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Tshirts: Geek Invaders
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Interests: Linux French
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Interests: O'Reilly 2003 Calendar
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Interests: Perl Gerl
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Interests: I dig Mac OS X
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Electronics: Archos Jukebox Studio 20/ Radio FM 20 MP3 Players
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Sourceforge
pmd-1.02 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246108
PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty
catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. This release
includes a number of new rules and bugfixes. ...with a slew of new
rules (ImportFromSamePackageRule, SwitchDensityRule,
NullAssignmentRule, UnusedModifierRule, ForLoopShouldBeWhileLoopRule)
and plenty o' bug fixes and new features. See the changelog -
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=135420 - for
all the details. Thanks to the many folks who contributed, most of whom
are listed here: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/credits.html Thanks, Tom
RCSoccerSim 9.2.2 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=245751
The RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a research and educational tool for
multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence. It enables for two
teams of 11 simulated autonomous robotic players to play soccer
(football). RoboCup Soccer Simulator is licensed under a combination of
the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL. The latest stable release adds goal posts
with "real" collision detection and modelling as well the remaining
official changes requested for the new RoboCup World Cup. But that's
not all, to make your life easier (and mine more difficult), the
various rcsoccersim modules are now available as RPMs for i386. If
anyone else is willing to provide RPMs for other architectures, let us
(sserver-admin at users.sf.net) know and we'll tell you how.
tinyproxy 1.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246109
After a month of being in the "Release Candidate" state, tinyproxy
1.5.2 has been released. There have been a bunch of usability
improvements since 1.5.1. Anyone using 1.5.1 or previous is recommended
to upgrade. tinyproxy is a GPLed, lightweight HTTP proxy. Designed from
the ground up to be fast and yet small, it is an ideal solution for
sites where a full featured HTTP proxy is required, but the system
resources for a larger proxy are unavailable.
JGraphpad 1.2.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246127
This release offers many new switches in the properties file, minor bug
fixes and the following new features: pluggable layout algorithms with
Sugiyama and Spring-embedder default implementations, scaled image
cells, edge routing menu, plugin-architecture for adding new commands,
and file extensions for open/save dialogs. JGraphpad is the first free
diagram editor for Java that offers XML and drag-and-drop capabilities.
Seahorse 0.6.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246142
Seahorse branches have been consolodated (this is the end of having a
separate seahorse2 branch). Many code cleanups and packages updates
have occured since seahorse2-0.4.4. This also marks the beginning of
stable and development releases based on minor versions. 0.7.0 should
be released in a week or 2.
SCons 0.10 is now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244414
SCons alpha release 0.10 is now available for download. SCons is a
software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make)
implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software
Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build
tool). IMPORTANT: Release 0.10 contains the following interface
changes: - The meaning of the third argument passed to user-defined
Scanner functions has changed. It was formerly the target node being
built, and is now a list of directories (a path) which may be searched
for files found during the scan. - The .sconsign files are no longer
ASCII text, they are now a pickled (binary) Python data structure. This
release adds the following features: - SCons now prints a description
of Python functions being executed as actions to update a target. -
Scanners now support a "recursive" attribute that specifies the Scanner
will be re-applied to files found during the scan. - A new Clean()
method supports removing user-specified files when using the -c option.
- New SetJobs() and GetJobs() method support setting or fetching the
default number of jobs. - The MinGW tool chain is now supported. - A
new --debug=includes option has been added. The following fixes have
been added: - SCons now symlinks or copies files from Repositories on
different file systems, when hard links won't work. - The Install()
method prints something when the -n option is used. - When the -n
option is used, SCons no longer creates duplicate source files in a
BuildDir(). - The Program() Builder (and other multiple-step Builders)
now work properly when only the source file is specified. - A bug when
building a file whose basename matched the directory in which it lived
has been fixed. - The -c options will now properly remove symlinks. -
The Environment.get() now returns None by default. - Error messages now
all start with "scons: ***". - Warning messages now all start with
"scons: warning:". Performance has been improved as follows: - Scanners
are now called once and only once per file. - Internal checks for
whether a file has a Builder have been significantly sped up. -
Unnecessary internal imports have been removed. The following changes
have been made to the SCons packaging: - The scons-local packages no
longer contain Python bytecode (*.pyc) files. The documentation has
been improved: - The initial explanation of SConscript files has been
improved. - A misformatted table in the StaticObject description has
been fixed. - New features have been documented.
lifelines internationalized
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244180
LifeLines is a genealogy program to help with your family history
research. Its primarily strengths are its powerful scripting language
and the ability easily import and export information in the GEDCOM
format. Recent copies of lifelines now include Danish, French, German,
and Swedish message catalogs.
