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Gadgets: Binary Code Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5cf3/
Books: High Score! The Illustrated History Of Electronic Games
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5e26/
Computing: LED Light Sticks
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e66/
Cube Goodies: Activision 10-in-1 TV Games
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d41/
Cube Goodies: Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Games
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d39/
Computing: IQeye3 Network Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/netcams/5e3b/
Electronics: FM Transmitter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5dab/
Computing: UV-Treated Rounded Cables
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e1f/
Computing: 4-D Optical Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e45/
Books: Revolution OS DVD/VHS
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5dd5/
Gadgets: Wireless PenCam
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d8a/
Gadgets: WristLinx Communicator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5db8/
Gadgets: Laser-Sighted MiniTemp
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d95/
Computing: Labtec Axis 712 Digital USB Headset
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/headsets/5de1/
Computing: Fly Fan USB Fan
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5dee/
Computing: Antec LanBoy Aluminum PC case
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5de9/
Computing: UV-Treated 80mm Cooling Fans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e01/
Computing: Viewsonic Airpanel Wireless 15" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5df4/
Computing: Antec PlusView PC Case
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5dfc/
Computing: Klipsch GMX-D5.1
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/speakers/5d7b/
Sourceforge
SnipSnap 0.4.1a and Radeox 0.6.1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263487
Released a bugfix release for SnipSnap and Radeox. The major change is
the improved performance of the Macro rendering mechanism that is now a
100 times faster. SnipSnap is a personal content management system
based on weblog and wiki technologies. It's intended for desktop use,
but can be deployed on servers. SnipSnap differs from other weblog and
wiki tools as it's focused on easy installation.
POP/SMTP e-mail jConduit now available via CVS.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263690
Users who build the project from sourcecode will be interested to note
that the latest sources now include the new Email jConduit, that allows
you to synchronize the Palm Mail database with the POP and SMTP servers
of your choice. Work on this jConduit is continuing (adding features
and such), but it is a good example of how to code a network-enabled
jConduit. Interested developers are encouraged to update their source
trees. This jConduit will be a part of our first beta binary release,
planned for sometime within the next few weeks.
FreeMarker 2.2 final available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263999
The first release of FreeMarker 2.2 labelled production/stable is
available. FreeMarker 2.2 incorporates some revolutionary new features:
names-spaces, support for 3rd party JSP taglibs, fine control over
whitespace, macros with default arguments. FreeMarker is a template
engine. It provides an easy way to generate textual (HTML, RTF,
PostScript, TeX, source code, etc) output from your data and helps you
separate design issues from application logic. Integrates with
servlets, XML, Python and more.
bogofilter-0.11.1.4 - new current release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263675
bogofilter 0.11.1.4 fixes several minor defects in 0.11.1.3 and updates
the help messages and FAQ. The bogofilter package implements a fast
Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his
article "A Plan For Spam" . It is written in C. Supported platforms:
Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X.
Privoxy 3.0.2 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263687
This is the first maintenance release of Privoxy. There are no
significant new features in this release. Many bugs are fixed, and some
existing features have been enhanced. See ChangeLog for details.
Upgrading from 3.0.0 is recommended. Privoxy is a web proxy with
advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web
page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads,
banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious junk. It is based on the Internet
Junkbuster.
FreeCol 0.2.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263705
This second release of FreeCol is the first release of FreeCol that is
completely written in Java. It adds a first implementation of 'Europe'
which will allow you to buy many different units and to give them
equipment as you like. There have also been many gui improvements such
as extra controls and more performant screen drawing. FreeCol is an
open version of Colonization. It is a Civilization-like game in which
the player has to conquer the new world.
SpamAssassin 2.52 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263444
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam using text analysis.
Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail
headers and body text, to identify "spam", or unsolicited commercial
email. The SpamAssassin 2.52 release contains a number of bugfixes.
Pick it up at http://spamassassin.org/downloads.html . Changes: - bug
1664: expiry imposed way too much load when a single site-wide Bayes db
was used, fixed - bug 1672: a typo in a backported patch for 2.51
caused Bayes to sometimes not unlock the db, fixed - INSTALL now
strongly recommends using DB_File - some NetBSD support fixes - bug
1601: option --syslog-socket wasn't implemented - bug 1260: corrected
description of --nocreate-prefs option
Licq 1.2.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262902
Licq 1.2.6 has been released. This version has quite a large change
log, so you should just check that out to see the many improvements.
