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Electronics: Gruvstick MP3 Player
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5cac/
Gadgets: Portable Lie Detector
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ce6/
Electronics: Mustek Gsm@rt Mini 3
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5c9e/
Tshirts: I Didn't Get the Memo
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/5cba/
Tshirts: Esc
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5cc0/
Tshirts: Network Security Staff
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/5cb5/
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/
Sourceforge
FLTK 1.1.3 now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252470
The FLTK Team is proud to announce the release of FLTK 1.1.3, a
cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX(r)/Linux(r) (X11), Microsoft(r)
Windows(r), and MacOS(r) X. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality
without the bloat and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL(r) and its
built-in GLUT emulation. The FLTK 1.1.3 release is primarily a bug-fix
release including several MacOS X drawing and OpenGL bugs. The new
release also adds support for up to 2 additional qualifiers before a
class name in FLUID. FLTK is provided under the GNU Library Public
License with exceptions that allow for static linking.
openMosix Project Celebrates Its First Anniversary
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252488
First year technical milestones include the addition of installation
RPMs for Red Hat Linux, SuSE and Mandrake Linux(tm), node Auto
Discovery, and the port of openMosix to the Intel(r) Itanium(tm) IA-64
Processor Family. Project plans for openMosix' second year include
porting to the 64-bit AMD Opteron(tm) processor, better integration
with OpenAFS, the release of a first version of DSM, continued support
of the latest Linux versions, plus tighter integration with Debian
GNU/Linux, Gentoo Linux(tm), and SuSE. More at:
http://www.openMosix.org
Squid-3.x starting to shape up
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252490
During the last months the Squid developers (mostly Robert) have been
busy creating a new breed of Squid which will be named Squid-3.X. Squid
is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients, supporting
FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. The major changes in Squid-3.0
compared to Squid-2.5 are related to the the internal design of Squid
and not very visible externally. The big news is that Squid is now
written in C++ while Squid-2.X and earlier were all written in C. In
terms of functionality Squid-3.0 only have minor improvements, but the
hope is that with the transition to C++ and a large scale cleanup of
the code the Squid-3 code will be a lot easier to maintain and extend
in the future. Gradually more and more components of the Squid
internals will be transitioned and cleaned up from a tangled C mess
with many not always apparent dependencies between different modules to
a more structured and isolated C++ classes.
Ohioedge CRM 1.3.1 FinalRC1 is released...
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252764
Ohioedge CRM 1.3.1 Final RC1 contains a major update to the PDF reports
module. Ohioedge CRM is a Web-based, Enterprise Java (J2EE) Customer
Relationship Management application [JBoss Edition] specifically
designed for $5-500M organizations requiring enterprise-wide
co-ordination of sales generation and fulfillment (workflow) effort.
The PDF reports are now incorporated into and managed through the
InputFactory component and thus fall under the security structure of
Ohioedge CRM. A user can now view a PDF report, only if the PDF report
is attached to the user's activity types. This release also replaces
the log4j Category class with the newer Logger class. This release is
compatible with the latest releases of J2eeBuilder and J2eeCustomer
component libraries.
Freevo version 1.3.2-pre1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252842
Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card
and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set
top box. It uses MPlayer to play and record audio+video. It is
optimized for use with a TV+remote. There is a new binary pre-release
(1.3.2-pre1) available on SourceForge.net's download page. It fixes a
number of bugs in the 1.3.1 release, e.g. CD/DVD autodetection, new
XMLTV format, MP3 time, etc. The binary release includes all external
libraries (e.g. SDL) and applications (e.g. MPlayer). The current
version is useful for watching/recording TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing
MP3/OGG, viewing images.
EVMS 1.9.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252875
The EVMS Project uses a layered, plug-in model to provide unparalleled
flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. This allows for easy
expansion or customization of various levels of volume management for
Linux. This release is the first beta-level release of the new design,
based on user-space volume discovery, and interaction with existing
kernel device drivers, such as MD/Software-RAID and Device-Mapper. It
is available for download at the project web site:
http://www.sf.net/projects/evms/ Please see the notes and changelog at:
http://www.sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=140151
wv2-0.0.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252902
wv2 is the new version of the wv library. Currently it's only used by
the KWord importer (in the KDE CVS). wvWare is the continuation of
Caolan McNamara's wv - the MSWord library. Efforts are underway to make
this library more correct, robust, and turn it into a Word97 exporter.
