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Sourceforge
oo2c-2.0.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240158
Release 2.0.3 introduces experimental support for exceptions. 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.
jmove 0.3 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240181
jmove eases the understanding and valuation of the design and
architecture of complex software written in java. It provides
dependency analysis, metrics, design rule checking and impact analysis.
The release 0.3 is available now. It contains a complete redesign and
vital functional extensions like source code analysis metrics etc..
WinTV PVR 250/350 Capture Only App 1.3 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240184
This release is a stable release level that appears to work for people
in numerous countries and TV standards(NTSC and PAL). As the reports
seem positive from the 1.2.3 Release that corrected the Path issue in
this release the trace log file can now be disabled via a ini setting.
Command line capture only application for the Hauppauge WinTV PVR
250/350 Capture Cards. This application supports a subset of the
Hauppauge WinTV2000 application's command line options for capturing
directly to disk with minimal CPU utilization.
DataVision 0.6.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240161
DataVision is an Open Source reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports.
Reports can be designed using a drag-and-drop GUI. They may be run,
viewed, and printed from the application or exported as HTML, XML, PDF,
LaTeX2e, DocBook, or tab- or comma-delimited text files. The output
files produced by LaTeX2e and DocBook can in turn be used to produce
PDF, text, HTML, PostScript, and more. Changes: * All table and column
names are now case-sensitive. When necessary, database table and column
names are quoted in SQL queries which allows for use of mixed-case
names. Warning: this new behavior may break some existing reports,
especially if you generated your report XML files manually and used all
upper-case for your table and column names. Use the new -q command line
flag to disable the quoting behavior and case sensitivity. See the
discussion in "Database Name Case Sensitivity" in the User's Manual. *
A new designer GUI infrastructure. It's an application! It's an applet!
It's two GUIs in one! * Image fields' values are now URL strings
instead of file path strings. For the next few releases, image fields
will also accept absolute file paths and convert them to ``file:''
URLs. * The PDF layout engine now outputs the basic 14 PDF type 1
fonts. * The code editor pane in various windows (selection criteria,
formulas, etc.) now have a scroll bar and improved layout. Bug fixes: *
Under Windows, the field popup menus wouldn't. They do, now. * Under
certain conditions, the FieldPicker window would not open. * The PDF
layout engine now places text correctly on the page. * When creating a
new image field, if there is an error the error messages will be
displayed correctly. * The LaTeX layout engine now sets the page width
and height properly, instead of always using 8.5 x 11 inches (USA
Letter). It also sets the paper size when using A4, A5, B5, US letter,
US legal, or executive. * The report description text edit box now has
scroll bars when necessary, and won't go bonkers with long description
text. * Escape many XML attributes values so that ampersands and other
characters are output correctly.
Sync4j version 0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239822
The Sync4j team is proud to announce the availability of the first
release of Sync4j. Sync4j is an Open Source SyncML server
implementation, written in Java. Relase notes: Sync4j 0.1 - Culhwch
==================== Welcome to the first release of Sync4j! Main
features: * SyncML 1.1 * Slow synchronization * Two-way synchronization
* One-way synchronization client to server and server to client * Sync
with and without separate initialization * Synchronization engine *
Implemented as a statefull session EJB * Open and extensible
architecture: o Pluggable synchronization engine o Pluggable protocol
support o Pluggable synchronization data sources * HTTP binding * JAAS
compliant security architecture The CVS tag for source code of this
release is culhwch_20021231
decopter-0.2.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239800
A new release of decopter, an unrealistic helicopter simulator, has
been made available. Please enjoy the new look of the landscape,
helicopter model and not-so-realistic physics. Written in C++ with SDL.
PCGen 4.2.5 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239808
PCGen is a Java-based RPG 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.
