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Sourceforge
Bossogg 0.9.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240774
A client/server for creating an ogg vorbis player in your entertainment
center. First client is done in SDL with Truetype fonts so it's easy to
read. Uses PostgreSQL for lookups. Release 0.9.1 added XML
configuration files and reduced memory usage 60+%. Autoconf issues in
Debian and several bugs in the import scripts have also been fixed.
doxymacs 1.4.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240732
Version 1.4.0 of doxymacs, the lisp package for {X}Emacs that makes
creating/using Doxygen documentation easy, has been released. This is a
major feature enhancement release. New features include: - Now uses
autoconf for building. - Multiple tag files may be used. - User defined
"void" types. - Better function argument parsing for inserting function
comments. As well several bugs have been fixed.
Usermanager 0.60 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240715
Usermanager is a LDAP User Management System that uses PHP to create an
easy to use interface. Release 0.60 includes configuration system
improvements.
Hibernate 1.2.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240745
Hibernate is a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational
persistence and query service for Java. Hibernate lets you develop
persistent objects following common Java idiom, including association,
inheritance, polymorphism, composition and the Java collections
framework. To support a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the
use of code generation or bytecode processing. Instead runtime
reflection is used and SQL generation occurs at system startup time.
Hibernate supports Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, SAP DB,
HypersonicSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Progress, Mckoi SQL, Pointbase and
Interbase. Hibernate supports an ODMG 3 interface alongside a more
expressive custom API. Of course, Hibernate integrates elegantly with
J2EE application servers and with other popular open source solutions
like XDoclet. Version 1.2.2 fixes a minor bug introduced in 1.2.1.
JGraph Valencia (v1.0.7) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240676
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. This release has a complete
new website and contains bug fixes. Bug fixes include:
DefaultGraphSelectionModel.CellPlaceHolder is now a protected inner
class with public accessors, DefaultGraphCell's getChildren method
never returns null, SizeHandle/RootHandle double buffer members are now
protected, Dependency between isMoveable, isAutosize and isSizeable was
removed, Focus argument and childrenSelected are handled separately by
renderer, Focused cell's highlight color is different from other
selected cells.
Rexx/Wrapper 2.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240651
Rexx/Wrapper is a pseudo compiler for Rexx programs. It generates a SAA
API application with the Rexx program embedded. The application is then
compiled and linked allowing the user to distribute their Rexx program
as a stand-alone executable. This principal change in this release is
the ability to build Win32 executables of your Rexx programs with the
lcc-win32 compiler.
Gimp-Print 4.3.7 (unstable development)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240650
Gimp-Print 4.3.7, released January 4, 2003, is a development release of
this package. Gimp-Print is a suite of printer drivers that may be used
with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr,
LPRng, or others. These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX
(including Macintosh OS X 10.2 and newer) and Linux systems in many
cases equal to or better than proprietary vendor-supplied drivers, and
can be used for many of the most demanding printing tasks. This
software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp, and Ghostscript and
CUPS drivers, including Foomatic data. The print plugin for the Gimp
requires the Gimp 1.2 (later versions of the Gimp are not supported).
The CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.9 or higher. 1.1.14 or above is
highly recommended, as certain translation-related bugs are fixed and
it is possible to print true CMYK. The IJS-based GhostScript plugin
driver requires GNU Ghostscript 6.53 or later, ESP Ghostscript 7.05 or
later, or APFL GhostScript 7.04 or later. Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2
and above can use this package, as the printing system is based on
CUPS, which is supported by Gimp-print. Note that Macintosh OS X 10.0
and 10.1 (including 10.1.5) cannot use this package. Please read the
README file for full instructions on installing this package.
Gimp-Print 4.3.7 is considered to be an unstable release, as more
significant API changes have been introduced with relatively limited
testing. While most of the changes improve the clarity of the code, the
limited testing and extensive nature of the changes suggests that this
release is likely to be quite unstable. We recommend that only people
who want access to these new API features for development use this
release. There are very significant user-visible changes over earlier
4.3 releases, and few changes over the 4.2 stable line. Gimp-Print
4.3.7 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.6: 1)
Further internal API changes. Please see
include/gimp-print/gimp-print.h, and the various header files in
src/main, for details. There will be significant further changes,
particularly in the color code. The API is considerably more consistent
than before. 2) Parameters are now stored as variables within
stp_vars_t, rather than as fixed fields. This change is largely
transparent at the API level, but it marks an important advance. 3) The
Gimp Print plugin has been split into a GTK-based library
(libgimpprintui) and the actual Print plugin. The libgimpprintui code
permits creating print panels for other applications, or standalone
graphical print utilities, all using the same user interface. In
addition, the thumbnail preview mechanism has been changed to use the
stp_image_t API rather than to make direct calls to the color
machinery. This was done by creating a new family driver (print-raw.c)
and by creating a new stp_image_t implementation for thumbnail
creation. This removed the only reason to export the color API, and
will permit us to simplify the very complex color API. This work is
currently in progress. To simplify coding while avoiding an unnecessary
dependency, some widgets have been borrowed from libgimp. The two files
comprising the Gimp plugin proper total less than 900 lines of code,
out of about 60,000 lines total in the core library, UI library, and
Print plugin. This work is not complete; support for multiple pages
still needs to be added, for example. However, there should be a
sufficient base to permit interested developers to experiment. A very
desirable project that someone may wish to undertake is to write a
ghostscript front end (or extension to ghostview or gv) that uses this
UI library. This would create a full-featured graphical printing
application. 4) Many parameters for Epson printer control, dither
matrix control, and HSL adjustment have been exported as settable
parameters. While currently no Gimp-print applications provide access
to these controls, they are available for developer use. Please read
the code to see where they are made available. This is a work in
progress; expect major changes in the future. 5) A new header file,
gimp-print-version.h, has been created to store the autogen-time
versioning information. 6) The Gimp Print plugin now uses g_message to
deliver error messages to pop-ups rather than to stderr.
