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Sourceforge
OpenEJB 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282705
The 0.9.2 release is one that the whole team is quite proud of. OpenEJB
0.9.0 marked are first release with special Tomcat embedded support.
Thanks to all the user feedback that support has just gotten better and
better. The 0.9.2 release contains a neat surprise for OpenEJB/Tomcat
users -- TOOLS! The new integration features a webapp with a setup
verifier, JNDI browser, EJB viewer, Class browser, and even an Object
invoker! You can browse the OpenEJB namespace and know right away
exactly where the ejb is and what it is called. When you find one you
like, just click it and it will open up into the EJB viewer. While
there you can check out it's home, remote and bean classes in the class
browser. The Object invoker allows you to actually create and invoke
your EJBs without writing a single line of code. OpenEJB 0.9.2 also
contains a new openejb.base variable to complement the openejb.home
variable. The openejb.base variable allows you to have several
configurations of OpenEJB all running against the same OpenEJB install.
This makes using OpenEJB in IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans even easier.
Move the openejb_loader-0.9.2.jar into your project's lib directory,
set the openejb.base, and you'll be debugging your EJB apps
front-to-back without the need for remote debugging support or special
editor plug-ins. Thanks to all the OpenEJB users for all the great
ideas! You speak, we listen.
http://openejb.sourceforge.net/download.html
LTI-Lib Version Beta 1.9.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282700
LTI-Lib is an object oriented computer vision library written in C++
for Windows/MS-VC++ and Linux/gcc. It provides lots of functionality to
solve mathematical problems, many image processing algorithms, some
classification tools and much more. This release provides new functors
and features, many bug fixes and more documentation. Download --------
You can get this and previous releases from:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45767 Homepage
-------- For more information please visit our homepage:
http://ltilib.sourceforge.net ChangeLog --------- For more details
about the changes in this release please visit the ChangeLog page at:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=163728
Acknowledgments --------------- Thanks to all developers at the Chair
of Computer Science: Suat Akyol, Pablo Alvarado, Daniel Beier, Axel
Berner, Ulrich Canzler, Peter Doerfler, Thomas Erger, Holger
Fillbrandt, Peter Gerber, Claudia, Goenner, Xin Gu, Michael Haehnel,
Christian Harte, Bastian Ibach, Torsten Kaemper, Thomas Krueger,
Frederik Lange, Henning Luepschen, Peter Mathes, Alexandros Matsikis,
Bernd Mussman, Jens Paustenbach, Norman Pfeil, Jens Rietzschel, Daniel
Ruijters, Thomas Rusert, Stefan Syberichs, Guy Wafo Moudhe, Ruediger
Weiler, Jochen Wickel , Benni Winkler, Xinghan Yu, Marius Wolf, Joerg
Zieren
Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282686
Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 - This is the second (and, we fully
expect, final) *release candidate* for Gallery v.1.3.4. Changes from
RC1 essentially amount to small fixes for errors discovered since the
first release candidate in the backup_albums.php script and the new
"custom fields" code. Gallery is slick, intuitive web based photo
gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to
install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great
for communities. Download it:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more about this
release candidate: http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=75
phpwsBB 0.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282990
phpwsBB is a native bulletin board module for the phpWebSite content
management system, version 0.9.2 or later. Today we release version
0.1.0 of phpwsBB. Features include anonymous posting, message editing
and deletion for registered users, thread locking and message forking
for admins, and ... well that's probably it. Be sure you have the
latest version of phpWebSite installed: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
and then download phpwsbb from: http://phpwsbb.sourceforge.net.
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.
Slashdot
University of Wisconsin Wins FutureTruck Competition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/2352241
[0]carambola5 writes "No, this isn't a dupe from [1]a year ago. The
[2]University of Wisconsin-Madison [0]team has taken the [3]FutureTruck
title for the second year in a row. The overall goals of the
competition are to modify an existing Ford Explorer (make and model
dependant on year) to improve fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions
while maintaining or exceeding customer expectations. The [4]University
of California-Davis team took 2nd, with [5]Michigan Tech, [6]Georgia
Tech, and [7]Penn State following close behind. Speaking as a member of
the winning team, I am quite sure that all of the students and advisors
from the participating teams are well-deserving of appreciation after
those many, many hours of preparation." Too bad Ford isn't actually
using any of this hard work.
