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Sourceforge
Xplanner 0.3.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242282
XPlanner is a Web-based project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme
Programming (XP) teams. XPlanner is implemented using Java, JSP, and
Struts. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Changes: This
version of XPlanner adds an extensive SOAP interface for accessing data
and functionality. SOAP usage examples in Perl and PHP are provided.
This version also features additional languages and improved I18N
support.
AntRunner 1.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242483
AntRunner is an OpenTool for JBuilder 4 to 8 to use Ant within the IDE.
The 1.6 release contains feature enhancements and bug fixes. This
release was coming earlier as I thought. AntRunner 1.5 was not running
on JBuilder 8. Thus I had to make some changes to support this release
of JBuilder. I had not much time to test this release. Hope it works
fine, nevertheless. Main changes are: - support of spaces in target
names - own action group for antrunner - refactoring of communication
with ANT using sockets - own loggers are now possible - corrected typo
in resources that caused a MessageFormatException - removed a trailing
file string in the filename in a message
SnipSnap release 0.3.2a
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242504
Version 0.3.2a of SnipSnap has been released. SnipSnap is a Java-based
personal content management system based on weblog and wiki
technologies. It's intended for desktop use, but can be deployed on
servers. SnipSnap differs from other weblog and wiki tools as it is
focused on easy installation.
ircu2.10.11.04 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242387
Undernet's IRC daemon, verision 2.10.11.04 has been released. This is a
stable release and fixes some minor presentation bugs, as well as
adding a couple of minor features.
System Configurator 2.0.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242461
System Configurator 2.0.4 has been released. This is a minor feature
enhancement that also fixes time zone support. System Configurator is a
utility for automatically configuring networking and bootstrapping in a
Linux Distribution and Architecture agnostic way. For more info check
the release notes at
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=24006&release_id
=132630
MH-E 7.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241722
MH-E is the GNU Emacs front end for MH. Version 7.1 includes the new
features of multiple identities and alias completion, and indexed
searching has been revamped. Various other features have been added and
a few bugs were fixed. Read on for more details. Project home page at:
http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/. * Changes in MH-E 7.1 This release
includes the new features of multiple identities and alias completion.
In addition, indexed searching has been revamped. Various other
features have been added and a few bugs were fixed. ** New Features in
MH-E 7.1 *** Multiple Identities MH-E now supports multiple identities
(closes SF #628782). That means that you can have different From and
Organization header fields (or any other header field of your choice)
as well as different signatures depending on your context. Usually, the
contexts are home and work. Add your identities to the variable
`mh-identity-list' and set the default identity with the variable
`mh-identity-default'. Your identity can be switched on the fly by
using the Identity menu or by calling "M-x mh-insert-identity RET".
This functionality can be customized within the mh-identity group. ***
Alias Completion and Harvesting The contributed file mh-alias.el has
been rewritten and incorporated into MH-E. By default, aliases are
culled from the system files "/etc/nmh/MailAliases,"
"/usr/lib/mh/MailAliases," and "/etc/passwd" (see
`mh-alias-system-aliases') and from your "AliasFile" MH profile
component. These aliases are then used for completion in the minibuffer
when entering addresses. Within the header of the message draft, "M-TAB
(mh-letter-complete)" is used to do alias completion. The package also
provides for alias creation based upon the From header field of the
current message. Use the lasso button (mh-alias-grab-from-field). This
functionality can be customized within the mh-alias group. *** Index
Folder Updates The results of an index search "F i (mh-index-search)"
are now stored in a bona fide folder so that you can refile messages
and reply to messages directly from the result folder. This folder is a
sub-folder of +mhe-index and the name is based upon the search string
(closes SF #623321). If a prefix argument is given then the search in
the current index buffer is redone. The index folder lists the names of
the source folders as before. However, instead of using RET on the name
of the folder to visit the folder, use "v (mh-show-index-visit-folder)"
anywhere within the results to visit that folder narrowed to the
results of the search. Additional functions have been added to navigate
including "TAB (mh-index-next-folder)", and "SHIFT-TAB
(mh-index-previous-folder)." *** mh-visit-folder Interface Updated A
change was made to the prompting of the message range. In general, you
can use the same format for messages and sequences as you can in MH
with a single exception: a single number means to scan that many
messages, rather than scan that message number. This turns out to be
much more useful than visiting a single message and is consistent with
Gnus and the MH-E speedbar (closes SF #655891). If mh-visit-folder is
called non-interactively and RANGE is nil then all messages are
displayed. This behavior is now documented and provides backwards
compatibility. *** Threading Improvements After incorporating new mail
into a threaded folder, unseen messages can be spread about. Two new
functions have been added to make it easier to find them: these are
"M-n (mh-next-unread-msg)" and "M-p (mh-previous-unread-msg)" (closes
SF #630328) Two new functions were added to delete and refile threads.
