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Sourceforge
phpWebSite 0.9.2 Stable released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281285
Final version of phpWebSite 0.9.2. Includes many bug fixes, new control
panel, categorized pages, and more. Developed by the Web Technology
Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite provides a complete
web site content management system. All client output is XHTML 1.0 and
meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements.
HP Inkjet Linux Driver 1.4.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281289
The Hewlett-Packard Co. Linux Inkjet Driver Project is a add-on to the
GNU Ghostscript application. This driver is based on the Hewlett
Packard Appliance APDK for deskjet printers. This release includes bug
fixes. This HP Linux Inkjet Driver (HPIJS) release has the following
changes. 1. Fixed a GCC 2.95 compile problem with debug.h. 2. Fixed a
foomatic-install issue with gzip 1.3 in Makefile.am. Removed the gzip
-r option. 3. Updated the foomatic PPD files for HPIJS. See
hpinkjet.sourceforge.net and the hpijs_readme.html file for more
information.
XboxMediaPlayer 2.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281026
The XboxMediaPlayer 2.4 point release source code is now available here
on SourceForge.net. This release includes On-Screen Display (OSD), HDTV
720p & 1080i support, and support for a number of additional codecs.
The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to
play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2, MP3, JPG & other supported
video/audio/picture formats via your TV so it can used as a multimedia
jukebox. It also supports streaming media over a network. What's new: -
OSD (On Screen Display) with various of settings during video playback
- Audio Visualization (using Goom visual effects generator) -
Local/native SHOUTcast recording to the Xbox hard drive - Local/native
support for SHOUTcast & IceCast playlists (.sc & .pls) - HDTV 720p &
1080i support (multiple resolutions & progressive scan)* - TV-Guide (w.
IMDb) (XMLTV show listings, requires PC w. internet)* - Command line
option available when launch a XBE via shortcut (.cut) - DivX 5.03
(inc. 5.03 Pro) playback support* - AVC - Advanced Video Coding (H.264)
playback* - Real - RealAudio/RealVideo playback (Note! older versions
only)* - QuickTime 6.0 video playback (video only & no audio yet)* -
Theora Video (VP3/SVQ3) video playback support* - Intel Indeo 3.1/3.2
(Indeo3) video playback support* - Matroska (.mkv) audio/video
multimedia container/file format* - NuppelVideo (.nuv) playback
support* - Autodesk FLI and FLC Animation playback support* - AAC -
Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG-4 audio) support* - Updated picture
library, now also support PNG, TIFF, TGA & PCX - Support for compressed
VobSub subtitles (rar) (Small files only!)* - Auto-launch Xbox game on
insert (inc. enable/disable feature) - XBMSP - Xbox Media Streaming
Protocol (version 1.0.12)* - Clock/date synchronization from external
(NT SNTP) Time Server - System info under Settings (build date, free
space, IP, temperature) - Ability to choose which categories show up in
main menu - Support for separate local subtitle directory on HDD - Read
support for MP3 ID3v1 and ID3v2 information tags - Support for MPEG &
OGM files larger than 2GB (not OpenDML AVI's) - Auto clipping/cropping
filter (for videos with black letter-boxes) - De-interlace filter (for
interlaced video) implemented* - Screen saver (black screen) on
configurable timer - Auto-launch other xbe (application) on Audio-CD
insert - Auto-launch other xbe (application) on DVD-movie insert -
Extract IMBd URL & info from .nfo file (if selected in My Videos) -
IMBd improvements (All genres, ratings, Top250, cast overview) -
Integrated updated FFmpeg, XviD, XBFileZilla and MPlayer code ...and of
course loads of bug fixes, and some new XBMP skins * = experimental,
unstable, buggy or limited Our thanks go out to all developers &
everyone who contribute & support this project, and a special BIG
thanks goes to the MPlayer, FFmpeg and XviD developers/projects. We
also welcome the Support Tech's from xbmp.de to the XboxMediaPlayer
Team. Much more release information is available in the XBMP Forum
thread on www.xboxmediaplayer.com. Note! We do not host or distribute
any Xbox executable binaries, read the FAQ. Note! Do not e-mail any
XBMP members asking for files or support, see the FAQ. PS! Unfortunate
Shadow_Mx suffered a systemcrash so no new manual yet.
Python 2.2.3 (final)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281315
Python 2.2.3 final is released. The Python programming language is an
object-oriented scripting and rapid application development language.
See http://www.python.org/2.2.3 for details.
