O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER November 27, 2002 DEVELOPER SERIES
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PCGen -- A d20 Character Generator http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576 PCGen 2.6.3 is available MySQL Objective C API for Cocoa http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42424 SMySQL version 0.7.0 i810 Framebuffer Device Driver http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39579 Video Overlay Support for the Intel 810 and 815 Framebuffer 'Just For Fun' Network Management System http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46041 JFF Network Management System 0.6.4 VietPad http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46758 VietPad 1.0.2 Release Slashdot Mozilla 1.2 Unleashed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/0541251 [0]asa writes "Mozilla 1.2 has just been released. New to this version are features like [1]Type Ahead Find, basic toolbar customization (text/icons/both), support for GTK themes on Linux, multiple tabs as startpage, [2] Link Prefetching, "filter after the fact" and filter logging in Mail, Palm sync for Mozilla addressbook on MS Windows, and more. This is the latest stable release from mozilla.org, and all users of Mozilla 1.0, Mozilla 1.0.1, Mozilla 1.1 or any of the alpha/beta/release candidates are encouraged to upgrade to this release. You can get builds and more info at the [3]Mozilla releases page and you can find daily Mozilla news and discussion at [4]mozillaZine.org." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/typeaheadfind.html 2. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/Link_Prefetching_FAQ.html 3. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ 4. http://www.mozillazine.org/ Hard Drives Preloaded With GNU-Darwin http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/0419255 [0]proclus writes "A 40 gig Maxtor 3.5 inch, ATA/EIDE hard drive ready to go with GNU-Darwin OS pre-installed, plus GNU-Darwin Office, plus a full ports tree and select distfiles. This bundle includes Darwin-6.0.2, GNOME desktop, AbiWord, PyMOL, The GIMP, gdFortran, parallel computing, and much more. A triple CDR set is also included. Available now for ppc and x86 computers. The PPC version includes OpenOffice-1.0.1 and Mozilla-1.0. Compatibility is as specified for our [1]OS installer CDs. Check out our [2]updated ordering web page. ([3]Mirror one [4]mirror two.) You want it." Links 0. http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ 1. http://www.gnu-darwin.org/index.php?page=cd 2. http://www.gnu-darwin.org/order.shtml 3. http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/order.shtml 4. http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=cd Stippling As Fast 3D Technique http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/010253 An anonymous reader writes "This [0]Stippling effort wins best paper at [1]IEEE Boston conference. Could real time medical rendering be whizzier than Id?" Links 0. http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/021125.Ebert.stippling.html 1. http://vis.computer.org/vis2002/ Building Your Own Hobbit Hole http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/0042251 Alien54 writes "Sometimes people go too far in being a fan of a great movie or of a great book. [0]Now you can be the proud owner of a Hobbit Hole. The site offers basic plans, as well as technical resources. For example, one thing you might want to consider in your planning is [1]Large Elliptical Precast Concrete Pipe." Links 0. http://www.stormbear.com/bagend2/ 1. http://www.hansonconcreteproducts.com/elliptical.asp Astra 1K Communications Satellite now Space Junk http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/205233 bachelor#3 writes "Astra 1K, which was to replace 3 other satellites, [0]didn't make it. Launch services were being provided by [1]International Launch Services. Here's a [2]timeline, from T-minus 30 minutes onwards." Links 0. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/11/26/astra.fail.reut/index.html 1. http://www.ilslaunch.com/ 2. http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/astra1k/status.html Spirited Away Still Has a Chance http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/2239226 [0]Dean Siren writes "Disney chairman Richard W. Cook says that they've budgeted to market [1]Spirited Away in [2]up to 1,000 North American theaters, and if the [3]Oscars endorse it as much as [4]Metacritic has, Disney will launch it. They'll spend the same time and money promoting [5]Spirited Away for Academy Awards as they will [6]Lilo & Stitch and [7]Treasure Planet. Cook hopes that it will win not only [8]Best Animated Film, but get nominated for [9]Best Picture, as Beauty and the Beast got in 1991. Thanks to [10]Jack Mathews at [11]New York Daily News for getting Cook to explain." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://bventertainment.go.com/movies/spiritedaway/index.html 2. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/col/story/37951p-35839c.html 3. http://oscars.org/academyawards/index.html 4. http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/spiritedaway 5. http://oscarwatch.com/FYC/Disney/spiritedaway.html 6. http://oscarwatch.com/FYC/Disney/lilo.html 7. http://oscarwatch.com/FYC/Disney/treasureplanet.html 8. http://www.oscars.org/75academyawards/rules/rule07.html 9. http://www.oscars.org/75academyawards/rules/rule17.html 10. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11. http://www.nydailynews.com/ Growing Commercialization Threatens Net Security http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/2144259 dr3vil writes "The BBC is [0]reporting that the concentration of the net's backbone in fewer hands has made it more vulnerable to attack. The report compares an attack to travel problems when traffic is disrupted at O'Hare. Hopefully someone in a position to act will pay attention." Links 0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2514651.stm Danish Anti-Piracy Organization Bills P2P Users http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/201232 faaaz writes "The danish anti-piracy organisation Antipiratgruppen has billed approximately 150 p2p users an amount of up to $14,000 each for sharing copyrighted material. The organisation says '[0]Pay up, or we'll sue!'" There's also a [1]Reuters article. Links 0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28286.html 1. http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/11/26/anti_piracy.html eDimensional Wired 3D Glasses Review http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/1948251 [0]Julio writes "Today at [1]TechSpot we have reviewed eDimensional's Wired 3D Glasses, based on the original 3D Stereo technology that became popular a few years ago, these revamped version of the glasses seem to offer much more value and compatibility to the table. Adding amazing effects to games we tested which include Jedi Outcast and some other racing and flight simulators, this item could easily make it into your holiday shop list... "The images looked very cool, and I spent about 10 minutes gawking at my new surroundings. After playing around with Jedi Outcast, I was ready for more. I checked the supported game list, and just about every game I had was listed there."" Links 0. http://www.techspot.com 1. http://www.techspot.com/reviews/hardware/ed_3dglasses/index.shtml Protecting Your Code While Allowing Source Access? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/0232254 [0]foo_48120 asks: "My small development shop, myself and four employees, is taking on a fairly large job that will run a substantial part of the clients business. To protect themselves they want the source code to the project. Frankly I don't blame them. We bid aggressively to get them to underwrite our own efforts to build this code, which we plan to resell again and again. That is the basis for our company. I have no problem with them holding the source but need to make it clear that we own the code and that they have a license to use it in their business. They may at their discretion hire others to modify the code, but would still be required to pay their maintenance contract and be prohibited from reselling it or using it to run an additional business. How do you provide open source without escrow, yet protect what we are documenting up front as out intellectual property rights in the ownership of this code?" Links 0. http://www.davidjsussman.com Freshmeat C++ Elliptic Curve Cryptography library 0.4.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104048/ Libecc is a C++ elliptic curve cryptography library that supports fixed-size keys for maximum speed. The goal of this project is to become the first free Open Source library providing the means to generate safe elliptic curves, and to provide an important source of information for anyone with general interest in ECC. Crypt Class 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/103960/ Crypt Class is a wrapper around the libmcrypt functions that offers a simplified interface and new features such as embedded IV. It provides an easy way to encrypt and decrypt data, and automatically creates and extracts IVs, storing them along with the encrypted string. It supports all of the ciphers in libmcrypt, including Twofish, Blowfish, and AES, and makes it easy to switch between them. Directory administrator 1.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104018/ Directory administrator is a UNIX users and groups manager for LDAP directory servers. It also allows you to manage your users' associated address book information, per-server access controls, and Sendmail mail routing. Its virtues are simplicity and user friendliness. Dummynet 3.4-STABLE http://freshmeat.net/releases/103959/ Dummynet is a flexible tool originally designed for testing networking protocols, and since then (mis) used for bandwidth management. It simulates/enforces queue and bandwidth limitations, delays, packet losses, and multipath effects. It also implements a variant of Weighted Fair Queueing called WF2Q+. It can be used on user's workstations, or on FreeBSD machines acting as routers or bridges. EXIF-O-Matic 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/103996/ EXIF-O-Matic is a Java application that allows EXIF information tags within the images created by digital cameras to be viewed and exported to HTML or text. It is capable of processing folders of images. FX-Zacman 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/103944/ FX-Zacman is a maze game similar to Pacman. It uses the portable FOX Toolkit library. geskoctrl 0.2.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104042/ geskoctrl is an application to download/upload firmware for GESKO PBXes. geskoctrl is also useful for controlling these PBXes. GIMP Text Colorer 1.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104038/ GIMP Text Colorer is a GIMP plug-in that converts an image and the desired source text into colored HTML/XHTML text. googleware 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104054/ Googleware is a little Web application that let you request for several queries to be regulary asked to Google. You will be notified by mail each time a new entry is found, and you may browse query results with any regular Web browser. HTML Forms generation and validation 2002.11.19 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104036/ HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates HTML forms supporting keyboard navigation, server side and client side field validation, the ability to stop the user from submiting a form more than once, sub-form validation, composition and generation of the HTML output with fields displayed as fully accessible or in read-only mode, generation of Javascript field related functions, and automatic capitalization of the text of a field. iptacct 0.04 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104063/ iptacct is an iptables/netfilter accounting tool written in perl. It uses an XML configuration file and stores the data in a completely user-configurable, modular way. You can use any backend you want to use in order to store the data, instead of being forced by the software to save the accounting data in a SQL database, a text file, or an RRD database. irssi 0.8.