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Sourceforge
phpDocumentor 1.2.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=290446

The phpDocumentor team is pleased to announce the release of
phpDocumentor 1.2.1. This is a bug fix release, all users who had
problems with 1.2.0 should upgrade. phpDocumentor is a complete
documentation solution for PHP. Generates javaDoc-style API
documentation and user-level manuals from your PHP code. Documentation
http://phpdoc.org/docs/ Release Notes
http://phpdocu.sourceforge.net/Release-1.2.1 ChangeLog
http://phpdocu.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog Download
http://phpdocu.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Xawdecode 1.7.0 is out
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292042

X11 TV application based on xawtv 2.x series which adds many
enhancements like Xvideo rendering support, deinterlacing, real time
divx recording, integrated alevt teletext browser and provides a plugin
API to add any functionnality one might think of. Hi everyone, here is
the last version of xawdecode: 1.7.0. this is the changelog:
xawdecode-1.7.0 (10/07/03) -------------------------- - Updated linear
blend deinterlace filter (Keuleu) - Fixed compilation issues with
gcc-3.3 (Keuleu) - Fixed mouse pointer and "stay on top" when
fullscreen is managed by window (Keuleu) manager rather than by
xawdecode it self - Take into account patch #743272: this patch correct
mute status lost added with patch #723853 (Thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -
Take into account patch #747690: When you have not defined senders, you
might get a segmentation fault (Thanks to WG (wgxxx)) - Take into
account patch alevt-1.6.1-koi8.patch : add support russian people. -
Update alevt sources 1.6.0 to 1.6.1 (Pingus) - Small modif. on CPU
detection disabled in configure.in (Pingus) - Take into account patch
#757363: prevent an avi file writing problem. When sound and video
threads try to access the avi file at the same time (Thanks to Alain
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Take into account patch #757797: add better sound
and video synchronization when an avi file is recording (Thanks to
Alain [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Update video recording module (Alain
[EMAIL PROTECTED]): - more clever gestion of the fps and the
synchronization (Parameter : fps and max. gap A/V) - maximal size of
avi file set to 4GB (ext2fs, ext3fs ou reiserfs) and set to 2 GB for
vfat partitions. When 4 GB (or 2 GB) is reached a new one is created. -
modifs to make compilation with NOAUDIO possible - stereo support
corrected. stereo option (to enable set achans to 2) (Parameter: Stereo
Mode) - synchronization algorithm modified (no duplicated frames, but
dropped video AND audio frames) - writing errors more managed. -
VARIABLE BITRATE audio mp3 support (Parameter: Bitrate) - Correction of
a bug: with ffmpeg, all the frames were keyframes (Alain) - Update DivX
GUI : add new buttons for Alain new options. (Pingus) - DivX GUI: add a
new button to quit the window (to answer to an old user request...)
(Pingus) - Add a shell script that make it easy to create the
configuration file xawdecoderc (Calimero). - Update the GUI: add a
scantv button in "Channel Editor" menu to launch scan.sh Calimero
script (Pingus) - Add a new wizard for dummies: xawdecode-wizard
(Pingus) - Change tempnam by mkdtemp into src/file.c (Alain) - Add new
options to launch xawdecode at startup (Alain): -rec_fps fps : set
recording framerate (default=25.0) -rec_display 0|1 : set display mode
during recording (default=1) -rec_width width : set width of the
recording video (default=384) -rec_videobr br : set recording video
bitrate to br kbit/s (default=800) -rec_mp3cbr br : activate MP3 CBR
and set bitrate to br kbit/s (default=activated, 128kbit/s) -rec_mp3vbr
quality : activate MP3 VBR and set compressing quality (0=best,
9=worst) (default=deactivated, quality=8) -rec_vcodec
xvid|ffmpeg_mpeg4|ffmpeg_mpeg1|divx4linux : set recording video codec
-rec_maxgap : set recording max gap between audio and video in seconds
(default = 0.08 second) -e \"cmd_1; cmd_2; cmd_3;...cmd_n : execute the
commands at the beginning of execution: With -e option you could
execute some commands at the xawdecode startup, like remote commands:
for example: xawdecode -e "setchannel France2; record" It switch to
France2 channel and begin the record. - dummy interface. (used when no
TV card is detected) (Alain) - common CFLAGS for all the files...
(Alain) - does not put IGAIN to 100% for ALSA09 users.... dans
src/mixer.c (Alain) - Add xawdecode_cmd and an help (Alain): With
command_cmd you could launch some instructions to xawdecode if one has
been launched. For example, it you want to launch a record at 1:00 am:
You just have to do: echo 'xawdecode_cmd "setchannel France2; record"'
| at 1:00 - Add support for latest divx codec 5.0.5 (20030428) (Bart)
Be careful, this codec is known to segfault on Pentium4 (bug from
divx.com!) - Take into account patch #766856: added -nowd option to
disable window decoration at startup, activation of OSD when window
decoration is disabled (Thanks to CuC). - Write divx parameters into
the configuration file xawdecoderc (Bart) - Fix segfault problems with
buttons into "channel editor" GUI (Pingus)