Links
0. http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~vehicle/
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/26/131217&tid=126
2. http://www.wisc.edu/
3. http://www.futuretruck.org/
4. http://www.team-fate.net/
5. http://www.me.mtu.edu/~fcc/
6. http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/futuretruck
7. http://www2.mne.psu.edu/futuretruck/
Black Box in Speeder's Car Helped Conviction
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/2122240
[0]sessamoid writes "This article in Newhouse News tells the story of a
man who was recently convicted of two counts of manslaughter and
vehicular homicide each, [1]partially on evidence obtained from the
Electronic Data Recorder (EDR) in the car. EDR's are found in all cars
with airbags to measure the performance and effectiveness of the
airbags and the conditions in which they are used. In this case, the
EDR revealed that the driver was not travelling at 60 mph, as he
claimed, but actually peaked at 114 mph (in a residential neighborhood)
just seconds before the collision. Could this be the forerunner of many
such cases in the future, where our cars tell the unadulterated facts,
rather than subjective personal accounts?"
Links
0. http://8zwgw2czpdw001 AT sneakemail DOT com
1. http://www.newhouse.com/archive/jensen061203.html
Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/2119249
Dee Arsmith writes "Peter Jackson's special-effects company Weta
Digital has just [0]taken delivery of 588 IBM blade servers, each with
two 2.8 gigahertz Intel Xeon processors. Seven racks of IBM blade
servers have been added to Weta's existing 15-rack server cluster to
make up the largest Intel-based high- performance computer site in the
world with more than 2000 linked processors. The cluster will be used
to render the frames drawn by the animators to complete the final
installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King."
Links
0.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3507549&thesection=business&thesubsection=technology
QNX: When an OS Really, Really Has to Work
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1730232
An anonymous reader writes "Fortune has this article about how [0]QNX's
OS has found a niche and is doing well. Especially after 1996 when
Microsoft executives said they would crush them in 2 years. When your
software absolutely positively needs to work!"
Links
0. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/imt/0,15704,427288-2,00.html
Settling SCOres
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1741253
Israel Pattison writes "[0]The Inquirer is [1]reporting that someone in
Germany is claiming to have viewed the SCO-alleged infringing Linux
source code without having to sign a NDA. The person gives details
about the code that was presented, but the translation-by-software is
difficult to follow." The story also includes a link to a human
translation; maybe some Slashdot reader can do better. Also in the news
is a story about a [2]kernel developer getting uppity with SCO, as well
he might.
Links
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/
1. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10013
2. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10018
12/7 and Overtime on a Salary?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1952240
over-timeout! asks: A company I work for (in the U.S.A.) had submitted
a statement of work to a client, who waited for a month before signing
the work order. The work order explicitly stated a timeline which would
start from the time the order is signed. However, the client is
insisting on the project being completed by a fixed date, as discussed
with our company's management, instead of the deadline that starts from
the signing of the work order. Although our company representatives
tried to push back on the date, the client refused. Because the client
is among our company's biggest customers, our company's management
caved in and agreed to their deadlines. Management has told us meeting
deadlines means that for the next month to six weeks all of the
developers involved will have to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The contractors involved are going to get compensated by being paid by
the hour. But us salaried employees are going to get nothing in return
for trading in what's left of our life so someone else in the company
above us can make money. Obviously this isn't fair, but what are the
alternatives in this down economy, where jobs are hard to find?" A
related articles on this subject discusses [0]suing for overtime, and
[1]California residents should find this companion article pertinent,
as well. What can you do when management agrees to a timeline and a
workload that may make your job, as a programmer,
difficult-to-impossible?
Links
0. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2342259&tid=123
1. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/0223211&tid=124
NASA's Cool Robot of the Week
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1718235
[0]S.Bartfarst writes "[1]NASA's Cool Robot of the Week (which
apparently is about a month long) has produced a huge spike of activity
on our [2]web page from .gov and .mil domains. Most interesting are a
long series of hits from [3] uspto.gov. Maybe looking for "prior art?"
I wonder how much of this Dean Kamen already has tied up?"
Links
0. http://www.geology.smu.edu
1. http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/coolrobots.html
2. http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/robo/nbot
3. http://www.uspto.gov/
A Mighty Wind
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/0521234
DoraLives writes "Fascinating New York Times piece regarding a
[0]proposed wind farm for Nantucket Sound. Suddenly, all the
environmentally friendly locals are going ballistic over the prospects
of seeing an 'industrial energy complex' in their backyard. Walter
Cronkite decries it, as do many other local checkbook
environmentalists. Greenpeace says 'Jim Gordon (the developer) is the
real thing, there aren't many entrepreneurs out there willing to take
risks to clean up the environment.' Who's right?"
