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Interests: ph34r t3h Cute Ones T-Shirt
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/leetware/6155/
Tshirts: anti-RIAA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/61e7/
Tshirts: Safe Hex
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/61be/
Computing: Logitech Cordless MX Keyboard & Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/61af/
PC Mods: Lian-Li Side Panel Aquarium Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
Computing: USB Sharing Hub
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5f2a/
Cube Goodies: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/
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: FM Radio Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60bf/
Gadgets: USB Memory Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60a3/
Interests: Ph34r t3h Cute Ones Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6193/
Interests: Broken Miho Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6188/
Caffeine: Chargers Caffeinated Espresso Beans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f75/
Caffeine: Shock Triple Mocha
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6122/
Caffeine: Brute Force Energy Drink
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6184/
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/
Sourceforge
Tkfp Windows 14 July 2003
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293277
Tk_familypractice is a clinical Medical Records system, written mostly
in Tcl/Tk. Some C, C++, PYTHON, PERL. For Family Physicians,
Pediatricians, Internists or Primary Care. Used in a 4 doctor group for
5 years. Network enabled. Tk GUI and web browser based interfaces.
HCFA1500 claim form. Another new Windows version. Using the file
notebook_start2.tcl, you can run all the windows now inside a tabbed
notebook. The look and feel is now exactly the same as the Linux
version.
pmd-jbuilder-1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293271
PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty
catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. This release
supports PMD 1.1.
QmailAdmin 1.0.24 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293583
QmailAdmin is a web interface for managing email addresses in virtual
domains created by Vpopmail. This release includes more cleanup as we
get closer to a stable release. Functional changes: works with non-idx
version of ezmlm again, updated Japanese translation.
wlandscape 1.0 build 0461 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293588
wlandscape 1.0 build 0461 is out with quite a few important bugs fixed
and a lot of improvements added. Build 0461 introduces many new
features. We have added the support of MapBlast again and integrated an
offline browsing tool. From the developers point of view it is believed
to be fairly stable. Wlandscape is a tool for collecting and
visualizing access point data of public wireless networks in order to
share it with anyone. The collected data is shown in really good maps
and of course all for free. Wlandscape is free because it is released
under the GNU General Public License.
phpWebSite 0.9.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293742
Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University,
phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. All
client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility
Initiative requirements. phpWebSite version 0.9.3 addresses stability
problems from 0.9.2. There have also been many updates to resolve
usability issues. Included with this release is a docbook user manual
for end-users and a skeleton module for developers. Enjoy! The
phpWebSite Development Team
Slashdot
X-Plane - An Obsession For Realism
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1837201
[0]caseih writes "[1]Popular Science is running an [2]article on Austin
Meyer, the creator of the popular X-Plane flight simulator. Although
not an open source project, [3]X-Plane has a devoted community of
flight enthusiasts and developers who are striving to make it the most
realistic flight simulator ever. In fact, flight characteristics are
calculated in real time from aircraft design data, not static tables
like MS Flight Simulator. PopSci has a [4]neat picture showing X-Plane
calculating the lift-drag vectors in real-time across an aircraft.
Meyer's quest for realism in his simulations dominates the development
and use of X-Plane."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.popsci.com/
2. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,463052,00.html
3. http://www.x-plane.com/
4. http://i.timeinc.net/popsci/images/space/space0803austin_A2.jpg
Digitized Gutenberg Bible Available
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2310228
Prince_Ali writes "A digital copy of the Gutenburg Bible, the first
major Western book printed from movable type, [0]has been made
available by [1]The University of Texas, available through the [2]Harry
Ransom Humanities Research Center. The Ransom Center's [3]copy of the
Bible is claimed to be the finest in the world, and is now freely
available to anyone who would like to examine it. More information can
be found via [4]this CNN.com article."
