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Cube Goodies: Hot/Cold Mini Fridge
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/622b/
Books: BOFH 4 - Dummy Mode Is Forever
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/6280/
Gadgets: Watch with Built-in Grounding Strap
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/62f7/
Gadgets: Mobile Power Inverter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/630f/
Gadgets: Presentation Remote
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/630b/
Interests: Megatokyo Lanyard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/60e9/
Caffeine: Penguin Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/61f2/
Computing: SnapStream Personal Video Station 3
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/619c/
Gadgets: Arc LED Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/6270/
Gadgets: Laser Widow
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/604c/
Computing: 17" Samsung 170N LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/624e/
PC Mods: Startech Cool Aluminator PC Case
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6297/
Computing: Multimedia Access Panels
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/628f/
Computing: Zip-Linq Cell Phone Charger Kits
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62aa/
Computing: Kensington WiFi Finder
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/6247/
Computing: Zip-Linq Retractable Network/Modem Cables
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62a1/
Computing: Zip-Linq Zip-Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/629b/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mug
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/6235/
Cube Goodies: Moving Gear Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/601e/
Computing: BenQ FP2081 20" LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/6259/
Sourceforge
GanttProject 1.9.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=308031
After two release candidate, ganttproject 1.9.8 has been released.
Ganttproject is a pure Java application thats lets you plan project
using Gantt charts. It uses a file format based on XML and can export
into HTML Web pages or PNG images.
Azureus 2.0.2.2 has been released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=307255
Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent Client. This update is strongly
recommended as versions 2.0.2.0 and 2.0.2.1 had poor performance. This
version includes stability, performance and several bug fixes. The
following languages are supported now: Chinese (Simplified), Danish,
Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese,
Spanish and Swedish. Both .jar and .exe are available. The setup.exe is
bundled with an SWT update.
DWPL 2.4.0 is out
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=308060
DWPL stands for Delphi WDOSX Project Library. This library is for
creating native 32-bit protected mode DOS programs with Delphi 5-7
using the WDOSX DOS extender as the core. The goal of the library
project is to make the usage of the Delphi/Kylix OpenCLX library easier
and to provide support for things which are missing when using Delphi
with pure WDOSX. DWPL is a open source library and (like OpenCLX from
Borland) released by the GPL licence. DWPL 2.4.0 consists of following
parts BaseCLX - Basic runtime library with SysUtils.pas, Classes.pas
and more. VisualCLX - GUI user interface currently based on a Turbo
Vision like outfit. Units are e.g. QForms.pas and QControls.pas. Most
standard GUI elements are implemented. This means that forms designed
with the Delphi Form Designer will be displayed in a textmode
environment. NetCLX - Currently only Sockets.pas. More units from
Delphi internet, xml and soap folders will follow in the future. Memory
and Interrupts - Units for doing low level stuff, like direct memory
and ports access, DPMI support etc. Changes since DWPL 2.2.0 -
cooperative Threads implementation, - TCP/IP stack for native DOS dual
target unit Sockets.pas for easy program testing (only available with
D6 Professional up) - full support for the new WDOSX 32-bit DOS
extender version 0.97b2 (WDOSX extender is included) - exceptions
support for handling unresolved DLL function calls - demo projects for
TCP/IP with PING, SMB server, FTP server, TCP client socket, Modbus/TCP
server and HTTP server included - improved and extended documentation
(many thanks to Laszlo who cared about it) Supported Delphi versions -
D5 Professional/Enterprise, - all editions of D6 including Personal
Open Edition, - D7 Professional/Enterprise/Architect. Pre-compiled
binaries for D5 and D7 Standard will be available later. But some
features (eg. Sockets.pas unit) are only available with D6 or D7
Professional/Enterprise/Architect. DWP links Homepage of DWPL
http://www.dwp42.org DWPL at SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dwpl/ DWP Mail list
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dwp/ Please join the DWP Mail list and
post your questions, comments and bug reports or mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gallery v1.4 Release Candidate 3 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=308054
The third (and, we sincerely hope, last) *release candidate* for
Gallery v.1.4, as well as the first release candidate for Gallery
