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Sourceforge
Benchw release 0.5b
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238626
Benchw provides a toolset to benchmark the capabilities of several
different database engines for data warehouse type activities. It is
designed to provide a simple way to test data loading, index creation
plus query performance in the spirit of TPC-H. This release adds
default index generation and sapdb load capability - so now Oracle,
Mysql, Postgresql, DB2 and Sapdb are supported. The documentation has
been brought closer to completion. The generated form of the queries
has been finalized (it has changed from the alpha releases). A BSD
style license file has been included.
Gallery v1.3.3 bugfix release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238913
Gallery is a slick, intuitive web based photo gallery (written in PHP)
with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to install,
configure and use. Photo management includes automatic thumbnails,
resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great for
communities. This release includes a security fix and a number of small
bugfixes. This release is primarily aimed at fixing a variety of small
bugs that have existed in Gallery for a few releases, as well as a
couple of fairly serious bugs (including a very serious SECURITY bug
that can lead to a remote exploit) that were introduced in the version
1.3.2. If you are using the 1.3.2 release we STRONGLY RECOMMEND that
you upgrade to 1.3.3 as soon as possible to minimize the possibility of
a web server compromise. Bugs fixed: - Fix SECURITY HOLE introduced in
the Windows XP Publishing feature introduced in 1.3.2 (as of 1.3.2
build 27) See http://gallery.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=64 for
specific details. - Hiding all elements in an album causes those
elements to get permanently detached from the album (making it
inconvenient to recover them). - Fixed minor bugs regarding supporting
Nuke 6's user database - Fixed minor bugs in the slideshow code.
Feature additions/changes: - The config wizard now allows you to select
an option to print via Shutterfly without making a (very small)
donation to the Gallery project. - Convenience function allows you to
access a sub-album's permission dialog without opening the album. For
more detailed information, you can read the Gallery changelog:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gallery/gallery/ChangeLo
g?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup regards, The Gallery
Dev Team
gwc 0.18-0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238621
This release contains no new bug fixes, but has a much faster click
detection algorithm, and up to 200 markers. Gnome Wave Cleaner is a
digital audio restoration tool for CD quality audio wavefiles. Dehiss,
declick and decrackle in a GUI environment. Have fun. Please let me
know of any problems. jw (aka weltyj at yahoo.com)
Furthur 1.7.1 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238383
Furthur is a peer-to-peer cataloging and music sharing tool that
allows: fully enforcable legal sharing model, instant downloads with no
waiting lists, in-depth cataloging functionality, and detailed
attribute searches. Upgrade to this version is recommended for all
existing users. This release includes fixes for known memory leaks,
high CPU usage issues, and an improved search system. Hello again, The
Furthurnet team is proud to announce the release of: Furthurnet 1.7.1
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39429&release_id
=129955) A great deal of hard work has gone into this release. Due to
the nature of some of the bugs that are fixed here, we highly recommend
that everybody upgrade. Version Notes - Notable changes include: a)
Fixed the rest of the major memory leaks and high CPU usage bugs b)
Fixes free disk space display for Mac OS X c) Improved search d)
Improved connectivity Thanks again for your patience and ongoing
support. - The FurthurNet Team -
sylpheed-0.8.8claws released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238415
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, and i18n. This is a bugfix release.