Links
0. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/
1. http://www.utexas.edu/
2. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/
3. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/html/8.html
4. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/23/digital.scripture.ap/index.html
House Overturns FCC Media Consolidation Plan
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0124219
son_of_a_general writes "Looks like the House of Representatives just
overturned the FCC's media consolidation rules, previously covered on
Slashdot [0]here(1), [1]here(2), and [2]here(3). The article over at
CNet shows that the [3]House passed a bill that overturned the rules,
by a 400 to 21 vote. All is not clear yet, however, as the bill still
must pass through Senate and face being signed by a President who has
already indicated that he may veto."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/0237230&tid=149
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1638224&tid=149
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/1450243&tid=103
3. http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5053421.html?tag=fd_top
Missouri Wins American Solar Challenge
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2148218
[0]dagoalieman writes "[1]The University of Missouri - Rolla won this
year's 2300 mile [2]American Solar Challenge. The roughly 339lb car
(517lb with driver) with 1500 watts of power won by nearly 5 hours -
here's [3]the final results. UMR has now won two out of the past three
races, finishing second in the last race, to Michigan. Congrats, and
good luck to them in the [4]World Solar Challenge!"
Links
0. mailto:thegoalieman@@@yahoo...com
1. http://solar42.umr.edu/
2. http://www.americansolarchallenge.org/
3. http://americansolarchallenge.org/daily_race_standings.html
4. http://www.wsc.org.au/
The RIAA's Hit List Named
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2236234
[0]Carpoolio writes "[1]TechTV is the first I've seen to name names in
the fight between the RIAA and music downloaders. Using an [2]online
court records search service, they've [3]found a number of the
subpoenas served by the RIAA to ISPs, which will ultimately end in
lawsuits for the people named on this list. Right now, they've
published a number of the P2P user names filed with the US District
Court in Washington, DC, mainly Kazaa users. Are you on the list?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.techtv.com/
2. http://pacer.uscourts.gov/
3. http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3484600,00.html
Re-Opened Computer History Museum Explored
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2124255
[0]gosand writes "An article over at OSNews gives [1]a nice overview of
the recently re-opened Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
There are some good pictures in the article, and also [2]at the
Museum's website. They have a lot of very interesting computers,
including an Apple I (signed by Woz), an Enigma machine, and Crays 1,
2, and 3 (yes, there was a 3!) Maybe you have something sitting in your
basement that [3]you would like to donate?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4102
2. http://www.computerhistory.org/
3. http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/donateArtifact/
Microsoft's Patent Problem
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1947257
[0]pens writes "Microsoft suffered utter [1]defeat at a crucial
pretrial hearing in what appears to be the highest-stakes patent
litigation everÂone in which a tiny company called InterTrust
Technologies claims that 85% of Microsoft's entire product line
infringes its digital security patents."
Links
0. http://www.pensphreak.com
1. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,466180,00html
A Geek's Tour Of North America?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/032205
[0]PlanetThoughtful writes "Later this year I'm taking advantage of a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to backpack around the U.S. and Canada
(Sept 2003 to whenever I have to come home again). Being a lifelong
Australian geek (think of Steve Irwin and then stop, because I'm
nothing like that and neither is anyone else, Steve Irwin included) I'm
desperately curious: what would make it to the travel itinerary of
Slashdot's all-time geek-tour of North America? Think electronics,
architecture, astronomy, enlightenment! Think gadgets, bookstores,
software, comics, The Library Of Congress, The Smithsonian, Wanting To
See Really Amazing Things! Think travelling on a budget, then forget
about that if it's a 'You Must See This Before You Die' sort of
suggestion. And then stop thinking about these things, and actually
tell me!"
Links
0. http://www.planetthoughtful.org
Skeptical Reactions To SCO From Around The Globe
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1741234
Besides the recent action in Australia, lots of others are choosing to
make affirmative statements denying SCO's claims to own the name and
code of all things *nix. Read below for a wrap-up of some recent public
reactions to the SCO claims from a wide range of potential litigants
(if the SCO case gets that far): Japanese conglomerates, American
department stores, Bruce Perens, kernel developer Richard Gooch via
Mozillaquest, and Joe ("Citizen") Barr.
The Wifi Slugfest Over Portland's PGE Park
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1728242
[0]tomwhore writes "Portland's community wireless networking group,
Personal Telco Project (PTP), recently knocked one into the ball park
with a new WiFi node. The new node covers the area around and inside of
Portland's PGE Ballpark. While free internet access would be welcome by
most, PGE Park managers are not happy. They recently cut a deal giving
Comcast exclusive rights to do up their networking. 'This is our
stadium, and we run the communications for it,' said Chris Metz, a PGE
Park spokesman. To find out more about the impact of the PTPs latest
home run check out this article in the [1]Oregonian and over at the
[2]PTP's website." Let's hope the park also puts a Faraday cage around
the whole park to ensure radio silence.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1058962411244460.xml
2. http://www.personaltelco.net/static/
Freshmeat
amSynth 1.0 rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130272/
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.
