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Cube Goodies: Desktop Retro Wind-ups
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Cube Goodies: The Red Swingline Stapler
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Cube Goodies: Futurama Tin Signs
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Gadgets: USB Memory Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60a3/
Gadgets: FM Radio Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60bf/
Interests: Broken Miho Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6188/
Interests: Ph34r t3h Cute Ones Poster
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Caffeine: Shock Triple Mocha
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Caffeine: Chargers Caffeinated Espresso Beans
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Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fd7/
PC Mods: ThermalTake SubZero CPU Coolers
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Cube Goodies: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 bumper sticker
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Cube Goodies: hacker. bumper sticker
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Gadgets: USB Memory Watch
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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
DMCA-Alikes Sweep Europe
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/0229253
D4C5CE writes "The number of [0]European countries enacting their
ignorance of the sad experiences from [1]Four Years under the DMCA has
just risen to 5, as the Upper House ([2]Bundesrat, incidentally) of the
German Parliament on Friday [3]failed to veto (sorry, some press
releases are only available in heavily spin-doctored German Legalese at
this point in time) and is hence [4]considered to have consented to the
[5]adoption by the Lower House ([6]Bundestag) of a [7]federal law
implementing the dreaded DMCA's European sibling known as [8]EU
Copyright Directive [9]2001/29/EC." Read on for more on the copyright
laws being considered around the EU.
Links
0. http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status
1. http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030102_dmca_unintended_consequences.html
2. http://www.bundesrat.de/Englisch/aktuell/TO-sitz.html
3. http://www.bundesrat.de/pr/pr126_03.html
4.
http://eng.bundesregierung.de/dokument/The_Federal_Government/Function_and_constitutional_basis/Basic_Law/VII._Legislative_Powers_of_the_Federation/ix6102_.htm?script=0
5. http://www.fr-aktuell.de/ressorts/wissen/netzwerk/?cnt=243808
6. http://www.bundestag.de/mdb15/wkmap/index.html
7. http://privatkopie.net/files/pk_english.htm
8. http://www.eucd.org/issues/eucd/
9.
http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32001L0029&model=guichett
Gaming Site Reviews.. Real Life?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/0149250
jbp8 writes: "There's an article on GameSpot [0]reviewing the ultimate
MMOG - real life!" The article gives real life an Editor's Choice
award, focusing on issues such as leveling up ("Typically, a character
will learn of the numerous viable career paths available by undergoing
schooling. This can be a long and tedious process, equivalent to the
sort of 'level treadmill' monotony that characterizes almost all
MMORPGs") and player death ("..a serious issue in real life, and cause
for continued debate among players, who often direct unanswerable
questions on the subject to the game's developers.")
Links
0.
http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/gamespotting/071103minusworld/1.html
American Solar Challenge 2003 Starts
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/0056247
[0]Ryan Kingsbury writes "The world's longest solar car race kicked off
to a sunny start today in Chicago! The American Solar Challenge, which
is only held every two years, runs 11 gruelling days along historic
Route 66. Race updates can be found at [1]the official site. One big
surprise was that last year's winner (University of Michigan) didn't
make it through prerace qualifications. This will certainly give some
lower budget teams a chance at gold. Details of [2]qualifications can
be found here."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.formulasun.org/asc/
2. http://www.formulasun.org/asc/tech/asc2003regs03-03-13.pdf
In Pursuit Of A Spammer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/0058238
[0]Kyle writes "Over at [1]DSL Reports, We are currently pursuing a
spammer from the West Palm Beach, Florida area. This wouldn't normally
be news, but we think Slashdot readers may be interested in just how
successful we have been. What's more interesting is that the spammer
appears to be posting in [2]the thread."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.dslreports.com/
2. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7369182~root=spam~mode=flat;start=0
Online Voting In 2004 To Require Windows
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1957243
letxa2000 writes "According to [0]this article at CBS, a trial Internet
voting system will be made available to 100,000 voters in
2004--particularly military and overseas U.S. citizens. As an American
living overseas I think this is a step in the right direction. But the
article also says 'Voters using SERVE can register to vote and cast
their ballots from any computer using Microsoft Windows with Internet
access.' Why the Windows requirement? Is that really going to make
online voting secure?"
Links
0. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/12/politics/main562983.shtml
PeopleSoft Deflects Oracle Takeover, So Far
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/2031255
[0]SuperDuG send a link to this [1]Reuters report on the Oracle's
takeover bid for PeopleSoft, specifically questioning [2]Oracle's
committment to [3]PeopleSoft. SuperDuG writes: "[4]A letter from CEO
Craig Conway states 'Five days following our announcement we learned of
a hostile bid by Oracle Corperation to acquire PeopleSoft. Incredibly,
Oracle made it clear their intention was to discontinue all PeopleSoft
products, ultimately forcing customers to convert to Oracle's
application and database.' Seems the dirt is being slung by both sides
and the SEC is about to takeover and decide if this is even legal under
anti-trust laws."
