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Sourceforge
Video4Linux Grab 0.2.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246947

    The v4lgrab project is a realtime capturing software for a Video4Linux
    device into an AVI file. This release fixes the errors and problems
    reported (audio/video sync problems) from the old version 0.2.1. This
    release also includes feature enhancements. 

Gimp-Print 4.2.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246974

    Gimp-Print 4.2.5, released January 24, 2003, is a stable release in the
    Gimp-Print 4.2 series. Gimp-Print is a suite of printer drivers that
    may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including
    CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide high quality
    printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2 and newer) and Linux
    systems in many cases equal to or better than proprietary
    vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for many of the most demanding
    printing tasks. This software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp,
    and GhostScript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic data. The Print
    plug-in for the GIMP requires the Gimp 1.2. The CUPS driver requires
    CUPS 1.1.9 or higher. 1.1.14 or above is highly recommended, as certain
    translation-related bugs are fixed and it is possible to print true
    CMYK. The Ghostscript driver requires GNU Ghostscript 5.10, 5.50, 6.51,
    or any later GNU Ghostscript release based on 6.51 (e. g. 6.52). It may
    also be used with GNU Ghostscript 7.05, or with ESP Ghostscript 7.05.
    The IJS GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU Ghostscript 6.53 or
    later, ESP Ghostscript 7.05 or later, or APFL GhostScript 7.04 or
    later. Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2 and above can use this package, as
    the printing system is based on CUPS, which is supported by Gimp-print.
    Note that Macintosh OS X 10.0 and 10.1 (including 10.1.5) cannot use
    this package. We recommend that Macintosh OS X users download the
    precompiled installer package from
    http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3 rather than attempt to
    build this package from source, as using the installer is much simpler.
    We further recommend that Macintosh OS X users install ESP GhostScript,
    to permit printing from Carbon applications (such as most Adobe
    applications) that generate PostScript rather than PDF output.
    Directions for that are also available at
    http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3. Please read the README
    file for full instructions on installing this package from source code.
    Gimp-Print 4.2.5 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print
    4.2.4: * Major bugs fixed: 1) (bug 625780) The Epson Stylus Pro 5000
    now prints. 2) (bug 645895) The Epson Stylus Color 640 now prints
    properly at all resolutions in color, grayscale, and monochrome. 3)
    (bug 639356) The version of libtool used in building the release
    package has been upgraded to 1.4.3, which fixes compile problems on a
    few platforms (this is primarily of interest to packagers). 4) (bug
    659543) escputil now reports the ink levels correctly on the Stylus
    Photo 950/960 and 2100/2200. 5) (bug 672692) A buffer overflow in
    escputil, which permitted a local privilege escalation if it is
    installed setuid, has been fixed. Note that Gimp-print does not install
    escputil setuid, and we do not recommend explicitly setting the setuid
    bit. 6) (bug 672846) A problem compiling rastertoprinter on Solaris
    with the gcc compiler has been fixed. 7) (bug 672850) The Epson back
    end in CUPS will no longer hang attempting to read back ink levels
    under some circumstances, and it will also compute the ink levels
    correctly. 8) (bug 646158) DESTDIR now works correctly with make
    install (this is primarily of interest to packagers). * New
    Functionality: 1) If Foomatic 2.9.x is installed, the Foomatic data
    will be generated with additional features: Once the options are put
    into groups ("General", "PrintoutMode", "Adjustment") and a new
    "PrintoutMode" option will be added, which lets the user choose
    pre-configurations for common printing tasks, but still adjust the
    individual options. If an older version of Foomatic is installed, the
    Foomatic data will stay as before. 2) (bug 596538) The automatic paper
    cutter is now functional on the Epson Stylus Photo 925, 950/960, and
    2100/2200. * Quality Improvements: 1) The Epson Stylus Photo
    950/960/PM-950C and 2100/2200 are now tuned. The 950 and 960 are fully
    tuned, while the 2100 and 2200 are fully tuned with Photographic Black
    ink. Matte Black ink on the 2100/2200, and dark yellow ink on the
    PM-950C, are not tuned at this point. 2) The Epson Stylus Photo
    950/960/PM-950C and 2100/2200 now support double speed printing at 360
    DPI in Four Color Standard mode (in color, grayscale, and monochrome).
    For this reason, we recommend use of Four Color Standard for printing
    text and low-resolution graphics on plain paper with these printers. 3)
    Translations for Danish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, and UK English
    have been updated. * Exceptions and Workarounds: 1) There have been a
    number of reports that printing to a Windows-hosted printer from
    Macintosh OS X results in only the first page of the job being printed
    (see bugs 668342 and 672692). In at least some cases, connecting the
    printer directly to the Macintosh results in correct prints. There is
    no known workaround short of connecting the printer directly to the
    Macintosh. Investigation is continuing on this problem. 2) There are
    longstanding reports of problems printing with certain USB-parallel
    adapters on Macintosh OS X. In particular, many users have reported
    problems with the Keyspan adapter; we recommend that users having
    problems try different brands of adapters, and avoid using USB hubs.
    Please check our web site
    (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3) for a link to a user
    feedback forum regarding these cables. 3) Mac OS X users who use the
    Epson Printer Utility (provided by Epson with their standard driver
    set) to check ink levels and perform maintenance tasks, such as head
    cleaning or head alignment, may encounter print job failures when
    attempting to print with the Gimp-Print driver after using the Epson
    utility. The cause for this failure is currently unknown, but the
    workaround is to completely power-cycle the printer, after which the
    Gimp-Print driver should again print normally. Another option is to
    disable the Epson Printer Utility. 4) The Mac OS X print dialog may
    offer an "Autoselect" option as the default media source (input slot)
    on some printers. This option may not be valid and can result in
    nothing being printed. The workaround is to choose a different setting
    (explicitly select the input slot you wish to use). 5) The new HP
    DesignJets have not been fully tuned. In particular, there are reports
    that they print too light. This can be corrected with the Density
    adjustment (try 1.5~1.7 or thereabouts). 6) The list of compatible and
    potentially compatible Hewlett-Packard printers has been updated with
    the latest available information. If a particular printer does not work
    with the recommended driver, we recommend that you try other similar
    drivers, check the Feature Requests at
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=101537&group_id=1537&func=browse,
    and if the printer is not listed please file a feature request (via the
    Submit New button). 7) Borderless (full-bleed) printing is not quite
    correct on the Epson Stylus Photo printers that support it (see bug
    621668). Typically, the left or right margin is off by 1 mm or less,
    resulting in a very fine white strip on that edge. This will not be
    fixed in 4.2; it is expected to be fixed in 4.3 and beyond. There is no
    workaround other than trimming the page. 8) Many Canon printers do not
    print correctly at 720x360 DPI. The workaround is to use 360 or 720
    DPI. The following bugs have been fixed in Gimp-Print 4.2.5: 596538
    Epson Stylus Photo 925 etc. paper cutter is not functional 599029
    Epson: Maximum speed printing not supported on 950, 960 625780 Epson
    Stylus Pro 5000 does not print 639356 Build system: libtool 1.4.2 does
    not work on all platforms 641628 QUALITY: Epson Stylus 2200 print
    quality is low in 7-color 645895 Epson stc640 does not print at 720dpi
    and above 646158 Build:DESTDIR broken in make install in print plugin
    649253 QUALITY - Epson 950/960 problems in all resolutions 659543
    escputil Epson Photo 950 Ink level wrong 672845 Buffer overflow in
    escputil 672846 rastertoprinter does not compile on Solaris with gcc
    672850 Epson back end in CUPS driver can lock up The following bugs are
    currently open: 409612 Epson: Minor positioning problem on 4x6 glossy
    470049 CUPS PPD files not translated on all systems 538097
    QUALITY-Canon S400 dark and yellow cast 549677 Canon BJC-1000 functions
    incorrectly at 720x360 DPI 557868 QUALITY-HP DeskJet 560 is washed out
    581168 Canon BJC 250 just spits out pages 601767 Mac OS X: Canon BJC
    2100 does not print multiple pages 602933 QUALITY-Canon S800 dark and
    grainy 613054 Mac OS X: Printing from InDesign 2.0 on OS 10.2.1 614882
    QUALITY - Canon BJC-55 is too pale and desaturated 621668 Epson Stylus
    full bleed prints have slight margin 627266 Mac OS X: Autoselect option
    incorrectly offered 627978 QUALITY: Canon BJC-6500 has magenta cast.
    631937 HP DesignJet Sheet Cutter Problem 641981 QUALITY: HP DesignJet
    455 too light 645116 QUALITY: HP DeskJet regression from 4.1.7 647035
    QUALITY: Colors don't match OEM drivers 662988 HP DeskJet 970Cxi page
    horizontally squeezed 668342 Canon S-450 prints only one page of a job
    672692 Epson photo 700 single page of multi page job 

