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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
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Slashdot
Software/Hardware FPGA Dev Board that runs Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/026247
[0]bforsse writes "[1]The ML300 allows engineers to develop hardware
with HDL synthesis/simulation and software with standard GNU tools. The
entire system is implemented inside one FPGA with an integrated IBM PPC
processor. The board comes with all the peripherals that a standard
motherboard or laptop has and then some. It currently ships with
[2]MontaVista Linux, a number of other linux flavors and OSs are in the
pipeline. Maybe this new merging of the hardware and software worlds
will settle some of the [3]religious wars between hw and sw
engineers?...ok, maybe not."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.xilinx.com/ml300
2. http://www.mvista.com/news/2002/xilinx.html
3. http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990218S0010
File-sharing and AOL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0147222
[0]Andrew Leonard writes "Farhad Manjoo's [1]cover story in Salon
today, on AOL's refusal to take a stand on the RIAA's (so far)
successful attempt to get subscriber information from Verizon, is a
detailed look at the most important battle in the file-sharing world
right now."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/10/aol_file_sharing/index.html
Unreal Security Hole
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2159203
[0]Screaming Lunatic writes "There seems to be a big [1]security hole
in the Unreal engine that has been around for about 5 years. It affects
servers for a number of games and operating systems, including Linux
(which accounts for [2]about 40% of UT2003 servers). Epic has been
working on a [3] patch for about 3 months. Imagine the bad publicity
games would receive if a worm on the scale of Slammer had been
created." A Bugtraq post from Thor Larholm of Pivx, says that Marc Rein
of Epic [4]threatened PivX with "getting our lawyers involved with
this"; the TechTV article Larholm cites (the same one linked from this
submission), however, contains no mention of legal action. Rein
[5]nonetheless apologized for "those completely unfortunate comments"
in a followup message to Bugtraq.
Links
0. http://www.sfu.ca/~pkaler
1. http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3417248,00.html
2. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2863990
3. http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=39954
4. http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/311405/2003-02-08/2003-02-14/0
5. http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/311443/2003-02-08/2003-02-14/0
ACLU And Others Weigh In On CIPA Injunction
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0058247
A report on censorware.net has an update on the legal fight over the
Children's Internet Protection Act; yesterday the ACLU, ALA and others
[0]filed briefs supporting the injunction calling CIPA unconstitutional
[1]issued by a three-judge court last May. The [2]Supreme Court will
hear the case on March 5th. (A [3]search on "CIPA" is a good way to
catch up on this act, which is basically about installing mandatory
censorware on child-accessable publicly funded computers.)
Links
0. http://censorware.net/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2043211&tid=1
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/31/1423219&tid=123
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/12/1810209&tid=123
3. https://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=CIPA
First Cosmological Results From MAP
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2029259
[0]riptalon writes "The [1]Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a
[2]NASA Explorer mission has announced the first [3]results based on a
year of observations from the L2 Lagrangian point. MAP carries two
back-to-back microwave telescopes to study variations in the [4]cosmic
microwave background, to much greater accuracy than the [5]COBE
satellite. The excruciating details of the results on the age, geometry
and composition of the universe can be found in this [6]paper.
Executive summary: 13.7 billion years old, flat, 4.4% baryons, 22% dark
matter and 73% dark energy."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
2. http://www.nasa.gov/
3. http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm.html
4. http://www.gsu.edu/other/timeline/microback.html
5. http://aether.lbl.gov/www/projects/cobe/
6.
http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/pub_papers/firstyear/basic/wmap_basic_results.pdf
IEEE Wants Congress To Re-Examine DMCA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2124229
[0]softsign writes "Reading this [1]story in this month's IEEE The
Institute, I found that IEEE-USA quietly published two [2]position
[3]papers asking the US Congress to re-examine and/or clarify sections
of the DMCA last year. The papers - developed by the organization's
Intellectual Property committee - specifically cite concerns over the
chilling effects and misuse of the DMCA against researchers and ISPs.
