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Gadgets: Ambient Orb Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5da2/
Cube Goodies: Desktop Retro Wind-ups
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6028/
Cube Goodies: The Red Swingline Stapler
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61b7/
Cube Goodies: Futurama Tin Signs
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/60e2/
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
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6193/
Caffeine: Shock Triple Mocha
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6122/
Caffeine: Brute Force Energy Drink
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6184/
Caffeine: Chargers Caffeinated Espresso Beans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f75/
Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fd7/
PC Mods: ThermalTake SubZero CPU Coolers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cooling/603e/
Computing: Archos AV120 w/ DVR Attachment
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fe2/
Cube Goodies: Killer coding ninja monkeys Bumper Sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5faa/
Cube Goodies: I Brake For LAN Parties Bumper Sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5fbe/
Cube Goodies: geek. bumper sticker
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Interests: Megatokyo Bumper Sticker 3-pack
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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
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5f9e/
Sourceforge
lcdplugin 0.6.3 alpha released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293055
This Winamp plugin displays status information on various LCD/VFD
modules. A menu provides access to playlists, song titles, albums,
artists, disk browsing and much more! Several input methods allow to
control the menu and Winamp itself. 0.6.3a is a new alpha release and
includes many bug fixes and two new major features: Custom character
map for each LCD and dynamic menus. Please see the release notes for
the full list of new features and bugfixes.
Privoxy default.action 1.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293062
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies,
controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
obnoxious junk. It is based on the Internet Junkbuster. Actions files
are where all the per site and per URL configuration is done for ad
blocking, cookie management, privacy considerations, etc. This actions
file fixes a number of configuration issues with the 3.0.2 release.
Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
Candidate: MinGW-3.0.0-rc3.exe
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293087
MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows: import libraries and header files
for use with GCC to build native Windows applications; now with added
extentions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality. File:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MinGW-3.0.0-rc3.exe?download
------------------------------------ Added missing files.
------------------------------------ MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Win32
Version 3.0.0 http://www.mingw.org MinGW version 3.0.0 contains the
following list of packages: GCC-3.2.3-20030504-1.tar.gz
binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1 mingw-runtime-3.0 w32api-2.3 gdb-5.2.1-1
mingw32-make-3.80.0-3 mingw-utils-0.2.tar.gz These packages are also
distributed separately and can be found via the http://www.mingw.org/
website. This MinGW-3.0.0.exe package does not contain any
documentation. The documentation for all of the is distributed with
each of the separate packages. You may also find documentation online
at the http://www.fsf.org for GCC, binutils, GDB and make. The w32api
documentation can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com. Don't forget
to use http://www.google.com to search for examples. Enjoy, Your MinGW
Team
Free Pascal Compiler 1.0.10 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292116
Version 1.0.10 of FPC has been released and uploaded to SourceForge.
This will be the last 1.0.x version; we will now concentrate on the 1.1
branch, which will end in 1.2 or 2.0. The Free Pascal Compiler is a
32-bit Pascal Compiler for AmigaOS, DOS, Linux, *BSD, OS/2 and Win32;
semantically compatible with Borland Pascal 7 with additional features
such as operator overloading. The compiler itself is written in Pascal.
giFT 0.11.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292637
After approximately two years of internal development, giFT has finally
been released to the public! This release features OpenFT and Gnutella
plugins as part of the standard distribution distribution. Be sure to
read the QUICKSTART file available in the tarball for information on
how to begin using giFT. giFT is a project designed to completely
abstract low-level filesharing protocol communication while allowing
seamless support for multiple networks. Currently available plugins
include: OpenFT, Gnutella, and FastTrack (third party). ...and you
thought it'd never happen? Ha!
Slashdot
Wireless Link Calculator On A Cell Phone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/0152234
[0]Casey Halverson writes "Ever been out in the field and wanted to
make a quick wireless link calculation, but didn't have a computer or
internet connection handy? Or maybe you're just too lazy to turn the
thing on? Well [1]now you can, from your xHTML capable cell phone.
PocketSOM can calculate a wireless link, telling you your signal
strength, whether or not it meets local FCC/IC/EU regulations, and even
an expert analysis system that will tell you how you can improve your
wireless link and what kind of performance you can expect. People like
us (the [2]SeattleWireless admins) are using it right now - [3]here's a
screenshot."
