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Sourceforge
BIE 5.5.0 (beta) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303642
New features in BIE 5.5 include a new plug-in architecture allowing the
addition and removal of features without restarting; support for
EDIFACT and HL7 document formats; HTTP Post and Run Command actions;
enhancements to the transaction log viewer and message schema
generator; and a number of new macros for unit conversions were also
added to the Map Builder tool. The Business Integration Engine (BIE) is
a full Java-based application to application integration server.
Changes: SERVER: * Plugin Manager Chain action types may now be loaded
and unloaded into BIE without needing to restart the system. This
system will provide, over the next few releases, the ability to plug in
most other units of the BIE server. * Code Reorganization (Developers
Only) A reorganization of the codebase for BIE has begun, in
anticipation of broad architectural changes and refactoring planned to
begin in BIE 6.0. Source code, which previously lived exclucively under
the src/ directory, may now also be found under the commons-bie/,
commons-tools/, installer/, plugins/, and src/ directories. * Added
Feature - Added HTTP Post action (contributed by Hugh Brien). * Added
HL7 support. * Added EDIFACT support. * RFE 734256 - Allow transaction
log to be cleaned. * RFE 765461 - save option for XSD Added Save option
for the generated schema. * RFE 734242 - paste boxes. Added Paste box
for allowing the user to paste content to a textarea for the schema
generating. * Added Run Command action * Enhanced HTTP Basic
authentication support for web services. MAP BUILDER: * Fixed a bug
that allowed macro parameters to be displayed after macro was deleted.
* Added new macros: Convert Inches To Centimeters, Convert Centimeters
to Inches, Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, Convert Celsius to
Fahrenheit. BUG FIXES: * Fixed bug 774447 - Mail Configuration: smtp
authentication. * Fixed bug 784960 - Schema Generator fully expands all
elements. * Fixed bug 764738 Delimited data source does not understand
empty fields * Fixed bug 790579 - On upgrade if database connection not
available it will fail.
Chiba 0.9.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303472
This is mainly a maintainance release which fixes some issues with the
installation. Namely the xerces + xml-apis have been added again to the
war-files. Other modifications are limited to smaller corrections to
Schema2XForms builder, import statements and javadoc. Chiba provides an
implementation of the W3C XForms standard, thereby delivering generic,
xml-based form-processing for the web.
phpWebSite 0.9.3-1 Stable Released!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303663
The phpWebSite development team has released version 0.9.3-1 of its
popular content management system. The main purpose of this release is
to address the recently discovered security vulnerability issues that
were posted across many security forums. Fixes for the XSS, DOS, and
SQL injection problems are all included. Many other updates have been
made to the core, providing the ability to run phpWebSite in SSL mode.
Over 40 bugs have been closed and 4 user submitted patches applied to
phpWebSite since the release of 0.9.3. All in all we feel this is one
of our most stable releases to date.
TclXML v3.0rc1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=302894
Release candidate 1 of version 3.0 of the TclXML package is now
available. This release candidate introduces a binding for libxml2 to
the TclXML package. This allows an application to use the libxml2
parser class to parse an XML document, setting callbacks in the usual
fashion. No significant changes have been made to the pure-Tcl or expat
parser classes. It is planned to perform some bug fixes to the pure-Tcl
parser class for release candidate 2.
Turck MMCache for PHP version 2.3.23 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303184
This is should be the last version prior to the stable 2.4.0 release.
Please test this release as much as possible. 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. HTTP caching of mmcache.php was
disabled. Usage of POSIX semaphors on Mac OS X was disabled. Handling
of scripts with PHP syntax errors was fixed. ZE2 support was improved
(tested with php5-200308140730).
Slashdot
European Shuttle Program Update
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2227251
Rolo Tomasi writes "ESA's reusable launch vehicle demonstrator,
Phoenix, was recently [0]wind tunnel tested to determine its low speed
aerodynamics. A free flight for Phoenix is planned for early summer
2004. In case you haven't heard of it yet, here's an [1]article from
last year, describing the Phoenix/HOPPER concept. Here's [2]another
page at ESA, but it seems to be available only in German. What's
interesting is the first sentence of the DLR press release, stating
that (my translation) 'Europe's future and competitiveness in space
substantially depend on an autonomous access to space and 'on a drastic
decrease in the transport costs of getting there.'"
