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Sourceforge
openMosix 2.4.20-2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247894
openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image
clustering. Taking n PC boxes, openMosix gives users and applications
the illusion of one single computer with n CPUs. openMosix is perfectly
scalable and adaptive. This release fixes a bug, which affected
SMP-kernels and caused the machine to hang when unmounting filesystems
at reboot. RPMs are compiled with gcc-3.2 under RedHat 8.0. Also: This
release features a new RPM: openmosix-kernel-source, which holds the
kernel tree with the openMosix-patch applied, installed under /usr/src.
Users compiling their own modules have requested this for a while.
(You've got it :) Martin Downloads available from
http://www.openMosix.org
Sodipodi 0.29 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247687
Sodipodi 0.29 is the first version based on Gtk+ 2.0 widget set and
including limited support for Windows32 environment. The list of
required libraries is much shorter than it was before, most notably
both libgnome and libgnomeprint are not needed (although the latter can
be used if present). It also support Xft font database in addition to
gnome-print and privately specified fonts. Being platform port, it
(almost) does not add new user-visible functionality.
AviSynth 2.5.0 Beta Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247836
After a long testing and debugging period, we are now ready to present
the AviSynth 2.5.0 beta. A big thanks to everyone here - the testers -
the patient developers - and those spreading the word of AviSynth! We
have some great features under the hood of the new AviSynth that
hopefully will be able to bring non-linear video editing to a new
level! (ok - enough with the rants). The summed up changes: * Native
planar YV12 support. * Multiple audiochannels. Unlimited number of
channels is now supported. * Float samples support. AviSynth is now
capable of processing samples as floats. * Automatic sample conversion.
If some filters doesn't support a specific sample type, they are
converted to the format preserving most quality. * Optimizations. Many
basic features has been optimized, and now performs much better than
previous versions. * Temporalsoften has a significant speed
improvement, scenechange detection and a new improved blend mode. *
Limiter can limit the YUV ranges, to avoid invalid color values and
improve compression. * ColorYUV makes it possible to do very exact
color corrections. ColorYUV has built-in auto-whitebalance and
auto-gain features. * Select separate planes using UToY, VToY and merge
them together again, using YToUV. * Fliphorizontal. implemented. *
SelectRangeEvery is now part of the core functions. * Blur, Sharpen,
Resize optimized. * Fast XviD colorspace conversions. * Updated
installer. * AviSynth icons. * See clip info using the info() command.
See more info in the release notes!
PalmVNC 2.0 final released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247845
PalmVNC 2.0 is considered stable enough to deserve a "final" label.
Development of version 2.1 is already on track. PalmVNC 2 is the latest
evolution of PalmVNC, the VNC client for the Palm OS platform that
allows remote control of a desktop computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, ...)
over any TCP/IP connection. It supports high resolution on Cli and OS 5
devices.
Double Choco Latte 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247867
Double Choco Latte is a project to create a solution for managing some
IT departments including software development and call center activity.
It has a web interface and will also have a stand-alone Java client.
Added ability to reassign in time cards, track reassignments when done
via time cards, and fixed PHP notices when uploading files.
PyXML 0.8.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247639
Version 0.8.2 of the Python/XML distribution is now available. It
should be considered a beta release. The Python/XML distribution
contains the basic tools required for processing XML data using the
Python programming language, assembled into one easy-to-install
package. The distribution includes parsers and standard interfaces such
as SAX and DOM, along with various other useful modules. PyXML can be
downloaded from the following URLs:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2.tar.gz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2.win32-py2.2.exe
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2-2.2.Suse81.i386.rp
m Changes in this version, compared to 0.8.1: * Updated to Expat 1.95.6
(almost; one last minute bugfix snuck into the Expat release after
PyXML 0.8.2 was released). * Support more DOM L3 features in minidom:
isWhitespaceInElementContent, schemaType, isId, DOMImplementationSource
* Various bug fixes, including - 609641: minidom nodes not pickleable -
618156: Use character references in XMLGenerator if necessary - 622286:
marshal.wddx: 'recordset' element typo - 624420: Can't create 2nd
Sax2.Reader - 665486: Implement SAX skippedEntity for Expat The
Python/XML distribution contains the basic tools required for
processing XML data using the Python programming language, assembled
into one easy-to-install package. The distribution includes parsers and
standard interfaces such as SAX and DOM, along with various other
useful modules. The package currently contains: * XML parsers: Pyexpat
(Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius Garshol), sgmlop (Fredrik Lundh). *
SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol) * minidom DOM implementation (Paul
Prescod, others) * 4DOM and 4XPath from Fourthought (Uche Ogbuji, Mike
Olson) * Schema implementations: TREX (James Tauber) * Various utility
modules and functions (various people) * Documentation and example
programs (various people) The code is being developed bazaar-style by
contributors from the Python XML Special Interest Group, so please send
comments and questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug reports may be filed
on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=6473&atid=106473 For
more information about Python and XML, see:
http://www.python.org/topics/xml/
New Mailing List for Tcl Threads Discussion
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247015
There's now a new mailing list available for people wanting to talk
about threading issues in Tcl and its extensions (especially the Thread
extension, of course.) It's called Tcl-Threads, and to subscribe you
should visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tcl-threads
and follow the instructions there.