Remote v.1.1 are now available. Since RC2, we discovered a small number
of critical issues which needed to be resolved before the 1.4 final
release, including fixing a conflict with the Config. Wizard and
default Red Hat 7.3 installs, as well as an obscure but serious issue
relating to a PHP bug in the data serialization in some of the foreign
languages. We're putting out one more release candidate in order to be
absolutely sure that 1.4 is rock solid in its final release. Gallery is
a slick, intuitive web based photo gallery with authenticated users and
privileged albums. Easy to install, configure and use. Photo management
includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges
make this great for communities. Version 1.4 premieres some major new
features: Gallery is now multilingual, and can be displayed in 18
different languages, with more on the way! In addition, we've
completely overhauled the documentation and made it more accessible and
more informative. Other changes include ownership of individual album
items, not just of albums, and a slew of minor improvements and
bugfixes. Other changes for Gallery 1.4 include: * Support for lossless
JPEG rotation, and new "flip photo" options * Image size and JPEG EXIF
data can be displayed below photos * Data loss prevented if disk space
is exceeded * Image dimensions and file size can be restricted *
Support for "*" wildcards in search field * Add items to front or back
of album * Tons of other feature enhancements and bugfixes In addition,
Gallery Remote v.1.1-RC1 is also now available. This new version now
sports a preferences dialogue. Also: Proxy and HTTPS support, ability
to rotate pictures before uploading them, a more efficient protocol for
getting the list of albums, and support for the "Extra Fields"
functionality introduced in Gallery 1.3.4. Download:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more:
http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=87
Net-SNMP 5.0.9 released. Security fix!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=308015
Available for immediate download is the Net-SNMP 5.0.9 release. This
does contain a security fix so all users are encouraged to update their
software immediately. net-snmp provides tools and libraries relating to
the Simple Network Management Protocol including: An extensible agent,
An SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents,
tools to generate and handle SNMP traps, etc. *5.0.9* SECURITY: - An
existing user/community could get access to data in MIB objects that
were explicitly excluded from their view. Fixes: - Perl build
environment should better under Windows - Misc kerberos support fixes.
- Improvements on various manual pages. - A annoying bug with SETs
being passed to pass scripts was fixed. - The often talked about VACM
optimization improvement was fixed again. - mib2c handles augmentation
tables better now. - Various 64 bit issues have been addressed.
Slashdot
FSU Sets 7 World Records In High Magnetics Research
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/08/0153215
[0]spence calder writes "FSU's High Magnetic Field Lab, more
specifically my Kenpo teacher, just broke 7 world records, and brought
the record for a superconducting magnet to 25 Tesla. [1] Check it out
at FSView and a [2]more detailed article here. Now if only our football
team was that cool." And if you'd like your magnetic toys to shoot
metal bits, Jason Rollette points to his [3]railgun project, which
looks like good, clean, high-voltage fun.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.fsunews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/04/3f56a1ad62845
2. http://www.newswise.com/p/articles/view/500614/
3. http://www.rollette.com/railgun
Dutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/08/0230218
[0]touretzky writes "The Court of Appeal in The Hague today [1]rejected
all of Scientology's claims in appeal in Scientology's action against
XS4ALL, Karin Spaink and ten other internet providers. As a result,
[2]Karin Spaink's website, which Scientology sought to remove from the
Internet based on copyright claims, is entirely legal in the
Netherlands. The court also overturned two lower court rulings, one of
which said that linking to material that infringed a copyright was
itself actionable. The other ruling said that ISPs that failed to act
on credible notification of a copyright violation could be held liable
for that. The Appeals Court felt that this was too vague a standard,
and thus posed a threat to free speech. More info at
[3]ScientologyWatch.org."
Links
0. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst
1. http://www.spaink.net/cos/verd1eng.html
2. http://www.spaink.net/fishman/home.html
3.
http://www.scientologywatch.org/postnuke/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=75&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Desert Robot Race Update, With Video
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/08/0156208
An anonymous reader writes "Several teams have moved forward with their
bid to run the Barstow-Vegas Desert Robot Race (For those not familiar
check out [0]http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge ). As of today 55
[1]teams are registered, some of the most interesting are [2]Cal Tech,
[3]AI Magic, and [4] the Red Team out of Carnegie Mellon. Also fishing
around the Red Team site, there is a [5]pretty nifty video."
