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Sourceforge
Cayenne "Holiday Release": 1.0a5
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238027
A new release of Cayenne is out. It plugs a few gaps in the core
functionality, fixes tons of bugs and provides a much improved
documentation. Cayenne is an object-relational persistence framework
written in Java. It provides tools and libraries to work with
relational databases in an object-oriented way. Cayenne consists of
class libraries and a GUI tool for O/R mapping and deployment. Release
highlights are: * Added flattened relationships (direct many-to-many
relationships). * Introduced type-safe queries using Java Class as a
root * Project structure update. Project map and node files now have
predefined extensions. An upgrade from the old format can be done via
CayenneModeler. Old format is compatible with Cayenne runtime. *
Significantly improved and updated "User Guide". Created "Developer
Guide" for contributors. * Usual Bug fixes, code cleanup and
refactoring. Downloads available at http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/
Chordcast 0.9.9b
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238235
Chordcast 0.9.9b has been released. This is probably going to be the
last version before 1.0. This release contains mostly bug fixes and
enhancements. ChordCast is a JAVA (swing) program for creating guitar
chords in files called chord sheets. The software uses XML files to
save the chord sheets. It also allows to export to HTML files using PNG
images for chords. It requires J2RE 1.4 to run. See the changelog for
more information. The roadmap was also updated.
e1000-4.4.19 stable release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238168
Linux kernel driver for the Intel(R) PRO/100 ethernet devices and
Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit ethernet devices. This project serves as a
focal point for further driver development and discussion. e1000-4.4.19
stable release is available in .tar.gz format to compile against any
2.4 kernel.
DSpace 1.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238042
DSpace, currently in use at MIT Libraries, is a Java-based Open Source
digital library system designed for scalability, and the long-term
preservation of data (such as books, documents, and multimedia
publications). DSpace 1.0.1 is mostly a bug fix release. New
documentation should be available in a couple of weeks.
sylpheed-0.8.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238127
Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client and
newsreader. Supports POP3, APOP, IMAP, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, LDAP.
Features multiple accounts, spell-checking, address book, SSL, GPG/PGP,
filtering, scoring, i18n, and more.
############################################################# 23rd
December 2002 Version: 0.8.7claws SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
<http://claws.sylpheed.org> the S A N T A - C L A W S [II] release This
release of sylpheed-claws is based on version 0.8.7 of the main
Sylpheed branch. Notes for this release: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GnuPG
support now requires GPGME 0.3.10 or greater Detecting of expired
signatures requires GnuPG 0.3.6 or greater To enable SSL support use
--enable-openssl New features in this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Extended Search Available from the
Quick Search menu, Extended Search uses powerful Mutt-like patterns.
For a complete list of syntax see README.claws. * SSL manager in Tools
menu New certificate presentation UI. Checking of certificates without
a DNS lookup. Deletion and silent accepting of certificates is possible
* Indication of unread answers to marked mails '(!)' is appended to the
folder name when a marked message has a response * IMAP and Mbox
folders now also have drag 'n' drop support, along with MH folders. *
Spring-loaded folders on drag 'n' drop Closed folder trees will
automatically open * Automatic scrolling of the folder view during drag
'n' drop * command-line processing BEFORE gtk_init claws can now run
from shell-scripts in non-X environment (e.g. crontab or ip-up, ip-down
scripts). * The message view now has a toolbar, and it is customisable.
