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Sourceforge
JGAP 0.32 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244075
JGAP is a genetic algorithms package written in Java. It is designed to
require minimum effort to use "out of the box," but is also designed to
be highly modular to allow for custom components to be easily plugged
in by the more adventurous. JGAP 0.32 is a maintenance release that
primarily includes optimizations to increase performance and reduce
memory consumption. Minor enhancements and fixes, as well as additions
to the documentation, are also included. Please see the Changelog for
details. JGAP 0.32 is considered an alpha release and is therefore not
feature-complete and may contain bugs.
EasySok 0.3.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244037
EasySok is a sokoban game for KDE. It is themeable, has a level editor
and a solver, various import/export functions, a retro mode and other
nice features. This is just a bugfix release for users of gcc 3.2. If
you could compile EasySok 0.3.1, there is no need to switch to this new
version.
KRadio 0.2.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244060
KRadio is a radio application for KDE3. It has support for video4linux
radio devices and lirc remote control. Changes in this release include:
the configuration dialog is now in KDE style; a configurable "good
signal" level has been added; and numerous bugs have been fixed. And
many fixes that can be read in the
http://www.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de/~witte/kradio/ChangeLog kradio can be
downloaded as usual from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45668 or from
http://www.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de/~witte/kradio.html And don't forget to
contribute your station preset file to our database ;) Have fun! Martin
drjava-20030115-2237 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244050
This development release includes a new approach for the communication
between the main DrJava JVM and the JVM used by the Interactions Pane.
It should resolve many of the Interactions Pane problems that users
have recently encountered, and it needs to be tested on all platforms.
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports
interactive evaluation of expressions. Download it by following the
"more download options" link on our home page.
TurboPower Orpheus 4.06 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244023
Orpheus is an award-winning UI toolkit for Borland Delphi and
C++Builder. It contains over 120 components covering everything from
data entry to calendars and clocks. Other noteworthy components include
an Object Inspector, LookOut bar, & report views. This is a source-code
only release. TurboPower Orpheus project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tporpheus
MPman MP-F70 suite 0.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243804
Version 0.3 of the kernel driver and utilities for the MPman MP-F70
portable MP3 player is up for download. The kernel driver provides a
block device which you can then mount in read-write mode. The
mpf70-utils allow you to extract MP3 information and queue tracks to
the player in one command! http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpf70/
Chicken of the VNC 1.3.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243785
Chicken of the VNC is a VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows
one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other
words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote
computer as though it's right next to you. This release contains
enhancements, including new encoding support, support for wheel mice,
and performance improvements.
TM4J 0.8.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243768
The next milestone of TM4J is now available as a stable release. TM4J
0.8.0 adds a new persistent storage model for relational databases.
This storage model uses the Hibernate O-R mapping tool and supports a
wide range of databases (see the Developer's Guide appendix on the
Hibernate back-end for details about which databases are supported).
This back-end has been tested against MySQL, Oracle9i and Oracle 8. If
you find any problems with any other databases, please report them.
This release also clears up some of the confusing APIs for object
creation and TopicMap management. Users of previous versions of TM4J
should read the chapter "Changes since 0.7.0" for details about the
changed methods. Methods deprecated in this release will remain
deprecated for the next minor increment (0.9.0) and will be removed in
the following release (0.10.0 or 1.0)
iScan release 2.0.8
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243493
A new release 2.0.8 has been made available, its a general bug fix to
2.0.5, see release notes for details. iScan is a mail manipulation
system for exim, used for content filtering, virus scanning and spam
blocking.
TOEJAM release 2.9.7
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243512
TOEJAM is a Java Answering Machine that uses a Voice Modem as the base
of the IVR system. It has been running 24x7 at my home handling my
phone calls and emailing me the messages. Currently supports US
Robotics 56K Pro Msg, other modems very easily programmed for. TOEJAM
is an acronym for Thoroughly Open Ended Java Answering Machine.
Slashdot
DMCA Invoked Against Garage Door Openers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/1311232
boijames writes "In the latest bit of DMCA lunacy, copyright guru David
Nimmer turned me onto a case that his firm is defending, where a garage
door opener company (The Chamberlain Group) has leveled a DMCA claim
(among other claims) [0]against the maker of universal garage door
remotes (Skylink)."