Revival/2k 1.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252151
Revival/2k has released a new version of the Extended Web-Interface.
v1.0.1 is now available. Revival/2k is a modular network interface
system that allows multiple web applications (forums, mail, login,
etc), internet servers (NNTP, POP3, etc) and a Telegard/Renegade styled
telnet server all using the same DBs, and shareing information. The
initial release of the WIGUEST module has also been made. v0.1.0 is
also available, and requires the The extended web-interface v1.0.1 or
later to operate. WIGUEST is a guestbook system for Revival/2k. V1.0.1
adds support for GuestBook type modules. If you're seeing this outside
of the Revival/2k project, you can visit Revival2k at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/revival2k
DVArchive V2.0 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252110
DVArchive allows you to turn your PC into a "Virtual ReplayTV" that can
download shows and serve them back up to your ReplayTVs as well as
automated schedules and the like. DVArchive V2.0 is a major update with
lots of bug fixes, lots of new features and a drastically rewritten
infrastructure/plumbing. DVArchive V2.0 is now available You can read
more about DVArchive at it's home page http://dvarchive.sourceforge.net
DVArchive V2.0 makes some serious changes in your DVArchive.xml and
Local.guide files. Please read the CHANGELOG.txt before running it and
if you are upgrading, be sure to backup your Local.guide and
DVArchive.xml files first. If this will be your first use of DVArchive,
please review the README.txt before running it. -- Gerrys Plea :-) ***
PLEASE READ THE CHANGELOG.txt and README.txt *** Most questions folks
have asked are answered in the CHANGELOG.txt or the README.txt or
TROUBLESHOOTING.txt. Please check them over before you report a problem
- it's good for you (quick resolution) and the community in general
(saves resources for the new issues). Thanks in advance! -- A brief
summary of new features: * Support for Replay 4xxx and 5xxx units *
New, efficiant/clean/single window interface - Combined single window
DVR Explorer - Context sensitive menus (regular and popup) - Full Drag
and Drop support * Ability to store show files using the shows title
(vs numbers) in your local guide * New XML based guides (no more guide
corruption) * Fixes to eliminate lockups * Ability to remotely turn
ReplayTV off (to free up time and speed up downloads) * Ability to edit
ALL information about a show (including date/time, ratings, etc) *
Periodic renegotiation of time offset (so that DVA keeps working even
if your computers clock drifts over time - useful when DVA is left
running all the time) There is really a lot more - the item about a new
User interface is deceptive as this has literally dozens of
changes/enhancements contained in it.
FreeGuide TV Guide 0.5.2-1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252113
This include channel sets and movie highlighting as well as a fixed NA
grabber. (The files uploaded when this release was named 0.5.2
contained some minor Windows bugs which have now been fixed.) FreeGuide
is a TV guide. Download TV listings from the Internet, view them
offline, create a personalised TV guide and choose favourites. It uses
the XMLTV tools to grab listings for the UK, USA, Canada, Norway,
Sweden, Germany and New Zealand.
Slashdot
Hacking the Streamium
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/0328240
[0]UVwarning writes "I submitted a [1] review to Slashdot about a month
ago complaining about various problems with Philips' [2]streamium
MCi-200 (an Internet micro hi-fi system). The main gripes being that
Philips controls which Internet radio stations you can listen to and
that the PC-link software (which is used to serve MP3s from your PC to
your Streamium) only runs on Windows. I managed to fix both of these
problems by reverse engineering the PC-link protocol and writing my own
pc-link server in perl, which can be run on practically any OS, *and*
can trick the Streamium into playing any Internet MP3 stream that you
want! This is a must-have for any Streamium user. Here is a more
[3]detailed article along with the [4]perl script and an outline of the
[5] PC-link protocol."
Links
0. http://www.siteswap.org
1. http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/0337254&tid=137
2. http://www.audio.philips.com/news_press/PR_MC-i200_080102.asp
3. http://www.siteswap.org/streamium/
4. http://www.siteswap.org/streamium/pclink.pl.txt
5. http://www.siteswap.org/streamium/protocol.html
Buying a Small, Light Linux Notebook Computer?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/0213201
[0]metamatic asks: "I'm planning to buy a notebook computer in the near
future. Currently I'm looking at an iBook; however, they're a bit
larger and heavier than I'd like. PC users are always telling me that
PCs are faster and cheaper, and I'd be happy enough running Linux for
what I want the notebook for. So: I'm looking for PC notebook computers
that outperform the iBook. Must have USB and Firewire, built-in
ethernet, and 802.11b support somehow (via a PC card slot is OK). Small
is important, lightweight is important, long battery life is important.