They are "T d (mh-thread-delete)" and "T o (mh-thread-refile)"
respectively (closes SF #630493). In addition, the key "k" used to be
bound to the function `mh-delete-subject': it is now bound to
`mh-show-delete-subject-or-thread'. New functions to navigate threads
include "T u (mh-thread-ancestor)", which can jump to the root message
of the current thread given an optional argument, "T n
(mh-thread-next-sibling)", and "T p (mh-thread-previous-sibling)" ***
Refiling of Messages in Region If mark is active and
`transient-mark-mode' is enabled then all the messages in the region
are refiled. *** vCard Handling If a signature cannot be identified,
but there is a vCard attachment, then that vCard will be presented as a
signature (closes SF #649216). *** New Info Added to mh-version
Information about Gnus versions available at both compile time and run
time has been added. ** New Variables in MH-E 7.1 The defcustom groups
were reorganized. Rather than iterate the specific changes here, you
are invited to browse the groups with "M-x mh-customize RET". ***
mh-alias-completion-ignore-case-flag Non-nil means don't consider case
significant in MH alias completion. This is the default in plain MH, so
it is the default here as well. It can be useful to set this to t if,
for example, you use lowercase aliases for people and uppercase for
mailing lists. *** mh-alias-expand-aliases-flag Non-nil means to expand
aliases entered in the minibuffer. In other words, aliases entered in
the minibuffer will be expanded to the full address in the message
draft. By default, this expansion is not performed. ***
mh-alias-flash-on-comma Specify whether to flash the translation of the
alias or warn if there isn't a translation of the alias. ***
mh-alias-insert-file Filename to use to store new MH-E aliases. This
variable can also be a list of filenames, in which case MH-E will
prompt for one of them. If nil, the default, then MH-E will use the
first file found in the "AliasFile" component of the MH profile. ***
mh-alias-insertion-location Specifies where new aliases are entered in
alias files. Options are sorted alphabetically (the default), at the
top of the file or at the bottom. *** mh-alias-local-users If t, local
users are completed in MH-E To: and Cc: prompts. If you set this
variable to a string, it will be executed to generate a password file.
A value of "ypcat passwd" is helpful if NIS is in use. ***
mh-alias-system-aliases A list of system files from which to cull
aliases. If these files are modified, they are automatically reread.
This list need include only system aliases and the passwd file, since
personal alias files listed in your "AliasFile" MH profile component
are automatically included. *** mh-identity-default Default identity to
use when `mh-letter-mode' is called. *** mh-identity-list List holding
MH-E identity. *** mh-invisible-header-fields Simple user interface to
change `mh-invisible-headers'. *** mh-letter-complete-function Function
to call when completing outside of fields specific to aliases. By
default, it is bound to 'ispell-complete-word. *** mh-show-threads-flag
Non-nil means new folders start in threaded mode. Threading large
number of messages can be time consuming. So if the flag is non-nil
then threading will be done only if the number of messages being
threaded is less than `mh-large-folder' (closes SF #646794). ***
mh-tool-bar-folder-buttons Buttons to include in MH-E folder/show
toolbar. *** mh-tool-bar-letter-buttons Buttons to include in MH-E
letter toolbar. ** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.1 *** mh-get-new-mail Call new
function `mh-add-cur-notation' to undo the work of
`mh-remove-cur-notation' if there was no new mail (closes SF #647681).