BEAST/BSE 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130236/
BEAST (the BEdevilled Audio System) is a GTK+/GNOME-based frontend to
BSE (the Bedevilled Sound Engine). BSE comes with the abilities to
load/store songs and synthesis networks (in .bse files), play them
modify them, etc. BEAST provides the necessary GUI to make actual use
of BSE. Synthesis filters (BseSources) are implemented in shared
library modules, and get loaded on demand.
BHL 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130249/
BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain text files into
HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, SGML (Linuxdoc), and TXT files. The BHL mode
handles three levels of sections, many sectioning styles, common
font-styles, any kind of lists, tables, URLs, horizontal rules, and
Wiki names. BHL handles a list of links (lol) and a table of contents
(toc): you can browse the lol and the toc, insert them where you want,
and update the sections' numbers with one keystroke.
bobot++ 2.1.3 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130266/
bobot++ is an IRC bot written in C++. Being the evolution of bobot, it
provides time dependent commands, multichannel, flood control and many
other features.
bonddb 0.7.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130222/
bonddb is an object orientated wrapper for PostgreSQL. It's a fast data
abstraction layer written in C for C/C++ applications, to allow easy
access to class objects. You can use existing PostgreSQL databases
without any modification or additional tables needed in the backend.
BugMall Shopping Cart 2.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130276/
The BugMall Shopping Cart includes everything you need to create, run,
and manage an online store.
CalcChecksum 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130268/
CalcChecksum is a simple utility for calculating various checksums
easily with a graphical user interface.
CentralNic Toolkit 0.06 (Perl)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130223/
The CentralNic Toolkit is CentralNic's system for instantaneous
Registry-Registrar Communications. Registrars can use this system to
register and modify CentralNic domain names in real time, with no
delays for human intervention or e-mail processing. The Toolkit also
provides advanced and efficient methods for searching for and querying
domain names and whois records, and retrieving account information.
COnfigurator for Gnome 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130280/
COnfigurator for Gnome is a program for editing advanced GNOME settings
in an easy way.
Confirm 0.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130205/
Confirm is an email challenge-response system which virtually
eliminates all unsolicited email. It is written in C and procmail, and
is easily customized. Unsolicited email is checked against valid
sender/recipient headers; unauthorized email is held pending a one-time
confirmation reply from the sender.
cpufreq daemon 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130271/
cpufreqd is meant to be a replacement of the speedstep applet you can
find in Windows. It monitors battery level, AC state, and running
programs and adjusts the frequency governor according to a set of rules
specified in the config file.
CStyleX 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130221/
CStyleX provides ref.xsl, man.xsl, and proj.xsl XSLT transforms that
will convert an XML input file describing a library of C routines into
an HTML references, man pages, and a project Web page.
Enigmail 0.76.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130233/
Enigmail is a "plugin" for the mail client of Mozilla and
Netscape 7.x which allows users to access the authentication and
encryption features provided by the popular GnuPG software. Enigmail
can encrypt/sign mail when sending, and can decrypt/authenticate
received mail. It can also import/export public keys. Enigmail supports
both the inline PGP format and the PGP/MIME format, which can be used
to encrypt attachments. Enigmail is cross-platform, although binaries
are supplied only for a limited number of platforms. Enigmail uses
inter-process communication to execute GPG to carry out
encryption/authentication.
Epylog 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130290/
Epylog is a log notifier and parser that periodically tails system logs
on Unix systems, parses the output in order to present it in an easily
readable format (parsing modules currently exist only for Linux), and
mails the final report to the administrator. It can run daily or
hourly. Epylog is written specifically for large clusters where many
systems log to a single loghost using syslog or syslog-ng. Although
Epylog can be used on standalone systems, other packages (like
logwatch) are probably better suited for such purposes.
evilwm 0.99.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130225/
evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. It
maximises screen real estate and provides good keyboard control. It is
currently based on aewm.