Links
0. http://www.politechbot.com/p-04319.html
Banana to be Sequenced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/028227
[0]GodsMadClown writes "New Scientist [1]reports that a global
consortium plans to sequence the genetic code of a wild banana from
east Asia. Because bananas are triploidal instead of diploidal, they
are only able to reproduce asexually, which means that it adapts slower
than organisms reproducing sexually. 'One rule of joining the
consortium is that any invention developed through the project and
protected [by patent] will be made available to smallholders through a
royalty-free license,' says Emile Frison, director of the International
Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain."
Links
0. http://wfindl1 AT yahoo DOT com
1. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991037
Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/021202
[0]DeAshcroft writes "As [1]reported in [2]Technology Research News,
researchers from Tohoku University, the Japanese National Institute for
Materials Science, and Pioneer Corporation have demonstrated a
prototype ferroelectric (as opposed to ferromagnetic) storage mechanism
with density of 1.5 trillion dots per square inch. No word on why
Japanese researchers are using square inches, but the new storage
benchmark is the DVD. This is 47 DVD's in a square inch, or over
20KiloDVD's per square cubit. Original paper appeared in the Applied
Physics Letters."
Links
0. http://www.cafeshops.com/usingrights/
1.
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/011503/Device_demos_terabit_storage_011503.html
2. http://www.trnmag.com/
Wireless Internet Launched on Lufthansa FRA - IAD
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/0148236
[0]JpMaxMan writes "On flight LH 418 from Frankfurt, Germany, to
Washington, DC, Lufthansa AG began on Wednesday a three-month trial for
a new [1]onboard wireless broadband service that allows travelers to
connect to the Internet some 10,000 meters in the sky."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.itworld.com/Net/2629/030115lufthansawlan/
Data Mining Used Hard Drives
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/2345217
linuxwrangler writes "One hopes the /. crowd knows the perils of
discarding storage with sensitive data but [0]this article drives home
the point. Two MIT grad students bought used drives from eBay and
secondhand computer stores. Among the data found on the 158 drives were
5,000 credit-card numbers, porn, love-letters and medical information."
Links
0.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/01/15/national1617EST0765.DTL
SMS Messaging Unreliable
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/2154225
[0]Lovejoy writes "From a [1]Reuters story: [2]Keynote announced today
that in its two-week, 26,000 message test-period [3] 7.5% of its text
messages never reached their destinations Ouch. I don't have SMS - Is
this report consistent with your experience?"
Links
0. http://www.oc.edu/staff/dan.lovejoy
1. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2045841
2. http://www.keynote.com/
3. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/01/15/telecoms.keynote.reut/indexhtml
Speak & Spell Hacking For Fun And Profit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1959259
[0]Bowie J. Poag writes "Pete Casper has created a number of truly
bizarre [1]Speak & Spell hacks, and case mods (!) suitable for live
performances. The highly modified Speak & Spell can be controlled
either by the membrane keypad or using an Atari joystick of all things.
Tons of photographs and MP3 samples included.. I want one. Now."
Links
0. http://www.ibiblio.org
1. http://www.casperelectronics.com/
Taking Linux to New Heights
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1829244
JimDog writes "Literally. I've created a web site documenting the
[0]construction and launch of a high altitude 'weather' balloon, with a
payload that runs Linux. The project was a great success, reached an
altitude of 80,000 feet, and took some really amazing aerial photos."
Links
0. http://speed.vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/
How Close is the Open Entertainment Center?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/0258205
why-not-now asks: "Recently there's been a lot of talk about open
source/free software that enables your PC to act as a [0]DVR,
[1]all-purpose media player, DVD player, CD player, MP3 player, etc...
not to mention the ability to play [2]all [3]sorts [4]of [5]video
[6]games (if you know where to look). The idea of the [7]set top MAME
console is nice, but with a little TV/Audio out, a little know how and
the right software, are we currently able to put together a free
version of the big convergence media center others are [8]trying to
do?"