Also, a new On Screen Display plugin has been released. Licq is an ICQ
clone written fully in C++. It uses an extensive plugin system to
manage many different functions. The main GUI is written using the Qt
widget set. Please see http://www.licq.org for information.
SoX 12.17.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262862
SoX is meant to be the Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utils. It
can convert audio files to other popular audio file types and also
apply sound effects and filters during the conversion. This release
adds support for reading and writing MP3 files using the external
libraries libmad and libmp3lame; and a number of bugfixes. I'd like to
announce the release of SoX 12.17.4. It is avaliable from
http://sox.sourceforge.net/. The following things have changed since
the release of SoX 12.17.3: o Peter Nyhlen fixed a problem with reading
Comments in Ogg Vorbis files. o Added install target to allow
installing libgsm from main Makefile. Leigh Smith. o Minor updates to
sox.c to free unused memory and close all input files during failures.
o Pieter Krul added a patch that makes play script look at AUDIODEV
environment variable if it exists to find which device to use. This
allows scripts to work with Solaris SunRays and is a good idea in
general. o Updated config.sub to detect latest supported OS's. o
Fabrizio Gennari added support for reading and writing MP3 files using
the external libraries libmad and libmp3lame. o Jens Henrik Goebbert
sent in several bugfixes for integer overflows in the compand effect. o
Dan Dickerman sent in patches for integer overflows in the resample
effect. o Jimen Ching sent in a fix for multi-channel sound file
processing using the avg effect. o Richards Bannister added patches to
clean up prototypes and filter private sizes being to small. o Jimen
Ching adds -d option to specify 64bit data size and changed Ulaw/Alaw
encoding to default to 8bit data size if not specified. o David Singer
pointed out that a MS program creates AIFF files with an invalid length
of 0 in its header. Changed SoX to warn the user but continue instead
of aborting since SoX can still read the file just fine. o Bert van
Leeuwen added a file handler for Psion record.app used for
System/Alarms in some Psion devices. o Richard Bannister sent in a
patch to make writing vorbis files work with Vorbis 1.0 libraries. o
Fixed configure scripts so that they can be ran with the
--with-oss-dsp, --with-alsa, and --with-sun-audio options. Was causing
compile time problems. Reported by Raul Coronado. o Change Ogg Vorbis
support to use VBR encoding to match defaults of oggenc based on
suggestion from Christian Weisgerber. o Prints error message now when a
channel value of -1 is given. Reported by Pierre Fortin. o Fixed bug
were memory could be trashed if a input WAV file contained a comment.
Found by Rhys Chard. o Change command line to compile soxmix.o slightly
to try and make Forte compiler happy. o Added support for ALSA 0.9
driver. Jimen Ching
FileZilla 2.1.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262828
FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. This
release provides a number of new features and bugfixes. New features: -
added statusbar to local and remote file list which shows the number of
(selected) folders and files with their size - added remote group /
owner column - sort settings of fileviews can be saved - Aborting file
exists dialog now skips transfer - enlarged transfer buffer, high-speed
FTP transfers should be slightly faster now. - renamed gssapi.dll into
FzGSS.dll. If you have gssapi.dll from older version in your FileZilla
folder, you can delete it. - improved exception handling - updated to
OpenSSL version 0.9.7a Fixed bugs: - FTP over SSL no longer forces
passive mode - remote column widths were not saved correctly - fixed
download options page in installer - fixed crash if no data was
sent/received during transfer for over 60 seconds and transfer did
continue then - silent installer now working properly (use /S switch)
Slashdot
Fighting the Hydra -- A Spam Warrior's Tale
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/0354256
[0]Selanit writes "Salon has an [1]interesting article about the battle
against spam from the viewpoint of Suresh Ramasubramanian, a sysadmin
working in Hong Kong. His most interesting complaint concerns the
fragmentation of anti-spam forces: not only does he have to deal with
spammers, but also with anti-spammers who assume because his company is
Chinese that he isn't doing anything about spam. Hmm ... decentralized
opponents striking from the shadows against quarreling allies. Does
this sound familiar to anyone else?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/27/spam_fighter/index.html
Microsoft To Demo 'Palladium' At WinHEC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/0220233
1010011010 writes "According to Microsoft Watch, Microsoft [0]will be
demonstrating Palladium (also known as 'Next-Generation Secure
Computing Base') at WinHEC in May in New Orleans. The 'trusted root' is
now called the 'Nexus' by Microsoft. Developers wishing to write
'Nexus-aware' applications will apparently have to pay a licensing fee
to do so. The product manager for Palladium, Mario Juarez, says, 'It's
important to note that nexus-aware applications will not hinder any
apps or anything else running in the regular Windows environment.' I'm
sure you can all hear the word 'yet' at the end of that sentence.