Links
0. http://www.dlr.de/dlr/Presse/Presseinfo/phoenix
1. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/europe_phoenix_020621.html
2. http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMHYN2A6BD_Germany_0.html
NZ Spammer Shutdown Makes Big Difference
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/0024204
[0]lump writes "A notorious spammer, based in New Zealand, who had his
name and other personal info released first in [1]a national newspaper,
and then on the web, has [2]shut down his operation, citing harassment.
What interests me about this case is that, in the 5 or 6 days since he
has supposedly stopped operating, I personally have had one (1) spam
email, to an address which had previously averaged around fifty per
day. Colleagues report a similar reduction in spam. All I can say is
'excellent.' Hate to say it, but in this case, vigilante type action
seems to have had the desired result. This needs to be publicised, as
anything which slows down spam can only be a good thing."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyID=3518682
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2345211&tid=111
How About A Cup Of The Answer To Everything?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/0133237
[0]Reiner Schulz writes "Douglas Adams [1]admittedly was a big fan of
Earl Grey tea. Here's [2]his enlightening entry in H2G2 on the subject
(pretty much straight out of [3]The Salmon of Doubt). And those
familiar w/ the Hitchhiker's Guide will remember the drink dispenser
from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe which, trying to figure
out how to brew the perfect cuppa, grabs all available computing
resources on board a certain starship. What a coincidence then that one
of the finest blends of Earl Grey on the planet in general and in the
UK in particular is [4]Harrods' Earl Grey, Blend No. ... 42 . It's a
plausible theory as to the origin of the answer to everything, isn't
it? Earl Grey addicts like myself will certainly agree (even though
Douglas liked his w/ milk; I prefer lemon). So, what would be the
question? Perhaps, how about a nice cup of tea?"
Links
0. http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rschulz
1. http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/dna/stories/msnetwork.html
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A61345
3. http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/000492.html
4. http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rschulz/harrodsEarlGrey.jpg
Windows Is 'Insecure By Design,' Says Washington Post
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2255231
Circuit Breaker writes "A Washington Post article says [0]Microsoft
Windows is insecure by design. Quote: 'Between the Blaster worm and the
Sobig virus, it's been a long two weeks for Windows users. But nobody
with a Mac or a Linux PC has had to lose a moment of sleep over these
outbreaks -- just like in earlier "malware" epidemics. This is not a
coincidence.'"
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34978-2003Aug23.html
Sun Mad Hatter Linux Desktop Revealed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2128223
magellan writes "Sun has released [0]screenshots of its upcoming Mad
Hatter Linux desktop. Mad Hatter includes GNOME, StarOffice, Evolution,
and Mozilla. Sun has made minor modifications to Gnome to make it more
familiar to Windows users. Sun's Mad Hatter, along with SuSE's new push
on the desktop, could make Linux on the corporate desktop and laptop a
bigger reality."
Links
0. http://www.sun.com/2003-0805/feature/
How Objective Is Microsoft's Search?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2028216
bot writes "There have been a number of [0]stories on Microsoft trying
to do a 'Netscape' on Google.. what would a world in which Microsoft
provides search look like? A [1]search for 'linux' on msn.com give
amazon and ebay as the top two results, and a [2]microsoft site
promoting migration from Linux to Windows as the fourth listing. A
[3]search on [4]MSN India is even more amusing -- the top result is a
dead link, and the second one is [5]Linuxsucks.com."
Links
0. http://silicon.com/news/500019/1/5702.html
1. http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=linux&FORM=SMCRT
2. http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/migration/
3. http://search.msn.co.in/results.aspx?cp=1252&PI=9574&DI=9&FORM=MSNH&q=linux
4. http://www.msn.co.in/
5. http://www.linuxsucks.com/
E-Pass Can Resue Patent Case Against Palm
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1827207
[0]kisrael writes "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
has [1]ruled that a patent held by [2]E-Pass may have been infringed by
Palm and other PDA makers even though their devices are larger than
'credit-card sized.' The [3]1994 patent describes a 'multifunction,
credit card-sized computer that allows users to securely store a
multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other
data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and
similar personal documents.'"
