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Sourceforge
Aleph One 2003-05-30 Mac OS X Carbon and Windows releases
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282073
Aleph One plays Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and third-party content
on a wide array of platforms with numerous enhancements. The new Mac OS
X Carbon and Windows SDL 2003-05-30 releases add significantly improved
Internet play, Lua scripting, Speex compression for realtime network
audio (making it much more practical in Internet games), an anisotropic
filtering option on video cards that support it, and more.
Moodle 1.0.9 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282100
Moodle 1.0.9 was released recently, and contains a very long list of
new features, performance improvements and fixes. Moodle is PHP
software that aims to make quality online courses (eg distance
education) easy to develop and conduct. Learning and development are
guided using a social constructionist philosophy. Implemented on
thousands of sites and in 30 languages. Release notes:
http://moodle.com/doc/?frame=release.html Downloads:
http://moodle.org/download/
MegaMek is June POTM
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281659
The good folks at SourceForge.net and Linux Magazine have declared
MegaMek the June, 2003 Project of the Month! To celebrate, the
project's developers are scrambling to kill all bugs (priority 4 and
greater) and release the next stable version: v0.29. We ask all players
to download the latest developement snapshot (currently v0.29.21) and
help us find any bugs hiding in the code and confirm that the recent
fixes have fixed the old bugs (see history.txt or the release notes to
see what bugs have been fixed).
Gimp-Print 4.3.15 (development)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281411
Gimp-Print 4.3.15, released June 1, 2003, is a development release of
this package. Like all development releases, this version is considered
unstable and should only be used by those individuals tolerant of the
likelihood of problems. Individuals desiring a stable release of
Gimp-Print should use the latest 4.2 release. Gimp-Print is a suite of
printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling
systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide
high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2 and
newer) and Linux systems in many cases equal to or better than
proprietary vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for many of the
most demanding printing tasks. This software includes the Print plug-in
for the Gimp, and Ghostscript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic
data. This package requires libxml2 2.5 or above. You may need to
install a package named "libxml2-devel" or the like on many
distributions. The Print plugin for the Gimp requires the Gimp 1.2
(later versions of the Gimp are not supported). You may need to install
a package named "gimp-devel" or the like on many distributions. The
CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.15 or higher. You may need to install a
package named "cups-devel" or the like on many distributions. The
Foomatic data will work with either Foomatic 2.x or 3.x. Foomatic 3.x
has additional capabilities that this package detects and takes
advantage of. The IJS-based GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU
Ghostscript 6.53 or later, ESP Ghostscript 7.05 or later, or APFL
GhostScript 7.04 or later. It also requires that glib 1.2 be installed.
You may need to install a package named "glib-devel" or the like on
many distributions. Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2 and above can use this
package, as the printing system is based on CUPS, which is supported by
Gimp-print. Note that Macintosh OS X 10.0 and 10.1 (including 10.1.5)
cannot use this package. Please read the README file for full
instructions on installing this package. Gimp-Print 4.3.15 contains the
following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.14: 1) The code for
handling ink shades and drop sizes has been extensively overhauled;
results should be much more consistent. In particular, the same balance
between ink shades is now used at all resolutions for a given printer,
and the driver always tries to use the smallest ink drop size it
usefully can. The result is that colors should be much more uniform
across different resolutions with the same printer (particularly with
variable drop size printers), and output should be smoother. It is
likely (although this has not been verified) that printing is faster,
too. There may still be some issues; please report any problems.
Internally, this is implemented by means of a new "channel"
architecture, which is responsible for conversions of this type. 2) A
long-standing build problem whereby the package will not build on
systems that already have Gimp-Print 4.2 or earlier versions of
Gimp-Print 4.3 installed has been fixed. 3) The existing Line Art image
optimization has been renamed to Uncorrected, which is a better
description of its effect. There is a new Threshold mode, which simply
computes a threshold value (either on or off for each color). 4) The
default image optimization mode is now Photographs (which has the best
color correction) rather than the old Line Art (which as noted above is
now called Uncorrected). 5) An experimental driver for the Olympus
P-300 has been added. This driver has significant limitations; the size
of an image much closely match the size of a print from this printer.
6) The Fast and Very Fast dither algorithms are significantly different
from before. The Fast dither algorithm now uses the same dither pattern
previously used by the Very Fast algorithm, and the Very Fast algorithm
only uses the largest drop size. The Ordered algorithm should now run
as fast as the Fast algorithm did before. 7) This package now uses
gettext 0.11 internally.
phpMyAdmin 2.5.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281435
The development team is pleased to present you version 2.5.1, which
aims to stabilize the 2.5.x series. phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP
intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently
it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables,
delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on
fields.