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104055/ Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no longer being maintained. Jaffm 0.4.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/103955/ Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will have Unix-handy features such as instant command execution, an interactive location bar, and a simple but elegant user interface. Jconsole 1.31 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104047/ Jconsole is a JMX console for JBoss that provides a pre-built Web client for the JBoss application server. It deploys the JMX features of JBoss. JGraph 1.0.6 (For Java 1.4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104041/ JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image. kavi2svcd 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104001/ kavi2svcd is a GUI for generating MPEG files from an AVI file using transcode and mplex. It then generates a Video CD image using vcdimager and burns to CD with cdrdao. It can generate m1v, m2v, and mpa files, multiplex the MPEG file, generate cue and bin files, and allows the generated command lines to be edited before executing them. kmuser 1.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104045/ kmuser is a User-Administration-Tool for the KDE-Desktop. It is designed for administrating a school network. Therefore it has built in a lot of useful features to manage many users and groups of users. If the quota filesystem is installed on your system managing of user quotas is supported as well. libbadpenguin 1.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104049/ libbadpenguin is a small static library used in many utilities that are part of the "Bad Penguin" GNU/Linux distribution. It provides functions to manage the filesystem, doubly-linked lists (chains), the terminal (cursor and color), and to handle TAR archives. The goal of libbadpenguin is to speed up the development of console tools and utilities without requiring big static libraries such as 'ncurses' or 'GNU glib'. It is intended to be as small as possibile in order to be linked statically to avoid dependency problems. libCapsiNetwork 0.2.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104056/ libCapsiNetwork is a C++ network library for fast development of server daemons. Creating a server daemon is as easy as adding a few lines of code and writing a handler function for input events. libgringo and gringosh 3.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104052/ libgringo and gringosh is a library to writes applications that run both in console (using ncurses) and under X-Window (using gtk). libgringo detects if you are running from the console or under X-Window, and selects the right library to use without recompiling your code. gringosh is a parser that uses libgringo to replace cdialog. It was written to make some configuration scripts work both in console and under X-Window without any modification. gringosh also provides features more powerfull than cdialog - for example, the ability to have more than two buttons per form. libhardware and scanmodule 0.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104051/ libhardware is a very small static library used in many utilities that are part of Antonio Gallo's (AGX) GNU/Linux distribution, "Bad Penguin". It provides functions to access information about your system hardware, to detect the hardware, and to handle kernel modules automatically. It is able to enumerate all PCI devices, enumerate all EIDE disks and CDROMs, enumerate all SCSI disks and CDROMs, enumerate all EIDE/SCSI disk partitions, and check if a detected device is supported in the Linux kernel using a custom PCI database. The included shell scripts 'probedisk' and 'probepart' detect disks, CDROMs, and partitions. The included 'scanmodule' utility allows you to detect and load kernel module automatically. LibTPT 1.10.3 (Release) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104043/ TPT is a template scripting language implemented in C++. The LibTPT parser transforms TPT templates into text. The parser, which integrates with your C++ code through a simple class API, is small and fast, focusing on functionality instead of rich feature sets. Uses include on-the-fly HTML and source code generation. Linux Intrusion Detection System 2.0.1 for 2.5.47 (LSM) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104016/ The Linux Intrusion Detection System (LIDS) is a patch which enhances the kernel's security by implementing a reference monitor and Mandatory Access Control (MAC). When it is in effect, chosen file access, all system/network administration operations, any capability use, raw device, memory, and I/O access can be made impossible even for root. You can define which programs can access specific files. It uses and extends the system capabilities bounding set to control the whole system and adds some network and filesystem security features to the kernel to enhance the security. You can finely tune the security protections online, hide sensitive processes, receive security alerts through the network, and more. mod_authenticache 2.