* After a crash only local folders are checked for new messages. No
more hanging for dial-up users with remote folders after a crash. *
'Check for new messages' is re-instated in Newsgroup folders via the
right-click menu * GnuPG users are informed of expired signatures and
which key has expired. Expiration date is displayed. * Actions: new
trailing ">" syntax to insert command's output without replacing old
text (in contrast to trailing "|"). * Address book: 'Edit Group
Details' dialog now allows multiple selection in either pane. * Warning
dialog is displayed when the user attempts to save incomplete rules in
scoring, filtering and processing. * .mh_sequences file is created in
new MH folders * tools/google_msgid.pl New Actions script to lookup
selected message-id in google using mozilla. Edit the script to use
different browsers. * update man page * Many bug fixes including (but
not limited to) the following: [bug #565480] 'duplicate name display if
it contains @' [bug #642731] 'Wrong selected account with drafted mail'
[bug #643638] 'adressbook - groups' [bug #649746] 'edit accounts: move
account reverted' [bug #653221] 'crash while deleting duplicates' [bug
#653231] 'Quick search focus problem' [Feature Request #638989] Delete
unread dup when deleting duplicates fix signature-stripping on replies
bug tools/filter_conv.pl fix problem with quoted strings fixes the
checking of GTK with XIM support on different OSs, such as FreeBSD *
updated translations British English, Bulgarian, German, Italian,
Polish, Serbian and Spanish * new translation Hungarian and code
reorganisation, cleanups, and more. CLAWS' EXTRA FEATURES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * pop before smtp authentication * Automatic
saving of message when composing * signature in the message view can be
coloured * built-in gdb crash handler * Customisable toolbars * quick
search function * Folder color setting * 'Dynamic' signatures * Font
configuration * Icon theming * Spell checking (with aspell) *
filtering/processing mechanism * automatic account selection * 'smart'
wrapping * message scoring * hide read messages * mbox support * IMAP
over SSH Tunnel * addressbook: import Mutt addressbook * addressbook:
import Pine addressbook * addressbook copy and paste * harvest
addresses for addressbook * Request Return-Receipt * extra Folder
Properties: Return-Receipt, save messages, default To:, default address
for replies, subject simplification, folder CHMOD, default account *
revised compose window * manual selection of MIME type and encoding for
attachments * 'ignore thread' * improved clickable URL support * new
mail notification * selective download * 7bit and 8bit encoding of
attachments * NNTP: auto-mark cross-posted messages * configurable
(non-)display of images * online/offline modes * User-definable
quotation characters * export addressbook to html file * display url in
statusbar on single-click * message priority setting * new message
cache system * new sort function * controllable size of log text in log
window * ability to select part of a text mime-part to reply * reply
flag gets set on sending of a reply * sylpheed man page * allow user to
'Save all' attachments in a mail with multi-attachments * GnuPG
signatures can now be verified by double-clicking
[application/pgp-signature] in the text view * save 2 or more selected
files to a single file * MH folder drag 'n' drop support * Cc and Bcc
Template definitions * --online and --offline command-line switches *
Automatic message drafting and cache saving on kill * SSL certificate
management * 'on-the-fly' changing of the type of GnuPG encryption
and/or signing used (MIME/ascii) * Logging can be stopped *
user-definable newsgroup names abbreviation length * Manual and FAQ
remote and local links * 'tools' directory that contains various
scripts: calypso_convert.pl import mbox files exported by calypso
eud2gc.py convert a Eudora (v.3?) addressbook to vCard (GnomeCard)
format filter_conv.pl convert sylpheed main's filter rules into claws'
filtering format gif2xface.pl convert a gif file to an xface
gpg-sign-syl GnuPG cleartext-signing script for use with Actions
kmail2sylpheed.pl convert a Kmail addressbook to a Sylpheed addressbook
kmail2sylpheed_v2.pl new version of the address book conversion script
for newer versions of Kmail/Kaddressbook newscache_clean clean up old
files and directories in the newscache directory OOo2sylpheed.pl enable
OpenOffice to send documents through sylpheed outlook2sylpheed.pl
convert an Outlook contacts list to a Sylpheed addressbook
sylpheed-switcher enable quick-switching between claws and main in a
non-destructive way sylprint.pl process a Sylpheed mail and print it
using enscript if available or lpr if not tb2sylpheed convert an
addressbook exported from The Bat! into a Sylpheed addressbook
update-po translators' tool that eases the creation of *.po files uudec
decode UUencoded mails, for use with Actions ...and more.