Links
0. http://www.caseyhalverson.com
1. http://www.caseyhalverson.com/wifi/xsom.php
2. http://seattlewireless.net/
3. http://blog.piercedesigns.com/archives/DSC01473.JPG
Major Flaw Found In Cisco IOS Devices
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/0545242
Joff_NZ writes "CERT has [0]released an advisory regarding a serious
flaw in all Cisco routers and switches which run IOS and process IPv4
packets (i.e. pretty much everything), which causes the device to stop
processing inbound packets, and so: 'The device must be rebooted to
clear the input queue on the interface, and will not reload without
user intervention.' There are apparently no known exploits (yet), and
Cisco have [1]this advisory with a workaround and available fixes."
Links
0. http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-15.html
1.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps341/products_security_advisory09186a00801a34c2.shtml
Mojib Ribbon Game Promises Musical Spam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/0117236
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Gamers.com report
[0]discussing the bizarre Japanese PlayStation 2 game, Mojib Ribbon,
from the creators of [1]Parappa The Rapper and this title's cult
prequel, [2]Vib Ribbon. The article says, "Like its predecessor, [Mojib
Ribbon] ..is a simple rhythm game, but ..the game takes any text file
and converts it into a Parappa-style rap, which players must then
follow through stick inputs." Furthermore, the game uses the network
adaptor and "..lets players send game data back and forth between each
other. Players could e-mail especially inspiring raps to each other, or
simply use their morning spam to generate a new game challenge."
There's more info available via [3]a preview at The GIA and [4]pictures
from this year's GDC.
Links
0. http://www.gamers.com/news/1424657
1. http://www.gamespot.com/ps/puzzle/parappatherapper/review.html
2. http://www.vibribbon.com/
3. http://terror.snm-hgkz.ch/mirrors/www.thegia.com/psx2/mojib/mojib.html
4. http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/misc/photos/EGW/
WiFi Hotspots Elude RIAA Dragnet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/0010225
mblase writes "A CNET News article discusses [0]a problem the RIAA is
having with its copyright enforcement strategy: public wireless hot
spots. Normally, the RIAA notifies the ISP when a user is found to be
violating their copyrights, but in this case, the ISP is powerless to
do anything. Key quote: '...unless the administrator keeps detailed
logs of everybody's account use - which is not required by law - she
may well not know who was swapping files.' I wonder how long it will be
before those detailed logs ARE required by law?"
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1026204.html
Intrusion Tolerance - Security's Next Big Thing?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/002250
An anonymous reader writes "DARPA's [0]OASIS program consists of more
than 20 research projects in [1]intrusion-tolerant systems. The basic
idea is to concede that systems will be penetrated by malware and
hackers, but to keep operating anyway. Other projects take a wide
variety of technical approaches to providing intrusion tolerance. MIT's
[2]Automatic Trust Management uses models of trust to choose from a
variety of ways to achieve system goals; Duke/MCNC's [3]SITAR (Scalable
Intrusion Tolerant Architecture) adapts tricks from fault-tolerant
systems and distributes decision-making; BBN-Illinois-Maryland-Boeing's
[4]ITUA employs unpredictable adaptation. Shutting down the military
while waging war is not an option, but the idea of continuing to
operating critical defense systems even after known penetration by
hostile hackers or damaging worms will take some getting used to."
Links
0. http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/research/oasis/index.html
1. http://www.tolerantsystems.org/
2. http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/its/
3. http://sitar.anr.mcnc.org/
4. http://itua.bbn.com/
North Carolina Fights Back Against Lexmark
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/2155203
ngrier writes "Seems that at least some aren't sitting idly by, while
printer manufacturers try to assert total control. The North Carolina
legislature [0] just approved a measure which guarantees the consumer's
right to refill ink cartridges. For history of the Lexmark DMCA-related
story, involving the company placing copyright-protected code in their
printer cartridges in order to prevent competitors from producing
compatible cartridges, there are previous Slashdot posts about it [1]
here(1), [2]here(2), and [3]here(3)."
Links
0. http://www.heraldsun.com/state/6-371743.html
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/159204&tid=194
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/28/1633207&tid=123
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1228217&tid=123
Windows Vulnerabilities Revealed, Patched
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/2218216
[0]Saint Aardvark writes "A big MS Windows remote vulnerability has
just hit [1]BugTraq. It concerns a [2]buffer overflow in MS' DCOM, and
affects Win2k through Server 2003; here's the [3]security advisory from
Microsoft. This is in addition to an earlier vulnerability concerning
conversion from HTML to RTF - there's a [4]separate security advisory
from Microsoft for this one, and it affects Win98 and NT 4.0 through
Server 2003. Patch early, patch often." There's also a [5]CNET News
story with a little more explanation on the newest vulnerability.