Links
0. http://www.dugnet.com
1. http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=3080623
2. http://www.oracle.com/peoplesoft/index.html?0627_psftcust.html
3. http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/ent_strat/articles/jdedwards.jsp
4. http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/about/conwaysletter.jsp
Apple Tries to Patent Fast User Switching
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/194256
[0]Ashcrow writes "An [1]article from The Register points out Apple's
attempt to patent [2]fast user switching. It seems that [3]Steve Jobs
admits that Microsoft beat them to the punch but believes [4]Panther's
implementation is superior."
Links
0. http://www.gnulinux.net
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/31702.html
2. http://www.theeldergeek.com/fast_user_switching.htm
3. http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jobs.html
4. http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther
MP3 Creator On Sharing Music
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/178212
[0]EpsCylonB writes "The BBC has an article about [1]Karlheinz
Brandenburg, who is one of the creators of the MP3 music format.
Interestingly he comments that he doesn't like Napster, he thinks that
people should have easier access to music but that artists should get
paid for what they do."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3059775.stm
Linux-Controlled Segway Robot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1618240
[0]ptorrone writes "It was just a matter of time until the Segway
technology would be used as a robotics platform. [1]University of
Southern California Robotics Lab's Segway RMP (Robotic Mobility
Platform) has a lot of great information if you're looking to convert a
Segway to a robot. [2]On the site there are videos as well as
instruction on how to [3]build your own." Update: 07/13 21:30 GMT by
[4]T: Dr. Andrew Howard writes with an important clarification about
the project: "This is *not* a standard Segway HT that we have converted
to robotics applications. Rather, this is a customized, limited
production unit that has been specially modified by the manufacturer.
The web-site does *not* show how to convert an existing Segway HT into
a robotic platform."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus painter
1. http://www-robotics.usc.edu/
2. http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/player/segwayrmpvideos.html
3. http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/player/segwayrmphowto.html
4. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
Watch For A New Set Of CyberSecurity Laws
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/1651215
[0]SuperDuG writes "According to a [1]story on PCWorld.com the
Congressional subcommittee dealing with cybersecurity will be
researching and legislating new cybersecurity laws. The Chair, [2]Adam
[3] Putnam says 'We want to put something out there that makes sense,
that's balanced, that accomplishes the same goals, without it being
this headlong rush to prove that we're doing something for our
constituents because we were asleep at the switch when there was this
digital Pearl Harbor.' Perhaps it wouldn't hurt if we all took a part
and [4]Contacted Representative Putnam about how well thought out other
cybersecurity laws like the DMCA have 'helped out' and were 'thought
out.' At least they're actually thinking before they legislate, and it
seems they're open for suggestions."
Links
0. http://www.dugnet.com
1. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111535,00.asp
2. http://www.house.gov/putnam/
3. http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00009618&cycle=2002
4. http://putnam.smartlizard.com/pages/contact.html
Freshmeat
Advanced Assembler 0.9.0beta-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129166/
Aasm is an advanced modular assembler designed to support several
target architectures. It has been designed to be easily extended. Its
global architecture takes advantages of dynamic libraries to provide
input, assembler and output modules. The input module supports Intel
syntax (like nasm, tasm, masm, etc.). The x86 assembler module supports
all opcodes up to P6 including MMX, SSE and 3DNow! extensions. F-CPU
and SPARC assembler modules are under development. Several output
modules are available for ELF, COFF, IntelHex, and raw binary formats.
Advanced features include symbol scopes, an expressions engine, big
integer support, macro capability, and numerous and accurate warning
messages (over 300).
Ark Linux 1.0-0.alpha8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129137/
Ark Linux is a desktop linux distribution that is aimed primarily at
new Linux users. It is intended to be extremely easy to use while still
being technically sound.
Aurea 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129107/
Aurea is a theme with a sculpted head. The background is by David Camp.
bash programmable completion 20030713 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129124/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend
its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with
just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to
complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3
str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the
UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported
file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would
complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to
produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX
commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need
to do on a daily basis.
Bontmia 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129127/
Bontmia is a network-based backup tool that saves configurable numbers
of last month, week, day, hour, and minute backups. Each backup is a
complete snapshot of the original directories, and only new and changed
files take up space when generating snapshots because of the use of
hard links. Remote access is secure by using SSH. Only changes are
transferred, which makes for a fast backup.
buildpkg 0.0.2r28e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129139/
Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to
create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def)
which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be
also used to track installations and create packages of the installed
files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this
mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable)
list of programs and the installation will be done here. Besides Linux,
Solaris/SunOS, and FreeBSD packages are also supported.