WebMacro 1.1final released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240634
WebMacro is a 100% Java open-source servlet framework that enables
programmers and designers to work together while promoting the
ModelViewController pattern. WebMacro is a viable (and proven!)
alternative to JavaServerPages, PHP, and ASP. WebMacro 1.1final
--------------- This is WebMacro 1.1. WM 1.1 includes new features such
as #macro, #count, $functions(), and numerous bugfixes. WebMacro is
alive, and this production quality release is proof! The best place for
information about WebMacro is our website: http://www.webmacro.org/ In
addition, WebMacro has relocated the management aspects of the project
to SourceForge (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/webmacro/). We hope
this will prove to give the WebMacro community continued support. We
also hope it will make our lives a bit easier! Note that because of the
move to SourceForge our mailing list address has changed. Please visit
http://www.webmacro.org/MailingList for details. Changes in this
Release ----------------------- - Fix for Tomcat and template loading
from .jar files (Sebastian) - Fix NPE's when calling methods using the
'null' keyword - Add .tmpl as a recognized template file extension for
#parse and #include
P.E.T. 1.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240443
P.E.T. (PHP Processor Engine for Templates) class is released in
version 1.3. P.E.T. cleans up your PHP scripts by using templates for
output. It is quick to learn and easy to use but still powerful. With
very few lines of code you display your output, use Server Side
Includes, dump the result to disk and more. The new method
"$pet->get_content" returns all content added by $pet->add_content
until this moment for the reason of debugging.
Perl Shell 1.0 "Dithyramb" released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240459
The Perl Shell (psh) combines aspects of bash and other shells with the
power of Perl scripting. It aspires to be your primary login shell.
After a long period of time with no releases (and two or more promises
of "OK, I'll release it", I have bundled the latest code in CVS into
the newly released version 1.0. I believe that Markus Peter is
responsible for most of the code in this release ($Markus++), although
I think there were some patches or clues from other folks ($folks{$_}++
foreach @contributor). I have dubbed this the "Dithyramb" release
(http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/wow/2001-09-29.html). Here are
some notes about what is new (you can find more in the CHANGES file on
the web page noted below): * New 'if' builtin * New 'forfile' builtin:
"forfile *.txt less $_" is equivalent to bash's "for i in #.txt; do
less $i; done" * New redirection and piping syntax (incompatible with
old sh- like syntax): "ls >[=FILEHANDLE]" * Backticks work * A strategy
for finding and running Darwin/Mac OS X Appbunlde programs. * Support
for && and || with simple commands * Themes * Major startup time
reduction NOTE: You may need to modify your startup scripts / rc files
with this version. Please see README.upgrade in the distribution for
more information. You can find out more at The Perl Shell (psh) at:
http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/psh/ Please note that Windows
functionality in this release has not seen much testing, so it may not
work correctly in that environment. Please post experience reports to
the mailing list. We are looking for folks interested in helping keep
future releases working under Windows environments. If you are so
inclined, then please so indicate. The next wave of changes being
contemplated for psh will take things in a new direction. First, where
the desire for shellish and perlish behaviors get in each other's way,
we will be moving toward shellish behavior. This will very likely
entail some modifications to the syntax required to advise the shell
"here be perl". Second, we are considering some changes which will make
psh more generic. So, while it will remain The Perl Shell (from an
implemenatation perspective), it may become The Poly Shell (from a
user's perspective). There is room for discussion on the psh-dev list
for those with comments, concerns, ideas, queries, curses, etc. as we
flesh out the details. Enjoy, -- Gregor
Slashdot
'DVD Jon' Acquitted On All Counts in DeCSS Case
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1230212
[0]benh57 writes "Jon Johansen, the author of DeCSS, has been acquitted
on all charges by the Norwegian Supreme Court.'Johansen and his defense
attorney Halvor Manshaus won on all counts, with the Oslo court ruling
that Johansen did nothing wrong when he helped cracked the code on a
DVD that was his own personal property.'" Here's [1]Aftenposten's
story, in English. Read on below for some more links, and please post
others in the comments.
Links
0. http://bhines AT alumni DOT ucsd DOT edu
1. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=466519
Lord of the Rings, as Written By Everyone Else
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/0251242
sn0rt writes "A thread on Straight Dope asks what would happen if
[0]someone else had written the Lord of the Rings. Reader submissions
include Ernest Hemingway, Douglas Adams, Mark Twain, HP Lovecraft, ee
cumings, Milton, Mickey Spillane, Danielle Steele, Ayn Rand(!!), Ray
Bradbury, Gilbert and Sullivan and Tom Clancy. My favourite is Dr.