FCKeditor 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130253/
FCKeditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP,
and JavaScript that brings to the Web much of the powerful
functionality of known desktop editors like Word. It's very
lightweight, and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client
computer.
FluxAqua 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130264/
FluxAqua is a pixmap-based Aqua theme. Developed from files found for
the Enlightenment XAquaX theme and the Blueflux style file, this is the
result of messing with Fluxbox themes and The GIMP in some spare time.
fortunes-random 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130199/
fortunes-random is a 'random' base of fortune strings (cookies). Some
of these are funny, while others are witty, or insulting etc.
FOX 1.1.32 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130204/
FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set
of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets,
and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop,
X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets,
timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a
registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or
OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix,
Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and
Sequent.
Galeon 1.3.7 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130198/
Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering
engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully
standards-compliant.
Gander 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130255/
Gander serves Python applications over HTTP by doing as little as
possible: a request for a root URL returns an index page, a request for
non-valid application returns "404: Resource NotFound", a
request for uninstantiated object returns "412: Object Not
Instantiated", and all other responses come from the Gander-served
application for which Gander translates URL-style requests into object
method-calls.
GNU Talk Filters 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130207/
The GNU Talk Filters are filter programs that convert ordinary English
text into text that mimics a stereotyped or otherwise humorous dialect.
These filters have been in the public domain for many years, but now
for the first time they are provided as a single integrated package.
The filters include b1ff, brooklyn, chef, cockney, drawl, fudd,
funetak, jethro, jive, kraut, pansy, postmodern, redneck, valspeak, and
warez. Each program reads from standard input and writes to standard
output. This version of the package also provides the filters as a C
library, so they can be easily embedded in other programs. A patch is
also included to integrate the talk filters with the GAIM instant
messenger program.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130239/
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.
Helix DNA Producer 9.2.0.306 (Milestone 5-Beta 1) (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130278/
The Helix DNA Producer is a multi-format media-encoding engine for
creating streaming broadcasts, on-demand streaming content, and
downloadable audio video files. It supports RealAudio, RealVideo, and
Ogg Vorbis, and includes many input and output filters, variable
bitrate encoding support, option for two-pass encoding, audio gain
control, and Firewire support.
IDMS Database Mail Agent 0.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130212/
IDMS Database Mail Agent is an effort to develop a highly-scalable,
plugin-based, database-driven mail agent, hopefully replacing the
commercial ones used by large ISPs today. It is cluster-friendly and
easily configurable. Web-based frontend support is available.
IOzone 3.191
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130289/
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and
measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many
machines and runs under many operating systems.
IVS Milter 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130210/
IVS Milter is a virus and spam scanning milter. It makes use of the
antivirus package ClamAV and can also read the headers generated by
SpamAssassin.
iWebXF 1.0-pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130286/
iWebXF is a Website engine which allows users to easily create an
uniform layout for a whole site. It can take care of XML documents as
long as the corresponding XSLT stylesheet for the document dialect is
provided. It has some features which facilitate the localization of a
Web site, can create dynamic menus, and includes a cache system.
JMyra 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130231/
JMyra is a Java logging and monitoring platform. Using its own
lightweight Web server you can view threads, properties, log messages,
runtime statistics, MBeans, and more. The log4j API, the Apache Commons
Logging API, and the java.util.logging API are supported in addition to
the JMyra logging API. JMyra uses an easy Web interface for nearly all)
configuration tasks. An integrated user management with fine-grained
access rights protects you if you are using JMyra to monitor your
server application.
Kleanux 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130248/
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 0.9.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130245/
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.
KMLDonkey 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130263/
KMLDonkey helps integrate the MLDonkey P2P software into KDE3. It
provides a replacement MLDonkey GUI using the KDE framework, ED2K link
handling in Konqueror, a Control Centre module for configuring MLDonkey
and client connectivity, and a panel applet for Kicker that displays
MLDonkey status and can launch the GUI on demand.
Krename 2.8.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130288/
Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename
a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the
files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename
supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename
to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every
word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing
parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and
modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.
