O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER July 26, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Rilke CMS provides easy content management for non-geeks. It allows you to easily publish a weblog, update a public website, or collaborate on a private Intranet site. This release is a feature and bug fix release. Rilke CMS 0.8.4 has two new themes (Lax and Highlite), dates next to post titles in the All Posts page, a better looking Log-In page, better compatibility with Mozilla 1.5 alpha, a new way to preview themes (without needing pre-captured images) and other miscellaneous changes. You can download version 0.8.4 here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rilkecms/rilkecms_084.zip?download A live demo is available at: http://www.rilkecms.com/demo/ Your feedback is welcome. For a detailed list of the bugs fixed please review the changelog: http://www.rilkecms.com/changelog.html . For detailed general, technical and setup information, please review the readme: http://www.rilkecms.com/readme.html . PPR 1.51 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296155 Version 1.51 of PPR has been released. PPR is a print spooler especially designed to work with PostScript printers and with Ghostscript. It supports parallel ports, serial ports, SMB, TCP/IP, and AppleTalk. It has command line and web interfaces. make++ version 1.19 (stable) released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296190 make++ (or makepp) is a powerful but nearly 100% compatible replacement for make that includes many features required for reliable builds of complicated projects, such as automatic include file dependencies, automatic recompilation if build commands change, easy handling of makefiles from multiple directories without recursive make, repositories, and extensibility in perl. Version 1.19 introduces reorganized and improved documentation, target-specific assignments, improvements in repositories, and a number of minor bug fixes. Updated documentation and release notes are available at http://makepp.sourceforge.net/1.19/makepp.html The release can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43679. Turck MMCache for PHP version 2.3.20 is released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296199 Turck MMCache is a PHP Accelerator, Optimizer, Encoder and Dynamic Content Cache. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. Also it uses some optimizations for speed up of PHP scripts execution. Turck MMCache typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times. It has been tested with PHP 4.1.0 - 4.3.2 under Linux and Windows with Apache 1.3 and 2.0. Optimizer for ZE2 was implemented. Optimization of extension_loaded() was fixed for encoded scripts. Optimization of was fixed. "mmcache.compress" configuration directive was added to enable or disable cached content compression. "mmcache_password.php" and "encoder.php" now can work from web and from command line. Proper "__FILE__" handling in encoded files was implemented. PHP constant MMCACHE_VERSION was introduced. JFreeChart 0.9.10 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296220 A new version of JFreeChart has been released. The focus of this release is the support for multiple range axes (instead of the current limit of 2 range axes per chart). Some other minor enhancements and bug fixes are also included. JFreeChart is a class library, written in Java, for generating charts. Utilising the Java2D APIs, it currently supports bar charts, pie charts, line charts, XY-plots and time series plots. Slashdot Kroupware Komplete http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/2140238 sorinm writes "The three companies behind the [0]Kroupware Project (Erfrakon, Intevation and Klarälvdalens Datakonsult) [1]announced its successful completion today. This new groupware approach using only Free Software is now available in stable versions under the Kolab brand name. Commercial support on an individual basis is already offered with further support options to come." Links 0. http://kroupware.org/ 1. http://kroupware.org/news/pr-20030725.html Big Blue to take on Pixar? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/2053248 spareacct1 writes "USAToday is reporting that IBM is set to announce a strategic partnership with Threshold Digital Research Labs of Santa Monica, CA. TDRL now hopes it has the deep pockets and computing power to [0]take on Pixar as the undisputed leader in CG animated films. TDRL's [1]spartan website is showing off digital stills. Interesting sidebar at the end of the story, both Pixar and TDRL recently dumped Sun and MS, respectively, in favor of Linux." Links 0. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2003-07-24-ibm_x.htm 1. http://www.threshold-digital.com/ $50 Aerial Digital Photography from a Balloon http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1944236 jizmonkey writes "[0]This guy built a [1]balloon to take digital aerial photographs from thousands of feet up. It cost less than $50 altogether, including the image sensor, controller, and balloon. The circuit is surprisingly straightforward: just a hacked [2]Vivitar minicamera, a [3]555 timer chip driving a relay through a voltage regulator, and a one-meter party balloon like the ones you see at used car dealerships. It just so happens that the entire circuit, strapped to a piece of a pizza box and tied to a really long string, is light enough to be lifted by the balloon. What could low-cost aerial photography be used for? I'm sure [4]some people have some ideas...." Links 0. http://www.stanford.edu/~lindholm/index.html 1. http://www.stanford.edu/~lindholm/chpro_bal.html 2. http://vivitar.com/Products/DigCams/VGAdsc.html#v5 3. http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/gadgets/555/555.html 4. http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/16/wbr.00.html PKWare Files a Patent Application for Secure .zip http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1942214 [0]prostoalex writes "The [1]battle of ZIP formats might intensify as [2]PKWare filed an application with USPTO to obtain a patent on its Secure Zip technology, which pretty much involves archiving with strong cryptography. If the patent gets granted, PKWare will license its algorithms for other software manufacturers. A representative of Aladdin Systems summed it up: "The good thing about the .zip file format was that you knew you could send it to everyone. Now that's getting broke."" Links 0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/ 1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1542216&tid=185 2. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=2&u=/pcworld/111758 Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1920251 cybercuzco writes "In an otherwise innocuous article at they NYT (FRRYYY) Bill Gates says that according to error reporting software in windows, [0]5% of all windows installations crash two or more times every day. Gates goes on to state that Microsoft is looking at charging for some of its software updates that it now distributes for free." Links 0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/technology/25SOFT.html Don't Waste Culture, Recycle Art http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/192210 [0]Eddan Katz writes "Stepping up the copyright battle on behalf of artists, EFF is hosting an event tonight called [1]Digital Mix at the [2]Black Box in Oakland. Between laptop music, hip hop, and illegal art films, speakers will talk about the Creative Commons [3]sampling license and EFF's [4]"Let the Music Play" campaign." Links 0. http://www.biplog.com/ 1. http://www.eff.org/events/digitalmix/ 2. http://www.oaklandbox.com/ 3. http://creativecommons.org/discuss#sampling 4. http://eff.org/share/ Petri Dish Babies, 25 Years Later http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1839242 bl8n8r writes ""You [0]can't buy a baby in the United States," said Caplan. "... But you can buy the sperm, you can buy the egg and you can rent the uterus." So, what I want to know is if it's cheaper than my current apartment, and if utilities are included :D" See also a [1]good story about IVF in the Mercury News. Links 0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/parenting/07/25/ivf.anniversary/indexhtml 1. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/6372762.htm Why Outsource When Workers are Willing to Telecommute? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/1757205 An anonymous reader asks: "Corporations and management [0]resisted [1]telecommuting for years, now [2]jobs [3]flow to distant nations. Did [4]telecommuting become acceptable because of the greater distance? Because some form of on-site management persists? Because labor laws are favorable? Because a well paid middle class is a political [5]threat? Is it [6]really as simple as [7]money? I'll work cheaper if I can [8]choose where I live and work. Must I leave my country to do so?" Links 0. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/07/191237&tid=99 1. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/16/213232&tid=126 2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1848201&tid=98 3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1226232&tid=98 4. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/28/2358206&tid=126 5. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/0154219&tid=158 6. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/25/1356250&tid=98 7. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/05/2159244&tid=98 8. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/01/1912255&tid=99 Your Own Linux Wireless Access Point http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1553223 [0]prostoalex writes "Peter Seebach [1]decided to build his own Linux-based 802.11b wireless access point. The article on IBM DeveloperWorks talks about the hardware and software requirements, implementing the operating system on the CompactFlash card, loading Apache and Perl onto the server. The build-it-yourself wireless point is not going to be cheaper than commercially available products, but its educational value is immense." And HaeMaker writes "We have all seen the 802.11b/g booster made from a Pringles can. Well, [2]these guys have taken the idea, put some math behind it to find the optimal can size and have turned it in to a cool product." Links 0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/jobs/ 1. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-wap.html?ca=dnt-429 2. http://www.cantenna.com/ The Open Group's New Open Source Strategy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1517236 [0]Bruce Perens writes "The Open Group hasn't always had the best reputation in the Open Source community, mostly because of their handling of Motif, which remained proprietary for much too long. But there's no arguing with the success of our community, and now the Open Group leadership understands that their organization must be fully involved in Open Source... or it's time for them to change their name. To that end, the Open Group contracted me to develop an Open Source strategy for their organization. The [1]draft strategy has been published and they are requesting comment. - Bruce" Links 0. http://bruce AT perens DOT com 1. http://www.opengroup.org/tech/open-source/opengroup-os-strategy.htm Freshmeat 7 0.1 (Matrix) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130431/ 7 is a theme built around the number 7 on a telephone keypad. AbstractDB 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130450/ AbstractDB is a PHP wrapper class which provides easy and simple class methods to access the most important database functions. It contains classes implementing the functionality for native PHP functions (MySQL), PEAR, PHPLIB, ADOdb, and METABASE. It allows you to switch between these database abstraction layers by changing only a single line of code, allowing you to use a unified abstraction layer for database access. Access Point Utilities for Unix 1.3.3-pre1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130537/ Access Point Utilities for Unix is a set of utilities that configure and monitor a Wireless Access Point under Unix. It is known to compile (with GCC and the IBM C compiler) and run under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X, AIX, and QNX. Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy 0.3.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130503/ The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform independent SMTP Proxy server which implements whitelists and Bayesian filtering to help stop unsolicited commercial email (UCE). Anti-spam tools should be adaptive to new spam and customized for each siteÂs email patterns. This easy to use tool works with any mail transport and achieves these goals requiring no operator intervention after the initial setup phase. Author.CMS 3.3.5 (e-Commerce) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130461/ Author CMS is a flexible and scalable content management system. It has a usability-tested administration interface, a special installer that easily installs the system on your server, high-level functions that save considerable templates coding time, and a WYSIWYG editor. Autogg 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130451/ Autogg is an Ogg player that categorizes music independent of the catalog structure. It is using the tags to sort by album and artist. Music can be inserted into the playlist from a tree list. Bourne Again IRC Client 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130463/ Bourne Again IRC Client is a single-file client written entirely in BASH. It supports basic commands and has a nice GUI. Build it Fast 0.1.16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130469/ Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of time. It brings the concept of the 'widget' to Web development. It features Cascade Skins and transparent session management. CCT Chinese TeX system 0.5.0-3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130438/ CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the Academy of Sciences in Beijing. CentralNic Toolkit 0.0.6 (PHP) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130475/ 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. CheckRDF 37.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130439/ CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program, for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and in an HTML file. It is highly configurable. Complex Grid-Type Logic Problem Solver 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130499/ Puzzled is a program which will ultimately help you solve complex grid-type logic problems by understanding pseudo-English translations of the clues provided with the problem. It can automatically reassess clues containing comparative information (or, more than, less than, next to), and it has the persistent software preferences characteristic. It comes with a pseudo-English language parser which supports the following relationships: is, is not, more than, less than, next to, not next to, and, or, and shorthand equivalents. convmv 1.05 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130479/ convmv converts filenames (not file content), directories, and even whole filesystems to a different encoding. This comes in very handy if, for example, one switches from an 8-bit locale to an UTF-8 locale. It has some smart features: it automagically recognises if a file is already UTF-8 encoded (thus partly converted filesystems can be fully moved to UTF-8) and it also takes care of symlinks. Additionally, it is able to convert from normalization form C (UTF-8 NFC) to NFD and vice-versa. This is important for interoperability with Mac OS X, for example, which uses NFD, while Linux and most other Unixes use NFC. Though it's primary written to convert from/to UTF-8 it can also be used with almost any other charset encoding. Note that this is a command line tool which requires at least Perl version 5.8.0. doxygen 1.3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130508/ Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like documentation system for C++, C, C#, Java, IDL, and PHP. Doxygen can be used to generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX or RTF) from a set of source files. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code-structure from undocumented source files. This includes dependency graphs, class diagrams and hyperlinked source code. This type of information can be very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions. DrJava 20030724 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130517/ DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. It is under active development by the JavaPLT research group at Rice University, but it is also stable and is currently being used by students, teachers and other developers. A Java 2 v1.3-compliant Java virtual machine is required. fli4l 2.1.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130530/ fli4l is a single-floppy Linux-based ISDN/DSL/ethernet-router. It features configuration with some simple ASCII-files, several possible connection-flavors (in/out/callback, and raw IP/PPP), channel bundling (an extra channel can be added through a Windows/Unix-client), configuration of multiple networks, least-cost routing, automatic choice of provider, display/calculation of connection times and costs, and a Windows/Unix client to control dial/hangup, monitor traffic and monitor incoming calls on ISDN (see screenshot). FluxAqua 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130501/ 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. Flyspray 0.9.