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Sourceforge
JGimp - Initial Film GIMP support available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242974
The latest release of JGimp, 0.7.1 adds support for Film GIMP on Linux.
Download this if you are interested in trying out this Java-language
binding to Film GIMP. Note that the Windows build on this version is
broken; Windows users should use version 0.6 for now. JGimp is an
architecture that allows developers to create plug-ins and extensions
for the GIMP in the Java programming language.
xvl 1.9 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242938
xvl is an XML-based scripting engine suitable for generating dynamic
HTML content. The xvl 1.9 release includes an Apache 2.0 mod_xvl that
assists in getting xvl dynamic content to your user's browsers.
scsh (a Scheme shell) 0.6.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242989
Scsh is a Unix shell embedded in Scheme. It provides full access to
POSIX as well as extensions common to most Unix implementations. Scsh
also features many abstractions to ease system programming: process
abstraction, event-based interrupt handling, sophisticated I/O support
and enables concurrent system programming. On top of the usual tons of
bug fixes, scsh 0.6.3 has a number of additional features over 0.6.2,
specifically in the area of non-blocking I/O. Scsh 0.6.3 implements the
complete API of the scsh 0.5 series; with 0.6.3, the 0.6 series is now
considered feature-complete. Visit http://www.scsh.net/ for more
information about scsh.
FreeDOS 32 CVS repository online
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242848
Kernel, drivers and test programs are finally all stored in our CVS
repository, where you can find the latest development source code. The
file system is fully integrated in the FD32 scenario and seems to work
properly. FreeDOS 32 aims to be a 32-bit operating system that extends
the DOS concepts to work in a 32-bit environment natively.
DrJava stable release (20030113)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242965
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports
interactive evaluation of expressions. A minor update to DrJava has
been released, including new application icons and a splash screen. We
have also added documentation for developers to help set up a build
environment, which is available on the drjava project web site. The
drjava project web site is located at http://drjava.sf.net/devdocs/
Quartz 1.0.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242796
Quartz is an enterprise-class Job Scheduler for use in stand-alone and
full-blown J2EE Applications. Quartz is very light-weight, highy
scalable, easy to use within your own applications, and full of
features. Aside from being a maintenance release of Quartz, version
1.0.3 contains several new features, and a complete re-write of the
JDBC-based job store. Version 1.0.3 went through several "beta"
releases, so it should be very solid. Existing users: please be sure to
read the release notes / change list, as there are a few small hurdles
to get over to move to this release. The users who have contributed
code, bug reports, fixes, and feature suggestions are greatly
appreciated!
Linux Test project ltp-20030110 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242667
The Linux Test Project is a group aimed at testing and improving Linux.
The goal of the LTP is to deliver a suite of automated testing tools
for Linux as well as publishing the results of tests we run. The
ltp-20030110 release includes bug fixes and new tests. The Linux Test
Project test suite LTP-20030110.tgz has been released. Visit our
website (http://ltp.sourceforge.net) to download the latest version of
the testsuite, and for information on test results on pre-releases,
release candidates & stable releases of the kernel. There is also a
list of test cases that are expected to fail, please find the list at
(http://ltp.sourceforge.net/expected-errors.php) The highlights of this
release are: - Many new tests from Wipro. - Many SPIE tests ported. -
More than 40 new tests. - LTP now has over 900 tests. - Many bug-fixes
We encourage the community to post results, patches, or new tests on
our mailing list, and to use the CVS bug tracking facility to report
problems that you might encounter. More details available at our
web-site.
Xplanner 0.3.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242282
XPlanner is a Web-based project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme
Programming (XP) teams. XPlanner is implemented using Java, JSP, and
Struts. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Changes: This
version of XPlanner adds an extensive SOAP interface for accessing data
and functionality. SOAP usage examples in Perl and PHP are provided.
This version also features additional languages and improved I18N
support.
AntRunner 1.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242483
AntRunner is an OpenTool for JBuilder 4 to 8 to use Ant within the IDE.