Initially, the IEEE was pretty [4]wishy-[5]washy about the DMCA, but it
seems that they've been listening to their members and have developed a
pretty strong [6]anti-DMCA, pro-innovation stance. Including an
enlightened view on [7]Fair Use rights!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/inst_art.jsp?isno=02031&arnumber=02031_2w.featureDMCA§ion=4
2. http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/DMCAnotice.html
3. http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/DMCAencryption.html
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/14/166232&tid=103
5. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/05/1219207&tid=153
6. http://www.ieeeusa.org/committees/IPC/index.html#positions
7. http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/digitalcopyright.html
Spector, Garriott on Games
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/195222
[0]Warrior-GS writes "GameSpy has two interesting interviews up.
[1]Richard Garriott of Ultima fame talks about leaving Origin, getting
bought out by NCSoft and becoming a pitchman for a popular Korean
MMORPG trying to make it in the states. He also mentions his new game,
Tabula Rasa. The other interview is with [2]Warren Spector, who opened
up a bit on the Deus Ex sequel Invisible War, while also commenting on
linear games, anime style games and what the future holds."
Links
0. http://www.gamespy.com
1. http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/february03/british/
2. http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/february03/spectordx2/
Terahertz Imagery Progresses
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1848247
[0]ke4roh writes "Since Slashdot last [1]discussed terahertz imaging,
the European Space Agency's Star Tiger project has [2] taken terahertz
images of a human hand. Some of the [3]pictures show just how useful
the imagery might be for peering through walls and such - one of the
images is through a 15mm pad of paper." The EE Times has [4]another
story.
Links
0. http://home.hiwaay.net/~jimes
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/1226229&tid=126
2. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130267,00.html
3. http://www.startiger.org/news.htm
4. http://www.eetuk.com/tech/news/OEG20030211S0010
DoC to Extend ICANN's Control of IANA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1831210
Luminous Coward writes "I first saw this on [0]The Register. Kevin
Murphy of Computerwire [1]reports: The US Department of Commerce last
week quietly published a document detailing its decision to
"sole-source" the contract for the so-called [2]IANA (Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority) function to ICANN, as opposed to opening the
contract for competitive bidding. ICANNWatch explains why this is a
[3]bad idea. They also report that [4]the ccTLDs and [5]the Internet
Multicasting Service have expressed interest in running IANA."
Links
0. http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/29259.html
1. http://ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg18926.html
2. http://www.iana.org/
3. http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2251256
4. http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/08/2153213
5. http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1429217
Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1740233
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]Clay Shirky has written an [2]excellent article
entitled "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality." Simply put, diversity
plus freedom of choice creates inequality: "A new social system starts,
and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the
existing systems. Then, as the new system grows, problems of scale set
in. Not everyone can participate in every conversation. Not everyone
gets to be heard. Some core group seems more connected than the rest of
us, and so on." A must read for anyone interested in the statistics,
fairness, and power relations of blogging."
Links
0. http://`scubacuda' `at' `iname.com'
1. http://www.shirky.com/
2. http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
Freshmeat
Advanced Graph and Chart Services 3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112533/
The Advanced Graph and Chart Server allows you to quickly and easily
add powerful dynamic graphing and charting functionality to your Web
pages and applications. This service provides a range of chart types,
including line graphs, pie charts, bar graphs, and more. The graph
server can acquire data from almost any source, including files,
databases, and server processes.
AlberT-EasySite 1.0.0-a4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112640/
AlberT-EasySite is a PHP-based site generation system that pays
particular attention to graphics and to the complete separation of PHP
and HTML code. It is a plugin based system. Template
"objects" are handled by a plugin, making it very easy to add
your own custom objects. Multiple themes and users support are
included, as are the predefined HTML objects include, repeat, title,
table, subDomain, counter, etc. It embeds AlberT-cache to speed up
performance.
Apache::ASP 2.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112686/
Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web
Server with Perl as the host scripting language. Apache::ASP allows a
developer to create dynamic Web applications with session management
and embedded Perl code. There are also many powerful extensions,
including XML taglibs, XSLT rendering, and new events not originally
part of the ASP API.