Super Sunday Licq 1.2.4
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247122
At the Super Bowl Halftime show, Licq 1.2.4 was released. The ChangeLog
has been updated, so check it out. Licq is an ICQ clone written fully
in C++. It uses an extensive plugin system to manage many different
functions. The main GUI is written using the Qt widget set.
Unfortunately, the Licq Project was $1,999,994.31 short of purchasing a
commercial to announce the release during the Super Bowl. Perhaps next
year..
syscalltrack 0.81 "Cruel Ducky" released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247577
Well, at long last, here's 0.81, "Cruel Ducky". It has several kernel
bug fixes, and support for matching void pointers and support for
strace's follow forks mode. syscalltrack is a linux kernel module and
supporting user space environment which allow interception and
modifying system calls that match user defined criteria. Think of it as
strace on steroids.
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.
Slashdot
Mac vs. PC Digital Photography Comparison Redux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0355243
Macmurph writes "[0]Bibble Labs has [1]released a lightning fast
version of the RAW image convertor, MacBibble. According to MacBibble
creator, Eric Hyman, "MacBibble 3.x is almost 10 times faster than the
manufacturers software when converting RAW files under OSX.".
Prelimenary tests indicate the Mac may be faster than PCs in RAW image
conversion afterall. This calls into question the relevance of the the
hotly debated article [2]Rob Galbraith posted just 3 weeks ago and
[3]discussed here on Slashdot. Two thumbs up for the PowerPC G4's
AltiVec vector processing engine, now being put to work in MacBibble."
Links
0. http://www.bibblelabs.com/
1. http://www.bibblelabs.com/bibble/macnews.thtml
2. http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2003-01/2003_01_07_macpc.html
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/2320219&tid=152
Don't Eat The White Snow Either
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2352230
loteck writes "An interesting article about an Australian ski resort
that is [0] converting human waste into freshly driven snow. The waste
is converted "through a three-step purifying process of UV light
filtration, ozonation and ultra-filtration", and they say it's "even
cleaner than that made from nearby creek water." I think that says more
about the creek than it does the waste."
Links
0. http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Apr_02/story_1349.html
Biotech Genome Patents Invalidated?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0019214
[0]bruthasj writes "The [1]Boston Globe has a piece about all the
Biotechs grabbing patents that dealt with segments of the Human Genome.
It appears there are work arounds and that the USPTO basically
disregards further patents on the genome. As one quoted: ''The land
grab is over''. Read about it [2]here."
Links
0. http://{bruthasj} {at} {yahoo.com}
1. http://www.boston.com/
2.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/029/business/Putting_patents_in_their_place+.shtml
Steam Powered Underwater Jet Engine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2357231
Bob Vila's Hammer writes "An Australian engineer, Alan Burns invented a
very efficient [0]underwater steam powered jet engine. "Steam that is
produced from a petrol or gasoline fueled boiler emerges at high speed
from a rearward-facing ring-shaped nozzle into a cone-shaped chamber.
Shock waves created as the steam condenses are focused by the chamber
to blast water out of the back. Besides powering watercraft pretty
efficiently, it can also be used as an extremely robust pump. Pretty
Cool."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993321
Sen. Feingold Reintroduces Radio Competition Bill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/004221
[0]jonerik writes "[1]Billboard [2]is reporting that [3]Sen. Russ
Feingold (D-Wisc.) has reintroduced his [4]Competition in Radio and
Concert Industries Act, which is aimed at limiting the concentration of
radio stations and concert promoters in the hands of a few large
companies, such as [5]Clear Channel. In addition, the bill would close
loopholes in payola laws which currently permit 'pay-for-play' deals
between record companies and radio stations 'unless an appropriate
sponsorship identification announcement is made.' The bill's
introduction comes as [6]the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation prepares to hold [7]a hearing Thursday on the problems
of radio consolidation, and the committee's chairman, [8]Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.), is expected to sign on soon as the bill's
co-sponsor."
