O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER July 28, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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This release includes several bugfixes, portability issues, and missing functions in the latest betas for Gtk2 and Glib. Some dependency issues for Gnome2 and Glade were also fixed. Columba 0.12.0 (stable) released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296551 A new stable version of Columba is now available. Columba is an email client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface with wizards and internalionalization support. Its a powerful email management tool with features to enhance your productivity and communication. So, take control of your email before it takes control of you! This version has lots of new features and includes many fixes since our last development release. http://columba.sourceforge.net/downloads_stable.php For more information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29 Frederik SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-07-24 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296604 0. Intro 1. Revolution OS 2. Project of the month: Tiki 3. Quad 64bit Operton System on Compile Farm 4. Download and CVS Statistics Update 5. Changes to Nightly CVS Tarballs 6. SourceForge.net Site Enhancements 7. Stats and Top Projects --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear SourceForge.net User, In my last email to you, I mentioned that the biggest issue with the running of the site is managing our growth. Adding 700 new users and 70 new Open Source projects a day can, at times, create strain on critical systems that drive the site. As you may have noticed, CVS is visibly having growing pains. Due to system load, we have had to move anonymous checkouts to our backup server. This has made the code of our 65,000 projects more accessible. However, since data is synchronized from the primary CVS servers to the backup CVS servers at specific times during the day, it has also caused up to a 24 hour delay in getting the freshest code on the site. I know this temporary solution has frustrated some of you and I want to apologize for that. The good news is, in the very short term, we will have a solution that will solve this issue. We are upgrading our hardware from one aging system to six new speedy boxes; this hardware is a portion of the new CVS infrastructure that we are implementing to improve CVS performance and reliability. The solution will be in place by the time I write you next month. You'll know when we make the change. It will be hard to miss. In the mean time, hang in there. I know it's frustrating, but help is on the way. As always, if you have some feedback or issues related to the site, please feel free to email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Revolution OS -------------------------------------------- I want to bring an excellent documentary about Open Source to your attention, now on DVD. It's called 'Revolution OS' and it does a remarkable job giving the history of Free Software, Open Source Software, Linux and why sites, such as SourceForge.net, exist. All the fathers of the Free/Open Source movement are interviewed, including: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Brian Behlendorf, Michael Tiemann, Larry Augustin, Frank Hecker, and our very own Rob Malda from Slashdot.org I have shown the DVD to a number of family and friends. Not only did they find it interesting, they also better understood what I did for a living (which was a bonus). It's available now on a few sites, including our sister site Thinkgeek.com. Netflix has it available for rental as well. http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5dd5/ http://www.revolution-os.com/index.html http://www.revolution-os.com/photos.html If you have interest, check it out and let me know what you think ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). SF.NET Project of the Month: Tiki --------------------------------------------- Keeping a busy web site up-to-date with fresh, engaging content is hard work. There are timelines, multiple contributors, editing of content, and the graphical layout of the site. Content Management System (CMS) is a class of software that aims to make all these chores easy. SourceForge.net's July project of the month, Tiki, is a project that executes on this promise and sports the latest content management features including: Wikis, Forums, Article/Submissions, Journals, templates and 370 other features. Tiki has been on SourceForge.net since October, 2002 and currently enjoys an activity ranking in the top ten of our 65,000 projects. The code is licensed under the LGPL and will run on any web server supporting PHP. The SF.net team is proud to make Tiki project of the month. Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Home page: http://tikiwiki.sourceforge.net AMD Quad Opteron System on Compile Farm --------------------------------------------- Are you curious how your latest code runs on a 4-way 64bit Opteron system? Now you can find out using the latest addition to Sourceforge.net's compile Farm. AMD has been kind enough to provide SF.net hardware for the community to use. Running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 this new system is now available for you to use. Enjoy! The SF.net team would like to give a big thank you to AMD for their support. To find out more about the compile farm: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1 Download and CVS Statistics Update --------------------------------------------- As we covered in our previous site-wide newsletter, work is under way To correct inaccuracies with the download statistics system. As of the beginning of this week, all required code changes have been made, testing