NDoc version 1.2 RC1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292056

The Release Candidate of the latest version of NDoc, the .NET Code
Documentation Generator, has been released. New since ndoc-devel v1.2
beta, NDoc now runs on mono. New since ndoc-devel v1.2 beta: - NDoc
runs on mono:: (on mono 0.25, only the Xml and JavaDoc documenter work
correctly). - New NAnt build process (requires NAnt 0.8.4 or above). -
More bug fixes. The new features since v1.1: - new HTML Help 2
documenter (beta version), - new HTML Linear documenter (alpha
version), - the MSDN documenter can now generate CHM or Online
documentation, - option to link to the .NET Framework SDK v1.0, v1.1 or
MSDN Online - support for Visual Studio 2003 and the .NET Framework
1.1, - plus many improvements and bug fixes... The NDoc v1.2 RC1 source
code is available for download at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36057

OpenSSI 0.9.8
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292099

OpenSSI leverages HP's NonStop Clusters for Unixware and various open
source technologies to provide a full, highly-available SSI (Single
System Image) clustering environment for Linux. Goals include
availability, scalability and manageability. The source code has been
completely reorganized. There are new instructions for installation.
This release features improvements to the OpenSSI-enhanced /dev
filesystem and LVS. Furthermore, it can now migrate processes linked to
libpthread, including Perl processes. See the release notes for more
details.

JFreeChart 0.9.9 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292034

A new version of JFreeChart has been released. JFreeChart is a class
library, written in Java, for generating charts. Utilising the Java2D
APIs, it currently supports bar charts, pie charts, line charts,
XY-plots and time series plots.

Slashdot
Howard Dean to Guest Blog for Lawrence Lessig
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1725210

[0]Ethanol writes "Starting Monday, Professor Lawrence Lessig (whom we
all remember from Eldred v. Ashcroft) is going on vacation, and his
[1]weblog will be [2]guest-hosted by Democratic presidential candidate
[3]Governor Howard Dean. Could this be a sign that a serious contender
for President (tied for first for the nomination in the latest polls)
has his head screwed on right about copyright law?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog
2. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_07.shtml#001348
3. http://www.deanforamerica.com/

GPS Slowly Changing How Things Are Done
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/172237

Hemos forwarded me a link to a story at [0]Fast Company about how
[1]GPS is changing the way people do business. Several good examples
are used, from farmers in Alabama to anti-theft devices. Some notes on
GPS' military origins as well. Also worth noting is how GPS, like
computers, wasn't adopted overnight, but rather over time as
applications were found.
Links
0. http://www.fastcompany.com/
1. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/72/gps.html

Evangelizing OSS in the Caribbean
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1635252

An anonymous reader writes "Here is an article on [0]NewsForge
regarding [1]evangelizing OSS in the Caribbean. I'm wondering what
others think of the impact efforts like this may have on software
development jobs in the US. Is IT still a viable field to get into and
if so will it last?"
Links
0. http://newsforge.com/
1. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/2356241

Solar Sail Will Work, says Planetary Society
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1624258

[0]degauss writes "In response to [1]Cornell Physicist Thomas Gold's
paper declaring the theroy behind solar sails flawed (previously
mentioned in [2]this Slashdot article), Louis Freedman, executive
director of the [3]Planetary Society (the organization behind the
[4]COSMOS project), has written [5]a brief rebuttal to the claims in
Dr. Gold's paper regarding the feasibility of solar sails for use as a
method of transportation in space. He does not go in to detail with
equations and such, but does give an overview of the reasons he
believes Gold's hypothesis is incorrect."
Links
0. http://sinnott1 AT pacbell DOT net
1. http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/html/physics/0306050
2. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1230209&tid=160
3. http://www.planetary.org/
4. http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/
5. http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/ss_and_physics.html