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-05-23 EDITION
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281406
0. Intro 1. Improved Admin Interface 2. Project of the month: POPFile
3. New Irish download mirror. 4. SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.3 5.
New RSS Feeds. 6. Stats and Top Projects
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Dear SourceForge.net Developer, With seventy new projects being added
to the site daily, sometimes the SF.NET team misses a few of the more
intriguing ones as they fly through our registration queue. This was
the case with BIE, a brand new project from WDI, a division of
Brunswick, the bowling, billiard, and boating firm. We weren't aware of
the project until the press release ended up in my inbox, with a URL
pointing to the project on SourceForge.net. BIE is a Java based
'Business Integration Engine' that is designed to help organizations
exchange data created in different applications on various platforms
with partners, suppliers, and customers in order to streamline
processes and improve efficiency. Brunswick essentially built the
enterprise software in-house for their own needs to transfer data
between themselves and their large installed base of dealers. Last
week, they released the software under the GPL to not only give back to
the community that has helped them a great deal but also to increase
the level of development and usage of the software. Given that
Brunswick is a large public company, it will be an interesting project
to watch. It very well may prove to be an excellent success story for
other corporations thinking about getting involved with the development
of Open Source software. You can view the project here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bie
http://www.brunswickwdi.com/index.pl/bie In other news, this sitewide
email has a number of tidbits that you'll find interesting, including a
new download server in Europe, improved admin interface, and the
project of the month. Read below for more details. As always, thank you
for supporting SourceForge.net and the Open Source community. If you
have any feedback or issues regarding SourceForge.net, please feel free
to email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pat- Patrick McGovern Director,
SourceForge.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Improved Project Admin Interface
--------------------------------------------- In our continued efforts
to improve the overall usability and functionality of the
SourceForge.net site, the SourceForge.net team has produced a new
Project Administration interface. The new Project Admin interface
includes integrated documentation and tips for managing your project. A
significant amount of new information (not available previously) is now
provided via the Project Admin pages. A subset of the Project Admin
pages are now accessible to project developers (non-admins) as that
they may also take advantage of this new information. This interface
change includes an updated menu layout, direct access to
service-specific details, and links to relevant site documentation.
SourceForge.net provides a number of services to each hosted project;
historically it has been difficult for inexperienced developers and new
project administrators to take full advantage of these services. The
new Project Admin interface has been designed specifically to provide
the information needed by new project administrators to begin using
their SourceForge.net project resources immediately, and to help
experienced administrators to use SourceForge.net more effectively. All
project administrators are encouraged to explore the updated Project
Admin pages for their project. The Project Admin interface may be
accessed using the "Admin" link in the horizontal menu bar for your
project, found on the Project Summary page. SourceForge.net's May 2003
Project of the month: POPFile.
--------------------------------------------- Email is the "killer app"
of the Internet, but keeping up with the sheer volume of incoming email
arriving in one's inbox, particularly with the avalanche of Spam, is a
daunting task. POPFile is a powerful, learning, application designed to
make sorting incoming email an automatic task. Simply teach POPFile how
you want your email sorted into folders and POPFile does the rest. With
users reporting automatic sorting as high as 98% accuracy, POPFile is
truly a universal time saver. POPFile has only been on SourceForge.net
for the past 6 months, but given the tremendous need for such a product
on the net and it's ability to work on all major computing platforms,
it has enjoyed a top ten SF.NET project ranking essentially since it's
inception. POPFile Project of the month page:
http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-05.php POPFile Home Page:
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ POPFile SF.NET Summary Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile New Irish download server.
--------------------------------------------- SF.NET has a new download
mirror. HEAnet is providing both the hardware and bandwidth to support
a SourceForge.net mirror in Ireland. HEAnet is Ireland's National
Education and Research Network, providing high quality Internet
Services to over 130,000 students and staff in Irish Universities,
Institutes of Technology and other educational and research
organizations. The SF.NET team would like to thank HEAnet for their
generosity. http://www.heanet.ie/ Currently SF.NET serves approximately
500,000 files daily and our network of download mirrors (and the
organizations that support them) help a great deal in providing global
accessibility to all of the software generated by our 60,000+ projects.
SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.3
--------------------------------------------- VA Software, OSDN and
SourceForge.net's parent company, this week released SourceForge
Enterprise Edition 3.3. Designed for use behind corporate firewalls,
SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.3 integrates development,
collaboration and management tools, and creates a central repository
for all software development information and activity. The new release
includes integration support for PVCS Version Manager, support for
webDAV and LDAP, and significant enhancements to issue tracking and
project administration. For more information, please visit:
http://www.vasoftware.com/sf New RSS Feeds.
--------------------------------------------- This is information from
the last sitewide email, but we think it's worth repeating. A
convenient way to keep up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site,
project news, activity information, and new projects is now available.