Links
0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
1. http://www.billboard.com/
2.
http://www.billboard.com/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1805823
3. http://feingold.senate.gov/
4. http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/releases/03/01/2003128910.html
5. http://www.clearchannel.com/
6. http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/
7. http://commerce.senate.gov/~commerce/press/03/2003124A29.html
8. http://mccain.senate.gov/
George Lucas Consolidates his Empire
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/0024255
[0]Shadowcat writes "George Lucas is consolidating his galaxy, merging
LucasArts, Lucas Digital (ILM & Skywalker Sound), Lucas Licensing, and
Lucasfilm into one mega-corporation to provide a single place to create
all sorts of media. You can find the [1]article on [2]SF Chronicle
Site."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/29/BU13556.DTL
2. http://sfgate.com
Rambus Wins Case Against Infineon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2217254
[0]rednoise writes "[1]Yahoo is running a story about how a Federal
Circuit Court in California (I think) has (unbelievably) ruled that
RAMBUS did NOT intentionally mislead members of JEDEC when the
committee was developing the SDRAM specification. RAMBUS' stock
skyrocketed something like 57% on the news. This is very bad news for
owners of computers."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=1&cid=581&u=/nm/20030129/tc_nm/tech_rambus_dc
Your Tax Dollars Buying Open Source Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2143217
Roblimo has a story over at NewsForge about [0]DevIS, a software
company that [1]relies on Free and open source software to not just
weather but actually do well in the current software economy. Part of
the reason may be that the company doesn't preach software philosophy;
they just find that combining well-tested (and mostly GPL'd) software
tools is the path of least resistance when it comes to building
Internet applications. Most of their work is for the Federal
government; always nice to see public dollars supporting public
software. Can anyone point out other good examples of similar
businesses?
Links
0. http://www.devis.com
1. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/01/28/1829254.shtml?tid=3
MPlayer Licence Trouble With A Twist
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1934211
protonman writes "A hefty flame war has broken loose on the
[0]debian-devel mailinglist about (amongst other things) the legality
of mplayer. The interesting part in this conflict is that unlike in
previous alledged GPL violations, the culprit is not the unwillingness
to provide the source, but the prohibition of the distribution of
binaries, thereby violating section 6 of the GPL: 'You may not impose
any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights
granted herein.' Read also the blurb on [1]the MPlayer homepage."
Links
0. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01676.html
1. http://mp.dev.hu/homepage/
P2P Content Delivery for Open Source
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1823218
Orasis writes "The [0]Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to
help deliver open source, public domain, and [1]Creative
Commons-licensed content using [2]peer-to-peer technology. The network
is essentially a huge 'virtual web server' that links together
thousands of computers for the purpose of helping out
over-burdened/[3]slashdotted web sites. Any existing mirror or web site
can easily [4]join the OCN by tweaking the HTML on their site."
Links
0. http://open-content.net/
1. http://creativecommons.org/
2. http://open-content.net/specs/
3. http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci214064,00.html
4. http://open-content.net/publish.html
Freshmeat
Allegro 4.1.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111064/
Allegro is a multi-platform game library for C/C++ developers that
provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard,
mouse, and joystick), and timers. It also provides fixed and floating
point mathematical functions, 3D functions, file management functions,
compressed datafile, and a GUI.
ASCII animation interpreter 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111096/
ASCII animation interpreter is a small scripting language for animating
ASCII-art.
BitTorrent++ 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111015/
BitTorrent++ is a client for the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing
solution. Based on the original BitTorrent software, it is also written
in Python using wxPython for the GUI, thus allowing it to run on Win32
as well as Linux-like platforms. It improves (or will improve) many
parts of the original software, like downloading of multiple files at
once, configuration of upload and download speeds, as well as other
behaviours. The GUI and usability is also to be improved greatly.
Blassic 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111145/
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.
Botan 1.1.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111140/
Botan is a library of cryptographic algorithms written in C++. It
includes a wide selection of block and stream ciphers, public key
algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication codes. It has an
easy-to-use filter interface and supports many common industry
standards, including X.509v3.