The 1.6 release contains feature enhancements and bug fixes. This
release was coming earlier as I thought. AntRunner 1.5 was not running
on JBuilder 8. Thus I had to make some changes to support this release
of JBuilder. I had not much time to test this release. Hope it works
fine, nevertheless. Main changes are: - support of spaces in target
names - own action group for antrunner - refactoring of communication
with ANT using sockets - own loggers are now possible - corrected typo
in resources that caused a MessageFormatException - removed a trailing
file string in the filename in a message
SnipSnap release 0.3.2a
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=242504
Version 0.3.2a of SnipSnap has been released. SnipSnap is a Java-based
personal content management system based on weblog and wiki
technologies. It's intended for desktop use, but can be deployed on
servers. SnipSnap differs from other weblog and wiki tools as it is
focused on easy installation.
Slashdot
Voters News Service: What Went Wrong
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/0524211
[0]ddtstudio writes "[1]Baseline Magazine has a pretty good
[2]recounting of how even the national TV networks can have a computer
network go wrong -- in this case the night of the last U.S. election.
From the article: "VNS had been trying to rewrite and retool the system
for years. This was just the most recent attempt and it failed
miserably." Oracle, IBM, BEA Systems -- all crashed."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.baselinemag.com/
2. http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,826676,00.asp
Worlds Longest Wi-Fi Connection
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/059225
axonis writes "The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) [0]announced today
that they have transmitted information via a broadband wireless link
over a distance of 310km. They believe that this is the longest
distance achieved using wireless connectivity. Alvarion (BreezeCom) is
also the original consultant to Ericsson for BlueTooth technology"
Links
0. http://www.alvarion.com/RunTime/CorpInf_30130.asp?fuf=281&type=item
Hollywood Muscles Aussie ISPs Over Movie Downloading
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/233241
[0]Tenaka Kahn writes "[1]Whirlpool is reporting that American movie
companies are using a company (MediaForce) to try and [2]muscle Aussie
ISPs into disconnecting users who indulge in movie sharing."
Links
0. http://www.evildruid.net
1. http://www.whirlpool.net.au/
2. http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1054
1KM 802.11b @ 2MB
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1222202
OffTheRack writes "Check out [0]this web site to see how a guy in Egypt
built his own line-of-site 1KM broadband connection. Plenty of nice
pictures." Pretty cool set-up.
Links
0. http://www.d128.com/wireless/
Internet Taxation May Be Imminent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/0026211
[0]redfenix writes "[1] Here, [2]there, and [3]everywhere, the words
[4]"Internet Tax" are being uttered with intentions of [5]bolstering
state budgets. It may be inevitable that products purchased on the net
will be taxed someday. The real question is: can the fragile internet
economy really help local tax economies now?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.detnews.com/2003/technology/0301/09/technology-55451.htm
2. http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=971432&pic=none&TP=getarticle
3. http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/12/23/story3.html
4. http://www.cato.org/dailys/11-19-02.html
5. http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=117890
Games Controlled By An Exercise Bike
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1217202
Fidigit writes "I know that most people reading this won't be _that_
interested in exercise, but given there's tech with it ... What do you
think about [0]computer games controlled by an exercise bike in your
house? It sounds crazy, but it might just work." Update: 01/14 00:14
GMT by [1]T: An anonymous reader points to [2]another example of the
same concept.
Links
0. http://www.simonperry.com/broadband/2003_01_01_archive.html#87327019
1. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
2. http://pkl.net/~trj/bike/
NASA Announces Enviromentally Friendly Jet Fuel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1957227
drama writes "From [0]the Press Release: 'Two years of collaboration
between Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., and NASA's Ames
Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have led to the development of
a non-toxic, easily handled fuel made from a substance similar to what
is used in common candles. The by-products of combustion of the new
fuel are carbon dioxide and water; unlike conventional rocket fuel that
produces aluminum oxide and acidic gasses, such as hydrogen chloride.'
Or for pictures and more info, [1]visit the site."
Links
0. http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2003/03_04AR.html
1. http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2003/03images/paraffin/paraffin.html
Adult Content Revenue To Pay For UK 3G Licenses
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/2155256
Makarand writes "According to this [0]article in The Guardian mobile
phone companies in the UK are turning to soft porn in a bid to recoup
the billions they have splashed out on third generation licences. If
the industry can persuade regulators that they can come up with a
fool-proof way of registering phones that are owned by those who are 18
and above it will clear the way for a major new revenue stream using
adult content. Dedicated teams at companies using 3G licenses are
already looking into making money from adult content."