Millstone 3.0.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244080
Millstone is a library for creating server side user interfaces for
networked Java applications. It provides easiness and modularity of
component based user interface development to Internet application
development as well as terminal independency. This version is service
release for the Millstone Base 3.0 and the Millstone WebAdapter 3.0
modules. This version includes fixes to both base and web-adapter
modules, and it also adds some previously unimplemented features to the
default theme.
JGAP 0.32 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244075
JGAP is a genetic algorithms package written in Java. It is designed to
require minimum effort to use "out of the box," but is also designed to
be highly modular to allow for custom components to be easily plugged
in by the more adventurous. JGAP 0.32 is a maintenance release that
primarily includes optimizations to increase performance and reduce
memory consumption. Minor enhancements and fixes, as well as additions
to the documentation, are also included. Please see the Changelog for
details. JGAP 0.32 is considered an alpha release and is therefore not
feature-complete and may contain bugs.
EasySok 0.3.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244037
EasySok is a sokoban game for KDE. It is themeable, has a level editor
and a solver, various import/export functions, a retro mode and other
nice features. This is just a bugfix release for users of gcc 3.2. If
you could compile EasySok 0.3.1, there is no need to switch to this new
version.
Slashdot
Robin Gross and IP Justice
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/0238232
ethereal writes "According to [0]this news.com article, former EFF
attorney Robin Gross is starting up a new group called IP Justice in
order to 'promote balance in global intellectual property law.' Her
greatest fear? 'That we're too late.'"
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2008-1082-981663.html
Evolution Of The Online Tax Debate
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/0231208
[0]rhwalker22 writes "Last November, the Streamlined Sales Tax Project
drafted a plan to make it easier for states to cooperate in collecting
sales taxes on products sold over the Internet. That plan is now headed
to governors and state legislatures for debate. While that debate
begins, the sales tax group is moving into new territory, debating how
to apply sales taxes to digital services, like music and software
downloads, and IP telephony. Most states participating in the sales tax
project have sent representatives to Tampa, Fla., this week to take up
this subject, according to [1]a report by washingtonpost.com."
Links
0. http://www.technews.com
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29267-2003Jan22.html
Tech Firms Fight Copy Protection Laws
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/026239
[0]buulu writes "CNET is [1]running an article about [2]Alliance For
Digital Progress going on the offensive against Hollywood over digital
copy protection. The alliance consists of some of the big names: Apple,
Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Information Technology
Association of America, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, etc."
Links
0. http://worldpress.org
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981882.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed
2. http://alliancefordigitalprogress.org/ADP/content/?p=CoalitionMembers
More Anime College and University Courses Being Offered
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/0131214
[0]Ninja Master Gara writes "[1]Anime News Network reports [2]New York
University is offering a new courses on the anime [3]industry and
[4]culture. Anime is slowly expanding from University Clubs into
[5]mainstream college courses, many of which begin at the 'What is
anime?' level. Several [6]Universities and [7]Community Colleges
already offer [8]similar courses, or [9]incorporate anime into existing
studies." If any school decides to offer a course on the Gundam series,
I'd be happy to teach a class.
Links
0. http://anime.oddball.net
1. http://animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=3076
2. http://www.nyu.edu/
3. http://www.nyu.edu/summer/courses/scps-digital.nyu#2
4. http://www.nyu.edu/pages/east.asian.studies/civ_descript.html#31
5. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/anime.html
6. http://web.pdx.edu/~levia/hstxxxtop.html
7.
http://bannerweb.pima.edu/pls/pccp/az_tw_zipsched.p_course_popup?vsub=JPN&vcrse=198T3&vterm=200320&vcrn=
8. http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/bccweb/news/anime.stm
9. http://utd500.utdallas.edu/~hairston/ah3300.html
How Much Does it Cost to Produce a Recording?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/018213
An anonymous reader writes "How much does the average new album cost to
produce? I have seen this cost estimated between $500,000 and
$1,000,000, but some quick figuring does not support a cost this high.