SourceForge.net provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed
using an RSS reader or aggregator (some content management systems also
allow you include data from an RSS feed on your website, much as
Slashdot and Freshmeat do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using
these RSS feeds, you can keep up-to-date with the latest project news
and file releases, Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics
(such as top projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed
using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on
the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of
the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including
information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete
list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1
Stats and Top Projects. ---------------------------------------------
Number of Projects: 62,136 Number of Registered Users: 627,367 Daily
Stats for May 15th, 2003 SF.NET : 1,655,343 pages served SF.NET project
web space : 3,511,853 pages served Total Pages: 5,167,196 CVS updates:
14,823 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 304,126 Outgoing
Mailing list emails: 1258170 Top 25 SourceForge.net Projects 1.
phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ 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. 2. Gaim http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is a
GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple
protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC,
Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in
other clients, as well as many unique features. 3. Compiere ERP + CRM
Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart
ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace
covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and
accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click"
first tier functionality. 4. Tiki
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is full featured content
management system suited to many types of online communities. Features
include news, topics, wiki, polls, trackers, image galleries, forums,
blogs, webmail, and much more. Using PHP, MySQL and Smarty. 5. ScummVM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform
interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like:
Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It
also includes an non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 6.
MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Window
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ Import libraries and header
files for use with GCC to build native Windows applications; now with
added extensions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality. 7.
JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is
the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application
server implemented in 100% Pure Java. 8. PCGen
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen/ PCGen is a java role-playing
character generator and maintenance program. All data files are ASCII
so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm
project. An XML conversion is underway. 9. Singapore
http://sourceforge.net/projects/singapore/ A flexible image gallery PHP
web application that stores information in a CSV-file database (MySQL
support planned soon). Has web-based admin and cached auto-generated
thumbnails (using GD or ImageMagick). XHTML and CSS compatible output
only. 10. MAMEoX (MAME on XBOX) http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameox/
MAMEoX is a port of the popular MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator)
system to the XBOX. The main goal of the project is to provide a well
documented port with a consistent coding style. 11. Gimp-Print - Top
Quality Printer Drivers http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/ A
very high quality package of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS.
This project also maintains the Print plug-in for the Gimp from the
same code base. 12. dotproject
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotproject/ PHP web-based project
management framework that includes modules for companies, projects,
tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, calendar, contacts,
tickets/helpdesk, multi-language support, user/module permissions and
themes 13. eMule for Linux http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmule/ This
is a Linux port of eMule client (see http://www.emule-project.net)
using wxWindows class library. 14. FileZilla
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ FileZilla is a fast FTP
client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a
reliable FTP server. 15. Step Mania
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stepmania/ Step Mania is a music/rhythm
game. The player presses different buttons in time to the music and to
note patterns that scroll across the screen. Features 3D graphics,
visualizations, support for gamepads/dance pads, a step recording mode,
and more! 16. YahooPOPs! - POP3/SMTP Access to Yahoo
http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops/ YahooPOPs! is an application
that emulates a POP3/SMTP mail server and provides free POP3 and SMTP
access to Yahoo! Mail. It does not depend on Yahoo's POP3/SMTP mail
server. You can use a mail client of your choice! 17. POPFile -
Automatic Email Classification http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/
POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier,
a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with
most email clients. 18. MegaMek
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek/ MegaMek is a networked Java
clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players.
Fight using giant robots on a hex-based map. 19. TortoiseCVS
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/ TortoiseCVS is an
extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer that makes using CVS fun and
easy. Features include: colored icons, tight integration with SSH, and
context-menu interactivity. 20. XboxMediaPlayer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/ The XboxMediaPlayer for the
Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2,
MP3, JPG & other supported video/audio/picture formats via your TV so
it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports streaming media
over a network. 21. Bochs x86 PC emulator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/ Bochs is a portable x86 PC
emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related
AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other
OS's, all on your workstation. 22. icewm
http://sourceforge.net/projects/icewm/ icewm is a nice window manager
designed for speed, usability and consistency. It is able to emulate
the look of Motif, OS/2, Windows and allows to have a customizable look
using pixmaps. 23. XNap - java filesharing client
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xnap/ XNap is a plugin-based
filesharing client. Currently it includes an OpenNap plugin, with
multiple server support, automatic downloading, resuming of incomplete
files, chat, hotlist and an advanced media library. Features a Swing
GUI and a terminal mode. 24. Dev-C++
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw
or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 25. MPlayer OS X
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerosx/ MPlayer OS X is project
based on MPlayer (The Movie Player for Linux) port to Mac OS X
platform. It consist of compiled binaries of mplayer and mencoder,
separate GUI for mencoder and standalone Cocoa player application based
on mplayer binaries.