I don't care about screen size so long as it can do 800x600.
Performance isn't a major concern, as I'm not going to be playing 3D
games on it. Sounds easy? Here's the catch: I will not purchase
Windows!" After all that this industry has gone through in recent
years? Does one still have to pay the Microsoft tax when purchasing a
laptop?
Links
0. http://www.pobox.com/~meta/
Film Gimp Chalks Up Another Studio
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/024206
Robin Rowe of the [0]Film Gimp project has a [1]piece running on
NewsForge (also part of OSDN) that says "Film Gimp has recently been
adopted by ComputerCafe, the fourth motion picture studio to use it in
making feature films." Check out this [2]recent post about Film Gimp to
see some great screenshots of behind-the-scenes use. (And Rowe is also
hoping you can get to the Linux Movies Track at [3]Creative Cow West
2003, starting Tuesday in Los Angeles.) Update: 02/17 04:04 GMT by
[4]T: Brain rebooted, so I added the missing link.
Links
0. http://filmgimp.sourceforge.net/
1. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/02/16/1355224.shtml?tid=6
2. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/050214&tid=97
3. http://www.creativecow.net/cow_conference/index.html
4. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/0045205
[0]Kris_J writes "[1]Highlift Systems may have found [2]a second
location for the anchor of their space elevator -- Perth, Western
Australia. Apparently we have the calm waters and international airport
that it needs, amongst other things. Slashdot has covered this
company's efforts before: [3]Oct 9, 2002 and, earlier, [4]August 13,
2002, but it's worth discussing again since '[recent funding] has been
given momentum by the Columbia shuttle disaster.'"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.highliftsystems.com/
2. http://www.thewest.com.au/20030213/news/perth/tw-news-perth-home-sto87820.html
3. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/08/1732216&tid=160
4. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/13/1234253&tid=99
Saving Digital History
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/2322243
[0]Gavinsblog writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the Library
of Congress in the U.S. plans to initiate the $100 million [1]National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).
It is hoped that the project will lead to the preservation of data that
is constantly changing on the Internet. But I wonder who will choose
what is worth saving?" This may remind you of the LOC's [2]effort to
preserve and digitize the audio collection in the National Recording
Registry.
Links
0. http://www.gavinsblog.com
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10278-2003Feb14.html
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/0030228&tid=103
Joltage Powers Down
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/2146259
jbyter writes "Wi-Fi service provider [0]Joltage sent a e-mail to
subscribers that read "It is with regret that I am writing to inform
you that Joltage will be discontinuing its Wi-Fi subscriber and
provider services effective at the end of this month." This could have
been very cool, but due to economy and lack of subscriber participation
they are no longer able to finance their operations." Too bad -- this
[0]sounded like a good idea. The [1]Joltage homepage isn't much help --
it's in place, but content-free. Any other Joltage customers who can
comment on this?
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/30/1440204&tid=95
1. http://www.joltage.com
The 25th Anniversary of the BBS
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/2028220
[0]Jason Scott writes "[1]25 years ago today, Ward Christensen and
Randy Suess officially announced the creation of a little project they
threw together with a 300 baud Hayes modem, a Z-80 based S-100
computer, and a phone line. They called it "[2]Chicago Bulletin Board
System" (CBBS) and it was the first dial-up BBS. From this beginning,
BBSes grew into the many thousands and became an entire industry, and
when the Internet started to mature with the World Wide Web, the users
who had cut their teeth on BBSes moved over to it. So raise a toast to
these two fellows for a [3]quarter century of great online times."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://timeline.textfiles.com/1978/
2. http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/photos/cbbs.jpg
3. http://www.chinet.com/html/cbbs.html
Science Editors Urge Nondisclosure Of Bioterror Info
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/1931237
Jeraph Mason writes "According to [0]this story on ABC news, science
editors want to censor their publications because terrorists may use
them. It's the same argument used to prevent [1]security disclosures
from being published." There's also coverage [2] on the BBC and [3]at
The Washington Post.