Links
0. http://www.mythtv.org/
1. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
2. http://x.mame.net/
3. http://www.zsnes.com/
4. http://www.epsxe.com/
5. http://www.linuxgames.com/
6. http://www.transgaming.com/
7. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1616252&tid=127
8. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/
New Substrate Tech Creates System LCDs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1730256
[0]smartalix writes "[1]Sharp Microelectronics has recently developed a
new LCD substrate technology called Continuous-Grain Silicon
(CG-Silicon), that enables device integration on a scale previously
impossible. The technology enables the creation of System LCDs that
integrate all driver and operation circuitry -- including digital
logic, LCD driver, power supply, I/O interfaces, and signal-processing
circuitry -- onto the glass itself. Eventually even the device's CPU
will be included on the substrate. A key SLCD feature is the ability to
dynamically control the resolution and color depth, providing output in
multiple-resolution modes while lowering overall power consumption. A
3.7-in. SLCD created with CG-Silicon had a power consumption of 14 mW
for color VGA, 8 mW for color QVGA, and 2 mW for monochrome QVGA. The
first commercially available product that incorporates the System LCD
architecture is Sharp's Zaurus SL-C700 PDA, recently released in
Japan."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.sharpsma.com/
Freshmeat
AccWhizz 0.0.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109665/
AccWhizz is a multilingual accounting application for small business
companies and accounting offices. It is modular, written in PHP 4.x,
and operates on top of PHP GroupWare. It runs as a Web application with
Apache and phpgroupware serving as a middle layer. Internal data is
managed by PostgreSQL/MySQL databases. The SQL server can either be
local or remote.
Autoconf Macro Archive 0.5.39 (SF-NET)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109621/
The Autoconf Macro Archive provides documented and tested macros that
are useful to many software writers using the autoconf tool, but too
specific to be included into autoconf itself.
BEJY 1.1.1.39
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109678/
BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to
inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of
new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server
implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete
connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its
protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is
done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP
protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also
contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and
other useful things.
CensorNet 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109620/
CensorNet is an Internet management tool that is designed to control
and monitor individuals accessing Internet resources on a local area
network. It features the ability to control users and machines, filter
content on keyword, file extension, and MIME type, give audit trails
and reports, schedule access, and limit bandwidth. It is compatible
with NT/Active Directory user authentication, and can be adminstered
using a Web interface. It is ideal for schools and businesses.
CLEX 3.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109600/
CLEX is a file manager with a full-screen user interface written in C
with the curses library. It displays directory contents (including file
status details) and provides features like command history, filename
insertion, or name completion in order to help the user to construct
commands to be executed by the shell (there are no built-in commands).
CLEX is easily configurable and all its features are explained in the
on-line help.
DC-GUI 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109640/
DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
DebSync 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109609/
DebSync is a Python command line tool which helps to synchronize a
bunch of Debian GNU/Linux machines with respect to the list of packages
installed. DebSync retrieves the list of installed packages from a
master host, and then installs or removes packages on any number of
other hosts to make them have the very same installed packages list as
the master host.
Diet Monger Ass Kicker 2003-01-14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109596/
Diet Monger Ass Kicker is a program for designing diets to your own
specifications. It allows nutrients and foods to be sorted and foods to
be filtered by categories such as the food groups, raw only, no salt,
or not dried. Calculations are made according to specified minimums and
maximums, and using data from the USDA database.
DirectFB 0.9.16 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109669/
DirectFB is a thin library that provides developers with hardware
graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, an
integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and
multiple display layers on top of the Linux framebuffer device. It is a
complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every
graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware.
Dr. Genius 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109617/
Dr. Genius is the GNOME Geometry Exploration and Numeric Intuitive User
System, an Euclidian geometry application where geometry figures are
interactively manipulated. It is Guile aware to allow user
scriptability of the geometric figures.
ego file manager 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109602/
The ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for
its VFS and provides evas2 and GTK tree views.
