management utilities for MySQL server
which make your work with the server much easier and faster. Currently,
MySQL Utils includes MySQL Export, a powerful tool for MySQL data
export, and MySQL Import, a utility for quickly importing data to MySQL
tables.
EMS MySQL Utils 1.2.0.1 (Export)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107129/
EMS MySQL Utils are powerful data management utilities for MySQL server
which make your work with the server much easier and faster. Currently,
MySQL Utils includes MySQL Export, a powerful tool for MySQL data
export, and MySQL Import, a utility for quickly importing data to MySQL
tables.
EMS PostgreSQL Utils 1.2.0.1 (Import)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107132/
EMS PostgreSQL Utils are powerful data management utilities for
PostgreSQL server which make your work with the server much easier and
faster. Currently, PostgreSQL Utils includes PostgreSQL Export, a
powerful tool for PostgreSQL data export, and PostgreSQL Import, a
utility for quickly importing data to PostgreSQL tables.
EMS PostgreSQL Utils 1.2.0.1 (Export)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107131/
EMS PostgreSQL Utils are powerful data management utilities for
PostgreSQL server which make your work with the server much easier and
faster. Currently, PostgreSQL Utils includes PostgreSQL Export, a
powerful tool for PostgreSQL data export, and PostgreSQL Import, a
utility for quickly importing data to PostgreSQL tables.
Firebird Relational Database 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107171/
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features
that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers
excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support
for stored procedures and triggers.
fmio 2.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107169/
fmio is a small program to set and change FM radio card volume and
frequency, and to check signal status on a working frequency.
Fopps 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107155/
FOPPS (Feature Oriented Product Planning System) is a tool that helps
you to design your software product line. It provides different views
such as a project plan and feature tree to help maintain your core
assets and applications.
Formulator 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107178/
Formulator is a flexible, extensible framework for the creation and
validation of web forms in Zope. Web forms can be created with a
web-based management interface. When a form is submitted, many common
validations, such as testing for required fields or certain types of
input, can be automated.
GneleMixer 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107145/
Gnelemixer is yet another OSS mixer. It has a good looking GUI, and
supports loading/saving settings.
grafist 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107166/
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 17
languages.
GSpeakers 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107164/
GSpeakers is a GNOME loudspeaker design program built with the Gtkmm
2.0 toolkit.
gtktetcolor 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107127/
gtktetcolor is a GTK+ reimplementation of tetcolor, a Tetris-like game.
Jags 0.2 (Jagsmm)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107172/
Jags (just another GTK+ Samba client) and Jagsmm (just another GTK--
Samba client) are two GUI frontends running over Samba and Smbmount
using the GTK+/GTK--/GNOME-- toolkits.
kavi2svcd 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107141/
kavi2svcd is a GUI for generating MPEG files from an AVI file using
transcode and mplex. It then generates a Video CD image using vcdimager
and burns to CD with cdrdao. It can generate m1v, m2v, and mpa files,
multiplex the MPEG file, generate cue and bin files, and allows the
generated command lines to be edited before executing them.
ksLogger 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107174/
ksLogger is a small and simple Java logging package similar to log4j.
It has features such as level logging (hierarchical logging), dynamic
runtime changes of the level logging either through your java code or
by changing the properties file, and log file rotation.
libpdb Suite 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107140/
The libpdb Suite is a group of libraries that are designed to provide
scripting and plug-in support for applications. It is comprised of a
database that stores information about procedures available for
scripting, a lightweight, extensible IPC framework, and a library for
accessing procedures stored in the procedural database of another
process.
Linux isletme 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107183/
Linux isletme keeps current accounts and stock data for companies. It
is completly console based and uses PostgreSQL development libraries
and Ncurses.
Linux Virtual Server 1.1.2 (IPVS for kernel 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107133/
The Linux Virtual Server Project is an Open Source project to cluster
many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance
virtual server. The LVS handles connections from clients and passes
them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can
virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP,
DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client
accessing the virtual service.