Suess: 'Gandalf, Gandalf! Take the ring! I am too small to carry this
thing!' 'I can not, will not hold the One. You have a slim chance, but
I have none. I will not take it on a boat, I will not take it across a
moat. I cannot take it under Moria, that's one thing I can't do for ya.
I would not bring it into Mordor, I would not make it to the border.'"
Links
0.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=ce24f67f4391402642140618dcde1e00&threadid=138905&perpage=50&pagenumber=1
California Supremes To Decide If Domains Are Property
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/0335210
[0]Richard W.M. Jones writes "Are domain names property like plots of
land? The California Supreme Court has been [1]asked to rule in the
case of [2]sex.com which was transferred using a forged letter to
Network Solutions. [3]Wired news also has the story."
Links
0. http://www.annexia.org/
1. http://www.metnews.com/articles/krem010603.htm
2. http://sex.com/
3. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57065,00.html
Network Associates Aquires Deersoft Inc.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/0247234
[0]Duncan Findlay writes "[1]Network Associates Inc. has just [2]
acquired [3]Deersoft, Inc., which is known by many as the creator of
SpamAssassin Pro, the proprietary (Windows) version of the GPL/PAL
licensed [4]SpamAssassin (Mirrors: [5]Eastern US, [6]Europe). It seems
that we may see parts of SpamAssassin under the McAfee name within 6
months. You can also read the story [7]at Yahoo or [8]at Reuters.
Unfortunately, the SpamAssassin [9]trademark was owned by Deersoft, so
hypothetically, NAI could force us to call the Open Source project
something else!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.nai.com/
2. http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/other/jump/deersoft.asp
3. http://www.deersoft.com/
4. http://www.spamassassin.org/
5. http://useast.spamassassin.org/
6. http://eu.spamassassin.org/
7. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030106/sfm029_1.html
8. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=1997874
9. http://www.spamassassin.org/dist/TRADEMARK
Cleveland Public Library Readies E-book Downloads
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/0035213
rtphokie writes "C|Net is reporting that the [0]Cleveland Public
Library is [1]making ebooks available. Sounds like the 1000 books in
the system initially will feature more than just public domain titles
including 'the latest from authors such as Michael Crichton, Clive
Barker and Joyce Carol Oates.'" The article also mentions that "only a
limited number of each eBook will be available, and after a preset
number of days, the eBook will lock out the current reader so another
patron can check it out." A good time to re-read [2]The Right to Read.
Links
0. http://www.cpl.org/
1.
http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1023-979337.html?type=pt&part=msnbc&tag=alert&form=feed&subj=cnetnews
2. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Linux Security: Reflections on 2002, Eye on 2003
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/2230229
[0]Mirko Zorz writes "Here are the reflections on Linux security in
2002 and predictions for 2003 by Bob Toxen, one of the 162 recognized
developers of Berkeley UNIX and author of the acclaimed book "[1]Real
World Linux Security" already in its 2nd edition. [2]Read more at Help
Net Security."
Links
0. http://www.net-security.org
1. http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/0234224&tid=172
2. http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=332
Lessig Wagers His Job On Anti-Spam Theory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/0014250
kien writes "Lawrence Lessig is [0]betting his position at Stanford on
his anti-spam legislative recommendations. From his blog:'First the
analysis: Philip Jacob has a great piece about spam and RBLs. The essay
not only identifies the many problems with RBLs, but it nicely maps a
mix of strategies that could be considered in their place. But, alas,
missing from the list is one I've pushed: A law requiring simple
labeling, and a bounty for anyone who tracks down spammers violating
the law. Here goes: So (a) if a law like the one I propose is passed on
a national level, and (b) it does not substantially reduce the level of
spam, then (c) I will resign my job. I get to decide whether (a) is
true; Declan can decide whether (b) is true. If (a) and (b) are both
true, then I'll do (c) at the end of the following academic year.' The
Declan referred to in point (b) is [1]Declan McCullagh." Update: 01/07
02:45 GMT by [2]T: Speaking of whom, here is Declan's [3]acceptance of
Larry's bet.
Links
0. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/#000787
1. http://www.politechbot.com/
2. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
3.
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04286.html
Slashback: Disputes, Clones, Audio
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/05/0531209
Slashback this fine 23:59 GMT brings you a response to MS GPL FUD, an
update on Lessig's challenge, a followup question regarding domain
disputes, a reminder that clone claims aren't new, and more. Read on
for the details.
Still Hope for Farscape
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/146234
An anonymous reader wrote in to say that the [0]"Save Farscape"
campaign thinks there is still hope. If the next 11 episodes (starting
Friday, January 10 on the [1]SciFi Channel) pull the right numbers ).
According to [2]this interview with David Kemper:"If we were to do 2s,
straight across the boards for these eleven eps, I would be expecting
to have phone conversations with people immediately..." Of course that
is pretty unlikely- but my household won't miss an episode. To bad the
cats don't count in the nielsons ;)
Links
0. http://www.watchfarscape.com/
1. http://www.scifi.com/farscape
2. http://www.shriftweb.org/sf/DK-long.zip
Ring Of Stars Found Around Milky Way
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/226258
[0]LoPingHo writes "Scientists have found [1]a ring of stars around our
galaxy that has previously been undetected due to the faintness of the
stars. The article says that it only amounts to 1% of the galaxies
mass, but if they are just now finding those, that means there could be
even fainter ones there too. Could this be part of the elusive 'dark
matter' talked about so much lately?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/milkyway_ring_030106.html
Freshmeat
Abuse-SDL 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108578/
Abuse-SDL is a port of Abuse, the classic Crack-Dot-Com game, to the
SDL library. It can run at any color depth, in a window or fullscreen,
and it has stereo sound with sound panning.
adama's TV episode database 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108465/
adama's TV episode database is a Web-based database designed for
cataloging a TV episode collection composed of XviD/MPEG/DivX files.