According to various sources (Ok, Slashdot stories…), somewhere around
27,000 albums are produced each year and 906.6 million albums are
shipped. I would guess that the album retail (about $15 per album) is
based on a 100% markup, so that these 906.6 million albums are sold at
wholesale for about $7.50 apiece, which means that the revenue from
wholesale sales is about $6.8 billion. This means that the actual
production cost has to be less than $250,000 per album, otherwise the
record industry is losing money. I have left out the cost of actually
printing and copying the albums as I think that the average cost is
probably less than $0.25 per copy."
Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/238216
NerveGas writes "Sony is apparantly going to [0]stop producing 17- and
19-inch CRTs, in favor of LCDs. It seems a bit soon to drop CRTs
completely, seeing as how LCDs still have less than 30% of the market
share. Maybe since their patent on Trinitron screens expired, they're
not able to command ridiculous margins any more." Smaller CRTs? I've
got a couple 19" Sony monitors here, and I've always considered them to
be a good size.
Links
0. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,841366,00.asp
Slashback: Tableturkey, Stromlo, Mandrake
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/2325201
Slashback tonight with followups on previous stories about tablet
computers, the fire at Mt.Stromlo, and Mandrake Linux -- read below for
the details. Update: 01/24 00:08 GMT by [0]T: One more update added
below, regarding the post earlier this week on nVidia's new video card.
Links
0. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
DTD vs. XML Schema
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/228230
[0]AShocka writes "The W3C XML Schema Working Group has released the
first public Working Draft of [1]Requirements for XML Schema 1.1.
Schemas are technology for specifying and constraining the structure of
XML documents. The draft adds functionality and clarifies the XML
Schema Recommendation [2]Part 1 and [3]Part 2. The [4]XML Schema Valid
FAQ highlights development issues and resources using XML Schema. This
article at webmasterbase.com addresses the [5]XML DTDs Vs XML Schema
issue. Also see the [6]W3C Conversion Tool from DTD to XML Schema and
other [7]XML Schema/DTD Editors."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xmlschema-11-req-20030121/
2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/
3. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/
4. http://www.schemavalid.com/faq/xml-schema.html
5. http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/931
6. http://www.w3.org/2000/04/schema_hack/
7. http://www.xml.com/pub/pt/2
EvDO High-Speed Wireless vs. 802.11
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/2122216
willll writes "The Washington Post is running [0]a story about EvDO
(Evolution Data Only), a high-speed wireless technology. It can work
anywhere that a mobile phone can work, one of its main advantages over
WiFi. Companies such as Verizon and Lucent are looking into the
technology." From the article, I'm not sure that EvDO can be directly
compared to WiFi connections (and the article does not mention current
long-range 802.11 ISPs), but it's still interesting.
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30446-2003Jan22.html
Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/2011255
An Anonymous reader points to this [0]Wired article, excerpting "Sprint
officials acknowledged that remote access to the administrative
software embedded in the ZyXel Prestige 642 and 645 modems is by
default protected with a password of '1234.' But the company said users
are responsible for securing the equipment, which stores login data,
including the user's e-mail address and password." Wired found that
more than 90% of the modems they polled were using that default
password.
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57342,00.html
Freshmeat
aifc2wav 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110410/
aifc2wav will save an AIFC IMA4 sound file as a WAV file.
Anagramarama 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110467/
Anagramarama is a word guessing game for Linux and Windows. The aim is
to find as many words as possible in the time available. Get the
longest word and you'll advance to the next level. It uses SDL.
Astaro Security Linux 2.032 (Sun Cobalt)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110463/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet
inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus
scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and
much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the
ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage.
It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most
daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel
capabilities.
BASHISH DR7.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110483/
Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to
customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt,
font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to
add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.