*** mh-set-cmd-note No longer updates the default `mh-cmd-note' value.
This resulted in the misplacement of the current mark when the message
number width changed (closes SF #643701).
leafnode 1.9.32 (stable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242154
Leafnode is a caching Usenet news proxy that enables online newsreaders
to read news off-line. It is designed for zero (full-automatic)
maintenance. 1.9.32 is another release in the leafnode-1.9 maintenance
series. It fixes some long-standing bugs on Solaris and packaging
errors, and copes with maxage that's set too large in the config file.
decopter-0.2.9 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242188
decopter is an unrealistic SDL/OpenGL helicopter simulator. 0.2.9 is a
bugfix release, including performance enhancements.
phpPgAds 2 rc 2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242187
phpPgAds is a Postgres port of phpAdsNew, a banner management and
tracking system written in PHP. Currently it can manage multiple
banners (any size) per client, view daily, overall and summary
statistics and send statistics to clients via email. As you may know
phpAdsNew 2 rc 1 was released some days ago, and rc 2 was released
yesterday. I haven't been able to find the time needed to release the
first candidate for phpPgAds, so I skipped to the second :) phpPgAds 2
rc 2 is fully up to date with the same phpAdsNew release. On the
Postgres side, support for 7.3 has been added, even if it needs some
further testing... Regards -- Matteo
ocamlsdl release 0.6.1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242066
OCamlSDL is an OCaml interface to the SDL (Simple Media Layer) library.
It might be used to write multimedia applications in ML. Changes for
this release include two new code examples (sdlgears.ml, showfont.ml),
functions move to module Sdlgl, and compiles with the Mingw port of
ocaml.
Slashdot
IBM's OS/2 Strategy for 2003
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1747258
[0]Landreth writes "[1]OS2World.com reports that IBM has released their
OS/2 strategy for 2003. They appear to be pushing the [2]WebSphere
Software Platform as well as client and server upgrades to Warp 4. The
report can be viewed at [3]IBM's website."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.os2world.com/
2. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/#Header_3
3. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/
Gentlemen, Hack Your Engines!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/0120249
[0]Les Gasser writes "Ahh, drag racing! If you've never experienced the
scent of nitro or the flashing flames of a top fueler running 320MPH+
in 4+ seconds in a standing-start quarter mile run at dusk, you're
missing world-class performance art. (See '[1]High Performance' for the
classic on drag racing history and culture). Now the NYTimes
(registration needed) has '[2]Gentlemen, Start Hacking Your Engines,'
an article on 're-engineering' engine control computers for maximum
performance, combining the drag racing and tech-geek traditions."
Having learned everything I know about racing from Gran Turismo, I'm
amazed to learn there's more than just buying a "racing chip".
Links
0. http://gasser at uiuc.edu
1.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801866642/qid=1042127346/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-8555487-3531868?v=glance&s=books
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/technology/circuits/09rods.html?8hpib
Detailed Preview of Masters of Orion 3
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/2013242
garibald writes "Constantine, the head developer, promised that there
would be a detailed preview of the game this week, and [0]here it is at
[1]Apolyton. Constantine also said the game was in it's final
regression testing. Here's hoping that the game will be out by the end
of this month." Oh, Lordie, if I counted the hours I spent playing MOO
and MOO2 - I'm really looking forward to this one.
Links
0. http://apolyton.net/moo3/preview/part1_players.php
1. http://apolyton.net/
HP Unveils Its Digital Media Receiver
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/0035249
strictnein writes "Looks like HP is [0]getting into the media box
market. Today they introduced their new [1]HP Digital Media Receiver
5000 series. Some of the key specs are: Wireless networking support (on
the ew5000 model), S-Video and composite video output, and MP3 and WMA
support. The OS support is limited to Windows ME or XP. This is an
interesting addition to their Windows Media Center based 863N, 873N,
and 883N desktop models."
Links
0. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2003/030109a.html
1. http://www.hpinfolab.com/resources/digitalreceivers/pdf/hpDMR5000ds.pdf
Put The Demoscene In Your DVD Player
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/189218
[0]Jason Scott writes "With the recent [1]story on slashdot about a big
demo party, it might be good to let everyone know about the absolutely
incredible [2]Mind Candy DVD, where a very dedicated group of people
from "the scene" have spent two years painstaking recovering demos from
obscurity, finding the old 286 and 386 hardware, installing the needed
(obsolete) cards, and capturing them perfectly in full digital glory.
