O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER
July 27, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
The 'Developer Series' Newsletter is developed to bring Open Source
related content to a user with a focus for development with Open Source
If you'd like to receive more content relating to
Open Source subscribe at http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/
==============================================================
Sponsored by Thinkgeek
http://www.ThinkGeek.com/
==============================================================
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: Levitating Desktop Globes
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61da/
Tshirts: No, I will not fix your computer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/388b/
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: USB Sharing Hub
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5f2a/
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/
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/
Sourceforge
Rilke CMS 0.84 released!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=295871
The fifth release of Rilke CMS, version 0.8.4 has been made available
at SourceForge. 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
The Beast of Brussels
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/26/2036231
[0]'No nickname' Ian writes "If you live in Europe you should
definitely read this story about a government supercomputer. It's
written by Andy McCue from [1]silicon.com and entitled: [2]IT Myths:
Does the 'Beast of Brussels' know everything about us? Basically, in
Europe there are rumours of an EU-owned super-computer which stores and
process information on every European citizen. The piece [2]debunks the
rumour and finds out its roots are actually in a work of fiction - but
there is some interesting comment from privacy activists who suggest it
may not be too wide of the mark. Simon Davis of [3]Privacy
International goes so far as to suggest such computer may have existed
- if perhaps not on the same 'three storey-high' magnitude."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.silicon.com/
2. http://www.silicon.com/news/500009-500001/1/5304.html
3. http://www.privacyinternational.org/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Publishes Skymap
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/26/2034223
An anonymous reader writes "The [0]skymap of where in the night sky to
find the [1]most promising [EMAIL PROTECTED] signals is reported today, along
with the research plan for the March Stellar Countdown [2]project. The
dedicated use of the Arecibo Telescope to revisit [3]these spikes,
pulses, and steady signals, focused on 166 star candidates. Those 166
were pruned from the five billion signals that have been found since
1999, depending on the signal's persistence, closeness to a known star,
and frequency. The next step is particularly fascinating, if a signal
appears to have increased since the first observation put that star on
the checklist."
Links
0. http://www.astrobio.net/news/article535.html
1. http://www.astrobio.net/articles/images/skymap.jpg
2. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/0020218&tid=160
3. http://home.t-online.de/home/Bernd.Fiedler.RoschStr.Leipzig/signals.htm
O'Reilly Article on Spam Defense
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/26/2019205
[0]Dru writes "Here's an [1]article talking about the details of
implementing a network level spam defense with Qmail. It also talks a
little about a new site called [2]Trustic which uses a trust system
(like [3]Advogato) for nominating spammer/hostile IP's."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/07/24/blocklist.html
2. http://www.trustic.com/
3. http://www.advogato.com/
Clock Ticking for Hubble
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/26/1948257
DoraLives writes "Ok then, what are we going to do with Hubble?
Eventually, it MUST come down. The New York Times has a [0]piece that
addresses this less than pleasant (at least for the astronomical
community) subject. Additionally "The decision about what happens then
has been complicated by the breakup of the Columbia." Read all about
it."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/science/27HUBB.html?hp
Savage to Support Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/2212208
[0]focitrixilous P writes "Gamespot writes about the upcoming hybrid
strategy game [1]Savage: The Battle for Neweth, which will [2]provide a
full Linux edition on the same disk as the Windows version. The title
blends real time strategy with action titles, along one player to act
as a general while others do the actual fighting."
Links
0. http://psychofarmer0 AT wackiness DOT org
1. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/savage/index.html
2. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/savage/news_6072312.html
Ending Organ Donor Shortages?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/26/1930214
[0]Tracy2112 writes "An interesting and recurring science fiction theme
is the idea of black-market traffic in human body parts -- as [1]Larry
Niven termed it, "organlegging". According to [2]this USA Today's Op-Ed
piece on Yahoo, we're getting closer . . . including
[3]LifeSharers.com, , an organization working to sign up "preferred
donors" who agree to preferentially donate to other LifeSharer members.