---------------------------------------------------------- See
ChangeLog.claws and README.claws for full information regarding changes
in this release. Also see ChangeLog[.jp] for changes synchronised from
sylpheed main. Sylpheed-Claws GnuPG key: Sylpheed-Claws
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KeyID:D04C2EEF Fingerprint: 830D 8455 329F
DD31 7ADA 71D7 7D22 7E77 D04C 2EEF
The Bochs Project Releases v2.0
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=237871
It's been a busy 6 months since our previous release! Bochs is now
running about twice as fast as version 1.4.1. Also, we can now emulate
MMX, SSE/SSE2, and even AMD x86-64 instructions if you turn on the
appropriate configure options. We also added two new graphical
interfaces, SVGALIB and wxWindows. The wxWindows interface lets you
edit all bochsrc options in a graphical form. Macintosh users will be
happy to find binaries for MacOSX and MacOS9. Also we now support
plugins for several platforms and cleaned up and improved the
documentation. Download a copy and give it a spin!
http://bochs.sourceforge.net What's changed since version 1.4.1?
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/bochs/bochs/CHANGES?rev=
HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
UML2EJB 1.3.1 reads XMI 1.2 and UML 1.4
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=237649
UML2EJB is a code generator that builds XDoclet-tagged EJBs from UML
models. The models come from CASE tools like Poseidon, Rational Rose
and Together ControlCenter. UML2EJB reads XMI format files containing
the metadata. The new release features compatibility to XMI 1.2 and UML
1.4, both of which makes it ready to read files created by the very
latest Poseidon release (1.5). Now, users are able to leverage all the
new features of Poseidon and the fascinating performance increase over
1.4.1. I wish you many successfully built components! Matthias P.S.:
You will find the generator at http://uml2ejb.sf.net as well as at
http://sf.net/projects/uml2ejb !
oo2c-2.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=237563
OOC is an Oberon-2 development platform. It consists of an optimizing
compiler, a number of related tools, a set of standard library modules,
and a reference manual. Some bugfixes. Introduces a predefined type
STRING.
gnuplot 3.7.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=237543
The gnuplot project is pleased to announce the availability of gnuplot
3.7.3. gnuplot is a well-known scientific plotting package. Most, if
not all, known bugs in gnuplot 3.7.2 have been fixed. This will most
likely be the final release in the gnuplot 3.7 series, apart from
another one or two possible bugfix releases. The developers are now
concentrating their efforts on the next major release, gnuplot 4.0,
which we hope to release during the first half of next year. For
details, please see the gnuplot project page at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/.
mingw-runtime-2.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=237547
MinGW is a set of include files and import libraries that allow one to
use GCC to build native Windows applications that use vendor-supplied
runtime. File: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/mingw-runtime-2.3.tar.gz
Earnie has released a new version of the MinGW Runtime. Review the file
notes from
https://sf.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=2435&release_id=84152
which gives the pertinent ChangeLog portion. See
http://www.mingw.org/bugs.shtml for instructions on reporting problems.
General discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] File:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/mingw-runtime-2.3.tar.gz
Slashdot
Hi Tech, Wireless Help for Climbers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/25/0120240
[0]Mark Baard writes "Alpinists may soon be using [1]wearable sensors
and tricorder-like medical scanners to bail out their buried comrades.
Computer scientists Bernt Schiele and Florian Michahelles, at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, are designing A-Life, a portable
device that transmits and receives avalanche victims' vital signs
through snow, up to 80 meters away."
Links
0. http://www.baard.com
1. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56146,00.html
Personal Jet Pack for X-mas!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/25/019233
[0]teamhasnoi writes "This guy has spent mucho time and money building
a [1]ducted fan 'jet pack'. No [2]faking for this guy, it looks like
there is some real technology there. Now he just needs a [3]sponsor."
Links
0. mailto:teamhasnoi@yaho[ ]om ['o.c' in gap]
1.
http://www.technologie-entwicklung.de/Gasturbines/Andreas__Project/hauptteil_andreas__project.html
2. http://www.dreamalitytechnologies.com/jetpack.htm
3. http://www.rocketmaninc.com/
DSL Amidst Phone Wars
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/2054212
DrewCapu writes "The [0]SF Chronicle has an [1]article which talks
about the battles between SBC and AT&T & MCI over supposed unfair
practices concerning DSL and switching phone companies. All sides have
their own spin on it. Can't we all just get along? Things have been
heating up ever since [2]SBC got closer to offering LD in CA."