They also have information on what exactly the "[3]scene" is, in case
you've missed this incredibly creative use of computers from the past
20 years. This whole process cost them thousands of dollars and untold
hours. Check it out, see what you missed... or never forgot."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1848246&tid=162
2. http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
3. http://www.mindcandydvd.com/scene
Tallest Roller Coaster in the World
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1540230
[0]Coaster Art Guy writes "[1]Cedar Point amusement park unveiled the
tallest roller coaster in the world today. [2]Top Thrill Dragster
launches you from 0 to 120 MPH in 4 seconds via a hydraulic launch.
[3]The dragster looking like cars take you straight up a 420 foot
tower, into a top hat element, and twists you 270 degrees straight
down. All in about 20 seconds from start to finish. How about that one?
Also check out the POV video [4]here Quicktime or [5]here Windows Media
Player."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cedarpoint.com/
2. http://www.cedarpoint.com/ttd
3. http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/inside_park/rides/thrill/_ttd/photo/train.cfm
4.
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/inside_park/rides/thrill/_ttd/video/videos/Dragster-Hi.mov
5.
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/inside_park/rides/thrill/_ttd/video/dragster.wmx
Google Responds to SearchKing's Lawsuit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/005234
The Importance of writes "Back in October, SearchKing sued Google for
reducing SearchKing's pagerank, as [0]previously reported. Now, Google
has filed a [1]reply and a [2]motion to dismiss. [3]LawMeme has both
documents as well as [4]analysis."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/21/1254221&tid=99
1. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=4
2. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=5
3. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/
4. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=807
Slashback: Embed, Dougal, FireWire
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/05/2151253
Slashback this evening brings you a few corrections, updates,
amplifications and reversals -- read on for more on the Xbox key
cracking project, the new version of FireWire, and more.
Urban Exploration Walkware
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1658244
[0]wilfriedhoujebek writes "The Dutch Group [1]Social Fiction has been
experimenting with walking on algorithms for [2]some time now. Under
the heading ".walk" they are taking the thing one step further by
introducing pseudo-software to determine the route of their walks. [3]
They explain how this works and how different .walk can be connected
together to form a 'pedestrian computer'. You might want to read the
[4]postscript first."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.socialfiction.org/
2. http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/newbies.html
3. http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/dummies.html
4. http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/walkpostcript.html
Inside Symantec's 'Security Center'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1649246
[0]dipfan writes "There's a fascinating view looking at [1]Symantec's
Virginia security centre, where the company defends its corporate
clients' networks against those wicked hackers. Scary quote from the
Washington Post article: 'The Alexandria facility is a private,
miniature version of the kind of public Internet-monitoring capability
the Bush administration wants the federal government to develop to
protect the nation's electronic infrastructure.'"
Links
0. http://{dipfan} {at} {yahoo.com}
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28625-2003Jan8.html
Freshmeat
31337 recoder 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108980/
31337 recoder is versatile recoding program. Its purpose is encoding
text and data to non-human-readable forms and decoding from these
forms. It supports Base64, ROT, escaped hex, and octal. It can also
recode single bytes to any numeric system from binary to 36-ary.
A Simple Hack 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108873/
A Simple Hack is a lightweight theme with a background made by the
bsetroot -mod command and colors that imitate a well-known Artwiz
theme. It is light and cool for your desktop.
A-A-P 0.116
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108982/
The goal for A-A-P is to make it easy to locate, download, and install
software. Additionally, it supports making changes to a program and
managing different versions that exist in the world, making it useful
both for users and for developers. It uses a recipe that is similar to
a Makefile, but with many enhancements, such as integrated Python
script support, support for Internet access, and version control. An
IDE will be provided that integrates your favorite editor, debugger,
and other tools.
Amaya 7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108950/
Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes
equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface. It lets users both browse
and author valid Web pages, with standards including (X)HTML, native
MathML, and SVG documents. It also includes a collaborative annotation
application (RDF).
Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.7.3RC-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108925/
Arno's IPTABLES firewall script was originally derived from Seven's
(single-homed) IPTABLES script. The biggest differences are that this
script has support for dual-homed machines, support for masquerading
(NAT), support for ethernet ADSL/DSL modems (for both static and
dynamically assigned IPs), support for all IP protocols, and support
for IPSEC (Freeswan). It also features (stealth) portscan detection,
extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to prevent log
flooding, port forwarding, optimizing the throughput of your internet
connection, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding (DoS attacks), and
much more. It's easy to configure and highly customizable. It
additionally includes a filter script (fwfilter) to make your firewall
log more readable.