Links
0. http://kisrael.com/
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32471.html
2. http://www.e-pass.com/
3.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,276,311.WKU.&OS=PN/5,276,311&RS=PN/5,276,311
Dave Phillips' Linux Sound Updated
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1628239
[0]f-matic writes "Dave Phillips' [1]Linux Sound website has been
updated (for the first time in a while) with lots of new software links
and news from the recent [2]BYOL conference, plus links to some
interesting Linux multimedia articles. Seems like things are getting
pretty interesting in the linux audio world, with a [3]Supercollider
port in the works, not to mention February's [4]Linux article in the
prestigious Sound on Sound magazine."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.linux-sound.org/
2. http://byol.agnula.org/main/index.php3
3. http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/
4. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Feb03/articles/linuxaudio.asp
BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1530234
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is to [0]to put it's entire radio
and television archive online, free for everyone, as the BBC Creative
Archive." The article is a little thin on how far back these archives
go, but regardless, this in a giantic amount of data, and to see it go
online, and open to the public is very cool.
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3177479.stm
HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/131254
-tji writes "A new company, [0]www.pchdtv.com, has just released the
first digital TV receiver card for Linux. Along with the Linux drivers,
they have also modified xine to support HD playback and add XvMC
support for MPEG2 hardware acceleration with some video cards. This has
great potential for integration into PVR apps, like [1]freevo and
[2]mythtv. There is also another [3]project to reverse engineer drivers
for the Teralogic TL880 based DTV cards. The one active developer has
done a great job, but could use some help."
Links
0. http://www.pchdtv.com/
1. http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
2. http://www.mythtv.org/
3. http://myhd.sourceforge.net/
Freshmeat
Advanced Strategic Command 1.13.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133645/
ASC is a turn-based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle 2/3.
It can be played against the computer or against other human players
(either hotseat or by mail).
AutoGen 5.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133622/
AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain
repetitive text with varied substitutions. Its goal is to simplify the
maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text.
This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text
that must be kept synchronized. Output is specified with a
Scheme-enhanced output template. Input, if required by your template,
may come from AutoGen definitions, CGI data, or XML files.
AutoOpts 20.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133623/
AutoOpts is an integrated part of AutoGen. Based on a very simple
option description file, it will process configuration files,
environment variables, command line options, text strings passed by
client programs, and will make the results easily accessible to the
client program. It will also produce a man page and the info-doc
invoking section automatically.
BBStatus 2.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133646/
BBStatus is an IP accounting package and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool
for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its
database. It can be used for IP accounting (allows you to design
various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data
making SNMP requests), ICMP monitoring (stores and summarizes values
like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic
filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based
access so that every user can log in and visualize various data
(depending on access rights). It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with
mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool.
cfv 1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133649/
cfv is a utility to both test and create .sfv (Simple File Verify),
.csv, .crc, .md5(sfv style), md5sum, and BSD md5 checksum verification
files. It also includes test-only support for .par and .par2 files.
These files are commonly used to ensure the correct retrieval or
storage of data.
Coherent Mail Gateway 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133608/
Coherent Mail Gateway is intended to be a very easy to set up MTA using
SMTP and POP3. Greylisting is used on the SMTP daemon to reduce spam.
In addition, quite a lot of checks on the validity of information from
the SMTP client (such as claimed server name and sender) are carried
out, and anyone caught telling lies is disconnected. As well as
greylisting, black and white listing is also supported. The target
market is small offices and home users with static IPs. Others can use
the system but its value will be limited.
Cornice 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133616/
Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, wxPython,
and PIL.
CSV Utilities for Unix/Linux 20030824
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133607/
csvutils is a set of four shell (sh and bash) scripts to handle CSV
files. Three are purpose-built tools to help manage file collections,
but the fourth is a general-purpose script to parse CSV files.
ctrlproxy 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133651/
ctrlproxy is an IRC server with multiserver support. It runs as a
daemon and connects to a number of IRC servers, then allows you to
connect from a workstation and work as the user that is logged in to
the IRC server. After you disconnect, it maintains the connection to
the server. It acts like any normal IRC server, so you can use any IRC
client to connect to it. It supports multiple client connections to one
IRC server (under the same nick), allowing you to connect to IRC using
your IRC nick, even while you have an IRC session open somewhere else.