Enterprise Object Broker 0.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109598/
Enterprise Object Broker (EOB) is an application server that
transparently distributes Java objects via their interfaces. It makes
no distinction between Local and Remote objects. Because of these
features, it is not J2EE compliant. The developer builds beans that
implement normal Java interfaces and the deployer decides where the
beans are in a cluster of servers. Apache's AltRMI is used in place of
RMI. It publishes plain interfaces locally and remotely. The interfaces
do not have to extend the java.rmi.Remote interface. Methods do not
have to throw RemoteException. AltRMI delivers remoting for Java. EOB
sits on top of Apache's Avalon-Phoenix server platform.
evilwm 0.99.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109618/
evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. It
maximises screen real estate and provides good keyboard control. It is
currently based on aewm.
eXist 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109638/
eXist is an XML database with pluggable storage backends and support
for fulltext search. XML is stored in the internal, native XML-DB or in
an external RDBMS. The search engine has been designed to provide fast
XPath queries, using indexes for all element, text, and attribute
nodes. eXist is lightweight and well-suited for large document
collections. The server is accessible through easy-to-use HTTP and
XML-RPC interfaces and supports the XML:DB API for Java programming.
fetchmail 6.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109614/
Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail
retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand
TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every
remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP,
APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even support
IPv6 and IPSEC.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109637/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable
script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done
through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall
is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic
shaping, and more.
FOX 1.1.22 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109645/
FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set
of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets,
and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop,
X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets,
timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a
registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or
OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix,
Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and
Sequent.
gAlan 0.3.0-test1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109629/
gAlan is an audio-processing tool for X Windows and Win32. It allows
you to build synthesizers, effects chains, mixers, sequencers, drum
machines, etc. in a modular fashion by linking together icons
representing primitive audio processing components.
GCC Introspector 0.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109661/
The GCC XML Tree Node Introspector project consists of a patch to the
gcc compiler to output the internal compiler tree nodes in RDF/XML and
programs to process that RDF/XML. The tree nodes are complex data
structures which represent the source code inside the compiler. Through
these tree nodes, users are able to extract information from their
programs that would be otherwise very difficult to obtain. Modules
exist to store these nodes in XML or in a PostgresSQL database. The
long-term goal of the project is create a high-level API that will make
the programmatic manipulation of programs easier than it is now.
Genuts Breaker 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109606/
Genuts Breaker is a remake of the popular classic Break-Out game. The
object of the game is to avoid losing your ball and to catch it with
your racket. Sometime a new ball will appear. Six levels are available.
gnocl 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109672/
gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It
provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user
interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support.
It is loosely modeled after the Tk package.
Gnome Display Manager 2.4.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109641/
The Gnome Display Manager is a reimplementation of the well known xdm
program. GDM consists of a daemon and a graphical login application
which runs as an unpriviledged user. The login GUI features a face
browser, an optional logo, and language/session type selection support.
The daemon includes an XDMCP implementation for managing remote
displays. Access control relies on TCPWrappers and PAM.
Goochi 1.2 beta8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109632/
Goochi is a peer-to-peer system written in Java for sharing files, and
for chatting.
GraphThing 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109626/
GraphThing is a tool that allows you to create, manipulate, and study
graphs. These "graphs" are mathematical objects, that
describe the relationships between sets; they are not 2D plots, charts,
or any other sort of visual object.
Gringotts 1.3.0pre5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109607/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data
(passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read,
easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use
of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among
eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256,
SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing
algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and
BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to
use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative
to the usual text string, giving additional choices.
hdup 1.5.3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109612/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of
the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none),
the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync),
and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
HouseSpider 4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109643/
HouseSpider is an Java applet that adds indexing and search capability
to web sites. It can search by two methods: by spidering through the
site, or by searching a cached index file. Spider-searching is slow,
but very easy to set up and requires no maintenance. Cache-searching
requires only a little more attention to set-up and is sometimes even
faster than CGI programs. HouseSpider also supports compression (in
zip-format) of the index file, and boolean searches.
Jess 6.1b5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109666/
Jess is a fast, light rule engine and scripting environment written
entirely in Java. You can build Java software that has the capacity to
"reason" using knowledge you supply in the form of
declarative rules. It is supplied as a programmer's library, making it
ideal for embedding in larger applications. It is free for academic use
and can be licensed for commercial use.
Kadmos OCR/ICR engine 4.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109630/
The Kadmos OCR/ICR (handwriting) recognition engine has multiple
languages support (it covers all Latin languages plus others, including
Cyrillic). Application interfaces are available for C/C++/VB/Delphi,
and Java upon request. It also has isolated character (REC), isolated
line (REL), and paragraph (REP) recognition modules.