Links
0. http://www.sfgate.com/
1.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/21/BU9296.DTL
2. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/20/BU104201.DTL
Xmas Lights + X10 + Webcam = Fun
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/25/0118201
[0]Clark Griswold writes "My brother has outdone himself this year,
installing [1]22,000 Christmas Lights on the outside of his house
alone. The real beauty is the [2]X10-Webcam Combo that allows you to
turn the lights ON and OFF and see the results of your handiwork. It
only works between 6pm and 10pm MST, but it's pretty fun to turn the
zones on and off (though I'm not so sure the neighbors like it!)."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.komar.org/xmas/
2. http://www.komar.org/cgi-bin/xmas_webcam
DNA Goes Binary
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/2032226
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Chemists in the United States have
constructed the [1]simplest possible genetic language. Like Morse or
binary code, it has only two letters - but it can orchestrate some of
the basic molecular reactions needed for life to evolve."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.nature.com/nsu/021216/021216-9.html
Colleges Signing Secret MS License Agreements
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1714221
[0]David Gerard writes "As seen on Yale [1]LawMeme: Microsoft is
requiring colleges wanting cheap licenses to keep their license terms
secret (e.g. [2]Ohio State, [3]University of Michigan) ... in direct
contravention of [4]state public records and Freedom of Information
laws." Many FOI laws have loopholes permitting state agencies not to
disclose information when it would harm business interests, so what the
colleges and Microsoft are doing may not actually be illegal (or could
be argued not to be, anyway), but it certainly is shady.
Links
0. http://velvet.net/~fun/
1. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/
2. http://www.oit.ohio-state.edu/site_license/mslicense/answers.html
3. http://www.itd.umich.edu/microsoft/MicroFAQindex.html
4. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=759
OpenGL Widget Set Recommendations?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1813219
rrwood asks: "I'm starting work on what is more or less an open-source
3D modeling application, and I'd like to make it as cross-platform as
possible (Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS, etc.). OpenGL takes care of
the 3D rendering I'm going to need, but I also need some sort of widget
set, and I'm looking for advice as to what to use in that regard. I've
done my Google homework and have come up with the following, but would
like feedback from anyone who has already used any of these, or has
recommendations about anything I may have missed. Yes, I know about
Blender, and be reassured I am not planning on reinventing that wheel,
okay? :-) So, here's what I've found so far. As I said, if anyone can
add to this list or share his/her experiences actually working with any
of these, that would be greatly appreciated."
Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/179230
wildfrontiersman writes "NY Times article, [0]Many Tools of Big Brother
Are Up and Running, quote: 'Because of the inroads the Internet and
other digital network technologies have made into everyday life over
the last decade, it is increasingly possible to amass Big Brother-like
surveillance powers through Little Brother means. The basic components
include everyday digital technologies like e-mail, online shopping and
travel booking, A.T.M. systems, cellphone networks, electronic
toll-collection systems and credit-card payment terminals.' This is too
scary. I am now ready for a little less convenience and a little more
privacy. How about you?"
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/23/technology/23PEEK.html
Linux in the Workplace
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/1459247
[0]rjnagle writes "I've always been surprised and even disappointed at
my friends' lack of curiosity about Linux. Maybe geeks and slashdotters
understand why Linux is so appealing, but many people simply don't have
time for it. Even the more open-minded people refuse to consider Linux
until it runs a lot of commercial applications (does it support
Photoshop? Video games? MS Word? Etc)." Robert reviews below Linux in
the Workplace, a book intended to surmount this understandable gap in
knowledge.
Links
0. http://www.idiotprogrammer.com
RIAA nominated for "Internet Villian of the Year"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1616241
[0]Joey Patterson writes "[1]Slyck [2]reports that the UK's [3]Internet
Industry Awards organization has nominated the [4]RIAA for its
[5]Internet Villian of the Year award because they support "'right to
hack' proposals and other unworkable solutions to curb copyright
abuse"." Congratulations to them on being nominated for this
prestigious appropriate award ;)
Links
0. mailto:joey_patterson@ y a h o o .com
1. http://www.slyck.com/index.html
2. http://www.slyck.com/news/200212Dec/122302a.html
3. http://www.ispaawards.org.uk/index.htm
4. http://www.riaa.org/
5. http://www.ispaawards.org.uk/categories/villain.htm
Freshmeat
ADP 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107478/
ADP is a set of PHP classes that facilitates the generation of a
front-end to a database, based on HTML templates. Using a modular
system, ADP provides support for most HTML constructs. This way, the
need for custom programming is reduced to almost nothing. The user only
needs basic understanding of SQL and XML and to be able to work with
HTML. You can use a WYSIWYG editor to create the HTML templates.