Links
0. http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge
1. https://dtsn.darpa.mil/grandc/forum/TeamsList.asp
2. http://team.caltech.edu/
3. http://aimagic.org/
4. http://www.redteamracing.org/
5. http://www.redteamracing.org/include/media/movies/red_team.mpeg
Should ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/2343254
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "In a [1]paper published today, the point is
made that ISPs should filter some ports (e.g. 135) for good. I guess
given what everyone sees hitting their various firewalls these days,
this may make sense. But wasn't the Internet supposed to be 'open' at
one point? Or are we to the point where Internet=Web (and maybe AIM).
The author of the paper is operating [2]DShield and I guess has some
insight into this issue. He made the same points before on various
mailing lists."
Links
0. http://www.sans.org/rr
1. http://www.sans.org/rr/special/isp_blocking.php
2. http://www.dshield.org/
Interview With A Maddog
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/2057232
[0]DubiousFreak writes "Tinyminds.org sits down with Linux
International Director, Jon "Maddog" Hall. Jon has been in the computer
industry since 1969, using Unix since 1977, and Linux since 1994. He
has been a software engineer, systems administrator, product manager,
marketing manager and professional educator. Jon has been the Executive
Director of Linux International since 1995, the first four years as a
volunteer. Jon has been employed by VA Linux systems, Compaq Computer
Corporation in the Digital UNIX Marketing group and Bell Laboratories
among other companies. Read the [1]full interview at Tinyminds.org."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://tinyurl.com/m7nz
14 Years Later, Cold Fusion Still Gets The Cold Shoulder
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/2013207
[0]segment writes "It has been [1]14 years since two little-known
electrochemists announced what sounded like the biggest physics
breakthrough since Enrico Fermi produced a nuclear chain reaction on a
squash court in Chicago. Using a tabletop setup, Stanley Pons and
Martin Fleischmann, of the [2]University of Utah, said they had induced
deuterium nuclei to fuse inside metal electrodes, producing measurable
quantities of heat. That was the opening bell for one of the craziest
periods in science. Cold fusion, if real, promised to solve the world's
energy problems forever. Scientists around the world dropped what they
were doing to try to replicate the astounding claim." The linked AP
story (carried on SFGate.com) is about the [3]Tenth International
Conference on Cold Fusion, which took place in the last week of August.
Links
0. http://(ten.dekcuf-e) (ta) (lis)
1.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/09/05/financial0901EDT0036.DTL&type=science
2. http://www.utah.edu/
3. http://iccf10.org/
Linux Distro For Linksys WRT54G
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1936228
[0]scubacuda writes "Here is a [1]tiny Linux distro for the [2]Linksys
wrt54g ([3]d/l the distro here). In just a few seconds, you can give
your access point's ramdisk syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin
support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, etc." Interesting
-- "The script installs strictly to the ram disk of the box. No
permanent changes are made. If you mess something up, power-cycle it."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] a m e.com
1. http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html
2. http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=508&grid=
3. http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g.tar.gz
Supersonic Flight Without The Sonic Boom
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1843228
[0]fname writes "Here's a [1]story from Spaceflight Now about a new
test aircraft that can travel at supersonic speeds without triggering a
sonic boom. The technology works by modifying the shape of the plane.
Although it's been believed to be possible for a long time, this is the
first actual flight test, barring black box projects I suppose."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0309/06supersonic/
BSDCon '03 Nearly Here (OpenBSD 3.4, Too)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1710240
[0]robotdreams writes "Once again [1]BSDCon showcases the BSD
community's long history of innovative research, open exchange of
ideas, and collaborative work. Tutorials this year feature: an
intensive code walkthrough of the new FreeBSD 5.x release, debugging
kernel problems on live systems, advanced BSD system and network
security, and FreeBSD's new GEOM disk I/O subsystem." Since BSDCon runs
from September 8th through 12th, you're probably either already going
or out of luck ;) On the other hand, you're still early for OpenBSD
3.4, now taking pre-orders -- details below.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/
Step-by-Step Computer Destruction
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1528236
[0]Unixrevolution writes "[1]Dan's Data has an excellent [2]article on
how an enterprising user (or repair tech) can easily destroy their
computer. Most of us don't destroy nearly enough hardware, so this
should be helpful."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.dansdata.com/
2. http://www.dansdata.com/sbs3.htm
Freshmeat
Alvaro's Messenger 0.82
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135103/
Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl/Tk client for MSN Messenger. Its features
include multi-language support, smileys, docking support for KDE 3 and
GNOME 2 (FreeDesktop compatibility), logging, profiles support, email
notification, customizable sounds, group management, file transfers
with NAT support, and proxy support. Some special features include the
possibility of knowing who has deleted you from his/her list,
connecting "silently" (appearing invisible), and so on.