New release 0.5.5 of tn5250j is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244952

    tn5250J is an AS400 Telnet 5250 written in java. This will provide some
    of the more advance functions of the 5250 datastream such as edit
    masks, graphical windows, continued editing fields, etc. This release
    includes numerous feature enhancements, including improved file
    transfer capability, Jython scripting support, and the ability to
    export spool files to PDF or text file. Changes - wow where to start.
    There have been a lot since the last release. I will try to put a
    release out sooner from now on as there are so many changes it is
    impossible to keep up. This release features the following new
    functionality/fixes: 1. Scripting support via jython. See web page for
    details There is a script running indicator as well. You can define a
    script to run on connection This uses the jython project from
    http://www.jython.org 2. Reworked file transfer from host screen with
    the following: - Main screen has been reworked to make it less
    confusing - New filters have been added - Delimited and Fixed Width -
    Interaction with the Java Toolbox for AS400. See website for more
    details under file transfers. - A new sql query wizard has been
    implemented so you can graphically select and form your sql point and
    click with mouse. - E-mail your transferred file directly from the
    transfer screen 3. New SpoolFile export function to PDF or Text. You
    can also e-mail the exported file directly from the screen. This uses
    the itext project from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/itext When
    you download the itext-0xxx.jar make sure you rename it to itext.jar or
    it will not work 4. SSL socket support for users of JDK 1.4 and
    greater. 5. New applet support. Take the test drive with the live
    applet test from the website 6. Keyboard buffering fixes 7. New
    interaction of the popup menu with short cut keys automatically defined
    from you remapping. 8. Able to map keys to macros and scripts. See
    website for more information on macros and scripting in jython. 9.
    Printing fixes. 10. Better performance Lots and Lots of bug fixes.
    Thanks to all for helping with the testing of this release Enjoy
    Kenneth 