WebGUI 5.3
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279638
WebGUI 5.3 is here and packed with new goodies. It includes a new theme
management system that will easily enable you to transport your designs
and templates from one site to another with the click of a mouse. 5.3
also includes a new Data Form wobject that allows content managers to
build simple data entry applications on the fly. The default rich
editor has been upgraded to include direct integration with the
collateral manager, spell checking, and emoticons. There is also a
brand new trash and clipboard management system which makes it even
easier to move your content around. Among dozens of other features
there are also over 10 new macros to make your content mangement
experience faster and easier. You can find our latest release here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51417
FreedroidRPG 0.9.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279673
Version 0.9.5 of Freedriod RPG has been released. Freedriod RPG is a
graphical single player role playing game for Linux, featuring the Tux
as the hero battling evil MS machines in a future universe. Version
0.9.5 now comes with map editor, dialog editor and item editor. Any new
submissions for characters, dialogs, quests and other content welcome.
You can find our latest release here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54521
YAM Amiga 2.4p1 bugfix release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279701
The YAM (Yet-Another-Mailer) open source team is pleased to announce
the release of version 2.4p1 of the well-known AmigaOS Email client
(MUA). This release is a minor bugfix release which mainly fixes some
last-minute bugs that weren't fixed in the last full 2.4 release. YAM
(short for 'Yet Another Mailer') is a MIME-compliant Internet mailer
written for AmigaOS computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP,
TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders,
filters, configurable GUI, ARexx interface. You can find the latest
release here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13560
Columba 0.10.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=280523
A new stable version of Columba is now available. Columba is an email
client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface
with wizards and internalionalization support. Its a powerful email
management tool with features to enhance your productivity and
communication. So, take control of your email before it takes control
of you! This version fixes several bugs related to i18n and attachment
issues. http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download For more
information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=news
par2cmdline v0.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=280247
PARv2.0 is a parity archive file format specification that uses
reed-soloman code to protect sets of files within your filesystem.
PARv2.0 allows for protection of files without having to archive them
first by operating on virtual "blocks" of data within those files. For
every N recovery blocks, you can recover N missing or corrupted blocks.
PARs main purpose is helping to insure binary usenet propigation, but
is by no means limited to that purpose. Announcement: Version 0.2 of
par2cmdline is now available for download in source code form from the
following URL:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/parchive/par2cmdline-0.2.tar.gz?down
load This version has been compiled and tested on the following
platforms (and you can download pre-compiled binaries for them from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30568&release_id=
161776): CPU OS Distribution --- -- ------------ Alpha Linux 2.2 Debian
3.0 Cerfcube SA1110 Linux 2.4 Debian 3.0 J2EEE IBM Websphere PPC G4
MacOS X 10.2 Server Edition Sparc R220 Sun Solaris 8 Sparc Ultra 60
Linux 2.4 Debian 3.0 x86 Cygwin 1.3.22 x86 Linux 2.4 Debian 2.2 x86
Linux 2.4 Red Hat 7.3 x86 Linux 2.4 Red Hat 9.0 x86 Windows The
following changes have been made since version 0.1 was released: *
Corrected a fault in the handling of filenames that have 8-bit
characters. * Reduced restrictions on permitted characters in filenames
on unix operating systems. * Added many portability enhancements
including the use of GNU Autoconf/Automake for configuration and
compiling on different cpu/os platforms. * Added support for verifying
and repairing using version 1.0 PAR files. Please report any problems
you encounter with this version of par2cmdline in the parchive tracker
at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=30568 Peter B Clements
(Author of par2cmdline and QuickPar) The Parchive Project
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/parchive
Slashdot
Gecko Feet Inspire Sticky Tape
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/208205
Makarand writes "Geckos have a remarkable ability to climb the most
smooth surfaces and hang from glass ceilings with a single toe. Their
feet are covered with millions of nanoscopic keratin hairs that can
exert an intermolecular force - called van der Waals force - producing
an adhesive effect on surfaces they walk on. Researchers at Carnegie
Mellon have been able to [0]mimic the adhesive ability of Gecko feet
with a synthetic material that could find applications in new types of
vehicle tires or allowing robots to climb walls. The material is made
by using a mould created by a lithographic process and consists of a
flexibile and strong substrate covered with 100 million nanoscopic hair
each centimetre square. It might take several more years before Gecko
tape is made commercially available to the wanna-be Spiderman, but he
will have to thank the Gecko for that, not the spider."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993785
SETI Goes to Arecibo To Stat *Candidates*
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/0020218
[0]Neuropol writes "In the most rescent [EMAIL PROTECTED] news letter. Seti
recieved (only!) 24 hours of telescope time at Arecibo to investigate
interesting points in the sky where signals have not only shown up once
but several times in data crunches in the last 4 years. The Planetary
Society web site has an excellent [2]summary of the reobservations. The
Seti web site lists the reobservation targets and the [3]7,000 users
whose computations directly contributed to finding them."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED](no!spam!)us.com
1. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.html
2. http://planetary.org/stellarcountdown/index.html
3. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/candidates.html
Online Auction Industry In A State Of Limbo
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1958251
[0]theodp writes "It seems the [1]online auction industry is in a state
of limbo after last week's ruling that [2]eBay violated patents
belonging to MercExchange. MercExchange said it will file an injunction
against eBay to keep them from using the technology, eBay said it will
file motions to overturn the verdict, and MercExchange is ultimately
looking to sell its entire portfolio of auction-related patents. Names
being bandied about as possible acquirers include Amazon, Yahoo and
eBay itself. Whoever holds the patents may require other sites to pay
them licensing royalties."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y203/m06/abu0096/s01
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2351250&tid=155
Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/195246
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "The Three Gorges Dam, the largest
hydroelectric project in the world, and one of the largest engineering
projects underway right now, has [1]begun accumulating water in the
reservoir."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2953420.stm
PeltierBeer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/0023219
[0]Helstein writes "Finishing a beer in the sun before it gets warm is
usually not a problem, but what about those really hot days? Having
some hardware lying around there is only one solution to keep the beer
cool, that's to make a [1]PeltierBeer."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~arnesen/peltierbeer/
Yoda, Gollum Take MTV Awards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1835211
zoobaby writes "MTV has given the LoTR franchise credit for
spectactular work with Gollum. After being snubbed by the Academy
Awards, it is nice to see [0]recognition given to one of the most
expressive and best acted roles in recent films."
Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/01/mtv.movie.awards.ap/index.html
Mission to Harpoon Comet is Back on Track
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1828201
An anonymous reader writes "The Rosetta mission planners have
[0]announced today that after an [1]indefinite launch delay earlier
this year, their goal of landing on a comet is back on track. Their new
baseline target is a rendezvous with the comet,
[2]Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in November 2014. En route to the comet,
Rosetta will inspect [3]two asteroids ([4]Otawara and Siwa) at close
quarters."
Links
0. http://www.astrobio.net/news/article483.html
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/155250&tid=160
2. http://cometography.com/pcomets/067p.html
3. http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Rosetta/ESAFIF7708D_0.html
4. http://www.minorplanets.de/rosetta/otawara.html
The Soldier is the Network
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1825223
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "This article from [1]InfoWorld says that
"in the battle of the future, the helmet becomes a data retrieval
device." It describes a scenario where soldiers are equipped with
sensors and other networking equipment. "Each person is a network with
routing capability to everyone else," says Peter Marcotullio, director
of development at SRI International. This technology should be
available in five years for the military, which probably means that
we'll become networks ourselves ten years from now. Check [2]this
column for a summary. Please note that this article is part of a
special report called "[3]From the battlefield to the enterprise" which
looks at why some key technologies -- deployed on a massive scale in
Afghanistan and Iraq -- may hold promise for corporate IT."
Links
0. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/30/22FEbattlefuture_1.html
2. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/06/01.html
3. http://www.infoworld.com/reports/SRbattle.html
Media Monopoly: Thomas Edison to Hillary Rosen
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1717224
An anonymous reader writes "George Ziemann has posted two excellent
articles that explore the early days of the recording and music
industry, how their attempts to monopolize their respective mediums in
the past failed, and how their attempts to do so strangely mirror those
presently being undertaken by contemporary media conglomerates to
control digital distribution over the Net. Seems the two industries
back at the turn of the century tried to pool their patents to block
out competition like the RIAA and the big media companies today pool
their copyrights. The first article "[0]The Dawn of Recorded Music and
the First Pirates" focuses on early collusion in the phonograph
industry. The second "[1]Music, Movies and Monopoly" on Thomas Edison's
failed attempts to restrain fair trade in the two new media he gave
commercial rise to."
Links
0. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/monopoly.html
1. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/monopoly2.html
The Mafia Everquest Connection
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1519258
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the [0]2003 Melbourne
Digital Arts And Culture Conference site, where a large selection of
new academic papers about videogaming have been disseminated online.
This includes [1]The Sopranos Meets Everquest - Social Networking In
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (PDF file), which discusses why
"instead of having Gandalf as a role model, [Everquest players] would
be better off trying to think as Tony Soprano, a present day mafia boss
in New Jersey from the American TV show The Sopranos."
Links
0. http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/
1. http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/papers/Jakobsson.pdf
Freshmeat
Abbot 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124647/
Abbot is a framework for testing Java GUIs. It lets you launch an
application or GUI component, play back user actions on it, and examine
its state. Tests may be coded or scripted. The editor supports
recording user actions into a script, exploring the component
hierarchy, running the script, and other features you'd expect from a
script editor. Test scripts are JUnit extensions.