LAN Instant Messenger 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130242/
LAN Instant Messenger is a client/server chat/messenger application
written entirely in Java. It supports common chat, direct messages,
colors, emoticons, secure login (CHAP-like), ICQ-like status,
experimental voice support, intuitive installation, and more.
LiteSpeed Web Server 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130251/
LiteSpeed Web Server is a full-featured, high-performance, secure, and
easy-to-use Web server that runs on Unix and Linux. It supports
HTTP/1.1, SSL, CGI, FastCGI, PHP, JSP, Servlets, GZIP compression, IP
level throttling, connection accounting, DoS attack prevention, and
instant recovery mechanisms. Installation is very easy with pre-built
binary. Administration and configuration is very easy through a Web
interface.
m3u2toc 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130208/
m3u2toc is a script which creates a CD-Text enabled cdrdao TOC file
from a XMMS MP3 playlist. For those who backup MP3s as CD audio and
want CD-Text data, this script takes the pain out of manually preparing
a TOC file with CD-Text author and title data by extracting that info
from MP3 ID3 tags.
Mailbox Copy 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130260/
Mailbox Copy is a set of tools to copy/archive email accounts. It works
with IMAP, mbox, and maildir mailboxes. You can use the copy tool to
migrate from one IMAP server to another, to archive your IMAP email to
a local mbox copy, to move some maildir email to an IMAP server, etc.
This project was previously called IMAP Copy/imapcp because it worked
only with IMAP. It has been renamed to reflect its more general
purpose.
Medialibrary 0.3b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130237/
Medialibrary catalogs all of your media files (on hard disk and CD).
You can browse, sort, search, and organize them once indexed. It
features a user-friendly GUI, hierarchical categories, ADC (.cat) file
support, search, and statistics, and MP3 ID3 parsing.
MiddleMan 1.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130244/
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to
remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing
the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include
banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic
authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular
expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular
expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to
temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a
requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent
connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for
configuring the proxy.
Mr Commander 0.1a-preview6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130217/
Mr Commander is a file manager based on GTK+ 2.0. It behaves like the
Total Commander program, which is available on MS Windows. It features
SMB and FTP support.
mypasswd_cgi 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130232/
mypasswd_cgi is a tool which allows users to update passwords stored in
a MySQL database. It was written for mysql_auth, a basic authenticator
module for Squid. With its configuration file, you can update any kind
of records that use MySQL. You can customize the style and language of
texts.
MySQL Database Server 4.0.14 (Production (4.0.x))
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130209/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a
client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld)
and many different client programs/libraries.
Naken Chat 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130228/
Naken Chat is a port of Javachat to C. Javachat can be directly
replaced with this server and the Java chat client or telnet client
will talk to it as if it was Javachat. Naken Chat is multithreaded
(like Javachat) and has all the features (channels, gagging,
squelching, private messages, etc) and has been tested on: Linux,
FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, and Win32.
Natural Docs 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130238/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code
documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so
the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation.
It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
NumericalChameleon 1.5.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130270/
The Numerical Chameleon converts numbers with a precision of up to 1000
significant figures. It supports more than 2300 units in 78 categories,
including lengths, areas, volumes, durations, bits & bytes, angles,
temperatures, exchange rates, Roman numerals, spoken numbers, all 35
radixes, unicode, colorcode, int. dial codes, and more. You have
unlimited access for adding, modifying, and deleting categories, units,
and icons. Update exchange rates with the GUI or at the commandline
(filters for 12 Web services are supported). All configuration data are
stored in flat files.
OpenVPN 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130235/
OpenVPN is a robust and highly configurable VPN (Virtual Private
Network) daemon which can be used to securely link two or more private
networks using an encrypted tunnel over the Internet. You can tunnel
any IP subnetwork or virtual ethernet adapter over a single UDP port,
use all of the encryption, authentication, and certification features
of the OpenSSL library to protect your private network traffic, use any
cipher, key size, or HMAC digest (for packet authentication) supported
by the OpenSSL library, choose between static-key based conventional
encryption or certificate-based public key encryption, use static or
TLS-based dynamic key exchange, and tunnel networks whose public
endpoints are dynamic such as DHCP clients or dial-in users.