############################################################# 26th
December 2002 Version: 0.8.8claws SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
<http://claws.sylpheed.org> This release of sylpheed-claws is based on
version 0.8.8 of the main Sylpheed branch. Notes for this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This release fixes a bug which would run into
an infinite loop and eventual crash when invalid characters were
encountered in MIME header encoding. New features in this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * add 'Locked' flag to possible filtering
/ matcher conditions * Bug fix: [bug #633443] 'Crash on deleting
messages' * updated translations Bulgarian 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 * GnuPG
users are informed of expired signatures and keys. * 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 * Powerful Extended Search * Indication of
unread answers to marked mails: '(!)' is appended to the folder name
when a marked message has a response * Customisable message view
toolbar * Actions: trailing ">" syntax to insert command's output
without replacing old text (in contrast to trailing "|"). * Address
book: 'Edit Group Details' dialog 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' 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 google_msgid.pl Actions script to lookup selected message-id in
google using mozilla. 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
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libggi 2.0.2/libgii 0.8.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238414
The GGI project is pleased to announce that new versions of LibGGI and
LibGII have been released. LibGGI is a graphics API which focuses on
portability between operating systems and graphics back-ends. LibGII is
a stand-alone system for handling input devices which follows the same
general design principles as LibGGI. Through a run-time modular system,
a single application binary can be run on many different display
systems. In addition, LibGGI and it's interchangeable run-time binary
"targets" can be compiled on many architectures (like ia-32, ppc32,
sparc, sparc64, arm, s390, etc.) and operating systems (like Linux,
*BSD, Darwin, Solaris, etc.) and environments (like X11, fbdev,
svgalib, aalib, etc.) The LibGGI core itself is a basic API meant for
low level programming abstracting the simplest of primitives common to
most display systems. When properly written, LibGGI applications can be
made to work well in various bit-depths and to function on display
systems that differ quite drastically in their implementations (e.g.
backbuffered client/server systems like X11 versus direct hardware
systems like linux framebuffer.) LibGGI includes an extension system
which allows API sets to be added to the core LibGGI API. For example,
two popular extensions are LibGGIWMH, allowing manipulation of parent
window properties when a LibGGI program is running under a window based
display system, and LibGGIMISC which supplements the LibGGI API with a
few features like raytrace syncronization and VGA-style splitline which
are familair to demo coders. Our team is working on future extensions
which aim to bring the GGI philosphy of generic abstraction to graphics
systems features such as Z/Alpha buffers, overlays, and ROP/BITBLT,
allowing such features to be used by application developers without
falling into the trap of writing code that is inextricably entangled to
the display system used for development and testing. Like every Open
Source project, we are always glad to receive help and new team
members. This release represents a step forward not only in that
several enhancements have been made but also in our release process. We
now have a stable and developemnt tree system such that experimental
features will no longer butt heads with bugfix releases. We expect this
to improve our release interval for both development and stable
projects. More detailed news, project contact information, online
documentation, and much more is available at
http://www.ggi-project.org/
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2002-12-18 EDITION
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238394
0. Intro 1. SF.NET Support Update 2. DevChannel Launch 3. NNTP Beta
Continues 4. WebSphere on Compile Farm 5. Site Statistics --- Sponsored
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of SF.NET's existence and in the past 12 months we've added 225,000
registered users and 22,000 new Open Source projects (525,000 Users and
52,000 projects total). It's great to see that the community continues
to grow. We've moved. You may or may not have noticed, but we
physically moved last month. SourceForge.net has migrated to a new
Cable & Wireless facility in Santa Clara, California (formally Exodus).
Besides the shinny new racks, power and bandwidth, we have consolidated
all our OSDN sister sites under one roof (Slashdot.org, Freshmeat.net,
Linux.com, OSDN.com, Thinkgeek.com, etc). This move makes it easier for
our Sys Admins to get their hands around all 250+ servers (all of OSDN)
which use to be spread out over two coasts in the United States.
December 2002's SF.NET project of the month is phpMyAdmin. Please check
out the interview we did with them. Good stuff.
http://sourceforge.net/pom_1202.php Our IBM DB2 transition continues to
move forward. We will have SF.NET fully converted to the database in
early 2003. On a related note, today we are announcing 3 new IBM
WebSphere application servers on the SF.NET compile farm. This will
allow you to test out any J2EE applications you might have.