Technical Analysis of XBox Save Game Hack
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/166240

[0]DJPenguin writes "There is an excellent article at the [1]XBox Linux
Project that [2]describes exactly how the XBox savegame hack works. It
details how the author went to great lengths to hide exactly what was
going on. It turns out the exploit code is hidden within an image of
Tux himself!" An enlightening read, to say the least.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/
2. http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/articles.php?aid=2003189065649

"Augmented Reality" For the Assembly Line
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1555255

silkySlim writes "[0]EETimes has a short article about a [1]combination
data goggles and earpiece device to replace big manuals and reduce
training time for assembly line workers. 'In one possible scenario, a
technician with data goggles bends over the engine block of a luxury
car and removes the covering. He is receiving instructions through an
ear piece telling him what to do next while his data goggles mark the
screws and bolts on which he must next place his tool.' Apparently,
it's already in use by several automotive companies. There's some
[2]additional papers [3]also available."
Links
0. http://www.eetimes.com/
1. http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030707S0066
2.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354688&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=11111111&CFTOKEN=2222222&ret=1#Fulltext
3. http://www.computer.org/proceedings/ismar/1781/17810003.pdf

Gridwars Parallel Programming Challenge
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1531229

Peter_Pork writes "New Scientist has [0]an article about [1]GridWars, a
challenging new game that runs on large clusters of computers. Programs
fight each other for supremacy in terms of the number of processors
they control, and the main point of the contest is to develop better
parallel algorithms. It seems a nice idea: have fun while you improve
the state-of-the-art in cluster computing. The [2] result of the last
contest was somewhat of an upset, since a craftsmanly Russian program
defeated a sophisticated genetic algorithm from NASA."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993922
1. http://www.gridwars.com/
2. http://www.engineeredintelligence.com/gridwars/index.cfm

How to Jam a Worldwide Satellite TV Broadcast
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1453248

An anonymous reader submits: "According to an [0]MSNBC article, 'it's
simply a matter of aiming a strong signal at the uplink transponder on
the satellite and overwhelming the...broadcaster's signals...You need a
dish, some power, not too much. You put up a test pattern ... and do a
sweep and find the transponder on the satellite you want to jam. It
could even be smaller than the standard 6-meter dish. It could be a
small dish with a lot of power.' This was apparently how an [1]Iranian
satellite television station was knocked off of [2]Loral Skynet's
[3]TelStar-12 a few days ago. Loral contacted [4]TLS, a company which
specializes in satellite broadcast security, who quickly located the
source of the jamming to Cuba."
Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/936772.asp
1. http://www.nitv.tv/
2. http://www.loralskynet.com/
3. http://www.loralskynet.com/fleet/telstar12/t12ov_us.asp
4. http://www.tls2000.com/Site/Equip.html

Xbox Hackers, Linux, the DMCA, And Modchips
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1256228

[0]HardcoreGamer writes "The [1]New York Times has a long article on
Xbox hacking, why Microsoft hates it, and who does it ([2]Google).
'Xbox hackers are exploiting Microsoft's business model, which is to
sell Xbox hardware at a loss...' but Microsoft doesn't make the money
back on software -- as it planned to -- if you decide to load up Xbox
Linux. Where else can you get a PIII-733 with graphics and audio for
$180? The reporter talked to the IDSA; [3]Andrew Huang, author of
'Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering'; a Manhattan
exec who hacked his Xbox and said 'The reality is that if you could
bypass Microsoft's operating system you would end up with a fairly
powerful computer for less than $200;' and others. The article
discusses the [4]DMCA, [5]modchips, the [6]Xbox Linux Project and lots
more. A good -- if long -- read. A [7]shorter version of the story is
at the [7]International Herald Tribune. Best quote? 'Microsoft is a
company passionate about innovation and creativity. We are also very
committed to respect for others' intellectual property and we request
the same respect applied to our innovations.'"
Links
0. http://127.0.0.1
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/10/technology/circuits/10xbox.html?pagewanted=all
2.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/10/technology/circuits/10xbox.html?ex=1058414400&en=4b3cf19c27e22937&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
3. http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/26/1454249&tid=137
4. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0115228&tid=137
5. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/22/0057216&tid=211
6. http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php
7. http://www.iht.com/articles/102517.html

Zen And The Art of Nomad Hacking
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/12/1248246