AutoUpdate 4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112670/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's
up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and
upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also
handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server
with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
Axualize 1.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112680/
Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java
objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to
allow developers to create Java applications dynamically using XML. To
understand how this could be useful, imagine a J2EE application with
multiple client UIs being generated from Web applications. Using
Axualize, you can present multiple form-based GUI front ends to your
application by dropping in a Web application which builds your GUI
applications using Axualize XML generated with JSP and whatever
application framework you please.
CGI-Shell 0.18a (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112664/
CGI-Shell simulates a shell using CGI, so everyone who has a CGI
directory on a Web server can also have a shell on it. It's comparable
to telnet or SSH.
DbVisualizer 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112693/
DbVisualizer is a cross-platform database visualization and management
tool which entirely relies on the JDBC, Java Database Connectivity
APIs. DbVisualizer enables simultaneous connections to many different
databases through JDBC drivers. Just point and click to browse the
structure of the database, characteristics of tables, etc. Arbitrary
SQL statements can be executed and saved between sessions. DbVisualizer
supports a variety of databases including Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL,
Informix, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cloudscape, McKoi, SAP DB, and
InstantDB.
Debt Minder 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112588/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user
friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account
subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split
interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization
capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs,
debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated
amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included,
and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited
files
E-Cell System 3.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112655/
E-Cell System is an object-oriented software suite for modelling,
simulation, and analysis of large scale complex systems such as
biological cells. It allows many components, driven by multiple
algorithms with different timescales, to coexist.
ego file manager 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112615/
The ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for
its VFS and provides evas2 and GTK tree views.
Fast Intelligent Software RAID1 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112692/
This is a Linux kernel driver that replaces the kernel's own software
RAID1 (i.e. mirroring) driver. This driver tracks missed mirror updates
on a faulted mirror component and when the component is repaired it
updates only the missed blocks, if that is appropriate, not the whole
device. This strategy is particularly suited to mirrors composed of
remote components (see project ENBD), because faults are likely to be
temporary network faults in this setting, not catastrophic failures of
the remote media. This driver is the first of several which will add
intelligence to the Linux kernels own software RAID drivers. It is
compatible with the standard Linux raidtools2 software utilities
package.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112648/
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.
Firebird Relational Database 1.5 Beta 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112574/
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features
that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers
excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support
for stored procedures and triggers.
firepoint 0.59
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112690/
Firepoint Management Server works with fwbuilder to make a more
complete iptables-based Linux firewall system. fwbuilder is a great GUI
for creating iptables-based policy scripts, but in a production
environment, you also need management services. Firepoint handles tasks
like user logins (only one r/w user can be logged in at a time) and
policy promotion.
Gemini Unified Datamining System 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112565/
The Gemini Unified Datamining System is a set of tools for performing
automated searches on the Internet or an intranet using a customizable
and extensible set of information sources, including private databases,
subscription search services, and public search engines. It includes a
flexible and open plugin architecture that can be used to analyze
content for specialized searching, research, and information retrieval
tasks.
Genuts Framework 0.6.1b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112636/
The Genuts project provides a consistent Java framework for game
development. It contains a library with classes primarily intended for
sprite-based games, including functions for sprite manipulation and
collision detection.
Gifsicle 1.37
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112691/
Gifsicle is a powerful command-line program for manipulating GIF image
files. It has good support for transparency and colormap manipulation,
simple image transformations (cropping, flipping), and creating,
deconstructing, and editing GIF animations. It can also optimize GIF
animations for space. Also included is a GIF animation viewer and a
program that checks whether two GIFs look the same.
Globus Toolkit 2.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112628/
Globus is a project to provide robust, secure, peer-to-peer distributed
computing on supercomputers, clusters, and other high-performance
systems. It differs from other such network toolkits in that it is
tuned to the needs of high-end machines.
gnetmd 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112684/
gnetmd is a GNOME frontend for libnetmd. It will interface over USB to
a Sony NetMD product.
gnocl 0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112679/
gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It
provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user
interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support.
It is loosely modeled after the Tk package.