Calculating Pi 2003-01-29 (Ramanujan)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111116/
ProjectPi is a project to calculate the mathematical constant Pi
through various methods.
cdrtools 2.01a02 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111117/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW
recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It
supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and
ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include
IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and
mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO,
RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI
support and can access local or remote CD writers.
Chaperon 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111013/
Chaperon is a LALR parser, which parses structured text documents and
generates XML documents as output. It includes a parser generator like
yacc and a regex scanner like lex. As input, it uses Chaperon, a
grammar written in XML. The project includes a Ant task and transformer
components for the Apache Cocoon project.
CryptoHeaven 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111079/
CryptoHeaven offers secure email and online file sharing/storage. Its
main features are secure and highly encrypted services such as group
collaboration, file sharing, email, online storage, and instant
messaging. It integrates multi-user based security into email, instant
messaging, and file storage and sharing in one unique package. It
provides real time communication for text and data transfers in a
multi-user secure environment. The security and usability of
CryptoHeaven is well-balanced; even the no-so-technically oriented
computer users can enjoy this crypto product with very high level of
encryption.
DAME 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111101/
DAME (Database Access Made Easy) lets you create C++ classes from SQL
statements. Database access libraries are available for Oracle and
PostgreSQL.
darklight fluxbox 1.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111069/
darklight is a good, dark theme.
Dnsmasq 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111122/
Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder designed to
provide DNS (domain name) services to a small network where using BIND
would be overkill. It can have its upstream DNS servers automatically
configured by PPP or DHCP, and it can serve the names of local machines
which are not in the global DNS. It can integrate with the ISC DHCP
daemon to serve the names of local machines which are configured using
DHCP. Dnsmasq is ideal for networks behind NAT routers and connected
via modem, ISDN, ADSL, or cable-modem connections.
dvb-mpegtools 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111109/
dvb-mpegtools provides various small programs helpful for converting,
demuxing, changing, analyzing, and remuxing MPEG transport streams
coming from DVB receiver cards. They mostly work on the PES level, but
tools for manipulating elementary streams are also included. The
package used to be included with the DVB driver.
Eiffel Wrapper Generator 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111148/
EWG (Eiffel Wrapper Generator) is a tool that generates Eiffel wrapper
classes for C libraries. It can be used to create libraries that bridge
the gap between Eiffel and C. It aims to work for arbitrary ANSI C and
with all common Eiffel compilers.
eL DAPo 1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111105/
eL DAPo is a PHP-based application for managing and querying LDAP
servers. It can rename, modify, and delete LDAP entries, as well as
modify, add, and delete attributes associated with an entry. Search
filters can be changed while a session is open, so users only have to
bind with the LDAP server once. eL DAPo also includes a configuration
file to make it fit well to your current schema.
Examplotron 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111104/
Examplotron is a XML schema language based of examples: instead of
using a specific syntax to say that there should be an element
"foo" here, you just write the element:
"<foo/>".
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111111/
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.
Gentoo BootConsole 2003 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111137/
Gentoo BootConsole 2003 is a greeter theme for Gentoo with an
"industrial" touch.
GKrellM 2.1.7 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111114/
GKrellM is a GTK-based stacked monitor program that charts SMP CPUs,
disks, load, active net interfaces, and internet connections. There are
also builtin monitors for memory and swap, file systems with
mount/umount feature, mailbox checking including POP3 and IMAP,
clock/calendar, laptop battery, sensors (temperatures, voltages, and
fans), and uptime. It has LEDs for the net monitors and an on/off
button and online timer for PPP. There is a GUI popup for
configuration, plugin extensions can be installed, and many themes are
available. It also features a client/server monitoring capability.
GKsu 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111150/
GKsu is a GTK+ frontend to the su and sudo programs. It supports login
shells and preserving environment variables, and is useful for
launching graphical programs that need to run as another user. When
operating as a sudo replacement, it respects /etc/sudoers definitions.
Gnarwl 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111138/
Gnarwl is an email autoreply tool like vacation(1). However, instead of
requiring system accounts for every email address, it looks up its user
information in an LDAP database. With gnarwl, users are no longer
required to mess around with .forward files in order to use an email
autoresponder.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111106/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by
both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured
documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The
program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts.
It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra
systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language,
which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs,
and even to extend the editor.