[0]securitas writes "[1]ExtremeTech just published a step-by-step
how-to guide on [1]hacking the Nomad Zen and Nomad Jukebox to upgrade
the hard drive in each type of MP3 player. So if a 60 GB hard disk
isn't big enough for you (20 GB on the older models) here's how to mod
your Nomad."
Links
0. http://geartest.com
1. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1186827,00.asp

Freshmeat
Another Debian Wallpaper 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129047/

Another Debian Wallpaper is a rusted background with a tribute to
Debian GNU/Linux.

autopackage 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129095/

autopackage is a package manager for Linux that is intended to sort out
RPM hell by making it much easier to create distribution-neutral
packages that can be downloaded and run, a la InstallShield. It has
several advantages over both the RPM approach and the Windows
installer-stub system. Although the packages are &quot;smart&quot; and
can adapt to the computer on which they are installing, there is
minimal overhead involved on the package itself. Using autopackage, you
can create .package files and link them to the autopackage network for
easy installation using a distributed apt-style system. These packages
also have many other powerful features not found in other systems.

BG-Rescue Linux 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129046/

BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox 0.60.5 and uClibc 0.9.19 based rescue
system with kernel 2.4.21. It is loaded either from two floppy disks or
from one 2.8MB El Torito CD. The system runs entirely in RAM. It has
full IDE/ATAPI support (including disk, cdrom, tape, and floppy). NFS
mounts are possible. Support is included for several recent ISA/PCI,
USB, PCMCIA, and PLIP network adaptors. Supported Filesystems are
ext2/3, Reiserfs, cramfs, devfs, iso9660, minix, MS-DOS, NFS, NTFS
(read), proc, smbfs, tmpfs, UDF, UMSDOS, and vfat. Software raid (0, 1,
4, 5, and linear), LVM, and USB keyboards are supported. Additional
included programs are: e2fsprogs 1.33, reiserfsprogs 3.6.8, lilo
22.5.4, dosfstools, cramfs, umsdos-utils, fdisk, gpart, mdadm, lphdisk,
smbclient, bzip2, cabextract, zip/unzip, loadlin, and pcmcia-cardmgr.

bindery2ldif 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129090/

bindery2ldif is a Perl script that uses the nwbols, nwboprops, and
nwbpvalues commands from the ncpfs package to query the NetWare Bindery
and export all the data as an LDIF file. It should be possible to
import this data into a LDAP server.

Bioperl 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129069/

Bioperl is set of Perl Modules for bioinformatics. It contains objects
for Sequences, features on Sequences, and other important
bioinformatics attributes.

CDemu Kernel Module for Linux 0.5.0 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129051/

CDemu (previously Virtual CD Kernel Module for Linux) is a kernel
module for Linux which can simulate a CD drive that contains a CD. It
uses simple cue/bin files as input for the data that should appear on
the virutal disc. It includes a user space program which controls the
kernel module. This is primarily useful for watching an SVCD or
mounting the data track of a bin/cue CD image without burning the data
to a real CD.

cdinsert and cdlabelgen 2.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129058/

cdlabelgen is a Perl script that generates printouts suitable for use
as CD jewel case inserts or CD envelopes. Both normal sized cases and
slim cases are handled. cdlabelgen can be used to create table of
contents for music CDs, archival CDs, etc., with customizable logos or
background images, and it generates PostScript files as output. The
package also includes a Perl CGI Web script which accepts JPEG images
as logos or backgrounds, and can also create PDF output files.

checkpassword-pam 0.96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129060/

checkpassword-pam is an implementation of a PAM- based
checkpassword-compatible authentication program, but is more modern and
administrator- friendly.

ClassiCollect 0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129053/

ClassiCollect is an SQL schema and data entry frontend specifically
designed for cataloging a Classical CD collection. The frontend is
designed to require as little typing as possible on the user's part,
with reference tables for quick selection of composer, title, label,
etc.

ColorDesigner 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129072/

ColorDesigner is a small app which lets the user design a color set.

Computer Audio CD Car Player HOWTO 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129012/

Computer Audio CD Car Player HOWTO explains how you can connect an old
computer CD drive to your car to have a nice working CD audio system.

convmv 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129059/

convmv converts filenames (not file content), directories, and even
whole filesystems to a different encoding. This comes in very handy if,
for example, one switches from an 8-bit locale to an UTF-8 locale. It
has some smart features: it automagically recognises if a file is
already UTF-8 encoded (thus partly converted filesystems can be fully
moved to UTF-8) and it also takes care of symlinks. Additionally, it is
able to convert from normalization form C (UTF-8 NFC) to NFD and
vice-versa. This is important for interoperability with Mac OS X, for
example, which uses NFD, while Linux and most other Unixes use NFC.
Though it's primary written to convert from/to UTF-8 it can also be
used with almost any other charset encoding. Note that this is a
command line tool which requires at least Perl version 5.8.0.