Links
0. http://abc.net.au/news/scitech/2003/02/item20030216103135_1.htm
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/21/0559238&tid=172
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/denver_2003/2767453.stm
3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14222-2003Feb15.html
Intel, Red Hat Agree To BSD License For Intel Patches
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/1816200
stock points to this [0]story on CNET, excerpting "Red Hat and Intel
have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux
company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of
the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the
open-source community." By adding a BSD-variant license to certain
kernel contributions from Intel, the two companies have bridged an
impasse between the GPL and Intel's "component architecture" license.
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984769.html
TurboTax DRM Writes to Your Boot Sector?!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/1549232
[0]ltwally writes "As [1]reported on Slashdot (amongst other sites)
recently, the latest version of [2]TurboTax is laden with DRM software.
Even worse, however, is that it apparently writes to your hard drive's
boot-sector , as reported at [3]Extreme Tech [4]here. As I'm sure most
Slashdotters already know, the boot-sector is often times used for
silly things like boot-loaders and such. "
Links
0. http://ltwally&softhome,net
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1838240&tid=98
2. http://www.turbotax.com/
3. http://www.extremetech.com/
4. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,881243,00.asp
Freshmeat
Ace Operator 1.1.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113235/
Ace Operator is an instant messaging call-center solution that can be
accessed from Web pages. Using this product, online service providers
can easily add a "live help" button to any or all of their
Web pages, which gives online customers access to company
representatives and allows them to exchange information in real-time.
AdaSockets 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113222/
AdaSockets is a library that lets you use sockets in Ada 95. It
supports unicast and multicast sockets, and uses object oriented
structures to ease sockets manipulation.
Averist 1.7.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113177/
Averist is a module that adds an authentication layer to any CGI
application written in Perl. It supports initial authentication through
CGI (form), and it can use CGI (hidden form fields) or cookies for
reauthentication after a configurable timeout. It can also use an SQL
database or DBM file for storing session tickets for increased
security. The username and password check at the initial authentication
can be done via a DBM file, an LDAP directory, NIS, an SQL database, or
a passwd-style file. Averist is written in Perl for easy customization
and expansion.
BlaXXtarZ 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113175/
BlaXXtarZ is a theme with rounded tiles.
BookmarkBridge 0.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113227/
BookmarkBridge is a small, easy to use, multi-platform, GUI-based
utility that allows the user to share bookmarks between all their
browsers. The user runs it periodically to synchronize between the
browsers.
cvsd 0.9.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113239/
cvsd is a wrapper program for CVS in pserver mode. It will run 'cvs
pserver' under a special uid/gid in a chroot jail. cvsd is run as a
daemon and is controlled through a configuration file. It is easy to
configure and provides tools for setting up a rootjail and managing
repositories.
Damascus 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113182/
Damascus is a GTK+ 2.x client for the Gale communication protocol. It
is somewhat modelled after IM/ICQ-style interfaces. If you don't know
what Gale is, this client probably won't be very useful; you need a
valid Gale key to send anything, and Damascus can't generate them
(yet). Gale is also scary and confusing.
Darius Tools 1.1 (Sound)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113165/
Darius Tools is a collection of miscellaneous scripts which are useful
for a variety of purposes. They are all designed to be faster and
easier to use than the command line that would normally be required to
accomplish the same task. For example, there are scripts for mass
conversion of WAV files to Ogg files and Ogg files to WAV files, for
converting LaTeX to PostScript and viewing the output in ggv, for
creating image thumbnails, for converting from the Euro to another
currency, for automated updating via FTP and for removing backups
recursively. The Darius Tools are split among several packages
according to different categories.
Enemies of Carlotta 0.18 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113233/
Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic
the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in
Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is
smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman.
EzSDK 4.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113218/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a
library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of
premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and
data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle,
etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
fbdump 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113179/
fbdump is a simple tool to capture snapshots from the Linux kernel
framebuffer device and write them out as a PPM file. Currently, most
packed-pixel framebuffer formats and the vga16 framebuffer are
supported.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113197/
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.
Freeoxyd 0.70
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113217/
Enigma is a reimplementation of Oxyd, a puzzle game that was very
popular on the Atari ST and later on the PC. Equipped with a little
black marble, your objective is to locate and uncover matching pairs of
Oxyd stones.