Links
0. http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/ayn_rand
1. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1
2. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/329283/2003-07-13/2003-07-19/0
3. http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-026.asp
4. http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-023.asp
5. http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-1026420.html?tag=fd_top
DragonFly BSD Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/217259
[0]JoshRendlesham writes "[1]Matt Dillon [2]announced today on the
freebsd-hackers mailing list the creation of the [3]DragonFly BSD
project. It seeks to build on the work of [4]FreeBSD 4.x, including a
rewrite of the packaging and distribution system, among other
[5]goals."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://apollo.backplane.com/
2. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-July/002102.html
3. http://www.dragonflybsd.org/Main/
4. http://www.freebsd.org/
5. http://www.dragonflybsd.org/Goals/
Freenet 0.5.2 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/1931225
FurbyXL writes "With the [0]RIAA roaring to grab peer-to-peer users by
their IP addresses, [1]Freenet - fully anonymized production and
consumption of content - is gaining renewed attention. Articles in
[2]New Scientist, [3]ZDNet UK, [4]Wired and [5]CNET (and [6]here) set a
somewhat typical context for Freenets [7]major release 0.52.
Significant performance improvements through NIO-based messaging,
probabilistic caching etc. should provide increased rest to [8]Chinese
dissidents, but may finally wake-up the RIAA's [6]Matt Oppenheim..."
The announcement on the Freenet home page lists several improvements
found in the new version: "a new NIO technology that brings improved
performance using less CPU and system resources," "Individual nodes are
now more efficient," "the speed and routing of the entire network have
significantly improved," probabilistic caching, user interface
improvements, and more.
Links
0. http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/062503.asp
1. http://www.freenetproject.org/
2. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993950
3. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0%2C%2Ct269-s2137474%2C00.html
4. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59448,00.html
5. http://news.com.com/2100-1029-1023735.html
6. http://news.com.com/2010-1071-1023325.html
7. http://www.freenetproject.org/index.php?page=download
8.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreenet-china.org%2F&lp=zh_en&tt=url
A Search Engine For The Slower Net
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/1826224
Makarand writes "According to this BBC News article researchers at MIT
are developing [0]a search engine for people using the web on slower
net connections. The software will e-mail queries to a central server
and receive the most relevant webpages from the search results by
e-mail in a compressed form. Since the program is too big to download
over a poor net connection it will be mailed on CDs to libraries for
people to borrow and install. They are also considering trying to
persuade computer sellers in developing countries to install the
program on machines."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3065063.stm
Freshmeat
3Delight 1.06 Beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129464/
3Delight is a very fast RenderMan-compliant renderer designed to
produce photorealistic images for serious production environments. Some
of its features include ray tracing, global illumination, motion blur,
depth of field, subdivision surfaces, programmable shaders, quality
antialiasing, and antialiased multi-depth shadow maps. The API and the
shading language are very similar to what is described in the RenderMan
interface documentation.
A Tulip 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129373/
A Tulip is a theme based on a picture of a tulip taken on the author's
dinner table, with some GIMP magic.
adanetcdf 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129475/
adanetcdf is an Ada-95 binding to the netcdf library.
Agent Smith Theme from Matrix Reloaded 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129364/
Agent Smith Theme from Matrix Reloaded is for those who like this
stupendous character.
ALSA driver 0.9.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129497/
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is composed of several parts. The
first is a fully modularized sound driver which supports module
autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access
to analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI,
and timer components of audio hardware. It also includes a
fully-featured kernel-level sequencer, a full compatibility layer for
OSS/Free applications, an object-oriented C library which covers and
enhances the ALSA kernel driver functionality for applications
(client/server, plugins, PCM sharing/multiplexing, PCM metering, etc.),
an interactive configuration program for the driver, and some simple
utilities for basic management.
amSynth 1.0 rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129536/
amSynth is a realtime polyphonic Analogue Modeling SYNTHesizer. It
provides virtual analogue synthesis in the style of the classic Moog
Minimoog/Roland Junos. It offers an easy-to-use interface and synth
engine, while still creating varied sounds.
arCHMage 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129445/
arCHMage is an extensible reader and decompiler for files in the CHM
format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML help, and is also
known as Compiled HTML. arCHMage is based on chmlib by M. Russotto.