Critical Mass 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129109/

Critical Mass (Critter) is an SDL/OpenGL space shoot'em up game. Your
world has been infested by an aggressive army of space critters.
Overrun and unprepared, your government was unable to defend its
precious resources. As a last effort to recapture some of the
'goodies', you have been placed into a tiny spacecraft and sent after
them.

CWirc 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129110/

CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code
over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted
Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients
with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio
rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can
listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code
is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial
port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the
soundcard.

DansGuardian 2.7.1-4 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129104/

DansGuardian is a Web content filtering proxy that uses Squid to do all
the fetching. It filters using multiple methods including, but not
limited to, phrase matching, file extension matching, MIME type
matching, PICS filtering, and URL/domain blocking. It has the ability
to switch off filtering by certain criteria including username, domain
name, source IP, etc. The configurable logging produces a log in an
easy to read format. It has the option to only log text-based pages,
thus significantly reducing redundant information (such as every image
on a page).

DansGuardian 2.6.1-3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129103/

DCTC 0.85.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129048/

DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the
direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.

digiquest 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129067/

digiquest is a system for creating and distributing electronic
questionnaires, surveys, and forms to collect data from people who fill
them out by answering the given questions. Beside different types of
questions, there is a flexible and extendable condition-based system to
check answers and control the flow of displayed questions.
Questionnaires and answers can be stored in different formats (XML,
database), and different platforms (desktop, Web servers, PDAs) are
supported.

Flightdeck-UI 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129086/

Flightdeck-UI is a project that utilizes the ideas in the design of
aircraft controls and instruments for creating general purpose user
interfaces. The project includes the Multi-Variable Monitor (MVM)
application and a Tkinter widget library. The MVM application provides
a graphical editor with theme support for quickly creating
Flightdeck-UI control panels. Several such panels are included as
examples. It is not necessary to write code in order to use MVM. For
those wishing to do so, however, plug-in modules are very easy to
develop. A number of such modules are provided in the distribution.

FreeBSD-boot-rescue 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129073/

FreeBSD-boot-rescue is a small FreeBSD system for the purpose of system
booting or repairing a boot/rescue system. You can put it on a CD or
floppy and boot it. It has support for many filesystems (ext2, ufs1/2,
ntfs, nfs, msdos, and iso9660).

giFT project 0.11.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129112/

giFT is a framework for bridging multiple backend peer-to-peer
protocols and the user interface associated with them. It is
implemented as a modular daemon able to handle multiple simultaneous
client connections using a simple text-based interface protocol.

Gkrellfah2 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129108/

Gkrellfah2 is a plugin for GkrellM 2.0 that monitors and controls the
Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] client. It features configurable text output,
monitoring of CPU usage, configurable command execution, and automatic
fetching of new workunits for modem users.

GTK Monitor 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129091/

GTK Monitor is a very basic PyGTK system monitor with date/time, CPU
utilization, and network activity shown in the titlebar. The main
window also provides used space on the mounted partitions, used memory,
POP account monitoring, and a run box to execute a command. It is
useful for those minimalist window managers that do not provide a clock
or system load applets but have a taskbar, such as blackbox or fluxbox
and windowlab. System load can be monitored through the titlebar text
inherited by the taskbar, effectively adding a monitoring area to it.

Gv4l 2.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129101/

Gv4l is a v4l (Video4Linux) frontend of transcode used to watch and/or
record from a v4l-capable device. The v4l device streams can be
recorded in both raw and encoded format, such as DivX.

Gwine 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129068/

Gwine is a GNOME wine cellar manager written in Perl.

Java FileMover 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129094/

The FileMover is a tool which allows you to mass rename and move files
in your preferred operating system using regular expressions. This
program has been inspired by mmv, a famous Unix tool.

Kanatest 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129097/

Kanatest is a simple, GTK 2-based kana drill tool. It offers three
drill modes: hiragana, katakana, and mixed mode. The tester shows
random kana characters and waits until you enter the romaji equivalent
in an entry field. At the end, statistics are provided.

KisMAC 0.05c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129083/

KisMAC is a stumbler application for Mac OS X that puts your card into
monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X, it is completely
invisible and sends no probe requests.

