O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER January 15, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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TOEJAM release 2.9.7 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243512 TOEJAM is a Java Answering Machine that uses a Voice Modem as the base of the IVR system. It has been running 24x7 at my home handling my phone calls and emailing me the messages. Currently supports US Robotics 56K Pro Msg, other modems very easily programmed for. TOEJAM is an acronym for Thoroughly Open Ended Java Answering Machine. mod_psldap 0.62 - initial release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243497 mod_psldap has been offficially released as of 11 Jan 03. mod_psldap is an Apache C module for performing interactions with an ldap server and currently implements authentication and authorization through an ldap server using HTTP Basic authentication. This implementation has been tuned for performance and security, and is one of the few (if not the only) implementation of LDAP authentication within Apache that does not require transmission of the password from the LDAP server to the web server. Future development will enhance group management and allow for users to interactively reset their passwords and personal information through a web based interface. Registration of new users will also be implemented. Refer to the project pages for further details. JTAG Tools 0.2.1 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243474 JTAG Tools is a software package released under GNU GPL which enables working with JTAG-aware (IEEE 1149.1) hardware devices (parts) and boards through JTAG adapter. This package has open and modular architecture with ability to writing miscellanous extensions (like board testers, flash memory programmers, and so on). New in this release: * Fixed compile error (bug 665923, thanks to Chris Ellec). * Added support for Macraigor Wiggler JTAG Cable (Stas Khirman). * Added support for Altera ByteBlaster/ByteBlaster II/ByteBlasterMV Parallel Port Download Cable. * Fixed some other bugs. Homepage: http://openwince.sourceforge.net/jtag/ For complete list of supported operating systems, hardware configurations and so on see the homepage. -- Marcel Telka net-snmp 5.0.7 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=243510 net-snmp 5.0.7, containing bug fixes, has now been released. net-snmp provides tools and libraries relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including: An extensible agent, An SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP traps, etc. net-snmp-5.0.7 is now available from http://www.net-snmp.org/download/ . It contains a number of bug fixes over the 5.0.6 release. The release notes from the NEWS file are: New: - VACM (access control) optimizations which will greatly benefit people who wish to exclude large portions of the MIB tree from some people. Previously this was a large resource drain. - Add command line option to snmpd to set syslog facility - Reverse DISPLAY-HINT processing, i.e. it allows you to input data formatted like a DISPLAY-HINT prescribes - Support setting of sysDescr and sysObjectID via snmpd.conf configuration directives - New output option to force display of strings as hex - Persistent directory can be specified at runtime - Add support for Linux virtual interfaces in the ipAddressTable. - implemented the mteEventTable and the mteEventNotificationTable form the DISMAN-EVENT-MIB. Fixes: - AgentX no longer flagged as experimental - A few memory leak fixes for the table_iterator agent API. - Processed flag cleared before each pass of a set request - Remove snmpd pid file on exit - Restore default behaviour of building shared libraries - misc other fixes 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/ Slashdot AMD's Fab 30 Revealed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/138257 Harkids writes "AnandTech posted [0]a sweet article about a recent trip to AMD's newest chip manufacturing plant, Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. The article is more than just a walk around the building; it includes juicy details of AMD's microprocessor manufacturing process, innovations, and even has some Hammer info in it. A good read if you are interested in CPUs or simply what AMD has up their sleeve." Links 0. http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1773 Merging WiFi VoIP Into Cellular Service http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/0512243 [0]Anonymous Coward writes "The New York Times (registration required) reports that Motorola, Proxim and Avaya are expected to announce today that they will jointly develop technology to [1]allow wireless communications to jump between networks without interruption. This appears to involve making use of WiFi for phone service where it's available, thus converting WiFi hotspots into congestion relief for overloaded cellular networks, and, of course, making cell phones into WiFi terminals." Links 0. http://elf.org 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/business/14MOTO.html Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/054238 [0]scubacuda points to this [1]article at The Register, about "what is believed to be the industry's first [2]identity server based on [3]Liberty Alliance Project specifications for federated network identity (date sheet [4]here). Other reports of Sun's release: [5]eWeek, [6]Information Week, [7]Computer World, & [8]Y!" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus author 1. http://212.100.234.54/content/53/28822.html 2. http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/identity_srvr/home_identity.html 3. http://www.projectliberty.org/ 4. http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/identity_srvr/ds_identity.html 5. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,825856,00.asp 6. http://www.informationweek.com/news/IWK20030113S0009 7. http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/server/story/0,10801,77522,00.html 8. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=74&ncid=738&e=10&u=/cmp/20030113/tc_cmp/iwk20030113s0009 Microsoft Opens Code Just Slightly More http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/030217 [0]ctar writes "This [1]story on Bloomberg.com details Microsoft's new program to open the source to parts of Windows in order to compete with Linux, especially in the government sector. Microsoft's spokesman is making these announcements directly: They say governments involved will be invited to Redmond to meet w/ security engineers, and view testing procedures. Countries will also be able to incorporate their own encryption schemes 'based on Microsoft's software'." Links 0. http://ctar&zoo,uvm,edu 1. http://www.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=quote/marketsquote99_news_list.ht&ptitle=A&wires=PRN,BUS,CRL,PZM,CNS&template=marketsquote99_news.ht&GNOSUBST=1&ticker=MSFT&showzacks=YES&showvoiceir=NO Embedded Linux In Onkyo's Home Music Server http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/0246221 IrateSurf writes "[0]ExtremeTech has a [1]story about a new use of embedded Linux from Onkyo, which runs a home music server. Their NAS-2.3 has a CD-player as well as an 80GB hard drive for storing music and streaming it to other players on the an Ethernet network. Also check out the web site for the [2]NAS-2.3." If only they would [3]make it record radio, too ... Links 0. http://www.extremetech.com/ 1. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,826536,00.asp 2. http://www.integrahometheater.com/model.cfm?class=nettune&m=NAS-2.3&p=i 3. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/1053222&tid=137 Turing Test Competition At CalTech http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/004205 [0]Charles Dodgeson writes "The [1]Turing Tournament at [2]Cal Tech wants to know if you can program an emulator that will play games like a human, or if can you write detector that can correctly sort the wetware from the software. Before you get too excited, the "games" are very limited things. But there is a $10,000 prize for the winner. You can read the [3]gory details." Links 0. http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ 1. http://turing.ssel.caltech.edu/ 2. http://www.caltech.edu/ 3. http://turing.ssel.caltech.edu/index.html Slashback: :CueCat, Exercise, Wormage http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/159242 Slashback tonight brings you updates on the current doings (and name) of J. Jovan Philyaw, the man behind the :CueCat, the alleged worldwide infestation of file-trading computers with an RIAA-sponsored worm (not true, they say), the privacy implications of GeoURL markup, and more. Read on for the details. RIAA: We Won't Pursue Mandated DRM Technologies http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/2248239 tekman writes "A [0]New York Times article details an agreement between the RIAA and various hardware and software companies in which the RIAA has agreed to avoid seeking legislation that would mandate technologies in computers and other home electronics to restrict 'unauthorized' copying. The most interesting thing about this is the absence of the MPAA." Links 0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/technology/14CND-PIRACY.html Honeymoon Over For Google? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/2135244 [0]scubacuda writes "[1]Business Week has [2]an article on some of the challenges Google faces as it gains popularity. For a while, things were looking good: unobtrusive ads, a [3]hardware search appliance, and the fact that 'google' has become a verb (like xerox, kleenex, hoover, etc.). Now, [4]Yahoo! has dropped the 'exclusive' part of its contract, [5]Overture won a series of key contracts, [6]Verity has [7]announced a deal to purchase [8]Inktomi's assets, and [9]Y! announced it was buying Inktomi's web-search business. And other engines such as [10]WiseNut, [11]Teoma, and [12]FAST now mimic Google's 'popularity placement technology.'" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus author 1. http://www.businessweek.com/ 2. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2003/tc20030114_2858.htm 3. http://www.google.com/appliance/ 4. http://www.yahoo.com/ 5. http://www.overture.com/d/home/ 6. http://www.verity.com/ 7. http://www.verity.com/company/press/releases/2002/20021113.html 8. http://www.inktomi.com/ 9. http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/03/01-yahoo.html 10. http://www.wisenut.com/ 11. http://www.teoma.com/ 12. http://www.surffast.com/ The Year in Scripting Languages http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1833224 Mitchell writes "People from several language communities came together to create a [0]joint year-in-review for Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Tcl." Links 0. http://www.vendian.org/language_year/ Freshmeat av_convert 20030112 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109560/ The main part of av_convert is a C++ API for accessing audio/video files (AVI, Quicktime, YUV4MPEG stream, WAV, etc.). This functionality is provided by a library and a set of plugin modules for I/O backends and audio/video codecs. Using this library, "av_convert" can convert between these file formats and provide basic editing functions, such as cutting parts of different video sources to one destination. The included program "av_rec" can record real-time video from a v4l-video-source with A/V sync. BHL 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109544/ BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain TXT 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. Busca 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109514/ Busca is based on a popular Italian card game. You may play against artificial intelligence or against your friends with network play. Code striker 1.6.