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/103993/ mod_authenticache provides a simple and generic method for caching authentication information on the client side in order to enhance performance. It has been tested with several Basic HTTP authentication modules, and has an Apache 2.0.x optional function exporter for caching credentials from any custom authentication module. NeoStats 2.5.0 RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104058/ NeoStats provides unique services to IRC via loadable modules. It does not provide the traditional NickServ/ChanServ services, but instead provides services like "HostServ", which can automatically set a user's virtual host upon logging onto a IRC network, or "StatServ", which can provide detailed statistics about the network, individual servers, or channels, and produce an HTML page. It also includes a number of "Fun" services, like "LoveServ" and "MoraleServ". Additional modules are available via the NeoStats Web site or through third party developers. Currently, NeoStats supports UnrealIRCd, UltimateIRCD, Hybrid7, and NeoIRCd, with more IRCD support being developed. Open Proxy Scanning Bot 1.0RC3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104060/ open proxy scanning bot (formerly NeoBOPM) is a loadable module for the NeoStats IRC Services. It scans clients connecting to the IRC network for insecure proxies, and also looks up a DNS blacklist for previously registered insecure proxies. It caches the results of scans to increase perfomance, and with multiple bots, can be configured to load balancing. It currently supports Hybrid7, Unrealircd, and Ultimate, with support for other ircds planned. OpenSSL 0.9.7 Beta 4 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104062/ The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library. Paketto Keiretsu 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/103978/ The Paketto Keiretsu is a collection of tools that use new and unusual strategies for manipulating TCP/IP networks. They tap functionality within existing infrastructure and stretch protocols beyond what they were originally intended for. It includes Scanrand, an unusually fast network service and topology discovery system, Minewt, a user space NAT/MAT router, linkcat, which presents a Ethernet link to stdio, Paratrace, which traces network paths without spawning new connections, and Phentropy, which uses OpenQVIS to render arbitrary amounts of entropy from data sources in three dimensional phase space. Pixory Beta-1.15 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104028/ Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums, and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most digital cameras and scanners. PXES Linux Thin Client 0.5.1-9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104032/ PXES is a micro Linux distribution for thin clients that converts any suitable machine into a versatile thin client within minutes. It can access XDM servers presenting a graphical login screen, Microsoft Terminal Servers, Citrix ICA, and VNC servers. A graphical configuration tool allows parameters such as the server to be set. Local devices can be accessed, including sound, printers, and disks. It boots on a variety of hardware, and does not require NFS. Q 4.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104025/ Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific programming and other advanced applications, and also as a sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode. RAdmin 1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104029/ RAdmin is a Web-based Radius user administration package that works with Radiator and any SQL database on any platform. It provides pages that allow you to add/change/remove users, and to view usage summaries, online modems, service profiles, per-user and per-service Radius check and reply items, and more. The pages available to end users provide usage summaries and facilitate password changing. Ragel State Machine Compiler 1.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104046/ Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular languages into runnable C code. It allows you to embed actions at any point in your regular language and to control the non-determinism in the resulting machines. It understands concatenation, union (the "or" operator), kleene star, subtraction, and intersection, as well as some helpers like "!", "?" and "+". Ragel's finite state machines are closed under all of its operators. This property allows for arbitrary regular lanuages to be described. It can be used to create a parser for any language that is regular. rpm-update 2002-10-19 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104034/ rpm-update is a Python script that automates the downloading, reporting, and installation of errata RPMs on a RedHat Linux distribution. The goal of the utility is to be simple and transparent (making it clear what it is doing) while still being easy to use. It can be automated (via cron) or run interactively via the command line. A configuration file is used to store commonly used options. ServletSurvey 3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104022/ Survey is a Web-based survey program that uses XML files to describe surveys. It provides a friendly and powerful user interface without requiring cookies or JavaScript, and a powerful rule system for controlling user movement through the survey and conditional question requirements. Answers are recorded in a database and can be exported to CSV and HTML. Share360 by Cybozu 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104015/ Share360 by Cybozu is an instant, cost-effective Web-based groupware suite integrating a customizable intranet portal page with key collaborative applications including document management, project management, contact databases, a group scheduler, a bulletin board, a to-do list, and Web-based email. A 60-day free trial download is available. shorten 3.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104027/ shorten is a lossy/lossless audio compressor. sqlopus 3.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104026/ sqlopus is a Web interface for controlling up to 20 database servers. It features total user and group management, server monitoring, and scheduled generation of HTML, PDF, Excel, CSV, and XML reports. Reports can be shared to other users within the same group or made publicly visible, and can contain exceptionally advanced database diagrams. It also supports "locked down" servers, large binary objects, image thumbnails, remote backups, and overridable styles. STPHPLibrary 0.8.