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Interests: O'Reilly Coaster Set
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/other/5c2c/
Cube Goodies: Meetings
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/posters/despair/5cd9/
Gadgets: Radiation Detection Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5cef/
Cube Goodies: Indifference
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/posters/despair/5cdb/
Cube Goodies: Motivation
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/posters/despair/5cd7/
Computing: iGesture Pad
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5cca/
Electronics: SOCOM Navy Seals for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5ceb/
Electronics: PowerPad Pro XBOX Controller
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxhard/5bec/
Electronics: SI-5 Gen2 Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5c86/
Electronics: Panzer Dragoon ORTA for Xbox
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5ce8/
Computing: PowerPad Extended Life Notebook Batteries
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cec/
Computing: Glow Wire PC Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5b85/
Gadgets: ER1 Personal Robot System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ce0/
Gadgets: Securikey Authentication System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5cd6/
Electronics: Infoglobe Caller ID Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5c83/
Computing: Dual RW DVD/CD Internal Drive
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5c94/
Computing: ADS Firewire Drive Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5cd1/
Electronics: PS2 Network Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2hard/5bd7/
Computing: Asylum GeForce Ti4600 AGP 4x
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/5ce3/
Computing: D-Link USB/FM Radio Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cc7/
Sourceforge
AOLserver 4.0 beta 2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250769
The second beta release of AOLserver 4.0 is available. In addition to
bug fixes, this includes enhancements for international and Win32
support. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable
and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites.
AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic
page scripting language.
Tiny COBOL Compiler release 0.60
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250879
The Tiny COBOL compiler project is developing a COBOL compiler for use
on Linux; it generates GNU x86 assembler code. With this release,
improvements have been made in the following areas: locking for
relative files, better support of print files (write after and before
advancing) and better compatibility with 85 Standard for some indexed
file I/O operations.
Mailman 2.1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250930
This is the the first patch release of GNU Mailman 2.1.1 Mailman is
free software that enables users to manage email mailing lists and
e-newsletters. Its integrated web interface provides easy-to-use access
for list members and list administrators. Mailman supports built-in
archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest
delivery, spam filters, and more. Mailman 2.1.1 is a bug fix release,
including the patching of a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
Marathon 0.12 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251022
Marathon runs gui based acceptance tests against swing applications. It
is composed of a runner, and recorder, and an editor, and its tests
scripts will be stored using a simple python based language. This
release includes bug fixes, feature enhancements and is more readily
usable (a single .JAR contains everything you need). details at
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=46616&release_id=
139116
JFreeChart 0.9.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250290
JFreeChart version 0.9.5 has been posted. This release contains the
much-requested dual axis charts, plus a host of other changes.
JFreeChart is a class library, written in Java, for generating charts.
Utilising the Java2D APIs, it currently supports bar charts, pie
charts, line charts, XY-plots and time series plots.
POPFile v0.18.0 Windows and Cross Platform Release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250488
It has been close to 2 months since the last POPFile release and boy
have I and others been busy. POPFile v0.18.0 is a *major* change from
v0.17.9 and you'd do well to read the section entitled ESSENTIAL
READING before you install it. POPFile is an email classification tool
with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It
runs on most platforms and with most email clients. This version is
backwards compatible with previous versions (even autofixing some
errors that the old versions created) but there are some differences.
This is also the first release in which two additional developers
(additional to me that is) really contributed a lot of code to POPFile.
They are Stanley Krute and Sam Schinke. Stan and Sam worked on many of
the changes to POPFile (which you can read all about in the CVS logs)
including massive changes to the mail parser, whole new skinning
system, HTML 4.01 compliance, tons of testing, lots of user interface
changes. Guys, *you* made a big difference to POPFile, and I want to
say a big "Thank you" in public. This version of POPFile supports
unlimited numbers of connections, multiple natural languages, has a
much improved UI, has many improvements to help catch spam, has a new
Quarantine feature that lets POPFile automatically hide all the mail in
a specific bucket (each mail is replaced with a new mail stating that
POPFile quarantined a message with an option to see the original), and
incorporates features and bug fixes submitted by users. ESSENTIAL
READING 1. BACK UP YOUR OLD INSTALLATION: POPFile makes this really
easy, just copy the entire POPFile directory somewhere. You can then
safely install POPFile v0.18.0 on top of your current installation; I
just think a back up is a sensible precaution. 2. YOUR HISTORY WILL
CLEAR: I have changed the format of the History files used in this
version which means that the old History files will not be read by
POPFile and will in fact be deleted to save disk space. If you need to
do any reclassifications prior to installing v0.18.0 do them! POPFile
does NOT clear buckets, statistics or anything else on install of this
version, just the History files. To refresh the History view click the
History tab at any time; POPFile will check disk for new messages. 3.
IF YOU HAD BROKEN MAGNETS: I have added automatic update of broken
magnets. If you had a magnet like [foo] which POPFile mistakenly
changed to \[foo\] it should get magically fixed and start working. 4.
ACCURACY MIGHT DROP FOR A SHORT WHILE: because of some changes made in
the mail parser it is possible that you might see accuracy drop
initially and you may find yourself reclassifying a few messages that
used to work. This is unfortunate but necessary to make POPFile even
more accurate than before and v0.18.0 incorporates changes that make
POPFile's classification accuracy better; however old corpuses might
need a little retraining. DOWNLOADING You can obtain the latest release
of POPFile by visiting
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63137 UPGRADING
Just install POPFile on top of the currently installed version. But did
you read the ESSENTIAL READING above first? FAQ zonk3r has spent a
great deal of time on a POPFile FAQ. Please check it out as it covers
many questions that you might have:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14421&group_id=6313
7 THE GORY DETAILS 1. Total rearchitecture of the POPFile code into a
collection of loadable modules to allow for future expansion of POPFile
with different proxy services and different UIs. The major modules are
now: - popfile.pl: controlling process that loads the modules that
implement POPFile's main functionality; - Proxy::POP3 the original POP3
proxying code from POPFile separated into its own module. In future we
should expect to be able to have other Proxy:: modules such as
Proxy::IMAP. - UI::HTML contains the current HTML user interface. I
hope that we'll add other UI modules such as UI::XMLRPC or UI::SOAP in
future. - Classifier::Bayes is the module that does the Naive Bayes
classification. (Note this module also includes a method called
classify_and_modify that performs the classification and modification
of email messages that may be of use to other module writers) POPFile
now supports two process types: the top level process round robins
between the main modules listed above providing concurrent access to
the UI and POP3 proxy. The POP3 proxy itself (see below) forks to
provide multiple simultaneous connections. (That last part was
originally requested by sschinke) 2. Introduction of a scheme for
localization of the user interface using message catalogs stored in the
languages/ subfolder. Currently shipping with languages: English,
French, German, Danish, Dutch, Brazilian, and (for fun and for testing)
H4X0R. Translators can take the English.msg file and translate the
strings within to create their own language for the user interface.