KMD 0.9.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129102/

KMD is a multi-processor debugger. It can debug with hardware boards
over serial ports or with software emulators (ARM and MIPS emulators
are included in the project). Using the pipe option you can debug over
the network or any other communication medium. It can load many
executable formats such as ELF, and display and follow the original
source even from multiple source file programs. There is support for
breakpoints and watchpoints which can trap on specific data (such as
loading or executing specific instructions). Support for other features
such as FPGA's is also available, allowing loading or any control
required to drive a specific hardware device. The project uses chump to
allow disassembly and line assembly. Chump also allows new
architectures to be easily added without the need to recompile the
system. Communication with the backend is done using two pipes/fifos
using a simple set of codes. Back end communication program can be
created using very little memory on the target device.

LinuxTrade 3.48 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129063/

LinuxTrade is a curses (text-based) implementation of the Scottrader
Java application, plus additional features inspired by the excellent
MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own set of unique
features. It is lightweight, yet full featured. It can save a session
to a file and replay it. It has portfolios, real time quotes, charts
with live updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical
indicators, top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, and Level
2 market depth indications from Archipelago and the Island Book.

LiquidIRCd Services 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129075/

LiquidIRCd Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC
networks. It was specially developed for the LiquidIRCd daemon, and
includes features like channel management for special IRCd
implemetations (such as Founder, Protect, HalfOP, and UOP). It also has
MySQL support.

mailbox_reader 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129056/

mailbox_reader is a Python module providing two classes: Mailbox, a
file-like object that iterates through the contents of a mailbox, and
Email, an object which holds the individual emails returned by Mailbox.
This module has been written with simplicity in mind, and low memory
consumption.

MailSleuth Email Management Package June03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129061/

Mailsleuth is an email content management system. It is intended that
one day it may match the features of commercial products such as
MimeSweeper from Baltimore. It is designed for large companies or
Service Providers.

Maxbox2 Blackbox 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129040/

Maxbox2 Blackbox is a theme based on the macbox theme. It is simple,
fast, and looks good with either Ximian's Industrial theme or Red Hat's
Bluecurve.

MIB Smithy 2.3a5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129096/

MIB Smithy is an application for SNMP developers, MIB designers, and
Internet-draft authors. It provides a GUI-based environment for
designing, editing, and compiling MIB modules according to the SMIv1
and SMIv2 standards. It accelerates the development process by
providing an easy-to-use GUI environment for designing, editing, and
compiling SNMP MIB specifications without the syntax and formatting
concerns of designing MIBs by hand. It includes a number of built-in
basic SNMP management tools, XML support, and (with MIB Smithy
Professional) support for custom compiler output formats.

mod_auth_bsd 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129092/

mod_auth_bsd is an Apache module which provides HTTP Basic
authentication via the BSD Authentication framework as available in
OpenBSD.

NanoBlogger 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129070/

NanoBlogger is a small Weblog engine written in bash that's completely
commandline driven. It features easy editing and management of entries,
customizable templates, archiving, permalinks and RSS syndication. It
keeps &quot;clippings&quot; of all your entries for extra portability
and modularity. It doesn't require any kind of JavaScript, server-side
scripting, or server-side includes.

NSS MySQL Library 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129087/

The NSS MySQL Library provides MySQL authentication for Unix systems
with NSS, so that Unix accounts can be stored in a MySQL database
instead of /etc/passwd. Its biggest highlight is extremely flexible
database design. It is also fully thread- and fork-safe.

openSkat 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129100/

OpenSkat is an cryptographically secure implementation of the german
card game Skat for multiple players over IRC (Internet Relay Chat). The
fairness is based on several zero-knowledge-proofs from Christian
Schindelhauers research paper &quot;A Toolbox for Mental Card
Games&quot;. It has a graphical user interface based on xskat 3.4. The
modified sources are included and require an X11 environment.

PackdDir utils 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129080/

PackdDir utils is a collection of utilities that can unpack PackdDir
archives. PackdDir files are famous for being the archive format of
Quake (I and II).

PTlink IRCd 6.15.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129079/

The PTlink IRC daemon integrates some of the most advanced features
needed to manage an IRC network into the stable core from Hybrid IRCd.
It is fully integrated with PTlink IRC Services and PTlink Open Proxy
Monitor, providing a great platform for anyone starting an IRC network.