KCheckers 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109599/
KCheckers is a KDE version of the classic boardgame
"checkers".
KMonodim 2.0beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109604/
KMonodim is a simple solver for monodimensional particle-in-a-box
problems, written for QT/KDE. It current solves problems with various
potentials such as square well, square well with a barrier, parabolic,
and morse potential. It provides calculation of eigenvalues and
eigenfunctions for a given system, Richardson extrapolation to achieve
better precision, loads and saves in XML format, can do simultaneous
work on multiple systems, and integral evaluation.
KnoppiXMAME 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109650/
KnoppixMAME is a bootable arcade machine emulator with hardware
detection and autoconfiguration. It works automatically on all modern
and not-so-modern hardware, including gameports and joysticks. It is
powered by Knoppix Debian GNU/Linux, X-MAME, and gxmame.
Krysalis 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109627/
Krysalis is an open-source PHP development platform, based on the
XML/XSLT core. It features dynamic XML support, support for the
creation of dynamic XML files with data taken from databases, PXP page
caching, caching and storage of each generated PHP file from any PXP on
disk (thus re-queries on the same page will not have to re-create it),
allowing XHTML templates (simpler than XSL), SOAP support, multiple
transformation pipelines, and allowing the site manager to describe
multiple types of transformation pipelines (each type having assigned
some XSLT's which transform the XML data). HTML or XML output are
possible by default, and extensibility is very high.
libferris 0.9.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109601/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all
kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each
datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various
data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting
EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event
updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount
a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox
(mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation
decoders.
libgeotiff 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109655/
libgeotiff is a library (normally built on top of libtiff) for reading
and writing coordinate system information from/to GeoTIFF files. It
includes CSV files for expanding projected coordinate system codes into
full projections definitions and examples of transforming the
definitions into a form that can be used with the PROJ.4 projections
library. It also includes the sample applications listgeo (for dumping
GeoTIFF information in readable form) and geotifcp (for applying
geotiff tags to an existing TIFF or GeoTIFF file).
Linux X10 Universal Device Driver 1.4.2 (Linux-2.4.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109668/
This project provides a /dev interface to an X10 network through Linux
kernel modules. It is intended to provide a standard interface and
syntax to shell script utilities (such as cat and echo), Perl scripts,
C programs, or Java programs so that everything from a quick hack to a
more advanced program can manipulate the X10 devices in an automated
home regardless of the transceiver used. Its simplest use is with shell
scripts (examples of which are provided in the package). Currently the
project supports the 4 main X10 transceivers (PowerLinc Serial,
PowerLinc USB, CM11A, and Firecracker/CM17A).
M.E.S.H. 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109608/
MESH (Measuring Error between Surfaces using the Hausdorff distance) is
a tool that measures distortion between two discrete surfaces
(triangular meshes). It uses the Hausdorff distance to compute a
maximum, mean, and root-mean-square errors between two given surfaces.
Besides providing figures, MESH can also display the error values on
the surface itself through a GUI (Qt-based).
MagicDraw UML 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109610/
MagicDraw is a visual UML modeling and CASE tool with teamwork support.
it was designed for business analysts, software analysts, programmers,
QA engineers, and documentation writers. It facilitates analysis and
design of Object Oriented (OO) systems and databases, and it provides
the industry's best code engineering mechanism (with full round-trip
support for Java, C++, and CORBA IDL programming languages), as well as
database schema modeling, DDL generation, and reverse engineering
facilities.
Mambo SiteServer 4.0.12 BETA 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109677/
Mambo SiteServer is a dynamic Web content management tool that is
capable of building sites from several pages to several thousand. It
comes complete with 10 built-in modules, a WYSIWYG editor, site
statistics, an admin interface, and much more.
Motiontrack 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109657/
Motiontrack is a set of tools that detect motion between two PNG or JPG
images.
mysql_auth 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109662/
mysql_auth is a basic authenticator for Squid Proxy. You can configure
all MySQL variables for your existing user/password database (dbhost,
dbadmin, dbpasswd, dbname, tablename, columns name), or create a new
database. It includes a utility called mypasswd that updates your
database.
naim 0.11.5.2 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109659/
naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports
IRC and Lily CMC. For AIM, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many
commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving
naim's classic look and feel.