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130452/ Originally developed for the Psi project, Flyspray is an easy to use bug tracking system for those who don't require all the complexities of something like Bugzilla. It supports multiple users, file attachments, and Jabber notifications. gamem4 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130509/ gamem4 is a collection of autoconf/automake m4 files for facilitating game programming in an easier and more portable fashion. GECO 0.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130507/ Geco is an ERP/e-commerce/e-procurement solution for Italian Small-Medium Enterprises (PMI), and is especially suited for accounting/financial purposes. Written in pure PHP (with extensive use of OOP), it can run both in ASP and in "Linux box" mode, and the look and feel is provided by the use of stylesheets for quick and easy personalization. gperiodic 2.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130440/ gperiodic is a program for browsing the periodic table and looking up data for different elements. It also features a non-graphical interface. gpsdrive 2.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130535/ Gpsdrive is a map-based navigation system. It displays your position on a zoomable map provided from a NMEA-capable GPS receiver. The maps are autoselected for the best resolution, depending of your position, and the displayed image can be zoomed. Maps can be downloaded from the Internet with one mouse click. The program provides information about speed, direction, bearing, arrival time, actual position, and target position. Speech output is also available. Gtk2-Perl 0.91 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130487/ Gtk2-Perl allows Perl developers to write GTK+ 2.x applications. The bindings use an object oriented syntax that attempts to remain close to the C API, but take a Perlish approach where appropriate. GtkAtlantic 0.2.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130488/ GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd servers. Gtkboard 0.10.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130511/ Gtkboard is a board game architecture and implementation. It implements all the common aspects of board games, such as the user interface, move parsing code, AI (i.e., game tree search) and file format. It has a simple API which makes it very easy to write a new game. Games are fitted in as plugins. Currently more than 15 games have been fully or partially implemented. GTKtalog 1.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130493/ GTKtalog is an archiver to store a CD file tree structure. It can be used to easily browse a CD-ROM database. Each disk, folder and file has a size, date, category, description, and content parameter and can be completely edited or deleted. The file search module can do searches on filename, foldername with name, category description, date, filesize, and content parameter. Each filetype has its own icon. It possible to use programs like tar, arj, zip, or scripts to extract information from files to include in the database. Gtktalog can mount, scan, umount, and eject a CD-ROM in the background. hasciicam 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130489/ Hasciicam makes it possible to have live ASCII video on the Web. It captures video from a TV card and renders it into ASCII, formatting the output into an HTML page with a refresh tag or in a live ASCII window or in a simple text file as well, giving anyone that has a bttv card, a Linux box, and a cheap modem line the ability to show a live asciivideo feed that can be browsable without any need for a plugin, Java, etc. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet 1979 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130492/ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet is a German introduction to the technical aspects of the Internet. This book explains both the low-level protocols like IP, TCP, and UDP and the high-level protocols like SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, and DNS. Hotani Web Template 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130532/ Hotani Web Template is a Web page template with discussions, article posting ability, and polls. Once installed, it can be administered from the page itself to make new polls, post articles, and create discussion threads and new periodicals. ion-cms 0.8.1_06 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130356/ ion-cms is a Content Management System which uses J2EE and XML. It is compliant with J2EE standards and uses XML to define content structures, XSL to provide rendered contents in many formats (HTML, XML, PDF, TXT, etc.), and JSP with JSTL as a template system. Japha 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130433/ The Japha API is an attempt to port most of the major classes/packages in the Java 1.4.1 API to PHP for use in everyday applications. It includes, but is not limited to java.lang classes, HTTP, I/O, database abstraction, and a growing package for automated HTML creation called 'Phing'. PHP 5 is required. Just4Log R0_4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130518/ Just4Log is a library to dynamically enhance the performance of various Java logging systems inside a Java application. The source code in Java is not modified, but the optimization occurs on the compiled bytecode files. It optimizes bytecode from Log4j, Apache Commons, and JDK 1.4 java.util.logging. It can also automatically add "enter" and "exit" logs at every exit and entry point of methods. An Ant task offers integration in Ant scripts. Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler 1.3.3pre16 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130476/ The Kent Retargettable Occam Compiler is a multi-platform Occam 2.1 compiler that is designed to allow the Occam programming language to be used on non-Transputer platforms. kses 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130459/ kses is an HTML/XHTML filter written in PHP. It removes all unwanted HTML elements and attributes, no matter how malformed the HTML input you give it. It also does several checks on attribute values. It can be used to avoid Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Buffer Overflows, and Denial of Service attacks. libASSA 3.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130485/ libASSA is an OO C++ UNIX networking library based on some of the design patterns such as Configurator, Reactor, Acceptor, and Connector collectively known as Adaptive Communication Patterns described in various papers published by Dr. D. C. Schmidt. libexif 0.5.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130465/ Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags. liblohs 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130432/ liblohs is a library to control the LOHS family of Optical Mark Reader devices. LibTomCrypt 0.80 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130498/ LibTomCrypt is a comprehensive, modular, and portable cryptographic toolkit that provides developers with a vast array of well known published block ciphers, one-way hash functions, chaining modes, pseudo- random number generators, public key cryptography, and a plethora of other routines. It has been designed from the ground up to be very simple to use. It has a modular and standard API that allows new ciphers, hashes, and PRNGs to be added or removed without change to the overall end application. It features easy to use functions and a complete user manual which has many source snippet examples. macstl 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130533/ MacSTL is a C++ source library designed to bring the Macintosh into the world of modern generic programming. It offers a new implementation of std::valarray optimized for the Altivec. Even with Altivec optimizations off, it is almost 2x faster than gcc, due to the ruthless weeding out of redundant loads and stores. Much of the code base is cross-platform and the Altivec optimizations are encapsulated in a traits class, making it straightforward to target other vector processors like Intel SSE2, GPUs, etc. The Mach copy-on-write vector is a partial specialization of std::vector for the Mach allocator. It neatly uses the OS vm_copy facility to "get around" thread safety issues when doing copy-on-write and reference counting. As a result, std::vector can be copied, passed back by value and enlarged without the same overheads. MacXM 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130539/ MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection. Maintain 2.1-beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130528/ Maintain is a multi-user, Web-based management tool for managing host information for building DNS, DHCP, VMPS, and Radius configurations. makepp 1.19 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130434/ makepp is a syntax-compatible reimplementation of make designed for more reliable builds and simpler makefiles. It scans automatically for include files, handles builds involving multiple directories in a much simpler and more reliable fashion, supports transparently putting object files in a different directory, can automatically import files from a central repository, won't rebuild if only comments and indentation have changed, knows to rebuild if the build commands change, has wildcards which match files which don't exist yet but can be built, and can be extended by embedding Perl code in the makefile. man-pages 1.58 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130490/ The manpages package contains a large collection of man pages for Linux covering programming APIs, file formats, protocols, etc. Mango 0.26 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130436/ Mango is recipe management software. The main motivation of the project is to provide an open source Mealmaster compatible application. MegaPov 1.1.0 (Tree Generator) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130442/ MegaPOV is a version of POV-Ray that features various custom and unofficial patches. Mini-XML 1.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130468/ Mini-XML is a small XML parsing library that you can use to read XML and XML-like data files in your application without requiring large non-standard libraries. It only requires an ANSI C compatible compiler (GCC works, as do most vendors' ANSI C compilers) and a "make" program. It supports reading and writing of UTF-8 encoded XML files, and provides a hierarchical view of the file via a linked-list tree structure of typed nodes and functions for managing, traversing, and searching the tree. MP-MPICH 24-07-03 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130483/ 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. MyDNS 0.9.12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130456/ MyDNS is a free DNS server for Unix which was implemented from scratch and is designed to serve DNS data directly from a MySQL or PostgreSQL database. mysqlBind 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130486/ myqslBind manages multiple DNS/BIND (8 and 9) name servers. It automates updates to multiple DNS servers, centralizes and stores all zone and resource records for sets of related name servers (ns0...nsN.yourisp.net), and even manages different name server sets from a single browser-based interface. Unlimited master and slave name servers update their zone information via a job queue system that uses MySQL socket connections. Advanced operations can use mySQL replication clusters for high availability and redundancy. Large ISPs and other organizations should note that they can easily add SQL functions to customize the program for their special needs. It supports authentication via SSL Unix password login, SSL personal certificate, or IP-based access with multiple permission levels and individual record ownership. It is also compatible with mysqlISP. MörkGryning 0.