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109505/ Codestriker is a Perl CGI script that is used for performing code reviews in a collaborative fashion, as opposed to using patches sent in unstructured emails. Authors create code review topics, and the nominated reviewers are automatically notified by email. Reviewers can view the proposed diff in plain text mode, coloured-diff mode, and can also view the original and new files that comprise the review in their entirety when Codestriker is linked with CVS. Comments are made on a per-line basis, and comments submitted by the other reviewers can be viewed as they are created. Emails are sent to the appropriate parties when comments are created. The author is free to submit comments against the review comments. The end result is a structured set of review comments instead of a pile of unstructured emails. Codestriker also features the ability to search over existing topics in a variety of ways. CRM commercial tracking tool 1.7a-14012003 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109557/ The CRM commercial tracking tool is to be used in a commercial environment for logging and tracking customer requirements, complaints, etc. When a so-called 'entity' is logged, every edit to the entity is logged. Using the management information, you can find statistic information like average duration, stalling calls, etc. It is fully configurable and it comes with an easy install script. curl and libcurl 7.10.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109520/ curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, portnumbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are bindings/interfaces to libcurl for more than a dozen languages and environments. Darius Tools 1.0 (Darius Sound) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109513/ Darius Tools is a collection of miscellaneous scripts which are useful for a variety of purposes. They are all designed to be faster and easier to use than the command line that would normally be required to accomplish the same task. For example, there are scripts for mass conversion of WAV files to Ogg files and Ogg files to WAV files, for converting LaTeX to PostScript and viewing the output in ggv, for creating image thumbnails, for converting from the Euro to another currency, for automated updating via FTP and for removing backups recursively. The Darius Tools are split among several packages according to different categories. DIOTA 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109518/ DIOTA is a just-in-time instrumentation tool for Intel binaries. It allows you to create a dynamic loadable library that can be attached to a program running under Linux. DIOTA can instrument all memory operations in the application and the used libraries (e.g., for checking for faulty memory accesses), calls of dynamically linked procedures (malloc, printf, etc.), detect the code executed during a particular run, and more. flounder 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109545/ Flounder is a program to quickly visualize 4D data (x,y,z,t). It can produce isosurfaces, solid renderings, as well as 2D slices. Several data sets can be viewed simultaneously. Temporal data at a spatial location can be examined with output in several formats including PNG and GIF animations. fn 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109531/ fn is a non-interactive command-line tool for downloading and aggregating xml-based newsfeeds from Web sites. It is suitable for use in a cron job to gather newsfeeds and generate reports at regular intervals. gluX 1-13-2003 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109534/ GluX is a cross-platform, easy-to-use OpenGL extension loader. It offers a very simple mechanism for loading and using OpenGL extensions. It allows your code to compile under Windows and Linux even if your video card doesn't support the OpenGL extensions used by your program. At run time, gluX will detect if required extensions are present or not. Grip 3.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109542/ Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection. GSM SMS Download Daemon 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109537/ GSM SMS Download Daemon is a simple utility to query a GSM modem for received SMS and save them to a database. Jabberwocky 1.0.beta9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109558/ Jabberwocky is a LISP IDE containing a LISP-aware editor with syntax highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer. It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project. JCTerm 0.