Slashdot
Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/0459252
jgoeres writes "June 5th is the 26th Anniversary of [0]my first
favorite fruit-flavored computer. In honor of this, the [1]Baltimore
Sun is running Part One of a [2]two-part interview with Steve Wozniak.
When The Woz speaks, I listen. Perhaps it's blind hero-worship, but he
seem to embody everything good & stable that his partner lacks. Don't
forget to give the man props for his mad Tetris sk1llz, too."
Links
0. http://apple2history.org/history/ah03.html
1. http://www.sunspot.net/
2.
http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac060503,0,7125240.column?coll=bal-business-indepth
NASA Launching Two Mars Rovers in June
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/0432241
shaniber writes "NASA is [0]planning the launch of the [1]Mars
Exploration Rovers this month. The rovers are scheduled for two two
separate launches, between June 5th and July 15th. These rovers will
both work as robotic geologists, including a human-eye height panoramic
camera and a miniature thermal emmision spectrometer amongst their
scientific equipment. NASA plans on [2]webcasting the launches, as
well. [3]A press kit, with many more details, is also available as a
pdf."
Links
0. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/overview/
1. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/
2. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/webcast/mer/
3. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/merlaunch.pdf
SAPAC Unveils New Australian Supercomputer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/038257
[0]Sean Burford writes "The South Australian Partnership for Advanced
Computing (SAPAC) has [1]unveiled its new AU$1.7 Million supercomputer
named Hydra. It is an IBM 1350 Linux cluster with 126 compute nodes
(xSeries 335), 1 head node (xSeries 335), 1 storage node (xSeries 345)
and 1 managment node (xSeries 345). Hydra has a peak theoretical
performance of 1.2 Teraflops, and has currently benchmarked at 682
Gigaflops. The current benchmark places it in the fastest three
supercomputers in Australia and equivalent to the [2]current number 80
in the world. The cluster has a total of 258 2.4Ghz Intel Xeon
processors and 258GB of RAM. SAPAC expects to achieve a benchmark
closer to 700 Gigaflops with further tuning. Hydra is hosted at The
[3]University Of Adelaide, who already host a [4] 40 node cluster of
Sun e420 machines."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000048640,20275079,00.htm
2. http://www.top500.org/
3. http://www.adelaide.edu.au/pr/media/releases/2003/hydra.html
4. http://www.globaltechnoscan.com/28thJune-4thJuly/super_computer.htm
Senator Pushes Bill To Limit Anti-Copying Schemes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/0255225
Brushfireb writes "Republican Sen. Sam Brownback is pushing a bill that
will [0]limit the ability of record labels, movie studios and others to
use anticopying technology on their products. Most notably, this is
important because it states that people will be able to resell their
used DVDs, along with putting a concrete limit on this behavior of
DRM/anticopying schemes by the RIAA and MPAA."
Links
0. http://rss.com.com/2100-1028_3-1013037.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news
Yet Another Windows Worm
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/017218
[0]kraksmoka writes "[1]MSNBC is reporting that [2]yet another active
worm is taking over computers in 115 countries today. 'Antivirus
companies were on high alert Thursday after the rapid spread of a new
computer worm that includes particularly malicious snooping techniques.
Bugbear.B, a variant of a worm released last year, installs keylogging
software, back-door software, and in some cases even attempts to
control infected computersâ modems. Some of the wormâÂÂs
functions are designed to specially target financial institutions.'
Yummy!"
Links
0. http://www.grantstern.com/
1. http://www.msnbc.com/
2. http://www.msnbc.com/news/922529.asp?0cv=CB10
Sendo Sues Orange for Patent Infringement
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/2215219
[0]captnjameskirk writes "[1]RCR Wireless News is reporting that
[2]Sendo is suing European carrier Orange for patent infringement
involving the circuit board design within the phones. As the article
points out, Sendo also [3]sued Microsoft for allegedly stealing their
technology for use in the Smartphone OS." Back in January, we also had
[4]some more information on the case between Sendo and Microsoft.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://rcrnews.com/
2. http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=13771
3. //slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/1423247&tid=109
4. //slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/1159207&tid=109
Chicken Run
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/1259206
Applying modern technology to the task of corraling chickens for the
slaughterhouse results in a [0]chicken-catching machine that
surprisingly is not as gruesome as it appears. Never thought about a
"chicken vacuum" before? After reading this, you won't be able to get
it out of your head. :) Sadly, scientists are already researching ways
for the chickens to [1]fight back.