The database was inspired by Wuff's movieDB, but is more suited to
dealing with episodes and series than single movies.
aEGiS nanoweb 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108598/
Nanoweb is a modular HTTP server written in PHP. It is designed to be
small, secure, and extensible. It has decent performance, an HTTP/1.1
implementation, CGI and FastCGI support, a nice configuration system,
name-based virtual hosts, server side includes, authentication, gzip
content encoding support, Apache combined format and MySQL logging, and
many advanced features.
Apache Toolbox 1.5.64
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108622/
Apache Toolbox provides a means to easily compile Apache (IPv4/6) SSL,
PHP(v3/v4), MySQL, Jakarta, a large number of modules (61 3rd party
modules and 36 default Apache modules, static or as DSOs), and GD
libraries with PNG+JPEG+Freetype2+zlib support. It is fully
customizable and menu-driven. Everything is compiled from source, and
wget is used to download any missing modules. It can also check for
RPMs that might cause problems and create an RPM with your selections.
AutoPKG 0.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108624/
AutoPKG lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions
similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
Bacula 1.28b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108635/
Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup,
recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of
different computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is
efficient and relatively easy to use, while offering many advanced
storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost
or damaged files.
BHL 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108601/
BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain text files into
HTML, LaTeX, and SGML (Linuxdoc) files. The BHL mode handles common
font-styles, three levels of sections, any kind of lists, tables, URLs
and horizontal rules. BHL handles a table of contents: you can browse
the toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the sections'
numbers with one keystroke.
Binary diff utility 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108590/
bdiff is a simple and small program to do what the very common
utilities "diff" and "patch" do with text files,
but also works with binary files.
Boss Ogg 0.9.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108587/
Boss Ogg is a Postgres-based client/server ogg player, targeted at
entertainment centers, and people that want to use their spare computer
for full-time music. The idea is to have other people develop all sorts
of different clients for it, but the author is also developing an SDL
client simultaneously, which is perfect for a TV-out card.
CD Detect & Execute 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108563/
CDDE is a program that detects when a CDROM drive has a disc inserted.
When it finds a disc inserted in the drive it will attempt to determine
the type of disc, and execute a specified command. This means a DVD can
be inserted and your favorite DVD software will start, or a data CD can
be automatically mounted.
CleanIce 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108544/
CleanIce is a simplistic, semi-flat theme engine for GTK+ 2.x, based on
the ThinIce and Clean engines of old. The GTK+ 2.x engine has many
benefits over the original theme. The arrows are more consistent, the
colors are slightly revised to be more usable, etc.
CLIP 0.99.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108589/
CLIP is a Clipper/XBase compatible compiler with initial support for
FoxPro, Flagship, and CAVO syntax. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
and Win32 (via Cygwin). It features support for international languages
and character sets, including two-bytes character sets like Chinese and
Japanese. It also features OOP, a multiplatform GUI based on
GTK/GTKextra, all SIX/Comix features (including hypertext indexing),
SQL, a C-API for third-party developers, a few wrappers for popular
libraries (such as BZIP, GZIP, GD, Crypto, and Fcgi), multitasking,
mouse events, and more.
course 1_1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108568/
course is a program for sports events (in French). It is divided into
two parts, a server and a client written with GTK+ 2. Runners are
sorted by their position and by a unique ID.
EasyTAG 0.26 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108567/
EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC
and Ogg files. It features a simple and attractive GTK+ interface.
ego file manager 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108582/
The ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for
its VFS and provides evas2 and GTK tree views.
execline 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108638/
execline is a very light, non-interactive scripting language, which is
similar to a shell. Simple shell scripts can be easily rewritten in the
execline language, improving performance and memory usage. execline was
designed for use in embedded systems, but works on most Unix flavors.
flyspell.el 1.7a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108573/
Flyspell is a Emacs minor mode which performs on-the-fly spelling
checking.
FSlint 1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108597/
FSlint is a toolkit to find various forms of lint on a filesystem. At
the moment it reports duplicate files, bad symbolic links, troublesome
file names, empty directories, non stripped executables, temporary
files, duplicate/conflicting (binary) names, and unused ext2 directory
blocks.
GNet 1.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108636/
GNet is a simple network library. It is object-oriented, written in C,
and built upon GLib. It is intended to be small, fast, easy to use and
easy to port. GNet supports abstract Internet addresses, TCP, UDP, IP
Multicast, asynchronous DNS lookup, TCP connections, and SOCKS. It
comes with documentation and examples.
GnoTime 2.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108239/
GnoTime is a to-do list tracker and project timer with a built-in
invoice generator. It allows users to keep track of how much time they
have spent working on particular tasks, maintain a diary of that work,
and create invoices with task-specific billing fees and rates.