Amiga OS 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135066/
Amiga OS was created to give the look and feel of the Amiga OS to GNOME
and Metacity. It's not an exact imitation, and it's not meant to be.
The design is based on screenshots of AIAB, using Industrial as the
base for the GTK themes.
antinat 0.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135168/
Antinat is a modular, multithreaded, scaleable SOCKS server for Linux
supporting SOCKS 4, SOCKS 5, authentication, firewalling, and name
resolution. Modules can be added without modifying the core server, and
modules can be removed to remove support for some functionality.
Aquativo 1.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135068/
Aquativo is a combination of ideas from many themes.
AutoUpdate 5.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135108/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's
up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and
upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also
handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server
with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
Bandwidth Management Tools 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135163/
Bandwidth Management Tools is a total bandwidth management solution for
Linux and can be used for firewalling, traffic graphing, and shaping.
It is not based on any currently-available bandwidth management
software.
BeFree 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135097/
BeFree is a complete implementation of the BeOS Kits and Servers for
Linux that doesn't rely on X11. It uses the GGI APIs for its app_server
and supports KGI that provides kernel graphic drivers.
Blassic 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135106/
Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory,
and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs
written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting
language.
ClanLib 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135105/
ClanLib is a cross-platform game SDK currently supporting Windows,
Linux, and BeOS. It provides easy-to-use interfaces for 2D graphics,
sound, resources, networking, and OpenGL. The goal is to provide a game
SDK that does all the dirty work that all modern games need to
implement anyway, thus making the game developer concentrate on the
gameplay instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again.
CoverViewer 0.1.11pre2 (Prerelease)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135147/
CoverViewer is an XMMS plugin that displays images related to the files
being played. The displayed image can be a copy of the cover of the
album you are playing or anything else you want. It creates a
personalised skin for itself using the current XMMS skin, and you can
control song playing from its interface. It includes a function that
can automatically retrieve covers you don't have from the Internet,
using file tag information to get the artist and album name.
dvdprobe 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135094/
dvdprobe is a Python interface to the tcprobe program from transcode.
It scans a DVD for useful information such as titles, chapters,
playback time, audio tracks, and subtitles.
Elk 3.99.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135170/
Elk (the Extension Language Kit) is an implementation of the Scheme
programming language. It can be used as a standalone Scheme
interpreter, or as an embeddable, reusable extension language subsystem
for applications written in C or C++ through the libelk library.
elmo 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135114/
Elmo is a feature-rich console mail client for power users. It
integrates functionality commonly realised by separate pieces of
software in other mailers and competes with Mutt.
Email Security through Procmail 1.139
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135132/
Email Security through Procmail provides methods to sanitize e-mail,
removing obvious exploit attempts and disabling the channels through
which exploits are delivered. Facilities for detecting and blocking
Trojan Horse exploits and worms are also provided.
Enemies of Carlotta 1.0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135111/
Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic
the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in
Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is
smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman.
Epiphany-browser 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135129/
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine.
Its goals are simplicity, standards compliance, and integration with
GNOME.
form2mail .06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135134/
form2mail is a script that provides an email form for Web sites. Its
main goal is to cut down spam by masking email addresses with usernames
so the backend can compare real names to email addresses and deliver
the typed form.
FProfiler 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135101/
FProfiler is a Java Profiler using BCEL and log4j. It's very fast
because it inserts the needed instructions into the Bytecode of the
classes. It can be used to find Hotspots in Java programs, libs, and
servlet environments--simply every Java class.
ftv_gnome 1.1pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135158/
ftv_gnome is a GNOME front end for the furious_tv personal video
recorder (PVR). It is written in C and integrates well with the GNOME
desktop. It can search, sort, and filter TV listing, and is
considerably faster and easier to set up then ftv_web.