POPFile detects available languages on start up and they are available
from the Configuration page. (Originally requested by pfaelzerchen) 3.
Rework of much of the user interface to make pages shorter and clearer.
This is mostly limited to look and feel and no items have changed tab
in the UI. 4. Total rewrite of the history caching code for clarity
with a change from multiple arrays to a single hash containing all the
cached information. 5. Automatic update checking now defaults to off
and there's a large explanation of what it does in the user interface
to allay the fears of many people concerning the possibility that
programs like POPFile are spying on them. (Requested by quite a few
people) 6. When creating the user interface password the password is
now hidden when typing it. (Requested by kraelen, pfaelzerchen) 7. The
Proxy::POP3 now forks after a new connection is accepted from a valid
client and calls a special child() method that handles the connection
between a client and mail server via POPFile for the life of the client
connection. This is the beginning of a version of POPFile that supports
a very large number of clients. (Requested by many people) 8. A new
command line parameter -test_language can be set to 1 for UI
translators. The UI will show the language identifiers used for each
element rather than the strings associated with the identifier. 9.
Rework of the History page to take into account ideas and suggestions
from many people: Search now operates on From and Subject, From and
Subject have popup windows to show the full text of each, you can sort
by ID, From, Subject or Classification, you can filter by magnet
classified mail, navigation is at the top and the bottom, state is
remembered so that you can sort/filter and remove pages and reclassify
and stay in the same place, many small improvements. 10. Major work on
the MailParse.pm for dealing with improved mail parsing and the
handling of spammers tricks (like S P A C E D out words etc.). Switch
to using the Base64 and QuotedPrint modules from CPAN for improved mail
cracking. (Work done mainly by sschinke) 11. Automated test suite now
part of POPFile. (Suggested by aziegler) 12. Rework of all the HTML and
CSS so that everything can be skinned and so that the complete UI is
HTML 4.01 compliant. (Work done mainly by stanley_krute; there was a
request from nobody for this) 13. You can now filter the History page
by magnet filtered mails to look at them or delete them. (Requested by
jarmstro, tcdk, msc_buff, fitzsimons, dyoungmcwicom) 14. The UI
password no longer appears in URLs in plain text (requested by gribnif)
15. You can do multiple classifications at a time by selecting multiple
messages and changing the drop down and hitting any Reclassify button.
(Requested by dave823; implemented by sschinke) 16. You can now sort
the History page by message ID, From, Subject and Classification
(bucket). (Requested by jerometremblay, tomvoss, biobear) 17. When you
remove a page the History no longer goes back to the start but stays at
the same place in the History if it can. (Requested by ajweiner) 18.
After you reclassify a message the History page stays at the same
position (at the reclassified message). (Requested by harleythebrave,
transit) 19. The installer now picks up old settings from a current
POPFile install to fill in the options on the final dialog. (Requested
by harleythebrave) 20. Added two new options -logdir and -msgdir to
specify the location of the log directory (default to ./) and the
messages (where the history is stored; defaults to messages/).
(Requested by nobody) 21. Search in History now works on From as well
as Subject. (Requested by transit) 22. The navigation from page to page
in the History is now at the top and at the bottom of the page.
(Requested by transit, nobody, nobody, nobody) 23. There are new
[Remove] buttons on each message in the History to let you remove
messages one by one. (Requested by nobody) 24. The X-POPFile-Link:
repositions the History page at the message selected when you click the
link. (Requested by zonk3r) 25. There is a new filter for unclassified
messages. (Requested by nobody) 26. New -toptoo command line option
enables classification on the POP3 TOP command and is only recommended
for people on fast connections. (Requested by jberkes) 27. When viewing
a colorized message there is a blank line between the header and the
body of the message. (Requested by whiteg) 28. Message IDs (and History
filenames) are now globally unique per POPFile install. (Requested by
helphand) 29. You can now control the inclusion of the
X-Text-Classification and X- POPFile-Link headers. (Requested by
nobody) 30. Refreshing a page does not repeat the action any more.
(Reported by nobody) 31. Fixed a bug where magnets with certain
characters in them (e.g. [ or <) did not work and could not be deleted.
(Reported by nobody, nobody, nobody, alanmuk, boneill, bana-sea-) 32.
Fixed a bug where you could make POPFile exit with a divide by zero
error if you started it with no corpus and then tried to Lookup a
word's probability. (Reported by sunshine, gribnif) 33. Fixed a bug
where the Shutdown link on the POPFile Control Center did not work if
the UI password had been set. (Reported by actoews, nobody) 34. Fixed
an embarassing bug where any POP server that contained the word 'stat'
would not work with POPFile. (Reported by nobody, markabcxyz) 35. Fixed
a bug where To magnets did not work correctly in the presence of other
To style email headers. (Reported by dyoungmcwicom) 36. Fixed a bug
where a specific email was causing the History page to lock up when you
tried to view the colorized version. (Reported by ajweiner) 37. Fixed a
bug where having pages in POPFile automatically refresh every ten
minutes could cause POPFile to repeat an action (such as
Reclassification) every 10 minutes. (Reported by mayfoev) 38. Fixed a
bug where parts of a > attribute could appear in the From or Subject
lines on the History (Reported and fixed by sschinke) 39. Fixed a bug
where some CLS and MSG files were not getting deleted from the History
when they were no longer needed. (Reported by helphand) TRANSLATIONS
Thanks to the following for helping to make POPFile a global piece of
software: Brazilian Adriano RG Danish Nicki Brøchner Nielsen Dutch
Jilles Oldenbeuving French Antony Boucher German Matthias Deege
Norweigian Jo Inge Fjellstad Russian Alexander Saltanov Please
translate the UI and the manual into your language. DONATIONS Thank you
to everyone who as clicked the Feed Me! button and donated their hard
earned cash to me in support of POPFile. Thank you also to the people
who have contributed patches, feature requests and bug reports. Keep
the ideas and bug reports coming. John.