Developers can write their own modules to extend the functionality of
ADP.
BHL 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107453/
BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain text files into
HTML, LaTeX, and SGML (Linuxdoc) files. The BHL mode handles common
font-styles, three levels of sections, any kind of lists, URLs and
horizontal rules. BHL handles a table of contents: you can browse the
toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the sections' numbers
with one keystroke.
cDonkey 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107490/
cDonkey is an open source core client for eDonkey without a GUI. It
works together with eMule and ed2k_gui. It uses Berkley DB-4.1 for fast
List management. The eMule Packet data and source2source exchange was
implemented. It currently only works with Linux.
chkrootkit 0.38
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107349/
chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit. It
contains a chkrootkit: shell script that checks system binaries for
rootkit modification. The following tests are made: aliens, asp,
bindshell, lkm, rexedcs, sniffer, wted, z2, amd, basename, biff, chfn,
chsh, cron, date, du, dirname, echo, egrep, env, find, fingerd, gpm,
grep, hdparm, su, ifconfig, inetd, inetdconf, identd, killall, login,
ls, mail, mingetty, netstat, named, passwd, pidof, pop2, pop3, ps,
pstree, rpcinfo, rlogind, rshd, slogin, sendmail, sshd, syslogd, tar,
tcpd, top, telnetd, timed, traceroute, and write. ifpromisc.c checks
whether the interface is in promiscuous mode, chklastlog.c checks for
lastlog deletions, chkwtmp.c checks for wtmp deletions, check_wtmpx.c
checks for wtmpx deletions (Solaris only), and chkproc.c checks for
signs of LKM trojans.
ColorChip 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107495/
ColorChip is a class for working with color in a more convenient manner
than the basic RGB and Hexadecimal triplets often encountered in
programming, especially Web-oriented programming. It allows you to
define a color using RGB, HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) or a Hexadecimal
string. ColorChip objects have properties for all three of these color
models, as well as methods for adjusting both RGB and HSV values. These
methods automatically update all of the object's properties. Additional
methods exist for getting color compliments, triads, and the nearest
Web-safe color.
cvsknit 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107496/
CvsKnit allows knitting up a CVS Repository from existing source
packages with their original release dates. If you have non-CVS-managed
packages and want to start revision management with CVS, this maybe
useful.
DC-GUI 0.2rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107473/
DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
ding2dict 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107485/
ding2dict converts the Ding German-English dictionary into a format
usable for dict (http://www.dict.org). It includes a patch for the
syntactical errors of version 1.2 of the Ding dictionary.
ELinks 0.4.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107481/
ELinks is an enhanced version of Links, a Lynx-like text Web browser
with support for tables, frames, background downloads, etc. It has a
menu-fashioned user interface and is smaller and more lightweight than
Lynx. ELinks adds many valuable features, like HTTP auth, proxy auth,
reasonable cookies support, Lua scripting, etc.
Found you! 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107480/
Found you! is a theme featuring a background with a black cat peeking
around a corner.
Freeoxyd 0.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107475/
Enigma is a reimplementation of Oxyd, a puzzle game that was very
popular on the Atari ST and later on the PC. Equipped with a little
black marble, your objective is to locate and uncover matching pairs of
Oxyd stones.
gnatsperl 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107476/
gnatsperl is a collection of Perl modules providing a Perl interface to
the gnatsd daemon (GNU gnats issue tracking system). It is intended to
allow developers to more easily create tie-in applications to gnats.
GNOME ALSA Mixer 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107471/
This project is a sound mixer for GNOME written for the Advanced Linux
Sound Architecture (ALSA).
hdup 1.5.2.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107477/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of
the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none),
the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync),
and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
ifplugd 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107497/
ifplugd is a lightweight Linux daemon which configures the network
automatically when a cable is plugged in and deconfigures it when the
cable is pulled. It is primarily intended for usage with laptops. It
relies on the distribution's native network configuration subsystem,
and is thus not very intrusive.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107305/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple
(external/internal) interfaces, masquerading, port forwarding, upload
limits, VPNs, ToS, ZorbIPTraffic, and more. It doesn't flush all your
existing iptables rules.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.53_001 (For Linux 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107469/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user
programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can
access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user
programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege
level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it
seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such
methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so
forth.