Instructions to access the compile farm are below in this email. On
behalf of the SF.NET team, I want to wish you and your family very
Happy Holidays. We are looking forward to working with you to make
SourceForge.net and the Open Source Community even more successful in
2003. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to
email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. Pat- Patrick McGovern
Director, SourceForge.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. SF.NET Support Update
---------------------------------------- The SourceForge.net team has
recently completed a set of planning sessions for 2003 goals. We have
incorporated much of the feedback received during the 2002 year in to
these goals, and are quite excited about the upcoming enhancements to
the SourceForge.net site and services. We welcome your continued
feedback. The SourceForge.net team may be contacted by submitting a
Support Request at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 All
SourceForge.net-hosted projects which make use of our VHOST services
must update their DNS configuration to reflect our new IP address
range. A mailing was sent to all project administrators on VHOST-using
projects on 2002-12-05. Instructions for proper VHOST configuration may
be seen at:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=777&group_id=1 A
significant amount of effort has recently been directed to improvement
of the SourceForge.net Site Documentation. Among the changes, we have
completed a significant reorganization of the Site Docs (which are now
separated by target audience and grouped by service). Second,
significant formatting changes have been made to all existing document
for cleaner appearance and more functional navigation (we have added a
Table of Contents to most documents). Finally, plan has been
established which will ensure documentation is written to cover all
previously-identified gaps; in coming months, we will be working to
complete the initial rewrite of older content and the generation of new
documentation. The SourceForge.net Site Documentation collection may be
seen at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=1 In conjunction with
our work to improve the Site Documentation of the SourceForge.net site,
a command-line tool has been developed to automate DocManager (the
documentation management feature of the SourceForge.net site)
operations. This tool, adocman, is available from the 'sitedocs'
project on SourceForge.net. At this time, a tool to automate retrieval
of data via our XML data export facility (which requires authentication
by a project administrator) is also included. These tools can be used
by any project team to establish a comprehensive backup and recovery
plan, as described at:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6840&group_id=1
adocman (and the xml_export script included in the adocman release) may
be found at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sitedocs/ SourceForge.net
now provides documentation regarding security and risk management as
applied to the SourceForge.net site and services. We encourage all
project administrators to review the documentation provided at:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14267&group_id=1
Finally, as requested by many site users, the SourceForge.net team now
provides a search facility for Site Documentation. Information about
this search facility (and access to the Site Documentation search) is
available at:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14068&group_id=1
The SourceForge.net team is glad to respond to any issues you may
encounter in using SourceForge.net, as a user, as a developer, or as a
project administrator. To reach the SourceForge.net team, we ask that
you submit a Support Request at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 I
welcome feedback regarding our support process and your experiences in
using SourceForge.net. I may be reached via email at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jacob Moorman Quality of Service Manager,
SourceForge.net 2. OSDN's Newsite DevChannel
---------------------------------------- OSDN is adding to its
resources for developers with a new website, DevChannel
(http://devchannel.org). DevChannel is the central news and reference
resource for developers interested in core technology topics. With
original feature articles and interviews, daily news updates, access to
SourceForge projects, Freshmeat downloads, and Slashdot discussions,
DevChannel opens a channel of communication to developers, organized by
topics that matter. We've begun rolling out DevChannel gradually, with
four channels featured at present: High Performance Computing
(http://hpc.devchannel.org) Web Services
(http://webservices.devchannel.org) Development Tools
(http://tools.devchannel.org) Hardware (http://hardware.devchannel.org)
While SourceForge.net remains the preeminent gathering place for
developers on OSDN, you'll find some great content on DevChannel (like
Steve DuChene's IPMI article), and some familiar faces (Brian Finley
from the Clustering Foundry, and Eugene Kim from the Distributed
Computing Foundry). So be sure to add DevChannel to your list of OSDN
destinations; we look forward to seeing you there. If you have
questions/comments please email Mark Stone at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. SF.NET
NNTP Beta Test Continues ---------------------------------------- In
October we launched an early beta release of a new feature on
SourceForge.net. We are continuing this beta test, and here again are
the details in case you missed it the first time: Our NNTP server makes
it possible to view and post data to forums using a simple newsreader
(exactly like using USENET newsgroups). Here's the information to login
and try it out. The hostname of the NNTP server is
'nntp.sourceforge.net' and the port NNTP is listening on is 563.