Links
0. http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB105467590014941400,00.html
1. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/06/04/teeth.birds/
Researchers Looking at Alternatives to Palladium
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/2158240
An anonymous reader writes "Some folks at Stanford have been looking at
an alternative architecture for doing trusted computing (ala Palladium)
based on using Virtual Machines. They presented a brief paper
describing their work a couple weeks ago at the [0] USENIX Workshop on
Hot Topics in Operating Systems . In [1] their paper they also discuss
a bunch of non-DRM applications of Trusted Computing such as
distributed firewalls, improving P2P security, preventing DDOS, and
even strengthening civil liberty protections."
Links
0. http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/
1. http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/garfinkel.html
Samsung LTM295W 29" LCD Review
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/187232
An anonymous reader noted a [0]review of the Samsung LTM295W. Quick
excerpt "The contrast ratio of 600:1 is amazing, and takes the cake for
being the highest IâÂÂve seen to date here with the site. I was
pleased to see a more than acceptable brightness level of 450cd/m2. The
response time isnâÂÂt anything to snuff at, standing at 22ms. For
viewing angles everyone should be pleased with 170/170 (W&H). The last
mention is the pixel pitch which sits at .4935(h) X .4935(w). The
optimal resolution while in PC use is 1024 x 768 @ 75Hz although the
maximum is 1280 x 768 @ 75Hz." Not the highest resolution, but still,
quite impressive.
Links
0. http://www.monkeyreview.com/reviews/review.php?num=257
SCO NDA Online at LinuxJournal
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/1741227
shadowbearer writes "The full text of the SCO NDA is available [0]here
at [1]LinuxJournal. IANAL, but my reading of it makes me understand all
the industry "No way!" style comments. Here's a snippet: "Dan Ravicher,
an attorney who specializes in free software and open-source issues at
the firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, said in an interview
there are three key problems with the NDA. First, Ravicher said, "SCO
can pick and choose among all its evidence" to show only the parts that
back up the company's claims. "They're agreeing to let you see the half
of the picture that they want you to see", he added.""
Links
0. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6923&mode=thread&order=0
1. http://www.linuxjournal.com/index.php
Freshmeat
2D/3D Pie Chart & Graph Software 4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125087/
2D / 3D Pie Chart provides both a client and server side solution for
the incorporation of Pie Charts into web pages. It provides versatile
components so that web authors and Java developers can easily build and
publish dynamic and interactive Pie Charts. With many configurable
features and functions to both applet and servlet, the documentation
and examples are designed to give both a full understanding of every
feature and enable you to implement both the applet and servlet quickly
and easily. With a free trial and Money Back guarantee, try it out
today. (913 chars, 150 words) 2D / 3D Pie Chart provides both a client
and server side solution for the incorporation of Pie Charts into web
pages. It provides versatile components so that web authors and Java
developers can easily build and publish dynamic and interactive Pie
Charts. With many configurable features and functions to both applet
and servlet, the documentation and examples are designed to give both a
full understanding of every feature and enable you to implement both
the applet and servlet quickly and easily. Now incorporates
Anti-Aliasing to provide a much smoother and clearer pie image. New in
this Release Percentage option on segment labels Added Parameters for
Pre and Post symbols on the pop-up values Change Cursor on Mouseover
links Multi Language Support URL Links for the Legend area. Enhanced
Color parameter definitions to include hex and color names With a free
trial and Money Back guarantee, try it out today.
a place to go 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125102/
aptg (a place to go) is a Web-based mail client written in PHP, using
localhost connections to a running IMAP4 server. It is designed to work
with Postfix. Authentication is against a MySQL database as used by
pam_mysql (username + password) or by using one of the virtual email
addresses (also stored in the MySQL database) and that password. A
powerful addressbook is also included.
abcpp 1.2.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125075/
abcpp is a simple yet powerful preprocessor designed for, but not
limited to, ABC music files. It was written to overcome
incompatibilities between ABC packages, and to allow one to write
portable, and more readable ABC files.
Advanced Assembler 0.9.0beta-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125043/
Aasm is an advanced modular assembler designed to support several
target architectures. It has been designed to be easily extended. Its
global architecture takes advantages of dynamic libraries to provide
input, assembler and output modules. The input module supports Intel
syntax (like nasm, tasm, masm, etc.). The x86 assembler module supports
all opcodes up to P6 including MMX, SSE and 3DNow! extensions. F-CPU
and SPARC assembler modules are under development. Several output
modules are available for ELF, COFF, IntelHex, and raw binary formats.
Advanced features include symbol scopes, an expressions engine, big
integer support, macro capability, and numerous and accurate warning
messages (over 300).
Akeni LAN Messenger 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125105/
Akeni LAN messenger is a cross-platform instant messenger client. It is
a P2P program that works on your LAN without the need of an Internet
connection or a dedicated server. The client has an user interface
similar to AIM, ICQ, or MSN Messenger. It supports all the standard IM
features such as chat, group conference, presence management, file
transfer, and emergency alert/notification. Extra features include
contact management and optional tabbed chat sessions.