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/magazine/15WIND.html
42-Volt Autos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1717242
brianlmoon writes "[0]Car Audio Electronics Magazine has a [1]story
about the auto industry switching to 36/42-Volt systems starting in
2004 and being completely switched by 2020. The demand for luxuries in
cars has grown to where 12/14-Volts is just simply not enough. The
automotive sound enthusiasts are going to benefit greatly as
amplification will be much easier and cleaner with 3 times the voltage
availble. Mobile computing will also benefit: "One of the real benefits
of jumping to 42-volt systems, especially for hybrid vehicles, is the
ability of the vehicle to offer regular 110-volt electrical outlets".
It seems cars will have dual systems for a while for legacy equipment."
Links
0. http://www.caraudiomag.com/
1. http://www.caraudiomag.com/specialfeatures/0307cae_42volt/
Ximian Desktop 2 Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1439213
[0]Bruha writes "Lewt over at Warcry News Network has written his
[1]review for Ximian Desktop 2 targeted at the home users that are
looking for a good desktop solution. He mentions this is a good product
that could be bundled with Redhat or Mandrake to provide a one stop
solution for the desktop user where they dont have to install any extra
software to fully surf the web. Which you do with KDE/Gnome installs of
most distro's."
Links
0. http://lewt at warcry dot com
1. http://www.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_section.phtml?site=15&id=67
Freshmeat
Agar 06152003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126120/
Agar is a graphical game engine aimed primarily at applications ranging
from SDL 2D games to multithreaded 3D simulations. The engine currently
implements tile-based levels, a level editor, a GUI, as well as various
other thread-safe interfaces for use in game programming.
AquaLess 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126149/
AquaLess is a text pager for Mac OS X that is intended to replace the
less command. It allows you to browse lengthy text output from Unix
command line tools in a separate window, so you can keep working in the
terminal while you read.
Armagetron 0.2.pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126122/
In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only
make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after
you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are
trying to do the same to you. If you are fast enough, you may be able
to trap them, but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive
close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic
preparations followed by action-packed close combat!
BBStatus 2.0RC13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126169/
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.
cdmp3 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126151/
cdmp3 uses cdparanoia or cdda2wav to extract single tracks or even a
whole CD, and converts them on-the-fly into MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files.
Using the CDDB database, it is possible to include information like the
artist's name or the track's title into the file name or as meta tags
in the file content.
CheckRDF 36.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126164/
CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program,
for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and
in an HTML file. It is highly configurable.
Code 6 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126137/
Code 6 is a very powerful assortment of error-correcting algorithms. It
includes "code6" for making Gallager codes, "mncN"
and "gallager" for sum-product decoding, and "fe"
for decoding using variational free energy minimization.
crosstool 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126152/
crosstool is a set of scripts that make it easy to build
cross-development toolchains based on gcc, glibc, and Linux. The goal
is to make it easy to build and test cross-toolchains for all
architectures supported by glibc.
diradm 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126135/
diradm is a simple bash script for managing POSIX users and groups
stored in a LDAP directory, offering the same features as the
traditional passwd file utilities useradd/usermod/userdel and
groupadd/groupmod/groupdel. It uses the ldapsearch, ldapadd,
ldapmodify, and ldapdelete utilities from the OpenLDAP project to
perform the needed queries against the LDAP database.
disktype 6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126136/
The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or
disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and
boot codes.
docbook2X 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126175/
docbook2X converts DocBook documents to man pages and Texinfo.
doxygen 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126162/
Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like documentation system for C++,
C, C#, Java, IDL, and PHP. Doxygen can be used to generate an on-line
class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX
or RTF) from a set of source files. Doxygen can also be configured to
extract the code-structure from undocumented source files. This
includes dependency graphs, class diagrams and hyperlinked source code.
This type of information can be very useful to quickly find your way in
large source distributions.
Easy Funktion 5.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126118/
Easy Funktion is 2D function plotter software with an equation solver.
It has an office-like GUI frontend and features a built-in pocket
calculator, calculating with complex numbers (with special extensions
for electronics, e.g. capacitor/inductor impedance), a function to
export to spreadsheet software, and an advanced formula editor with
automatic formatting.
efarm-project 0.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125930/
eFarm is a peer-to-peer server based on eDonkey protocol which will
offer optimized functionnalities for eMule clients. eFarm is based on
module system which offers to developers the ability to write a
specified module for other peer-to-peer networks.