AFT 5.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124679/
AFT (Almost Free Text) is a document preparation system. It is mostly
free form, meaning that there is little intrusive markup; AFT source
documents look a lot like plain old ASCII text. It has a few rules for
structuring your document, more to do with formatting your text than
embedding lots of commands, and it produces all types of output (HTML,
XHTML, LaTeX, roll-your-own XML, etc.). All that needs to be done is to
edit a rule file. You can even customize your own rule files for
specialized output.
Alana 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124648/
Alana is a highly responsive Turing Machine simulator. The
documentation contains an introduction to Turing Machines as well as
some interesting theoretical information (halting problem, busy beaver)
and pointers to further literature.
Alleyoop 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124665/
Alleyoop is a GNOME frontend to the Valgrind memory checker. Its
features include a right-click context menu to intelligently suppress
errors or launch an editor on the source file, jumping to the exact
line of the error condition. A searchbar at the top of the viewer can
be used to limit the viewable errors to those that match the regex
criteria entered. A fully functional Suppressions editor is also
included.
Aquativo 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124642/
Aquativo is a combination of ideas from many themes.
avidemux 2.0.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124623/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG,
Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG,
DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be
edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded
to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
Bluecurve Oroborus 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124640/
Bluecurve Oroborus is a port of the Metacity theme Bluecurve.
Calendrian 0.24.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124672/
Calendrian is an enhanced calendar application for the Agenda VR3 Linux
PDA. It is a lot faster than the original schedule application, and it
has multiple alarms, free alarm intervals, and faster navigation.
calmth 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124618/
calmth is a smooth theme. It goes especially well with the H2O GTK 2
theme.
Chronicle Lite 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124614/
Chronicle Lite provides a friendly client application for Blogger.com.
It also aims to satisfy the needs of "power users" who want a
local copy of their journal, as well as the copy that is published on
an external Website.
cwISPy 1.2.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124671/
cwISPY is an ISP billing and management system. It features automatic
generation and emailing of invoices and statements, a customer
interface, a ticket system, DNS management, and much more.
DCTC 0.85.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124659/
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the
direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.
dnspython 1.0.0a1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124610/
dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports all of the common
record types, and will support all types. It can be used for queries,
zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated
messages and EDNS0. dnspython provides both high and low level access
to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given
name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes
allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records.
Dustbowl Clan Tools 0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124634/
Dustbowl Clan Tools is a community system for e-sport teams and gaming
clans, providing an integrated forum, scheduler, voting system, and
lots of other features. It is PHP/MySQL-based and supports multiple
languages.
DVB Driver Project 2003-05-24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124652/
The DVB Driver Project has very good drivers for DVB cards by many
manufacturers (e.g., Hauppauge WinTV DVB-s and WinTV Nova, Siemens,
Technotrend, Galaxis, and Technisat). It supports DVB-s, DVB-t, and
DVB-c.
gimp-print 4.3.15 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124661/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for
UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality
and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the
GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and
IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This
driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to
enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various
printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the
quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or
exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
GNU Lightning 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124646/
GNU Lightning is a library that generates assembly language code at run
time. It is very fast, making it ideal for Just-In-Time compilers, and
it abstracts over the target CPU, as it exposes to the clients a
standardized RISC instruction set (inspired by the MIPS and SPARC
chips).
Grutatxt 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124621/
Grutatxt is a plain text to HTML converter. It successfully converts
subtle text markup to lists, bold, italics, tables, and headings to
their corresponding HTML tags without having to write unreadable source
text files.
Hardware Monitor applet 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124669/
The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which
tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It
also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible,
integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.
HTML::TextToHTML 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124629/
HTML::TextToHTML converts plain text files into HTML. It supports
headings, tables, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and
is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of
the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and
attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML. This Perl module
can be used inside Perl scripts or called from the commandline, making
it versatile and easy to use.
incident.pl 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124677/
incident.pl is a small script that, when given syslogs generated by
snort or other tools, can generate an incident report for events that
appear to be attempted security attacks, gather information on the
remote host, and report the attack to the appropriate administrators.
Jacob Oberon-2 Compiler 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124615/
Jacob is a stand-alone Oberon-2 compiler. It compiles a single Oberon-2
module together with its imported modules and links everything together
to form an executable. It implements the full Oberon-2 language
specifications. External modules allow developers to write library
modules in other languages. Instead of an explicit dispose function a
garbage collector is implemented using the mark-and-sweep algorithm.
There are command line options for enabling and disabling NIL, index,
range, and assertion checks.
jCIFS 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124695/
jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely
follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes,
batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted
authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file
enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol
handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication,
and more.