Open For Business 2.0.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=245533

    The Open For Business Project released version 2.0.0 of its business
    automation tools, components, and applications on Monday the 20th of
    January 2003. This is the first stable release of the project and
    offers a new option for organizations of all types that have asked the
    question of Build vs. Buy. More information about Open For Business can
    be found on the web site at http://www.ofbiz.org Organizations using
    OFBiz can shorten enterprise information project cycles by months
    through a well designed architecture and corresponding framework and
    through pre-built components and applications. The goal of the Open For
    Business project is to provide useful, standards compliant tools and
    applications. These standards will include: XML; J2EE; WfMC; BPML;
    ebXML; UNSPSC; GAAP & FASB; OMG's GL, Party, Workflow, etc;
    ArapXML; OAGIS; and many others. The OFBiz Core Framework consists of
    the following tools: Entity Engine, Service Engine, Workflow Engine,
    Rule Engine, XML Mini-Languages, and a web application framework.
    Applications and application components (including entities and
    services) in the project cover the following business areas:
    e-commerce, products, orders, parties, facilities, work efforts,
    content, marketing, accounting, human resources, and so forth. The most
    mature and deployed application in the suite is the e-commerce
    application with functionality that measures up to the largest
    available commercial alternatives and many live sites, including the
    award-winning ReturnBuy.com site (see
    http://www.internetretailer.com/article.asp?id=8137 ) Other OFBiz
    applications and components are stable and being used by various
    organizations and in various commercial products. More details are
    available on the website. OFBiz has received great attention in the
    open source and IT communities. The project has been featured on
    SourceForge and release notices have appeared on FreshMeat.net,
    TheServerSide.com, and JavaLobby.org. The SourceForge project site
    shows around 100,000 downloads and 700,000 page views. Dozens of users
    of the project have contributed feedback, new ideas and even code and
    designs. Special thanks to the many users who have contributed to the
    project. Without user contributions the project could not be what it is
    today. QUESTION: What is the scope of the OFBiz applications, and how
    will vertical markets be targeted? ANSWER: We realize that we cannot
    target all functionality that will be needed by all organizations, or
    even all markets or industries. Our goal for the applications and
    application components is to include as much generic functionality as
    possible. This will allow many medium and large size organizations to
    get something useful running quickly and make it possible to
    concentrate resources on organization specific customizations. Software
    companies will be able to affordably create products for narrowly
    targeted markets or industries and spend time and effort on the needs
    of that market or industry instead of all of the generic functionality
    and framework components that can be generalized among all users of the
    software. QUESTION: If there are no licensing fees or corporate backing
    for OFBiz, how is the development and support of the project financed?
    ANSWER: The project is financed by providing for the needs of users of
    the project. This is done by offering services such as analysis,
    design, implementation, customization, training, mentoring, support and
    even prioritization of planned features. Much of the functionality in
    the project has been paid for by commercial adopters of the project and
    the rest has been contributed by generous developers from their own
    personal time. For more information on services offered, see the
    OFBiz.org Services Page at http://www.ofbiz.org/services.html QUESTION:
    This seems like a pretty big project, how much of it is actually done,
    or rather how far along are the various components and applications?
    ANSWER: At this point all of the framework components are very stable,
    and many of the applications are too. This is why we have chosen to do
    the 2.0.0 final release. From here on out releases will be done more
    incrementally as the current framework and applications are improved.
    The e-commerce and related applications such as the Party, Order, and
    Catalog managers are the most stable and mature. Following close behind
    is the Facility Manager which handles all aspects of warehouse and
    inventory management. The Work Effort Manager has many useful pieces in
    place, but there is still a lot of work to do there. Other applications
    such as Accounting and Content Management have only recently been
    started. The Data Model is very complete and mature. It has been
    reviewed and improved dozens of times and by many different people. It
    is cleaner in the areas where corresponding applications and components
    are implemented, but we have put a great deal of effort into making
    sure that there was a master plan for the data model that would not
    have to change much as applications are added or improved. 

Vorbis Encoder Plugin for LameFE released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246410

    A new OGG/Vorbis Encoder plugin for use with LameFE 2.2 RC 1 has been
    released. This plugin features Ogg/Vorbis 1.0 support, Quality based
    encoding, ABR / VBR / CBR encoding, and support for standard Ogg Tags.
    You can download both LameFE and the plugin at
    http://lamefe.sourceforge.net/index.php?showpage=download Thees Winkler
    - Project Administrator 

DWSII 1.2 Beta Release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246417

    DelphiWebScript is a scripting language for use in Borland Delphi(tm)
    projects. The programming language is similar to Delphi. It's HTML
    features are optimal for web applications and report modules. A beta
    release of DWSII is available. Most important new feature: Garbage
    collector for DWSII objects. See forum messages for more information. 