Net-SNMP 5.0.7 (net-snmp)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109651/
The NET-SNMP (formerly UCD-SNMP) package contains various tools
relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including an
extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools to request or set information
from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP traps, a version of
the unix 'netstat' command using SNMP and a Tk/perl mib browser. It was
originally based on the Carnegie Mellon University SNMP implementation
(version 2.1.2.1), but has been greatly enhanced, ported and fixed and
barely resembles the original package anymore.
pam_login 3.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109680/
pam_login is written specificly for PAM authentication. It is based on
the version from the util-Linux package, from which all code for
non-PAM support was removed. Instead, support for the most important
features of the login program from the shadow suite was added.
PDF::API2 0.3a32 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109631/
PDF::API2 is 'The Next Generation' of Text::PDF::API, a Perl
module-chain that facilitates the creation and modification of PDF
files. It features support for the 14 base PDF Core Fonts, TrueType
fonts, and Adobe-Type1, with unicode mappings, embedding of bitmap
images, compression via zlib, and a rich object-oriented API.
picoSQL 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109611/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial
project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
Postfix 2.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109667/
Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used
Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and
hopefully secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible
enough to not upset your users.
ProFTPDTools 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109646/
ProFTPDTools provides a Web interface for managing users and groups in
a setup of ProFTPd with mod_sql. It also provides an interface to view
a formatted output of the ftpwho command.
Recount 0.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109634/
Recount was inspired by the United States election 2000 debacle. It is
a polling application and library written in PHP, and released under
the terms of the GPL. It allows you to quickly and easily create and
manage poll based content in any format you like. It currently supports
both PostgreSQL and MySQL.
ReViewer 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109605/
ReViewer is an image viewer in Rebol that lets you view and sort
images, drag and drop thumbnails, and build a Web site with your
images.
rubrica 0.9.9.85 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109615/
rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows you
to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email
addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact
works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used
to store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export
to HTML.
SDL_prim 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109663/
SDL_prim is a set of simple drawing primitives for use with the SDL
Library. Currently supported are lines, circles, and triangles, with
support for anti-aliasing and alpha-blending. Circles and Triangles
also have support for filling.
Siege 2.57b5 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109652/
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.
Simple Python Blogger 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109675/
Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries,
users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to
edit, change, and set up. It creates pages based on one HTML template
file, which can be edited to suit your personal taste.
Simple Python Blogger 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109639/
Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries,
users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to
edit, change, and set up. It creates pages based on one HTML template
file, which can be edited to suit your personal taste.
Spamcup 1.01 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109624/
Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same
actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web
browser, but from the commandline.
SQL Query Generator 0.8 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109597/
SQL Query Generator is a command-line program that will help you make
INSERT INTO, DELETE, and UPDATE SQL queries. The queries created with
this program are stored in a text file.
stardork 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109633/
Stardork is a console-based game where you move and shoot
up/down/left/right and diagonally to hit a goal. When you hit a goal,
more stars randomly appear. If you run into a star you lose power and
eventually die.
TkVNC 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109625/
TkVNC is a VNC viewer written in pure Tcl/Tk. It is designed to be
embedded inside other applications, but can be used as a standalone VNC
viewer.
TM4J 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109603/
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.
TopicEngine 1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109628/
The TopicEngine is an advanced TCL script for eggdrop bots for managing
the topic in one or more channels. It allows users to change or lock
the channel topic through the use of public commands in the channel,
with fine-grain permission controls available. Users do not have to be
opped to change the topic (but the bot must be if the channel is +t).
It can automatically refresh the topic after a netjoin, and allows
command caching to avoid flooding the channel with topic changes. The
topic can also be locked by appropriate people. TopicEngine will
attempt to communicate with other TopicEngine bots in the channel to
avoid a topic live-lock flood.
tower toppler 0.98.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109676/
Tower Toppler (aka Nebulous) is the reimplementation an old 'jump and
run' game. In this game you have to climb to the top of a tower
avoiding all kinds of creatures that want to push you down.
ttylinux 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109674/
ttylinux is a minimalistic Linux distribution that can fit in 4 MB of
disk space. It contains software needed to log into an ISP by modem or
ISDN, surf the Web, and provide Web content to the world. The minimum
hardware requirement is a 386SX with 10 MB of RAM for a ramdisk setup
or 5 MB of RAM for a hard disk setup.