LinPHA 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107410/
LinPHA is an easy to use, multilingual, flexible photo/image
archive/album/gallery written in PHP. It uses a MySQL database to store
information about your pictures. It comes with a HTML-based installer,
so you don't need experience in setting up SQL databases. Thumbnails
are created as needed and stored in the SQL DB.
Mambo SiteServer 4.0.12 BETA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107501/
Mambo SiteServer is a dynamic Web content management tool that is
capable of building sites from several pages to several thousand. It
comes complete with 10 built-in modules, a WYSIWYG editor, site
statistics, an admin interface, and much more.
mldonkey 2.02 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107474/
MLDonkey is a clone for the eDonkey 2000 network, a network with more
than 100000 users, specialized for transferring big files like videos.
Current version of MLdonkey is a daemon that can be accessed through
telnet (for commands), HTTP (for Web pages), and a nice GTK GUI. It is
written in Objective-Caml and released in binaries for many Unix
platforms (Linux/i386, Linux/alpha, Linux/ppc, FreeBSD, Digital Unix,
Mac OS X). Support for accessing several networks, such as Direct
Connect, Open Napster, Gnutella, and Soulseek is under development.
monopd 0.6.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107483/
monopd is a dedicated game server daemon for Monopoly-like board games.
Clients such as Atlantik can connect and allow users to play various
games with other users of the network.
MPlayer RED 0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107437/
MPlayer RED is a simple SF style skin for MPlayer. Everything is
working well except an equalizer, which is still in development.
ngIRCd 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107491/
ngIRCd is a portable IRC daemon written from scratch. It is easy to
configure, supports server links (even with original ircds) and runs on
hosts with changing IP addresses (such as dial-in networks). Currently
supported platforms are AIX, A/UX, Darwin/Mac OS X, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
IRIX, Linux, NetBSD, SunOS/Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
open-realty 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107486/
Open-Realty is a real estate listing manager intended to be both easy
to install and easy to administer. It uses PHP to drive a MySQL
backend. It has a flexible search, automatic thumbnail generation,
automatic interfacing with Yahoo! maps, and many other features.
Openbox 2.2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107470/
Openbox is a window manager with an enhanced Blackbox style-engine that
supports the KDE and GNOME2 desktop environments and their
applications. It provides a familiar environment to Blackbox users with
added customizability. The key handler, epist, provides full
key-chain-combo support, support for bindings without modifiers, and
the ability to pop up Openbox menus.
Paketto Keiretsu 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107500/
The Paketto Keiretsu is a collection of tools that use new and unusual
strategies for manipulating TCP/IP networks. They tap functionality
within existing infrastructure and stretch protocols beyond what they
were originally intended for. It includes Scanrand, an unusually fast
network service and topology discovery system, Minewt, a user space
NAT/MAT router, linkcat, which presents a Ethernet link to stdio,
Paratrace, which traces network paths without spawning new connections,
and Phentropy, which uses OpenQVIS to render arbitrary amounts of
entropy from data sources in three dimensional phase space.
PHP RDF 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107492/
PHP RDF is a PHP class built for parsing existing RDF files. It
currently works off of the Netscape's RSS 0.91 spec.
phpRated 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107502/
phpRated is a free Web application written in PHP for use with MySQL.
It allows visitors to your site to list their picture, and have it
rated by other members who may visit, and also allows visitors to send
other members Private Messages, as well as leave comments. Members may
rate other members on a scale of 1-10. Viewing and reviewing members
can be accomplished a number of ways, and many options are available to
encourage member interaction.
Poopmup 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107468/
Poopmup is a game, a sort of a shoot-em-up, but with a twist. As a
child, you where tortured in the playground. You were a victim of the
highschool hierarchy. You hacked hours on end, and built a machine that
transformed you into a bird. You are now free (as in speech) to fly
around the city and poop on passers-by.