Streamsicle 1.2Beta+
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246437

    The Streamsicle is a stand-alone webserver and streaming MP3 server.
    You can request songs, view what the server has to play, etc. New
    installer version released with later JVM support, should allow much
    larger MP3 collections to be loaded. 

pmd-1.02 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246108

    PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty
    catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. This release
    includes a number of new rules and bugfixes. ...with a slew of new
    rules (ImportFromSamePackageRule, SwitchDensityRule,
    NullAssignmentRule, UnusedModifierRule, ForLoopShouldBeWhileLoopRule)
    and plenty o' bug fixes and new features. See the changelog -
    http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=135420 - for
    all the details. Thanks to the many folks who contributed, most of whom
    are listed here: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/credits.html Thanks, Tom 

RCSoccerSim 9.2.2 is available 
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=245751

    The RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a research and educational tool for
    multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence. It enables for two
    teams of 11 simulated autonomous robotic players to play soccer
    (football). RoboCup Soccer Simulator is licensed under a combination of
    the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL. The latest stable release adds goal posts
    with "real" collision detection and modelling as well the remaining
    official changes requested for the new RoboCup World Cup. But that's
    not all, to make your life easier (and mine more difficult), the
    various rcsoccersim modules are now available as RPMs for i386. If
    anyone else is willing to provide RPMs for other architectures, let us
    (sserver-admin at users.sf.net) know and we'll tell you how. 

tinyproxy 1.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246109

    After a month of being in the "Release Candidate" state, tinyproxy
    1.5.2 has been released. There have been a bunch of usability
    improvements since 1.5.1. Anyone using 1.5.1 or previous is recommended
    to upgrade. tinyproxy is a GPLed, lightweight HTTP proxy. Designed from
    the ground up to be fast and yet small, it is an ideal solution for
    sites where a full featured HTTP proxy is required, but the system
    resources for a larger proxy are unavailable. 




Slashdot
Using gzip As A Spam Filter
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/1314222

    [0]captainclever writes "[1]Kuro5hin have an interesting [2]article on
    detecting spam using gzip." Here's a sample: "Loosely speaking, the LZ
    (Zip) and the related gzip compression algorithms look for repeated
    strings within a text, and replace each repeat with a reference to the
    first occurrence. The compression ratio achieved therefore measures how
    many repeated fragments, words or phrases occur in the text." 
Links
    0. http://rwj100 AT soton DOT ac DOT uk
    1. http://kuro5hin.org/
    2. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/25/224415/367

Oasis Forms "Lawful Intercept" XML Committ
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/0611201

    An anonymous reader writes "[0]Oasis has announced the formation of the
    [1]Lawful Intercept XML Technical Committee. The [2]announcement refers
    to it as a "universal global framework for supporting rapid discovery
    and sharing of suspected criminal and terrorist evidence by law
    enforcement agencies." It's not really clear if this is supposed to aid
    in information exchange about suspicious activities/individuals, or
    'intercepting' in the sense of eavesdropping, or what exactly." 
Links
    0. http://www.oasis-open.org/
    1. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-01-23-a.html
    2. http://xml.coverpages.org/LawfulInterceptTC.html

Adopt a KDE Geek
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/0042256

    sultanoslack writes "In an effort to bring together KDE hackers that
    are students, unemployed or by other means lacking in hardware and
    capital with users in that have spare goodies, [0]Adopt-a-Geek has been
    launched. [1]More details are available on [2]how to help out. Been
    wondering what you can do to help out? Here's your chance!" 
Links
    0. http://dot.kde.org/1043618134/
    1. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=kde-cafe&m=104361223225621&w=2
    2. http://devel-home.kde.org/~wheeler/adopt-a-geek/

Gibson to Embed Guitars with Ethernet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/2351201

    [0]caseyuw writes "Gibson is planning to roll out their [1]Magic this
    year with the delivery of guitars using Cat 5 instead of analog cables
    to connect instruments and amplifiers. The debate over the quality of
    digital vs analog signal processing is not new, but using a 'Magic' Les
    Paul would force you entirely into the digital domain." We mentioned
    this [2]last year, but the above article has much more information. 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030124S0035
    2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/04/1753259&tid=141

Humankind Makes Last Stand Against Machine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/2214233

    [0]MrZeebo writes "According to this Financial Times story, Garry
    Kasparov has [1]begun another match against a computer chess program on
    Sunday, this time playing against the Israeli-developed [2]Deep Junior.
    Kasparov is the highest-rated chess player of all time, and lost to
    [3]Deep Blue in 1997. According to the article, Deep Junior, despite
    evaluating less moves per minute than Deep Blue, is considered to be a
    superior chess player. The match will span 6 games, the last one being
    February 7th." Kasparov has [4]won the first game. 
Links
    0. mailto:greg@[ ]dberg.com ['lee' in gap]
    1. 
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1042491215888
    2. http://www.x3dworld.com/Entertainment/CI_X3DEvnt_DeepJunior.html
    3. http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/
    4. 
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030127/tc_nm/life_chess_kasparov_dc

Who Owns Your Digital Media?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/2317253