GnuCash 1.7.7 RC 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108576/
GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income, and
expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is
based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books
and accurate reports. It is backed by an active development community
and is blossoming into a full-fledged accounting system.
Guco 0.50 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108609/
Guco is a basic commandline accounting system for small or medium
enterprises, written in Catalan and adapted to Spanish law.
Hackbot 2.17 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108605/
Hackbot is a host exploration tool and bannergrabber. It scans numerous
services and vulnerabilities.
Hibernate 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108553/
Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence
and query service for Java. It lets you develop persistent objects
following common Java idiom, including composition, association,
inheritance, polymorphism, and the Java collections framework. To allow
a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the use of code generation
or bytecode processing. Instead, runtime reflection is used and SQL
generation occurs at system startup time. It supports Oracle, DB2,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Interbase, Microsoft SQL Server, Mckoi SQL,
Progress, SAP DB, and HypersonicSQL.
IRC for .NET 0.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108485/
IRC for .NET is an event driven framework for connecting .NET
applications to an IRC network.
Java SOS 3.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108562/
Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site building,
including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.8.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108588/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple
(external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading,
synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, upload limits
(experimental), VPNs, ToS, denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list
IP, log options and more. It doesn't flush all your existing iptables
rules.
JGraph 1.0.7 (For Java 1.3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108556/
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.
jMax 4.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108570/
jMax allows one 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.
Jpedal 1.82 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108620/
Jpedal (Java PDF Extraction and Decoding Library) is a pure Java
library to extract content from Adobe's PDF file format and provide a
rasterizer. Text fragments are extracted as XML elements with font and
location information. Images are extracted in both their raw formats
and their clipped and scaled formats as TIFF, PNG, or JPEG files.
Jpedal is used in both commerical and open source projects and
continues to be actively enhanced.
JSch 0.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108607/
JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to
an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer,
etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.
Kannel WAP and SMS Gateway 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108586/
Kannel is a WAP gateway. It attempts to provide this essential part of
the WAP infrastructure freely to everyone so the market potential for
WAP services, both from wireless operators and specialized service
providers, will be realized as efficiently as possible. It also works
as an SMS gateway for GSM networks. Almost all GSM phones can use it to
send and receive SMS messages, so this is a way to serve many more
clients than just those using a WAP phone. Kannel was among the first
WAP gateways to be certified as WAP 1.1 compliant by the Open Group,
responsible for certifications of WAP Forum specifications.
KVIrc 3.0.0-beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108612/
KVirc is a Visual Internet Relay Chat Client based on the Qt library.
Features include a MDI user interface, drag & drop, built-in
scripting language (aliases, popups and events), customizable
backgrounds and colours, DCC (chat, send with resume, voice), CTCP
functions, mIRC colour support with preview, notify list, online help
and configurable logging.
Lepton's Crack 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108560/
Lepton's Crack is a generic password cracker. It is easily-customizable
with a simple plugin system and allows system administrators to review
the quality of the passwords being used on their systems. It can
perform a dictionary-based (wordlist) attack as well as a brute force
(incremental) password scan. It supports standard MD4 hash, standard
MD5 hash, NT MD4/Unicode, Lotus Domino HTTP password (R4), and SHA-1
hash formats.
lesspipe.sh 1.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108618/
lesspipe.sh is an input filter for the pager less as described in
less's man page. The script runs under a ksh-compatible shell (ksh,
bash, zsh) and allows you to use less to view compressed files,
archives, and files contained in archives. Viewing files by accessing a
device file is implemented to some extent (DOS filesystems and tar
files). It supports the following formats (both as plain and compressed
files using compress, gzip, bzip2, or zip): tar, nroff, (sh)ar, HTML,
executables, directories, RPM and Debian (.deb) archives, MS-Word, ps,
DVI, and PDF.
libferris 0.9.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108581/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all
kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each
datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various
data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting
EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event
updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount
a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox
(mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation
decoders.
libSigC++ Extras 0.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108580/
libSigC++ Extras is a library consisting of new features built on top
of libSigC++ and features that formerly were in libSigC++ and were
removed from it. The new features focus on thread support and provide
type safe inter-thread communication.
Libxml 2.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108595/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The
library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems,
etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml
implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages,
including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, RFC 2396,
XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In
most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a
relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the
following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP
client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas
is in progress.
lignumCAD 0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108591/
lignumCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) program geared specifically
to aid the woodworker in designing custom furniture and other hand-made
objects. It supports both two-dimensional and three-dimensional
representations of the design with full parametric interrelations.
Additional features include optimized layout of the bill of materials
on custom stock and photo-realistic rendering of the final design.
LuDAP 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108574/
LuDAP is a Web interface to manage a simple LDAP database based on
users and groups. It includes an XML import/export capability for
external syndication.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.9.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108584/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an
indefinite number of filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs,
socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application.
It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem
switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem
calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are
implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local
filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a
huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility
is most important.
materm 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108555/
materm is a multi-terminal for the X Windows system based on aterm that
provides tabbed functionality without requiring KDE or GNOME.