It supports logging (in the same format as the irssi IRC client),
password authentication, and ctcp (in case no clients are connected).
CWirc 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133613/
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
sound card, or through an external sounder.
DCTC 0.85.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133624/
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the
direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.
DSPAM 2.6.5-beta-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133629/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It
masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and
filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which
provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam
service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens,
each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined
to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to
a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success
rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
dvd::rip 0.50.15 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133638/
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It
provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all
aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely
known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open
Source tools.
Eros BBS Engine 20030824-0910-jam (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133612/
Eros is a modular, object-oriented BBS engine intended to be used as a
library that builds upon proven open source software technology and W3
standards to implement and manage templates, permissions, membership,
database access, etc. It is currently in heavy development, and new
snapshots are released often.
fbv 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133648/
fbv is a very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console,
capable of displaying GIF, JPEG, PNG and BMP files using libungif,
libjpeg, and libpng. The image can be shown either in fit-to-screen or
panning mode in 8, 15/16, and 32bpp.
FindBugs 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133640/
FindBugs looks for bugs in Java programs. It can detect a variety of
common coding mistakes, including thread synchronization problems,
misuse of API methods, etc. It is written in the GJ dialect of Java,
and will run on any Java VM compatible with Sun's JDK 1.4.0 or later.
It includes both GUI (Swing) and commandline frontends.
Group PHP Library 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133634/
Group PHP Library is a collection of PHP scripts to list books
available for checkout. Data is held in a Postgres database. Available
books can be listed by author's first or last name, by publisher, or by
title.
GTK Cervi 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133650/
GTK Cervi is clone of very good game called Cervi. It is a multiplayer
game (on one machine) where players drive a worm and mustn't collide
into anything.
GTKSee 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133589/
GTKSee is a image viewer and image browser with slide show capability
which aims to be an ACDSee clone.
GYR Penguins 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133598/
GYR Penguins consists of 8 penguin-related icons made with Blender3d
and/or The Gimp. The Blender source files (.blend and .xcf.gz) are
provided for those who would like to help.
International Ispell 3.2.06.epa6 (Unofficial 'epa')
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133604/
International Ispell is an interactive spell-checking program for Unix,
which supports a large number of European languages (only English
dictionaries are included in the source tarball). An emacs interface is
available, as well as the standard command-line mode.
JESAS 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133600/
JESAS is a multi-user, multi-exam simulation and authoring system. It
is a tool used to assess candidate expertise in technical skills and to
track candidate performance over a specified period. JESAS provides
several different testing environments or modes: Learning, Mock,
Adaptive, and Quick Drill. It supports more than 12 question types. It
has a built-in secured database with a secured login facilty. It can
easily beat the current leading Windows-only test engines, ExamGear and
SelfTest, in terms of performance and functionality.
jMSN 0.5.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133627/
jMSN is an MSN client for the Linux console. It uses a BitchX-like
interface, featuring multiple windows. It is written in Perl, and is
not based on any existing MSN code.
JpGraph 1.13 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133631/
JpGraph is an OO Graph drawing library for PHP 4.0.2 and above.
Highlights of the available features are: text, linear, and log scales
for both the X and Y axes, anti-aliasing of lines, color-gradient
fills, support for GIF, JPG, and PNG formats, support for two Y axes,
spider plots (a.k.a Web plots), pie-charts, lineplots, filled line
plots, impulse plots, bar plots, and error plots, support for multiple
plot types in one graph, intelligent autoscaling, and extensive
documentation (145 pages).