AWStats 5.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108959/
Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful Web server logfile
analyzer (Perl script) that shows you all your Web statistics including
visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, search engines,
keywords used to find your site, robots, broken links, and more. It
works with both IIS 5.0+ and Apache Web server log files as a CGI
and/or from the command line. It also supports multiple languages
including English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and
Greek.
Bochs-Tools 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108926/
Bochs-Tools is a collection of scripts and programs to be used together
with the Bochs emulator. The main goal is to provide a more Unix-like
interface to the emulator and to enable access to Bochs disk images
from outside of Bochs. This project makes it very simple to copy an
existing OS installation to a Bochs image (as long as Linux has write
access to the relevant file system).
cgiPop 0.9.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108968/
cgiPop is a Web-based POP e-mail reader written in C. It features the
ability to read, reply, forward and delete e-mail as well as to
view/download MIME parts using the POP protocol. It uses CSS and HTML
4.0 for the look and feel, and has no external dependencies beyond the
GCGI library with which it is distributed.
curl and libcurl 7.10.3 pre-release 4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108938/
curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It
supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER,
as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers,
passwords, portnumbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is
powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are
bindings/interfaces to libcurl for more than a dozen languages and
environments.
CvsKnit 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108969/
CvsKnit allows knitting up a CVS Repository from existing source
packages with their original release dates. If you have non-CVS-managed
packages and want to start revision management with CVS, this maybe
useful.
DOmain Tracking Made Easy 0.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108965/
Dotme allows you to easily configure domains at your site. It touches
bind and sendmail config files and reloads them for the changes to take
effect. It's written in C, has a MySQL DB backend, and a web interface
written in PHP. By design Dotme should work in a multiuser environment.
It lacks some things such as a configure script and some bells and
whistles but it does its job.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108928/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web
interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with
the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be
categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on
these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new
entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C
program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in
plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
EmPy 2.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108933/
EmPy is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in
template text. it processes source files using expansions, which are
special signals that are set off by a special prefix (by default the @
sign). It can expand arbitrary Python expressions and statements, as
well as a variety of special forms. The remaining data is sent
unaffected to the output, allowing Python to be used as a markup
language. It also supports "hook" callbacks, recording and
playback via diversions, and dynamic, chainable filters. The system is
highly configurable via command line options and embedded commands.
ftpcopy 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108951/
ftpcopy is a small mirror-like utility to copy files or directory trees
with FTP. ftpcopy understands EPLF and traditional listing formats.
GXMame 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108937/
GXMame is a frontend for XMame which uses the GTK library to provide
the same GUI as mame32. It can control xmame with almost all options.
HTTPeek 0.9.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108922/
HTTPeek is a proxy server that can be run locally to view the contents
of both HTTP and HTTPS requests and their responses as they are sent
between browsers and servers. It features a GUI and is useful for
debugging HTTP-based applications.
IceWM Menu Config 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108960/
IceWM Menu Config is a GUI menu configuration program for IceWm. It is
based on QT 3.1.0-free. Cut and paste is available.
Java+ Preprocessor 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108952/
Java+ is a Java preprocessor that adds its features to any Java
compiler. It has long, multi-line strings with executable inclusions
like Perl or Ruby, optionally segregates Java+ strings into
ResourceBundle files, eliminates the need for JSP or ASP and their
implied need for Java compilers on deployment servers (a security
concern), and adds absolutely no overhead in either space or time.
There are graphical and command line interfaces, and a simple, general,
and recursive string syntax.
Jconsole 1.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108944/
Jconsole is a JMX console for JBoss that provides a pre-built Web
client for the JBoss application server. It deploys the JMX features of
JBoss.
Jigsaw 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108940/
Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform, providing a sample
HTTP 1.1 implementation based on RFC2616 and a variety of other
features on top of an advanced architecture implemented in Java. Jigsaw
provides both client and server HTTP/1.1 implementations, is fast, easy
to extend, flexible, and is also packaged as a ready-to-run HTTP/1.1
proxy-cache.
JSch 0.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108957/
JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to
an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer,
etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.