Links
0. http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,872546,00.html
Review Of GM's HyWire Hydrogen Concept Car
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1821230
[0]SanLouBlues writes "[1]Autoweek has a detailed review of a test
drive in GM's [2]HyWire concept (second item). The gas and brakes are
both on the steering wheel which may be placed on either the left or
the right with little effort. Overall some very positive marks for such
a radical car."
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/
1.
http://autoweek.com/cat_content.mv?port_code=autoweek&cat_code=coverstory&loc_code=index&content_code=01247822
2.
http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/environment/road_to_future/adv_tech_vehicles/future_fuel_cells/index.html
Palm Kills Off Graffiti
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1659240
[0]Ed writes "PalmSource, the company that makes the Palm OS, has
decided to stop using Graffiti for text input in all future versions of
its operating system. Instead, it will switch to using a version of
CIC's Jot recognition system, which will be called Graffiti 2.
PalmSource was forced to make this move after losing a patent
infringement lawsuit brought by Xerox. Jot is already used by the
Pocket PC operating system. You can read more about it [1]on
Brighthand."
Links
0. http://www.brighthand.com
1. http://www.brighthand.com/article/Graffiti_Dead
Freshmeat
A Joint Monitoring System 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109414/
AJMS (AKA "AMS") displays syslog messages in realtime through
a standalone Java client or in a browser. It offers straightforward
configuration and integrates easily into any existing syslog
environment.
abcm2ps 3.2.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109391/
abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to
PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to
print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one
or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to
the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
Alist 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109446/
Alist is a program that collects hardware and software information
about systems and stores it in a database for users to browse and
search via a Web interface. The program consists of three parts: a
client portion that collects the information, a daemon that receives
data sent from clients, and a CGI that displays and lets you search for
information. Clients for Solaris, Linux, FreeBsd, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Irix,
Windows, and Mac OS X are currently available.
AutoRPM 3.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109319/
AutoRPM is a program that can do any combination of the following:
mirror RPMs from an FTP site, keep installed RPMs consistent with an
FTP site or local directory and keep installed RPMs in a cluster or
network of systems consistent. It is highly flexible and contains a
fully command-line driven interactive install mode (for installing RPMs
from the queue or for installing RPMs from your system interactively).
It also handles recursive dependencies, multiple versions of the same
RPM, the same RPM with multiple architectures, and more. It does some
of the same tasks as up2date and AutoUpdate.
Babeldoc 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109443/
Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents
for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications.
It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but
supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a
sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and
reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to
combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It
has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and
monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data
to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan
various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.
bash programmable completion 20030113 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109438/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend
its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with
just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to
complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3
str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the
UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported
file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would
complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to
produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX
commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need
to do on a daily basis.
Bioperl 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109449/
Bioperl is set of Perl Modules for bioinformatics. It contains objects
for Sequences, features on Sequences, and other important
bioinformatics attributes.
BotIrcServer 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109292/
BotIrcServer is a simulated IRC server where each channel is a
connection to an Eggdrop bot's partyline (login/logout is done with
join/part IRC commands).
CCZE 0.1.122
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109434/
CCZE is a fast log colorizer in C, intended to be a drop-in replacement
for RASZi's colorize.pl.
Cerberus Helpdesk 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109389/
Cerberus Helpdesk is an email response system built to diminish the
need for redundant, time-consuming human interaction with your
customers. The system is built to allow your support/sales/billing/etc.
department to react quickly to inbound customer email inquiries. It was
written originally as a trouble ticket system.
CherryPy 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109390/
CherryPy is a Python-based tool for developing dynamic Web sites. It
sits between a compiler and an application server. Compiling source
files generates an executable containing everything to run the Web
site, including an HTTP server. CherryPy lets you develop your Web site
in an object-oriented way, using both regular Python and a templating
language. It also comes with a handy standard library for things like
cookie-based authentication, form handling, HTTP authentication, etc.
CHM decompiler 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109352/
CHM decompiler is a program that converts the internal files of CHM
files back into the HHP, HHC, and HHK, etc. used to compile the
documentation.
CK-Ledger 0.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109429/
CK-Ledger is a double-entry ledger accounting system which runs on top
of PHPGroupWare. It provides accounting and backoffice functionality to
SMEs, and utilizes PHPGroupWare to administer user accounts and groups.