Joone 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124649/
Joone (Java Object Oriented Neural Engine) is an artificial neural
network Java framework. It is used to build and train neural networks
with a powerful visual environment. It has a modular design and can be
easily extended by writing new modules to implement new learning
algorithms or architectures.
KnowIt 0.9alpha3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124613/
KnowIt is a simple KDE tool for managing notes in a manner similar to
TuxCards. Notes are organized in tree-like hierarchy and can store data
in a rich text format, so that bold, italics, and lists are supported,
as well as any character set.
Lame Node System 0.5-7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124639/
Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files,
pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124670/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network
administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely
turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your
network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing
"bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are
easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such
as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and
time of day controls can be set.
Luola 1.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124666/
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.
MailScanner 4.21-8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124633/
MailScanner is an email virus scanner, vulnerability protector, and
spam tagger. It supports the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim and ZMailer MTAs,
and the Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, F-Secure, CommandAV, InoculateIT,
Inoculan 4.x, Kaspersky, Nod32, AntiVir, RAV, Panda, and Clam
anti-virus scanners. It supports SpamAssassin for highly successful
spam identification. It is specifically designed to handle denial of
service attacks. It is very easy to install, and requires no changes at
all to your sendmail.cf file. It is designed to be lightweight, and
won't grind your mail system to a halt with its load; a good PC can
process over 1.5 million messages per day. It can be integrated into
any email system, regardless of the software in use.
MemCheck Deluxe 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124687/
MemCheck Deluxe is a memory usage tracker and leak finder. It allows
developers to find memory leaks quickly, as well as providing some
memory usage information.
MIMEViewer 2003.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124693/
MIMEViewer is a cross-platform GUI utility for viewing MIME message
structure. It can find internal content in Microsoft TNEF (Microsoft
Exchange), as well as extract text from RTF, PDF, and HTML, and perform
expansion of ZIP files. Other features include extracting and decoding
of message parts, a hexadecimal part viewer, and BeanShell support.
Moosic 1.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124691/
Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It
consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to
play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The
server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top
of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a
simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful
operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole
directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to
regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg,
MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.
MRX PPP 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124632/
MRX PPP is a simple configuration tool for pppd. It is a subproject of
the Murix Linux distribution.
netcat 2.0-alpha1 (IPv6)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124645/
Netcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across
network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a
reliable backend tool that can be used directly or easily driven by
other programs time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and
exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you
would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.
NumericalChameleon 1.5.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124650/
The Numerical Chameleon converts numbers with a precision of up to 1000
significant figures. It supports more than 2300 units in 78 categories,
including lengths, areas, volumes, durations, bits & bytes, angles,
temperatures, exchange rates, Roman numerals, spoken numbers, all 35
radixes, unicode, colorcode, int. dial codes, and more. You have
unlimited access for adding, modifying, and deleting categories, units,
and icons. Update exchange rates with the GUI or at the commandline
(filters for 12 Web services are supported). All configuration data are
stored in flat files.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.3-dev (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124635/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It
also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a
news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML
support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation
script.
PTlink Services 2.23.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124658/
PTlink Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC
networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC daemon, it includes
features like channel logging, oper management, helper management,
AJOIN user list, memo read acknowledgement, rotated logs, autoidentify
on ghost, and ChanServ PROTECTED level. It also integrates NewServ for
real time news delivering.
pyDDR 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124617/
PyDDR is a clone of DDR ("Dance Dance Revolution") written in
Python. The idea of DDR is simple. There's a mat with four directional
arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while
playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner
and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and
given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on
how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the
song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.
Python 2.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124663/
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language. It combines remarkable power with very clear syntax, and
isn't difficult to learn. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very
high level data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many
system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems
(Tk, Mac, MFC, GTK+, Qt, wxWindows). Newbuilt-in modules are easily
written in C or C++. Python is also usable as an extension language for
applications that need a programmable interface.
Qixite 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124638/
Qixite is a program for creating Web sites. The user has to provide the
information and structure of the site, while Qixite does the rest. It
uses predefined templates for site generation, and it is possible to
create or edit them using XSL.
Razor! Gaming Engine 0.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124620/
Razor! is a C++ gaming engine for Palm devices. It supports sprites,
three voice music, sfx, double buffering, hard key polling. It
accelerates many gfx operations through the use of optimized assembly
code.
ROX-Filer 2.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124627/
ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full
drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly
configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin
frequently used files to the desktop background.