There's talk of phasing in Palladium, starting with Longhorn Server in
2005. I wonder how Microsoft will convince consumers that loss of
control is a good thing, and how long the convincing will take. I, for
one, am already planning to transition my company away from Microsoft
software. Hopefully that won't get messed up by and dumb
mandatory-palladium legislation from the Fritz types."
Links
0. http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,976208,00.asp
CDMA vs. GSM in Post-war Iraq
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/0033236
An anonymous reader submits: "Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is
pressing congress to favor [0]CDMA over GSM for mobile phone service in
U.S.-funded reconstruction plans. One reason for pushing this is that a
CDMA system would benefit American companies, such as California-based
[1]Qualcomm, while GSM would favor European companies. Currently, GSM
is the most widely used mobile standard in surrounding countries."
Links
0. http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/2171271
1. http://www.qualcomm.com/
Dell Takes the Low Road Regarding Ink Cartridges
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2041207
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Dell released a line of printers today,
manufactured by Lexmark. As covered by [1]by Yahoo they '..contain a
chip that disables the cartridge if it is refilled and replaced in a
Dell printer..' and 'The cartridges are different sizes than cartridges
from other printer vendors, including Lexmark, the spokesperson said.
This will limit the amount of knockoff cartridges available, but only
until someone figures out how to reverse engineer Dell's cartridges.'"
In the interest of full disclosure, note that the poster sells knockoff
carts.
Links
0. http://www.islandinkjet.com
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1093&ncid=738&e=7&u=/pcworld/20030325/tc_pcworld/109978
FSF Announces Corporate Patronage Program
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2246238
[0]Andy Tai writes "The Free Software Foundation has [1]announced a
'[2]Corporate Patronage Program' to allow companies to support the work
of the FSF. The members already include IBM, HP, Ada Core Technologies
and MySQL. Interested parties should contact [3]Ravi Khanna."
Links
0. http://www.atai.org/softwarewar.png
1. http://www.fsf.org/press/2003-03-27-patron.html
2. http://patron.fsf.org/
3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slashback: Revolutionism, Media, Oregon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2330204
Updates and clarifications in tonight's Slashback include word on the
extra-theatrical availability of Revolution OS, consideration of Free
software in Oregon. availability of HP's new streaming-audio toy (which
does not play Ogg Vorbis), and more. Read on for the details.
California Anti-Spam Law Approved
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/230208
[0]Metroid72 writes "Zdnet reports that "A California [1]anti-spam bill
passed the Senate on Wednesday, a first step toward the passage of a
law that would give people the right to sue spammers." I guess there's
light at the end of the tunnel"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1105-994265.html
Games on Demand
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2128225
[0]Laurens Simonis writes "Yesterday, the Dutch ISP [1]Planet Internet
introduced a [2]games subscription service. For a small monthly fee,
about $10, you get unlimited access to a growing [3]list of (sort-of)
current games which you can legally download from them. Currently, you
can pick from 20 titles including Tomb Raider Chronicles, Alone in the
Dark: The New Nightmare and Commandos 2. New ones are added monthly. To
my knowledge, this is the first time an ISP offers this kind of
service. Personally, I'm all for the idea. Could this be the future?
[4]Half-Life developer [5]Valve Software seems to [6]think so." This
looks really cool, but I'm curious as to how well it will catch on. It
feels about 5 years too early to me, but here's hoping it performs
well.