Is this a great way to reward people for being generous with their
unused body parts -- or a scary flashback to how early
'subscription-only' fire departments worked?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.larryniven.org/nivenisms_in_the_news.htm
2.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&ncid=679&e=6&u=/usatoday/20030724/cm_usatoday/5350153
3. http://www.lifesharers.com/
Galeon Developers Interview
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/26/1756251
[0]Nachtjäger writes "The Galeon website has [1]an interview with the
developers, describing overall project health, current problems, and
future direction. There's also a place to ask your own questions for
future interviews."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://galeon.sourceforge.net/links/interview_2003-07.php
Bamboo Bike A Reality
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/26/1633211
[0]markjugg writes "The American Bamboo Society has a page describing a
[1]working bamboo bike. This is a strong step towards making bicycling
more sustainable, expecially in contrast to aluminum, one of the most
resource demanding materials that exist."
Links
0. http://mark.stosberg.com/
1. http://www.americanbamboo.org/GeneralInfoPages/BambooBicycle.html
Reiser4 Benchmarks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/26/1618205
unmadindu writes "Hans Reiser has [0]benchmarked Reiser4 against ext3
and Reiserfs 3. Reiser4 turns out to be way faster than V3, and for
ext3, why don't you check out the [1]results yourself ? Hans Reiser
states, "these benchmarks mean to me that our performance is now good
enough to ship V4 to users", and he will be probably sending in a patch
within the next couple of weeks to be included in the 2.6/2.5 kernel."
Links
0. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.2/2340.html
1. http://www.namesys.com/benchmarks/v4marks.html
Window Managers for High Resolution Displays?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1546244
cfish asks: "Recently, I was told by a manager at a major monitor maker
that CRTs are phasing out. I have a very weak eye and I read text at
1024x768 on a 21" monitor, sitting 2 feet away. Each alphabet is about
1/4" tall. What makes me panic is the fact that LCDs have fixed
resolution and they are simply too small for me to read icons and
widget text, like Microsoft's. This is a great chance for Linux to get
a head start in a certain market: older folks and those who have eye
strain problems. Generally speaking, not many people can read
Microsoft's widget text on a 150dpi display, which may explain why no
one buys them even that they are available. Imagine how frustrating it
could be for medical display (x-rays), cad, image editing to have a
high resolution realistic image but cannot read the menu and text. If
someone can come up with a Window manager to beat MS on 200dpi
displays, no doubt this will capture a strong following in image
related applications. I have read about these debates 5 years ago. What
has been done about it?"
Freshmeat
a place to go 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130606/
aptg(2) (a place to go) is a Web-based email client written in PHP,
using localhost connections to a running IMAP4 server. It is designed
to work with Postfix. Authentication is against a MySQL database as
used by pam_mysql (username + password) or by using one of the virtual
email addresses (also stored in the MySQL database) and that password.
A powerful addressbook is also included. It uses its own session
handling system with one-time session ids.
AnnotateIt! 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130585/
AnnotateIt! is an open source electronic response system targeted at
composition instructors and students. It allows a user to annotate HTML
and provides facilities for group interaction. Annotations may be
either hyperlinked or inline, depending on the user's preference. It
also features reporting of meta information (annotation types and
counts), predefined annotations, community annotations, conversion of
documents to HTML for annotation, easy document management, and an
assignments calendar.
apricots 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130615/
Apricots is a quick, fun, and delightful 2D plane dogfighting game. It
supports 1 or 2 players with possible computer AI opponents. Players
shoot enemy planes and bomb targets with the aim of attaining the
highest score.
Asymptopia BlackJack 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130603/
Asymptopia BlackJack is a full-featured casino-style blackjack game
written in Python using PyGame for graphics. You play with up to 6
robots against the dealer. You can specify which player is you. It is
dynamic, addictive, and you don't lose real money!
ATLAS 3.5.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130582/
The ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) project is an
ongoing research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in
order to provide portable performance. It provides C and Fortran77
interfaces to a portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a
few routines from LAPACK.
Atlas for FlightGear 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130583/
Atlas aims to provide high quality maps of the world for use in
FlightGear, an open source flight simulator.
bScribbles 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130586/
B-Scribbles strives to improve any PHP Web page. The transparent
integration is painless to configure and install. Once in place, any
visitor will be able to 'scribble' (post) to a board using a simple,
non-obtrusive interface. It is designed to be extremely fast &
scalable.