Moonbeam 0.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107159/
Moonbeam is an XML socket server written in Java. It is targeted at
building multi-user applications such as chat rooms, games, and instant
messengers.
MySQL Database Server 4.0.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107158/
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.
nALFS 1.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107175/
nALFS is interactive, ncurses-based application used for parsing the
ALFS profiles (simple instructions in XML) and doing various things
(like executing commands), one by one, to compile some packages from
source.
neteye actioncache 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107152/
The neteye actioncache is an extension to the Jakarta struts framework.
It is intended for projects that use struts to display data provided by
content management systems. Actions (and views) that display the
content are only invoked when the underlying data has changed.
Time-expensive operations like data retrieval, JSP processing, or XSLT
transformations are only performed when needed.
Netscape Address Book Recovery 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107177/
Netscape Address Book Recovery is a tool get your information out of a
corrupted Netscape address book. It outputs a .csv file with all your
cards. It does not know how to handle mailing lists, but attempts to
get as much information out of the address book as is possible.
newfile 0.8.2.b.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107139/
newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured
template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for
example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A
user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied
with the package. It includes templates for making "empty"
files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.
OpenInteract 1.55 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107160/
OpenInteract is an extensible Web application server written in pure
Perl. It includes a robust system of components, object-oriented data
access, a consistent security scheme for both tasks and data objects, a
simple user and group management system, and a convenient packaging
system that makes it easy to distribute custom applications, amongst
other things. It is stable, and runs out of the box on five different
databases.
Pattern Recognition API 0.2b-20021220
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107157/
The Pattern Recognition Application Programmer's Interface aims to be a
fully-featured, easy-to-use general C++ framework for various pattern
recognition tasks, especially image analysis. It features support for
many image formats, well-known image analysis methods, classification
and feature analysis tools, XML serialization, etc.
phpCodeCabinet 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107138/
phpCodeCabinet allows developers to store code snippets from any
language. Features include user-defined categories, syntax
highlighting, an extensive search engine, a theme-based interface, user
authentication, and code/category ownership privileges.
phpOpenTracker 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107182/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site
traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that,
either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two
lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web
site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of
Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and
perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your
visitors' click paths).
Pike 7.4.10 (7.4.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107122/
Pike is an interpreted, object-oriented, dynamic programming language
with a syntax similar to C. It includes a powerful modules system that,
for instance, has image manipulation, database connectivity and
advanced cryptography. It is simple to learn, does not require long
compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types allowing simple
and fast data manipulation.
pilot-mailsync 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107163/
pilot-mailsync is an application to transfer outgoing mail from and
deliver incoming mail to a Palm OS device. It relies on the libraries
installed by pilot-link.
PostgreSQL File Finder Beta-20122002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107168/
PostgreSQL File Finder is an alternative to the locate/updatedb
commands found in most Linux environments. It searches the filesystem
for all files and directories and stores that information in a
PostgreSQL database. It can also collect file lists from other hosts,
giving you the opportunity to search for files on several hosts using
the same command.
Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107187/
The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL
screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is
intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.
scponly 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107128/
scponly is an alternative "shell" of sorts for system
administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both
read and write local files without providing any remote execution
priviledges. Functionally, it is a wrapper around the ssh suite of
applications. It is typically used by creating a user whose shell is
set to scponly. This user can neither login interactively nor execute
commands remotely, but it can use scp and sftp to download and upload
files to the computer, governed by the usual Unix file permissions.
snmppd 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107146/
snmppd is an SNMP proxy daemon that is designed to work with Nagios. It
loads MIBs upon startup, listens on a TCP socket for SNMP GET requests,
polls the specified host, and returns the value to caller process. The
caller process is usually the Nagios plugin check_snmpp.
Software 4 Open Communities 0.4.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107165/
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.).