BBStatus 2.0 RC11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125120/
BBStatus is an IP accounting package, and an SNMP and IP monitoring
tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from
its database. It can be used for IP accounting (using iptables, you can
design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects
data making SNMP requests), IP monitoring (using ping, it stores and
summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and
client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also
provides user based access so that every user can log in and check the
traffic from/through his/her IP addresses. It requires PostgreSQL,
Apache with mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool.
BitTorrent 3.2.1b (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125076/
BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP
punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one
place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With
BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making
the publisher's burden almost nothing.
brushedGnome 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125048/
brushedGnome is a skin with a brushed metal design and GNOME logos.
C-Arbre 0.532-8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125106/
C-Arbre is an integrated Web software suite. Some of its key features
include work flow processing, handling of collaborative work and
editions, templates engineering, support for some DocBook XML tags,
online documents redaction, and internationalization/localization.
Castor 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125100/
Castor is the shortest path between Java[tm] objects, XML documents,
SQL tables and LDAP directories. It provides Java to XML binding, Java
to SQL/LDAP persistence, and then some more. Features include Castor
XML: Java object to XML document, Castor JDO: Java object persistence
to RDBMS, Castor DAX: Java object persistence to LDAP, Castor DSML:
LDAP directory exchange through XML, XML-based mapping file specify the
mapping between one model and another, in memory caching and
write-at-commit which reduce JDBC operations, OQL query mapping to SQL
queries, and EJB container managed persistence provider for OpenEJB
cdargs 1.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125134/
cdargs adds a bookmark feature and a simple filebrowser to the builtin
shell command `cd'. This lets you jump to various places throughout the
filesystem with just a few keystrokes. It is intended for heavy shell
users.
Clustered JDBC 1.0alpha3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125103/
Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides
transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to
any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application
without code modification and with any datase engine. C-JDBC has been
successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL,
SAP DB, Oracle, and more.
CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125117/
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.
COWeb 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125101/
COWeb (Common Objects for Web) is a set of PHP libraries to manage
databases, links, images, articles, cache, and more.
DocBook Doclet 0.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125138/
The DocBook Doclet creates DocBook SGML or XML from Java source
documentation or HTML files. It is helpful if you want to print
reference handbooks of your API. Normally it is used with the Javadoc
tool but it can also be used as a standalone application to convert
HTML to DocBook. Additionally it comes with a Swing application to
manage documentation projects and to transform the resulting DocBook
files to PDF.
DOLFIN 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125088/
DOLFIN is used as a platform for research in adaptive finite element
methods for PDEs at Chalmers Finite Element Center and at the
Department of Computational Mathematics at Chalmers University of
Technology, Sweden.
Druid 3.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125137/
Druid is a tool to handle database tables. Users can add/modify/delete
database objects (fields, tables, etc.) using a simple GUI. When the DB
structure is complete, Druid can generate the SQL script to generate
the DB and the related docs.
DSW to Make 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125145/
DSW to Make converts Microsoft Dev. Studio workspace and project files
on the fly to Unix Makefiles. It includes an example "Hello
World" workspace and project that will build completely in both
Windows and Linux.
eContent 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125069/
eContent is a Web-based content management system for creating
information systems, intranets, B2B, B2C, catalogs, and vertical
portals. Written in Java for scalability, and based on open standards
Struts and Expresso for stability, eContent integrates content
management, scalable content and application delivery, resource
management, workflow and personalization. It supports executables, all
documents types, OLAP reports, Java programs, and legacy integration.
eForum 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125065/
eForum is server side Java-based software that enables geographically
distant participants to share ideas and enhance teamwork via the Web.
It allows project moderators to manage feedback and project
discussions, and can display interactive Q&A tools.
eggcups 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125099/
eggcups is a panel icon that provides a visual indicator for jobs that
you have submitted to the print queue.
eHelpDesk 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125066/
eHelpDesk is designed for the enterprise, external or internal customer
support needs, and call/bug tracking. It will provide a support
organization with a systematic, professional, automated and easy to use
system for problems, requests, issues, bugs, notes, procedures, and
resolutions. It features an internal Help Desk, external Customer
Support, action request, call/problem tracking including using
notification, change management, contact management, development/bug
tracking, integration into FAQ and forum, asset and inventory
management, and tracking billable requests.
ekkoBSD 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125141/
ekkoBSD is a new operating system, based on OpenBSD. It contains many
new improvements and a different set of goals than those of OpenBSD's
core developers.