Flat Assembler 1.46.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126129/
The Flat Assembler is a fast and efficient self-assembling 80x86
assembler for Linux, DOS, and Windows. It supports all
8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow!
extensions. It can produce output in binary, MZ, PE, or COFF formats.
It has advanced but easy-to-use macroinstruction support, and it does
multiple quick passes to optimize the code for size. It is totally
written in assembly language.
FW1-Loggrabber 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126146/
FW1-Loggrabber is a simple LEA (Log Export API) client for Checkpoint
Firewall-1. It was developed to access Firewall-1 Logfiles from
commandline from any host in the network. Without an LEA client you can
only access logs with graphical Checkpoint Tools or via commandline
directly on the Firewall-1 machine. The primary goal was to automate
reports of FW-1 logs with LIRE.
Green Understatement 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126128/
Green Understand is a minimalist green and khaki theme. The background
is by liquachu (James Wignall).
gtk-gnutella 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126121/
Gtk-Gnutella is a Unix Gnutella client using GTK+.
HardInfo 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126141/
HardInfo displays informations about the system's hardware in a GTK
window. Linux 2.4 is officially required, but it might work with 2.2.
Hardware lister A.01.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126163/
lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton
on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact
memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU
version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
Hocus Pocus 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126109/
Hocus Pocus is a theme with bright colours on black. The background is
by d-b-c.
Impact 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126165/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping
algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car
crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is
kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and
extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and
output formats.
Jawa Open Eyes 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126131/
Jawa Open Eyes is a visual network monitoring tool developed in Java
using SNMPv1/2/2c for collecting MIB-II information. The main features
include visual monitoring, an enhanced network topology designer, email
alert, trap receiver, trap agent, and real time logging to DB and Web.
Jin client for chess servers 2.07rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126127/
Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. While it currently only
supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet
Chess Server (freechess.org), it is written to be flexible enough to
support any chess server. It is based on the Swing UI toolkit and runs
on any Java 1.1 compatible JVM.
JPluck 2.0 pre3 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126150/
JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on
your handheld.
JPluck 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126148/
JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on
your handheld.
JSyntaxColor 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126154/
JSyntaxColor is a Java library for coloring in real time user text
input. Main features include a standard editor kit, a simple property
file for each syntax description, real time switch between syntax
descriptions, inner cache for limiting parsing scope, tokens libraries
customizable by the user, color, underline, and border attributes
support, samples for Java, SQL, and Formula syntax, and many samples
for interesting API parts.
Large File Btree 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126157/
Large File Btree is a btree routine to store/retrieve keys using files
larger than 2GB.
m0n0wall pb12r418
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126133/
m0n0wall is an all-in-one firewall software package that is based on
FreeBSD. It is geared towards embedded PCs, but the CD-ROM version also
works on standard PCs. It includes an easy-to-use Web interface like
commercial firewall boxes do. PHP is used instead of shell scripts, and
the entire system configuration is stored in a single XML-formatted
file. There is support for wireless LAN, VPN, traffic shaping, and
more.
mkvtoolnix 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126144/
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information
about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split
Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from
AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others.
The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska
Direct Show filter under Windows.
mod_psldap 0.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126138/
mod_psldap is an Apache module that performs authentication
authorization against an LDAP server using several different means of
managing the authentication and authorization processes. The
distinguishing features of this implementation include the ability to
authenticate against an LDAP server that restricts the user from
reading the password and the implementation of Kerberos-based
authentication to connect to the LDAP server itself.
MozPlugger 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126116/
MozPlugger is a modification of Plugger, a very small multimedia plugin
for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera which uses
external programs to show and play many file formats. This modification
fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a player to
stream a media file directly from the URL.
myStats 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126173/
myStats is a full statistics system for Web sites, giving a lot of
information about people who visit your site, about search engines,
keywords, etc.
NewsBro 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126180/
NewsBro is a web-based application providing a Usenet newsreader
service. It supports multiple users, accessing multiple news groups on
multiple news servers. User profiles are maintained in order to allow
for individual news preferences. It is implemented as a Java program,
and requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit
(JDK) to be installed on the server system. Users only require a
standard web browser.
Nova Gaming System 0.57 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126112/
The Nova Gaming System is a framework for building online, Web-based,
turn-driven gaming systems. Using templates and language files, it is
able to power multiple types of games, whether fast-paced space trading
or slowly developing post-apocolyptic. The first game hosted on the
platform is "The Kabal Invasion", which is in active
development.