samba-vscan 0.3.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250483
The new release offers some performance improvements, a basic ICAP
client to re-enable Symantec support, some fixes for F-Prot daemon and
updates for mks. samba-vscan is a proof-of-concept module for Samba,
which uses the VFS (virtual file system) features of Samba 2.2.x/3.0
alphaX to provide on-access virus scanning. Samba is an Open
Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print
services to SMB/CIFS clients
HP Inkjet Linux Driver 1.3.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250494
The Hewlett-Packard Co. Linux Inkjet Driver Project is a add-on to the
GNU Ghostscript application. This driver is based on the Hewlett
Packard Appliance APDK for deskjet printers. This HP Inkjet Linux
Driver (HPIJS) release includes support for custom paper sizes, and a
number of bug fixes. The complete list of changes in this release
include: 1. Added data compression to DJ3320. 2. Changed the default
black pen vertical alignment value for the DJ3320. 3. Added support for
custom paper size. 4. Removed 3425-COVER paper size, this is now a
custom paper size. 5. Added Printable Area documentation. 6. Fixed a
Officejet hang problem (ie: Officejet 500/600/700 and PSC 300). The
Officejet would hang after printing a job. See hpinkjet.sourceforge.net
and the hpijs_readme.html file for more information.
PKS 0.9.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250516
PKS is an OpenPGP Public Key Server. It allows users to store and
lookup public keys from the server's database. It can also synchronize
with other servers. This release is intended to be a solid, stable
bugfix and feature upgrade to 0.9.5. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1 I'd like to announce that PKS 0.9.6 has been released! The
file can be downloaded from the SourceForge Download Area for the "pks"
project. (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61738)
19427b543972c23fbc1c167d5408d3a9 *pks-0.9.6.tar.gz I just uploaded the
tarball to SourceForge, so don't be surprised if it isn't available on
SF mirrors yet. See the release notes (NEWS file) and ChangeLog for
more information on the changes since 0.9.5. BE SURE TO READ THE
UPGRADING FILE! IMPORTANT NOTES FOR INSTALLATION: * READ THE UPGRADING
FILE! The database format has changed slightly, and backwards
compatibility is NOT the default. * If you want to be able to add keys
via HTTP, make sure to uncomment this line in your pksd.conf:
www_readonly 0 * If you want to be able to download keys, make sure to
uncomment max_reply_keys. Also, you'll probably want to change this
from -1 (unlimited) to a more sane value. * BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD): PKS should work on these platforms. However, no current ports
of PKS exist. (FreeBSD's and NetBSD's ports of pks-0.9.4 should NOT be
used for security reasons.) * Debian Linux users: The Debian package
should catch up to pks-0.9.6 very shortly. * RedHat Linux users:
Running "rpm -ta pks-0.9.6.tar.gz" should build you the required RPMs.
This release is intended to be a solid, stable bugfix and feature
upgrade to 0.9.5. Bug reports and patches are always welcome. Richard
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libxml2-pas-2.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249975
libxml2-pas is pascal bindings for the libxml2 library from GNOME
project, a high-performance XML parser supporting also several related
technologies, like XML-Include, X-Path, XML Schema etc. libxslt-pas is
pascal binding for the libxslt library from GNOME project. It
implements a standard XSLT processor compliant to the W3C XSLT
standards. Also, the implementation supports standard XSLT extensions -
exslt. This part is now also translated and included in the
distribution. New versions of header translations is out. This package
contains translations of: libxml2-2.5.2 libxslt-1.0.24 libexslt-0.7.15
For more info, look at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas
http://xmlsoft.org Besides that, do not hesitate to post your feedback
or questions to our mailing list:
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Slashdot
Clamshell Sharp Zaurus Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2326216
[0]Bill Kendrick writes "[1]The Gadgeteer has a review of the new
clamshell-style [2]Sharp Zaurus SL-C700 Linux-based PDA. This new
model, currently only officially available in Japan, sports a larger
keyboard than the SL-5500 we have in the US, as well as a full 640x480
screen and 400MHz XScale CPU. The review mostly compares it against the
HP200. The reviewer got his hands on an 'English version,' made
available by [3]Dynamism for a hefty pricetag of USD$700." (See [4]this
earlier story for more screenshots from the English conversion of this
device.)
Links
0. http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/
1. http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/
2. http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/sharp-c700-review.html
3. http://www.dynamism.com/
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/22/1647236&tid=100
Microsoft Applies For .NET Patent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/0048208
Wojina writes "Microsoft has applied for a [0]comprehensive patent on
what appears to be the entire implementation of the .NET CLR (Common
Language Runtime) and the framework APIs. Microsoft's CLR is an
implementation of the CLI (submitted to ECMA for standardization). Does
this bode ill for the [1]Mono project? See the [2]CNET News story." And
a chaser: Nept points to this interesting Microsoft-funded [3].NET
obfuscation project.
Links
0.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/20030028685
1. http://www.go-mono.com/
2. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984052.html
3. http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/progtools/projects/dotnet.html
Why Do Google Hit Numbers Vary?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2336239
[0]Supa-Fly writes "I have a question about some conflicting results
with the search engine google. I did a search for "pictures of
mountains" and got exactly 1 million results. My friend did the same
search (from the same office)and got 1,010,000 results. A second friend
did the same search as the last 2 and got 1,020,000. These have not
changed and every person gets the same results each time. My question
is what is up with the discrepancies on google's search results?" Since
this question is hard to answer from the outside, Craig Silverstein of
Google kindly supplies his best answer to this question, below.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slashback: Cooperation, Gravity, Petite
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/1715224
Slashback with more (below) on KDE/GNOME cooperation (hint -- they're
not renaming it "GNOMKDE"); the desert parachute nuts, a tiny P4
machine, and another chance to Ask Kevin Mitnick, at least if you're
near Pittsburgh. Enjoy!