Expresso Framework 5.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125131/
Expresso Framework is an open standards-based J2EE architectural
framework that allows the developer to concentrate on application
logic. It is a library of extensible Java Server application framework
components for creating database-driven Web applications based on open
standards. Expresso integrates with Apache Jakarta Struts, which
emphasizes presentation and application configuration, and bringing a
powerful tag library to Expresso. Expresso adds capabilities for
security, robust object-relational mapping, background job handling and
scheduling, self-tests, logging integration, automated table
manipulation, database connection pooling, email connectivity, event
notification, error handling, caching, internationalization, XML
automation, testing, registration objects, configuration management,
workflow, automatic database maintenance, and a JSP tag library.
FlightTrack 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125127/
FlightTrack is a GPS track viewing and downloading software for MacOS X
designed with light aviation pilots in mind. Its main functions are
downloading tracks from GPS/logger, viewing tracks in 3D over a the
terrain rendered in 3D, saving tracks in IGC format, and
opening/viewing IGC files created by other software.
Genuts Framework 0.8b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125097/
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.
Getleft 1.1.1b1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125143/
Given a URL, Getleft will try to download all links. As it goes, it
modifies the original HTML pages so that the absolute links get changed
to relative links, and links to active pages get changed to the
resulting pages. It supports thirteen different languages.
GNOME Commander 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125135/
GNOME Commander is file manager aimed at people who want a fast and
efficient file manager. The program can currently perform most common
file operations, and will detect changes to files caused by other
programs and update its views without the need for the user to manually
reload. The program also supports Copy and Paste, DND and MIME. The
program has some basic FTP support through GnomeVFS, but it's not very
good. It's good enough to download/upload files, but lacks more
advanced functions, like issuing SITE commands.
GNOME-Mud 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125083/
GNOME-Mud (formerly AMCL) is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client that
aims to make mudding a bit easier. It can define aliases, triggers,
variables, keyboard shortcuts, and has a connection wizard for easy
management of different player characters and MUDs.
GONICUS System Administrator 1.99.82 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125092/
The GOnicus System Administrator (GOsa) is a PHP based administration
tool for managing accounts and systems in LDAP databases. It
administers users and groups, mail distribution lists, thin clients,
and faxes. Users can retrieve informations about themselves, use LDAP
telephone lists, change their password, view fax statistics, and are
allowed to configure their mail account in a limited way.
Haystack snapshot 0601
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125081/
Haystack is a tool designed to let every individual manage all of their
information in the way that makes the most sense to them. By removing
the arbitrary barriers created by applications that only handle certain
information "types", and recording only a fixed set of
relationships defined by the developer, users can define whichever
arrangements of, connections between, and views of information they
find most effective. Such personalization of information management
will dramatically improve each individual's ability to find what they
need when they need it.
HTTrack/WebHTTrack 3.30-RC2 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125077/
HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to
download a Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building
recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from
the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's
relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the mirrored Web site in
your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you
were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored
site, and resume interrupted downloads. WebHTTrack is a Web-based GUI
for HTTrack.
Lazy8 Ledger 2.00b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125071/
Lazy8 Ledger is a very simple yet powerful accounting program designed
for people who have experience in bookkeeping. It is a plugin for
jEdit. You can enter any type of bookkeeping activity and break out the
activities to any number of accounts. There are numerous standard
reports that are the basis of accounting needs and then there are tools
to make your own reports. Furthermore, it is Unicode-compatible in all
respects.
LibTomMath 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125082/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast
majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including
public key cryptography).
linuXMPCR 0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125110/
linuXMPCR is a Perl interface for the XM Radio XMPCR computer receiver.
The program has two parts: one is the module that controls the radio,
and the other is the very basic interface that does everything it is
needed to do.
LiquidClassifiedsXML 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125070/
LiquidClassifiedsXML is a PHP-Nuke and PostNuke compatible client for a
classified ad Web service. All ads are pooled in a centralized database
so that many small Web sites can combine their marketing power to have,
in effect, the classified ad system of a large Web site.
LTI-Lib 1.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125090/
The LTI-Lib is an object oriented library with algorithms and data
structures frequently used in image processing and computer vision. It
was developed at the RWTH-Aachen University as a part of many research
projects on computer vision dealing with robotics, object recognition,
sign language, and gesture recognition. It provides an object oriented
C++ library that includes fast algorithms, which can be used in real
applications.
Luola 1.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125086/
Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a
small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game
is simply to destroy all other players.
Mailgust 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125091/
Mailgust is a mailing list manager, newsletter distribution tool, and
message board system. All sent mail is stored on a Web message board
for visitors to read. It features unlimited lists, many different read
and write permission settings, HTML newsletters, post approval, no
timeouts, a Web archive, list importing, notification management, and
much more.