!!!We're proud to announce the addition of three Creative Mountain
Games supplements!!! Lexus Group Combat, Trundlefolk Culture Class and
County Clergy all make their debut this week in PCGen! On the
outputsheets you'll notice a new block for melee and ranged weapons. We
think you'll like it! For those of you who have created your own
outputsheets, the old tokens should all still work, we've simply added
new functionality and made use of that in the outputsheets included in
the official releases. We always recommend that users install new
versions of PCGen in a 'new' directory. Below is a list of everything
that has been addressed in this release. If you reported one of these,
please verify that it is was addressed properly. PCGen is available at
http://pcgen.sourceforge.net , and the main discussion group is at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen . All three zips are required to
run PCGen: pcgen425_part1of3.zip, pcgen425_part2of3.zip and
pcgen425_part3of3.zip. We've got some OS-specific installs of PCGen to
help those who have trouble installing the generic version available in
our yahoo group files page. Bugs 575438 unarmed proficiency/focus
problem +fix 659292 SA:<text>|<variable> zero value 656981 Error
loading pcg "Invalid PCGen Ver" Features 660927 add DESCISPI: tag
globally 556803 make ADD: tag global 659568 Remove the (#) for repeated
SA tags 657335 SHORTRANGE:x in GameMode 542495 New way to IGNORE 651725
Add COUNT[FEATNAME=something%] 612244 Allow for sub-game modes 524166
Favored Enemy / Special Abilities 635341 New House Rule: no max HD
572405 Vfeat in item customization PCGen:DM Bugs 657947
psionicshandbook pwr lvl wrong: sudden m PCGen:DM New Source Materials
660941 Creative Mountain G - Group Combat 660942 Creative Mountain G -
Trundlefolk Culture Class 660943 Creative Mountain G - County Clergy
PCGen:DM Tag Modification Requests 660922 PHB spells TARGETAREA to new
standard 659282 Evasion and Improved Evasion are now FEATs 660041
Standard abbreviations for DMG Classes PCGenDocs: Output Sheet Bugs
660913 Four attacks don't fit in weapon block 660912 Attack totals
incorrect on new weapon blocks 658271 If CON score ="*" formatting is
off 659924 OpenRPG sheet fails for clerics PCGenDocs: Output Sheet
Feature Requests 660915 Exotic weapons do not fit well in new block
647131 Ranged to hit at < 30 ft 657342 Ranged Weapon Tokens 656350
Prepared spell lists with names on HTML 656348 Turning table on HTML
sheets 645469 All notes exported 634147 Output Familiars To Masters
Char Sheet 657885 Filtering for Rage & Turning 653470 Tokens for Melee
Weapon Block 655962 SPYCRAFT Character Sheet (HTML) 656856 COUNT tokens
The PCGen Development Team
E-Gantt 0.4.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239789
Brand new support for treetables, our implementation is based on
w3c.org's XML Document model. ColumnRenderers and editors have been
changed to take the properties for the Swing look and feel where it is
apropriate. E-Gantt is an enterprise graph and chart drawing component,
which supports basic charting types (most specifically the gantt
chart). a demonstration is available here:
http://www.egantt.com/demo/webapplet.html
IDLEfork 0.9a1 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239788
Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes an extended
debugger. The output of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be
used to inspect the environment after the run has finished. Introduced
the configuration GUI and a new About dialog. Adapted to the Mac
platform. Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements. IDLEfork is an
official experimental branch of Python's Integrated DeveLopment
Environment, IDLE. The biggest change in IDLEfork is to execute Python
code in a separate process, which is /restarted/ for each Run (F5)
initiated from an editor window. This enhancement of IDLE has often
been requested, and is now finally available. The magic "reload/import
*" incantations are no longer required when editing/testing a module
two or three steps down the import chain. The IDLE Debugger has been
extended to support the new design, and its operation will be familiar
to those who have used it previously. The breakpoint feature has been
enhanced, and breakpoints are now persistent across IDLE sessions. When
a module is open in an Edit window, its breakpoints are active. There
is also a new GUI configuration manager which makes it easy to select
fonts, colors, keybindings, and startup options. IDLEfork will be
merged back into the Python distribution in the near future (probably
at 2.3), replacing the current version of IDLE. For this reason we are
interested in getting as much testing time as possible before the
merge.
FileZilla Server 0.8.0 has been released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239676
Another version of this powerful FTP Server has been released. From now
on, FileZilla Server can run as service under WinNT based operating
systems (NT4, 2K and XP). Also, the server interface now runs in a
different process, so that I'll be able to implement remote
administration in the next version. Of course, FileZilla Server still
works well under Win9x (i.e. 95, 98(SE) and ME). Happy new year, Tim
PS: Still reading? OK, here's a list of all changes: new features: -
Separated server from the user interface, interface now runs in its own
process - Sever now runs as service under Windows NT4, 2000 and XP
fixed bugs: - fixed problems with non relative paths and drive letters.