    [0]Ren Bucholz writes "In what was designed to be a "safety valve," the
    [1]Copyright Office is holding its tri-annual [2]search for exemptions
    to the DMCA's prohibitions on circumventing access controls. The
    [3]Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted [4]comments last December
    that outlined four "classes of works" that should be exempt, including
    copy-protected CDs, region-coded DVDs, DVDs with unskippable
    promotional material, and public domain works that are only available
    on DVD. They are asking people to [5] write in support of the four
    exemptions that they have proposed. The Copyright Office is only
    accepting comments until February 19th, so get on it!" 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. http://www.copyright.gov/
    2. http://www.copyright.gov/1201/comment_forms/index.html
    3. http://www.eff.org/
    4. http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20021218_eff_dmca_reply_comments.html
    5. http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/2003-DMCA-1201-comments.php

Superbowl XXXVII
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/2329246

    So, if you're a good, patriotic American, you're certainly watching the
    Superbowl right about now. The dot-com ads should be pretty much absent
    this year, but perhaps there will be something more interesting than
    [0]ads for recycled movies. Maybe even the game will be worth watching.
    :) 
Links
    0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/25/superbowl.commercials.reut/

Review: Illegal Art
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/1952245

    An anonymous reader writes "I just got back from the Chicago opening of
    [0]Illegal Art, Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, January 25
    - February 21 (See [0]the website for location, film screening dates,
    and information on the panel debate featuring [1] Lawrence Lessig) and
    quite enjoyed myself." The anonymous review follows. 
Links
    0. http://www.illegal-art.org/
    1. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/

Warcraft III Expansion
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/1928218

    [0]Ultra Magnus writes "Looks like [1]Blizzard is releasing an [2]
    expansion pack to WC3. I've always been pleased with their expansions
    before, so I hope this lives up to expectations." 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. http://www.bnetd.org/
    2. http://www.blizzard.com/war3x/pressrelease.shtml

Web-based Road Monitoring
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/1923201

    [0]James Evans writes "The National Center for Atmospheric Research
    (NCAR) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) are testing a
    [1]Web-based system for weather forecasting and winter road treatment
    that could soon save lives, cut costs, and help keep millions of
    drivers on the move. Highway officials and road crews in Des Moines and
    Ames, Iowa, will test the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS)
    February 3 to April 4. The MDSS uses several computer models to project
    hour-by-hour weather and road conditions up to two days in advance,
    with an update every three hours." 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. http://www.ucar.edu/communications/newsreleases/2003/mdss.html




Freshmeat
Largefile Support Problems
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/709

    The Unix98 standard requires largefile support, and many of the latest
    operating systems provide it. However, some systems still chose not to
    make it the default, resulting in two models: Some parts of the system
    use the traditional 32bit off_t, while others are compiled with a
    largefile 64bit off_t. Mixing libraries and plugins is not a good idea. 

amSynth 1.0-rc2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110729/

    amSynth is a realtime polyphonic Analogue Modeling SYNTHesizer. It
    provides virtual analogue synthesis in the style of the classic Moog
    Minimoog/Roland Junos. It offers an easy-to-use interface and synth
    engine, while still creating varied sounds. 

Angband 3.0.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110726/

    Angband is a single-player rogue-like dungeon exploration game that
    runs on a wide variety of computer systems. 

Blassic 0.5.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110758/

    Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory,
    and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs
    written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting
    language. 

Busca 0.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110725/

    Busca is based on a popular Italian card game similar to hearts. You
    may play against artificial intelligence or against your friends with
    network play. 

CRM114 2003-01-26 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110756/

    CRM114 is a Controllable Regex Mutilator and Smart Filter, designed for
    easy creation of filters for things like incoming mail, system logs, or
    monitoring processes. Filtering rules can be either hard-coded (such as
    regexes), soft-coded (calculated at runtime or read from an external
    file or process), or learned dynamically by phrase matching (by SBPH
    hashing). This makes it possible to create very accurate filters with
    very little actual work. 

DCTC 0.84.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110714/

    DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the
    direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented. 

Downloader for X 2.4.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110717/

    Downloader for X is a tool for downloading files from the Internet via
    both HTTP and FTP with a powerful but userfriendly interface. It
    supports reconnecting and resuming on connection timeouts, has a
    download queue for multiple files, support for simultaneous downloads,
    and many other features for powerful downloading. 

Eddi 1.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110752/

    Eddi is a powerful and easy-to-use text editor for X. It can use macros
    and has syntax highlighting. 

FLAC 1.1.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110715/

    FLAC is a Free Lossless Audio Codec. The FLAC format supports
    streaming, seeking, and archival, and gives 25-75% compression on
    typical CD audio. Input plugins for Winamp and XMMS are also provided. 

Gammu 0.67 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110749/

    Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various
    mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410,
    3510, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 7110, 82xx, 8310, 9110,
    and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, WaveCom, IPAQ, and
    other). It has a command line version with many functions for
    ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, etc. It
    can also make full backups and restore them. It works on various Unix
    systems (like Linux) and Win32. 

GSpeakers 0.9 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110735/

    GSpeakers is a GNOME loudspeaker design program built with the Gtkmm
    2.0 toolkit. 