Gob Online Chat 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112626/
Gob Online Chat is a simple, lightweight online chat system that uses a
Java applet to interface to a small Java chat server. It is much
simpler to install and configure than other chat systems, and requires
no backend.
GUNit 0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112674/
GUNit is a C unit testing framework in the spirit of JUnit. The
framework incorporates an easy-to-use GUI based on the GNOME libraries.
Hydrogen 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112662/
Hydrogen is a simple real-time Drum machine/sequencer. It features a
graphical user interface based on Qt 3, a sample-based audio engine,
OSS/Jack/Export to disk audio drivers, ALSA MIDI input, ability to
import/export XML-based song files, 64 ticks per pattern, 16 voices
with volume, mute, solo, and pan capabilities, and import of samples in
wave, au, and aiff format.
IOzone 3.157
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112672/
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and
measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many
machines and runs under many operating systems.
isp4you 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112488/
isp4you is a Webmin module that creates a virtual Apache Web server and
a user (with a random password). It automatically creates DNS entries,
up to 100 mail accounts, a MySQL database, quotas, etc. You can also
create a new Webmin user that will only have access to its own new
account. The supported languages are English, Dutch, Spanish, German,
Turkish, and French.
JGraphpad 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112631/
JGraphpad is a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag
and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more. With
JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and networks
with thousands of nodes. JGraphpad is available with sourcecode, which
may be used to develop new (commercial) applications.
JSch 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112658/
JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to
an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer,
etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.60_001 (For Linux 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112618/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user
programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can
access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user
programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege
level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it
seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such
methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so
forth.
Konstruct 20030211
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112639/
Konstruct is a build system which helps you install KDE releases and
applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs,
checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds, and
installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as
"cd meta/kde;make install". Optionally, you can install
additional applications like KOffice, KDevelop, or Quanta (for example,
"cd apps/koffice;make install").
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API 1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112651/
The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API provides a
lightweight cryptography API in Java, a provider for the JCE and JCA, a
clean room implementation of the JCE 1.2.1, generators for Version 1
and Version 3 X.509 certificates, PKCS12 support, and an API for
dealing with S/MIME and CMS. Versions are provided for the J2ME, JDK
1.0, JDK 1.1, JDK 1.2, JDK 1.3, and JDK 1.4.
libferris 0.9.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112613/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all
kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each
datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various
data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting
EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event
updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount
a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox
(mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation
decoders.
libGMUVision alpha-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112602/
libGMUVision is framework for realtime computer vision applications
that is designed to allow easier access to Firewire IIDC digital video
cameras. It provides a set of C++ bindings for libdc1394 and Qt widgets
for building graphical applications that process video streams in real
time. A small sample application (Koriander Lite, based on the
Coriander project) is included.
Libxml 2.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112580/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The
library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems,
etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml
implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages,
including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, RFC 2396,
XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In
most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a
relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the
following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP
client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for Relax-NG and
W3C XML Schemas are in progress.
Linux 2.5.60 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112646/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
mailpopup 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112622/
mailpopup checks one or more email accounts and notifies the owner by
SMB (Winpopup/LinPopup) if new mail has arrived.
Megamek.NET 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112663/
Megamek.NET is a Java application that allows one to chat and play
MegaMek Games (which are very similar to Battletech). It also allows
one to enroll into the ongoing campaign to fíght for one of the
5 houses or the Periphery. Currently it has a campaign set in 3025 but
will soon feature another campaign set in 3060.
Modeling Framework 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112675/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and
relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create,
retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without
having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation
of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be
used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in
relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard
Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are
automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic
checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported
databases are PostgreSQL and MySQL.
MRX PPP 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112661/
MRX PPP is a simple configuration tool for pppd. It is a subproject of
the Murix Linux distribution.
Multicast DNS Service Discovery for Python 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112616/
This project is a full implementation of the Zeroconf Multicast DNS
Service Discovery protocols for Python 2.2.