Mining Asteroids@Home
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1635208
An anonymous reader writes "Like the [0]lively discussion on mediation
strategies for exterminating asteroids, a six-person expert panel is
[1]debating today whether humans exist because of big collisions or in
spite of them. Interestingly Mexico's oil (and most of the rest of the
world's resources) seem to have arisen from later mining of these
byproducts: the luck of geography or the price at the pump for dead
dinosaurs."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/1755211&tid=160
1. http://www.astrobio.net/news/article373.html
NASA: Evidence Favors Infinitely Expanding Universe
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/222219
[0]Chris Gondek writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has a story here
about how [1]NASA is [2]expected to announce this week that it has
proved the existence of "dark energy," a cosmic force that counteracts
gravity and will keep the universe expanding forever. The announcement
will effectively demolish the theory that life will be wiped out in a
[3]"big crunch" when the universe collapses, and should end decades of
academic dispute. Scientists ranging from [4]Stephen Hawking, the
Cambridge University physicist, to Albert Einstein, have argued that
the universe eventually will stop expanding and then implode under the
force of gravity, destroying all life. The Chicago Sun Times has
[5]also got some info."
Links
0. http://www.gondek.net
1. http://www.nasa.gov/
2. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/10/1044725732451.html
3. http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Physics/Cosmology/p00719c.html
4. http://www.hawking.org.uk/
5. http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-energy09.html
RIAA Unveils Net Tracking Tag for Online Sales
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2026248
openbear writes "A [0]story over at MSNBC talks about the Global
Release Indentifier (GRid). It is a code akin to the Universal Product
Code (UPC) bar code found on a CD or cassette tape in stores. Each
track will be distributed online with an individual GRid serial number
and will be reported back to rights societies and collection agencies
sold or transferred."
Links
0. http://famulus.msnbc.com/famuluscom/reuters02-10-055656.asp?sym=MSFT
California EULA Lawsuit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/190242
[0]burgburgburg writes "[1]News.com has this story about a California
woman [2]suing Microsoft, Symantec and others, seeking class-action
status on behalf of all Californians who've bought software including
Norton Antivirus 2002, Norton Systemworks and Windows XP Upgrade. She
claims that the companies have devised a scheme to sell software
licenses without allowing purchasers to review the license prior to
sale. She also claims that people who reject the license cannot return
the software to the store. She bases this on her rejecting the EULAs
for the software mentioned above, going back to CompUSA and being told
she couldn't return them because the boxes were opened."
Links
0. http://.moc.liame. .ta. .60neksilps.
1. http://www.news.com/
2. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983988.html
Castle Denies GPL Breach
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1940225
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Castle Technology, who were accused of
breaching the GPL in RISC OS 5, have made a press release denying the
allegations. This story has been covered on [1]The Iconbar RISC OS news
and resource site." We've given [2]Castle some [3]loving here on
slashdot recently. Looks like this one isn't going away quietly.
Links
0. http://www.iconbar.com
1. http://www.iconbar.com/
2. http://www.castle.uk.co/
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225224&tid=106
Sci-fi Channel's Children of Dune
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1653239
jazdogg writes "Caught the [0]trailer last night on the [1] Sci-fi
Channel for the new [2]Frank Herbert's Children of Dune mini-series. I
only hope this series is better than the previous one." I dunno - I
liked the last Dune series, and am looking forward to this one.
Links
0. http://www.scifi.com/dune/trailers/index.html
1. http://www.scifi.com/
2. http://www.scifi.com/dune
Freshmeat
AlsaPlayer 0.99.74
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112521/
AlsaPlayer is a new PCM player written with the ALSA sound system in
mind. It also includes support for JACK, OSS, NAS, and ESD. It makes
extensive use of multi-threading and supports OGG, MP3, WAV, CDDA (CD
Digital Audio), MOD, S3M, IT, and many other input types. Features
include a real- time effects stream, variable speed/pitch control,
multiple active visual scopes, command line mode, playlists, plugin
architecture, low-latency mode, and more.
Artwork Eye 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112311/
Artwork Eye is a theme based on a Sandman-style image.
Ayam 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112512/
Ayam is a free 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface. It
features good RIB export, CSG (all RenderMan primitives supported), and
NURBS modelling. Features instancing, arbitrary number of modeling
views, object clipboard, independent property clipboard, n-level undo,
console, and Tree-View with Drag-and-Drop support.
Babeldoc 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112551/
Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents
for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications.
It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but
supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a
sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and
reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to
combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It
has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and
monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data
to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan
various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.
Bluebend 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112515/
Bluebend is an aromatic blend of the IceBlueCurve and microGUI themes.
A handful of the Bluecurve PNG icons were converted to XPM icons for
use in Icewm, but many of them did not convert very well into 16x16 or
32x32 XPM images. These icons, and a few of the author's other
favorites (including the Qtopia icon), are in the icons folder. The
Bluecurve folder_blue.png was used as the basis for the folder icon
that appears in the menu. The default.theme options settings are
minimal, allowing users to control most of their own settings from
~/.icewm/preferences. Both of the parent themes included the
"TitleBarCentered" option, which was removed because it is
obsolete.
Bonita Generic Version
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112503/
Bonita is a flexible cooperative workflow system based on the workflow
model proposed by the ECOO Team, which incorporates the anticipation of
activities as a more flexible mechanism of workflow execution. This
flexibility allows a considerable speed increase in the design and
development phases of cooperative applications. The workflow engine is
built on EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), using Jboss as the application
server. The system offers a comprehensive set of integrated graphical
tools for performing the process conception and definition, the
instantiation and control of this process, and the interaction with the
users and other applications.