PTlink Services 2.23.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129077/

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.

quizz 1.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129105/

quizz is a comprehensive Perl-based solution for online surveys, course
tests, quiz-based games, or Web polls.

rawdog 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129076/

rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. It uses Mark
Pilgrim's feed parser. It runs from cron, collects articles from a
number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest
articles in date order. It supports per-feed customizable update times,
and uses ETags, Last-Modified, and gzip compression to minimize network
bandwidth usage.

Relffuhs 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129111/

Relffhus is a playlist for Noatun that handles random play order
better. It uses weighting factors for each song in the list to make
sure that the most recently played songs are least likely to be played
next.

ReMedial 0.2.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129093/

Remedial aims to be an easy-to-use player for streaming media files
under Linux. It is a frontend to the excellent avifile library, and
provides a look and feel similar to that of RealPlayer.

Software Suspend 1.0-pre2 (2.4 Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129057/

swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM or
BIOS support. It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps.
At the next system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores
the memory from it and then it continues to run as before you've
suspended.

Software Suspend 1.0pre1 (2.4 Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129044/

stresslinux 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129088/

stresslinux is a minimal Linux distribution that runs from a bootable
CDROM or via PXE. It makes use of some utitlities such as stress,
cpuburn, hddtemp, lm_sensors, etc. It is dedicated to users who want to
test their system(s) entirely on high load and monitor the health of
these systems.

Support Information Tracker 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129065/

Support Information Tracker is a knowledge base for organizations.
Features include multiple document versions, group permissions,
document submission reviews, and many more.

Sylpheed 0.9.3claws (Claws)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129066/

Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost
all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many
features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display,
and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully
internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll
be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.

valtz 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129049/

Valtz is a simple tool that can be used for validating and filtering
tinydns-data (djbdns) zonefiles. It can be used both as an
error-finding tool by end users and by automated scripts to filter out
errors. Additionally, it can be used to filter out domain-specific data
that does not belong in a given file. Thus, importing zone information
from third parties, semi-trusted parties, and sloppy users can be done
without fear.

Vapour Liquid Equilibrium 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129043/

Vapour Liquid Equilibrium (VLE) is a Java application that simulates
various VLE calculations including bubble point, dew point, flash
point, and Pxy and Txy diagrams. It supports user defined methods for
activity and fugacity calculations.

vnStat 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129106/

vnStat is a console-base network traffic monitor that keeps a log of
daily and monthly network traffic for the selected interface. However,
it isn't a packet sniffer. The traffic information is analyzed from the
/proc -filesystem, so that vnStat can be used without root permissions.

whoischk 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129071/

whoischk monitors a list domains which you are interested in
registering once they become available, and will notify you of any
change in the status of those domains. Once configured correctly,
whoischk will send you an email whenever it finds whois data for a
particular domain has changed--this change could be that the domain has
become available for you to register, or (in the case of .uk domains)
that it has been suspended for non-payment, or even that the listed
nameservers for the domain have changed.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Statistics 20030712
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129082/

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Statistics generates various statistics
out of ET server log files in HTML format. ETS is single executable
utility and only requires Perl.

WWW::Extractor 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129045/

WWW::Extractor is a Perl library which implements a semi-automated
method for extracting records from an HTML file. You take the file and
markup one record. WWW::Extractor then runs through the file and does
pattern matching on the HTML tags to attempt to pull out all of the
records from the file and dump them into Perl hashes. This is very
useful for screen scraping. A sample script in included.

X-Itools pre3-0.6.00 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129054/

The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to
products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of
several modules, and this project has been under development for
several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a
flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges
manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt
things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public
vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country
profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and
outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module.

xStats 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129078/

xStats is a script generating statistics for xMule and also a dynamic
graphic online signature. The design was taken from Blacklotus Online
Sig.

Slashcode
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1816237

All things come to an end and its been a wonderful ride. Today is my
last day at OSDN and this will be the last thing I will be posting on
Slashcode. It has been fun working on Slash for the last few years and
I have enjoyed working with the Slash community (tf32, ACS, vladinator,
ericdano, and many more that I am forgetting). On Monday I start work
for MySQL so I will be a bit busy for a while but I expect you will
still see Slash stuff coming from me in the future. I will continue to
be in #slash for a while, and you can still always reach me via email.
The best of luck with you and your sites, it has been great!