MultiSync 0.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112623/
MultiSync is a free modular program to synchronize calendars, address
books, and other PIM data between programs on your computer and other
computers, mobile devices, PDAs or cell phones. Currently MultiSync has
plugins for Ximian Evolution and IrMC Mobile Client calendars
(supported by the Sony Ericsson T68i, Siemens S45i/S55) via Bluetooth,
IR, or a cable connection. It also includes Backup and Remote
Synchronization plugin, which connect two MultiSyncs over the Internet.
MusicBrainz client library 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112627/
The MusicBrainz client library (also known as mb_client or
libmusicbrainz) is a library for developers that wish to add
MusicBrainz metadata lookup capabilities to their applications. It
calculates CD Index IDs and Relatable's acoustic fingerprints, and
looks up the metadata associated with the calculated IDs.
oocommon 0.65 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112560/
oocommon is a flexible object-oriented PHP engine with database
support, sessions, session-based messaging, instant messaging, FTP,
POP3, SMTP, a filesystem wrapper, output-buffering, and a growing
number of features.
Open WebMail 1.90 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112654/
Open WebMail is a webmail system written with Perl. It is designed to
manage very large mail folder files in a memory efficient way. It also
provides a range of features to help users migrate smoothly from
Microsoft Outlook to Open WebMail. Open WebMail has the following
features: multiple languages, multiple iconset/styles, strong MIME
support, SMTP relaying, virtual hosting, user aliases, per user based
capability, multiple authentication modules, PAM support,
folder/message management, draft folder, confirm reading support, full
content search, spellchecking, auto reply, mail filter, webdisk,
calendar, event reminder, POP3 support, online password changing,
message count preview, and user history.
PaulOS 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112682/
PaulOS is a low-latency, single-threaded embedded operating system for
16, 32, and 64-bit microprocessors. It is written to allow applications
to be developed under GNU/Linux or FreeBSD and then recompiled for the
target platform. It features POSIX file descriptors, a TCP stack (LwIP)
with BSD socket API, an ANSI C library, and a DNS resolver library. A
number of GNU/Linux network applications have already been ported.
pdfmodify 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112649/
pdfmodify allows you to modify existing PDF documents, adding data to a
specific position on a specific page. It is easy to use as a batch
application to fill every PDF form in a collection of documents. It is
also easy to use it inside CGI scripts.
Perl IRC Statistics Generator 0.46
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112642/
pisg is a smart Perl script which generates statistics from IRC
logfiles.
PHP Dump Maker 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112643/
PHP Dump Maker is a smart PHP backup solution. The script reads a given
source directory (with its subdirectories) and then creates a set of
directories filled with the content of the source directory, arranged
in groups to fit a given capacity. It can be used to create CD sets for
backups. It also supports ISO image creation, direct CD burning via
cdrecord, automatic file index creation, and more.
Plugger for Mozilla 4.0-nostream
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112295/
Plugger for Mozilla is a modification of Plugger, a very small
multimedia plugin for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera
which uses external programs to show and play many file formats. This
modification fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a
player to stream a media file directly from the URL.
poink 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112591/
poink is a TCP/IP-based ping implementation that does not require
special privileges and is designed for multiuser shell systems. It is
intended to be a secure replacement for the standard IPv4 network
monitoring tool.
PyDonkey 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112659/
The aim of PyDonkey is to provide an implementation of the edonkey
protocol, compatible with eDonkey, eMule, and cDonkey.
PyKota Print Quota System 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112688/
PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the
Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). It features per-printer user and
group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator,
commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, and much more.
python-utmp 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112667/
python-utmp provides modules for accessing utmp and wtmp records.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112645/
QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. It is developed
referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher
processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
Simp 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112603/
Simp is a single-player turn-based platform puzzle game written in
Eiffel with simple SDL graphics. It is impossible to lose because there
are unlimited undo levels, but some levels are nevertheless very
challenging.
SMATCH 0.38 Test 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112633/
SMATCH is an experiment in finding Linux kernel errors. There are two
main parts to Smatch. The first is a patch to the gcc sources to print
out a lot of information. The second part is a collection of Perl
scripts and libraries to analyze the information.
Smilehouse Workspace 0.9.3 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112634/
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.