CourseForum 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112514/
CourseForum provides a painless, straightforward and flexible solution
for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and
student collaboration. It can be used for lecture notes, Q&A, class
discussions, research, student portfolios, projects, and more. The easy
Web browser interface and quick installation lets you get started in
minutes, and everyone can easily create, read, and contribute.
cvsdelta 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112505/
cvsdelta helps manage a CVS project, identifying the local files that
have been added, changed, or deleted. The relevant files can be
automatically added to and removed from CVS. A list of files is
produced, with a summary of content differences, i.e. the number of
lines of code that have been added, changed, and deleted.
DAME 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112542/
DAME (Database Access Made Easy) is a tool that generates C++ and Java
code from SQL statements. When used with Java, it supports any database
that can be accessed through JDBC. C++ libraries for Oracle,
PostgreSQL, and MySQL are also included.
DataVision 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112528/
DataVision is a reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, written in
Java. It supports multiple data sources (JDBC, text files) and output
formats (HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX, comma- and tab-separated data files,
and DocBook). It lets you design reports with a drag-and-drop GUI.
Report descriptions are stored as XML.
Dataxi 1.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112510/
Dataxi is a database access system that uses a single form to query,
view, and modify data spread to one or more tables in a true relational
manner. In addition, Dataxi provides a platform to build
database-oriented applications of any size that can be accessed through
a Web interface.
DIBS 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112539/
Since disk drives are cheap, backup should be cheap too. Of course it
does not help to mirror your data by adding more disks to your own
computer because a fire, flood, power surge, etc. could still wipe out
your local data center. Instead, you should give your files to peers
(and in return store their files) so that if a catastrophe strikes your
area, you can recover data from surviving peers. The Distributed
Internet Backup System (DIBS) is designed to implement this vision.
Dump/Restore 0.4b33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112502/
The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in
a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies
those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. The
restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a
full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be
layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees
may also be restored from full or partial backups.
dvd::rip 0.50.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112506/
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It
provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all
aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely
known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open
Source tools.
ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112573/
ESP Ghostscript is a customized version of GNU Ghostscript that
includes an enhanced autoconf-based configuration script, the CUPS
raster driver to support CUPS raster printer drivers, and additional
patches and drivers from various Linux distributors.
Exmh 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112507/
Exmh is an X user interface for MH mail. MH provides a set of UNIX
commands that manage folders and mail messages. MH has a zillion
features as a result of several years of availability. Exmh provides a
graphical interface to many of these features, as well as MIME, PGP/GPG
support, NNTP, and more.
FormProc 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112555/
FormProc is an open source Java library designed to make handling and
validating forms (including Web forms) easy. Forms are represented as
objects which manage a collection of form elements. Submitted data can
be validated through several mechanisms including regular expressions,
BSF-supported scripting languages, and custom Java classes.
Freecell Solver 2.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112519/
Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves
games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as
games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use
within third-party applications.
FScript 1.11 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112530/
FScript is an extremely simple scripting language. Its intended use is
as an embedded language in other Java programs. It is very simple to
embed; it can be as simple as sub-classing one class to add your own
functionality. However, it is not a complete programming language, as
it has no library of standard functions (such as IO and string
processing). FScript supplies base functionality (such as flow control,
variable handling, and basic math operations) that can extended by the
host application. The only requirement is a Java 2 runtime environment.
geektalkd 1.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112534/
geektalkd is a simple chat server designed for use with thin clients
(like telnet, netcat, or one of the avaliable Perl clients). It
features multiple channels, private whispers, and everything else you'd
expect from a chat server. Additionally, all of the parser code can be
rewritten and reread, so you can install new functions on the fly
without restarting the server or kicking users off.
Genius 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112541/
Genius is an arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision
floating point calculator. It includes its own programming language
similiar in some aspects to C,bc or pascal. It can deal with rational
numbers and complex numbers. It has matrix support as well. It uses the
gmp library so it is very fast for calculations of large numbers. It
has a command line and a GNOME interface.
getmail 3.0.0 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112527/
getmail is intended as a simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves
mail (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more
POP3 servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into
qmail-style Maildirs, mboxrd files, and external MDAs (command
deliveries) specified on a per-account basis. getmail also has
excellent support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes.
GreenIcos Icons 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112454/
GreenIcos is a green-colored icon set for KDE 3.x.
grsecurity 1.9.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112518/
grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that implements
a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most forms of
address space modification, confines programs with least privilege via
its process-based MAC system, hardens syscalls, and provides many of
the OpenBSD randomness features. It was written for performance,
ease-of-use, and security. The MAC system has an intelligent
learning-mode, and all of grsecurity supports a feature that logs the
IP of the attacker that causes an alert or audit.
hdup 1.6.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112562/
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).
JACK Rack 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112552/
JACK Rack is a LADSPA effects rack for the JACK audio API. It supports
arbitrary channels, LRDF XML plugin descriptions, and the LADCCA
session management system.
Java SOS 3.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112487/
Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site building,
including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc.
JIGS 1.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112508/
JIGS (Java Interface for GnuStep) allows Java programmers to use the
GNUstep libraries from Java, but it is more than a set of bindings for
GNUstep from Java: it takes advantage of the fact that Objective-C and
Java are very similar languages to make it possible to use Objective-C
classes from Java using exactly the same API (and vice versa).
Moreover, JIGS can generate automatically wrappers for your own
Objective-C GNUstep libraries.
JPublish 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112558/
JPublish is an open source web publishing framework which merges the
Velocity template engine from the Jakarta Apache group with a content
repository and application control framework. It features flexible
programmatic actions which can be written in Java or any Bean Scripting
Framework-supported scripting language (such as Python or JavaScript),
Velocity templates for layout, a repository abstraction layer, optional
Velocity-parsed content, search engine friendly URLs, and more.
JSX2 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112561/
In one line, JSX2 externalizes object data as XML, so it can be
distributed, stored, and processed independently of the code that
created it. In another line, that data can be deserialized back into
objects. JSX uses the JOS API, and so works for all objects, complex
object graphs, dynamically adjusts to recompiled classes, and enables
classes to customize their serial form for evolution. The XML format
for JSX2 is much easier to process than that of JSX.
Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.0-pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112564/
Just For Fun Network Management System features an integrated syslog,
Tacacs, TFTP configuration download, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journal,
autodiscovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more.
Everything uses a database MySQL/PostgreSQL) backend. It works in Linux
and Windows.
K3b 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112480/
K3b is a CD-burning program designed for people who are used to using
Windows to burn CDs. It has a user interface similar to Ahead's Nero.
It currently allows you to create filesystem trees via drag'n'drop, and
to burn audio CDs from WAV and MP3 files.
kbarcode 1.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112556/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can
be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex
labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode
comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch
import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of
predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many
languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no
problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement
for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN,
UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
Kile 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112497/
Kile is a LaTeX source editor, TeX shell, and gnuplot frontend for KDE
3.
KMyIRC 0.2.8 (Alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112501/
KMyIRC is an attempt to provide an IRC client for KDE which is
high-quality and easy to use, but not bloated. It was created because
it was felt that the other KDE-based IRC clients were either not
user-friendly or burdened with features that are not useful to the
average IRC user.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112486/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an
indefinite number of filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs,
socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application.
It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem
switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem
calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are
implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local
filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a
huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility
is most important.
MagCon 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112489/
MagCon reads tracks from a Magellan GPS. It was tested on a SporTrak
Pro, but should work on all SporTraks, all Meridians, the 315/320, and
other devices.
maitretarot 0.1.98 (mt_gtk_client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112500/
MaitreTarot is a French Tarot card game. It is a game like Freecell or
poker, and has nothing to do with astrology. It has a server and
various client software.
maitretarot 0.1.98 (mt_ncurses_client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112499/
MaitreTarot is a French Tarot card game. It is a game like Freecell or
poker, and has nothing to do with astrology. It has a server and
various client software.
Markov Chain Random Name Generator 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112420/
Markov Chain Random Name Generator provides a simple example of how a
Markov Chain (MC) can be used to capture the dynamics of a series. It
shows how a single text file can be used to adapt the parameters of the
MC so that it reflects the properties of the text. You can use it to
create random words derived from a particular text. For example, to
generate names for RPGs, you can create one file named
"Dwarves" and another named "Elves" and place a
number of appropriate names in each file, and MCRNG will create names
similar to those given. The MC code is completely separate from the
random name generation and can easily be used in other projects.
Maxima 5.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112524/
Maxima is a Common Lisp implementation of MIT's Macsyma system for
computer based algebra. It features plotting over the network via
netmath, computations over the network, extensive testing on a large
array of problems, a source level debugger for maxima code, ease of
extension in fundamentally new ways, access to Common Lisp and
portability to many systems.
Meta-CVS 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112554/
Meta-CVS is version control system created around CVS. It retains most
of the features of CVS while adding support for first class directory
structure versioning, storage of symbolic links, and versioning of
execute permissions and user-defined properties. Meta-CVS greatly
simplifies branching and merging by keeping track of what is merged
where. It records file types and automatically assigns a CVS keyword
expansion mode to newly added files whose suffixes match previously
recorded types. Meta-CVS also has an importing feature that
automatically figures out renames and moves, making it possible to
easily keep up with patches from multiple sources in spite of directory
structure changes.
Minimum Profit 3.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112547/
Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features small
memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive
help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file
editing, ctags support, word wrapping, and more. It can be compiled for
Linux / Unix (console), GTK, and MS Windows.
mod_security 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112537/
Mod_security is an intrusion detection and prevention module for the
Apache Web server. Its purpose is to protect vulnerable applications by
detecting and (optionally) rejecting attacks. In addition to request
filtering, it also can create Web application audit logs. Requests are
filtered using regular expressions. Mod_security can analyse POST
payloads, unlike other similar projects.
MPlayer 0.90-rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112532/
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of
codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows
Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It
has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs,
but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and
Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality,
including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats
too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported.
It's also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI
(pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.
nn Newsreader 6.6.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112522/
nn Newsreader is a curses-based USENET news reader. The motto of nn is
its expanded name, "No News is good news, but nn is better".
The nn newsreader is designed to let you minimize the amount of time
you spend reading news (or, more realistically, to allow you to follow
even more newsgroups). Nn allows you to quickly select articles of
interest and skip the rest. It also supports efficient article killing
and selection of articles by author and subject.
O-Kiraku Nikki 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112491/
'O-Kiraku Nikki' is Japanese for 'A Nice Calendar'. It is a simple PHP
program that displays a calendar on a Web site, with the ability to add
as many annotations as desired to any day, and have these annotations
displayed on a Web page. It can be used as a diary, a Weblog, or a
scheduler, etc. It comes with full multilanguage (Unicode) support, and
includes by default English, Japanese, and Spanish translations. It has
been designed with both security and simplicity in mind.
Open POSIX Test Suite 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112575/
The Open POSIX Test Suite is a test suite with the goal of performing
conformance, functional, stress, and performance testing of the
functions described in the IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 System Interfaces
specification. Eventual testing of the full specification is desired.
pam_unix2 1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112550/
The pam_unix2 PAM module is for traditional password authentication.
The advantages of this particular version are full SecureRPC and NIS+
support, HP-UX password aging, and password encryption with DES,
bigcrypt, MD5, or blowfish. It uses the /etc/login.defs configuration
file of the shadow suite and allows the modification of user accounts
in the source files for NIS maps on the NIS master server, if they are
not the standard files in /etc.
Pan 0.13.3.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112538/
Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and
experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan
also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple
connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.
Personal File Manager 1.87.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112568/
pfm is a terminal-based file manager written in Perl. All pfm commands
are one- or two-key commands. It features colored filenames according
to extension or type, a single-file and multiple-file mode, support for
executing user-defined commands (including wildcards) with only two
keystrokes, and use of the ReadLine library for friendly commandline
editing.
PHP Documentation Generator 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112490/
PHP Documentation Generator is a Perl script similar to javadoc. It
helps you generate a set of HTML pages from comments in PHP source
files. Currently, this script parses the PHP source code to detect the
objects attached to the comments.