Orpheus 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126178/
Orpheus is a text-mode menu- and window- driven audio player
application for CDs, Ogg, and MP3. It can retrieve CDDB information for
compact discs with HTTP (even through a proxy), read ID tags from MP3
and Ogg files, and save and load playlists. The color schemes are
configurable.
OZradio 0.9.6.1 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126123/
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player and CD Player for KDE and GNOME. It
supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to
save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute
button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of
radio, and programmable recording.
p(y)layer 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126166/
p(y)layer is a jukebox style front end for mpg321 (or mpg123). Its main
feature is the ability to search for songs and queue them up for play.
If there are no songs queued, it will play a random song.
Perl CD Burning Script 0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126143/
Perl CD Burning Script is a Perl frontend for cdrtools and mkisofs. It
provides a simple and easy-to-use script for creating ISO-files and
burning them onto a CD.
pork 0.99.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126174/
pork is an ncurses-based AOL instant messenger client. It uses the
OSCAR protocol (the one the Windows client uses) to access AIM. Pork
features Perl scripting, an online help system, the ability to
configure nearly all aspects of the program's look and feel, an alias
system, and a powerful, fully configurable key binding system. It
supports being logged in with more than one screen name at the same
time. The default look and feel of the client is modeled after the
ircII IRC client. Anyone comfortable using ircII (or any clients
derived from it, e.g. epic, BitchX, etc.) will feel comfortable using
pork.
Recovery Is Possible! 53 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126139/
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or floppy
boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of
filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS,
MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of
utilities for system recovery. It also has Ethernet/DSL/cable network
support.
Scribus 0.9.11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126117/
Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an
easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as
professional as possible.
SendYmail 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126177/
SendYmail allows you to send email through Yahoo! Mail, using your
favorite mail client. It works as a gateway between the Yahoo! Mail Web
interface and your email program, and can be used in conjunction with
FetchYahoo or YoSucker to emulate a POP3/SMTP-like interface.
SiteBar 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126130/
SiteBar is a multi-user bookmark server that lets users view, add, and
maintain bookmarks from anywhere. It's intended as a Mozilla/Netscape
sidebar, but can also be used in a main browser window. SiteBar
provides infinite depth of folders, the ability to move anything to
anywhere else, and complete sharing of public items between users. It's
cross-browser compatible, features a tree-menu and context menus common
to file explorers, and supports FavIcons.
Sylpheed LCDProc Plugin 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126168/
Sylpheed LCDProc Plugin shows the number of new and unread messages in
an LCD display controlled by lcdproc. It requires Sylpheed Claws with
plugin support (0.8.11 or higher).
UDP Ping Logger 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126156/
Uplog is an UDP-based ping program that gives an ASCII graphical log of
packet loss. Once per second, it sends a UDP packet to the echo port of
the target host and waits for a reply. If it gets a reply an X is
written, otherwise a dot is written to the log file. If a packet with
an incorrect sequence number arrives, a colon is written to the log
file. By examining the log file, one can easily see when and how the
packet losses occur.
UnrealIRCd 3.2-beta17 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126160/
UnrealIRCd is an IRC daemon whose key features include full SSL
support, Trojan protection, and WebTV compatibility. It is a highly
stable and feature-packed IRC server daemon.
VDRadmin 0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126125/
VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via
HTTP. A small HTTP server is included.
WebCollab 1.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126119/
WebCollab is a collaborative Web site for project workgroups. It aims
to be easy and intuitive to use without being complicated or
graphically intensive.
XMMS Remote 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126172/
XMMS Remote is a two-part software solution that uses Web services to
remotely control and display the status of the XMMS media player. Its
two parts are a Cocoa application for OS X and a Perl script for Unix.
yudit 2.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126113/
Yudit is a Unicode text editor for the X Window System. It can do True
Type font rendering, printing, transliterated keyboard input, and
handwriting recognition with no dependencies on on external engines.
Its conversion utilities can convert text between various encodings.
Keyboard input maps can also act like text converters. There is no need
for a pre-installed multi-lingual environment. The menus are available
in many languages.
Zero Install 0.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126158/
The Zero Install system removes the need to install software or
libraries by running all programs from a network filesystem. The
filesystem in question is the Internet as a whole, with an aggressive
caching system to make it as fast as (or faster than) traditional
systems such as Debian's APT repository, and to allow for offline use.
It doesn't require any central authority to maintain it, and allows
users to run software without needing a root password.
Zope Group Calendar 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126142/
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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