Penguin Greetings 0.8.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130241/
Penguin Greetings is a Perl Web application to implement Internet
greeting cards on Linux and other Unix-based systems. It can be run as
a standard CGI application or as a persistent Perl interpreter (via
SpeedyCGI) for production settings. It also supports multiple sites
running on the same server. It includes a complete e-card Website with
85 cards for users who want a "plug and play" e-card
solution. It is intended to make e-cards more like email by using
multipart MIME email and including message text. The HTML for the cards
and the creation screens are stored in templates based on Embperl so
that users can completely customize the look of the program. Via
Embperl, Perl expressions can be incorporated into templates for
server-side processing. Access to the card creation functions can be
optionally restricted to users in an htpasswd file. Cards are emailed
and databases updated by a separate daemon program which allows for
card scheduling and improves security and logging. Extensive
documentation is provided as well as demonstration Web sites that make
full use of the Embperl scripting capabilities.
Perfect Blue for FluxBox 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130194/
This is a FluxBox port of the Window Maker theme called Perfect Blue.
It has a really fantastic CG background.
photos 4.0b3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130206/
photos is a Web-based photo database for storing metadata about digital
photos so you can find them again later. It supports adding photos one
at a time, or as a group by directory. It is intended to be run locally
but can be run on a remote Web server if you've got the space and the
bandwidth.
Pipe Viewer 0.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130229/
pv (Pipe Viewer) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress
of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline
between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data
is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it
is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
pmacct 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130234/
pmacct is a network tool to gather IP traffic information (bytes
counter and number of packets). Aggregation of statistics is done using
simple primitives (MAC addresses, source host, destination host, ports,
and IP protocols) that can be used alone or combined together to form
complex aggregation methods. Data is stored in a in-memory table or
using an SQL database (currently only MySQL). The content of the tables
can be later retrieved by a client program or via an SQL client for
simple output or export to other programs, such as MRTG. Gathering
packets off the wire is done using the pcap library and the promiscuous
mode of network interfaces.
Prayer Request Program 1.0 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130201/
Prayer Request Program is meant to be a way of keeping track of prayer
requests for yourself and eventually for a group, such as a Sunday
School class, Bible study group, or anything else you can think of. It
tracks the user that submitted the request, the date requested, the
date answered, if it is a private request or viewable by everyone, and
the request itself.
PXES Linux Thin Client 0.6-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130214/
PXES is a micro Linux distribution for thin clients that converts any
suitable machine into a versatile thin client within minutes. It can
access XDM servers presenting a graphical login screen, Microsoft
Terminal Servers, Citrix ICA, and VNC servers, or a local X session
with simple desktop and window manager. A graphical configuration tool
allows parameters such as the server to be set. Local devices can be
accessed, including sound, printers, and disks. It boots on a variety
of hardware, and does not require NFS. It can be used over low
bandwidth WAN and VPN connections, and can also be booted from local
media like hard disk and CD-ROMs where network boot cannot be used.
Quick Spam Filter 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130227/
Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning
to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than
non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email
as being possible spam.
rdiff-backup 0.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130203/
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another. The target directory
ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are
stored in a special directory so you can still recover files lost some
time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an
incremental backup. rdiff-backup can also operate in a bandwidth-
efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup
and ssh to securely back up to a remote location, and only the
differences will be transmitted. It can also handle symlinks, device
files, permissions, ownership, etc., so it can be used on the entire
file system.
Sacred 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130279/
SACRED is an enhanced version of the ROM 2.4b6 codebase. The
enhancements include new player skills, spells, classes, and races.
Also included are arenas, OLC, Mud Compression Protocol, a Clan system,
new flags, questing, color, automatic auctions, enhanced immortal
utilities, spellchecking, hints, and many more features.
Secure FTP Wrapper 2.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130216/
Secure FTP Wrapper is a server based package that enables an existing
FTP server to become a Secure FTP server. In this release the wrapper
allows a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection to be made to your FTP
server.
Sigit 0.2.4 (Diku-Patch)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130187/
Sigit is a customisable signature creator that can be run either as a
daemon or as a normal foreground process. It allows you to have a
changing signature. If it's configured correctly, it will also change
the information displayed when someone fingers you. It also supports
multiple signature files for different newsgroups, and NFS-mounted
$HOME shares.