PHP upload class 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112484/
PHP upload class was created to make it easy to manage the uploading
and storing of images and other files. It also creates thumbnails for
images. It features a method which returns the full path to a file that
it can be easily stored it in a DBMS like MySQL.
PostgreSQL 7.3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112572/
PostgreSQL is a robust, next-generation, Object-Relational DBMS
(ORDBMS), derived from the Berkeley Postgres database management
system. While PostgreSQL retains the powerful object-relational data
model, rich data types and easy extensibility of Postgres, it replaces
the PostQuel query language with an extended subset of SQL.
PostgreSQL Session Handler for PHP 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112526/
PostgreSQL Session Handler for PHP is a custom session save handler for
PHP4 that uses PostgreSQL as the session cache. This allows multiple
Web servers to share a common session storage container, and is useful
for allowing Web users to move between machines while maintaining their
session state.
Pride 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112349/
Pride is a purple theme based on a tattooed woman.
Qleuren 0.2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112544/
Qleuren is a Qt-based MasterMind clone with a user-interface that tries
to look and feel like a real-world board game.
Raptor 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112546/
Raptor is a 2d vertically scrolling shoot-em-up game. It uses the
Allegro library.
RARS 0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112517/
The Robot Auto Racing Simulator (RARS) consists of a simulation of the
physics of cars racing on a track, a graphic display of the race, and a
separate control program (robot "driver") for each car. The
goal of the game is to implement such a control program in order to
compete against other programmers. An official formula one season is
held every year.
RDFLib.net 1.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112545/
RDFLib is a Python library containing an RDF triple store and an
RDF/XML parser/serializer.
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112479/
RULI stands for Resolver User Layer Interface. It's a library built on
top of an asynchronous DNS stub resolver. RULI provides an easy-to-use
interface for querying DNS SRV resource records. The main goal is to
promote deployment of SRV-cognizant programs. RULI aims to
automatically perform all the SRV logic described by RFC 2782, and to
comply with related specifications. As a side-effect, RULI also
provides a general-purpose, event-driven, asynchronous, stub DNS
resolver.
screen-scraper 0.8.5a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112509/
screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It
consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS
requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract
information from Web sites using special patterns and regular
expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and
contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be
manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database. It can
be used with PHP, Java, or any COM-friendly language such as Visual
Basic or Active Server Pages.
Silva Web Authoring System 0.9.1beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112553/
Silva is a Zope-based Web application designed for the creation and
management of structured, textual content. It allows users to enter new
documents as well as edit existing documents using a Web interface. It
stores the content in a structured format (XML) and keeps a strict
separation between the way the content is used and the way it is
presented.
simplebox 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112307/
Simple is a colourful flux/blackbox theme.
Smack 1.0 Beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112570/
Smack is a Java client library for communicating with XMPP (Jabber)
instant messaging servers. It provides an easy way to add serializable
Java objects to any packet, and is easier to use than other APIs.
SouRCe PacKaGer 1.1-beta1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112516/
SouRCe PacKaGer (srcpkg) is a program for managing separate software
packages under the same directory hierarchy. It is especially useful
for packages distributed as source. It is similar to GNU Stow, Depot,
etc., but works by creating packages from new files found in the
directory tree, allowing it to manage large, complex, interdependent
packages such as those of KDE and GNOME.
sql++ 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112543/
sql++ is an easily configurable, feature-rich, portable command-line
SQL tool. It can be used with many different databases and in place of
other command-line tools such as MySQL's mysql-client and Oracle's
sqlplus. It has features such as multiple connections, multi-database
interfacing, subselects for all databases, regardless of whether the
database has native subselects or not, and much more.
The Magic Notebook 1.3.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112504/
The Magic Notebook is a CGI script which allows the user to store and
organize notes in as many topics as are desired. Uses include contact
information, to do lists, lists of books to read, status information
for different projects, a list of "things to do when thus-and-such
happens", keeping track of things you need to tell people, and for
the advanced user an editable quote of the day. The Magic Notebook is
intended to give Webmasters a new attraction with little extra work.
Tiffany Point 4 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112312/
Tiffany Point 4 is a purple Tiffany Taylor theme.
TjMSN 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112536/
TjMSN is a MSN client written in Java designed to be platform depended.
It supports file transfers, smilies, and multiple user chat sessions.
It also has extra features such as IRC-style actions and a novel error
correction message for those oh-so-regular typos.
TOra 1.3.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112493/
TOra is a Toolkit for Oracle which aims to help the DBA or developer of
database application. It features an SQL worksheet with PL/SQL block
parsing, a PL/SQL debugger and editor with syntax highlighting, a
Schema browser, UNICODE support, printing, and a full suite of DBA
management tools.
tvmet 0.8.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112531/
This Tiny Vector and Matrix template library uses Meta Templates and
Expression Templates (ET) to evaluate results at compile time, thus
making it fast for low-end systems. Temporaries are avoided because of
this. The produced code is similar to hand-coded code, but the quality
of the code still depends on the compiler and its version. The
dimensions for vectors and matrices are static and bounded at compile
time using template arguments.
VariCAD 9.0-0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112511/
VariCAD is a compact, fast, and easy to use 3D/2D CAD solution for
mechanical engineering. It contains everything you need for mechanical
engineering design.
xrdesktop 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112571/
xrdesktop is a GTK-Perl frontend for the command-line terminal services
client rdesktop. It saves and manages connection information for
different Windows machines running terminal services.
Yahoo Mail Sucker Prototype 27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112496/
Yahoo Mail Sucker allows you to fetch Yahoo Mail messages to your local
inbox (after the free POP3 service has been suspended).
ZDM Utils 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112481/
ZDM Utils is a set of utilities for rendering shaded relief maps from
USGS 250k Digital Elevation Models. It allows users to parse USGS DEM
files and generate a custom shaded 3D relief using their own color
blends (created with any image program, like the Gimp).
zExtranet Portal System 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112520/
The zExtranet Portal System is a Zope-based portal and dynamic Web site
system that features static HTML, dynamic articles, polls, shopping
carts, a meeting planner, appointments, calendars, contact management,
file sharing, a time-off/sick planner, an RSS newsfeed manager, forums,
shift management, asset management, expense management, reminders,
timed events, and collective lunch ordering. It also features an
authentication system.