Marlin 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125125/
Marlin is a sample editor using GStreamer for audio IO and GNOME for
its interface. It has basic editing features such as Cut/Copy/Paste,
Paste as New, Paste mix, delete selection, crop selection, Insert
Silence, and Swap Channels.
Matrox Millennium II Xv extension 1.0-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125067/
This is an XFree86 driver to add Xv (Xvideo) support for the Matrox
Millennium II. It includes hardware YUV to RGB conversion and up/down
scaling. Performance is not stellar compared to modern cards but it's
enough to allow smooth fullscreen DVD playback on a moderately fast
computer.
Midirecord 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125093/
Midirecord is a simple command-line application to record a MIDI file
with your MIDI keyboard. It also features automatic recording to a MIDI
file when you play electric piano, and thus it may be used as a
"recording daemon".
newsgrab-ui 3.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125132/
newsgrab-ui is simple graphical user interface for the newsgrab.pl
"complete set" binary downloader. It uses a Perl background
daemon for downloading and an object oriented PHP Web interface.
nowplaying 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125136/
nowplaying is a plugin for XMMS that records information about the song
currently being played in a text file.
nwload 0.2e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125118/
nwload is a graphical traffic monitor that is similar to gkrellm and
xisdnload, but offers additional operational parameters and display
formatting options. It works with any networking device and supports a
broad range of speed and sample rates.
OpenEJB 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125112/
OpenEJB is a pre-built, self-contained, portable EJB container system
that can be plugged into any server environment including application
servers, Web servers, J2EE platforms, CORBA ORBs, databases, IDEs, etc.
It comes with fast, lightweight EJB servers for both local and remote
access, allowing you to write standalone or distributed EJB
applications.
OpenH323 Gatekeeper 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125094/
The OpenH323 Gatekeeper is a free H.323 gatekeeper based on the
OpenH323 project. You can use it to manage a Voice-over-IP network and
let endpoints (e.g., Netmeeting) communicate through symbolic names. It
also has an external interface for billing and other applications. It
runs on a number of Unix versions (including Linux and Solaris) and
Windows.
Package DataBase View 2.0.5 (2.x.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125139/
Package DataBase View generates an HTML view of an RPM or a dpkg
database. Its modular design allows support for other database formats
and other output formats (like XML).
Passcheck 2.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125119/
Passcheck is a drop-in replacement or rewrite of the original cracklib,
and shares no code with the original. It features an enhanced
dictionary check, and the ability to use the standard system wordlist.
patchutils 0.2.23 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125095/
Patchutils contains a collection of tools for manipulating patch files:
interdiff, combinediff, flipdiff, filterdiff, fixcvsdiff, rediff,
lsdiff, grepdiff, splitdiff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff. You can use
interdiff to create an incremental patch between two patches that are
against a common source tree, combinediff for creating a cumulative
diff from two incremental patches, and flipdiff to transpose two
incremental patches. Filterdiff is for extracting or excluding patches
from a patch set based on modified files matching shell wildcards.
Lsdiff lists modified files in a patch. Rediff, recountdiff, and
unwrapdiff correct hand-edited (or otherwise broken) patches.
PDF::API2 0.3d70 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125130/
PDF::API2 is 'The Next Generation' of Text::PDF::API, a Perl
module-chain that facilitates the creation and modification of PDF
files. It features support for the 14 base PDF Core Fonts, TrueType
fonts, and Adobe-Type1, with unicode mappings, embedding of bitmap
images, compression via zlib, and a rich object-oriented API.
PG_counter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125074/
PGcounter is a module for Apache for counting page visits. It uses an
SQL server, supports 6 output formats, includes a blacklist of IPs per
URL, and supports statistics.
PHP Thumbnail AutoIndex 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125098/
PHP Thumbnail AutoIndex is a thumbnail-index generation script designed
to be a companion to mod_autoindex for Apache. It generates a thumbnail
"gallery" of images contained in a directory, which is much
like what mod_autoindex generated indexes.
PhpDocumentor 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125111/
PHPDocumentor is a PHP script for creating javaDoc-style documentation
from PHP code. It can document object-oriented and procedural code. It
supports all javaDoc tags, including inline links, and also supports
PHPdoc documentation in PEAR style.
PrimeIce 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125053/
PrimeIce is a 2D theme with no gradients and no large buttons, made to
be as small and unobtrusive/un-distracting as possible. A background is
included, along with the snap.pcf font file needed for proper fonts.