This should also fix the compatibility to some versions of the IE and
other browsers (fixed by TJ Drennan) - fixed crash if a directory did
contain files with a year larger than 2038 - server no longer sometimes
stops responding after issuing shutdown PPS: Don't drink too much ;-)
Slashdot
The Plastic Fractal Magnet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/1844220
[0]bedessen writes "An [1]article at NewsFactor summarizes the
developments in new plastics that exhibit magnetic fields of fractal
dimensions. Whereas a simple bar magnet produces magnetic fields that
go from the north pole to the south pole, the fields of the new hybrid
plastic sprout like branches of a cactus lined with secondary fields
that resemble needles. As these fields become increasingly interlocked,
they exhibit a unique kind of order. This intensely ordered structure
might one day be key to storing information with a very high density.
The researchers behind this are [2]Arthur Epstein, director of the
Center for Materials Research at [3]Ohio State University, and [4]Joel
Miller, a professor of chemistry at the [5]University of Utah. There's
also [6]this PDF overview of the subject, which is quite technical but
still readable."
Links
0. http://www.dessent.net
1. http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20248.html
2. http://www-physics.mps.ohio-state.edu/graduate_brochure/people/epstein.html
3. http://www-physics.mps.ohio-state.edu/~ppl/
4. http://www.chem.utah.edu/chemistry/faculty/miller/miller.html#research
5. http://www.chem.utah.edu/chemistry/faculty/miller/millergroup/main.html
6. http://www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin/2000/nov/Intro.pdf
Radiation Detection Wrist Watch
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/1856211
[0]luigi writes "[1]I4U has this story: vigiWATCH is a newly created
swiss company that offers the smallest, most precise radiation detector
worldwide in a normal size wrist watch. The watch displays current
radioactivity rates from 0.00001mSv/h to 4.00000 mSv/h and cumulative
radioactive dose from 0.001mSv/h to 9999 mSv/h. The precision is +/-
25% over total range. Besides the radioactivity detection, its also
showing the time in a digital and analog display. The watch [2]looks
like a normal casual wrist watch. Hope this watch never becomes
standard equipment for survival on this planet. The watch is sold on
the [3]site for $1100."
Links
0. http://www.i4u.com
1. http://www.i4u.com/
2.
http://www.i4u.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=115&mode=&order=0&thold=0
3. http://www.vigiwatch.com/en/cadre.htm
Star Wars Origami
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/1310204
[0]Obiwan Kenobi writes "This has to be the strangest thing I've run
across in quite awhile. [1]Star Wars Origami features about a dozen
pieces of [2]Star Wars vehicles and characters complete with diagrams
on how to make them yourself. And just when I thought this was an
anomaly, the [3]links section includes all kinds of great Star Wars
Origami, such as [4]this one (dubbed Stare Wares) and [5]this one
featuring a wicked Destroyer Droid complete with the shiny metal
finish."
Links
0. http://www.misterorange.com
1. http://www.happymagpie.com/origami.htm
2. http://www.happymagpie.com/swdiagrm.htm
3. http://www.happymagpie.com/links.htm
4. http://home.istar.ca/~wko/stare_wares.html
5. http://lar.5u.com/oriscifi.htm
William Gibson's Latest Novel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/1851243
[0]crumbz writes "It looks like the grand master of cyberpunk has a new
[1] novel coming out entitled Pattern Recognition. Apparently, reviewer
copies have been making the rounds on [2] ebay and the word on the
street is that it is his best work in years."
Links
0. http://{ten.pop} {ta} {642153liam>maps_evomer<}
1. http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/
2.
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=pattern+recognition
Linux to Become #2 on the Desktop?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/1834256
[0]DiZASTiX writes "An article from Zdnet says Linux on the desktop has
[1]become a reality. It is now possible, for example, to buy a
Linux-based PC (running [2]LindowsOS) from Evesham. In the United
States, Wal-Mart sells machines based on [2]Lindows, [3]Mandrake Linux
and others. But though Linux may have its foot in the door, taking the
next step to becoming a mainstream success is proving a more difficult
proposition."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-979064.html
2. http://www.lindows.com/
3. http://www.mandrake.com/
Discovering New Music?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/223240
[0]captainclever asks: "As an avid music fan, I'm keen on discovering
new artists that I will like. I have discovered a few by listening to
internet radio, and writing down the names of songs that take my fancy.