Links
0. mailto:lmsimonis (at) wxs (dot) nl
1. http://www.planet.nl/
2. http://pgc.planet.nl/index.html
3. http://pgc.planet.nl/pgc/show/id=40788
4. http://www.half-life.com/
5. http://www.valvesoftware.com/
6. http://www.steampowered.com/
Soldering with a Toaster Oven
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/208227
[0]nullset sent in a link to the [1]Seattle Robotics Society about
soldering in an unconventional way. Instead of the traditional
soldering iron, Kenneth Maxon has [2]successfully used a toaster oven
to solder surface mount parts. The "magic ingredient" that facilitates
this is a water-soluble solder paste. I wish I'd thought of this back
when I had to solder one of those *ahem* aftermarket accessories to my
playstation, since the whole process looks easier than trying to hold a
soldering iron steady.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.seattlerobotics.org/
2. http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200006/oven_art.htm
Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1930256
[0]shmigget writes "[1]The Register is [2]reporting that [3]Microsoft
is throwing in the towel as far as NT 4 is concerned on [4]the latest
security flaw to affect Windows 2000, XP, and NT 4. They quote
Microsoft as saying 'The architectural limitations of Windows NT 4.0 do
not support the changes that would be required to remove this
vulnerability.'" There still is a workaround for NT 4.0. Instead of
patching the problem, it's advised to firewall off port 135 on an
affected machine.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29985.html
3. http://www.microsoft.com/
4.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-010.asp
Freshmeat
Ampoliros 3.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117699/
Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web
applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface.
It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment
system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast
deployment of Web solutions.
Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117732/
The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open
source platform independent SMTP Proxy server which implements
whitelists and Bayesian filtering to help stop unsolicited commercial
email (UCE). Anti-spam tools should be adaptive to new spam and
customized for each siteÂs email patterns. This easy to use tool works
with any mail transport and achieves these goals requiring no operator
intervention after the initial setup phase.
bash programmable completion 20030327 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117674/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend
its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with
just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to
complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3
str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the
UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported
file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would
complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to
produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX
commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need
to do on a daily basis.
bengsaver 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117700/
bengsaver is a screensaver for KDE. It shows bouncing balls or bee
swarms, with collision detection.
Bifrost Firewall iptables GUI 0.9.3-cb2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117679/
Bifrost is a firewall management interface to iptables (iptables GUI).
The system is inspired by Checkpoint, Cisco PIX, and Watchguard
firewall management. With Bifrost you are able to work with incoming
and outgoing traffic flows rather than focusing on interfaces. The
system supports both IPSEC and High Availability. It is even possible
to manage HA from the GUI. Bifrost has an advanced anti-spoofing
function. There is also a very easy-to-use log watch function where you
can apply filtering. Logging is controlled per rule. You can turn
on/off logging for a rule on the fly, and there is built-in protection
against log flooding. All firewall changes are made without interrupt
already established connections. There is also support for traffic
marking (mangle), very useful when you are working with QOS (bandwidth
management) and advance routing such as policy-based routing. If you
for some reason need something extra, it is possible to add your own
commands.
BKchem 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117672/
BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python.
Bosco 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117741/
Bosco is a rewrite of the popular Bugzilla defect tracking software in
PHP. It is database-independent, and aims to be easy to maintain and
modify. It also has an API to allow external applications to work with
its data.
cdrtools 2.01a07 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117696/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW
recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It
supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and
ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include
IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and
mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO,
RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI
support and can access local or remote CD writers.
CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117711/
CodeTek VirtualDesktop brings full virtual desktop support as available
on other operating systems (Mac OS 9, Windows, Unix, Linux) to the Mac
OS X platform.
cpp2latex 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117691/
cpp2latex converts C++ into LaTeX either for including into existing
LaTeX documents or as standalone documents. It contains syntax
highlighting and line numbering.
DC-GUI 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117695/
DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
dllm.sh 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117686/
dllm.sh is a bash script that allows subscribed readers of the online
edition of the French "Le Monde" newspaper to automatically
download articles without having to log in to the main Web site.