JXMLPad 1.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133625/
JXMLPad is a Java component for editing XML document. It includes Java
bean usage, syntax coloration (tags, name spaces, strings, entities,
etc.), a syntax helper, a look-and-feel plugIn, a customized action
toolbar, real time tree location, syntax correction, a template for
fast creation, easy integration in your application, several standard
actions for XML usage (parse, search, comment, etc.), a standard Swing
EditorKit, real time tree text synchronization, auto tag closing, many
actions (parsing, searching, adding comments, formatting), and real
time text location. It is customizable with a property file
kdissert 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133626/
kdissert is an attempt to make a mindmapping-like tool to help students
to write texts like dissertations, theses, and reports. It is meant to
organize the ideas faster, not to actually write the documents
themselves.
Linux 2.4.22-rc3 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133591/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
lyskom-server 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133602/
LysKOM is an online, text based, interactive discussion system sort of
like a mix between Mail, News, IRC and a BBS system. It's modeled after
the KOM system that was available to DECsystems running the TOPS-20
operating system ages ago. The web site for LysKOM is written in
Swedish, but the README files on the FTP site are in English. Both the
server and (some of) the client(s) can speak both Swedish, English and
other languages. LysKOM is a client-server system. This project is the
server software itself.
MagCon 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133609/
MagCon reads tracks from a Magellan GPS. It was tested on a SporTrak
Pro, but should work on all SporTraks, all Meridians, the 315/320, and
other devices.
mboxgrep 0.7.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133655/
mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox and displays messages
matching a basic, extended, or Perl-compatible regular expression. It
supports mbox, MH, nnmh, nnml, and maildir folders.
Merchant of Venice 0.2 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133593/
Merchant of Venice is a stock market trading programme that supports
portfolio management, charting, technical analysis, paper trading, and
experimental methods like genetic programming. It features a graphical
user interface with online help and includes full documentation. It
runs on UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows.
mkxvcd.sh 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133605/
mkxvcd.sh is a shell script that creates an PAL VCD MPEG1 stream that
fits up to 2 hours of movie data on an 80-minute CDR. It can use any
file that can be played by mplayer as input. It only requires tools
from the mplayer and mjpegtools packages.
Mp3dings Alpha 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133599/
Mp3dings is a small, powerful, and easy-to-use program that lets you to
change the names and edit the meta-information of a large number of MP3
audio files at the same time.
mudsbuilder 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133647/
Mudsbuilder is a set of tools for the creation of dungeon maps in MUDs.
Once a map is created, the user has the ability to generate LPC code
from that map for virtually any mudlib. It supports standard (south,
north, east, etc.) exits, ups and downs, and miscellaneous exits, such
as one-way exits.
netmap 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133621/
Netmap is a network weather map creator. It collects data from network
devices using SNMP and 'prints' them on existing images creating
traffic maps. It provides a Web-based interface and does not require
any command-line interaction or text file editing to design the maps.
obliquid 0.6.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133644/
Obliquid is a PHP/XML framework for building groupware Web portals. It
provides Lego bricks that may be composed to build an Internet
application. It has multilingual support and themes. Modules include
user management, calendar, news, CMS, and messaging.
pktstat 1.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133617/
pktstat listens to the network and shows the bandwidth being consumed
by packets of various kinds in realtime. It understands some protocols
(including FTP, HTTP, and X11) and adds a descriptive name next to the
entry (e.g., 'RETR cd8.iso', 'GET http://slashdot.org/' or 'xclock -fg
blue').
PMK 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133601/
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.
portmon 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133596/
Portmon is a daemon that is able to monitor network services and send
notification in the event that a server goes down. Portmon was designed
to be able to monitor a large number of servers/workstations and give
very configurable notification in the event of a network failure.
Ruby 1.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133592/
Ruby is a language for quick and easy programming. Similar in scope to
Perl and Python, it has high-level data types, automatic memory
management, dynamic typing, a module system, exceptions, and a rich
standard library. What sets Ruby apart is a clean and consistent
language design where everything is an object. Other distinguishing
features are CLU-style iterators for loop abstraction, singleton
classes/methods and lexical closures.
sadlittlewebjournal 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133615/
sadlittlewebjournal is a Weblog written in Perl that utilizes
PostgreSQL or MySQL and a straightforward ASCII interface. Site
maintenance is done via an intuitive backend that allows one to add,
delete, and modify previous entries. Other features include an
integrated guestbook, a Web stat chart complete with ASCII bar graphs,
and various other modularized features.