Statistics about SAP upgrades 2003-01-28 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112656/
Statistics about SAP upgrades is a simple and powerful Perl script
useful to extract information about the duration time of each phase of
a SAP upgrade.
syslog-ng 1.5.26 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112629/
syslog-ng, as the name shows, is a syslogd replacement, but with new
functionality for the new generation. The original syslogd allows
messages only to be sorted based on priority/facility pairs; syslog-ng
adds the possibility to filter based on message contents using regular
expressions. The new configuration scheme is intuitive and powerful.
Forwarding logs over TCP and remembering all forwarding hops makes it
ideal for firewalled environments.
TA-Linux 0.2.0 beta 3 (i386)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112641/
TA-Linux is a Linux distribution that targets power users. It features
a small base installation that end users can expand to include any
required software. It also attempts to support as many different
architectures as possible - at this time x86 is fully supported, with
Alpha, SPARC, PPC, and PA-RISC around the corner.
TAMS 1.01a5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112650/
TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic
coding and data extraction-analysis system.
Thy 0.3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112660/
Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful
enough to serve many hits a day.
Thy 0.4.88 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112632/
Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful
enough to serve many hits a day.
Timo's Rescue CD Set 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112619/
Timo's rescue CD set provides an easy way to generate bootable CDROMs
with a ready-to-use rescue system on them. The system is designed to be
fully customizable and easy to build. The rescue system includes
reiserfs, parted, partimage, nmap, w3m, bash, sshd, telnetd, ftpd, and
nfsd. It is based on Debian's "woody" release. LILO,
syslinux, isolinux, and GRUB are supported. The project is evolving
more and more into a "Debian on CD" project, which means that
its use is not limited to a rescue CD; it is also possible to install a
whole Debian system on CD.
TM 4000M Linux Tools 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112647/
TM 4000M Linux tools is a package of Linux utilities for the TravelMate
4000M notebook by Texas Intruments. These are mainly utilities for
power management. TM 4000M doesn't provide standard APM support, so
normal Linux power management tools won't work.
Tunez 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112379/
Tunez is a MP3 jukebox that works with a voting system. You can vote
for your favorite tracks via the Web interface, and the Tunez daemon
will take care of the rest. Tunez features a 'smart' songs database
update system, a top 10 list of most played songs, support for multiple
users, and support for streaming via Icecast.
UTMP Jeber 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112638/
UTMP Jeber is a small tool which prints broken entries found in the
UTMP database on Unix systems. It has several methods of process
analysis which you can select using command line arguments. It
optionally removes broken entries.
vcp 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112644/
vcp copies files and directories in a curses interface, and behaves
much like cp.
WindowLab 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112587/
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. As its
name suggests, it's something of an experimental window manager and may
not suit everyone. It will probably be most comfortable to Amiga users,
seeing as its focus and window depth policies are the same. A few users
may also notice that the window resizing/reshaping method is similar to
that of Plan 9's (see 9wm for an approximation of it on X). WindowLab
also believes in maintaining the illusion of direct manipulation at all
times. For this reason, the pointer is constrained when appropriate, ie
when a window cannot be dragged any further in one direction.
WorDoG 0.6 beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112671/
WorDoG (World Domination Game) is basically a derivate from Risk, the
popular board game. The project aims to provide this strategical
multiplayer game on a HTML-only basis. All necessary calculations are
done serverside by PHP, and data is stored in a database (it can use
ADOdb).
X Automation Tools 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112683/
X Automation Tools is a set of tools that can be used to control input
to X Windows from the command line, using the XTest extension. It also
has some basic graphic screen scraping tools to find buttons, text,
etc. from an image like a screen grab. Together they allow scripts to
find things on the screen and click or type input in order to automate
tasks in X Windows.
X-Chat 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112652/
X-Chat is a fully-featured graphical IRC client using the GTK toolkit.
Optionally it can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting.
XPaint 2.6.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112635/
XPaint is an image editor which supports most standard paint program
options. It includes advanced features like image processing
algorithms, simultaneous editing of multiple images, and support for a
wide variety of image formats.
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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