Spottedrabbit.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1756251

After much kicking and screaming, yet another Slash Site! The Spotted
Rabbit with news and events for Sussex County NJ, and Orange County,
NY. It still looks a lot like basic slash, but I'm new to this, and
we're working on it! --Ken Hall

Multiple Instances
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1543202

Please indulge a beginner. I currently have slashcode setup on a single
domain with its own IP address (wwwntm.biz) for testing purposes. Here
is my dilemma. I am setting up a community similar to yahoo/geocities.
It will be www.newthoughtcommunity.net and the individual communities
will be sub-domains of this domain ex;
community1.newthoughtcommunity.net, community2.newthoughtcommunity.net
etc Residents of the communities will be set up as users ex;
http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user1,
http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user2 etc. Directory is:
/home /newthoughtcommunity /community1 /community2 I know that slash
can be setup with virtual domains, but can sub domains have there own
instance. I need each community to have their own slash. Also. When I
set up a new instance of slash for a virtual domain, do I use the same
database and administrator with a new virtual user when I run
DBI::Password? Thank you for any help you can offer John --John Macuga

section as subdomain (2.2.5 based install)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1444236

Hello, I have a slashcode version 2.2.5(*) based site under my command,
for which an extension is planned, that would fit well in an isolated
(isolate=1) section with a few modified templates put in the
section-page (like header;etc;default). I managed to configure a second
virtual host that uses the same SlashVitualUser directive as the
main-server with the sectionname as subdomain (etc.myslash.company),
overriding the rootdir-variable using SlashSetVar and enforcing the
section using SlashSetForm: SlashSetVar rootdir //etc.myslash.company
SlashSetForm section etc Everything works fine so far... I just
wondered if it is safe to use the same slash-site (db and all) within
two virtual-hosts. And I wondered the more if there isn't an easier way
to accomplish this. As far as I understood mod_perl there shouldn't be
any problem, but asking the masters seldom hurts but the professional
pride... * I did fix the released security-holes!. tia,kind regards
tomte

Barrapunto.com see the light with 2.2.6
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/150251

It has been hard, but after playing a little with all the
configuration, we have reached a good balance in Barrapunto.com and now
our users are very happy, the journals start to be filled with contents
and the editors now are more active. We feel that the key was to serve
the images from a differente machine, something that points to
saturation in the connections for our main machine. Now the performance
is very good with 70.000 pages/day and a PIII with 1 GB RAM with Slash
and MySQL and a simple PC serving the images.

Translation Guide?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/198224

Is there any guide on how to translate slashcode (interface, at least
the one seen by the users) to some other language? Is the slashcode
written so that can be easily translated to some other languages (UTF-8
not required) ? Thanks!

Yet Another Security Site
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/174230

YASS should probably stand for "Yet another Security Site" LOL. I've
been playing around with slash for about a week now, and finally have
the beginnings of a site running. Feel free to pop in, drop some
comments, break stuff and generally see what goes. The more
participation I see, the more work I'll put into making it a nice site.
A good name might help... now there's an idea for a poll.

Democracy Now!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/22/176211

Democracy Now! a U.S. based morning TV and radio news program launched
it new site, based on a heavily modified cvs version of slash. (Hacked
together and hosted by openflows.) As they become more comfortable with
the system, and people on staff there get the hang of how slash works,
we hope to add in the more community/interactive features of slash. For
now it is simply a content management system, in the future it will
become much more. In just the first few days the traffic and audience
response has been overwhelming. stats from the second day the site was
live: IPIDs Pages 11193 55190

Advice on setting up a new site
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1512203

I am trying to use Slash to set up an events-based discussion forum.
Ideally I'd like it to be hosted by a turn-key hosting company with
fairly punctual customer support. My internet connections are either
behind a firewall or 56k modem, so speedy shell access is out of the
question. Ideally the host would be friendly towards freedom of
information and healthily disrespectful of authority (the site will NOT
contain anything illegal, links or insight to anything illegal, but
will be acting against the policy of a well-funded British institution
whose ground-floor members support and are behind it). I would rather
the host didn't drop me just because 'someone' asked them to. Who would
you recommend for this? I'd like to modify Slash slightly by arranging
it around the date of the event, rather than the posting date. Would it
be as simple as an extra data entry and changing a couple of lines of
code, or would that go against everything Slash is designed to do?
Thanks for your help.

Request for BLOB/Image Modifications
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2227225

I'm really happy with how the BLOB support in slash is working. I can
now add images and files, and I move the select level up so registered
users can only access files. It's great. I'd like to see how hard it
would be to have Krow or someone add in placement tags for images. So
you can "ALIGN=LEFT" or Right images and the like. Thanks!

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