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109526/ JCTerm is an SSH2 terminal emulator written in pure Java. It supports port forwarding, X11 forwarding, etc. JFtp 0.99 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109553/ JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive directory upload, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a command-line mode. jMoney@Home 0.52pre2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109540/ jMoney@Home is a small financial software package that lets you manage your household. It uses MySQL for its data, supports networking, and has multiuser support. KDE DivX subtitles editor 0.2rc1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109524/ ksubeditor is a DivX subtitle editor for KDE 3.x. It is able to edit and convert subtitles between different subtitle formats. It is able to easily change the time of the subtitle and fit it to the movie. Kdenlive 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109538/ Kdenlive is a non-linear video editor for KDE. It provides all project management and editing tools while relying on a separate rendering program (currently PIAVE) to perform the editing operations. Support is planned for transitions, effects, multiple file formats, and full project and asset management support. The current beta release is capable of editing raw DV files, including razor and resize operations, and exporting the result to another raw DV file. You may playback/preview the contents of the timeline at any point during the edit. Full project save/load is supported. KFli4L 1.2-1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109561/ KFli4L is a control panel for the Linux floppy ISDN router, fli4l. It allows for viewing the status and controlling the operation of the router through a window with several tabs. It also docks into the system tray, and provides a traffic monitor to visualize the actual net load. lmbench 3.0-a3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109516/ lmbench is a suite of simple, portable, ANSI/C microbenchmarks for UNIX/POSIX. In general, it measures two key features: latency and bandwidth. lmbench is intended to give system developers insight into the basic costs and capabilities of key aspects of system operation. It is easily extensible, so users may develop their own benchmarks utilizing the lmbench timing and result reporting harness. It includes a very wide variety of benchmarks for measuring the bandwidth and/or latency of various system operations. lmbench 2.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109515/ lmbench is a suite of simple, portable, ANSI/C microbenchmarks for UNIX/POSIX. In general, it measures two key features: latency and bandwidth. lmbench is intended to give system developers insight into the basic costs and capabilities of key aspects of system operation. It is easily extensible, so users may develop their own benchmarks utilizing the lmbench timing and result reporting harness. It includes a very wide variety of benchmarks for measuring the bandwidth and/or latency of various system operations. MainActor 3.7-5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109507/ MainActor is a multimedia processing package consisting of MainActor Sequencer, a timeline-based video sequencer, and MainActor Video Editor, an animation composing and editing program. It is available for Windows 95/98/NT4 and Linux. MapEditor 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109508/ MapEditor allows users to load tracks generated by NavSys and use these tracks to create street maps of an area. nALFS 1.1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109532/ nALFS is interactive, ncurses-based application used for parsing the ALFS profiles (simple instructions in XML) and doing various things (like executing commands), one by one, to compile some packages from source. PHP Dump Maker 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109535/ PHP Dump Maker is a smart PHP backup solution. The script reads a given source directory (with its subdirectories) and then creates a set of directories filled with the content of the source directory, arranged in groups to fit a given capacity. It can be used to create CD sets for backups. It also supports ISO image creation, direct CD burning via cdrecord, automatic file index creation, and more. Pixory Beta 2.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109511/ Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums, and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most digital cameras and scanners. Pluggable Images Generator 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109533/ Pluggable Images Generator (PIG) is mainly designed to create fractal images and dislay them. But since it's based on plugins, it can be used to create any type of computer generated image. Postal 0.62 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109521/ This suite currently consists of two programs, Postal and Rabid. Postal (the mad postman) is a program that will deliver mail as fast as possible via the SMTP protocol to test mail server performance. Rabid (the mad Biff) will eat mail via the POP protocol as fast as possible and measure POP server performance. All messages sent via Postal have MD5 checksums appended, and Rabid will check the MD5 to ensure that the messages are not being corrupted. PycURL 7.10.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109528/ PycURL is a Python module interface to the cURL library. PycURL can be used to fetch objects identified by an URL within a Python program. qmail rblchecker 0.9-beta3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109529/ qmail rblchecker is a per user/domain configurable RBL checker for qmail which supports 550 Sod off messages during the SMTP negotiation. Qt# (C# Qt Bindings) 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109510/ Qt# is a set of cross-platform C# bindings for Trolltech's Qt GUI toolkit. It aims to support all major CLR implementations, including Mono, Portable.NET, and Microsoft.NET. Senken 0.1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109509/ Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer support but it is not well tested. ServoMaster 0.5p0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109555/ ServoMaster is a project dedicated to providing a consistent hardware independent way of controlling R/C servos with a personal computer. TKAlbum 0.