Moodle 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108610/
Moodle is a learning management system for producing Internet-based
course Web sites. It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use
on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has been designed to support modern
pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and includes
activity modules such as forums, resources, journals, quizzes, surveys,
choices, and assignments. It has been translated into 20 languages,
with more on the way. Moodle offers a free alternative to commercial
software such as WebCT and Blackboard, and is being used by a growing
number of universities, schools, and independent teachers for distance
education or to supplement face-to-face teaching.
Non-Networked File System 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108579/
NNFS (Non-Networked File System) provides a consistent file system over
several non-networked Unix computers (or slow networked).
OpenCM 0.1.2alpha3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108623/
OpenCM is designed as a secure, high-integrity replacement for CVS. It
includes features such as file renaming, branch and file level access
control, cryptographic authentication, and end-to-end integrity
controls.
OSSP ex 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108613/
OSSP ex is a small ISO-C++ style exception handling library for use in
the ISO-C language. It allows you to use the paradigm of throwing and
catching exceptions in order to reduce the amount of error handling
code without making your program less robust. This is achieved by
directly transferring exceptional return codes (and the program control
flow) from the location where the exception is raised (throw point) to
the location where it is handled (catch point), usually from a deeply
nested sub-routine to a parent routine. All intermediate routines no
longer have to make sure that the exceptional return codes from
sub-routines are correctly passed back to the parent.
OSSP sa 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108615/
OSSP sa is an abstraction library for the Unix socket application
programming interface (API). It features stream and datagram oriented
communication over Unix Domain and Internet Domain (TCP and UDP)
sockets. It provides the following key features: address abstraction
(local, IPv4, and IPv6), type abstraction, I/O timeouts, I/O stream
buffering, and convenience I/O functions.
Package DataBase View 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108637/
Package DataBase View generates an HTML view of an RPM or a dpkg
database. Its modular design allows support for other database formats
and other output formats (like XML).
PHP ShoutBox 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108566/
PHP ShoutBox allows developers to add a instant message shout box to
websites. The shoutbox is an iframe element, and the script operates
using javascript and stores the messages in a MySQL database (a file
gets complicated with synchronous posts, so a database was favored).
The look of the box is controlled through styles. All the modern
browsers are supported. It handles some of the details that other shout
boxes do not. When the new message is displayed, the shoutbox is
scrolled down so that the new message comes into view. It also checks
for new messages.
PircBot 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108602/
PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily.
Its features include an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC
events, flood protection, DCC support, ident support, and more. Its
comprehensive logfile format is suitable for use with pisg to generate
channel statistics. Full documentation is included, and the Web site
contains a 5-minute step-by-step guide to making your first IRC bot.
PPMy 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108608/
PPMy is a simple Web-based administration utility to administer users
and groups to a ProFTPD server, storing users and groups in a MySQL
database.
qconfirm 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108600/
qconfirm is an implementation of a delivery confirmation process for a
mail address or ezmlm mailing list. It is invoked by qmail-local
through a .qmail file, and can reduce the amount of junk mail hitting a
mailbox or the mailboxes of mailing list subscribers.
RPG1 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108532/
RPG1 is a text-mode console role playing game written in Perl. It
features ASCII graphics provided by the ANSI::Color module, an
inventory, a magic system, food depletion, killing, getting killed, a
library system, and themes. It also features a top-down view
orientation.
SetiStat 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108585/
SetiStat reads the files of your SETI@home client and extracts and
shows data related to your account, such as the total and average time
spent on processing work units, the progress of the current work unit,
the time spent on it, the expected time required for processing it,
etc.
Simple Picture Gallery Manager 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108557/
Simple Picture Gallery Manager is a basic PHP script that displays
picture galleries on the Web. It is highly configurable, and includes
several features (such as new picture highlighting) that make galleries
very easy to set up and integrate into a Web site.
Smart Cache 0.80 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108631/
Smart Cache is full-featured pure Java proxy cache server. It can cache
any pages and make them available for offline browsing. Other features
include a URL filter, cookie filter, ability to fake User-Agents,
Referer, and Cookie headers, Web forwarder (accelerator) mode,
background downloading, multiple logs, fast operation, very
configurable garbage collection, cache directory structure copies
server structure, and cached files are ready for use (no headers
inside).
SouRCe PacKaGer 0.1.3-1.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108594/
SouRCe PacKaGer (srcpkg) is a program for managing separate software
packages under the same directory hierarchy. It is especially useful
for packages distributed as source. It is similar to GNU Stow, Depot,
etc., but works by creating packages from new files found in the
directory tree, allowing it to manage large, complex, interdependent
packages such as those of KDE and GNOME.
Swiss-PdbViewer 3.7 beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108571/
Swiss-PdbViewer is an application that provides a user friendly
interface for analyzing several proteins at the same time. The proteins
can be superimposed in order to deduce structural alignments and to
compare their active sites or any other relevant parts. Amino acid
mutations, H- bonds, angles, and distances between atoms are easy to
obtain with the intuitive graphic and menu interface.
Tapestry 2.4-alpha-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108606/
Tapestry is a rich, component-based object model for developing
dynamic, robust, highly interactive Web applications. Applications are
constructed in terms of Java objects, methods and properties, instead
of URLs and query parameters. It builds and interprets all URLs,
dispatching directly to application-specific "listener"
methods. It includes complete source code, documentation, tutorials and
a complete example J2EE application.