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130399/ MörkGryning is a theme based on the cover of black metal band Mörk Gryning's album "Maelstrom Chaos". The main colors are red, black, and orange. The font used is aqui from the fluxbox artwiz font package. naim 0.11.6 (Release) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130472/ naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports IRC, ICQ, and Lily CMC. For AIM and ICQ, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving naim's classic look and feel. nanoweb 2.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130506/ Nanoweb is a modular Web server written in PHP. It is designed to be small, secure, and extensible. It is HTTP/1.1 compliant and has decent performance, CGI and FastCGI support, a nice configuration system, name-based virtual hosts, server side includes, authentication, gzip content encoding support, Apache combined format and MySQL logging, and many advanced features. Newts 0.11.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130496/ Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and additional clients. ObjectBrowser Bean 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130448/ The ObjectBrowser Bean uses Java reflection to generate a file-explorer-like GUI automatically for any Java object or set of objects. It incorporates a number of features aimed at making the UI useable, such as special treatment of array-like members as child objects, and representation of bean getter and setter methods as properties. Scripting can be used to add in additional methods to manipulate the target object. Objects Only Web Application Framework 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130200/ Objects only is a Web application framework. It is designed to enable people to build simple sites easily and quickly. It handles persistence, error checking, automatic mapping of form data to objects, and much more. Designed for smaller Web sites, it is perfect for such applications as news sites, blogs, photo sites, and simple database applications. ocre 0.011 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130449/ OCRE reads an image file and writes ascii characters. PackdDir utils 0.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130526/ PackdDir utils is a collection of utilities that can unpack PackdDir archives. PackdDir files are famous for being the archive format of Quake (I and II). pam_usb 0.1-beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130513/ pam_usb is a PAM module that enables authentication using an USB-Storage device (such as an USB Pen) through PAM. It can work with any application using PAM such as your system login (login), your X login (XDM/KDM/GDM), your screensaver (xscreensaver), and many others. It supports multiple users for the same device, multiple passwords for the same user (based on the system's hostname), and serial numbers access list. Pan 0.14.0.92 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130522/ Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans. patchutils 0.2.24 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130491/ Patchutils contains a collection of tools for manipulating patch files: interdiff, combinediff, flipdiff, filterdiff, fixcvsdiff, rediff, lsdiff, grepdiff, splitdiff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff. You can use interdiff to create an incremental patch between two patches that are against a common source tree, combinediff for creating a cumulative diff from two incremental patches, and flipdiff to transpose two incremental patches. Filterdiff is for extracting or excluding patches from a patch set based on modified files matching shell wildcards. Lsdiff lists modified files in a patch. Rediff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff correct hand-edited (or otherwise broken) patches. Performance Application Programming Interface 2.3.4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130481/ PAPI aims to provide the tool designer and application engineer with a consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors. Petal 0.70.0beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/130480/ Petal helps maintain the owner, group, and mode on trees of files by recalling this information from a configuration file. In turn, this allows system administrators to separate the publication of files (e.g. pulling system configurations from a change management system) from their presentation (tweaking the owner/group/mode to satisfaction). If recursive chown/chmod commands provide inadequate precision for your needs, Petal may be the tool for you. phpSERA 0.2rc5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130437/ phpSERA is a tool for Search Engine Ranking Analysis (SERA). The rankings are based on parsing output of search engines, using simple regular expressions. Given one or more search engines, one or more keyphrases and a single URL to look for, it connects to the search engine(s), parses the result pages, and displays a ranking report. POVRAY 1 (Mega) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130504/ POVray, the Persistence Of Vision Raytracing Toolkit, is a very powerful Raytracing software. It runs on MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Linux, Macintosh, SunOS, Unix and Amiga. PPR 1.51 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130474/ PPR is a Unix print