GWorkspace 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111134/
GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager. It is a clone of
NeXT's workspace manager. It is ready for daily usage.
hdup 1.5.4.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111110/
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).
Highlight 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111146/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX
converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It
supports ADA 95, Assembler, Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Fortran, Java,
Javascript, Lua, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, (Object) Pascal, Ruby, Tcl/Tk and
Visual Basic files. It's possible to easily enhance Highlight's parsing
database.
imgSeek 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111089/
imgSeek is a photo collection manager capable of searching through an
image database, in which the query is expressed either as a rough
sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. You simply
draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for
you a thumbnail view of the best matches. You may also create
slideshows, generate Web photo albums, edit image metadata including
EXIF JPEG data, organize images into a keyword hierarchy, and more.
Javasynth 0.5-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111099/
Javasynth is a Java-based system for creating (rather experimental)
modular audio systems called sound modules. This allows synthesizers of
some kind to be assembled in a modular fashion using oscillators,
amplifiers, envelopes, filters, and other components familiar to those
that have worked with hardware synthesizers. It includes a separated
synth engine and a Swing user interface for building sound modules.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.1a (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111142/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple
(external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading,
synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, upload limits
(experimental), VPNs, ToS, denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list
IP, log options and more. It doesn't flush all your existing iptables
rules.
jMoney@Home 0.52pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111107/
jMoney@Home is a small financial software package that lets you manage
your household. It uses MySQL for its data, supports networking, and
has multiuser support.
KmusicdB 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111149/
KmusicdB is a music information manager for KDE, using PostgreSQL as a
backend. You can add your music collection to the database, and view it
in a convenient browser. It currently supports the ability to add and
edit artists, add and edit titles (with album pictures), and a track
editor. The ability to generate reports and statistics, and also to
search the database is implemented, as well as creating and opening,
backing up and restoring databases. It is highly customizable, and
fast. CDDB functionality has also been implemented.
KricketScoreboard 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111128/
KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches.
It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing,
batting and bowling statistics, etc.
libnova 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111131/
Libnova is the astronomical calculation engine used in the Nova
project. It can currently calculate:- Aberration, Nutation, Apparent
Position, Dynamical Time, Julian Day, Precession, Proper Motion,
Sidereal Time, Solar Coordinates, Coordinate Transformations, and
Planetary Positions (Mercury - Neptune using VSOP87).
LinCompta Pro 0.3.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111048/
LinCompta Pro is a French professional analytical accounting program.
It was developed with GTK 1.2, GNOME, and MySQL.
Linux Progress Patch 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111115/
The Linux Progress Patch is a kernel patch which displays a full-screen
logo with a progress bar and some informational text while booting. It
hides the normal startup messages printed by the kernel, and is meant
for people that don't care about complicated and possibly confusing
boot messages.
Linux Progress Patch 2.4.20-LPP (Untested)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111108/
The Linux Progress Patch is a kernel patch which displays a full-screen
logo with a progress bar and some informational text while booting. It
hides the normal startup messages printed by the kernel, and is meant
for people that don't care about complicated and possibly confusing
boot messages.
mailsync 4.5 (*)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111100/
Mailsync is a way of synchronizing a collection of mailboxes. The
algorithm is a 3-way diff. Two mailboxes are simultaneously compared to
a record of the state of both mailboxes at last sync. New messages and
message deletions are propagated between the two mailboxes. Mailsync
can synchronize local mailbox files in many formats and remote
mailboxes over IMAP, POP, and IMAPS.
mod_spam_die 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111102/
mod_spam_die confuses spam crawlers by giving them infinite fake email
addresses. It is inspired by DIE.net and spam-conference.
Mrwtoppm 0.0.a8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111132/
Mrwtoppm provides a command line utility and a Gimp plugin for
processing RAW image files from Minolta's DiMAGE 5 and 7 series digital
cameras. The programs decode Minolta's RAW format, perform Bayer
pattern interpolation, and color space conversion. The programs also
perform tone control and sharpening in CIELab color space. Utilities
for displaying much of the additional data stored in the RAW file are
also included.
netspeed_applet for gnome 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111112/
netspeed_applet is a little GNOME applet that shows the traffic on a
specified network device (for example eth0) in kbytes/s.
nfstimesync 1.0.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111119/
nfstimesync is a tool for synchronizing the time of an NFS server and
client without root rights. It was developed to allow the
"make" program work correctly with NFS. It was tested on
Linux, but should be easily portable to any Unix with LD_PRELOAD
enabled.
openMosix Cluster for Linux 2.4.20-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111129/
openMosix is a a set of extensions to the standard Linux kernel
allowing you to build a cluster of out of off-the-shelf PC hardware.
openMosix scales perfectly up to thousands of nodes. You do not need to
modify your applications to benefit from your cluster (unlike PVM, MPI,
Linda, etc.). Processes in openMosix migrate transparently between
nodes and the cluster will always auto-balance.