It comprises 14 modules: Ledger Admin, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation,
Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for
Manager, Human Resources, and Staff Self Service.
clo++ 0.6.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109435/
clo++ is a command line option parser generator. Given an XML file that
contains a description of your program and its options, clo++ can
generate code to parse its command line. In addition to code
generation, clo++ can also generate man pages. Other languages and
output formats can easily be added because clo++ generates its output
using templates.
CourseForum 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109420/
CourseForum provides a painless, straightforward and flexible solution
for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and
student collaboration. It can be used for lecture notes, Q&A, class
discussions, research, student portfolios, projects, and more. The easy
Web browser interface and quick installation lets you get started in
minutes, and everyone can easily create, read, and contribute.
dvd::rip 0.49.7 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109406/
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It
provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all
aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely
known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open
Source tools.
echolot-pinger 2.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109437/
Echolot-pinger is a pinger for anonymous remailers, which works by
regularly sending messages through remailers to check their
reliability. It then calculates reliability statistics which are used
by remailer clients to choose the chain of remailers to use.
Additionally, it collects configuration parameters and the keys of all
remailers, and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients.
Eiffel Wrapper Generator 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109396/
EWG (Eiffel Wrapper Generator) is a tool that generates Eiffel wrapper
classes for C libraries. It can be used to create libraries that bridge
the gap between Eiffel and C. It aims to work for arbitrary ANSI C and
with all common Eiffel compilers.
EOS Image Manager 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109318/
EOS Image Manager is a pure Cocoa application that enables users to
quickly view, rename (add and remove chars, change case), and manage
(move, copy, and rename) all of their images from a single, uncluttered
interface. With this application users can organize thousands of
downloaded images and digital photos in minutes.
eXchaNGeR 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109402/
The eXchaNGeR XML browser is a browser and editor framework, written in
Java, that visualizes elements in a XML document. The user can browse
through and manage the visible elements in the document with external
services, or she can make changes to the content of the XML document
with the built-in XML editor.
fddtrack:: 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109397/
fddtrack:: is a Web-based application to help track progress when using
the Feature Driven Development Software Engineering model.
FieryFilter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109323/
FieryFilter is an interactive desktop firewall for Linux. It will ask
the user every time a new network connection is made if they want to
allow or deny it. In future versions users will be able to generate
rules from connections and thus minimize the amount of questions asked.
File::Scan 0.43 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109445/
File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can
detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and
signatures database.
FreeMarker 2.2pre1 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109426/
FreeMarker allows Java servlets to keep graphic design separate from
application logic, by encapsulating HTML in templates. Templates
generate HTML dynamically, using data provided by the servlet. The
template language is powerful and intuitive, the compiler is fast, and
the output approaches the speed of static HTML pages.
FUDforum 2.3.7RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109430/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either
MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a
multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a
private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll
file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable
forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum
operators.
Full Decent Camera Life 2.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109329/
FDCL is a photo cataloging system. It supports photo descriptions and
user-submitted information. Photo galleries can be viewed in directory
structure or queried by description and sorted into albums. FDCL also
supports hiding photos from the system without actually modifying the
photos directory, and other administrative options.
GOBO Eiffel 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109394/
The Gobo Eiffel Project provides the Eiffel community with free and
portable Eiffel tools and libraries. Gobo Eiffel consists of five
Eiffel libraries: Kernel Library, Data Structure Library, Lexical
Library, Parse Library, and Utility Library. Three utilities are
provided: Gobo Eiffel Lex (gelex), Gobo Eiffel Yacc (geyacc), and Gobo
Eiffel Preprocessor (gepp).
GUNit 0.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109404/
GUNit is a C unit testing framework in the spirit of JUnit. The
framework incorporates an easy-to-use GUI based on the GNOME libraries.
gzip 1.3.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109344/
gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement
for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are much better
compression and freedom from patented algorithms. The GNU Project uses
it as the standard compression program for its system.
Hackbot 2.18 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109410/
Hackbot is a host exploration tool and bannergrabber. It scans numerous
services and vulnerabilities.
JpGraph 1.10.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109448/
JpGraph is a OO Graph drawing library for PHP 4.0.2 and above.
Highlights of the available features are: text, linear, and log scales
for both the X and Y axes, anti-aliasing of lines, color-gradient
fills, support for GIF, JPG, and PNG formats, support for two Y axes,
spider plots (a.k.a Web plots), pie-charts, lineplots, filled line
plots, impulse plots, bar plots, and error plots, support for multiple
plot types in one graph, intelligent autoscaling, and extensive
documentation (145 pages).