SerialBridge 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133639/
SerialBridge bridges data across two serial ports across a Palm device.
It's mainly aimed at bridging the Wireless Modem and a USB/Serial port
on a Treo.
SkinLF 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133632/
Todays applications tend to be skinnable: cdplayers, email notifiers,
even operating systems. SkinLF provides a skin system for Java
programs.
Squid 3.0-PRE3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133635/
Squid is a high performance Web proxy cache that can be arranged
hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction in
bandwith usage. Squid runs on all popular Unix and Windows platforms.
suPHP 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133614/
suPHP is a combination of an Apache module (mod_suphp) and an
executable which provides a wrapper for PHP. With both together, it is
possible to execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owner
without having to place a PHP binary in each user's cgi-bin directory.
suPHP doesn't need Apache's suExec, and provides a logging function.
The Battle for Wesnoth 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133610/
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy
theme.
Train Scheduler for Palm Pilot 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133637/
trainsched displays train schedules in an easy-to- read format. The
included converter converts the schedules from a CSV format to the PDB
file format used in Palm OS.
Umix 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133595/
Umix is a program for adjusting sound card volumes and other features
in sound card mixers. You can control your volumes, balances, and
recording sources flexibly from the command line or with a ncurses user
interface with familiar vi/emacs keybindings. Umix supports multiple
mixer devices. All settings can be saved and loaded from a file.
VideoDB 2003-08-24a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133603/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's
mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS
tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet
Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark
movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a
filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow
manager. It is a personal database, so no user
management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may
add/edit/delete movies.
Womcat Bookmarks 2.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133597/
Womcat Bookmarks is a program that maintains Web bookmarks in a set of
hierarchical folders. It can output the bookmarks as an HTML page and
as an RSS 2.0 file which can be placed on a Web site. The RSS file maps
folder names into the "category" element. Womcat Bookmarks
can download other RSS files, treating them as categorized bookmarks,
to create a local database of web bookmarks that can be browsed by
subject. It supports RSS discovery by allowing posting RSS file URL's
as new items. It also acts as a basic RSS feed reader.
Workrave 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133654/
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of
repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to
take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily
limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using
GTK/Win32).
Xfprot 0.23beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133633/
XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Small
Business Edition. It was based upon the XSTEP-3.5.1 library. Starting
from version 0.20beta, it is based on the GTK+ 1.2 libraries.
xMule v2 0.1.6 (wx UI)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133611/
xMule v2 is a multi-platform file-sharing program, a fork of the
original xMule project. It connects to the eDonkey2000 network, has
customizable user interface(s), features console and Web interfaces for
local and remote controlling, and includes much more.
Slashcode
Slash on Mac OS X
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/158239
This is how I installed Slash on Mac OS X Server 10.2.6 on August 8,
2003. YMMV. This is not intended to be a tutorial, it is a log of what
I did for my system. You may wish to use a release version of perl, to
include different Apache modules, to compile with DSO, etc. Whatever.
If someone wants to take some or all of this information and include it
in a more comprehensive guide, be my guest.
How to Force Previewing?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1931216
An anonymous user writes: "I'd like to see an option added to enable a
user to force themselves to preview a post before they actually post
the comment. At the moment, a user is required to preview a story
submission before they post it, but there is no way for this
requirement to be there for standard posts. I often find myself hitting
'submit' when I wish I'd previewed first. I know that a 'force post
preview' option could be added to the options section and implemented
in SLASH *very* easily, which would simply remove the 'Submit' button
from the initial post screen... so could someone do it? I'd do it
myself if I was able to update the CVS source :-)" This is a one-liner
change... details follow...
YogaCircle.net (New Yoga Slash Site)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0339211
Well this should be a first. A Yoga base Slash site. Check it out, if
you have any questions or comments let me know. Thanks for the code.
csdaily.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0337226
Yet another Slash site, Computer Science Daily News. Aims to be a
resource for Computer Science professionals, researchers, students and
instructors. Hopefully this fills a niche, computer science
developments seem to be very decentralized, and hard to find. Slash
seems to be working out nicely, though I'm still learning the ropes...
--csdaily
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!
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