SoftwareHouse SPSS Utils 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130213/
SoftwareHouse SPSS Utils is a collection of Java classes that help with
manipulation of SPSS data files.
sqlDESKTOP 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130258/
sqlDESKTOP is a computerized manual filing system arranged just like an
ordinary office with pictures of real cabinets and real folders. You
can arrange by project, by department or whatever makes sense to you.
sqlDESKTOP doesn't tell you how to organize, it lets you do things your
own way. Documents are easy to find because you don't have to remember
the exact name of the document or where you put it. Instead, you can
visually locate what you are looking for in a familiar office
environment and click on it.
swaret 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130252/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions
similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
tin 1.6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130267/
Tin is a powerful text mode news reader. It features threaded news
reading, regex driven killfiles/message selections, pgp encryption,
ispell support, and can read from both a local spool or from a remote
NNTP server.
TOEJAM 3.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130211/
TOEJAM is a telephone answering machine. It uses a voice modem as the
base of an IVR system, and sends its results via email. Only the US
Robotics 56K Pro Msg is currently supported, though the USR Sportster
may work.
Vesta 2.1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130240/
Vesta is an advanced system for source code control, versioning,
configuration management, and building. It is an alternative to
CVS+make. It has a variety of unique features including automatic
language-independent dependency detection, guaranteed repeatability of
builds, and seamless multi-site collaboration.
viPlugin 0.1.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130284/
viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors
that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.).
WeDeS 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130226/
WeDeS is a WEbsite DEployment System, featuring Smarty templates, user
management, PEAR DB, and user modules. It can be used for a wide range
of PHP Web applications.
Winzig 1.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130202/
Winzig is suite of a PIM style applications written in Python/GTK. It
includes an address book, a calculator, a calendar, and a todo list. It
was written with small code size and small screen real estate usage in
mind and should be suitable for PDAs.
yawk 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130215/
yawk is a wiki clone written in gawk. It supports the usual text
styles, lists, and tables. Additional and optional features are
formatting with stylesheet classes, file uploads, and a framed user
interface mode. It works on plain text files and does not require a
database.
Slashcode
Slash on server running Livejournal?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0035257
Maybe this is the wrong venue to ask in, and I'm sorry if it is, but
this question has been nagging me for about the past week or so. I have
a personal server running Slackware 8 with a custom-compiled Apache
1.3.27 (with the appropriate mod_perl) and MySQL 4.0.13. This server is
currently running the LiveJournal server code and works quite well at
this. I'm interested in attempting to set up slash for personal use
(the Livejournal code is running for personal use as well), and herein
lies the question. Can slash be run on the same server in another
VirtualHost without having a separate apache installation/process and
doing some fancy trick with mod_rewrite? Or am I asking too much? I
will be happy to provide any further info anyone needs through e-mail
(the e-mail link above is NOT spam-armored at all).
QubitNews is finally launched!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0030227
QubitNews: News and Inforation from the Quantum Community. This is
conceived as a meeting-point for the community working in the fast
developing field of Quantum Information and Computation. This is an
open and free project devoted to the exchange of information in this
field.: news, stories, announcements, comments of scientific work,
debates, polls, forums, etc... Many aspects of your work that cannot
appear in scientific journals may find a place here. The main feature
of QubitNews is that it is dynamical: you are wellcome to participate
and modify the look and feel of this site. You may become an anonymous
user, site user or an Author. Visit the homepage and consult the
documents About, FAQ, How-To and GettingStarted. It may be useful,
helpful and a lot of fun.
Tuxedo.org Now running Slashcode
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2014232
Tuxedo.org is now running Slashcode. I should have done this a couple
of years ago... Most recent story is Linus Torvalds Comments on SCO
Lawsuit and Linux. Hope you all enjoy the new site! --Chuck Peters
Best hosting service for Slash?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1449209
I'm going to be doing some "big things" with Slashcode but am
interested in going through someone to set up Slashcode and the server,
so that I can just right in and start building the site. What are the
best hosting services out there? Will they set up Slash for me? What
kinds of experiences have people had?
Dissociated Press goes Slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1442252
After a bit of poking and prodding, I've converted Dissociated Press to
Slashcode (2.2.6). Works great!
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.
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