JTAG Tools 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109450/
JTAG Tools is a software package which enables working with JTAG-aware
(IEEE 1149.1) hardware devices and boards through a JTAG adapter. This
package has an open and modular architecture with the ability to write
miscellanous extensions like board testers, flash memory programmers,
and so on.
libGringotts 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109401/
libGringotts is a small, easy-to-use, thread-safe C library originally
developed for Gringotts. Its purpose is to encapsulate data in an
encrypted and compressed file. It uses strong cryptographic algorithms
(RIJNDAEL 128/256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST256, SAFER+, LOKI97, and 3DES
for encryption, and SHA1 and RIPEMD-160 for hashing) to ensure the data
are as safe as possible, and allow the user to have the complete
control over all the encryption, hashing, and compression algorithms
used in the process. It also provides functions for encrypting
temporary files and to securely manage memory. It is based upon
libmcrypt and mhash, and supports pkgconfig.
Linux X10 Universal Device Driver 1.4.0 (Linux-2.4.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109348/
This project provides a /dev interface to an X10 network through Linux
kernel modules. It is intended to provide a standard interface and
syntax to shell script utilities (such as cat and echo), Perl scripts,
C programs, or Java programs so that everything from a quick hack to a
more advanced program can manipulate the X10 devices in an automated
home regardless of the transceiver used. Its simplest use is with shell
scripts (examples of which are provided in the package). Currently the
project supports the 4 main X10 transceivers (PowerLinc Serial,
PowerLinc USB, CM11A, and Firecracker/CM17A).
Loggerithim 6.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109419/
Loggerithim is a monitoring package. It allows you to monitor your
systems graphically, proactively spot problems, perform postmortems,
throw alerts when bad things happen, predict future needs, and automate
routine administration tasks.
Logwatch 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109358/
Logwatch analyzes and reports on system logs. It is a customizable and
pluggable log-monitoring system and will go through the logs for a
given period of time and make a customizable report. It should work
right out of the package on most systems.
lookat 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109442/
"lookat" (or "bekijk" in Dutch) is a program to
view text files and manual pages. It is designed to be more
user-friendly than more conventional text viewers such as less.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109388/
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.
Mod_Survey 3.0.15-pre4 (3.0.x-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109422/
Mod_survey is an Apache mod_perl module which allows users to create
their own Web questionnaires using an XML-based tag notation. It
supports exporting of data into several file formats, including SPSS
syntax, semi-colon delimited fields, and SQL script. It also provides
limited support for descriptive statistics of the submitted data, and
stylesheet customizations of layout.
moodss 16.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109393/
Moodss (the Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) displays data
described and updated in one or more modules loaded at startup time or
dynamically. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers,
summary tables, free text viewers, and threshold entries can be created
from any number of table cells. Moodss has full drag'n'drop support in
the UI, and comes with numerous modules for system, database, network,
and other types of monitoring. New modules can be developed in Tcl,
Perl, Python, or C. A monitoring daemon (moomps) for UNIX is included.
It can react to thresholds and record data history in any database for
later analysis or for presentation using common software.
Mr Commander 0.1a-preview2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109395/
Mr Commander is a file manager based on GTK+ 2.0. It behaves like the
Total Commander program, which is available on MS Windows. It features
SMB and FTP support.
MuseScore 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109403/
MuseScore is a WYSIWYG musical score typesetter for Linux. It uses
TrueType fonts for display and printing.
NavSys 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109411/
NavSys is a combined Ogg player and GPS application to be used as a
navigation system and integrated audio system in a vehicle.
netmap 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109299/
Netmap is a network weather map creator. It collects data from network
devices using SNMP and 'prints' them on existing images creating
traffic maps. It provides a Web-based interface and does not require
any command-line interaction or text file editing to design the maps.
Netxx 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109440/
Netxx is a C++ network programming library. In addition to having a
nice clean API, it also provides a TLS/SSL abstraction layer via
OpenSSL.
obliquid 0.4.4_to_0.4.5 (Upgrades)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109392/
Obliquid is a PHP/XML application framework for building groupware Web
portals. It is like Lego bricks for the Web. Each brick (called a slot)
is a software component that may be composed with others to build an
Internet application. It has a core allowing users to build pages using
templates blocks, with full multilingual support and themes. It also
has a users/groups/operation module and a calendar supporting
availabilities, calls, meetings, and accountancy entries.