The Daily Journal 0.6.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108593/
fltdj, The Daily Journal, is a PIM program that is written using the
Fast Light Tool Kit. It manages daily notes, appointments, holidays,
contact and to-do lists, and issues alerts before scheduled
appointments.
The Tamber Project 1.1.31 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108604/
The Tamber project is a componentized n-tier Web site engine that uses
open languages such as XML and JavaScript. Content is stored in
separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects. Business
functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP. Presentation is
controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over
multiple channels such as HTML, WAP, and MHEG. Currently, Tamber can
deliver to HTML and WAP, and contains modules that support e-commerce
shopping carts, secure sign in, data access and conversion services,
and advanced session management.
Turbo Vision 2.0.1 RC2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108592/
Turbo Vision is a C++ library that provides a very nice user interface
for console applications. This UNIX port is based on Borland's version
2.0 with fixes. It was made to create RHIDE, a nice IDE for gcc and
other GNU compilers. The library supports /dev/vcsa devices for fast
access to local consoles, and it uses ncurses to run from telnet and
xterm. This port, in contrast to the Sigala's port, doesn't have
"100% compatibility with the original library" as goal.
Instead, many modifications were made for the sake of security
(especially buffer overflows). This port is also available for the
original platform (DOS).
Typing Trainer 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108554/
Typing Trainer is designed for exercising typing speed and typing
accuracy, by providing an environment to type in a copy of an original
text within a specific time period. It also has the ability to store
the results of such an exercise for exam purposes.
ucspi-ipc 0.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108564/
ucspi-ipc implements D. J. Bernstein's UCSPI protocol in the Unix
domain, making it trivial to set up clients or servers on Unix sockets.
ucspi- ipc comes with utilities using credential passing on Unix
sockets, which are designed to act like a fine-grained and efficient
sudo without the need for setuid programs.
UnixODBC.pm 0.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108558/
UnixODBC.pm provides Perl programs with a subset of the X/Open ODBC API
to the EasySoft unixODBC DBMS libraries, as well as a peer to peer API
for querying ODBC data sources on networked systems. In addition, it
provides peer client and server scripts and configuration files, sample
clients that perform ODBC queries on local and networked systems, and
two multi-host data managers: one that uses Apache and CGI to provide a
Web browser interface, and another that uses Perl/Tk.
VCDphp 2.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108577/
VCDphp is a little PHP script that uses MySQL to catalog your VCD/DivX
& SVCD Collection on a Web site. It's easy to install on an Apache
Web server with PHP and MySQL. There's an easy-to-use,
password-protected admin-interface to manage (add & change) your
movies. It also automaticaly adds the rating supplied by imdb
(www.imdb.com) and the movie-picture to every entry.
Verlof 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108596/
Verlof is a Web application for registering and viewing leave
information. It records hours of leave rights and hours of leave within
categories like normal leave, special leave, reduced working-hours
(ADV), and the begin and end dates for the leave's period. The few
rules imposed on the entries are mainly sanity checks like "begin
date is in the weekend". The act of entering a new leave entry
sends an email to the group manager and a copy to the employee. The
advantages of this electronic version over the paper version are: there
is a single information location (no employee-card and mother-card
discrepancies), questionable entries immediately draw the manager's
attention (with email), and various up-to-date views of the leave
history are available (total, year, and list). Verlof is a Dutch-only
application and a little specific to Leiden University.
VideoDB 2003-01-06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108572/
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.
WebConference 2.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108633/
WebConference is a CGI-based streaming/real-time chat solution. It has
a full suite of features such as custom colors, private rooms, seamless
jumping, advanced security features, stealth mode, and much more.
XMMS Autoplay Plugin 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108561/
XMMS Autoplay Plugin is a small plugin for XMMS that starts playing on
starting XMMS. It can start at the beginning of the playlist, at a
random position or, with a small patch for XMMS, at the position the
last XMMS session stopped.
XWine 0.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108616/
XWine is a graphical user interface for the WINE emulator. It provides
an interface for configuring and running MS-Windows applications
(MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, or Win32).
Zope 2.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108640/
Zope is a free, Open Source Web application platform used for building
high-performance, dynamic Web sites. It contains a powerful and simple
scripting object model and high-performance, integrated object
database.
Slashcode
Environment.pm does not report "database not c
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/1832222
I had my slash site working a while back and now it is not. I am
running Suse 7.3 with a 2.4.10 kernel. Apache and mod perl seem to be
installed: [Thu Jan 2 15:39:33 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)
mod_perl/1.27 configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Jan 2
15:39:33 2003] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem) Some
odd things:
Odd tag behavour
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/2020255
I've added the IMG and SRC to the list of allowed tags in the var for
that at geekizoid - problem is, it still doesn't allow those in
comments - did I miss something? Slashd and apache have been restarted.
--Pinkerton Floyd
Best Practices for Secure Remote Admin?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1821256
What are best practices for securely administering a Slash site over
the Web? I'm trying to use SSL for the purpose, which would be ideal,
but I'm meeting with only limited success. There appears to be a bug in
the user login code that keeps flipping the browser back to the non-SSL
index. Is it just me, or am I barking up the wrong administrative tree?
What happened to the headlines e-mails?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2239207
I've subscribed to the headlines e-mails from several slash sites, but
most particularly to me, slashcode and use.perl. For some reason,
despite my settings still seeming to be correct, slashcode has stopped
sending them. I still get use.perl's headlines though. Any idea why?