GOPchop 0.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113183/
GOPchop is an MPEG2-PS editor that cuts on GOP boundries so that the
resulting MPEG2-PS file does not need to be re-encoded when saving the
resulting desired frames. It is useful for editing commercials out of
MPEG2 TV capture files.
GRAMPS 0.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113173/
Gramps is a GTK/GNOME-based genealogy program written in Python.
Greenwich 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113229/
Greenwich is a graphical whois client for GNOME. It is written in Perl
and makes use of the GNOME bindings for Perl.
GtkTerm 0.99.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113237/
GtkTerm is a serial port terminal written in GTK+ . It is a clone of
the famous Hyperterminal. The port can be set up, and the control
signal can be toggled. It also supports file transfers and an
hexadecimal view of the data.
IceCrack 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113201/
IceCrack is a simple theme based on the TigertCrack theme for Metacity.
It was designed to match the colors of the PrettyOkayish GTK theme.
im-stats 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113164/
im-stats produces HTML statistics from Trillian logs.
Impact 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113247/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping
algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car
crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is
kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and
extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and
output formats.
Jacksum 1.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113246/
Jacksum is a free checksum utility written entirely in Java. It
supports most common checksum algorithms (Adler32, BSD sum, POSIX
cksum, CRC-16, CRC-32, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1,
Unix System V sum, and Whirlpool). Recursive file processing is
supported.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113206/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a bash script that allows one to easily
install and configure a firewall on a Linux system. It was initially
written for use on a home LAN, but can be extend to any type of
network. It features support for multiple (external/internal)
interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP header control, masquerading, synflood
control, spoofing control, port forwarding, (experimental) upload
limits, VPNs (like vtun), ToS (bandwith managment), denying hosts,
ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list IP, log options, and more. The firewall is
able to launch custom iptables rules, and the configuration of the
firewall is assisted by an optional, interactive, curses-based Perl
script.
jGal D1 [2003-02-15]
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113174/
jGal is a Perl script that generates static XHTML image galleries,
along with thumbnails and slides, from image files. It's derived from
iGal.
kbilliards 0.4b (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113226/
Kbilliards is a pool game entirely written using Qt/KDE. It supports a
neat and customizable physics system.
leads4web 3.0.1.2 (beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113215/
leads4web is a very customizable, multilingual, Web-based Customer
Relationship Management solution. It supports different users and
roles, comes with email support, customer/companies management, todos,
calendar, CR, and Projects Management.
Less 381
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113187/
Less is a program similar to more, i.e. a terminal based program for
viewing text files and the output from other programs. Less offers many
features beyond those that more does. For instance, it allows backward
movement in the files as well as forward.
Looper Event / Alert System 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113250/
Looper is a highly modularized application designed to simplify the
event / alert model. Primarily used for Network Management, this
application can be used to accomplish a variety of tasks related to
logging and alerting such as listening for SNMP traps and logging to a
file or sending notification to Netcool (a la "trapd probe"),
reading a log file for alerts and sending notification via e-mail,
parsing syslogs and sending notifications to Netcool (a la "syslog
probe"), etc. Looper can also be used as an ad-hoc Netcool probe
or Gateway.
Lyrictracker X 4.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113205/
Lyrictracker X is a Mac OS X application which allows you to find and
download song lyrics. It also features functionality to download lyrics
to your iPod, submit lyrics to the database, and chat with other users.
man-pages-ja 20030215
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113180/
man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for
Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU
tools, and ones for various opensource applications.
MonAlbum 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113200/
MonAlbum is a PHP and MySQL based photo album.
Mosfet replacement image loader for Konqueror 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113213/
This is a replacement for the Konqueror Web browser's image loader. It
is aimed at dialup and/or PixiePlus users and adds incremental image
loading for JPEG, GIF, PNG, and some BMPs. It features checking if the
image being downloaded is a duplicate, canceling if so, and the ability
to save directly to your hard disk without the file dialog.
nMicrocoder 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113242/
nMicrocoder is an ncurses EDA tool to write microcode. Basically it is
a stripped-down spreadsheet program which lets you fill a tabular
layout with "0", "1", and "-", and gives
you compile-ready verilog-code in return.
photom 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113231/
photom is a collection of programs designed to take raw, instrumental
measurements of stellar brightness and convert them to calibrated
magnitudes on some standard system. They were written as part of the
TASS Mark IV pipeline, but may work on other datasets.