Bazooka Board 2.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110435/
Bazooka Board is a very simple bulletin board system with no big frills
or fancy profiles. Its strong point is that it does not require any
database whatsoever. Bazooka Board uses a flat text file to record all
of its data. It allows a single Administrative login so that you can
edit/delete posts on the board freely. Setting up Bazooka Board is very
simple.
bemDB 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110440/
bemDB is a PostgreSQL database designed to store benefit and enrollment
information for members of group health insurance plans. Its main
feature is the ability to output HIPAA-compliant 834 Benefit Enrollment
and Maintenance EDI transaction sets with all required segments and
situational segments for which there is data.
Bugloo 0.1d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110482/
Bugloo is a commandline-based debugger for the Scheme compiler Bigloo.
It aims to help programmers in debugging programs written for the JVM
backend of Bigloo. It is written mostly in Java and uses JVMDI and
JVMPI, the standard APIs provided by Sun to make debuggers. It can
debug Scheme programs written for Bigloo, Java programs, or a mix of
both by instrumenting their execution. It is based on the debugging
model used in GDB and provides features that allow users to debug
programs in a more practical manner than conventional debuggers. Users
can control it by typing Scheme-like expressions into a prompt. For the
sake of simplicity, it includes a debugging environment for GNU Emacs
or XEmacs.
Buildtool 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110469/
Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more
portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.
clxmms 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110479/
clxmms is a client of xmms, working in command- line or batch mode. It
lets users play/stop/skip songs, and generally manage a playlist.
CrossOver Plugin 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110480/
CrossOver Plugin lets you use Windows plugins directly in your Linux
browser. With CrossOver you can watch QuickTime movies, play Shockwave
Director games, and even view Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents
using the Microsoft viewers.
Extended Modelling of Group Access 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110398/
This software makes it easier to define complex group membership
structures. It also make it easier to let one group have read access
and one other group to have write access to some specific data.
FreeCol 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110472/
FreeCol is a Civilization-like game in which the player has to conquer
the New World.
FUDforum 2.3.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110475/
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.
GRAN PM 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110473/
GRAN PM is one of the most powerful and scalable multi-platform defect
tracking systems based on Java. GRAN PM includes a Web-based workflow
manager and bug filter (AND, OR, NOT). It supports custom fields,
multi-level security, rule-based email notification, PDF reports with
charts, locales, and timezones. It allows you to organize your database
into projects and subprojects. It also supports server clustering and
load balancing.
graphopt 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110447/
graphopt is a graph layout optimizer based on the iterative application
of laws of physics instead of heuristics.
IPplan 2.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110450/
IPplan is a Web-based, multilingual IP address management and tracking
tool based on PHP which simplifies the administration of your IP
address space. It can handle a single network or multiple networks with
overlapping address spaces. It features internationalization, importing
of network definitions from routing tables, importing of definitions
from TAB-delimited files and NMAP's XML format, support for multiple
administrators with different access profiles (per group, per customer,
per network etc.), definitions of address space authority boundaries
per group, finding free address space across a range, display of
overlapping address spaces between networks, search capabilities, an
audit log, statistics, and tracking and sending SWIP/registrar
information.
JedABC 1.10.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110452/
JedABC is an extension to the JED editor that turns it into a powerful
and easy to use IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for ABC files,
with full integration with players, and previewers. It is similar in
concept to BarFly or runabc, with several advantages. It works on
Windows and Linux, and possibly other Unix variants.
KronoClass 0.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110417/
KronoClass is a PHP class which performs various operations on dates
and times. It is based on internal arrays instead of the LC_TIME
setting of PHP. Its language support includes Italian, English, French,
German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Norwegian, and Indonesian.
LadyDragon 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110408/
LadyDragon is a theme featuring a picture of a dragon moving from 2D to
3D on the back of a quasi-nude Asian CG character.
MEDICI 0.0.96 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110441/
MEDICI is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) library. ISO 9735
(EDIFACT) and TRADACOMS syntaxes are supported. MEDICI is a parser for
EDI streams and provides functions to query system and message
directories.
multicd 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110466/
multicd provides an easy way to backup a large number of files to
multiple CDs. Give multicd the files/directories you want backed up and
it will create as many CDs as it needs to, prompting the user to put in
a new disc whenever needed. It can be configured to run in a
multi-threading mode, where it will burn one image to a disc while it
is copying files to another image. This feature can be disabled for
slower machines.