I had a play with [1]The Digital Music Network, but it was very
intrusive, full of adverts and only worked in Windows. I found it quite
a hard topic to google for as there is so much stuff about music. Has
anyone come accoss a decent system that can suggest some good artists
to me based on my existing listening habbits?" Word of mouth, of
course, is the tried and true method of promoting a new group. Are
there weblogs that allow users to discuss music much like Slashdot
discusses "news"?
Links
0. http://www.audioscrobbler.com
1. http://www.dmn.com/
The NetBSD Organization
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/1651227
A reader writes: "Stumbled across a nice [0]article about how the
NetBSD Project is organized and some interesting ways users can help
out." Good stuff, for those who want to get involved.
Links
0. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200301/netbsdhelp.html
Apple To Charge for Some iApps
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/2149209
[0]randomErr writes "[1]News.com has [2]this story that according to
sources familiar with the plans, Apple is expected to announce at the
Macworld Expo in San Francisco Tuesday that consumers will have to pay
for new versions of iDVD, iPhoto and iMovie. Previously, Apple had
offered upgrades to its digital media, or 'i' applications, for free."
Links
0. mailto:randomErr@eastsid e s t o r y .com
1. http://news.com.com/
2. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-979129.html
Droning On
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/1842203
MagnetarJones writes "Another washingtonpost.com article reports that
Federal regulators have begun considering rules that would allow
drones, the pilotless planes being used in the war in Afghanistan, to
[0]fly in U.S. airspace. Supporters envision the use of drones, also
known as unmanned aerial vehicles, for such tasks as moving cargo,
pinpointing traffic problems, patrolling the border, searching for
fugitives or fighting forest fires..."
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60876-2002Dec31.html
Microsoft's Reaction to OSS Adoption
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/195206
[0]inode_buddha writes "Eric S. Raymond has the eighth "Halloween" memo
[1]available here. It looks like Microsoft is really beginning to
notice the national and corporate movement towards FS/OSS, and is
reacting accordingly."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween8.php
Freshmeat
ALE 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108248/
ALE aligns and merges several similar images from a digitizing device
(such as a digital camera or scanner) into a single image. This may
have the effect of producing a relatively alias-free image (sometimes
called "anti-aliasing").
Ant8 1.5.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108188/
Anthill is a build management server that ensures a controlled build
process and promotes the sharing of knowledge within an organization.
It performs a checkout from the source repository of the latest version
of a project before every build, and tags the repository with a unique
build number after every build. It also automatically updates a project
intranet site with artifacts from the latest build. Anthill is an
extension to the Apache-Ant project and is compatible with version 1.3
and 1.4 of Ant.
apt4rpm 0.63.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108301/
The superb Debian package installer APT has since some time become
available for RPM-based distributions. However, to install RPM packages
with apt, an apt repository is needed. apt4rpm creates the apt
repository from an RPM repository. The rpm repository can be located
locally or remotely. Once the apt repository has been created with
apt4rpm, the apt tools can be used to install RPMs.
asmail 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108277/
Asmail is a "mail-checker" like xbiff, but with the Afterstep
look & feel. It indicates the status of your mailbox. It can be put
in the Wharf, execute program on incoming mail, execute program on
mouseclick, show animations and more...
bMotion 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108269/
bMotion is an AI script for eggdrop bots that gives them a bit of life
and makes them better channel members on IRC. It exposes a plugin
interface, allowing its functionality and behavior to be easily
adjusted and extended with simple (yet powerful) TCL scripts.
BSM Pseudonymizer 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108280/
BSM Pseudonymizer pseudonymizes records from Solaris BSM audit trail
files. Personal data such as user IDs, pathnames, timestamps, etc. is
replaced with pseudonyms so that the generated output doesn't reveal
private information about the system's users, but still preserves a
maximum of integrity and consistency.