AsyncResolv 0.0.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129491/
AsyncResolv is an asynchronous DNS query library written in C++. It is
easy to use and is quite fast. It is designed for incorporating in
high-concurrency network servers.
ayttm 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129505/
Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols
such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is a fork of Everybuddy,
and initially aims to address its problems. It should not segfault when
you use it, and should be almost instantly usable by your mother.
Almost useless prefs should be hidden, reserved for
"advanced" users, and things have to work without wondering
what this or that will produce.
Barra Home CMS 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129197/
Barra Home CMS is a WYSIWYG HTML editing component for PHP content
management systems. It is very fast and easy to understand, and
features easily customizable templates.
bayonne 1.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129484/
Bayonne is the telephony server of the GNU project. Bayonne offers a
script driven threaded multiline state event telephony service for
building voice response systems and telephony plugins for runtime
driver configuration. Bayonne also features "TGI" for making
perl applications "telephony aware". Bayonne may be used to
build telephony based system administration, home automation, automated
attendent, v-commerce, and voice messaging systems.
BBclone 0.32.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129470/
BBclone is a PHP Web counter on steroids which displays individual logs
as well as aggregated data. It is a clone of Big Brother webstats,
except that it is written in PHP and it relies only on flat files (no
database needed). BBclone enables any Web site administrator to have a
very precise view of who visit the website: OS, browser, date,
referring page etc. Main features include reload resistance, hostname
resolution, proxy workaround, and blacklist.
bBlog 0.6-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129501/
bBlog is a weblogging application written in PHP. It has been
programmed to be fast, secure, object-oriented, well-commented,
Smarty-centric, and easily extendable.
Big Faceless Report Generator 1.1.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129476/
The Big Faceless Report Generator is a Java application for converting
source documents written in XML to PDF. Built on top of the Big
Faceless PDF & Graph Libraries, the Report Generator combines these
features and wraps an XML parser around them. Using JSP, ASP, XSL, or
similar, creating dynamic PDF documents directly from a database is now
as easy as HTML.
Bugzero 2.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129457/
Bugzero is an all-in-one product for software bug tracking, defect
issue incident tracking, trouble ticketing, help desk support, and
customer email management. It is simple to use and avoids complexity by
making the tasks or projects separate and independent. It is platform
and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple
projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file
attachment, email notification, inbound email management, metric
reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a
comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an
easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and
user account management.
CDemu Kernel Module for Linux 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129469/
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.
cgdb 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129434/
cgdb is a lightweight, but fully functional curses frontend to gdb. The
goal of cgdb is to be lightweight and responsive, not encumbered with
unnecessary features. The interface retains the familiar GDB text-based
interface with 100% of the original functionality. The interfaces also
provide additional features, such as a source code window, shortcut
keys, visual setting of breakpoints, regex searching capabilities, and
more.
ChemApp 5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129490/
ChemApp is a programming tool from the area of computational
thermochemistry. It is a library consisting of a rich set of
subroutines, based on the thermodynamic phase equilibrium calculation
module of ChemSage. It permits the calculation of complex,
multicomponent, multiphase chemical equilibria and their associated
energy balances. ChemApp is available as object code for a wide range
of platforms and as a shared library/DLL. ChemApp "light" is
the free version of ChemApp, and although it is restricted in two ways
compared to the regular version, it gives you almost the same
functionality.
citecast Web Content Management 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129509/
citecast is a content management system written in PHP. Its features
include fully dynamic page generation, storage of articles and images
in a database, easy administration with a Web interface, a WYSIWYG
editor for Mozilla >= 1.4 and MS IE >= 5.5 or above, realtime
fulltext search, a flexible template system, realtime server-side image
scaling, an extensible macro language, and language, workflow, and LDAP
authentication modules. Note that it is currently only available in
German.
Clubmask Resource Manager 0.5b82
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129410/
Clubmask is a 'glue' package that combines the outstanding management
and speed of the Bproc distributed process layer with the power and
configuration of the Maui HPC Scheduler. It uses the Supermon resource
monitor to gather node information. This node information is combined
with job submission data, and suplied to Maui. Maui issues job start
and termination commands which are handled by Clubmask via the Bproc
layer. Clubmask also supplies a 'supermon2ganglia' translator that
allows supermon data to be displayed in a ganglia Web frontend.