PyChecker 0.8.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107451/
PyChecker is a tool for finding common bugs in Python source code. It
finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler (or lint) for
less dynamic languages, like C and C++. Common errors that can be found
include forgetting to import a module, misspelling a variable, passing
the wrong number of parameters to a function/method, and not using a
module/variable.
Reqwireless EmailViewer 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107498/
EmailViewer is a mail client for J2ME MIDP devices. It supports
multiple addresses, POP3/IMAP and SMTP email protocols, attachments,
HTML, and images.
ReqwirelessEmail 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107499/
ReqwirelessEmail provides a Java API for sending, receiving, and
displaying email on J2ME MIDP devices. It supports IMAP, POP3, and SMTP
email protocols, MIME attachments, HTML email, and images.
Tcl/Tk Project Manager 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107466/
Tcl/Tk Project Manager is a full IDE for programming in Tcl/Tk. It
includes a project and file manager, a source editor with syntax
highlighting and procedure navigation, a context-sensitive help system,
and much more. It requires Tcl/Tk (http://www.scriptics.com), BWidget
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib), or ActiveTcl
(http://tcl.activestate.com).
Tcpreplay 1.4.beta1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107465/
Tcpreplay is a set of Unix tools which allows the replaying of captured
network traffic (pcap or snoop format). It can be used to test a
variety of network devices including routers, firewalls, and NIDS.
Tk LaTeX Editor 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107467/
Tk LaTeX Editor is a powerful LaTeX editor. It supports code
highlighting, a document structure navigator, a project and file
manager, spellchecking, command autocompletion, and much more.
vera2dict 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107488/
vera2dict converts the V.E.R.A. dictionary of acronyms into a format
usable for dict.
wpoison.php 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107463/
wpoison.php is a script that generates page after page of random 'fake'
email addresses, and is intended to be used for poisoning email address
databases.
zengpan's mail system 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107482/
zengpan's mail system is a very tiny and simple mail system.
ZZIPlib 0.10.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107489/
ZZIPlib provides read access on ZIP-archives. The library uses only the
patent-free compression-algorithms supported by zlib. Functions are
provided that transparently access files being either real files or
zipped files, both with the same filepath. The zip-archive can be used
in the place of a normal subdirectory. It is written in portable C.
Slashcode
Problems with runtask
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1754206
I just recently installed slash 2.2.6 on a server in my company
intranet. We're going to make use of it as a technical forum for the
developers to collaborate. For the most part, everything has gone
smoothly and I've had little trouble getting slash configured the way I
want. The one problem I have come across is that I can't run runtask
with any of the tasks in my slash-site. Every time I try to do it, I
check my slashd.log and find a similar error: Tue Dec 24 15:01:50 2002
Starting runtask with pid 10011 glob failed (child exited with status
1) at /home/usr1/app/slash/bin/runtask line 118. No task
'refresh_authors_cache.pl' found in
/home/usr1/app/slash/site/emmaus.saic.com/tasks I've tried looking
overthe code for runtask, but I'm a pretty novice perl programmer and
have had little luck tracking the problem down. If anyone has ideas
what might be causing this, please share. I don't want to have to wait
a day for new users to have changes made to their accounts, since we're
immediately going to make everyone authors (w/ seclev 100) because of
the environment we're in.
Geekizoid.Com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/0239255
Well, we were going to wait until 31 Dec 2002, but since the cat is out
of the bag already, Geekizoid.Com is back. Hosted by LRSE.
The Last Straw
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/1915205
I just put up my first site using slashcode. It took about a week to
get from downloading the Mandrake ISO's to having the site pretty
complete. I have never used Linux before and I took this on as a
learning experience. I am quite happy with the way it all turned out!
Anyway, about the site - I found that people seem to complain about
celebrities a lot, so I figured that a slash site related to the stupid
things celebrities say and do might be a good idea. Check it out and
let me know what you think!
WML functionality?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/1742230
I have been wondering if there is anyone out there using the WML/WAP
functionality of Slash? There were some past articles on this subject,
but seemingly with no clear answers. I was hoping to be able to
generate .wml pages somehow like slashdot.org currently does. Any tips
appreciated.
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.
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