(nntps, SSL-protected NNTP) We allow only SSL connections. You need to
use your SourceForge user name and password to login. The currently
supported clients are Mozilla and Outlook, however we've followed the
NNTP RFC; any client that does NNTP over SSL /should/ work. Please let
us know if you have problems with a specific client. (Please see below)
Posting works, with one caveat: to limit SPAM we limit the amount of
posts to 10 in a 5 minute period, after which we deny posting for some
time for that user account. NOTE: This is real data. Posts will show up
in your forums! Please keep this in mind. Here is an example of the
NNTP naming we've chosen, it is much like the project web tree.
"sf.a.al.alexandria.open_discussion" will get you the "Open Discussion"
forum for project "alexandria". Mailing lists are currently _not_
available but will be available in the near future. If you would like
to report bugs, ideas, or anything else please subscribe to the beta
mailing list at:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mcgoo-nttpbeta Please keep
in mind that the server is beta and will more than likely crash. Please
don't send 1000 emails to list saying the server is offline; we'll fix
it as soon as we get a chance. Please send any bug reports, odd
behavior, or problems to this list. Thank you. Issue reports regarding
this new beta feature should not be submitted as Support Requests;
please direct all inquiries to the list. 4. IBM WebSphere on Compile
Farm ---------------------------------------- The SourceForge.net
Compile Farm now features four systems running IBM WebSphere
Application Server Version 5. These systems let you freely deploy J2EE
applications for testing and validation on the WebSphere platform. The
SourceForge.net Compile Farm is available for use (on an opt-in basis)
by developers on any active projects hosted on SourceForge.net. To
access these systems, please see the Compile Farm Guide at:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1 5.
Statistics ---------------------------------------- Where do SF.NET
users come from? The SF.NET team recently ran log files through an
application that can translate countries by IP numbers, oppose to
domain name extensions. IP numbers provide more accurate statistics.
Below are the results. SourceForge.net truly is an International site.
Percent / Country 34.0450% United States 09.2114% Germany 04.5754%
Canada 04.1249% United Kingdom 04.0632% Sweden 04.0632% Poland 03.4010%
France 03.1006% Japan 02.3787% Netherlands 02.2872% Italy 01.9262%
Belgium 01.9262% Australia 01.6557% Brazil 01.6259% Spain 01.5951%
Russian Federation 01.4449% Norway 01.3842% Switzerland 01.2341%
Denmark 01.2341% Austria 01.2341% Argentina 01.0233% India 00.8428%
Korea, Republic of 00.7529% Mexico 00.7225% Hong Kong 00.6922% New
Zealand 00.6922% Finland 00.6629% Taiwan, Province of China 00.6023%
Portugal 00.5718% Singapore 00.5113% Israel On Thursday December 12th,
2002, SourceForge.net served: 4,424,135 Million Page views [SF.NET and
Sub-domains] 467,693 Open Source Applications [downloaded] 1,245,123
Emails [SF Mailing Lists] 10,234 CVS checkouts 7,753 CVS Checkins Top
20 projects: 1 POPFile - Automatic Email Classification
http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email
classification system that has a Naive Bayes text classifier and a POP3
proxy. It works with any mail client using POP3. 2 Gaim
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is an all-in-one IM client
that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC,
Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu, all at once. Gaim is NOT
endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, MSN or Napster. 3 PCGen -- A
Character Generator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen/ PCGen is a
java character generator and maintenance program. All datafiles are
ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the
pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. 4 BZFlag
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/ OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer
Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag 5 phpMyAdmin
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a tool
written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the
WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter
tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys
on fields. 6 Tiki http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is a
CMS system based on a Wiki, it has all the features a regular Wiki
application has and a lot more. Tiki uses PHP and templates via Smarty.