ColorDiff 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129531/
ColorDiff is a wrapper for diff. It produces the same output as diff,
but with coloured syntax highlighting at the commandline to improve
readability. The output is similar to how a diff-generated patch might
appear in Vim or Emacs with the appropriate syntax highlighting options
enabled. The colour schemes can be read from a central configuration
file or from a local user ~/.colordiffrc file.
cpptools 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129435/
cpptools is a set of tools for C/C++ development. It includes a lint
(lexical analyzer), a code beautifier, and many refactoring tools.
cpudyn 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129513/
cpudyn controls the speed in Intel SpeedStep, Pentium 4 Mobile, and
PowerPC machines with the cpufreq compiled in the kernel. It saves
battery, lowers temperature, and can put the computer disks in standby
mode if a given period has passed without any I/O operation. It works
well even with journaled file systems such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS.
Dataxi 1.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129496/
Dataxi is a database access system that uses a single form to query,
view, and modify data spread to one or more tables in a true relational
manner. In addition, Dataxi provides a platform to build
database-oriented applications of any size that can be accessed through
a Web interface.
Defaults Manager 1.0 Beta 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129451/
Defaults Manager is an editor for the User Defaults preferences
database on Mac OS X. It allows you to easily view, edit, delete, and
backup preferences, and can be used to view and change the preferences
in almost any application. It is useful for developers that want to
make sure their preferences are being stored and changed correctly, and
can be used to unlock features that previously required the use of
Terminal.
Desktop ROCK Linux 2.0.0-beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129461/
Desktop ROCK Linux is a source distribution based upon the distribution
build kit ROCK Linux. It is released with an automatic build system as
well as prebuilt ISO images. It inherits the state-of-the-art tool
chain from ROCK Linux and also includes the latest KDE and GNOME
releases and many other packages. The build system allows optimized
rebuilds of single packages or the whole ISO.
dhcp-forwarder 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129477/
dhcp-forwarder is a DHCP relay agent which forwards DHCP messages
between subnets with different sublayer broadcast domains. It runs as
non-root in a chroot-jail.
Eddie 1.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129473/
Eddie acts as a high availability WAN and LAN clustering tool for Web
servers (including Apache). It provides load balancing at two levels
(DNS and LAN), failover redundancy, and admission control to maintain
quality of service levels.
ezbounce 1.50-pre6 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129459/
ezbounce is a highly-configurable IRC proxy. It features access
control, ban lists, password protection, remote administration, and
more.
Fast File Search 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129487/
Fast File Search crawls FTP servers and SMB shares (Windows shares and
UNIX systems running Samba) and stores the information about files to a
database. A Web interface is then used for searching files.
FSMGenerator 1.0b3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129446/
FSM Generator allows one to generate FSM implementation source code, in
one of the available programming languages, from configuration files.
The generated FSM can then be compiled together, executed, and
interfaced by the user's software.
Fung-Calc 1.3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129523/
Fung-Calc is an advanced yet easy to use graphing calculator written
using the Qt libraries. It supports various graphing modes in both 2D
and 3D. It combines all the features of a full-blown mathematical
analysis package with ease of use.
GNU Smalltalk 2.1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129486/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129492/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by
both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured
documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The
program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts.
It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra
systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language,
which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs,
and even to extend the editor.
Gold Sun 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129437/
Gold Sun is an abstract theme with a bright gold disk. The background
is by Dolcevitas (Panda Gielen).
GRAMPS 0.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129493/
Gramps is a GTK/GNOME-based genealogy program written in Python.
Graphical certification authority 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129472/
Graphical certification authority is an interface for managing RSA keys
and certificates, and the creation and signing of PKCS#10 requests. It
uses the OpenSSL library and a Berkeley DB for key and certificate
storage. It supports importing and exporting keys and PEM DER PKCS8
certificates, signing and revoking of PEM DER PKCS12, and the selection
of x509v3 extensions. A tree view of certificates is presented.
gURLChecker 0.5.4 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129436/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web
page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each
page.
Haring 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129494/
Haring is a tool to manipulate the internals of the Linux kernel. It
helps you to tweak the inner workings of Linux to keep it healthy and
sane. It is a wrapper around /proc/sys and a documentation effort for
the entire /proc/sys system combined in one project.