Perforce 2002.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109441/
Perforce is a software configuration management system that is fast,
robust, runs on over 50 platforms, and scales to over 1000 users on a
single repository. It supports atomic submits and works well over wide
area networks, including the Internet.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109400/
phpQLAdmin was designed to administrate a Qmail-LDAP server with an
easy-to-use Web interface. It allows you to control the server with the
Qmail-LDAP/Controls patch, add/remove domains, add/remove/edit users,
change attributes for all domain members, and set passwords, quotas,
mailhosts, mail addresses, alias addresses, forwarders, and more. The
application's language is configurable (except for the control part)
and contains translations for English, German, Italian, Portuguese,
Spanish, and Japanese. It supports Ezmlm mailing lists.
PieterPost 0.10.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109423/
PieterPost is a PHP interface to a POP3 mailbox. It is designed to be
both small and easy to use. It's not extremely feature-rich, but it has
all the features needed to quickly read your mail, download, or send an
attachment.
PlayMIDI 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109313/
PlayMIDI allows playback of MIDI files (with many command-line options)
to external MIDI devices or FM/GUS/AWE 32. Future versions will support
software DSP synth playback using /dev/dsp.
ProjectForum 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109421/
ProjectForum provides a powerful but easy-to-use solution for flexible
workgroup collaboration and coordination of projects over the Web. It
can be used for project planning, todo lists, design notes, task
assignments, meeting notes, problem reports, team discussions,
collecting feedback, research, brainstorming, and more.
Propo 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109427/
Propo is a Java 2 program for training the eye to see proportions. When
the program runs it shows a window divided into two areas (area A and
area B). In area A, the program shows a geometric configuration of
black dots, lines and circles with one red dot. In area B, the same
configuration is shown slightly scaled with the red dot removed. The
idea of the program is to click on the location of the red dot in area
B.
python-borZoi 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109316/
python-borZoi is a collection of Python bindings for the borZoi
elliptic curve cryptography package, implemented with Boost.Python.
R 1.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109398/
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
It is similar to S, which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John
Chambers et al. It provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical
techniques (linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time
series analysis, classification, clustering, etc.). R is designed as a
true computer language with control-flow constructions for iteration
and alternation, and it allows users to add additional functionality by
defining new functions. For computationally intensive tasks, Fortran
and C code can be linked and called at run time.
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109405/
RULI stands for Resolver User Layer Interface. It's a library built on
top of an asynchronous DNS stub resolver. RULI provides an easy-to-use
interface for querying DNS SRV resource records. The main goal is to
promote deployment of SRV-cognizant programs. RULI aims to
automatically perform all the SRV logic described by RFC 2782, and to
comply with related specifications.
Scsh 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109407/
Scsh is a systems-programming environment for POSIX systems and Win32,
embedded in the Scheme programming language. It includes a high-level
process notation for writing shell-script like programs, with pipelines
and redirections. Scsh additionally provides low-level access to POSIX
primitives, plus important non-POSIX extensions such as sockets. Scsh
is implemented on top of Scheme48, a portable bytecode implementation
of Scheme. A number of user-contributed extensions are available,
including an extensible HTTP and FTP server, a socket-level PostgreSQL
interface, a programmable text formatting language, and a Postscript
generation language.
SDLInvaders 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109416/
SDLInvaders is a simple clone of the famous game Space Invaders using
SDL.
SILC 0.9.8 (Toolkit)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109409/
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides
secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send
any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This
includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All
messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and
messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES,
SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the
IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC
Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application
developers.
The Tamber Project 1.2pre.1 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109439/
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.
Think Tux 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109383/
Think Tux is an Aqua/MacOS-style background featuring Tux.
Trackballs 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109428/
Trackballs is a simple game similar to the classic game Marble Madness.
By steering a marble through a track filled with vicious hammers, pools
of acid, and other obstacles the player collects points. When the ball
reaches the destination, the player continue to the next, more
difficult track - unless, of course, time runs out first.
VDB Janus Chess 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109387/
VDB Janus Chess is a variant of chess. The table is 10x8 instead of 8x8
and every person has one additional piece, the Janus, which can move
like a bishop and a knight.