Many features added or planned 7 ScummVM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform
interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like:
Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It
also includes an non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 8
Hibernate http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/ Hibernate -
Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java 9 SquirrelMail
http://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrelmail/ SquirrelMail is a
PHP4-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for
IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum
compatibility across browsers. It also has MIME support, folder
manipulation, etc. 10 eMule http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/
eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network
but offers more features than the standard client 11 Fink
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/ Fink is an attempt to bring the
full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X.
Packages are downloaded and built automatically and installed into a
tree managed by dpkg. 12 Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution
http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for
small-medium enterprises (SME) in the global marketplace covering all
areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For
$2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier
functionality. 13 Gimp-Print - Top Quality Printer Drivers
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/ A very high quality package
of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS. This project also
maintains the Print plug-in for the Gimp from the same code base. 14
XNap - java filesharing client http://sourceforge.net/projects/xnap/
XNap is a plugin-based filesharing client. Currently it includes an
OpenNap plugin, with multiple server support, automatic downloading,
resuming of incomplete files, chat, hotlist and an advanced media
library. Features a Swing GUI and a terminal mode. 15 Bochs x86 PC
emulator http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/ Bochs is a portable x86
PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU,
related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, *BSD, Minix, and
other OS's, all on your workstation. 16 AWStats
http://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats/ Advanced Web Statistics
(AWStats) is a free powerfull web server logfile analyzer (Perl script)
that shows you all your Web statistics including visits, unique
visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords used to find
your site, robots, etc... 17 Fluxbox
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluxbox/ Fluxbox is a X11 windowmanager
build for speed and flexibility. 18 Dev-C++
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw
or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 19 MinGW - Minimalist GNU for
Windows http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ 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. 20
JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is
the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application
server implemented in 100% Pure Java.
Mailman 2.1 rc 1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238352
This is the release candidate for Mailman 2.1 final. 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. Barring unforseen problems, this is a snapshot of what will
be released before the end of 2002.
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.
Slashdot
New Amazon Patents on Content Personalization
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2147252
[0]theodp writes "Defending its decision to [1]concoct recommendations
to steer customers to buy items at Amazon's new Apparel Store, a
spokeswoman said Amazon "felt it would be evident to people that since
the store was so new, we wouldn't have the transaction history to
create database similarities." But in this [2]just-published patent
applicaton, Amazon earlier told the USPTO it's able to use product
viewing histories to determine the similarity or relatedness between
products for which little or no purchase history data exists. So which
claim should you believe?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20021204S0009
2.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20020198882.PGNR.&OS=dn/20020198882&RS=DN/20020198882
U.S. Pushing Conservative Science
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2132223
mozumder writes "Does abortion lead to breast cancer? Does condom use
lead to increased sexual activity? According to the government, the
answer is now inconclusive. The New York Times has a [0]story on how
the government is altering low-level scientific conclusions to satisfy
conservatives. Will this lead to a mistrust of the government? Or is
the government now correct?"
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/27/politics/27ABOR.html
New Phrack
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2046258
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "A new issue of the Phrack Magazine, #60 has
been released today. It details some decent technique about kernel
exploitation (OpenBSD), Cisco remote exploit, how to backdoor a core
bzimage kernel and other stuff. The ascii based magazine is available
at [1]phrack.org."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.phrack.org/
Forty-two Inch Plasma Monitor
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2011217
An anonymous reader writes "PCstats has a review of what should have
been under my Christmas tree - a [0]42" plasma display from Samsung
Since Santa couldn't have possibly brought this monster down the
chimney, we'll just have to be satisfied with the review. They even
hooked it up to a computer and played games on it...."
Links
0. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1309
What's Your Earliest Memory?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1924216
spazoid12 writes "I've been curious lately about memory. For example,
why is it that my earliest memory is from about 7 years of age? (I'm
mid-30's now) Most people I know remember much further back. How far
back can a person remember? Is there a theoretical limit? What are the
requirements for acquiring memories? I've read that oxygen is one; as
in actual breathed-in stuff. This is supposed to explain why you can't
remember anything from within the womb. That seems silly to me. My own
theory (with nothing to back it up) is that language is required. We
spoke mostly Brasilian Portuguese and some Russian in the home up until
I was about 5 or 6. We moved to Brasil for a year when I was 8 and I
barely remember anything from that trip. I really don't know either
language today-- could this explain why I have no memories of those
years? What if I re-learned those languages now, 30 years later? Would
memories flood back?"