Pubcookie 3.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125142/
Pubcookie is an Open Source package for intra-institutional, single
sign-on, end-user Web authentication. More generally, it is an approach
to identifying users as they browse to an institution's many websites
that require authentication. It helps an institution reuse existing
authentication services (like Kerberos, LDAP, or NIS), and it limits
the exposure of end-user passwords by ensuring they're only sent to a
trusted login service.
Refactorit 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125096/
RefactorIT is a powerful tool for Java developers who expect more from
their standard IDE. With RefactorIT, a developer can take source code
of any size and complexity, and rework it into well-designed code by
means of automated refactorings such as Rename
Field/Method/Variable/Class/Package, Extract Method, Extract
Superclass/Interface, Move Class, Encapsulate Field, and Create Factory
Method. In addition, Refactorit provides a comprehensive set of smart
query functions that make it possible to analyze and track large
volumes of code. RefactorIT may be used as standalone tool or installed
as an add-in to following IDEs: NetBeans, Sun ONE Studio, Forte,
JDeveloper, and JBuilder.
SeekLeech 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125089/
SeekLeech is a Java console application which searches for files in
Apache directory indexes through Google.
Soapbox 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125148/
Soapbox is a preload (sandbox) library that allows restriction of
processes to write only to those places you want. By preloading the
Soapbox library (or using the provided soapbox-script), you can run
programs and prevent certain modifications outside a safe path without
necessarily ending those programs. Users would typically do a
successful 'make install' to a safe path that doesn't break halfway and
doesn't pollute their system. Soapbox is useful when
building/installing packages and in case of build problems to report as
much as possible of the cause.
Speex 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125073/
Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for
speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in
the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP
(VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech
data (e.g. voice mail).
sql++ 0.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125129/
sql++ is an easily configurable, feature-rich, portable command-line
SQL tool. It can be used with many different databases and in place of
other command-line tools such as MySQL's mysql-client and Oracle's
sqlplus. It has features such as multiple connections, multi-database
interfacing, subselects for all databases, regardless of whether the
database has native subselects or not, and much more.
Syck 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125140/
Syck is a YAML parser library that is designed to load data into
scripting languages. Extensions for Ruby, PHP, and Python are included.
tail_mail 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125000/
tail_mail is a simple but very useful log watcher daemon. It checks the
log files that you want for the string patterns which you define in the
config file, and sends information messages by email. tail_mail is very
fast because when it finds a match it forks a child process to send the
notification mail, and since it uses shared libraries, it is very
small. You may use shell wildcard patterns to define the strings that
you look for.
The Fish 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125114/
The Fish provides a GTK-based graphical tool to manage and edit FreeBSD
system variables stored in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. For
testing purposes, or, for users that need to have different
configurations, the program honours two environment variables:
FISH_RC_DEFAULTS and FISH_RC.
The Gallery 1.3.4-RC2 (1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125078/
Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy
to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the
ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection
via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and
more. Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per
individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.
The Kiwi Toolkit 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125072/
The Kiwi Toolkit is a foundation class library containing many useful
classes that complement the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). It includes
many classes and components that were not provided with the JFC, such
as a TreeTable component, a DateChooser, an MVC charting package (bar
charts, line charts, pie charts), a plugin framework for Java, an
application resource manager (for loading images, icons, HTML pages,
audio clips, and other resources from JAR files), a better
internationalization API, and much more.
Thunderbolt Integration Suite 3.00 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125116/
The Thunderbolt Integration Suite is a full integration server
infrastructure that incorporates two phase commits between connectors.
It features multiple stage failure recovery, a drag and drop business
process design console, and supports runtime monitor GUIs. It was
developed in C++ and runs on Linux, but should be portable to most UNIX
systems. The GUIs require Windows.
Tiger Dental Practice Manager 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125108/
Tiger Dental Practice Manager is a Java-based dental practice
management program. It allows for realtime online appointment booking
for patients. Practice users have a Swing based application to maintain
the appointment book and patient records. The application is provided
as a fully managed service.
WPP 2.13.1.32 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125079/
WPP is a small perl5 script that allows preprocessing of HTML files. It
allows you to define "variables", which are brief
abbreviations for longer constructs, and include common HTML fragments.
It's useful for giving a uniform layout to different HTML pages. It can
be used in cgi-bin programs for automatic generation of pages. With
less HTML code inside you can make more flexible cgi-scripts.
YuBurner 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125115/
YuBurner is CD/DVD recording software.
ZapEdit 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124788/
ZapEdit is a site management tool that can be used to update Website
content through a browser. It features a WYSIWYG HTML editor that
provides an intuitive business user authoring environment, and works
with any existing HTML Website and on shared hosting accounts. ASP and
PHP versions are available, and both Apache and Microsoft IIS Web
servers are supported.
zire-photo 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125109/
zire-photo is a simple gpilotd plugin conduit for synchronizing images
captured by the builtin camera on Palm's new Zire 71. Images and
thumbnails are placed in a user-specified directory.