Konstruct 20030109
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108947/
Konstruct is a build system which helps you install KDE releases and
applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs,
checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds, and
installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as
"cd meta/kde;make install". Optionally, you can install
additional applications like KOffice, KDevelop, or Quanta (for example,
"cd apps/koffice;make install").
libxml++ 0.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108943/
libxml++ is a C++ interface for working with XML files, using libxml
(gnome-xml) to parse and write the actual XML files. It has a simple
but complete API.
Linux 2.5.55 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108929/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
Loggerithim 6.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108979/
Loggerithim is a monitoring package. It allows you to monitor your
systems graphically, proactively spot problems, perform postmortems,
throw alerts when bad things happen, predict future needs, and automate
routine administration tasks.
Logrep 1.2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108941/
Logrep is a secure multi-platform framework for the collection,
extraction, and presentation of information from various log files. It
features HTML reports, 2D analysis, overview pages, SSH communication,
and graphs, and supports more than 10 popular systems including Snort,
Squid, Postfix, Apache, syslog, iptables/ipchains, NT event logs,
Firewall-1, and Pix.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.9.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108962/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an
indefinite number of filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs,
socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application.
It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem
switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem
calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are
implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local
filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a
huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility
is most important.
LyX 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108981/
LyX is an advanced document processor for Unix. It encourages an
approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
appearance, allowing you to concentrate on writing rather than visual
layout. It automates formatting according to predefined rule sets,
yielding consistency throughout even the most complex documents.
MiddleMan 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108946/
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to
remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like
configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to
filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies
to and from certain sites, redirect requests, forward requests through
another proxy using NTLM or Basic authentication, block inappropiate
content using a keyword scoring system, and manipulate the contents of
files using either its builtin rewrite feature or an external program
or script. It fully implements the HTTP/1.1 protocol, including
persistent connections and gzip encoding.
Minimum Profit 3.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108976/
Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features small
memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive
help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file
editing, ctags support, word wrapping, and more. It can be compiled for
Linux / Unix (console), GTK, and MS Windows.
Monokons Icons for KDE 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108907/
Monokons is a preview of a collection of icons for KDE. There are only
a few icons included, but they should give you a feel for what to
expect.
Nautilus WebGallery 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108956/
Nautilus WebGallery is a script for Nautilus that takes selected image
files and generates a gallery from them. It uses Nautilus Metafile info
for image comments and can use custom HTML files.
ncps 0.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108954/
ncps is an ncurses based process-killer inspired by gPS. It can sort
processes according to certain criteria and display processes in tree
format. This program is written for Linux.
No-install Unix Tools for Windows 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108754/
No-install Unix Tools for Windows is a collection of 18 of the most
useful Cygwin tools packaged into a single 1.1MB (floppy sized) EXE
file that runs without any installation process. Simply running the
executable instantly creates a Unix environment for Windows, without
making any persistent changes to the underlying system. It includes
bash, less, gzip, grep, find, df, du, ls, cat, cp, mv, ps, rmdir,
mkdir, rm, pwd, and tar.
obliquid 0.4.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108948/
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.
Openglad 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108923/
Openglad is an SDL port of an old DOS game called Gladiator, which was
developed by FSGames in the mid 90's. It is a top-down gauntlet-style
RPG in which you hire team mates, go on missions, and improve your team
with the spoils you reap. It can be played by up to 4 players (using
split-screen), and features many classes, special abilities, and a
scenario editor.
PhpCommander 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108924/
PhpCommander is a Web-based file manager that manages Web accounts
without FTP access. It can create directories, create files, copy,
move, delete, and rename files and folders, upload files, download
files, view and edit the contents of the files, and communicate in
English and other languages.
pppcounter 0.2 (pppcounter, v0.2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108963/
The pppcounter is subproject of the pppcost project. The general
function of the pppcounter is to save the begin and finish times of the
connection to a log file, and to act as a tool library for cost
calculation. It includes a time logger, tool library, cost calculator,
and a configuration file maker.
QMetro 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108881/
QMetro is a tiny application which helps musicians stay in rhythm while
playing their instruments. It uses the internal PC speaker to generate
tones and can switch between 4/4 and 3/4.
recoverdm 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108975/
recoverdm is a program that helps to recover disks with bad sectors.
Files can be recovered as well as complete devices. If it finds sectors
which simply cannot be recovered, it writes an empty sector to the
output file and continues, unlike cat (which would abort) or dd (which
would skip a sector, making the output unusable).