spooler expressly designed for operating PostScript printers. Its features are numerous, and it supports printers connected to parallel or serial ports, or over the network through AppleTalk, LanManager, LPD, and TCP/IP protocols. It accepts jobs from Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Unix clients. If the input file is not PostScript, it can pipe the input through a filter. PPR has been designed to manage large numbers of printers with minimal operator attention. It has command line and Web interfaces. Q Engine 1.1.0 alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/130454/ Q Engine is a cross-platform development system for games and interactive 3D applications. Its design strengths include built-in streaming, outstanding visual quality, and high-productivity development tools for deployment on Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, Linux, and Microsoft Windows. QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130519/ 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. Rate 0.81 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130477/ Rate is a Swiss-Army-knife bandwidth measurement tool. Its primary application is calculating the bandwidth used by packets matching a given BPF packet filter expression, which can really help a network administrator see what is happening at a software-based router at the moment. Administrators can measure the traffic generated by a single host or by a whole subnet, and measure HTTP traffic, broadcast traffic, quake traffic, etc. It can also be used for generating per-IP statistics and for determining nodes that generate highest traffic; it has a special operation mode for it. Additionally, it is able to extract strings from packets based on a POSIX regular expression. RPL/2 4.00pre7b (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130464/ RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL made by Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions (preprocessor, compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can draw graphics. Safari Bookmarks Extractor 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130500/ Safari Bookmarks Extractor is a simple application (Cocoa + AppleScript) to convert all your Safari bookmarks (XML-PList) into a HTML links file. SafeClean 2.3.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130516/ SafeClean quickly removes Internet history files, caches, bookmarks, email, and conversation logs that can allow others to find out what you have been doing on the Internet, possibly revealing personal and potentially compromising information. It allows you to permanently destroy information about your Web browsing activities, private email messages, and even information on your use of Instant Messenger programs. It is easy to use, and provides a one-click method to protect your Internet privacy. For power users, SafeClean is completely configurable so that you can decide which types of information or which Internet applications you wish to clean for privacy purposes. SafeShred 2.1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130514/ Personal files thrown into the Trash still exist buried in your computer's hard drive. SafeShred permanently deletes files and folders, shreds entire drives, and even shreds files you've already Trashed. SGrViewer 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130462/ SGrViewer is an image viewer for X11. It can read image lists and HTML documents from local disks or from the Internet via the HTTP protocol. It supports slideshows, sorts, searching for duplicates, and the use of locale-specific charsets. sord 0.4.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130494/ sord is a C++ library that wraps around the operating system API for reading directories. It is cross-platform and thread-safe. SoulSeek for Linux 1.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130466/ Soulseek (http://www.slsk.org) is a communication and file-sharing system. It is quite similar to Napster: it lets you exchange files, search for files, chat with other users in public and in private, browse their files, and get recommendations for music. SoulSeek for Linux is a GUI client for the system written in Python/wxPython. It includes all the major functionality: chat, searches, and file transfers. squid_redirect 3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130538/ squid_redirect uses a list of patterns to zap annoying ad banners from Web pages, inserting a placeholder image. It lives in a Web proxy and so requires no special browser facilities. It's readily customizable, small, fast, and easy to install. Support Information Tracker 1.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130458/ Support Information Tracker is a knowledge base for organizations. Features include multiple document versions, group permissions, document submission reviews, and many more. SuSE-Get 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130455/ SuSE-Get is a small tool for downloading packages for the SuSE distribution from SuSE's FTP server. It is most handy when you don't have the CDs around or are working on a remote server. It supports searching for filenames (e.g., you can tell it to install Apache, and it will ask whether you would like to install apache-1.3 or apache2-2.0). It does not support dependency checking, but for everyone who knows how to use the RPM command, it will be very handy. Sylpheed 0.9.4 (Main) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130453/ Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display, and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format. TestMaker 4.