Slashcode
Handling logging issues
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/0533218
I'm using cronolog for my apache logs, and I really, really like it.
I'd like to be able to use it on the slash logs as well, which become
large and cumbersome over time with many sites running on a server. How
do you all handle your logs? What do you use for log rotation? How long
do you keep logs? Is anyone using cronolog, or something like it with
slash?
RSS to Story?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1727241
Hi, I'm looking for a way to grab remote RDF and post them as stories.
portald seems only to handle blocks. I'm aware of the elixus.org, and
the RSS2Story plugin in their patch of slashcode, but I can't get the
plugin installed, and it seems to be left unfinished. So is there any
other way to do this?
launch of slash site "stupidsecurity.com"
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/2133212
Announcing the opening of StupidSecurity.com. The site is meant to be a
chronicle of idiotic and deceptive "security" measures. From the "three
questions" that the airlines finally stopped asking to the closing of
Meigs Airport in Chicago supposedly for security reasons, we want YOUR
gripes about security measures that are just plain dumb! I'd welcome
submissions (the stupider the better!), comments, complaints, and
praise!
MySQL 4.1+
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1639224
I want to start using MySQL 4.1 to take advantage of the new Spatial
extensions in MySQL to further enhance my plugin. I saw the recent
story referring to using MySQL 4, but no direct mention of experience
with versions 4+. Any tips or recommendations? Should I make the
upgrade only on my development box, or is using 4+ okay. Any experience
with 4.1, which is alpha?
Section-specific Quick Links
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1540217
I'm in the process of setting up a intranet Slash 2 site for a company.
With the aid of the Crow Book I've got everything installed and with
the L'n'F that they want, and we are in the process of adding some
initial content and getting the blocks running the way they want.
However, we're having problems getting section-specific quick links
blocks to work. Example: I have a section called legal, and a block
called legal_qlinks which has different links to index_qlinks.
index_qlinks shows up on the homepage as I expect, but nothing is
displayed in the right "frame" if I click no the section title under an
article. What am I doing wrong? The Crow Book (page 127) suggests that
this should work.
Need help building Slash templates
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/1634251
I have comps for a site I want built in Slash. While I have worked with
Movable Type, building Slash templates is a whole different beast. I
need someone to help me convert my comps into a functioning Slash site.
If you have these skills, please drop me a line with your rates and
scheduling availability. You can see what the site will look like here.
--Markos
Preventing duplicates from being posted
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/2021250
I'm getting sick of seeing duplicate posts all the time on Slashdot. I
have a feature-request/enhancement that I would like to request for
slashcode. It would be nice if before a moderator submits a story to
check all of the URLS in that post and match it with the previous
weeks/months stories for the same URL. If there is a match, throw up a
warning saying that this story is a possible duplicate. This will help
the moderator out too, since they wouldn't have to read every story on
slashdot in the past two weeks. What do you think? Is this doable?
--Min Idzelis
Vorlonspace Is Back
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0415234
Announced back in October last year, Vorlonspace was launched as a
Babylon 5 discussions site. In late January, the site went down and was
taken off the YASS list. It is now back up and the premise has changed
from Babylon 5 to a general sci-fi discussion site which has generated
more interest.
Adding ispell after slash is installed
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0414234
Hi, I read the (archived) thread at:
http://ask.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/1 724238&mode=thread
and I have "Running Weblogs with Slash", so I know that "... Slash 2.2
has added an ispell compatibility mode. If the ispell program exists
and points to an ispell binary, the Edit Story page will include a list
of potentially misspelled words.)" (thanks blagger), but I don't know
how exactly what to add, and into what directory,. I installed freebsd
5.0, then built and installed the slashcode port, and now I've
installed ispell. I then tried adding symlinks to ispell into various
directories, including /usr/local/slash/bin, and restarting my browser
and the freebsd box. Nothing obvious changes. Can someone tell me
exactly which file to put where to enable spell-checking? I'm running
slash-2.2.6 on Freebsd 5.0. Thanks... P.S. Sorry if I misspelled
anything, but...
Shouldn't Slash Be Represented at OSCOM 3?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/171253
I found out that OSCOM 3, The Open Source Content Management
Conference, is taking place in Cambridge, MA, from May 28-30. I was
surprised to see that Slash does not appear to be represented in any
way. I posted a story to CTDATA suggesting that our community try to
represent itself in some fashion. If anyone wants to discuss how we can
influence the organizers of this conference to include a Slash
presentation, please email me at dave_aiello at ctdata.com.
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