DOSemu 1.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117661/
DOSEmu (DOS Emulator) is a Linux application that enables the Linux OS
to run many DOS programs including some DPMI apps.
Fade to Blue 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117649/
Fade to Blue is a blue fade-in, fade-out animated cursor scheme for
XFree 4.3. All included cursors fade in and out once every 1.2 seconds,
from a brilliant blue at 100% opacity all the way down to 50% opacity.
There are 20 frames of fading goodness per cursor.
focuseek searchbox 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117707/
focuseek searchbox is an easily installable full-text search engine
that can spider Web or intranet sites, or index data you feed to it,
and make it available for searching through a Web form. It supports a
variety of input formats, and is easily scriptable via a SOAP API or a
REST interface, and can scale to millions of documents.
FreeMarker 2.2 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117670/
FreeMarker allows Java servlets to keep graphic design separate from
application logic, by encapsulating HTML in templates. Templates
generate HTML dynamically, using data provided by the servlet. The
template language is powerful and intuitive, the compiler is fast, and
the output approaches the speed of static HTML pages.
FTimes 3.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117721/
FTimes is a system baselining and evidence collection tool. Its primary
purpose is to gather and/or develop information about specified
directories and files in a manner conducive to intrusion analysis. It
was designed to support the following initiatives: content integrity
monitoring, incident response, intrusion analysis, and computer
forensics.
GKrellM Mailwatch 2.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117743/
GKrellM Mailwatch is a GKrellM plugin which monitors mailboxes. It can
monitor multiple mailboxes with extra counters and supports the mbox,
maildir, and MH formats.
Globus Toolkit 3.0 alpha 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117742/
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.
glrParser 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117724/
The glrParser template library is a programmer's tool for creation of
syntactical analysers which works with the GLR(0) algorithm. The
library can handle wide ambiguous grammars containing the
epsilon-rules. GLR is generalization of the LR algorithm (published by
Marasu Tomita) which can handle ambiguous grammars. The library
implements the GLR(0) algorithm but defines neither the method of
reading input nor the actions to make when making reductions. The
format of the grammar files is defined but it is easy to make the
parser to handle different ones without modifiyng the library itself.
Glub Tech Secure FTP 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117726/
Glub Tech Secure FTP is a command-line utility that allows FTP
connections to be made using SSL.
Gnetload 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117737/
Gnetload is a GNOME applet showing the network load of a specified
network interface in a histogram. It is highly configurable;
configuration options include different colors for incoming and
outgoing traffic, fixed or dynamic histogram scaling, and textual
representation of the current network load.
Group-Office 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117683/
Group-office is Web-based office suite written in PHP that is
extensible with modules. It features user management (optionally
synchronized with system and Samba), module management, an e-mail
client, a file manager, a scheduler, and project management.
guanxiCRM 0.9.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117645/
guanxiCRM is a comprehensive customer relationship management package
specifically designed for enterprises doing business in the Greater
China environment. The Chinese notions of "Guanxi" (relation)
and "Mianzi" (the face) are carefully integrated.
Hat 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117729/
Hat (Haskell Tracer) is a tracing and debugging system for Haskell that
can be used for comprehending working programs, and debugging an
incorrect one. It consists of hat-trans, which transforms a program
into one that traces itself using your normal compiler and a runtime
library, and a set of browsing tools that explore the trace after
execution of the program has completed.
hdup 1.6.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117745/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of
the archive (with mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none),
the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host or restoring from
a remote host (with ssh), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal
compressed tar file).
hexedit 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117692/
hexedit displays, edits, and searches files and devices in both ASCII
and hexadecimal. It features copy and paste functions and the ability
to save sections to a file. It can truncate and append to files, and
shows modifications in bold.
Holtz 1.1.10 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117725/
Holtz is an implementation of Zèrtz, an abstract strategy game
for two players played with marbles on a shrinking board. It allows
playing locally, over a TCP/IP Network, or against a rudimentary AI. It
also offers some user hints.
InstantJ 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117744/
InstantJ is a library you can use to compile and execute Java code or
evaluate expressions written in Java. This is done on the fly; there is
no pre- compiling step necessary. This is ideal in cases where
expressions are either assembled programmatically at runtime, read from
descriptors, or received from user-input.
ispbs 2.3.b3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117706/
ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user
management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip
providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts.
Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by
name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or
paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and
unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for
hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of
an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail
support, multiple customizable packages, and more.
JBoss 3.2.0 RC4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117704/
JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans
application server implemented in pure Java. JBoss provides
JBossServer, the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure, JBossMQ
for JMS messaging, JBossMail for mail, JBossTX for JTA/JTS
transactions, JBossSX for JAAS based security, JBossCX for JCA
connectivity, and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. It integrates with
Tomcat Servlet/JSP container and Jetty Web server/servlet container,
and enables you to mix and match these components through JMX by
replacing any component you wish with a JMX-compliant implementation
for the same APIs. The goal is to provide a full J2EE stack in the
Free/Open Source software world.
linphone 0.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117669/
Linphone is a Web phone with a GNOME interface. It let you make
two-party calls over IP networks such as the Internet. It uses the IETF
protocols SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and RTP (Realtime Transport
Protocol) to make calls, so it should be able to communicate with other
SIP-based Web phones. With several codecs available, it can be used
with high speed connections as well as 28k modems.
Liquid for Maya 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117675/
LiquidMaya is a Maya to Renderman plug-in that handles full Renderman
output support with a focus on speed, efficiency, and extensibility.
Its features include procedural rib generation, full network rendering
support, segmented rib files, a shader assignment interface, and much
more. Along with the ability to write full C++ plug-ins, it is
incredibly easy to script Liquid with Mel. Liquid was used for the
visual effects of the "Lord of the Rings" movie.
MagicHat 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117709/
MagicHat is a programmer's research and reference tool. With MagicHat,
you can navigate through a Cocoa's application programming interface
(API), review the declarations of language elements such as methods,
functions, and constants, and retrieve relevant passages from the Cocoa
developer documentation. MagicHat helps you unravel unfamiliar code,
whether building blocks from the Cocoa software kits, programming
examples, or programs written by your own development team.
MP3 STATION alpha-pre7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117682/
MP3 STATION is a plain text Linux/Unix tool set for managing MP3
playback in a car with as little user interaction as possible. It can
restart the last playlist at the last played track, transparently load
directories, transparently recompile playlists, and keep a repository
of all the playlists. It also has a simple ncurses client for
comunicating with cm3s. All programs run under a non-privileged user
account.
OpenBottle-webmail 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117690/
OpenBottle-webmail is a Web mail and end- user interface component for
OpenBottle. The interface is written in PHP, utilising Horde, IMP, and
Turba.
Q 4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117685/
Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on
the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an
arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite
rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific
programming and other advanced applications, and also as a
sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the
Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing
to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode.
Q-Midi 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117687/
Q-Midi is a MIDI interface module which allows you to write MIDI
applications in the Q programming language. It runs on top of Grame's
MidiShare package. Most basic MidiShare functionality is available,
including timing functions for realtime programming and MIDI file
access. A sample MIDI player application is included (which requires
Tcl/Tk).
Qmail Auditor 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117705/
QMail Auditor provides simple a method for auditing emails. It is easy
to configure and uses regular expressions as rules.
qmail-masq 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117712/
qmail-masq is a Perl program that works with qmail. It masquerades the
internal mail user's address as an external one when sending email from
local users to the outside world.
ResourcePool 1.0102 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117749/
The Perl ResourcePool provides a generic way to use connection caching
for any kind of resources like Net::LDAP or DBI. It includes a
LoadBalancer to spread load across different servers and increase
overall performance and availibility of service. The ResourcePool and
LoadBalancer are easily extendable to cover your needs.
Sacred 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117739/
SACRED is an enhanced version of the ROM 2.4b6 codebase. The
enhancements include new player skills, spells, classes, and races.
Also included are arenas, OLC, Mud Compression Protocol, a Clan system,
new flags, questing, color, automatic auctions, enhanced immortal
utilities, spellchecking, hints, and many more features.
screen-scraper 0.8.6b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117715/
screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It
consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS
requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract
information from Web sites using special patterns and regular
expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and
contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be
manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database. It can
be used with PHP, Java, or any COM-friendly language such as Visual
Basic or Active Server Pages.