PHPReports 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113211/
PHPReports is a PHP report generator that uses XML report layout files
to generate PHP code and show a report.
PHPX 2.2.4 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113243/
PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS),
forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have
feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of
programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums,
downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing,
support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management,
news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to
fully customize the look of your site.
Plugger for Mozilla 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113169/
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.
PowerDNS daemon 2.9.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113212/
PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a
host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads
information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases.
Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl
backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a
Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.
PrettyBlueish 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113202/
PrettyBlueish is a theme based on the thinice engine. It is a
modification of the PrettyOkayish theme to match the colors of
Mozilla's modern theme. There is also a matching IceWM theme, IceCrack.
ProjectForum 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113240/
Easier to use and more interactive than conventional forum,
collaboration, or intranet software, ProjectForum lets you build an
intranet or project site where everyone can actively and directly
contribute, without complex software or a full-time administrator
getting in the way. It can be used for project planning, task
assignments, meeting notes, team discussions, research, brainstorming,
and more.
PTlink Services 2.22.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113198/
PTlink Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC
networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC daemon, it includes
features like channel logging, oper management, helper management,
AJOIN user list, memo read acknowledgement, rotated logs, autoidentify
on ghost, and ChanServ PROTECTED level. It also integrates NewServ for
real time news delivering.
rb.log 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113216/
rb.log is a full-featured weblogger written in Ruby. It features file
uploads, comments, blog- rolling, side-bar editing, bookmarklets, the
Blogger API, searching, RSS syndication, and archives. It also performs
well on slower machines by regenerating static pages after posts are
made.
Renaissance 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113191/
GNUstep Renaissance allows you to describe your user interfaces (that
is, the windows in your application and the buttons, boxes, text
fields, etc. in the windows) in simple and intuitive XML files, using
an open, standard format describing the logic of the interface.
Scintilla 1.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113195/
Scintilla is a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+.
As well as features found in standard text editing components,
Scintilla includes features especially useful when editing and
debugging source code. These include support for syntax styling, error
indicators, code completion and call tips. Styling choices are more
open than with many editors, allowing the use of proportional fonts,
bold and italics, multiple foreground and background colours and
multiple fonts.
SciTE 1.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113196/
SciTE is a GUI-based single-document editor which uses the Scintilla
editor component. It rapidly styles most common programming languages
with good control over how syntactic elements are displayed, and
features folding for C++, C, Java, JavaScript, and Python. Styling of
HTML also styles embedded scripts written in VBScript, Javascript, or
Python.
Simple Python Blogger 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113223/
Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries,
users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to
edit, change, and set up. It creates pages based on one HTML template
file, which can be edited to suit your personal taste.
skaMenu 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113186/
skaMenu is a menu browser. It's controlled with an LIRC (Linux Infrared
Remote Control) device, and it's very configurable through the use of
an XML configuration file. It supports TrueType fonts and antialiasing,
and the output is done with the pygame library.
SMATCH 0.39
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113184/
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.
SouRCe PacKaGer 1.1-beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113249/
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.
Spamcup 1.02 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113236/
Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same
actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web
browser, but from the commandline.
Text::BarGraph 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113244/
Text::BarGraph is a simple Perl module for generating ASCII bar graphs
based on data in a hash, where the keys are labels and the values are
magnitudes. It automatically scales the graph to fit on your terminal
screen. It is very useful in making data more meaningful. For example,
it can be used with statistics gathered from a log file.
The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO 2003-02-15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113185/
The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO describes how to write parasitic file
viruses which infect ELF executables on Linux/i386. Though it contains
a lot of source code, no actual virus is included. Every mentioned
infection method is accompanied with a practical guide to detection.
toolame 02k
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113204/
Toolame is an optimized MPEG-1/2 Layer II audio encoder based upon the
ISO demonstration source code that borrows heavily from the LAME
project, as well as introducing new optimizations and additional
features such as VBR.
TOra 1.3.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113210/
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.
TOSVCD 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113192/
tosvcd is a small C++ utility that can take one or more recorded VDR
files and transcode them to one or more SVCD image files ready to burn
with cdrdao.