JGraphpad 1.3.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110724/

    JGraphpad is a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag
    and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more. With
    JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and networks
    with thousands of nodes. JGraphpad is available with sourcecode, which
    may be used to develop new (commercial) applications. 

kbarcode 1.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110733/

    kbarcode is a KDE3-based program for creating, handling, managing, and
    printing barcodes for private or business purpose. kbarcode is able to
    handle all major types of barcodes, like UPC, EAN, CODE39, and ISBN. It
    comes with a label designer to create customized labels and a batch
    print function. It's designed to print several thousands barcodes in
    one pass, but also allows you to easily print a single label. kbarcode
    uses SQL to store all information about articles, barcodes, customers,
    etc. 

KCDLabel 2.11-KDE3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110751/

    KCDLabel is a program to create labels, covers, and booklets for CD
    cases. It can include text, bitmapped images, and directory content
    recursively read from a directory. KCDlabel can print and output
    postscript files. It can also create round labels to stick on CDs.
    KCDLabel can access CDDB to retrieve information about a CD. 

KMovisto  0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110757/

    KMovisto is a free molecule viewer which reads GAUSSIAN files, exports
    POV-Ray scripts for high quality presentations, and VRML files for
    creating 3D molecule sceneries for the Web. 

KSocrat 3.1.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110728/

    KSocrat is the simple English/Russian and Russian/English dictionary
    for the K Desktop Environment. 

Lace2000 2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110743/

    Lace2000 is a theme based on a lace pattern from Lace CD 2000 and some
    bobbin images taken from VanDieren (bobbinmaker.com). 

LibSDBI 0.9.10 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110745/

    LibSDBI is a very simple SQL database interface, for multiple types of
    SQL databases. Its aim is to be able to manage multiple database types
    with a single interface, and it follows the KISS theory. It loads the
    database dependent codes from shared object(.so). In the basic tarball
    the PostgreSQL module is included. 

maildrop 1.5.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110753/

    Maildrop is a powerful email filter/delivery agent. It supports
    mbox-style mailboxes and maildirs (a mail storage format used by
    Qmail). Its mail filtering language supports RFC822 parsing and
    GDBM/Berkeley DB database files. The maildrop package also includes a
    command-line tool to perform various operations on MIME messages. 

man-pages-ja 20030115 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110718/

    man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for
    Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU
    tools, and ones for various opensource applications. 

Mango 0.24 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110747/

    Mango is recipe management software. The main motivation of the project
    is to provide an open source Mealmaster compatible application. 

MiddleMan 1.3.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110727/

    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. 

Modeling Framework 0.8.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110754/

    Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and
    relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create,
    retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without
    having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation
    of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be
    used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in
    relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard
    Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are
    automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic
    checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported
    databases are PostgreSQL and MySQL. 

MP3Gain 1.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110740/

    MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same
    volume. It does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do.
    Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the
    file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes
    are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because
    the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and
    re-encoding. 

mxflat 0.7.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110759/

    mxflat is a theme that was made to match the GTK[1|2]-flat engine. It
    is quite customizable, but also works very well if you do not adjust
    anything. 

Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server 2.2 beta2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110739/

    Nuxeo CPS is the collaborative web content management solution for
    Zope. Users create and manage content in Workgroups and publish them in
    Publications spaces (Hierarchies) through a dedicated workflow.
    Managers can easily set global and local roles for users (Workgroup
    Managers, Members, Visitors, Reviewers, and Readers). All actions are
    available through simple Web interfaces. Nuxeo CPS also features office
    document integration, indexing, and conversion to HTML format;
    versioning; attached comments; interactive services (e.g.
    mailing-lists); and skinning of hierarchies. 

Odin Plus Plus 0.3a 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110738/

    OPP (Odin Plus Plus) is an open source C++ class library intended to
    provide functionality surpassing that of the Rogue Wave class
    libraries. It includes basic object components, a solid thread library,
    and an excellent set of advanced internet components. It also has
    template collection classes, an I/O library, and the beginnings of an
    object database. 

Python/XML 0.8.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110720/

    The Python XML package contains parsers, SAX and DOM interfaces, sample
    programs, and documentation. It is currently in beta. 

QTParted 0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110742/

    QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk
    access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is
    to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM
    clone for Linux. 

Quadromania 0.01 alpha 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110722/

    Quadromania is a board game. The computer is your partner here. It
    scrambles the playing field following defined rules. The task of the
    player is to restore the original state of the playfield by applying
    the same rules. The game is written in C and uses SDL and SDL_image for
    graphics and input. 

RivaTV 0.8.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110762/

    The RivaTV project is trying to produce Linux drivers for graphics
    boards with nVidia chips that have a video-in feature. 

saCASH 0.6.1 alpha 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110748/

    saCash is a Quicken-like financial account manager. It handles multiple
    accounts, account transfers, and reconciles information. 

searchtool 0.4.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110723/

    searchtool is a server browser for Internet games. It features the
    ability to ping servers, download a new serverlist, search for
    player(s), manage your favourite servers, connect to server of choice,
    and more. Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, and Unreal Tournament 2003 are
    supported. 

Steel Bank Common Lisp 0.7.12 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110730/

    Steel Bank Common Lisp is a development environment for Common Lisp,
    with support for almost all of the ANSI standard: garbage collection,
    lexical closures, powerful macros, strong dynamic typing, incremental
    compilation, and the Common Lisp object system (multimethods and all).
    It also includes some extensions, such as an interface to call out to
    C. These are all available through an integrated native compiler, plus
    the usual Lispy integrated interpreter and high level debugging
    support. 