Techies Working for Peanuts
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1922212
The San Francisco Chronicle has a story about laid-off techies getting
[0]desperate and going to work for, well, nothing. No offense to these
people, if you're up against the wall you do whatever you can, but I
hope they're aware that most of them are not going to get even the
slightest compensation for their time.
Links
0.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/22/BU63139.DTL&type=tech
The Year in Technology
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1824239
[0]bedessen writes "It's that time again, when we look back on the year
in summary. New Scientist has an article [1]"2002, The Year in
Technology", as well as [2]"The Year in Medicine and Biology." Popular
Science brings us [3]"The 15th Annual Best of What's New.""
Links
0. http://www.dessent.net
1. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993215
2. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993212
3. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/
To the Moon and Beyond
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1752254
[0]isorox writes "The BBC is [1]reporting that 'Europe is considering
sending humans to the Moon, Mars and beyond within the next few
decades', although the UK government 'does not support human space
flight and will not fund UK citizens to go through the official
European astronaut training programme'. However while plans are made
for the next 30 years, [2]Rosetta is due to launch in 2 weeks time,
ready to rendevous and land on a comet in 2011. Assuming it doesn't
[3]blow up on launch."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2580817.stm
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2558107.stm
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/233233&tid=160
Hardware Bytes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1751258
Zygo writes "Hey everyone Merry Christmas! (Yes I'm a bit too late)
Here's some Hardware & Modding news! : At [0]WinHQ the Xoxide X450
Case, Some pretty Cold Cathode lights [1]over here, nice MX mouses at
[2]LANParty, At [3]ClubOC the Swiftech MCX462+T, Some shocking
Shockwave Fangrills over at [4]ExtensionTech, Playing Mp3 with the
iRock 530 [5]here, a Big cooler [6]here, [7]OCIA brings you the
Solarism LM-1711 17" LCD screen, Vantecs Fan Controller at
[8]ExtremeMHz, and a 8x GF4 Ti4200 at [9]Viper's Lair"
Links
0. http://www.winhq.net/showdoc.php?dtype=reviews&id=25&page=1
1. http://www.dvhardware.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=11
2. http://www.lanparty.com/articles/mx500_mx700/
3. http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/heatsinks/swiftech/mcx462t/index.htm
4. http://www.extensiontech.net/reviews/cooling/accessories/shockwave.shtml
5. http://www.inside-hardware.com/reviews/irock530/
6. http://www.myworld.com.my/v2/reviews/HSF/zalman/cnps3100/
7. http://www.ocia.net/reviews/solarism17/solarism17.shtml
8. http://www.extrememhz.com/nexusfc-p1.shtml
9.
http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/video_graph/msi/geforce4/ti42008x/ti42008x_1.shtml
Build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1741222
[0]FridayBob writes "For those of you tired of waiting around for
someone else to achieve the holy grail of physics, now's your chance to
beat 'em all to it. All you need is some basic engineering skills, [1]
this site and the inspiration necessary to make your very own 'fusor'
produce more energy than it consumes. Hopefully, you'll have more luck
than its inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth, who first built it in the
1950's after inventing the television some 30 years earlier. If you run
into problems you'll be able to count on a enthusiastic support group,
as the contraption seems to have developed a cult following over the
past few years. Okay, so I'm skeptical that this approach will ever
really work, but at the very least it sounds like a really cool science
project!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://fusor.net/
Freshmeat
Making Presentations with LaTeX and Prosper
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/667
A number of dedicated presentation programs have been written for Unix
systems, but they may not serve your needs if you have special
requirements, especially the need to display mathematical formulas. The
Prosper package can help you create attractive presentations while
letting you use the full power of LaTeX.
avidemux 0.9pre26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107761/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit AVI. It allows you to multiplex
and demultiplex audio to/from video. It is able to cut video, import
BMP, MJPEG, and MPEG video, and encode them. You can also process video
with included filters. It requires divx4linux and GTK/GDK.