CaLStats 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130591/
CaLStats is a small set of scripts for monitoring computer
availability. It creates images of the network structure and marks
active or inactive computers.
Contentment Web Content Manager 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130608/
The Contentment Web Content Manager is a simple web content management
system. It is intended to be easy to use, and is for people who want to
quickly update pages. Once installed, a person can simply alter the
design and content of the site through HTML forms.
CWirc 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130617/
CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code
over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted
Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients
with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio
rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can
listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code
is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial
port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the
soundcard.
Distributed Concurrent Versioning System 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130566/
The Distributed Concurrent Versioning System (DCVS) extends the
well-known version control system CVS and the file distribution and
synchronization program CVSup with functionality to distribute CVS
repositories with local lines of development and handle synchronization
of the distributed repositories automatically in the background.
Development lines (branches) are owned by a repository server,
repository servers efficiently update each other via CVSup, and CVS
ensures correct server use on checkin and branch creation.
Distributor load balancer 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130590/
Distributor is a software TCP load balancer. Like other load balancers,
it accepts connections and distributes them to an array of back end
servers. It is compatible with any standard TCP protocol (HTTP, LDAP,
IMAP, etc.) and is also IPv6 compatible. It has many unique and
advanced features and a high-performance architecture.
Endangered 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130553/
Endangered is a theme featuring an endangered device.
Gammu 0.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130575/
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various
mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410,
35xx, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 6610, 6800, 71xx, 7210,
82xx, 83xx, 8910, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens,
Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line
version with many functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP,
date/time, alarm, calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore
them. It works on various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32.
genlop 0.16.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130574/
genlop is a small Perl script which shows you, in a nice colored
output, useful information about your previously-emerged packages by
looking into /var/log/emerge.log. genlop is for Gentoo/portage users
only.
GMime 2.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130605/
GMime is a set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using the
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME).
GNU gperf 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130562/
GNU gperf is a program that generates perfect hash functions for sets
of keywords. A perfect hash function is a hash function and a data
structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using
exactly 1 probe into the data structure. Output from the GPERF program
is used to recognize reserved words in the GNU C, GNU C++, and GNU
Pascal compilers, as well as with the GNU indent program.
GNUstep 0.8.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130577/
GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the
OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries
consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and
arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons,
etc.
GNUstep 1.7.2 (LaunchPad)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130576/
GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the
OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries
consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and
arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons,
etc.
Gnusto 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130597/
Gnusto is a Mozilla-based application which lets you play adventure
games--specifically, the hundreds of games both modern and ancient
available in the Z-machine format. It features a just-in-time
interpreter which compiles Z-machine code to Javascript on the fly for
speed.
gpgdir 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130571/
gpgdir is a Perl script that uses the CPAN GnuPG module to encrypt and
decrypt directories using a GPG key specified in ~/.gpgdirrc. It
supports recursively descending through a directory in order to make
sure it encrypts or decrypts every file in a directory and all of its
subdirectories. In order to help save space, all files can optionally
be compressed using gzip before encryption and decompressed upon
decryption. In addition, gpgdir is careful not to encrypt hidden files
and directories.
IceWM Control center 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130604/
The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for
configuring IceWM's options.
Issue Dealer 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130589/
The Issue Dealer is a simple product for managing (structuring,
editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to
manage information.
jpCache 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130570/
jpcache is a lightweight, full page caching system for PHP which uses
gzip content-encodig and ETag-headers, thus allowing around 80% in
traffic-saving for php-pages and reducing server-load.
JSyntaxColor 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130567/
JSyntaxColor is a Java library for coloring in real time user text
input. Main features include a standard editor kit, a simple property
file for each syntax description, real time switch between syntax
descriptions, inner cache for limiting parsing scope, tokens libraries
customizable by the user, color, underline, and border attributes
support, samples for Java, SQL, and Formula syntax, and many samples
for interesting API parts.
kludge3d 2003-07-26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130600/
Kludge3d is a simple 3D model editor in the spirit of Worldcraft or
Milkshape. It is the offspring of several other GTK-based editors, with
the best features taken from each. As the name implies, kludge3d is a
kludge.
kowey-generic 14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130588/
Kowey-generic is a set of templates for easily packaging your
programming projects. These templates produce packages that the user
simply downloads and runs with no mess or fuss. For example, no
CLASSPATH nonsense is needed for Java programs. These templates also
help Java developers to adopt better coding habits by generating unit
test skeletons with JUnitDoclet. Kowey-generic can be extended for
other languages besides Java.