TCP Re-engineering Tool 1.2.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110719/

    TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between
    a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data
    stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol
    (as packet sniffers do). 

UnixODBC.pm 0.19 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110731/

    UnixODBC.pm provides Perl programs with a subset of the X/Open ODBC API
    to the EasySoft unixODBC DBMS libraries, as well as a peer to peer API
    for querying ODBC data sources on networked systems. In addition, it
    provides peer client and server scripts and configuration files, sample
    clients that perform ODBC queries on local and networked systems, and
    two multi-host data managers: one that uses Apache and CGI to provide a
    Web browser interface, and another that uses Perl/Tk. 

UrlGet 0.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110737/

    UrlGet is a download manager that uses GTK+2, libxml2, and libcurl. It
    allows you to classify URLs before downloading them, and allows you to
    import URLs from .html files. Every category has an independent
    configuration that can be inherited by each download in that category. 

Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse 0.9.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110750/

    Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse provides an editor for the scripting
    language of Jakarta's template engine Velocity. The editor is
    implemented as an plugin for the Eclipse platform. 

Video4Linux Grab 0.2.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110741/

    The v4lgrab project is real-time capturing software for a Video4Linux
    device. 

Webcpp 0.8.0 pre2 (Preview)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110721/

    Webcpp (Web C Plus Plus) is a command line utility that takes your
    source code and converts it into an HTML file, using a fully
    customizable syntax highlighting engine and stylesheets. Webcpp
    currently supports Ada95, Assembler, ASP, Basic, C, C#, C++, Cg, CLIPS,
    DOS Batch, EMF, Fortran, Haskell, Java, Javascript, Markup, Modula2,
    Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Power Builder, Python, RenderMan, Ruby,
    SQL, Tcl, Unix shell, and VHDL highlighting. 

Webtop web-based email system 1.40 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110736/

    Webtop is a Web-based POP3 email client that includes many filter
    options, spam fighting features, custom folders, email import/export,
    and email-to-PDF generation. The Webtop also includes a calendar,
    notepad, Webdrive, automated email reminders, contacts, mailing lists,
    and Web-based administration. One installation can support multiple
    users and each user can set up as many POP3 accounts as they need. 

WorDoG 0.6 beta 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110746/

    WorDoG (World Domination Game) is basically a derivate from Risk, the
    popular board game. The project aims to provide this strategical
    multiplayer game on a HTML-only basis. All necessary calculations are
    done serverside by PHP, and data is stored in a database (it can use
    ADOdb). 

Writemime 1.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110716/

    Writemime is a simple C++ package that makes it easy to create and send
    MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) messages in a C++ program.
    It also includes a driver program which allows access to most of the
    functionality from the Unix command line. Creating a message is
    trivially easy and it will handle all encoding issues internally. 

ZoneMinder 0.9.8 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110744/

    ZoneMinder is a set of applications which support capture, analysis,
    recording, and monitoring of video data coming from cameras attached to
    a Linux system. It features a user-friendly Web interface which allows
    viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies captured
    by the cameras. The image analysis system is highly configurable,
    permitting retention of specific events, while eliminating false
    positives. ZoneMinder is built around the definition of a set of
    individual 'zones' of varying sensitivity and functionality for each
    camera. This allows the elimination of regions which should be ignored
    or the definition of areas which will alarm if various thresholds are
    exceeded in conjunction with other zones. All management, control, and
    other functions are supported through the Web interface. 

ZorbIPtraffic 0.05 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110734/

    ZorbIPtraffic shows the IP traffic on a network interface in real time.
    It can display traffic statistics for each IP on your internal network,
    and it summarizes the total traffic for each IP per year, per month,
    and per day. All information is stored in a MySQL database, which makes
    it easy to search the traffic measurements for a specific day.
    ZorbIPtraffic only works if you use iptables. 




Slashcode
Can't locate object method - install-slashsite
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/186232

    I'm getting the following error trying to move our slashsite from my
    devel box over to production. I decided the easist way to do this would
    be to do a clean slashcode install on the production box, then dump the
    DB and assorted config files over. I've gotten the slashcode,
    Bundle::Slash installed (MySQL, Perl, Apache w/ mod_perl were already
    there), and then ran install-slashsite: $ sudo ./install-slashsite What
    is hostname of your Slash site (e.g., www.slashdot.org)? []
    my.hiddenservername.com What user would you like to run your Slash site
    as? [nobody] slash What group would you like to run your Slash site
    under? [slash] OK, I am planning on user my.hiddenservername.com as the
    unique name for the Slash site. If this is not ok, you need to fill in
    something else here. [my.hiddenservername.com] Which theme do you want
    to use? (*)1. slashcode "Slashcode.com theme" Skipping theme select
    since you only have one theme! Theme selected: slashcode Please select
    which plugins you would like ('*' marks default). (*) 1. Admin - "Admin
    Interface" ( ) 2. BunchaBlocks - This is a bunch of portald blocks you
    can add ( ) 3. CheesyPortal - CheesyPortal is a script to get an
    overall look at portal boxes ( ) 4. ForumZilla - "ForumZilla support"
    (*) 5. Hof - "High score stuff" (*) 6. Journal - "Journal system for
    users" (*) 7. Messages - "Messaging system" (*) 8. PubKey - "Just
    allows a user's pubkey to be displayed" (*) 9. Search - Slash Search is
    the default search engine for Slash. Hit 'a' to select all, otherwise
    select comma separated numbers or 'q' to quit a Plugins selected: Admin
    BunchaBlocks CheesyPortal ForumZilla Hof Journal Messages PubKey Search
    Would you like to install all the files as symlinks to the original?
    (If not, each file will be copied to your Slash directories). [Y] N
    Create a name for the site's admin account (8 characters or less).
    [slash] Create a password for the site's admin account. ('QUIT'
    exits):hiddenpasswd What is the email address of the account?
    [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Can't locate object method "prepare"
    via package "BunchaBlocks" (perhaps you forgot to load "BunchaBlocks"?)
    at /path/to/perl/modules/Utility.pm line 334. $ Does anybody have any
    insight into that "Can't locate object method "prepare" via package
    "BunchaBlocks" (perhaps you forgot to load "BunchaBlocks"?) at
    /path/to/perl/modules/Utility.pm line 334." error??? Thanks! 