of the new code has been completed, and we have started reprocessing the log data used to generate download statistics. Current (i.e. for recent dates) download statistics are expected to be accurate; most projects will notice an increase in their download counts. We expect this statistics regeneration to take a couple weeks. Aggregated statistics (such as project activity percentile) are also expected to change as the download statistics are regenerated. CVS statistics data will also be reprocessed, pending completion of the download statistics correction. Nightly Tarball Changes --------------------------------------------- Nightly CVS tarballs are generated automatically for all hosted projects, as part of our project CVS service. Information about nightly CVS tarballs may be found in the Site Documentation and on the CVS section of the Project Admin pages. In early August, the nightly CVS tarballs generated for each project will be changing format from gzip-compression to bzip2-compression. bzip2 compression/decompression tools are available for all major OS platforms; use of bzip2 for compression represents a significant space savings over gzip compression. Additional information regarding this change will be provided on the Site Status page (link found in left navbar) during the last week of July. SourceForge.net Site Enhancements --------------------------------------------- In the past month, a number of enhancements have been made to the SourceForge.net site; most of these enhancements focus on improving the project support process. Major enhancements include: - A special search page has been added (https://sourceforge.net/support/filefinder.php) to allow you to search through the files released by SourceForge.net projects, based on a known file name. Users who download software from a SourceForge.net project sometimes forget which project the software came from, complicating their lives when they need support for that software. To help reduce this confusion, users may simply enter the file name of the file they downloaded and they will be presented a listing of projects that may have released that file. - The old "Contact SF.net Support" page has been replaced with a new "Get Support" page that provides information about project support and site support. Project administrators may now specify (via the "Preferred Support Mechanism" area, in the Public Info section, of the Project Admin pages) which forum, mailing list, or Tracker they suggest their end-users use when reporting support issues. When the "Get Support" page is accessed from a project page, this information will be provided. When the Preferred Support Mechanism is set, a new link will appear in the top portion of the Project Summary page, helping direct end-users to the right support resource. - By popular request, the SourceForge.net team now maintains an abridged (short) version of the Site Status page. The abridged version of the Site Status page includes only information about major issues (i.e. site-wide issues which impact many projects) and includes information about the scope of issues, ETA for resolution and possible workarounds. This page is accessible from the Site Docs page (see link in left navbar; doc C9) or from the top of the main Site Status page. - Finally, some developers have reported confusion regarding the status of their requests for project hosting on SourceForge.net. We now provide a "My SF.net Projects" page, accessible from the "My SF.net" page, which provides status information on project registrations -- you can see whether your project registration is pending review, has been approved, or has been rejected. The SourceForge.net team is continuing to pursue new enhancements to the site, both based on our own experience and based on your suggestions. If you wish to suggest a change or enhancement to the SourceForge.net site, we may be reached regarding issues, concerns or feedback by following the instructions at: https://sourceforge.net/support/getsupport.php?group_id=1#sitesupport Stats and Top Projects. --------------------------------------------- Number of Projects: 65,717 Number of Registered Users: 666,125 Daily Stats for July 22, 2003 SF.NET : 2,026,117 pages served SF.NET project web space : 4,508,266 pages served Total Pages: 6,534,383 CVS updates: 16,047 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 312,948 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 1,841,764 Top 25 Projects: 1. Gaim https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features. 2. phpMyAdmin https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin 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. 3. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution https://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 4. AWStats https://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful and featureful web server logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web (but also FTP or Mail) statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords, robots, etc... 5. Tiki CMS/Groupware https://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki Tiki is a powerful CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) 6. Armagetron - Multiplayer Lightcycle Game https://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetron Armagetron is a simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron. The main focus lies on the multiplayer mode, which has already made Armagetron a popular warmup game on LAN parties. 7. guliverkli https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 8. MAMEoX (MAME on XBOX) https://sourceforge.net/projects/mameox MAMEoX is a port of the popular MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) system to the XBOX. The main goals of the project are to provide a well documented port with a consistent coding style. 