HyperSpell 1.0b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129450/
HyperSpell is a convenient menuling that gives you instant access to
Mac OS X's built-in spellchecker. All you do is click on HyperSpell's
icon in the menu bar and enter the word, or words, that you want
spellchecked. Words that are misspelled appear with a red underline.
You can then control-click (or right-click) on the misspelled words to
reveal a list of possible spellings.
IceS 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129443/
Ices is an mp3 streamer for the icecast system, and is developed by the
icecast team. It is a replacement for Shout, and its features include
embedded perl and python scripting, reencoding, and xml config files.
IP Sentinel 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129478/
IP Sentinel is a tool that tries to prevent unauthorized usage of IP
addresses within an ethernet broadcast domain by answering ARP
requests. After receiving faked replies, requesting parties store the
MAC in their ARP tables and will send future packets to this invalid
MAC, rendering the IP unreachable.
ITracker v2.0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129503/
ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support
multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features
such as full i18n support, multiple versions and project components,
detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports
with charts, configurable field values, and multiple email
notifications.
iZest VisMon 1.6.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129482/
The iZest VisMon system facilitates graphical application monitoring,
control, automatic error recovery, and high availability (HA)
clustering across the Unix, Linux, and Windows NT/2000 platforms. It
uses scripting (shell/VBscript) or Java class APIs to monitor, control,
recover, and failover applications. VisMon can manage any number of
nodes on a TCP/IP network from any location. This is achieved by
installing a single VisMon Agent on each server node, which can be
controlled and monitored by one or more VisMon Explorer GUIs from the
local LAN or Internet.
JavaWizardComponent 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129456/
The Java Wizard Component is a Swing component that helps a
user-interface programmer present information to the user in a
step-by-step manner in which the next step is determined by the choices
made in the current step. This is useful for programming many kinds of
wizards, such as those used in installation programs and IDEs. This
library attempts to make it easy for developers to define their own
steps and to combine these steps in the desired order.
kdbg 1.9.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129479/
KDbg is a graphical user interface to gdb, the GNU debugger. It
provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting
variables, and stepping through code.
Kerio MailServer with integrated McAfee Anti-Virus 5.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129535/
Kerio MailServer is a secure corporate Internet messaging server for
SME. It integrates SpamAssassin, McAfee anti-virus, SSL encrypted POP3,
IMAP4, SMTP, WebMail (HTTP) and WAP protocols, attachment/content
filtering and a MAPS/user-defined anti-spam database. It supports
multiple domains, automated replies, SMS notifications, shared and
public folders, email folder backup, full Active Directory
implementation, mailing lists, and shared contacts. It runs on Red Hat
7 and 8, Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP, and Mac OS X 10.2, and is available
with English, French, Dutch, and German user interfaces.
Kickstart Tools 1.38
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129506/
Kickstart Tools is a collection of scripts that can be used to build
and maintain your own Linux distribution. You can control what packages
make up your distribution, and automate installation and configuration.
Kleanux 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129524/
Kleanux is a themepack consisting of a clean Metacity theme, which
inherits all of its colors from the active GTK theme, and matching GTK
1.x/GTK 2.x themes.
KMD 0.9.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129508/
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.
KrysalIDE 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129471/
KrysalIDE is a Java-based development tool for Krysalis that uses SOAP
for communicating with the Krysalis server. It was created to help
develop web applications and services for the Krysalis architecture. It
is integrated in the Krysalis platform.
Krysalis 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129467/
Krysalis is an open-source PHP development platform, based on the
XML/XSLT core. It features dynamic XML support, support for the
creation of dynamic XML files with data taken from databases, PXP page
caching, caching and storage of each generated PHP file from any PXP on
disk (thus re-queries on the same page will not have to re-create it),
allowing XHTML templates (simpler than XSL), SOAP support, multiple
transformation pipelines, and allowing the site manager to describe
multiple types of transformation pipelines (each type having assigned
some XSLT's which transform the XML data). HTML or XML output are
possible by default, and extensibility is very high.