Liberty Data Base Connectivity 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130587/
LDBC is a JDBC driver that provides vendor-independent database access.
With LDBC, applications will just work on all major databases without
source code changes. LDBC is based on ANSI-SQL and JDBC. The goals of
the project are to be very easy to use and learn, small and fast, and
based on standards. It does not need boilerplate code, XML, javadoc
tags, or a special build process.
libmspack 20030726
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130579/
libmspack is a library for compression and decompression of the
Microsoft CAB, CHM, HLP, LIT, SZDD, and KWAJ file formats.
LinuxTrade 3.55 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130564/
LinuxTrade is a curses (text-based) implementation of the Scottrader
Java application, plus additional features inspired by the excellent
MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own set of unique
features. It is lightweight, yet full featured. It can save a session
to a file and replay it. It has portfolios, real time quotes, charts
with live updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical
indicators, top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, and Level
2 market depth indications from Archipelago and the Island Book.
mailbox_date_trimmer 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130556/
mailbox_date_trimmer is a tool for mailing list archives that corrects
messages' date headers if they are incorrect. Incorrect means that a
message following another has a time difference bigger than one month,
usually when the owner of the message had his clock misconfigured.
After fixing the archive, running Hypermail over the mailbox will
create correct discussion threads.
mailbox_reader 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130607/
mailbox_reader is a Python module providing two classes: Mailbox, a
file-like object that iterates through the contents of a mailbox, and
Email, an object which holds the individual emails returned by Mailbox.
This module has been written with simplicity in mind, and low memory
consumption.
Memo 1.9.3 (GTK2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130554/
Memo displays the time as text (e.g. "It's just gone five to
ten"), and your next appointments, memos, and alarms in a small
window.
Minimum Profit 3.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130549/
Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features small
memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive
help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file
editing, ctags support, word wrapping, and more. It can be compiled for
Linux / Unix (console), GTK, and MS Windows.
NRH-up2date 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130599/
NRH-up2date provides a generic, easy-to-use server for the Red Hat
up2date utility. It can be used to distribute updates to client systems
without being dependent on the Red Hat network servers.
PMK 0.5.2 (Snapshot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130559/
PMK aims to be an alternative to GNU autoconf configure scripts. It
attempts to avoid the use of scripts in packages that can hide trojans,
to minimize the number of dependencies, and to be easy to use for users
and developers.
Protoss 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130512/
Protoss is a theme featuring Protoss standing in the snow.
psycopg 1.1.7 (StablePlus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130565/
psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming
language. Its main advantages are that it supports the full Python
DBAPI 2.0 and it is thread safe at level 2. It was designed for heavily
multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of cursors and
make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. The psycopg
distribution includes ZPsycopgDA, a Zope Database Adapter.
shout-python 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130612/
shout-python is a Python interface to libshout. It allows Python
programs to easily send data to an icecast server and control
meta-information about the data stream.
Snownews 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130581/
Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS feeds that
comply to W3C's RDF 1.0 specification and Radio Userland's 0.9x and
2.0. Snownews depends on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing.
sslexpire 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130584/
sslexpire provides remote check for SSL certificate expiration date. It
connects to hosts:port, retrieves the expiration date, and shows you if
it's going to expire. It can retrieve multiple host:ports from a config
file to do mass daily checks.
StrutsDoc 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130572/
StrutsDoc is an Ant task that generates JavaDoc-like documentation from
a Struts configuration file.
tgen 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130547/
tgen generates a Web site from a collection of input files of a variety
of types, using a set of registered HTML autogenerators. This allows,
for example, the generation a Web site consisting of plain text pages,
EtText formatted files, man or POD documentation, and/or custom
formats, with a consistent and attractive look-and-feel. It is a driver
program; the actual conversion work is done by a set of plugin filters
or "autoformatters" (named *2hts[.*]).
vimDebug 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130595/
vimDebug integrates your favorite debugger with vim. It currently
supports gdb (the GNU debugger), the Perl debugger, pdb (the Python
debugger), and jdb (the Java debugger). It is also an API for easily
creating a debugger for your own favorite language.