Gander 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135136/
Gander serves Python applications over HTTP by doing as little as
possible: a request for a root URL returns an index page, a request for
non-valid application returns "404: Resource NotFound", a
request for uninstantiated object returns "412: Object Not
Instantiated", and all other responses come from the Gander-served
application for which Gander translates URL-style requests into object
method-calls. Gander comes with two example apps: Trivial, a basic
tutorial, and FileTool, a simple browser-based file manager. It also
comes with templates for quickly starting your own apps.
gmorgan 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135171/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It
features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
gpsdrive 2.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135169/
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.
Gv4l 2.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135164/
Gv4l is a v4l (Video4Linux) frontend of transcode used to watch and/or
record from a v4l-capable device. The v4l device streams can be
recorded in both raw and encoded format, such as DivX.
gwyple 2.5.0 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135154/
gwyple is a GUI, implemented in Perl and Perl/Tk, for handling bug
reports. These reports usually arrive by email, are stored by helper
scripts called from procmail, and can then be organized by gwyple
independently from the used BTS.
hk_classes 0.6.1-test1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135116/
hk_classes is a set of C++ libraries for rapid development of database
applications with all features a modern database application should
have, like forms and reports. hk_classes is database and GUI
independent. It also includes command line tools to use hk_classes in
scripts.
IaraJS 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135089/
IaraJS is a set of JavaScript templates for the construction of Web
sites, using JavaScript components.
im-ja 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135092/
im-ja aims to be a generic Japanese input module for GTK+ 2. Currently
supported input modes are Hiragana, Katakana, Half-Width Katakana,
Zenkaku, Canna, Wnn, and Kanji character recognition (based on
Kanjipad).
ImageroReader 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135123/
ImageroReader is a Java library for reading image files. It can read
BMP, TIFF, PNG, and JPEG image files, and can read thumbnails and
metadata in TIFF, PNG, JPEG, JFIF, EXIF, and PSD files.
ink 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135120/
Ink is a command line tool which displays the ink level of your
printer. It makes use of libinklevel.
J2SSH 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135137/
J2SSH is an object-orientated Java implementation of the SSH version 2
protocol. It provides a rich, powerful, and extensible SSH API that
enables developers to gain access to SSH servers and to develop entire
SSH client/server frameworks. The API library provides a fully-featured
SSH2 implementation specifically designed for cross-platform
development. Higher level components, representing both the standard
SSH client and SSH servers, are provided which implement the protocol
specification for user sessions and port forwarding. The specification
currently supports public key and password authentication and a full
implementation of the SFTP protocol.
Jabberwocky 20.0.07 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135115/
Jabberwocky is a Lisp IDE containing a Lisp-aware editor with syntax
highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a
source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer.
It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project.
JamochaMUD beta12-03-09-06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135149/
JamochaMUD offers Unicode, plug-in, and multi-language support (8
different languages) to allow a more enjoyable MUCKing/MUDding
experience. It features command history, synchronized window controls,
experimental SOCKS 5 support, and greatly improved ANSI colour support.
It plays nice on Unix systems, supports a wide range of MU*s, and also
includes emulation of some TinyFugue editor controls. It uses Java 1.1,
and includes classes to be easily reused in other Java applications.
JXMLPad 1.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135126/
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
KAlarm 0.9.5 (KDE 3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135109/
KAlarm lets you configure personal messages to be displayed, commands
to be executed, or emails to be sent, at scheduled times. It allows you
to choose the message font and color, how often to repeat, whether to
display an advance reminder, whether to play a sound when the message
is displayed, and whether to cancel the alarm if it can't be triggered
on time (e.g. if you are logged out at the time). As well as using the
graphical interface to configure alarms, you can use the command line,
and there is a DCOP interface for other applications.
kdbg 1.2.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135145/
KDbg is a graphical user interface to gdb, the GNU debugger. It
provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting
variables, and stepping through code.
Keepalived for Linux 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135173/
Keepalived for LVS aims to add a strong and robust keepalive facility
to the Linux Virtual Server project. This project is written in C with
multilayer TCP/IP stack checks. It implements a framework based on
three family checks: Layer3, Layer4, and Layer5. This framework gives
the daemon the ability of checking a LVS server pool states.When one of
the servers in the LVS server pool is down, keepalived informs the
Linux kernel via a setsockopt call to remove this server entry from the
LVS topology. In addition, it implements a VRRPv2 stack to handle
director failover.