Coyote Linux 2.2.1 (GUI Disk Creator)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129125/
Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for setting up network
utility services such as Internet connection sharing, firewalling, or
wireless access points. The goal of the Coyote project is to make it as
quick and easy as possible to set up a Linux floppy, and to require a
minimal amount of Linux knowledge to do so.
Coyote Linux 2.01 (Floppy Firewall - Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129123/
Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for setting up network
utility services such as Internet connection sharing, firewalling, or
wireless access points. The goal of the Coyote project is to make it as
quick and easy as possible to set up a Linux floppy, and to require a
minimal amount of Linux knowledge to do so.
CPSSkins 0.9pre11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129146/
CPSSkings is an intuitive skin management system for the Nuxeo
Collaborative Portal Server. It can be configured through the Web, and
every element can be selected among a list of visual previews. Over 250
stylesheet parameters are addressed individually, and all modifications
are instantaneous. CSS level 2 is used extensively on browsers that
support it, but older and text-based browsers are also supported
through a simplified stylesheet generated on the fly.
CVS 1.11.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129120/
CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions
of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why
changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. Unlike the simpler systems,
CVS does not just operate on one file at a time or one directory at a
time, but operates on hierarchical collections of directories
consisting of version controlled files. CVS helps to manage releases
and to control the concurrent editing of source files among multiple
authors. CVS allows triggers to enable/log/control various operations
and works well over a wide area network.
distccKNOPPIX 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129145/
distccKNOPPIX is a directly bootable and self- configuring Linux system
on a small ISO running a distccd daemon. It is a simple remastering of
Damn Small Linux running a distccd daemon and some general cleaning
up/removal of unneeded packages/ apps.
DocTaur 0.88 (Small)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129153/
DocTaur is a searchable directory of reference manuals, which you can
freely download, install, and administrate on your local Linux intranet
server. It is based on the ht://Dig search engine and contains
reference manuals for developers.
Download machine 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129142/
Download Machine is pure Java daemon that watches queue files for
changes. If a new entry is available. DM will download it. Queue files
are just URL lists.
File Service Protocol 2.8.1 beta 7 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129143/
FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many
benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable
on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind
firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not
overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem
lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from
your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active
continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years).
floppyfw 2.0.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129131/
floppyfw is a router and simple firewall on one single floppy. It uses
Linux basic firewall capabilities, and has a very simple packaging
system. It is perfect for masquerading and securing networks on ADSL
and cable lines, using both static IP, DHCP, and PPPoE, and provides a
simple installation, which usually involves editing of only one file on
the floppy.
gmorgan 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129165/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It
features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
Hash Zip 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128909/
Hash Zip is a compression algorithm that trades CPU time for
compression ratio (emphasis on a lot of CPU time) using a hash and a
few other interesting bits of data. Currently, sha1 is the hash
algorithm.
HelpExplorer 1.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129133/
HelpExplorer is a full-featured help system for Linux. It is
customizable and can be easily integrated into applications. It
features full support of the WinHelp help file format and enables the
use of the same help files to be used on Windows and Linux.
Highlight 2.0-4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129156/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX
converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It
supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more
programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing
database.
JSecureTunneling 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129152/
JSecureTunneling is a Java SSH client that is entirely oriented toward
the management of SSH tunnels, offering the ability to establish secure
and permanent tunnels to a remote SSH server transparently, just like a
simple network connection. The key features are: auto-reconnection,
connection monitoring, connection triggers, tunneling changes
on-the-fly, and profile management.
Kanatest 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129126/
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.
lescegra 20030713
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129155/
Lescegra is an object-oriented 3D graphics engine based on OpenGL. It
is written in strict ANSI C and brings no dependencies other than an
OpenGL implementation.
Linux K8000 House Alarm 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129160/
Linux K8000 House Alarm is a complete house alarm driven by the Linux
operating system and Velleman's K8000 board. The system can send alerts
through email, SMS, or voice messages. It can also drive devices like
an outside alert lamp or a siren.
LiquidIRCd Services 1.01 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129150/
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.
Lyman 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129167/
Lyman is a program to manage your collection of song lyrics. You can
search for songs by their title, artist, album, the release year, or
parts of their lyrics.
mailbox_date_trimmer 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129130/
mailbox_date_trimmer is a tool that corrects messages' date headers in
a mailbox archive if they have been corrupted.
MorphForm 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129140/
MorphForm is a PHP class that allows for flexible, configurable form
processing. It can handle any combination of email, file output, or
browser output based on the configuration files supplied by the
developer.