Bugzilla 2.17.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108234/
Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system,
with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat, and
NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields,
attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of
changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email,
and console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based
UI. The user UI is customizable using templates.
Bugzilla 2.16.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108233/
Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system,
with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat, and
NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields,
attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of
changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email,
and console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based
UI. The user UI is customizable using templates.
Calculating Pi 2003-01-03 (Ramanujan)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108264/
ProjectPi is a project to calculate the mathematical constant Pi
through various methods.
CheckRDF 34.3333
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108272/
CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program,
for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and
in an HTML file. It is highly configurable.
Class::Date 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108253/
Class::Date provides a date datatype for Perl. You can create new
Class::Date objects with a constructor from different scalar formats,
array refs, and hash refs, and then you can easily manipulate it by the
builtin "+" and "-" operators (e.g.,
$date=date([2001,03,15])+'3Y 1s'). Relative date types also available
CSBuddy 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108243/
CSBuddy is a tool designed to help Counter-Strike server owners,
particularly those running AdminMod. It maintains a queryable database
of all players that have been seen on the server, and it filters the
raw logs of a Counter-Strike server and distills them into a single
CSBuddy log which shows only high-level activity such as excessive
friendly fire incidents, admin activity, and players complaining about
misbehavior or saying suspicious things. This tool is built upon an
included Counter-Strike log file parser which is provided in a simple
derivable class.
dbMan 0.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108287/
dbMan is a complex SQL monitor for common database systems (PgSQL,
Oracle, MySQL etc.). It's based on Perl and DBI interfaces. Features
include a command history buffer, tab completion, editing Oracle
objects, simultaneous connections, SQL help, importing and exporting of
tables, Oracle explain plan, and more. dbMan is made as a simple kernel
and many extension modules, and you can make your modules with a simple
HOWTO.
debian-updates 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108262/
debian-updates is a simple script that sends an email or displays
console messages if any relevant Debian security updates become
available. It is ideal for running from cron.
devaki-nextobjects 0.1-dev
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108211/
Nextobjects is an integrated development tool for Entreprise
Applications. It use Turbine Torque for code generation, and is based
on the Merise method.
DOM Menu 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108218/
DOM Menu allows developers to add dynamic, hierarchical popup menus to
Web pages. Menus can be horizontal or vertical and can open or pop out
in either direction. It features screen edge and element detection for
browsers that cannot hide form elements. Styles are controlled almost
entirely using CSS, and the menus are created and hidden using the
Document Object Model. Configuration is performed using a custom Hash()
class. The menus emulate the look and feel of well known GUI toolkits.
Mozilla, IE 5+ and Opera 7 are supported.
Efisto 0.1.0 (Client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108265/
Efisto (Easy File Send To) enables users to send files to anyone who
has email and Web access. When the sender uploads files with the efisto
client, the recipient gets an email with an URL that can be used to
download the files. It features automatic creation of compressed
archives, download notification, expiration of files, and expiration
notification.
Flakarchiver 0.1alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108256/
Flakarchiver is a application for extracting and creating archives. It
uses the wxWindows GUI library. Win32 and Linux are supported, but can
be easily ported to other platforms. Currently there is read-only
functionability for .rar, .ace, .gz, .bz2, and .zip files.
Folding@home 3.24 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108240/
Folding@home simulates protein folding. We do not entirely understand
how proteins actually operate, but one important step is to study how
proteins self-assemble or "fold." This is an extremely
computationally intensive task since proteins take in the order of
microseconds to milliseconds to fold, yet we can only routinely
simulate over nanosecond to microsecond time scales. This system
provides a new way to simulate protein folding that can break the
millisecond barrier by dividing the work between multiple processors.
Thus, with 1000 processors, we can break the millisecond barrier and
help unlock the mystery of how proteins fold.
Gcount 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108221/
GCount is an attempt to make a solid Web-based counter completely in
PHP. It uses MySQL as its backend to store counter information, and the
GD library to slice up the images on thy fly and display them.
GINI audio streamer 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108299/
GINI is a lightweight icecast/shoutcast compatible streaming server for
broadcasting Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio.
GOBLIN Graph Library 2.5.3b4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108263/
The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large series
of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk
scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user
interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but
provides only basic graph layout methods.