Background Image
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/184247

    Is it possible to get a background image into the site rather than the
    dull grey? 

Universal Slash Login
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1140217

    I've been posting to a number of slash sites for a rather long time,
    and I've had a thought (although it will probably be proven to be
    crazy). Would it be at all possible to some how create a universal
    login for a group of Slash sites? I'm looking at this from the point of
    convenience, as one log in to rule them all would be great. YASS could
    pop up and existing members of the (perhaps distributed) slash members
    DB could start posting right away, taking their Karma and preferences
    with them. Or perhaps not trying to be as fancy, even a centralised
    user database from which user details could be imported - for example,
    when signing up for a new site, you could have an option saying "import
    my user deatils from site x", at which time you enter your username and
    password for site x. I realise that this may require quite a bit of
    planning in terms of compatibility across different versions of Slash,
    but just how tricky would it be to do such a thing? What draw backs
    would there be to such a scheme, and would anyone actually want
    something like this? 

Slash site dies, slashd running, apache running
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/0549234

    I have a regular web site running at port 81 and slash running at port
    82. I have a default page at port 81 that lets people know that
    something is wrong (since the only reason they should ever see it is if
    they go to the wrong port OR slash has died). About once a week the
    slash site disappears and apache displays the default page for port 81.
    Checking the logs, the last traffic was at 4:48 this morning (it gets
    an hourly check for news). Given the 5 hour offset from GMT (since
    slash wants GMT), it probably died at midnight. Slashd and httpd are
    still running, and giving apachectl a restart returns the site to
    working. I've checked the system logs in /var/log (mainly messages),
    the apache logs in /usr/local/apache/logs, and the slash logs in
    /var/local/slash/site/SITENAME/logs and nothing complains about a
    problem at that time. Crontab doesn't appear to do anything special at
    that time. Any ideas what could cause this? I'm on using redhat 7.1 and
    nothing else strange happens at that time. 

How to "remove" authors?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/1753256

    In our website, we have a long list of users marked as authors for
    historical reasons (we imported tons of articles from a legacy system).
    Most of them are not active anymore and we downgraded seclev to 1, but
    still they are flagged as authors, show up in the author listing and,
    most important, have unlimited moderation power. I don't want to remove
    the username, but is it possible to remove the author flag without
    messing up the display of older stories? 

Installing Slash on OSX (make install)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/0025233

    I get the following error trying install slash on Mac OS X Server 10.2:
    cp -rv plugins/* /usr/local/slash/plugins/ cp: illegal option -- v
    usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i] [-p] src target cp [-R [-H | -L
    | -P]] [-f | -i] [-p] src1 ... srcN directory make: *** [install] Error
    1 what is the v option? --Jeffrey Kunzelman 

New Zoo Code
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/1950206

    New Zoo code in CVS (and running on Slashcode.com right now). Leave me
    a note if you see anything strange with your friends of friends or foes
    of friends. 

Can slash email authors when comments posted?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/1947214

    Is there a way to have slash email the author when one of his stories
    is commented on? I'm using slash as a personal journal, no article
    submissions just the author writing stories. Is there a way to modify
    it so I get an email whenever there's a comment made on one of my
    entries? 

Are there ways to integrate Drupal based sites int
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2342231

    Is slash and drupal close enough in architecture so that they can pull
    stories from each other or comingle successfully? I've enclosed the URL
    and for anyone who doesn't know what it can do. It can be seen at
    http://www.debianplanet.org/ The main page for Drupal is
    http://www.drupal.org/ 

Karma Bonus
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/0015227

    Slash used to allow users with good karma to have a +1 assigned to new
    comments they were creating (so it would increment the value of comment
    at creation). The way this is done was changed recently (like say on
    Wednesday). What happens now is that the comment is logged with a value
    of "yes" for karma_bonus. A user can adjust the value for what this
    bonus means (by default it is +1). When you look on you own page you
    see the raw score, which is 1. We have been getting rid of the +1/-1
    and such type bonuses and going to a system where the user can decide
    what they want to apply for a bonus. 




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