Larbin 2.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129527/
Larbin is an HTTP Web crawler with an easy interface that runs under
Linux. It can fetch more than 5 million pages a day on a standard PC
(with a good network).
lavaps 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129504/
LavaPS is an interactive process-tracking program like "top",
but with a much different attitude. Rather than presenting lots of
specific info in digital form, it tries to present certain important
information in a graphical analog form. The idea is that you can run it
in the background and get a rough idea of what's happening to your
system without devoting much concentration to the task. Lavaps was
inspired the idea of calm computing from "The Coming Age of Calm
Technology" by Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown.
lavaps 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129442/
LavaPS is an interactive process-tracking program like "top",
but with a much different attitude. Rather than presenting lots of
specific info in digital form, it tries to present certain important
information in a graphical analog form. The idea is that you can run it
in the background and get a rough idea of what's happening to your
system without devoting much concentration to the task. Lavaps was
inspired the idea of calm computing from "The Coming Age of Calm
Technology" by Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown.
libshout 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129444/
Libshout allows applications to easily communicate and broadcast to an
Icecast streaming media server. It handles the socket connections,
metadata communication, and data streaming for the calling application,
and lets developers focus on feature sets instead of implementation
details.
LibTomMath 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129460/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast
majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including
public key cryptography).
MacXM 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129462/
MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM
radio powered and controlled by a USB connection.
mail2chart 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129537/
mail2chart generates various statistical charts from a bunch of mail
messages. The code for generating a certain type of chart can be
plugged into the program. This program depends heavily on MH for
accessing mail messages and on gnuplot for generating the charts.
MEDICI 0.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129481/
MEDICI is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) library. EDIFACT (ISO
9735), ASC X.12, and TRADACOMS syntaxes are currently supported. MEDICI
provides a parser for EDI streams and functions to query EDI guidelines
for validation information, reference information, and design notes.
MEDICI does not dictate how EDI guidelines should be implemented, but
provides an interface which can be used to interrogate external
implementations and an example guideline implementation for internal
use.
MP-MPICH 04-07-03 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129502/
MP-MICH is a Multi-platform uniform MPI implementation, based on MPICH
and SCI-MPICH, resulting in a high performance, consistent MPI across
both ethernet and SCI networks in a hybrid environment. There is a
single, standardized source tree for all platforms. It is compliant
with the MPI-1 standard.
MP-MPICH 1.2.0 (Production)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129499/
MP-MICH is a Multi-platform uniform MPI implementation, based on MPICH
and SCI-MPICH, resulting in a high performance, consistent MPI across
both ethernet and SCI networks in a hybrid environment. There is a
single, standardized source tree for all platforms. It is compliant
with the MPI-1 standard.
MUSCLE 2.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129439/
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is a messaging
server and networking API. It is portable to any OS with a sockets API
and a C++ compiler. It lets programs communicate via streams of
PortableMessages (very similar to BeOS's BMessage class) layered over
TCP streams. The included server program ("muscled") lets its
clients message each other, and/or store information in its serverside
hierarchical database. The database supports queries via regex and
"live" updates via a subscription mechanism, and may be
subclassed to if application-specific logic is needed.
Noble Ape Simulation 0.663
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129480/
The Noble Ape Simulation creates a random island environment and
simulates the ape inhabitants of the island's cognitive processes. It
features the Ocelot landscape rendering engine.
OpenSceneGraph Editor 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129488/
OpenSceneGraph Editor (OSGEdit) is used to compose complex scenes based
on individual models using the OSG library. It is focused on making
scenes for use in OSG-based programs.
P::Classes 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129507/
P::Classes is a portable C++ Application Framework. It includes
everything needed for real world application development, such as
classes for networking, GUI, databases, config, logging, and plugins.
Performance Co-Pilot 2.3.1-4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129454/
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a framework and set of services for
supporting system-level performance monitoring and performance
management. It provides a unifying abstraction for all of the
interesting performance data in a system, and allows client
applications to easily retrieve and process any subset of that data
using a single API. A client-server architecture allows multiple
clients to monitor the same host, and a single client to monitor
multiple hosts. Archive logging and replay are integrated so that a
client application can use the same API to process real-time data from
a host or historical data from an archive.
PHPX 3.0.5 (PHPX 3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129498/
PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS),
forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have
feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of
programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums,
downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing,
support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management,
news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to
fully customize the look of your site.
Povray Tree Generator 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129468/
The Povray Tree Generator generates tree structures using Povray.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129474/
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.
RapidSVN 0.1.3 Alpha 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129510/
RapidSVN is a platform independent GUI client for the Subversion
revision system written in C++ using the wxWindows framework.