MPEG Menu System Version2 0.80rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128913/
MPEG Menu System Version2 is a menu system for easy movie and audio
playback. It is controlled using a remote control or keyboard. It
supports dxr3 output and framebuffer output.
oidentd 2.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129162/
oidentd is an RFC 1413 compliant ident daemon which runs on Linux,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, OpenBSD, and Solaris. It can handle IP
masqueraded/NAT connections on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and
it has a flexible mechanism for specifying ident responses. Users can
be granted permission to specify their own ident responses. Responses
can be specified according to host and port pairs.
oplaty 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129141/
oplaty is a simple payment system for users in a LAN. It provides a
Web-based interface that shows a user's charge and info about the user.
It is currently only available in the Polish language.
PCRE++ 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129136/
PCRE++ is a C++ wrapper-class for PCRE library (Perl Compatible Regular
Expressions). It allows you to use Perl-alike regular expressions in
your C++ applications. You can use it to search in strings, to split
strings into parts using expressions, or to search and replace a part
of a string with another part.
PieterPost 0.10.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129128/
PieterPost is a PHP interface to a POP3 mailbox. It is designed to be
both small and easy to use. It's not extremely feature-rich, but it has
all the features needed to quickly read your mail, download, or send an
attachment.
pork 0.99.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129163/
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.
PQAdmin 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129121/
PQAdmin is a frontend to configure Linux print quotas support using
Webmin.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129161/
QDBM is an embeded database library compatible with GDBM and NDBM. It
features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed referring
to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher
processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
RechnungsZentrale V2 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129135/
RechnungsZentrale V2 is a multiuser, Web-based billing application. It
facilitates the creation of bills and the management of customers. It
is written in PHP and uses MySQL. It supports German, English, French,
and Dansk languages.
Spammer 0.3.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129148/
Spammer is an anti-spam mail filter for sendmail. It uses libmilter to
communicate with sendmail. Spammer checks client IP addresses as well
as all IP addresses (and everything that looks like an IP address) in
Received headers against a DNSBL database.
TEA 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129149/
Type Evaluating Algorithm (TEA) is a small, extendable, and strongly
typed language written in C++.
Tiki 1.7 RC1 (Release candidates)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129119/
Tiki is a powerful content management system that features articles,
forums, newsletters, blogs, a file/image gallery, a Wiki, drawing, a
tracker, a directory, poll/surveys and quizzes, a FAQ, chat, a banner,
Webmail, a calendar, and ACLs, etc.
Tutka 0.10.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129157/
Tutka is a tracker style MIDI sequencer for Linux (and other systems;
only Linux is supported at this time though). It is similar to programs
like SoundTracker, ProTracker and FastTracker except that it does not
support samples and is meant for MIDI use only.
txt2html 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129117/
txt2html is a Perl program that uses the HTML::TextToHTML perl module
to convert 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.
UHUTV 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129151/
UHUTV is a Hungarian TV guide program. It uses the TV program database
which is provided by tvfilm.hu for free. It is primarily for Hungarian
users and the Hungarian-based distribution named UHU-Linux. It uses
gtk2-perl, compress-bzip2, perl-libwww, and some other Perl modules. It
includes a themeable GTK2 program and a small config dialog. The TV
guide database is updated via the Internet.
VideoDB 2003-07-13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129147/
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.
Visual Information Broker Enterprise 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129159/
Visual Information Broker Enterprise (VIBE) is an IDE that enables
application developers to automate the design and development of
infrastructure components for complex distributed cross-platform,
cross-language systems applications. You can define messages and
generate infrastructure support code for the IBM MQ information bus,
Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and other JDBC compliant
databases, XML with transformations that use tools like XSL, and J2EE.
It also includes a fully functional Business Rules engine, along with a
graphical programming environment.
Weather Plotter 2.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129122/
Weather Plotter is a program for anyone who likes to gather, track, and
look at historical weather data. It uses PHP to gather weather
information from the US National Weather Service Web site on an hourly
basis, then allows you to view that weather data in several convenient
graphical charts within your Web browser. Charts are generated in
real-time using the PNG format, and can be easily customized. Supports
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Access, MSSQL, and others for data storage.
WebUtils 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129169/
WebUtils is a Java library and toolkit for making the development of
Web portals much more rapid and routine. It provides generic styles of
reporting and look-and-feel, database connectivity, and much more.
welofunc performer Milestone 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129138/
welofunc performer is a load test tool to support quality assurance of
J2EE web applications. It features portability to all platforms with a
Java virtual machine, an easy-to-use graphical user interface, the
ability to record tests with a Web browser, and the ability to simulate
an unlimited number of concurrent users. A rich set of test elements
can be used to build your test plans, including HTTP requests,
procedures and procedure calls, user think time, loops, and selectors.
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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