GTK+ Dictionary 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108260/
GTK+ dictionary is a frontend to dictionaries stored in a MySQL server.
Hackbot 2.16 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108259/
Hackbot is a host exploration tool and bannergrabber. It scans numerous
services and vulnerabilities.
jCIFS 0.7.0b12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108268/
jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely
follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes,
batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted
authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file
enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol
handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication,
and more.
jGnash 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108266/
jGnash is a personal finance application written in Java. A JVM of 1.4
or greater is required. jGnash supports basic account types and simple
investment accounts at this time. jGnash has support for split
transactions, nested accounts, and currencies. jGnash can import QIF
files excluding investment accounts and transactions. Data is stored in
an XML format so it is easy to manipulate and read the data external to
the program.
Linux isletme 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108252/
Linux isletme keeps current accounts and stock data for companies. It
is completly console based and uses PostgreSQL development libraries
and Ncurses.
LiveCut 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108222/
LiveCut is a graphical helper for people who have to synchronize
different media sources like audio or video sources, slides, text
transcriptions, while making movies or SMIL presentations. It allows
you to easily mark the time at which events happen, and generates a
simple text file which can be reused either manually or automatically
later (e.g., in an SMIL generator).
obliquid 0.4.3_to_0.4.4 (Upgrades)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108203/
obliquid is a PHP/XML application framework for building groupware Web
portals. Any data which is handled by any module is highly
configurable. It has a core allowing to build pages using templates
blocks, multilingual support and themes. It also has a
users/groups/operation module and a calendar supporting availabilities,
calls, and meetings.
Open Volume Library 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108250/
The OpenVL library is a framework for working with 3D volumetric
datasets. It provides a standard and uniform API to volumetric data
access, storage, and processing. It is designed and built to be fast,
extensible, flexible, and easy to use. The library is completely
open-sourced and encourages contribution. This library is an ideal
choice if you want to write applications that deal with 3D volumes.
Perl Shell 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108244/
The Perl Shell (psh) combines aspects of bash and other shells with the
power of Perl scripting. It aspires to be your primary login shell.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108282/
phpQLAdmin was designed to administer a qmail-ldap server with an
easy-to-use Web interface. It allows you to control the server with the
qmail-ldap/control patch, to add/remove domains, to add/remove/edit
users, to change the attributes for all domain members, and to set the
password, quota, mailhost, mail addresses, alias addresses, forwarders,
and more. The application's language is configurable (except for the
control part), and it currently contains translations for English,
German, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, and Japanese.
pyrad 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108279/
pyrad is an implementation of a RADIUS client as described in RFC2865.
It takes care of all the details like building RADIUS packets, sending
them and decoding responses.
Retail Auto Auction 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108297/
Retail Auto Auction provides a complete network-based Point-of-Sale
software solution for an auto auction company. The program currently
interfaces with a MySQL database and it can be installed on any number
of machines that act as clients and connect to the database. In
addition to tracking buyers/consignors, vehicles, and sales, the
program includes powerful and extensible reporting capabilities. For
instance, reports on buyer participation, vehicle history, car lists,
etc. are available and can be exported use with a spreadsheet. Contract
printouts are generated for a dot matrix printer suitable for
triplicate form printing. Retail Auto Auction is written in Python and
Qt.
RPC::XML 0.46
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108254/
RPC::XML is a set of classes in Perl for implementing XML-RPC services
both from the client side and the server side. Included are classes for
writing clients, writing stand-alone servers (using the HTTP::Daemon
class of LWP or the Net::Server class for transport implementation), or
implementing a server as an Apache/mod_perl location handler.
Seed Spambots 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108275/
Seed Spambots generates HTML pages and email addresses for spambots,
sending them to a honeypot SMTP server which reports checksum data to
various clearinghouses and gathers other spam statistics.
SH-News 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108216/
SH-News is a very powerful PHP/MySQL news script. It has more options
than any other news script. Users have 17 user rights, and comments are
optional (and can be shut down or closed). It is easy to handle and
individual layouts can be added easily.
Shed 1.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108289/
Shed (simple hex editor) is a hex editor written for Unix/Linux using
ncurses, with a friendly pico-style interface. It shows data in ASCII,
hex, dec, oct, and binary, and allows editing in all of these bases.