Video Disk Recorder 1.1.24 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113189/
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux
and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output
the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3
playback and more.
XFMail 1.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113232/
XFMail is X11 application for receiving electronic mail. It was created
using XForms library toolkit by T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars. It's
partially compatible with MH style mail- boxes but it does not require
any mh tools to be installed on the system. You can read most of your
MH folders and messages. It has a very friendly user interface and it's
extremely easy in use. It implements most of the mail functionality in
one program and it does not require any additional tools. It will run
on most UNIX variants, as well as OS/2 (with the emx libraries and
XFree86). It is also available in Gentoo Portage.
Zorbstats 0.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113228/
ZorbStats is a simple Web statistics generator using PHP and MySQL. It
is simple to install an features visitor logs, browser stats, OS stats,
and number of visits. It also allows you to search all logs.
Slashcode
Lifetime karma
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/15/2021220
I just read this interview (flamebait/insightful, depending on your
view of a certain GWB) with Kurt Vonnegut, now 80 years. Seems he's
earned quite a bit of karma in his years. That's how I got this idea:
Presuming succesful slashsites might last for decades, it would be a
further motivation to keep writing good commentary and just generally
interesting if, in addition to the active karma value (with the cap),
there would also be a separate "total karma earned", or lifetime karma
which would not have a cap and would be an integer value rather than a
descriptive value.
External Authentication
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1733212
I have an existing registration system on a website that I would like
to also deploy slash on. In order to do this, I need to be able to use
my existing database for authentication. It is MySQL driven. In
searching I have seen that some have been successful letting Apache
authenticate and then passing the username to the program. I imagine if
that is possible, it could also be done with cookies, but I am
guessing. Has anyone else crossed this bridge already? If yes, would
you mind sharing the patches? If no, does anyone have any advice on the
best way I should proceed. Thank you, Mitchell
Slash on Mac OS X - Undefined Symbols again
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/1733208
Hi, I am fairly new to Mac OS X and Slash so please apologise any
stupidities. I've been trying to install Slash on Mac OS X for 2 days
now and after resolving any Fink and firewall and Perl 5.8.0 issues am
nearly there. There's just this one tiny module that still has
undefined Symbols: Apache::Slash::User: > perl -MSlash::Apache::User
dyld: perl Undefined symbols: _ap_add_module _ap_find_linked_module
_ap_null_cleanup _ap_palloc _ap_register_cleanup _ap_remove_module
_perl_clear_symtab _perl_cmd_perl_FLAG _perl_cmd_perl_TAKE1
_perl_cmd_perl_TAKE2 _perl_get_startup_pool _perl_perl_cmd_cleanup I've
tried deleting the directories in /Library/Perl and reinstalling Slash
but to no avail. I installed Perl according to the HOWTO at Apple's and
it seems to work fine, installing a slash site worked perfectly well, I
just can't start neither apache nor slashd. Any ideas? Thanks,
christian
How Do You Change HTML Tag Case?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/061243
I was able to change the case of HTML tags used by Slash by editing
Display.pm, Data.pm, and templates. However, there is one last tag
which I cannot change the case for. The </A> tag. Where can I go
to change this? I need to normalize my tags to lowercase to conform
with XHTML.
Using the Features box
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/1732235
Is there any way to make the features box automatically update itself
and present direct links to the "feature" stories that have been posted
on the site? Or would this have to be done manually? If it's gotta be
done manually, seems to me as if the features and quick links boxes
could effectively be used for the same thing. Guess it depends on how
recently i plan to update the features box.
How do add a field to the 'newuser' form?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/0248246
Okay, I posted a similar question before, but since it didn't get
posted, I am trying to simplify my question (always a good idea ;-) :
When users sign up for their id, the current form asks for id and email
address. I would like to add a zipcode field and have that parsed and
added to the database. I know how to add the column and I will probably
put the zipcode into a new table as to not break things when I upgrade
to a new slash. My question is: how do I: get the form to show the
zipcode field (I looked at users.pl and am a bit confused) get the
zipcode into my database (since the call 'createUser' [users.pl line
419] calls the Environment.pm library which I don't want to mess with)
My idea was to maybe do a db call directly inside users.pl to add the
new uid (as a primary key) and the associated zip into its own table.
Any suggestions? Michael
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.
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