9. Firewall Builder https://sourceforge.net/projects/fwbuilder Object-oriented GUI and set of compilers for various firewall platforms. Currently implemented compilers for iptables, ipfilter and OpenBSD pf. 10. WinMerge https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge A visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. Useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions 11. TUTOS https://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things. 12. ScummVM https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 13. PDFCreator https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator PDFCreator is the easy way of creating PDFs out of common software Like Word, StarCalc oder every other Windows Application that uses the Windows Printers. 14. eMule https://sourceforge.net/projects/emule eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client 15. Dev-C++ https://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 16. wxWindows https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows wxWindows is a free C++ framework that facilitates cross platform software development, including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc. 17. JBoss.org https://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java. 18. Animal Shelter Manager https://sourceforge.net/projects/sheltermanager Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and rescue shelters. Features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, internet website publishing, PetFinder integration and more. 19. POPFile - Automatic Email Classification https://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface.It runs on most platforms and with most email clients. 20. MegaMek https://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players.Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or infantry on a hex-based map. 21. FileZilla https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. 22. CDex https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos CDex a CD-Ripper, thus extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders. 23. Tcl https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted languageand very portable interpreter for that language. Tclis embeddable and extensible, and has been widely used since its creationin 1988 by John Ousterhout (visit the foundry for projects using it). 24. FreeMarker https://sourceforge.net/projects/freemarker FreeMarker is a template engine. It provides an easy way to generate textual (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc) output from your data and helps you separate design issues from application logic. Integrates with servlets, XML, Python and more. 25. JGraph Diagram Component https://sourceforge.net/projects/jgraph JGraph is the most powerful, lightweight, feature-rich, and thoroughly documented open-source graph component available for Java. It is accompanied by JGraphpad, the first free diagram editor for Java that offers XML, Drag and Drop and much more! 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. Slashdot Another Beer Please http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/228213 jmichaelg writes "What do you get when you combine a glass, a PIC computer, two capacitors, a coil and a zener Diode? A [0]wireless beer glass that signals your waiter when you need a refill. The circuit is an RFID transponder that measures the fluid level in a glass and transmits a globally unique ID coupled to the fluid level reading when queried by an antenna hidden in your table. The query provides enough power to drive the circuit so no batteries are needed. A [1]technical paper describes the circuitry in the table and the glass." This [2]hit the news over a year ago, but we didn't have the technical details. Links 0. http://www.merl.com/projects/iGlassware/ 1. http://www.merl.com/papers/docs/TR2002-21.pdf 2. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/04/1752217&tid=134 Microbes for Bioremediation http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1936209 The San Francisco Chronicle has a piece discussing current efforts to [0]clean up nuclear waste sites with microbes. Current treatment procedures generally involve pumping out the contaminated groundwater, filtering it, and pumping it back, which is rather expensive. Links 0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/14/MN103893.DTL&type=science MSWL Olmec PBEM Soccer Game GPL'ed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/197225 [0]zeb writes "[1]MSWL is one of the most popular PBEM football (soccer for North Americans) game, which is itself a variation of a game of postal soccer invented by Alan Parr in England around 1970. In this game, each manager has to organise his team, manage fatigue, train his players and trade them. Olmec is a game engine written by Alla Sellers. It helps the commissioner (game master) to simulate the games and publish the results. Allan has decided to release the [2]source code of Olmec under the GPL, so that everyone can enhance the program. The actual version of Olmec is written in Visual Basic and uses MS Access as a database. The author suggests Olmec could be rewritten in a multiplatform language, for example Java, using MySQL as the database. This task is made easy because of the rich documentation about the game engine ([3]PDF format)." Links 0. http://www.zebulon.org.uk 1. http://www.mswl.org/ 2. http://www.mswl.org/mswlsoftware.html 3. http://www.mswl.org/pdf/12/Rules12-1.pdf New Testing Version Of Linux 2.6 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/2215253 James A. A. Joyce writes "It's all up now at [0]the kernel archives. Get the [1]full 2.6.0-test2 or [2]a patch, whichever suits you. We need to test those new kernels! Hop to it!" Links 0. http://kernel.org/ 1. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.0-test2.tar.bz2 2. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.0-test2.bz2 Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1836219 [0]Ashcrow writes "[1]SCO [2]UNIX has long boasted its 'true UNIX' code base, but is that really the case? A [3]story running at [4]The Jem Report looks into SCO's claims and holds it up to other UNIX variants to try and find validity for SCO's claims." The author has a bit of a chip on his shoulder, but worth reading for the comparison of various *nix's. Links 0. http://darkfire.sf.net 1. http://www.sco.com/ 2. http://www.opengroup.org/ 3. http://www.thejemreport.com/articles/sco.htm 4. http://www.thejemreport.com/ German Constitutional Court Blocks Napster Suit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1821219 djmutex writes "In an urgent ruling, the [0]German Constitutional Court has temporarily blocked the Napster copyright violations class action of several American recording companies and artists against Bertelsmann. The court decided that the German court in Düsseldorf, which was, according to international conventions, required to serve the writ, may not do so until the Constitutional Court has checked that the suit does not violate Bertelsmann's rights granted by the German constitution. Since, according to those agreements, the service is a precondition for both the suit to proceed in the U.S. as well as the later acceptance of the U.S. ruling in Germany, the lawsuit is for now halted. It is unclear when the Constitutional Court will definitely decide, but it is not generally famed for its tempo on final rulings, and it also stated in the [1]press release (in German) that constitutional rights could possibly be violated if "proceedings before state courts are obviously abused to discipline competitors through public media pressure and the risk of a conviction"." Reuters has a [2]summary. Links 0. http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/ 1. http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/bverfg_cgi/pressemitteilungen/frames/bvg58-03 2. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=96570 Lindows Webstation http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1753245 [0]dr.karl.b writes "[1]Lindows.com has announced the [2]WebStation, a hard-disk-less pc that boots from a CD, similar to the now dead ThinkNIC, for $169 (no monitor). Different versions are available from 2 vendors, [3]TigerDirect and [4]iDOTpc.com. The TigerDirect version has a 1.1GHz Duron, 256MB PC2100 DDR, 56X CD-ROM, 10/100Mbps NIC, floppy, modem, keyboard and mouse. The iDOTpc.com version has a 800MHz C3, 256MB PC133 SDRAM, 56X CD-ROM, 10/100Mbps NIC, but without a floppy, modem, keyboard or mouse. The TigerDirect looks like a better deal, at least now ($169 = $189 - $20 rebate). The 2 different versions seem to have confused the authors at [5]C/Net and [6]The Register, who only report the specs of the iDOTpc.com version." Links 0. mailto: dr DOT karl DOT b AT web DOT de 1. http://lindows.com/ 2. http://lindows.com/webstation 3. http://lindows.com/tigerdirectwebstation 4. http://lindows.com/idotwebstation 5. http://news.com.com/2100-1003_3-5051631.html 6. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/31883.html High End Silent Cooling For Graphics Cards http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1735202 [0]SpinnerBait writes "With all the competition these days in the 3D Accelerator market, Graphics Card OEMs are doing anything they can to differentiate their products in a sea of competitive solutions. Recently board designs are getting even more exotic, with brightly colored PCBs, high end heat sink and fan combinations and even flashing lights for the case modders out there. However, a relatively new trend is Quiet Computing. [1] HotHardware has an article up that showcases two new Radeon 9600 Pro and 9800 Pro cards from Sapphire Tech, that have rather impressive fanless coolers on them that are virtually silent. Great stuff for those of you gaming in the library." Links 0. http://www.hothardware.com 1. http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/sapphire_ultimate_eds.shtml Nikon D2H: Digital Camera + 802.11b Option http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/152216 [0]k_stamour writes "Wow, the Holy Grail of Digital Cameras! -- [1]the Nikon D2H. Considering the ever-dropping cost of 802.11b gear, it may not be too long before WiFi is found in lower-end Digi-Cameras. The remaining cost would be to get decent performance out of a small embedded Wifi antenna. This Nikon is Geared for Sport/Action/News Shots. Think about it: a photographer can be on a scene of a newsworthy event, and over the hours of attending, the publisher could already be printing/posting the photographer's pics before he removes the camera strap from his neck! With this cam, a WiFi access point, and Internet access, they could post their pics in real time on the web from anywhere in the world. Of course, the above conditions would need to be meet every time for real time uploads." The 802.11 access is through an optional external transceiver module, model WT-1. Links 0. http://thelostolive.net 1. http://www.dpreview.com/articles/nikond2h/ How Do You Get Work Done? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/2355245 canuck asks: "I am currently a university student and have a major problem: being able to simply sit down and get work done. I can set aside a day to work, whether it is homework or contract work, and I will be lucky to have an hour done before dinner time. The only time I can actually get solid work done seems to be after midnight under a lot of pressure (ie. a deadline the next day). This has led to too many 5 a.m. nights and turning down too many invitations to go out only to stay in and accomplish nothing. I have stopped playing games, stopped watching TV, tried reading the [0] Seven Habits book, and am currently seeing what classical music does for me. I don't think I have [1]ADHD, and I am not sure what else to try. If it is computer work, the web is always a click away, and I can always escape to my imagination. I know many of you will have had the same problem. Can anyone please give advice on how to overcome this problem, be it a little trick, medication, or anything else?" Links 0. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671708635/qid=1059014779/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-6868693-4839817?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 1. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/18/0024228&tid=146 Freshmeat GUI Toolkits for The X Window System http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/928 This article is aimed at Unix developers who already have some experience with programming languages and want to start developing GUI applications (mainly for The X Window System, though portability is discussed). It may also come in handy if you have used a particular GUI toolkit for some time and want to know whether others might suit your needs better. The main focus is comparison and introduction, but it serves as a bit of tutorial, as well. Advanced Assembler 0.9.0beta-3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130651/ Aasm is an advanced modular assembler designed to support several target architectures. It has been designed to be easily extended. Its global architecture takes advantages of dynamic libraries to provide input, assembler and output modules. The input module supports Intel syntax (like nasm, tasm, masm, etc.). The x86 assembler module supports all opcodes up to P6 including MMX, SSE and 3DNow! extensions. F-CPU and SPARC assembler modules are under development. Several output modules are available for ELF, COFF, IntelHex, and raw binary formats. Advanced features include symbol scopes, an expressions engine, big integer support, macro capability, and numerous and accurate warning messages (over 300). Agent Farms 0.3.0-20030727 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130648/ Agent Farms is a system for modeling and simulation of complex, multi-agent based systems. The system can be used for creating models of multi-agent systems, interactive and distributed simulation, observation and visualisation of the simulation, and population modification and migration. On those models one can learn about the evolution of strategies in the populations of agents. ALE 0.4.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130650/ ALE aligns and merges several similar images from a digitizing device (such as a digital camera or scanner) into a single image. This may have the effect of producing a relatively alias-free image (sometimes called "anti-aliasing"). BEJY 1.2.1.45 (Tiger) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130641/ BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and other useful things. Blender 2.28 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130678/ Blender is the in-house software of a high quality animation studio. It has proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design instrument. The software has a personal touch, offering a unique approach to the world of three dimensions. Blender can be used to create TV commercials, to make technical visualizations or business graphics, to do some morphing, or to design user interfaces. Developers can easily build and manage complex environments. The renderer is versatile and extremely fast. All basic animation principles (curves and keys) are implemented. Bluefish 0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130665/ Bluefish is a programmer's Web development editor written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. It features a multiple file editor, multiple toolbars, custom menus, image and thumbnail dialogs, open from the Web, CSS dialogs, PHP, HTML, Java, C, and XML support, external program integration (tidy, weblint, make, javac), and lots of wizards. Bourne Again IRC Client 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130657/ Bourne Again IRC Client is a single-file client written entirely in BASH. It supports basic commands and has a nice GUI. Briquolo 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130668/ Briquolo is a Breakout clone with an OpenGL 3D representation. carnaval 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130594/ carnaval is a Windowmaker theme inspired by a photograph of the Carnaval de Venise by Roger Beau. Columba 0.12.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130568/ Columba is a highly multithreaded Java email client. It supports multiple POP3/IMAP accounts, message filtering, the common basic features you would expect, and an address book. Console Snake 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130655/ Console Snake is an ncurses-based console version of the well-known game. crosstool 0.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130630/ crosstool is a set of scripts that make it easy to build cross-development toolchains based on gcc, glibc, and Linux. The goal is to make it easy to build and test cross-toolchains for all architectures supported by glibc. CSound 4.24.