OpenSched 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111103/
OpenSched is used to automatically schedule resources for a project.
For instance, if 5 programmers cooperate on a software development
project, and 100 tasks must be done, opensched can capture information
about who can do what, what tasks depend on which, etc.
palito 2003-01-29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111125/
palito is a real-time strategy game inspired by Total Annihilation.
PHPwebmail 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111133/
PHPwebmail is a Web-based IMAP and SMTP mail client. Often it is not
possible to make outside mail connections from networks behind strict
firewalls, or to configure a regular mail client (for example in an
Internet cafe). With PHPwebmail a mail client only needs a WWW
connection to the mailserver. Specifically it only needs a connection
to the webserver hosting PHPwebmail. Most of the times the Web and mail
server will be the same machine but PHPwebmail can connect to other
mailservers as well as long as an IMAP connection between these two
machines is allowed.
PixiePlus 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111055/
PixiePlus is a free, fast, and feature packed image browser, viewer,
and manager for Unix/Linux systems. It features fast and flexible
thumbnail preview generation, embedded JPEG and TIFF thumbnail support,
support for over 80 image formats, highly configurable HTML export,
batch conversion and effects, animated slideshows, similiar image
finding, and file management.
PJIRC 1.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111147/
PJIRC is a very complete IRC applet which handles multichannel,
privates, text coloration, graphical smileys, etc. In addition, it's
still quite light.
S tar 1.5a11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111118/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes
POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives.
Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It
saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for
speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive
sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags,
automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition,
automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and
special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental
backups. It includes the only known platform independent
"rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The
"rmt" server from the star package implements all
Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client
from any OS to contact any OS as server.
Scoutplans 4.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111080/
Scoutplans was originally developed as a method for Scout units to
share calendars with each other. It has evolved into a general-purpose
calendar (called "Plans") with many useful features. These
include recurring events, support for multiple organizations, merged
calendars, event icons, "skinnable" stylesheet-based look
& feel, MS outlook export, online help, and more.
SDBA Revolution 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111126/
SDBA Revolution is an open-source server written in Perl which provides
an architecture to simplify and streamline the process of writing
applications that run on an instant messaging network. It features easy
scripting of IM responses, session variables which are consistent
across messages, session time limits, support for multiple
"apps" from one bot, basic security, and the ability to use
multiple access lists of password files. It makes writing IM apps very
much like writing mod_perl or PHP pages. The homepage has full
tutorials and documentation.
SDL.NET 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111092/
SDL.NET is a set of language bindings for SDL and SDL_mixer written in
C#, which allows easy development of games using Microsoft's .NET
framework. It should work on any .NET-capable machine.
SimpleData 3.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111141/
SimpleData is a Web application for managing your sales, inventory,
invoices, quotes, purchases, and requests for quotes. It offers the
ability to track all payments and balances on purchases and orders, and
allows reports and forms to be printed or emailed. The printed forms
are intended to fit in a standard 2-pane envelope for easy mailing. It
features four sales and purchase reports, and can be easily extended.
Smilehouse Workspace 0.9.1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111135/
Smilehouse Workspace is a Java servlet based application meant to ease
product, order, and customer management. It currently runs and is
tested and developed on Tomcat. It has two Web-based interfaces. The
first is a themed interface visible to the public, and the second is a
separate administration interface that allows the management of users,
content, and the visual appearance for the public service. This makes
completely browser-based creation and management of a service such as
an e-business site and related CRM possible.
Steel Icons 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111091/
Steel Icons is an icon set for KDE comprised of Steel/Silver icons with
shadows. It is based on the "Digital Reality" icons (mostly
the same, but with shadows and not green).
sysstat 4.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111040/
The sysstat package contains the sar, mpstat, and iostat commands for
Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity
information. This information can also be saved in a system activity
file for future inspection. The iostat command reports CPU statistics
and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The statistics reported
by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related
activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space
utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics,
among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.
vncrypt 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111113/
This is cryptographic disk driver for FreeBSD. It provides transparent
encryption and decryption of selected devices. It is based on vn(4).
white_dune 0.20beta183 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111130/
VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for
displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for
animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound).
Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the
scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml
format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators.
It also has support for stereoscopic view via
"quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.
WidgetWeb 0.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111124/
WidgetWeb is a framework for creating community-shared Web sites
similar to wikis. These are Web sites where content and page
composition can be edited via a Web browser. A powerful permission
model is provided to restrict which community members are allowed to
edit. WidgetWeb is built on a simple premise: components comprise a web
page and components can be nested to create more complicated effects.
This provides for easy browser-based editing.
WireFusion 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110986/
WireFusion allows interactive, plug-in free, and very compact Java
presentations and product simulations to be created for the Web.
Development involves visually connecting preprogrammed objects or by
coding in Java. Several add-ons are available, including a real-time 3D
engine where textures can be replaced with interactive 2D
presentations, an MPEG video player, a slide show viewer, and an MP3
player.
xmmsC 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111136/
xmmsC is a small program suite for irssi which reads what XMMS is
currently is playing and prints out this information to an IRC channel.
The song's title is read from its ID3 tag. If there is no ID3 tag, the
XMMS playlist entry is used instead.
XPix 0.1pre
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111058/
XPix is a command-line images viewer that is designed for situations
where images must be viewed quickly and the functionality of a full-
blown image viewer and manager is not required. It uses ImageMagick and
Xlib to display images, experimentally displays animated GIFs, and does
not use a "panner" widget. It also supports MIT-SHM and the
NET- WM desktop spec for properly calculating the desktop size,
avoiding the excessive resizing and scaling problems in other Xlib
image viewers.
Slashcode
Problems with Journal/Messages
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2253200
I've just installed a slash site at the URL http://gytha.anu.edu.au/
which will be used for an internal website for our Hall of Residence,
Bruce Hall, at the ANU. The initial install seems to be working fine,
except for two things. The Journal and Messages links in the first box
don't work - they return internal server configuration errors. I don't
even know where to begin to look at why this might be the case, so I'm
just after a bit of advice as to where to look for reasons for these
errors. I'm running it on a box with a full install of RH8, and had no
problems at all during the installation process (which came as a shock
to me considering my previous attempts at installing slash). I know I
haven't configured other things on the site yet, but I'll get around to
that once everything else is working. Any help anyone out there can
offer would be appreciated.
Does anyone write design documents?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1732240
Not wanting to duplicate any work or step on toes, I'm hoping for some
insight on current work taking place WRT sharing themes and plugins.
Some documentation and specifications that goes further than the
material in the O'Rielly book would be helpful, and I'm even willing to
write something up after grokking the code and templates more fully.
Also, has anyone started trying to put together a repository of plugins
and themes? The 'plugin' box on the slashcode home page would seem to
be the right place for this to show up, but I didn't find any pages
that didn't just say "we're working on this, and could use more help".
Why does "reply" block appear 2 miles sout
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/0018216
Thanks to a grant from the Markle Foundation, and the good offices of
Openflows, we've converted ICANNWatch.org to Slash from PHP-Nuke
version 4.2... preserving our archives, and also forwarding from links
to our old content. (We'll be open sourcing the conversion script in
due course.) Mostly everything is great, but we have a few problems.
The most immediate problem, which is producing lots of complaints, is
that for some reason the "reply" button is appearing several screens
below the end of the story text. You can see an example of the problem
here and here and here. This happens in both Mozilla and Explorer, so I
don't think it's a simple browser issue... [We also can't get
meta-moderation to wake up despite having many comments in the system
and several high-karma users, but that's a less immediate worry...]
Commentcount field in stories table always zero
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/1924237
I just installed Slash onto my box and I'm doing some testing and
poking around. One thing I can't figure out is how I enable the
comments counter next to the 'Read More...' link. I'm adding comments,
but my index page refuses to show the number of comments for each
article. I first thought it's one of the vars or maybe it's part of the
template. Now, looking at the 'stories' table in my slash database, I
notice that the 'commentcount' field in each row is zero, although I
added a few comments from various accounts. How can that be? Otherwise,
Slash is working just fine and I have experienced no trouble, but I
really want that comment counter for my articles. Help would be greatly
appreciated.
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
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