SPOPS 0.72 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107161/
SPOPS (Simple Perl Object Persistence w/ Security) is a robust and
powerful Perl module that allows you to serialize objects. It is unique
in that it also allows you to apply security to these objects using a
fairly simple but powerful scheme of users and groups. It's also unique
in that for most objects, you will not need to write any code. All you
need is a fairly simple configuration file, and you can have a class
for your object ready to go, right out of thin air.
Sweep 0.5.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107151/
Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports many music
and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, and MP3, with
multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky
little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your
files.
Sylpheed 0.8.7 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107144/
Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost
all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many
features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display,
and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully
internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll
be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.
teepeedee 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107149/
teepeedee is a small, hopefully scalable, single-threaded file server.
It can serve multiple files over HTTP and FTP simultaneously, listening
on any number of ports and providing entirely different views of the
filesystem to different users. It uses sendfile and is written in C++.
It supports most of the draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-16.txt FTP extensions
and does HTTP 1.1 persistent connections.
Turck MMCache 2.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107147/
Turck MMCache is a opcode cache for PHP. It increases performance of
PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that the overhead
of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also uses some
optimizations for speeding up PHP scripts' execution. It typically
reduces server load and increases the speed of PHP code by 1-10 times.
It is tested with PHP 4.1 and 4.2, and Apache 1.3 under Linux and
Windows.
txt2tags 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107184/
txt2tags is a format conversion tool written in Python that generates
HTML, SGML, LaTeX, man page, MoinMoin, Magic Point, and PageMaker
documents from a plain text file with little marks. Different from
other conversion tools, it is generic, and not target-specific (as a
txt2html tool). This way, you can keep just one source text file and
one tool for all your formatting needs.
Virtual Sound 0.1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107179/
Virtual Sound provides unlimited effects and modulation for
sophisticated audio generation, with unique instrument simulation
capabilities to craft your own unique soundscapes. All effects are
parametrized and their parameters may be controlled through the outputs
of other effects, through samples, or through special modulators.
Instrument simulation is based on recursively-linked filter networks.
Actual instruments can also be simulated by learning the filter
parameters using a hidden-control neural network.
VK Tafe 0.5a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107125/
A program that parses and analyzes MPEG-2 transport streams.
VK Tools 0.5a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107124/
The VK Toolset is intended to aide MPEG developers and hobbyist in
understanding and creating conformant MPEG streams. The current version
focuses on the MPEG system layer (MPEG-1 System, MPEG-2 Program
Stream), and MPEG-2 Transport bitstreams).
Webcpp 0.7.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107142/
Webcpp (Web C Plus Plus) is a command line utility that takes your
source code and converts it into an HTML file, using a fully
customizable syntax highlighting engine and stylesheets. Webcpp
currently supports Ada95, Assembler, ASP, Basic, C, C#, C++, Cg, CLIPS,
DOS Batch, EMF, Fortran, Haskell, Java, Javascript, Markup, Modula2,
Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Power Builder, Python, RenderMan, Ruby,
SQL, Tcl, Unix shell, and VHDL highlighting.
WebGUI 4.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107137/
WebGUI is a platform built to allow average business users to build and
maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform
independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content
to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time
of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an
intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer.
Webtop 1.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107162/
Webtop is a Web-based POP3 email client that includes many filter
options, spam fighting features, custom folders, and email-to-PDF
generation. The Webtop also includes a calendar, notepad, Webdrive,
automated email reminders, contacts, and Web-based administration. One
installation can support multiple users and each user can set up as
many POP3 accounts as they need.
Xml Test Suite 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107167/
XmlTestSuite is an XML-based tool for testing complex Web applications
using XML. It supports "test-driven development", database
checking, xpath expressions, and test structures separate from test
data. Tests are written in XML.
Slashcode
Graphics not appearing in Topic setup
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/21/0045251
My newly installed topics were given graphics, in the format of
./images/topics/graphicname.ext and the pictures don't show. I've gone
back in and tried changing them to absolute URLs, but when I click
"save topic" it reverts back to the old entry. I can click and change
sections and those update fine, but the graphic entry doesn't.