KGuitune 0.3.1 (KDE3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135113/
KGuitune is a guitar-and-other-instruments tuner. It takes a signal
from the microphone, calculates its frequency, and displays it on a
note scale graphic and an oscilloscope. It supports normal, Wien, and
physical tuning.
libds 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135167/
LibDS is a cross-platform library to support simple networking,
threads, as well as data structures. It allows code reuse for common
data structures, such as linked lists and hash tables, as well as
support for complex entities such as config files.
libDSP 4.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135153/
libDSP is a C++ library of digital signal processing routines,
including standard vector operations, digital filtering, and
transforms.
libinklevel 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135119/
Libinklevel is a linux library for retrieving the ink level of a
printer attached via the parallel port or USB.
Liferea 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135165/
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader which also
supports CDF feeds, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds, and OCS directories. It's
intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used
to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse and search through their
items, and show their contents using GtkHTML.
MACAW 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135095/
Macaw is a framework for developing applications in Java that run on a
local Web server and are accessed by the user via their Web browser. It
provides a layer between non-Web aware application classes and
Freemarker templates. Each Web page is deemed to be about a webified
object that belongs to a webified class. Form actions are mapped onto
webified methods that are invoked on the webified objects. Webified
objects also expose properties to the Freemarker templates.
Make CD-ROM Recovery 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135127/
mkCDrec (Make CD-ROM Recovery) makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster
recovery image, including backups of the Linux system to one or more
CD-ROM(s) (multi-volume sets). Otherwise, the backups can be stored on
another disk, NFS disk, or (remote) tape. After a disk crash or system
intrusion, the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore
the complete system as it was. It also features disk cloning, which
allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does
not have to be of the same size, as it calculates the partition layout
itself). Currently, ext2, ext3, minix, MS-DOS, FAT, VFAT, Reiserfs,
XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported. mkCdrec is also able to restore
disks in Software RAID and LVM mode.
Matrix Orbital Daemon 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135128/
Matrix Orbital Daemon is a control daemon for the Matrix Orbital LCD
screen that tries to give full power to the user without needlessly
complex commands.
Melange Chat Server 3.0RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135142/
Melange is a chat server written in C. It comes in a package with a
Java client, so your guests do not need any browser plugin or other
additional software. Its main features are channels created by
everybody, private channels, channel/user renaming, change channel
owner, anonymous channel, private messages, user squelching, cross
channel yelling, finger, whois, realtime overview, admin features like
user kicking, host banning, loglevels, group commands, optional unique
nicknames, idletime and much more. It currently supports English,
German, French, Italian and Catalan.
NetInstaller 1.01 (MT)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135104/
NetInstaller lets you create setup wizards for Web applications written
in PHP. Users only have to upload two files; everything else will be
decompressed online on the server, created, and configured. This
eliminates the need to perform tedious permission changes (with chmod)
or to upload of hundred of files in order to install a PHP application
onto a Web server.
netrik 1.12.0 (beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135098/
Netrik is an advanced text mode WWW browser. Its purpose is to give
access to as much of the Web as possible in text mode, without
forsaking any comfort.
newSphPeek 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135148/
newSphPeek is an easy to use newspaper manager, designed to put smaller
papers on the Web. It is especially suited for school papers and
community news published along with a hardcopy.
Nuku 1.0-SDL
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135093/
Nuku is a port of an old PC-DOS game in the same style as Zool, Jazz
Jackrabbit, or Super Mario World. It features more than 30 inmense
levels that can be played by one or two players (split screen), races,
and diamond collection competition modes.
pam_usb 0.2-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135122/
pam_usb is a PAM module that enables authentication using a USB storage
device (such as a USB pen) through DSA private/public keys. It can be
set up to work with any application using PAM, such as your system
login (login), your X login (XDM/KDM/GDM), your screensaver (e.g.
xscreensaver), and many others. It supports multiple users for the same
device, multiple hostnames for the same user, a serial number access
list, and private key encryption. It includes usbadm, a tool which
helps managing users and keys. In short, you will be able to login by
simply plugging in the USB pen and entering your login name.
phpMyAdmin 2.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135157/
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop
databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute
any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and
databases, export/import CSV data and administrate one single database
and multiple MySQL servers.
PMK 0.6.2 (Snapshot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135107/
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.