SDSC/GT Secure FTP 1.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117727/
Secure FTP is a client package that allows for a secure connection to
be made to an FTP daemon via SSL.
Senken 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117678/
Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the
infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The
game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer
support but it is not well tested.
Server optimized Linux 0.2 (SoL-desktop)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117708/
SoL (Server optimized Linux) is a Linux distribution completely
independent from other Linux distributions. It was built from the
original source packages and is optimized for heavy-duty server work.
It contains all common server applications, and features XML boot and
script technology that makes it easy to configure and make the server
work.
Spamcup 1.04 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117723/
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.
StatCvs 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117688/
StatCvs retrieves information from a CVS repository and generates
various tables and charts describing the history of a software project
development, such as a timeline for the lines of code, contribution of
each developer, etc.
swsusp 2.5.66-01 (2.5 Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117748/
swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM.
It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. At the next
system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory
from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
swsusp 2.4 Beta19-17 (2.4 Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117677/
swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM.
It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. At the next
system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory
from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
Tux Commander 0.4.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117701/
Tux Commander is a file manager with two side-by-side panels. Some of
its functions are inspired by Total Commander.
twin 0.4.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117676/
Twin is a text-mode window environment. It turns a text terminal into a
X11-style display with window manager, terminal windows, and can also
serve as display for remote applications. Each terminal window provides
the functions of a text-mode Linux console. Twin runs on X11, libggi,
itself, the Linux console, and any termcap/ncurses-compatible tty. It
supports multiple simultaneous displays, and can attach/detach each
display on the fly.
VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.7.11 (Plugin development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117738/
The VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk
Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card
to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.
Viper IDS 0.9.21 (alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117656/
The Viper IDS is an IDS sensor that can be used stand-alone or as an
add-on to the Wolverine Firewall and VPN server. It can log all alert
information to a remote MySQL database that can be analyzed by
applications such as ACID, or can be used with Wolverine to provide
real-time responses to potential threats by dynamically adjusting
perimeter firewall rule sets. It uses Snort for attack signature
detection.
Virtual Network Computing 3.3.7 (WinVNC)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117658/
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote
display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop'
environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from
anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine
architectures. VNC is Open Source and is distributed under the GPL.
Virtual Network Computing 3.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117657/
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote
display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop'
environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from
anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine
architectures. VNC is Open Source and is distributed under the GPL.
Web of Trust Statistics and Pathfinder 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117717/
Web of Trust Statistics and Pathfinder (Wotsap) is a program for
graphing all the shortest paths between two keys in the OpenPGP Web of
Trust. These paths can be presented as text or as PNG images.
Additionally, it can generate statistics about keys and the whole
strongly-connected set.
white_dune 0.22beta48 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117703/
VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for
displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for
animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound).
Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the
scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml
format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators.
It also has support for stereoscopic view via
"quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.
wmDrawer 0.9.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117728/
wmDrawer is a dockapp which provides a drawer (button bar) from which
applications can be launched.
WMNUT 0.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117689/
WMNUT is a dockapp program to monitor UPS statistics through the NUT
(Network UPS Tools) framework on Linux and other systems.
XDB-Money 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117746/
XDB Money is a simple Web-based personal finance tracker that can keep
track of multiple accounts and multiple transactions, grouping these
transactions into categories for reporting facilities.
XPA Messaging 2.1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117719/
XPA Messaging provides seamless communication between Unix programs,
including X, Tcl/Tk, and generic select() loops. It provides an easy
way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by
executing XPA client commands from a shell. Because XPA works both at
the programming level and the shell level, it is a powerful tool for
unifying any environment, offering flexibility in choosing the best
level at which to access XPA services. A program becomes an XPA-enabled
server by defining named points of public access through which data and
commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). Using
standard TCP sockets, XPA supports both single-point and broadcast
messaging to and from these servers.
Yahoo Mail Sucker Prototype 27a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117736/
Yahoo Mail Sucker allows you to fetch Yahoo Mail messages to your local
inbox (after the free POP3 service has been suspended).