WCG 0.1 revolution
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130610/
WCG (Web Chess Game) is a Web-based chess game written in PHP. Text
files are used for storing data and the installation is very easy.
whoischk 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130573/
whoischeck will monitor a list of domains and report when there has
been any change to the data reported in the whois database. This change
could be that the domain has become available to register, has been
suspended or otherwise disabled or even that the listed nameservers
have changed.
X-Itools 0.6.00 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130560/
The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to
products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of
several modules, and this project has been under development for
several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a
flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges
manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt
things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public
vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country
profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and
outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module.
XStow 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130609/
XStow is a replacement for GNU Stow written in C++. It supports all
features of Stow with some extensions. XStow and GNU Stow are programs
for managing the installation of software packages. It keeps each
package in its own directory while making it appear that all packages
are installed in the same place. Unlike GNU Stow, XStow does not depend
on Perl, and can be compiled statically for such uses as rescue disks.
XStow is fully compatible with GNU Stow, meaning that you can switch
from one to the other at will.
Yellow dog Updater, Modified 2.0 (RPM >= 4.1.1)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130613/
Yum (Yellow dog Updater, Modified) is an automatic updater and package
installer/remover for RPM systems. It automatically computes
dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install
packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without
having to manually update each one using rpm.
Yet Another LDAP Administrator 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130561/
YALA is a Web-based LDAP administration GUI. The idea is to simplify
the directory administration with a graphical interface and neat
features, while remaining a general purpose program (unlike some LDAP
browsers written specifically for managing users on the system).
ZPyIrc 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130558/
ZPyIrc is a Web-based IRC client for Zope that allows you to set a
client for as many clients you want on your Zope server. It's fully
configurable and leave you the possibility to decide how many
connetions you'll leave open, the default server, default port, default
nickname, etc. It also offers you the ability to set up some bots. It
is based on the pyirc Python module.
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.
Price Compare
256MB Secure Digital Card (SanDisk)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=637899
Lowest Price: $63.00
256MB Memory Stick (Sony)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=706661
Lowest Price: $74.99
256MB Compact Flash Card for Digital Cameras and PDAS (PC/Mac) (Kingston)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=369275
Lowest Price: $50.96
128MB USB Flash Drive (Lexar Media)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=605710
Lowest Price: $29.99
512MB PC2700 DDR DIMM (Kingston)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=564552
Lowest Price: $78.00
Power Mac G4 (Apple)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=216734
Lowest Price: $895.00
iMac PowerPC G4 800MHz 256MB 60GB CDRW/DVD-R (Apple)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=546009
Lowest Price: $1794.00
XTREME - EXPLORER X4000 PC Intel Pentium 4 Processor 1.60 GHz, 256MB DDR, 40GB (Xtreme)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=551387
Lowest Price: $558.00
Dimension 8200 (P4 2.2 GHz, 256MB, 40GB, CDRW) (Dell)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=550241
Lowest Price: $1298.00
X3000 (AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz, 512MB, 20GB 52X CD-ROM) (Xtreme)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=551397
Lowest Price: $445.00
South Beach Diet by Arthur S. Agatston (Trade Cloth)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?isbn=1579546463
Lowest Price: $14.68
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (Trade Cloth)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?isbn=043935806X
Lowest Price: $16.17
Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to Losing Weight by Kaye Foster-Powell (Mass Market)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?isbn=1569246777
Lowest Price: $1.70
Essential 55 by Ron Clark (Trade Cloth)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?isbn=1401300014
Lowest Price: $10.99
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Trade Cloth)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?isbn=0385509510
Lowest Price: $11.99
==================================================
Copyright (c) 2003 OSDN Open Source Development Network, Inc., All rights reserved.
Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without
express written permission of OSDN is prohibited.
--------------------------------------------------
url - http://www.osdn.com
email - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