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109522/ TKAlbum is a GUI for assisting in the generation and maintenance of HTML photo albums. It uses the "album" script and Image Magick to generate hierarchically organized HTML photo albums, and can download pictures from digital cameras supporting the USB mass storage protocol. TkVNC 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109512/ TkVNC is a VNC viewer written in pure Tcl/Tk. It is designed to be embedded inside other applications, but can be used as a standalone VNC viewer. Turck MMCache 2.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109506/ Turck MMCache is a opcode cache for PHP. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also uses some optimizations for speeding up PHP scripts' execution. It typically reduces server load and increases the speed of PHP code by 1-10 times. It is tested with PHP 4.1 and 4.2, and Apache 1.3 under Linux and Windows. Uncle Unc 0.25.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109519/ Uncle Unc allows network admins and developers to keep track of many services on a network in a flexible extendable fashion from a single client program. The underlying protocol aims to be as generic as possible, and offers a clean usable model for interacting with many services. In Uncle Unc, client implementation is carefully separated from the core protocol, allowing clients to be implemented as GUI apps, Web front-ends, or console programs. Once adapted to Uncle Unc, a service becomes instantly accessible from any Unc-aware client. As new service implementations are developed, every client implementation is able to use them. The ever-expanding list of adapters currently covers filesystems, Java class libraries, relational databases, log-files and jini networks, and a feature-rich, fast desktop GUI client. Visualization of Compiler Graphs 1.30.r3.17 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109556/ Visualization of Compiler Graphs (VCG) reads a specification of a graph and visualizes it. It can lay out the graph using several heuristics such as reducing the number of crossings, minimizing the size of edges, and centering nodes. It allows folding of dynamically- or statically-specified regions of the graph. XML Tree 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109525/ XML Tree is a library written in order to manage XML files as trees of objects. It is written in C++ and uses Expat as the XML parser. It is useful for short XML files such as configuration files. Xnee's not an event emulator 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109536/ Xnee can record, distribute, and replay X protocol data. This is useful for automated tests of applications or benchmarking of applications. Think of it as a robot. Slashcode The Strict Slash theme http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/033226 Like I wrote in "Upcoming XHTML/Accessibility Slash theme" I'm working on a slash theme with the goal of complying with the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. It's far from complete, but I think that it has reached a point where I want to hear comments from others and see if someone is interesting in contributing patches to fix bugs / implement new features. It requires latest slash cvs and it's available from anonymous read-only cvs: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/c vs loginNo password, just press Enter. cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/c vs co strict It's hosted by Openflows, who has been supporting the development of this theme. You vill find a List of changes and a Todo list on the demo site strict.openflows.org And if you are looking for something interesting to read on the same topic, Joe Clark's Answers -- In Valid XHTML. How does index.shtml pick up currentqid for polls? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/2254228 In the process of upgrading from R_2_3_0_46 to the current snapshot of Slash, my poll appears to have died. No matter what currentqid gets set to, or how many polls I delete or add, poll qid 6 (which now doesn't exist) is always the poll that gets written to index.shtml. Also, when I go to a poll that *does* exist (http://www.scylla.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1), none of the questions are listed, just the title. To make sure I have a clean slate, I have created a whole new /usr/local/slash/site directory, dumped and recreated the auto_poll, pollanswers, pollquestions, and pollvoters tables, and reinstalled slash. The only thing that's the same is database and the directory that slash was installed to. So, my question is how does index.shtml get the value it's suppossed to use? I looked in index.pl and it appears to use pollbooth('_currentqid', 1) to write the value. And, of course, I need to hunt down the function that lists the poll questions in pollbooth.pl (to find out why they aren't displayed on vote windows). I've spent a lot of time trying to hunt down functions in .pm files but now I'm giving up and hoping I can find someone who "just knows". So, anyone just know or have someplace I can go for detailed specs on the poll plugin? 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? 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