Features also include searching and dumping.
Siege 2.57b3 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108296/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a
single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can
read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program
reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response
time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1
protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and
basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user
basis.
Skaringa r1p6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108251/
Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform
Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema
definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting
a wide range of types, and speed.
Sophie 1.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108300/
Sophie is a daemon which uses 'libsavi' library from Sophos anti virus
vendor ( http://www.sophos.com ). On startup, Sophie initializes SAPI
(Sophos Anti-Virus Interface), loads virus patterns into memory, opens
local UNIX domain socket, and waits for someone to connect and
instructs it which path to scan. Since the database is loaded in RAM,
scanning is very fast. (Note: speed of scanning also depends on SAVI
settings and size of the file.) It works on Linux, Solaris (Sparc/x86),
HP-UX, and FreeBSD. It was made as a part of 'Virge' project, which is
a mail/attachment/virus scanning tool, written in C.
ThemeChanger 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108212/
ThemeChanger switches your theme in Mac OS X. It currently supports
.theme and .dlta (AKA tpkg2).
TinyLogin 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108270/
TinyLogin is a suite of tiny UNIX utilities for handling logins, user
authentication, changing passwords, and otherwise maintaining users and
groups on an embedded system. It also provides shadow password support
to enhance system security. TinyLogin is, as the name implies, very
small, and makes an excellent addition to an embedded system.
UgLy Game Search Engine rc 8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108261/
The UgLy Game Search Engine quickly searches the network for game
servers, and then lists them in a qstat-formatted file and html for use
by other programs, such as Server Query and Gametrakker. The script
itself uses very little memory and bandwidth and will happily run in
the background. It supports games such as Quake 1/2/3, Unreal, Jedi
Knight 2, Half Life, and many more.
UGS3D 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108285/
UGS3D is a base framework to build 3D applications. Based on open API's
such as OpenGL and SDL, it provides a high abstraction layer for 3D
developers. It features animated models, volumetric shadows, procedural
trees, camera effects, reflective water, particle systems, and more.
webadmin.php 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108291/
webadmin.php is a simple Web-based file manager that is useful for
applying changes to a Web account quickly and without FTP access. It
can show, create, delete, and move files and directories, copy, edit
and upload files, help to manage htaccess and htpasswd, and change
permissions of files and folders. webadmin.php only consists of one
file, and has multi-language support.
weDBmail 0.0pl9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108294/
weDBmail is a Web-based frontend to the dbmail project. It is designed
to directly interface with the backend and implement a full-featured
mail client.
X Messenger 1.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108232/
X Messenger is a messenger client for Linux built in Tcl/Tk. It is a
clone of amsn.
xmlenc 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108303/
xmlenc is a light-weight XML encoding library for Java. It fills the
gap between a light-weight parser like SAX, and a heavy-weight XML
output library, like JDOM.
Zmanim 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108245/
Zmanim is a software package that computes zmanim, the times (according
to Jewish law) by which an observant Jew must complete specific
prayers.
Zorbstats 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108258/
ZorbStats is a simple Web statistics generator using PHP and MySQL. It
is simple to install an features visitor logs, browser stats, OS stats,
and number of visits. It also allows you to search all logs.
Slashcode
Environment.pm does not report "database not c
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/1832222
I had my slash site working a while back and now it is not. I am
running Suse 7.3 with a 2.4.10 kernel. Apache and mod perl seem to be
installed: [Thu Jan 2 15:39:33 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)
mod_perl/1.27 configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Jan 2
15:39:33 2003] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem) Some
odd things:
Odd tag behavour
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/2020255
I've added the IMG and SRC to the list of allowed tags in the var for
that at geekizoid - problem is, it still doesn't allow those in
comments - did I miss something? Slashd and apache have been restarted.
--Pinkerton Floyd
Best Practices for Secure Remote Admin?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1821256
What are best practices for securely administering a Slash site over
the Web? I'm trying to use SSL for the purpose, which would be ideal,
but I'm meeting with only limited success. There appears to be a bug in
the user login code that keeps flipping the browser back to the non-SSL
index. Is it just me, or am I barking up the wrong administrative tree?
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.
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