Adding a rand photo block
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/1825223
Hello, i have written something for my slash site deporteyciencia.com
for having a nice random photo block, i try to describe the process
first, and later put all the code. (locally) you need a lot of free
photos (locally) you need imagemagick (locally) run the script
create_minis.pl for creating the thumbs. Take a look to the destination
directories. You can create a captions.txt with the syntaxis:
filename::caption(newline)... The captions will be drawn on the image!!
put the original images and the thumbs in your site (remote) put the
task rand.pl in your site (and change the directories as needed)
(remote)configure crontab for running your task daily or hourly.
(remote) write a block who shows rand_mini_foto.jpg and links to
rand_foto.jpg do nothing and enjoy, or try to write a way for users
uploading photos "one day they will appear" The code:
-------------------------------- CREATE_MINIS.PL (remember to change
directories and have imagemagick installed)
-------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict;
#-------- config my $use_captions=1; my $background="#006699"; my
$fore="#ffffff"; my $width="190x190"; #-------- config end my
@files=`ls *.jpg`; my %captions=(); if ($use_captions) { open
F_captions,"captions.txt" or die "ERROR, lack of \"captions.txt\"\n
This file has the following
sintaxis:\nfilename1::caption1\nfilename2::caption 2\n..."; while () {
chomp; my ($filename,$text)=split (/::/,$_);
$captions{$filename}=$text; } close F_captions; } foreach (@files) {
print $_; chomp; if ($use_captions) { system("convert -resize
$width_height $_ minis_with_captions/$_"); if($captions{$_}) {
system("convert -box \"$background\" -font helvetica -fill \"$fore\"
-draw \"text 0,10 \\\" $captions{$_}\\\"\" $_
images_with_captions/$_"); system("convert -box \"$background\" -font
helvetica -fill \"$fore\" -draw \"text 0,10 \\\" $captions{$_}\\\"\"
minis_with_captions/$_ minis_with_captions/$_"); } else { print "Error:
lack of captions for file $_\n"; } } else { system("convert -resize
$width_height $_ minis/$_"); } } --------------------------------
rand.pl (remember to change directory names)
-------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl -w #coge una imagen
aleatoriamente y la copia en rand_foto.jpg #lo mismo para una foto de
las pequeñas, que están en /minis #llamado cada dia por una tarea use
strict; #--- config my
$path_in="/home/xavi/slash_2.2.5/fotos_deportivas" ; my
$path_out="/home/xavi/slash_2.2.5/images"; #--- config end my
$num_files=`ls $path_in/*.jpg|wc -l`; my $file=int rand $num_files; my
$count=0; my @files=`cd $path_in;ls *.jpg`; foreach (@files) { $count
++; if ($count == $file) { chomp; system("cp $path_in/$_
$path_out/rand_foto.jpg"); system("cp $path_in/minis/$_
$path_out/rand_mini_foto.jpg"); } } -------------------------- write
the block and config crontab for yourself. It's more easy than i can
explain with my english level :) Thanks Krow: Yes this is a format
nightmare but I thought I would share the submission with people
anyways.
Topics not appearing after time
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/1654254
Installed slashcode and have been modifying it. I added a topic under
the admin section. The topic now appears when I go to "new" to create a
new story. I removed the build-in topics and added about 7 new topics.
The new topics are not listed in the pull-down when I try and create a
new story. I've waited more than 24 hours and tried restarting apache,
restarting slashd, and rebooting the web server. The topics are listed
everywhere on the site that I can look for them *BUT* they're not
options when creating a new story. Anyone know why?
Users can't post comments
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/19/1754214
This is weird...I just put up a new slashsite for our dept. intranet,
and the form to comment on a story doesn't appear when a user clicks
"Read More" I'm guessing this is a simple matter of setting a variable,
but I can't figure out which one. I've set the following vars:
commentstatus = 1 defaultcommentstatus = 0 defaultdisplaystatus = 1 Any
suggestions? Thanks.
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.
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