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/104044/ STPHPLib is a suite of software components for developing object oriented Web-based applications. It uses PHP objects to encapsulate common GUI controls such as the check box, radio button, and tool bars, which are not necessarily present in HTML language, and allows them to be used to create sophisticated Web applications. Tnefclean 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104033/ tnefclean is a Perl script that allows users of any mail client to receive email and attachments from MS Outlook and Exchange users without having to decode winmail.dat files. Email is disassembled and reassembled on the fly to make them conform more closely to accepted standards. XChat-XMMS 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/104030/ XChat-XMMS allows XMMS to be controlled from within XChat. It can send out messages to channels or other IRC users, and supports searching playlists with Perl regular expresions, DCC transfers, understands MP3 and Ogg-Vorbis tags, caches playlists for quick searches, and allows remote playlist browsing via /msg. It also supports auto- messages and auto-topics. Slashcode What exactly is isolation mode for? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/074249 Each section has an isolation mode property, that determines (I think) wether or not sories from that section will be displayed on the front page or not. In addition, each story has it's own DisplayMode property, that, in effect, does the same thing. Which takes precedence? If Slash always uses the individual story's displaymode to determine whether to display the story, what's the point of the section-level isolation mode? Restricting Article Access? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/073238 I've just started up a new slash site, however one feature that I would like, which doesn't seem to exist, is the ability to restrict users from reading certain stories. I know this seems counter-productive, however I have a valid reason. Namely that I have a subset of users who have more privileges, and thus stuff applies to them that wouldn't apply to regular users. It seems like the concept of a "security level", which users have, might be an ideal way to restrict Article viewing. I'm sure I can kludge something myself, but if there's already a supported/good way to do this, then that would be great. How to kickstart meta-moderation? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/13/0311207 I have a small slash site with a small number of users (by design) with a few dozen stories and probably fewer than 200 comments posted so far. The slash engine is handing out moderation points, perhaps because I reset some of the configuration variables. But meta-moderation is not operating.I recall that this has something to do with the number of moderations (I'd look in the archives but the search function on slashcode has been down for a while...). Unfortunately, I have one user who could stand some meta-moderation NOW, before he drives other users away with his down-mods. Yet I don't see any configuration variables or anything else I can tweak to make meta-moderation start up. I would rather the enforcement of community standards come from the community rather than some heavy-handed act by the site administration. Any way to force meta-moderation on? Show Domains: Explain, please. http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/10/057254 On the user comments options page, an option exists to "Show the links domain only in recommended situations". What are the "recommended situations", exactly? How does this differ from the option to "Always show link domains"? Upgrading to MySQL 4? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/03/015232 In order to support some other projects I need to roll out on my server, I need to upgrade to a real ACID database, which supports transactions. Has anybody yet tried using Slash running on MySQL 4.0, which now supports transactions? Are there any caevats or tricks to doing the switchover, beyond the general upgrade notes for MySQL? Slash plugins and version 2.3 http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/01/0552241 I've been looking at a lot of modules (specifically email.pm and Galleria), and it appears that they all require Slash version 2.3. Is upgrading from 2.2.6 to one of the 2.3 versions dangerous? Is it as simple as compiling and installing? Are there places to get these plugins written for the release version of Slash? Or am I being a nincompoop? How to Make Users Authors? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/30/200220 What is the proper way to turn users into authors? I'm interested in this because I would like to use Slash as something my group uses to communicate with each other and the world. I would like the people in the group to function as the authors since it is their site. I've been looking around in documentation and FAQs but can't find this documented anywhere. SubnetID is masked using what? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/30/1959257 When Slash stores the SubnetID in the database, what Subnet mask is it using? I was hoping to find this in the vars table, but no luck. Any ideas? www.vorlonspace.org http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/2232226 It's still in development for other things, but vorlonspace.org is now up and running (for the most part). Thanks to the guys on the irc channel that helped me with some of the configuration issues I had. This site is going to be a nexus of Babylon 5 information stemming from the television show to the out of print customizable card game. www.toborguru.com http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/28/037201 I have a new site up and running, not Much in the way of content but I do have some information about one of my projects up at this point. Enjoy. 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