BoPHP 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107772/
BoPHP is a quick and dirty Web interface for bossogg. It uses PHP with
the built-in XML parser.
Boss Ogg 0.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107770/
Boss Ogg is a Postgres-based client/server ogg player, targeted at
entertainment centers, and people that want to use their spare computer
for full-time music. The idea is to have other people develop all sorts
of different clients for it, but the author is also developing an SDL
client simultaneously, which is perfect for a TV-out card.
Cherokee 0.3.0 beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107764/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is
implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C
library. It provides only the most basic HTTP functionality, but is
extremely fast and small.
dlman 0.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107767/
dlman is a download manager with a command-line interface, written in
Python. It allows you to add to, remove from, and view the list URLs to
download. It also sports a logging function.
eDonkey Monitor 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107780/
eDonkey-monitor collects data of some central aspects of an eDonkey
server or client and presents this data in form of detailed time-graphs
over a lean but visual appealing Web interface. It features detailed
stats for donkey workload (upload /download) and active peer
connections, totals for workload traffic, high resolution,
multi-dimensional graphs, and the ability to show stats for the last 12
hours, two days, week, or month (other time windows are possible).
empxform 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107749/
empxform is a flexible EMP and RMP file processor that allows users of
the emusic service to download entire albums, generate playlists in M3U
and XML formats, play albums directly from the Web, download albums to
an MP3 player, and easily add new actions.
Evolution 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107753/
Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager, and
communications tool. Evolution represents the next step forward in
GNOME applications. The tools which make up Evolution will be tightly
integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal
information-management tool.
flphoto 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107769/
flphoto is a basic image management and display program based on the
FLTK toolkit. It can read, display, print, and export many image file
formats, and supports EXIF information provided by digital cameras.
Freecell Solver 2.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107774/
Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves
games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as
games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use
within third-party applications.
gjots 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107758/
gjots marshals and organizes text notes in a convenient, hierarchical
way. It can be used for notes, jottings, bits and pieces, recipes, and
even PINs and passwords (encrypted with ccrypt(1)). It can also be used
to "mind-map" larger compositions like manuals, Web pages,
articles, etc. It is a bit like the KDE program "kjots", but
uses the GTK library and supports a hierarchy of folders. Files can be
output to HTML with an automatic table of contents. Encryption is
supported with ccrypt(1), so that musings can be kept private. It can
also be used to write and organize DocBooks.
Gnusto 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107775/
Gnusto is a JavaScript-based interpreter for Z-machine adventure games,
as produced in the 1980s by Infocom and in recent times by the Inform
compiler.
grafist 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107768/
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 24
languages.
kbarcode 1.1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107766/
kbarcode is a KDE3-based program for creating, handling, managing, and
printing barcodes for private or business purpose. kbarcode is able to
handle all major types of barcodes, like UPC, EAN, CODE39, and ISBN. It
comes with a label designer to create customized labels and a batch
print function. It's designed to print several thousands barcodes in
one pass, but also allows you to easily print a single label. kbarcode
uses SQL to store all information about articles, barcodes, customers,
etc.
KSocrat 3.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107757/
KSocrat is the simple English/Russian and Russian/English dictionary
for the K Desktop Environment.
libchipcard 0.7beta3 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107754/
Libchipcard is a C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards
via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by
the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip
cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and has been tested
with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel.
libXMLConfig 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107762/
The library libXMLConfig provides a simple interface to process XML
configuration files and some additional helper functions.
Linux-kernel security patch 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107741/
The Linux-kernel security patch includes security improvements that
implement random PIDs, random port numbers for IPv4, NAT, and IPv6, and
enhanced random numbers for networking.