Zorp 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112495/
Zorp is a proxy firewall suite. Its core framework allows the
administrator to fine-tune proxy decisions (with its built-in script
language), and fully analyze complex protocols (such as SSL with an
embedded POP3 or HTTP protocol). The FTP, HTTP, FINGER, WHOIS, TELNET,
and SSL protocols are fully supported with an application-level
gateway. Zorp aims for compliance with the Common
Cirteria/Application-level Firewall Protection Profile for Medium
Robustness Enviroment.
Slashcode
Orion Robots - From Sol to Sirius
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1737206
This is really just a shameless plug. I wanted to let those people at
slash know about my site at orionrobots.dyndns.org. The site
specializes in robotics discussions, and will grow to include
galleries, robot design submissions and much technical info. all with
the ability to search and comment! Hooray for slash! --spacejunkie
Email Plugin?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/0313227
I'm in charge of a slashsite for the drama department at my school, and
I've had some requests from users and authors of email forwards from
their [EMAIL PROTECTED] to their actual email addresses. I was
wondering if anyone knew of a plugin or a simple-ish method of writing
a plugin that would be able to do that. Thanks!
How to point new_motd.pl to a new file?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/0319225
I'm trying to make new_motd.pl to use my own quotes that are relevant
to my site. Here's what I've done so far : Created text file with
quotes (myfile). Ran strfile -r myfile. Changed new_motd.pl to:
chomp(my $t = `/usr/games/fortune 100% myfile`); Well, it's not working
- anyone know what's up?
Ideas for an Online FAQ
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/0310243
So I am thinking about creating a section on Slashcode.com just for a
FAQ. We can use subsections to seperate out the FAQ (AKA Install,
MySQL, Slashd...) and if someone would be willing to come up with new
topics (for that matter new topics and icons are normally welcome) we
could use those. The thing is, would it be useful? Would a number of
you be willing to write up pieces of the FAQ? All you would need to do
is submit them as stories.
Bad install of libapreq-1.1
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/1737226
Problems with comments not getting updated and slashd hanging there
after. I noticed that my slash site was running just fine til someone
posted a comment. When they posted a comment and freshenup.pl ran it
updated the articles and ran /htdocs/index.pl. I'd then see index.pl
hung in my ps -ax. Once I killed the process everything ran fine (but
wouldn't update the index.shtml page til the next freshenup.pl call!)
So, I remembered some vague cpan install problem that required a manual
install from my .cpan/build directory. I searched for a way to remove
perl modules and found a script (thank you Alan Burlison you're a GOD)
that let me remove the libapreq-1.1 stuff. Once removed, I installed
the 1.0 version and things are running like a champ! You'll remember
that libapreq has Apache::Cookie in it. Hope this helps folks out.
Libapreq-1.1 just came out on January 31, 2003! (Which is why my
previous test installs were by the book and this one done this weekend
BOMBED!)And yes... I bought the book!P.S. If you're like me, and didn't
install slash in /usr/local like a good boy you'll need to change your
slashdir & sbindir variables accordingly. Apparently when you edit
your slash make file and change slash_prefix(?) it doesn't propogate to
these two fields. (I know, I'm such a pagan!)
Slash on OS X
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/1723252
I'm thinking of using Slash to host a site from my machine running OS
X. Has anyone had any luck following the INSTALL under Darwin and
actually getting Slash up and running? Or is there a good HOWTO I can't
find? Or best of all, can someone put together a .pkg to accompany the
.rpm?
How do I add additional fields in users.pl
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/0657222
I want to add a zip code field to the signup form for new users. Now,
obviously the generation of the form as well as the processing (and
saving the data in the DB) all happens through users.pl. My Perl skills
are VERY rusty and the last time I touched it (Perl 4) there were not
subs, so when I looked at the code it confused the hell out of me. Is
there an example out there of where someone added additonal fields?
Obviously, the zip code field needs to be there when users sign up,
needs to be processed and the field stored in the db (I know how to
create the column ;-) and if someone makes changes in his preferences,
it needs to show up there as well. I know this is a lot to ask, but can
somebody point me in the right direction? There is a line of code that
calls: if ($uid = $slashdb->createUser($matchname,
$form->{email}, $form->{newusernick})) { I assume that's where I
would add the new field. But what is $form-> and what do I need to
do to enable something like $form->{zipcode} ? Sorry for my
ignorance - I'm more of a Java guy... --Michael
Missing index.shtml (?)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/0655221
Ok... I've managed to get just about everything on the site working,
but now I've found a really bizarre error. It looks as if index.shtml
can't be found. Now, I don't know what's going on here, but after my
last install I decided I'd grab all of the latest plugins and install
them to see what they all did. Fine, right, except that I needed to
upgrade my slash too. Simple solution - get the latest via CVS, and
reinstall everything. However, the new install doesn't seem to have any
.shtml files anywhere except for the FAQ and a couple of others, and my
error log is telling me index.shtml can't be found. If I change the URL
from http://gytha.anu.edu.au to http://gytha.anu.edu.au/index.pl I get
past the 404. Also, once you've logged in, the 404 disappears. It seems
as if an anonymous user gets a 404, but once you've created an account
you're fine. My error log doesn't tell me anything except that I'm
missing index.shtml. Can someone help me out?
No year in date for articles
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2021253
Articles submitted and approved for the site have the date, but are
missing the year. For example a date looks like this: Wednesday January
29, @08:31PM The code in the appropriate template looks like this: [%
story.storytime %] I'm not sure at what point the "story" data
structure is generated. Probably that's where the problem is. Please
help.
PHP-Nuke to Slash conversion script released
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/2320209
Openflows Networks has just released nuke2slash 1.0 to the open source
community under the terms of the GPL. This package converts a PHP Nuke
4.2 site to Slashcode 2.2.6, preserving all articles, polls, comments,
and user accounts. This script hasn't been tested on later versions of
PHP Nuke, but could probably be modified to work on those without too
much difficulty. This software was written for ICANN Watch, with the
assistance of a generous grant from the Markle Foundation.
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