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117722/
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams (winmail.dat). Unlike other
similar programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal
entries for easy import. It can also create vCard entries from contact
cards and vTodo entries from task entries. It also has a Perl script
that can be used in procmail recipes to automatically reformat incoming
mail appropriately.
Zoinks 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117698/
Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for
Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors
like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring.
It supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and
other Asian languages).
zphoto 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117680/
zphoto is a Web/Flash-based zooming photo album generator.
Slashcode
RDF generation frequency?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1743219
I'm still running Slash 1, but currently converting to Slash 2, albeit
slowly. For some reason RSS/RDF feeds are generated only onec a hour.
My question is: Is it possible to force slash1 generate RDF more
frequently and if it's configurable in slash2? For some reason I
haven't found RDF generation interval in configuration files.
How active is your community?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/0222223
I'm managing the technical aspects of a growing private community. I
have noticed that the vast majority of my users are not very
participatory. We have a core group of about 80-150 active users
(posters/commenters/journals/etc), and 400-900 lurkers on any given
day. Due to various email invites, our user base is now over 10k users.
My site is invitation only, and there are no anonymous users. Thus, I
can definitely identify all of my users. My questions for the slashcode
community are these: How many unique users does your slashsite get in a
day as compared with the total number of users that you have? Is it
typical to have only 6% of your user base active and less than 1% of
them regularly interactive? FYI, my calculations for these figures come
from the accesslog as: select count(distinct uid), dayofyear(ts) as day
from accesslog group by day; For sites that allow anonymous users, the
following would return (kinda) similar results: select count(distinct
host_addr), dayofyear(ts) as day from accesslog group by day;
ricecooker.org, Asian and Asian American topics
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/181242
Hi everyone - We've just launched a slash site on Asian and Asian
American topics called ricecooker.org. Thanks so much for the software
and the inspiration. We're pretty nervous about whether this can take
off or will just linger in some obscure corner of the web, so if you
are interested in the community we're trying to create, please help us
by telling other people who might also be interested in our site! We
acknowledge our direct inspiration from slash in our mission statement.
Cheers everyone from the people at ricecooker.org!
Current Slash Tags
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1633257
Keep in mind that the type="op" is the syntax that is saved. Most have
multiple forms. Also keep in mind that to use links you need to have
Slash::Relocate installed and Slash::Blob. For image and file uploads
all you need is Slash::Blob. Read one for the entire list:
SLASH tags
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/0315249
Thanks for all the help with the upgrade, but I have another question.
What's the syntax for the new SLASH tags? I've tried looking through
the code, but alas, I'm not much of a perl programmer, and
expirementing hasn't given me much help.
Cluster Rant
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/234230
Yet another slash site for Beowulf/HPC cluster users. Check out Cluster
Rant if you are interested. --deadline
Upgrading
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2012236
I just wanted to suggest that someone out there who's rather good with
Slash write a How-To on Upgrading to the latest CVS, or upgrading to
the latest release, or both! It'd sure help me out. (a simple how-to in
the comments to this article would help a great deal as well!)
Misusing backSlash as Instant Messenger
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1712245
We just recently noticed, that backSlash is (in 1.x as well as 2.x) a
very fine instant messenger between authors who just have web access or
not liking IRC or ICQ. Just start a new story, put the message (up to
50 characters) in the title field, and hit preview. Immediately your
message is shown to all logged in authors when they load the next Slash
page. And if you then have the submission list open with it's refresh
of 900 seconds (the default valalue), you always have the newest
messages even without hitting the reload button. It also proofed to be
useful to send replies or ACK messages to acknowledge, that the message
has been read. But be careful not to submit those messages as stories.
This can be awkward. (So there's even a little bit of thrill when using
this type of IM... ;-)
What is the Mysterious future and why did it show
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1952234
Currently Slashdot has an article posted "in the Mysterious future"
showing on the main page. What up with dat?
SSL and slashcode fulltime
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/11/0737249
Does anyone know if Slash works with SSL (not just for auth. but full
time https)???? I need this and I'm not sure where to go from here.
Current setup: Linux 8.0 / apache 1.3 / latest slash. (works very
well). Some links and instructions would greatly be appreciated.
thanks, -Kam.
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