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130627/ Csound is a powerful and yet easy to use musical synthesis package. Csound was constructed in the tradition of so-called music-N languages, among which the best-known is Music V. It consists of an orchestra- and score-driven executable, written in C for portability. Since Csound is a computational language, it is highly flexible and efficient; complexity is gained only at the expense of computation power. Basically, Csound reads some files and creates the result as a sound file on disk or, on faster machines, in real time through a DAC. Electronic Design Automation - Index 0.3-2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130640/ Electronic Design Automation - Index is a system that can be used in the electronic world to keep track of your: Schematic, Printed Circuit Board, Front Plate, and Programmable Logic Unit numbers. This is very useful when you have drawn many electronic schematics and PCBs in an EDA program such as Eagle, gEDA, Protel, or Orcad. It's also useful if you've created a front plate layout in an image editor such as GIMP, Corel Draw, or Photoshop. ELinks 0.5pre4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130639/ ELinks is an enhanced version of Links, a Lynx-like text Web browser with support for tables, frames, background downloads, etc. It has a menu-fashioned user interface and is smaller and more lightweight than Lynx. ELinks adds many valuable features, like HTTP auth, proxy auth, reasonable cookies support, Lua scripting, etc. eMATgine S1000 Client 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130672/ The eMATgine S1000 client is a Model View Controller Java Swing application. It scans a POP3 or IMAP mailbox for messages coming from one specific address and saves all attachments to the local drive. If one of these attachments is an HTML file, the default Internet browser can be launched automatically to display it. Combined with the eMATgine S1000 download slave service, it allows eMATgine users to access the Internet transparently through a mailbox. Employee Scheduler 1.00 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130663/ Employee Scheduler is designed to pick the most efficient schedule, given a matrix of the number of employees per hour per weekday. It has a number of variables to work with in order to tweak the output, such as the number of full-time/part-time employees, at which hours they can start working, what kinds of shifts the program picks, etc. FLTK 1.14 RC1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130634/ FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. It provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat, and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation. FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, and also works fine as a shared library. It also includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes. Fury 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130652/ Fury is another dark blue theme with some flames for flavor. Grammatica 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130669/ Grammatica is a parser generator (compiler compiler) for C# and Java. It improves upon similar tools (like yacc and ANTLR) by creating well-commented and readable source code, by having automatic error recovery and detailed error messages, and by support for testing and debugging grammars without generating source code. Grammatica supports LL(k) grammars with an unlimited number of look-ahead tokens. GRX 2.4.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130660/ GRX is a 2D graphics library originally written for DJGPP. It supports DOS, Linux console (svgalib and framebuffer drivers), X11, and Win32 (using the Mingw compiler). GtkGLExt 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130670/ GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK 2.0 or later. It provides additional GDK objects which support OpenGL rendering in GTK, and GtkWidget API add-ons to make GTK+ widgets OpenGL-capable. Highlight 2.0-6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130653/ Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database. Java Implementation of Speex 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130662/ JSpeex is a Java port of the Speex speech codec (a patent-free, Free software audio compression format designed for speech). It provides both the decoder and the encoder in pure Java, as well as a JavaSound SPI. jMax 4.0.2 (Java) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130631/ jMax is a visual programming environment for building interactive real-time musical and multimedia applications by allowing the user to interactively design dataflow circuits. The basic data types that can go through are integers, symbols, lists, etc. It is an event-driven system and has been used for MIDI processing. A second part of the system (DSP) allows a continuous signal to flow through a circuit, which is most useful for PCM sound (ie. microphone, sound files, etc.). The system is extensible by using shared libraries, you may add data processor types, data types, GUI elements, device types, and more. Data processors may also be designed as circuits and reused. Knoppix 3.2-2003-07-26 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130677/ KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression. LogMon 0.4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130674/ LogMon monitors several logs from one terminal window (or ssh session). It uses ncurses to split a window into frames, color lines based on regular expressions, and display multiple files with the added ability to scroll through the files. Lynx Theme for webmin 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130649/ This is very simple theme for webmin based on the appearance of Lynx. It reduces the presence of images to achieve faster navigation, and tries to simplify the webmin look-and-feel to suit Lynx browser users. MolScript 2.