WANPIPE beta3-2.3.0 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109433/
WANPIPE S-series is a family of intelligent multi-protocol WAN and ADSL
adapters that support data transfer rates up to 8Mbps. All WAN
protocols supported by WANPIPE are implemented in firmware and run on
the card. An advantage of an intelligent adapter is that it offloads
the system CPU and improves stability. By adding a Sangoma WAN/ADSL
component to the Linux kernel, one can create a powerful multi-T1/ADSL
router/firewall with proven reliability of Linux. Sangoma S-series
cards support an optional on board T1/E1 CSU/DSU that eliminates all
external components of a traditional routing solution: i.e. T1/E1 line
can be directly connected to the card. WANPIPE supports the following
protocols, ADSL, Frame Relay, PPP, MULTILINK PPP, CHDLC, X25(API),
BitStreaming (API), BiSync(API), and SDLC(API). Furthermore, WANPIPE
supports custom API development such as: Credit card verification,
Voice-over IP, Satellite Comm. All device drivers are part of the
standard Linux Kernel distribution.
whatsnewfm 0.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109447/
whatsnewfm is a filter for the daily freshmeat newsletter. It shows
only news items that you haven't seen before (so you don't have to read
about every update of applications that you aren't interested in). You
can also set up a list of "interesting" applications where
you want to be informed of every update.
Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 4.0s-pre7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109399/
The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides stable and
development kernels for either server or testing purposes. These
kernels provide a server kernel and also a service for developers and
end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but
want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request.
X File Explorer 0.40 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109415/
X File Explorer (Xfe) is a filemanager for X. It is based on the
popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander. Xfe is desktop independent
and is written with the C++ Fox Toolkit. It looks similar to Windows
Commander or MS-Explorer, and is very fast and simple. It features file
associations, the ability to mount/umount devices, a directory tree for
quickly changing directories, the ability to change file attributes,
automatic registry saving, the ability to view/create/extract
compressed archives, and much more.
XForum 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109309/
XForum is a simple PHP forum designed to work on any platform with
minimal to no configuration. It has been tested on Win32, Linux and Mac
OS X. It does not require a database.
xmlenc 0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109386/
xmlenc is a light-weight XML encoding library for Java. It fills the
gap between a light-weight parser like SAX, and a heavy-weight XML
output library, like JDOM.
Slashcode
Upgrading apache without messing up slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/2011240
I need to upgrade my apache server for security reasons, but I am
worried that I will mess up my slash site in doing so. How do I go
about updating my website to the latest version of apache without
messing up slash? Is the a document on this somewhere? I have apache
1.3.22 and I want to get 1.3.27. Thanks. Also, how do I tell what
version of slash I am currently running? --John
What version of slash is running on /. ?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1824231
Well, that's all I am asking... Krow: Look for the latest tag in CVS
for slash, that is what slashdot is using.
Enable comment counter?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1822241
I'm reading the online docs and also bought the 'Running Weblogs with
Slash' book - somehow I can't figure this out? How do I enable that
counter (e.g. 40 of 51 comments)
Galleria photo gallery plugin beta released
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1819259
We've released our first beta of a photo gallery plugin for Slash. It's
called Galleria. Features include file-upload via http, a slide show,
etc. All under the GPL. For more inforation see
http://www.lottadot.com/
Problems installing slash / DBIx::Password
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1949227
I'm trying to get Slash working on a Redhat 8.0 box. My problem seems
to be centered around getting DBIx::Password to work. Running: perl
-MCPAN -e "install 'DBIx::Password'" Eventually results in: Bundle
summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::Slash had installation
problems: Digest::MD5 MIME::Base64 Bundle::LWP DBIx::Password Template
and the following items had problems during recursive bundle calls: LWP
Running: perl -MCPAN -e "install 'DBIx::Password'" I get something
like: install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC
(@INC contains: blib/lib blib/arch
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-m ulti
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread -multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at (eval
1) line 3. I've tried this on two Redhat 8.0 boxes. I haven't seen a
lot of stuff like this on google. Any suggestions on what I'm doing
wrong? I have all the gory details at
http://www.simpson.edu/~craven/error.html
DevChannel
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2022224
DevChannel is the central news and reference resource for developers
interested in core technology topics. With original feature articles
and interviews, daily news updates, access to SourceForge projects,
Freshmeat downloads, and Slashdot discussions, DevChannel opens a
channel of communication to developers, organized by topics that
matter.
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?
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