Sauron 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108953/
Sauron is a free DNS/DHCP management system with Web and command line
interfaces. It is able to manage multiple DNS/DHCP servers. Complete
dhcpd and named configurations are generated from a central SQL
database.
SILC 0.9.11 (Client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108927/
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides
secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send
any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This
includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All
messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and
messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES,
SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the
IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC
Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application
developers.
Sulk 0.26-snapshot-20020109
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108983/
Sulk aims to duplicate the gameplay of the first edition of the Space
Hulk board game. It features support for two players.
SWH Plugins 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108970/
SWH Plugins are a set of audio plugins for the LADSPA plugin system.
vhost 3.04r1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108931/
vHost is a one-step solution for all virtual hosting needs. It enables
a Linux/BSD server with single or multiple IP addresses to handle
unlimited Web/FTP/email domains. It comes with both command-line and
Web-based graphical user interface, which gives maximum control to a
domain's owner, while relieving the system administrator of most
routine administration tasks. The latest version also offers a
"clustering" capability.
W3Perl 2.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108942/
W3Perl is a Web logfile analyser. All major Web stats are available
(referer, agent, session, error, etc.). Reports are fully customisable
via configuration files, and there is an administration interface
control available.
WebConference LiveHelp! 2.5-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108977/
WebConference LiveHelp! is a Web-enabled suite of customer care tools
designed for use with Web sites and private intranets. The LiveHelp
suite of tools includes a feature-rich one-on-one customer service chat
environment, searchable chat transcript knowledge base, real-time Web
site visitor tracking and pro-active invitation tool, a Web-enabled
shared email system for answering customer service email, and a
feedback collection and reporting tool. Advanced features include
support for multiple "call queues", seamless redundancy and
load balancing, direct uploads (from your desktop to the customer), and
reporting tools.
WebWindow 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108939/
WebWindow is a Web browsing Java component and application. It allows a
developer to directly display HTML in a Java application without the
need to use a native Web browser.
Whoisdomaincheckup 3.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108934/
Whoisdomaincheckup is a Web-based (PHP) application that can check the
registration status of a domain name. In particular, it can check
whether a domain name is currently free for registration. It doesn't
use any exec or system commands, but instead uses the fopen command to
access the Whois servers.
Worm Warner 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108936/
WormWarner is a Perl script that is used to warn hosts that are
probably infected by a worm. It decides wether a host is infected by
analyzing the data from the Apache log files. It currently recognizes
CodeRed, Nimda, the Linux.Slapper.Worm, and the FreeBSD.Scalper.worm.
Warning is done by trying to contact the SMTP server on the infected
host and sending an email to the postmaster.
xmlenc 0.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108935/
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.
Yet another nV Configurator 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108966/
YanC (Yet another nV Configurator) is a small tool which you can use to
change the nVidia-specific settings (almost) as easily as with the
Windows drivers. You can edit the settings for the AGP-Support, the
Cursor Shadow, the nVidia-Logo, for Digital Vibrance Control and, of
course, TwinView. Furthermore, YanC offers the possibility to run your
OpenGL applications (e.g., games) with your favourite settings for
antialiasing, anisotropic texture filtering, and vsync to blank without
difficult commandline operations.
zengpan's mail system 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108955/
zengpan's mail system is a very tiny and simple mail system.
Zool Linux 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108945/
Zool Linux is a project whose goal is to assist in making Linux
mini-distributions.
Slashcode
Problems installing slash / DBIx::Password
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1949227
I'm trying to get Slash working on a Redhat 8.0 box. My problem seems
to be centered around getting DBIx::Password to work. Running: perl
-MCPAN -e "install 'DBIx::Password'" Eventually results in: Bundle
summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::Slash had installation
problems: Digest::MD5 MIME::Base64 Bundle::LWP DBIx::Password Template
and the following items had problems during recursive bundle calls: LWP
Running: perl -MCPAN -e "install 'DBIx::Password'" I get something
like: install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC
(@INC contains: blib/lib blib/arch
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-m ulti
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread -multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at (eval
1) line 3. I've tried this on two Redhat 8.0 boxes. I haven't seen a
lot of stuff like this on google. Any suggestions on what I'm doing
wrong? I have all the gory details at
http://www.simpson.edu/~craven/error.html
DevChannel
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2022224
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.
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.
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