SAROS 1.1.05 / 1.1.04-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124651/
SAROS enables you to find the date of any solar eclipse in between 2500
BC and 3500 AD. After entering a period of time, the program will
output the dates of every solar eclipse for that period. You may then
decide to get more detailed information about a specific solar eclipse
and a graphical display of the central line drawn on a world map which
can be saved as a JPEG or PNG image file. In addition, you can save a
complete report about the solar eclipse as a PDF document. The program
uses a GUI and should be very easy to use.
SCREEM 0.7.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124643/
SCREEM is a tag-based Web page editor which aims not only to aid in
creating Web pages, but also to provide useful site maintainance
facilities, including automatic link updating and site upload
facilities. SCREEM has more than just the usual HTML tags, with
features for including Javascript, PHP, cascading style sheets, etc
within your site.
Screenhack 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124660/
screenhack lets you animate static RenderMan scenes (e.g., scenes
created by programs such as Moonlight, AC3D, or Mops) using formulae.
Currently you can move, rotate, and resize "actor" objects.
ServDoc 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124684/
ServDoc describes your system with just one command without the need to
configure the documentation of every piece of software on your system.
The idea is to provide a documentation module for every (or at least
for many) standard software packages.
Slackware Live CD 2.9.0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124636/
Slackware Live CD is a 200MB live Linux distribution on CD that is
based on Slackware. It features many add-ons, including the scripts
required to create your own live CD.
StarDict 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124653/
StarDict is a powerful Chinese-English / English-Chinese dictionary
with many dict data files. It has powerful features such as glob-style
pattern matching, fuzzy queries, and much more. When the user selects a
word in other software, it can pop up a floating window showing the
selected word's meaning, with optional audio output.
The Hunting of the Snark Project 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124688/
The Hunting of the Snark Project contains a client for downloading and
sharing files distributed with the BitTorrent protocol. It is mainly
used for exploring the BitTorrent protocol and experimenting with the
GNU Compiler for Java (gcj), but it can also be used as a regular
BitTorrent client. Snark can also act as a torrent creator, a tiny HTTP
server for delivering metainfo.torrent files, and has an integrated
tracker for making the sharing of files as easy as possible. When you
use the --share option, Snark will automatically create a .torrent file
and start a very simple Web server to distribute the metainfo.torrent
file and a local tracker that other BitTorrent clients can connect to.
ThinkSQL RDBMS 01.00.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124628/
ThinkSQL is a powerful, cross-platform, multi-threaded relational
database management system. It supports Core ISO SQL, transactions,
sub-selects, views, stored procedures, functions, comprehensive
constraints, large objects, multi-version concurrency control, on-line
backups, and a statistical optimiser that uses constraints and
relationships to improve plans. The SQL server is simple to install and
bloat-free. It runs under Windows and Linux and includes native ODBC,
dbExpress (Delphi/Kylix), and JDBC drivers.
Tk Ecasound 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124611/
Tk Ecasound is a frontend for Ecasound. It has the look of a multitrack
recorder. It supports Ladspa plugins, multiple devices inputs/outputs,
and multiple effects.
txt2html 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124630/
txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML. It
supports headings, lists, tables, simple character markup, hyperlinking
and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent
structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic
layout) and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML.
ULN - User Level Networking 20030601
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124654/
User Level Networking is software designed to allow the dynamic
allocation of IP addresses. The basic idea is to give different IP
addresses to different users, thus identifying the UID-HOST pair with
an IP address. It includes a patch to the kernel which must be applied
to every client in the LAN, a suid executable which will be used by the
users to get their IP address from the server and activate it on a
virtual interface (like eth0:*) on the local computer, and an
executable which will be launched by sshd on the server host.
VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.8.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124664/
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.
Video Disk Recorder 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124625/
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux
and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output
the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3
playback and more.
VideoDB 2003-06-01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124662/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's
mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS
tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet
Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark
movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a
filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow
manager. It is a personal database, so no user
management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may
add/edit/delete movies.
vimdrop 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124631/
vimdrop is an Applescript droplet that allows you to open up and edit
files in your favorite editor by dragging them to the vimdrop icon. The
dropped file will be opened in a new Terminal window with the text
editor defined in the $EDITOR environment variable. A binary compiled
under 10.2.6 and the Project Builder files are included in the
distribution.
wdm 1.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124622/
Wdm is a modification of the X11 xdm package for graphically handling
authentication and system login. Most of xdm has been preserved with
the login interface based on a WINGs implementation using Tom
Rothamel's "external greet" interface.
WebGUI 5.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124686/
WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average
business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular,
pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the
people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content
management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are
building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has
something to offer.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.4.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124641/
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server
and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is
written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant
searching and threading of your email messages.
Zope Group Calendar 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124644/
The Zope Group Calendar is an effort to create a standards-compliant
group calendar in zope.
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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