Nag 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107747/
Nag is a Web-based application built upon the Horde application
framework. It provides a simple, clean interface for managing an online
task list (i.e. a TODO list). It also includes strong integration with
the other Horde applications.
over5 20021117
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107750/
Over5 is a program for transferring between c64/vic20 machines and
Amiga/PC/UNIX boxes. It supports serial transfer at 38400 bps using
only a RS-232 level converter and a 3-line standard nullmodem cable. No
special serialport chips are needed. Source code is included. It
features read/write/execute memory, filecopy with wildcards, read/write
raw disk, read/write ZIPCODE archive, the ability to use the
Amiga/PC/UNIX box as a harddisk server ($0801-$f600), builtin
diskturbo, and a fast basic bootstrap for most cbm 8-bitters.
Perl HTTPd 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107771/
Perl HTTPd is a very small and simple HTTPd written in Perl. It is by
no means a replacement for Apache. It features request logging and
multiple connections.
Perl webmail 3.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107748/
Perl webmail is a CGI script that interfaces with a POP mail server
that you provide. It can check mail, read messages, reply, forward,
delete, send and receive attachments, and it doesn't have to be a local
mail server. This script talks strictly POP3 for receiving and SMTP for
sending mail. It also supports storage for mail folders, contacts, and
calendar notes.
Phavon 0.0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107759/
Phavon is a 2D vertical scrolling progressive-weapon shoot 'em up,
similar in style to the classic Amiga game, Xenon II. It will include
map and level editors.
PHP LDBI 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107765/
PHP LDBI is a library to handle local databases. It supports tables,
sequences, indices, and searches using wildcards. It's primary goal is
to serve as backend for SQL interfaces to local databases. It includes
an SQL parser to execute simple SQL statements.
PHP Weather 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107776/
PHP Weather makes it easy to show the current weather on your Web page.
PHP Weather retrieves the latest METAR (weather) report and converts
this format into both imperial and metric units, caches the data in a
MySQL, PostgreSQL, or DBA database for fast retrieval, and makes it
easily available in PHP scripts. You can display the data in several
languages by using the included translations. You can also access the
information with a WAP-enabled mobile phone.
Request Tracker 2.1.55 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107756/
RT is an industrial-grade trouble ticketing system. It lets a group of
people intelligently and efficiently manage requests submitted by a
community of users. RT is used by systems administrators, customer
support staffs, NOCs, developers, and even marketing departments to
track issues, outages, bugs, requests, and all kinds of other things at
thousands of sites around the world.
ShadowJAAS 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107760/
ShadowJAAS is a JAAS-compliant authentication provider that uses shadow
passwords. It allows Java applications to authenticate using Linux
usernames and passwords.
SpamProbe 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107763/
SpamProbe is a spam detection program that uses a Bayesian analysis of
the frequencies of terms used in the email. Because it filters email
based on content rather than on general rules, it easily adapts itself
to the types of email that each individual user normally receives.
The Gallery 1.3.3 (1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107751/
Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy
to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the
ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection
via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and
more. Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per
individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.
TM4J 0.8.0 alpha 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107773/
TM4J is a topic map processing toolkit and a set of topic map
processing tools. Topic maps are an ISO standard for the interchange of
information structures which can be used to represent ontologies,
business data and processes, individual knowledge and opinions, and
more. The goal of the TM4J project is to develop high-quality, Open
Source software for the creation, manipulation, and exchange of topic
maps.
XiangQi Engine 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107755/
XiangQi Engine is a software Chinese chess opponent. It provides
interfaces for connecting to chess servers, GUI clients, and a simple
command line tool with or without board printing.
Slashcode
What happened to the headlines e-mails?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2239207
I've subscribed to the headlines e-mails from several slash sites, but
most particularly to me, slashcode and use.perl. For some reason,
despite my settings still seeming to be correct, slashcode has stopped
sending them. I still get use.perl's headlines though. Any idea why?
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.
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