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130520/ TestMaker delivers a rich environment for building and running intelligent test agents that test Web-enabled applications for scalability, functionality, and performance. It comes with a friendly graphical user environment, an object-oriented scripting language (Jython) to build intelligent test agents, an extensible library of protocol handlers (HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, XML-RPC, SMTP, POP3, IMAP), a new agent wizard featuring an Agent Recorder to write scripts for you, a library of fully-functional sample test agents, and shell scripts to run test agents from the command line and from unit test utilities. The Gimp 1.3.17 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130470/ The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc. Thy 0.6.340 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130502/ Thy is a lightweight HTTP daemon that is designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day. Despite its small size, it supports CGI, IPv6, SSL/TLS, and on-the-fly compression. timeline 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130510/ timeline generates a graphic historic timeline in some formats (HTML, PS, text, PNG, etc.) based on a source file. Trinity Rescue Kit 1.1 build 98 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130443/ Trinity Rescue Kit is a small CDROM-based distribution that targets specifically repairing dead systems or at least rescuing important data. It has full blown network capability and in a configured network environment, with a DHCP server and FTP, Samba, and SSH servers, filesystem support for all mainstream filesystems like EXT2, EXT3, JFS, VFAT, and NTFS. Turck MMCache for PHP 2.3.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130447/ Turck MMCache is a PHP accelerator and encoder. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also uses some optimizations for speeding up PHP scripts' execution. It typically reduces server load and increases the speed of PHP code by 1-10 times. It is tested with PHP 4.1.0-4.3.2, and Apache 1.3 and 2.0 under Linux and Windows. Uncle Unc 0.25.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130445/ Uncle Unc is a framework for working with trees of objects. Existing services such as filesystems, code libraries, networks, log files, mailboxes and directories can be mapped onto this object tree, as can some traditional desktop applications. User interfaces work directly with the object tree, offering best of breed interface design (e.g. filtering, breadcrumb bars, paging, sorting, and file-explorer-like views) across the full range of services. The framework promotes clean design, completeness of representation, and reusability of both front end and back end code. vSACS 1.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130521/ vSACS is a simple, full-featured web hosting automation system that provides its clients with sophisticated yet easy-to-use server management tools. Emphasis is put on security and reliability, without sacrificing flexible configurations for the advanced user. With advanced recovery tools, sophisticated language management, long term stability, and real time task execution, vSACS is a smart choice for your Web-hosting business. WebJob 1.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130524/ WebJob downloads a program over HTTP/HTTPS and executes it in one unified operation. The output, if any, may be directed to stdout/stderr or a Web resource. WebJob may be useful in incident response and intrusion analysis as it provides a mechanism to run known good diagnostic programs on a potentially compromised system. It can also support various host-based monitoring solutions. WebShop 0.9.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130484/ WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as well as a sample servlet/JSP implementation of a shop. Whitebeam 0.9.24 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130467/ Whitebeam is a frontend XML-centered rapid design environment which makes use of HTML/XML and JavaScript. It integrates two popular and robust Open Source platforms (Apache and Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine), with its own powerful XML environment and security architecture. Providing an extensible XML-based interface to backend objects on any platform, the client model securely segregates thousands of customer applications within a single server. xmmsC 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130540/ xmmsC is a small program suite for irssi which reads what XMMS is currently is playing and prints out this information to an IRC channel. The song's title is read from its ID3 tag. If there is no ID3 tag, the XMMS playlist entry is used instead. YellowTip Health Reservations 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130435/ YellowTip Health Reservations is software designed to meet the specific scheduling and reporting needs of spas, health clubs, salons, clinics, and other health related organizations. It allows an organisation to schedule appointments with customers, staff, and resources (like treatment rooms, tanning beds, exercise rooms, etc.). Key features include advanced conflict checking/prevention, a highly configurable and customizable interface, extensive management reports, and a user friendly and intuitive interface. Zinf 2.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130525/ Zinf is an MP3/Vorbis/CD audio player with jukebox capabilities, formerly known as FreeAmp. It features both graphical (with themes) and text-based user interfaces, a download manager for automating MP3 downloads, and a powerful music browser/playlist manager. Other features include HTTP/RTP streaming playback with HTTP stream saving and title streaming, and a fast, clean-sounding Open Source decoding engine. It supports Win32/OSS sound systems, ALSA, and EsounD. 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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