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130638/ MolScript is a program for displaying molecular 3D structures, such as proteins, in both schematic and detailed representations. MolScript has the ability to output in the GIF, JPEG, and EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) formats. MudPit 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130654/ MudPit is a spool processor for the Snort intrusion detection system. It is similar to the Barnyard project, but is able to process both log and alert streams at the same time. It is simple, modular, and reliable. OpenOffice.org 1.1 Release Candidate 2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130642/ OpenOffice.org is the Open Source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. pf2x 1..0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130658/ pf2x is a PHP script that will take the output of your pflog and convert it into various different output formats. These output formats include plain text, XML, HTML, PDF, and MySQL INSERT statements for import into a MySQL database. This was developed and tested on OpenBSD 3.3 but should work for any system that uses PF. Protein Docking and Molecular Superpostioning 2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130636/ Hex is an interactive protein docking and molecular superpositioning program. It understands protein and DNA structures in PDB format and uses spherical polar Fourier correlations to accelerate docking calculations. qjackctl 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130659/ Qjackctl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon, specifically for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. It is written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way to control of the status of the audio server daemon. Rhino 0.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130647/ Rhino is a GUI Othello/reversi game for the Gnome environment. The goal is to have a game with a strong AI, targeted to experienced players. SafariToHTML 0.51 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130667/ SafariToHTML creates a Yahoo!-like Web directory from Safari bookmarks. The output is customizable. Search Site Submitter 1.00 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130666/ Search Site Submitter automatically submits your site to 7 search engines, suggests 8 other freebie sites, and gives out information on several other sites. Simply Powerful ToolKit 2.0 b1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130635/ The Simply Powerful ToolKit (SPTK) is a powerful widget toolkit based on the Fast and Light ToolKit (FLTK). It is geared for business-style application development with database support (ODBC). All the widgets support database connectivity. A special CDialog class makes editing database records very easy. Every widget can be connected to the field, and CDialog can be connected to the database table. SkyEye 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130633/ SkyEye is a simulator for typical embedded computer systems. It can simulate Atmel AT91 based on the ARM7TDMI, EP7312 based on ARM720T, StrongARM SA1100/SA1110, and 8019as NIC, etc. Some operating systems, such as ARM Linux, uClinux, and uc/OS-II(ucos-ii), can run and be debugged and analyzed at the source level. SolarStats 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130671/ SolarStats is an advanced IRC statistics (StatServ) program for IRC networks. It offers features not available in other StatServ packages such as SQL output, SSL linking, multi-lingual support, and much more. It currently only functions with UnrealIRCd networks, but support for other IRCd software is planned. Synaesthesia 2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130656/ Synaesthesia is an eyecandy program that represents music graphically in real time as coruscating fields of fog and glowing lines. It is intended as a visual accompaniment to music. Its display combines information about the frequency, location and diffuseness of sound. It can take input from CD, line, piped from another program, or from EsounD. It also functions as a CD player. The Puto Amo Window Manager 1.9.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130644/ The Puto Amo Window Manager is a full featured window manager, but without useless bells and whistles. It is small, fast, etc. Thunderbolt Integration Suite 3.00 (Database Connector) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130673/ The Thunderbolt Integration Suite is a full integration server infrastructure featuring two phase commits between connectors, multiple stage failure recovery, a drag and drop business process design console, and runtime monitor GUIs. The engine was developed in C++ on Linux; Node controllers and connector libraries are in Java. The GUIs require Windows. TOra 1.3.10 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130676/ TOra is a Toolkit for Oracle which aims to help the DBA or developer of database application. It features an SQL worksheet with PL/SQL block parsing, a PL/SQL debugger and editor with syntax highlighting, a Schema browser, UNICODE support, printing, and a full suite of DBA management tools. VideoDB 2003-07-27 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130675/ 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. _malloc 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130646/ _malloc is a library that is able to randomize the normal malloc function to make it more secure from possible memory reading. It allocates data in bits with random keys, without increasing size or the time required to access the data. The library includes rewritten versions of all ANSI C functions for memory use (such as memset and memccpy). There are also some functions for debugging, querying the memory status, and changing the keys. Slashcode 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! 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? 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