RechnungsZentrale V2 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135144/
RechnungsZentrale V2 is a multiuser, Web-based billing application. It
facilitates the creation of bills and the management of customers. It
is written in PHP and uses MySQL. It supports German, English, French,
and Dansk languages.
RSSOwl 0.61b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135112/
RSSOwl is an SWT-based GUI desktop client that reads RSS files from a
URL or a local file. A tab folder shows RSS channel information and the
headings of the selected feed. After selecting a news item, users can
read the description and open the news in a tab using an integrated
browser. Full-text searching (case-sensitive, entire-word, regex match)
and keyword highlighting are supported. Favorites can be saved within
unlimited nested categories. It also supports exporting newsfeeds to
PDF, HTML, and OPML, importing newsfeeds from OPML, printing news,
saving news feeds locally, and subscriptions (sharing news feeds with
others).
Ruby-GStreamer 0.7.0 (unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135155/
Ruby-GStreamer is a set of Ruby bindings for the GStreamer multimedia
framework.
sdp2rat 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135100/
sdp2rat is a Perl script that parses SDP files and launches RAT (Robust
audio tool) with the parameters found in the file. The SDP file can
either be a file on disk or a URL.
Silky 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135143/
Silky is an easy-to-use graphical SILC client written in C and using
the GTK toolkit. The aim of this project is to create a simple and
easy-to-use graphical SILC client. Silky contains all the necessary
features of a SILC client still keeping the UI as simple and clean as
possible.
smtpsend 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135057/
smtpsend is a simple SMTP client to transmit an email message to an
SMTP server. It is designed for use by programs that need a simple,
flexible way to send email, or for experimenting with SMTP. In many
cases, sendmail can do what this program does, but it is much more
complex, harder to set up and use, and doesn't give you as much lower
level control. This program is written in Perl and is based on Perl's
Net::SMTP module. It makes a great starting point for writing SMTP
client functions into your own Perl program.
SOAP for Tcl 1.6.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135156/
The SOAP package provides a mechanism to bind Tcl command procedures to
remote procedure calls using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
over HTTP.
SSHTerm 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135139/
SSHTerm is a Java SSH client that provides a whole range of features,
including port forwarding, password authentication, public-key
authentication, ANSI/VT100/VT220/VT320 terminal, full clipboard
support, record and playback input/output, and the ability to load/save
connection settings to a file.
The Gimp 1.3.20 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135172/
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.
tpop3d 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135121/
tpop3d is yet another POP3 server. It is intended to be fast,
extensible, and secure. It is especially extensible in regard to its
authentication subsystem. Supported authentication mechanisms include
auth-pam (Pluggable Authentication Modules) and auth-passwd to mediate
access between users and their Unix-style mailboxes, auth-mysql which
uses vmail-sql to mediate access to virtual-domain email, auth-ldap
which allows authentication of users against an LDAP directory,
auth-other which allows you to authenticate with an external program
communicating via pipes, and auth-perl which allows you to authenticate
users with custom Perl code. There is integrated support for
POP-before-SMTP relaying. tpop3d supports traditional (BSD-format)
mailspools and the maildir format of qmail.
Unix I-Ching Generator 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135099/
iching is a Unix command line I Ching generator. It accepts questions
and generates responses that can be looked up in the I Ching (a Chinese
divination book). It is designed around "spiritual
algorithms", that is, algorithms that make some sort of sense
spiritually, not just programatically.
Verbi 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135117/
Verbi is a front-end to the verb interface of the Traduki project,
allowing you to generate an HTML file containing all the conjugations
for any verb in the languages supported (at the time being, only
Italian). A small GUI written in wxLua is provided, but the program can
also be run from the console.
Video Disk Recorder 1.2.5pre2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135118/
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux
and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output
the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3
playback and more.
WinXP 1.1 (Silver)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135069/
WinXP is a set of themes inspired by Windows XP.
Womcat Bookmarks 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135096/
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.
XScreenSaver 4.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135174/
XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for the X Window
System. It is highly customizable and allows the use of any program
that can draw on the root window as a display mode. More than 140
display modes are included in this package.
Slashcode
How to Allow Longer Subjects?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1923252
An anonymous reader asks: "By default there is a limit on how long a
poster's subject can be. Is there a way to get beyond this limitation,
so that the subject lines for comments and stories can be longer?"
Sure, it's easy... this is a good introduction to using MySQL to
customize Slash.
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!
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