WebSight Directory System 0.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109653/
The WebSight Directory System was originally developed for Electronic
Music World (www.electronicmusicworld.com), to serve as an Internet
portal related to electronic music. WebSight Directory System presents
collected links in categories and subcategories. It supports link
submission by visitors.
wysihtml 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109636/
wysihtml (What you see is HTML) is an almost-real-time previewing
system HTML and DocBook XML that almost provides
what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing in emacs. Implemented as a minor
mode, wysihtml invokes mozilla to show the current text.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109642/
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams. Unlike other similar
programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal entries
for easy import. It also has a Perl script that can be used in procmail
recipes to automatically reformat incoming mail appropriately.
yp-tools 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109679/
yp-tools is an implementation of the NIS client tools for Linux and
should work with every Linux C Library. This implementation only
provides NIS client tools. You must already have a ypbind daemon
running on the same host, and a NIS server running somewhere in the
net.
Slashcode
The Strict Slash theme
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/033226
Like I wrote in "Upcoming XHTML/Accessibility Slash theme" I'm working
on a slash theme with the goal of complying with the W3C's Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. It's far from complete, but I think that
it has reached a point where I want to hear comments from others and
see if someone is interesting in contributing patches to fix bugs /
implement new features. It requires latest slash cvs and it's available
from anonymous read-only cvs: cvs -d
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/c vs loginNo password,
just press Enter. cvs -d
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/c vs co strict It's
hosted by Openflows, who has been supporting the development of this
theme. You vill find a List of changes and a Todo list on the demo site
strict.openflows.org And if you are looking for something interesting
to read on the same topic, Joe Clark's Answers -- In Valid XHTML.
How does index.shtml pick up currentqid for polls?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/2254228
In the process of upgrading from R_2_3_0_46 to the current snapshot of
Slash, my poll appears to have died. No matter what currentqid gets set
to, or how many polls I delete or add, poll qid 6 (which now doesn't
exist) is always the poll that gets written to index.shtml. Also, when
I go to a poll that *does* exist
(http://www.scylla.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1), none of the questions are
listed, just the title. To make sure I have a clean slate, I have
created a whole new /usr/local/slash/site directory, dumped and
recreated the auto_poll, pollanswers, pollquestions, and pollvoters
tables, and reinstalled slash. The only thing that's the same is
database and the directory that slash was installed to. So, my question
is how does index.shtml get the value it's suppossed to use? I looked
in index.pl and it appears to use pollbooth('_currentqid', 1) to write
the value. And, of course, I need to hunt down the function that lists
the poll questions in pollbooth.pl (to find out why they aren't
displayed on vote windows). I've spent a lot of time trying to hunt
down functions in .pm files but now I'm giving up and hoping I can find
someone who "just knows". So, anyone just know or have someplace I can
go for detailed specs on the poll plugin?
Upgrading apache without messing up slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/2011240
I need to upgrade my apache server for security reasons, but I am
worried that I will mess up my slash site in doing so. How do I go
about updating my website to the latest version of apache without
messing up slash? Is the a document on this somewhere? I have apache
1.3.22 and I want to get 1.3.27. Thanks. Also, how do I tell what
version of slash I am currently running? --John
What version of slash is running on /. ?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1824231
Well, that's all I am asking... Krow: Look for the latest tag in CVS
for slash, that is what slashdot is using.
Enable comment counter?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1822241
I'm reading the online docs and also bought the 'Running Weblogs with
Slash' book - somehow I can't figure this out? How do I enable that
counter (e.g. 40 of 51 comments)
Galleria photo gallery plugin beta released
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1819259
We've released our first beta of a photo gallery plugin for Slash. It's
called Galleria. Features include file-upload via http, a slide show,
etc. All under the GPL. For more inforation see
http://www.lottadot.com/
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
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