Problems with runtask
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1754206
I just recently installed slash 2.2.6 on a server in my company
intranet. We're going to make use of it as a technical forum for the
developers to collaborate. For the most part, everything has gone
smoothly and I've had little trouble getting slash configured the way I
want. The one problem I have come across is that I can't run runtask
with any of the tasks in my slash-site. Every time I try to do it, I
check my slashd.log and find a similar error: Tue Dec 24 15:01:50 2002
Starting runtask with pid 10011 glob failed (child exited with status
1) at /home/usr1/app/slash/bin/runtask line 118. No task
'refresh_authors_cache.pl' found in
/home/usr1/app/slash/site/emmaus.saic.com/tasks I've tried looking
overthe code for runtask, but I'm a pretty novice perl programmer and
have had little luck tracking the problem down. If anyone has ideas
what might be causing this, please share. I don't want to have to wait
a day for new users to have changes made to their accounts, since we're
immediately going to make everyone authors (w/ seclev 100) because of
the environment we're in.
Geekizoid.Com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/0239255
Well, we were going to wait until 31 Dec 2002, but since the cat is out
of the bag already, Geekizoid.Com is back. Hosted by LRSE.
The Last Straw
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/1915205
I just put up my first site using slashcode. It took about a week to
get from downloading the Mandrake ISO's to having the site pretty
complete. I have never used Linux before and I took this on as a
learning experience. I am quite happy with the way it all turned out!
Anyway, about the site - I found that people seem to complain about
celebrities a lot, so I figured that a slash site related to the stupid
things celebrities say and do might be a good idea. Check it out and
let me know what you think!
WML functionality?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/1742230
I have been wondering if there is anyone out there using the WML/WAP
functionality of Slash? There were some past articles on this subject,
but seemingly with no clear answers. I was hoping to be able to
generate .wml pages somehow like slashdot.org currently does. Any tips
appreciated.
Graphics not appearing in Topic setup
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/21/0045251
My newly installed topics were given graphics, in the format of
./images/topics/graphicname.ext and the pictures don't show. I've gone
back in and tried changing them to absolute URLs, but when I click
"save topic" it reverts back to the old entry. I can click and change
sections and those update fine, but the graphic entry doesn't.
Adding a rand photo block
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/1825223
Hello, i have written something for my slash site deporteyciencia.com
for having a nice random photo block, i try to describe the process
first, and later put all the code. (locally) you need a lot of free
photos (locally) you need imagemagick (locally) run the script
create_minis.pl for creating the thumbs. Take a look to the destination
directories. You can create a captions.txt with the syntaxis:
filename::caption(newline)... The captions will be drawn on the image!!
put the original images and the thumbs in your site (remote) put the
task rand.pl in your site (and change the directories as needed)
(remote)configure crontab for running your task daily or hourly.
(remote) write a block who shows rand_mini_foto.jpg and links to
rand_foto.jpg do nothing and enjoy, or try to write a way for users
uploading photos "one day they will appear" The code:
-------------------------------- CREATE_MINIS.PL (remember to change
directories and have imagemagick installed)
-------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict;
#-------- config my $use_captions=1; my $background="#006699"; my
$fore="#ffffff"; my $width="190x190"; #-------- config end my
@files=`ls *.jpg`; my %captions=(); if ($use_captions) { open
F_captions,"captions.txt" or die "ERROR, lack of \"captions.txt\"\n
This file has the following
sintaxis:\nfilename1::caption1\nfilename2::caption 2\n..."; while () {
chomp; my ($filename,$text)=split (/::/,$_);
$captions{$filename}=$text; } close F_captions; } foreach (@files) {
print $_; chomp; if ($use_captions) { system("convert -resize
$width_height $_ minis_with_captions/$_"); if($captions{$_}) {
system("convert -box \"$background\" -font helvetica -fill \"$fore\"
-draw \"text 0,10 \\\" $captions{$_}\\\"\" $_
images_with_captions/$_"); system("convert -box \"$background\" -font
helvetica -fill \"$fore\" -draw \"text 0,10 \\\" $captions{$_}\\\"\"
minis_with_captions/$_ minis_with_captions/$_"); } else { print "Error:
lack of captions for file $_\n"; } } else { system("convert -resize
$width_height $_ minis/$_"); } } --------------------------------
rand.pl (remember to change directory names)
-------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl -w #coge una imagen
aleatoriamente y la copia en rand_foto.jpg #lo mismo para una foto de
las pequeñas, que están en /minis #llamado cada dia por una tarea use
strict; #--- config my
$path_in="/home/xavi/slash_2.2.5/fotos_deportivas" ; my
$path_out="/home/xavi/slash_2.2.5/images"; #--- config end my
$num_files=`ls $path_in/*.jpg|wc -l`; my $file=int rand $num_files; my
$count=0; my @files=`cd $path_in;ls *.jpg`; foreach (@files) { $count
++; if ($count == $file) { chomp; system("cp $path_in/$_
$path_out/rand_foto.jpg"); system("cp $path_in/minis/$_
$path_out/rand_mini_foto.jpg"); } } -------------------------- write
the block and config crontab for yourself. It's more easy than i can
explain with my english level :) Thanks Krow: Yes this is a format
nightmare but I thought I would share the submission with people
anyways.
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