RechnungsZentrale V2 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129495/
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.
Recount 0.5.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129532/
Recount was inspired by the United States election 2000 debacle. It is
a polling application and library written in PHP, and released under
the terms of the GPL. It allows you to quickly and easily create and
manage poll based content in any format you like. It currently supports
both PostgreSQL and MySQL.
retawq 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129441/
retawq is a multi-threaded Web browser for text terminals on computers
with Unix-like operating systems. It is fast, small, nicely
configurable, and comfortable; e.g. the low-level network
communications are performed in a non-blocking way, and you can keep
open as many "virtual windows" as you want and work
simultaneously in two of them in a split-screen mode.
SDL_gfx 2.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129534/
The SDL_gfx library offers several components: Graphic Primitives,
Rotozoomer, Framerate control, and MMX image filters. The Primitives
component provides basic drawing routines: pixels, hlines, vlines,
lines, aa-lines, rectangles, circles, ellipses, trigons, polygons,
Bezier curves, and an 8x8 pixmap font for drawing onto any SDL Surface.
Full alpha blending, hardware surface locking, and all surface depths
are supported. The Rotozoomer can use interpolation for high quality
output.
SouRCe PacKaGer 1.1-beta3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129519/
SouRCe PacKaGer (srcpkg) is a program for managing separate software
packages under the same directory hierarchy. It is especially useful
for packages distributed as source. It is similar to GNU Stow, Depot,
etc., but works by creating packages from new files found in the
directory tree, allowing it to manage large, complex, interdependent
packages such as those of KDE and GNOME.
Srapeh 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129525/
Srapeh is a library, form resource, and macros that aid in runtime
error handling of Palm OS applications. It supports wrapping around
most built-in functions to handle errors nicely, and it maintains a
"backtrace" so multiple layers of errors can be reported.
Then the error can either be handled and the backtrace freed or a
dialog displaying the error with the backtrace to the user can be
displayed.
stresslinux 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129447/
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.
Structured Document Validator 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129485/
Structured Document Validator implements a generalized method for
validating both the structure and content of structured documents. Any
data format that can be deterministically divided into tags and data is
classed as a structured document. This definition applies to a wide
array of data formats, including XML, Java properties files, and
delimited value files. The application performs validations based on
user-defined Structured Document Definitions (SDDs). It provides an
environment for validation, SDD development, and document editing.
Surfing Blues 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129438/
Surfing Blues is a theme with a wave and a surfer. The background is by
artemio.
tinydyndns 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129483/
tinydyndns is a simple but powerful dynamic DNS solution that uses
djbdns. It cooperates with the djbdns package to publish dynamic IP
addresses authenticated through POP connections. On successfully
authenticated POP connections, the tinydyndns-update program
manipulates tinydns' constant database "data.cdb" directly
without rebuilding it; this makes the dynamic DNS solution use very few
system resources. Using a POP service for authentication saves the work
for installing special client software, since POP clients are available
for every common network-aware operating system. To provide the DNS and
POP service, tinydyndns cooperates with djbdns, qmail, and cvm.
ToBuS 0.2.5 RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129500/
ToBuS is a Web-based management system for holiday apartments. It
stands for Touristisches Buchungs-System (tourist bookkeeping system).
VideoDB 2003-07-16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129466/
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.
Viking 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129514/
Viking is a GTK2-based GPS data editor and viewer. It can download and
show Terraserver maps, import and draw tracks and waypoints over them,
add coordinate lines, make new tracks and waypoints, hide different
things, and more. It uses a hierarchical layering system to organize
GPS data, maps, and other layer types with spatial data (such as
coordinate lines).
wtf 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129440/
wtf is a replacement for the NetBSD command of the same name. It looks
up a specified term in a number of databases and returns a definition
to the user. In addition to the acronym database searched by the
original wtf command, this version also searches a database of filename
suffixes. It is written in C and uses an index file (similar to
fortunes) and a binary search that should make it faster then the
orignal.
XBlockOut 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129458/
XBlockOut is an excellent 3D game of Tetris/Block Dropping. It has nice
graphics, offers great information support and it is very stable.
XMines 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129448/
XMines is a clone of the classic Minesweeper game, in which the player
is challenged to uncover a set of hidden mines. It features a native
Cocoa interface, three difficulty levels, and the ability to change
tile colors.
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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