NetBeans Java IDE 3.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110459/
NetBeans is a cross-platform IDE written in Java. It supports
development in Java, and support for other languages can be added. The
whole IDE is built around a core framework with APIs, and features are
implemented in the form of plugin modules. This clean, modular
architecture makes NetBeans a good platform for building development
tools and custom IDEs.
Nikola Tesla Tribute 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110285/
Nikola Tesla Tribute is a theme based on the Snail Window Maker theme.
OpenEXR 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110456/
OpenEXR is a high dynamic range (HDR) image file format developed by
Industrial Light & Magic for use in computer imaging applications.
It includes support for 16-bit floating-point pixels (compatible with
NVIDIA's Cg shader language "half" datatype), several
lossless compression algorithms, and extensible image metadata
attributes.
patchutils 0.2.19 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110484/
Patchutils contains a collection of tools for manipulating patch files:
interdiff, combinediff, filterdiff, fixcvsdiff, rediff, lsdiff,
grepdiff, splitdiff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff. You can use interdiff
to create an incremental patch between two patches that are against a
common source tree, and combinediff for creating a cumulative diff from
two incremental patches. Filterdiff is for extracting or excluding
patches from a patch set based on modified files matching shell
wildcards. Lsdiff lists modified files in a patch. Rediff, recountdiff,
and unwrapdiff correct hand-edited (or otherwise broken) patches.
Personal File Manager 1.87.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110476/
pfm is a terminal-based file manager written in Perl. All pfm commands
are one- or two-key commands. It features colored filenames according
to extension or type, a single-file and multiple-file mode, support for
executing user-defined commands (including wildcards) with only two
keystrokes, and use of the ReadLine library for friendly commandline
editing.
PHP Dump Maker 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110461/
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.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110465/
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.
PicoGUI 0.44 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110442/
PicoGUI aims to be a complete GUI environment for handheld computers
and other embedded systems. It uses a client/server model, like the X
window system, but while an X server is given raw drawing commands, the
PicoGUI server integrates a widget set, making PicoGUI clients small
and efficient. PicoGUI also has the goal of allowing client/server
connections over a variety of mechanisms. It is most commonly used with
Linux, but is designed to be portable to any OS. PicoGUI has a variety
of video and input drivers which allow it to interface with the Linux
framebuffer device, SDL, the X window system, and several other
devices.
poBot 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110453/
poBot is an IRC Bot. It is written in object oriented design and is
modular. All of the real features of poBot are provided by the modules.
PPR 1.50b1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110496/
PPR is a Unix print spooler expressly designed for operating PostScript
printers. Its features are numerous, and it supports printers connected
to parallel or serial ports, or over the network through AppleTalk,
LanManager, LPD, and TCP/IP protocols. It accepts jobs from Microsoft
Windows, Macintosh, and Unix clients. If the input file is not
PostScript, it can pipe the input through a filter. PPR has been
designed to manage large numbers of printers with minimal operator
attention. It has command line and Web interfaces.
Quality Assurance Tester 2.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110492/
QAT is a pure Java distributed test harness designed to distribute and
run tests simultaneously over multiple target platforms. It is
comprised of a GUI harness, which controls and sends tests to agents
running remotely, and retrieves the results. It can be accessed via a
browser interface if remote access to the harness is required.
radmind 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110415/
radmind is a suite of Unix command-line tools and a server designed to
remotely administer the file systems of multiple Unix machines. At its
core, radmind operates as a tripwire. It is able to detect changes to
any managed filesystem object, e.g. files, directories, links, etc.
However, radmind goes further than just integrity checking: once a
change is detected, radmind can optionally reverse the change. Each
managed machine may have its own loadset composed of multiple, layered
overloads. This allows, for example, the operating system to be
described separately from applications. Loadsets are stored on a remote
server. By updating a loadset on the server, changes can be pushed to
managed machines.
S tar 1.5a10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110464/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes
POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives.
Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It
saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for
speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive
sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags,
automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition,
automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and
special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental
backups. It includes the only known platform independent
"rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The
"rmt" server from the star package implements all
Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client
from any OS to contact any OS as server.
Simkin for C++ 2.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110481/
Simkin is a simple scripting language that can be used to customize C++
applications such as games. Scripts can be embedded within files such
as XML or in databases.
SimpleAIM 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110457/
SimpleAIM is a miniature console-based AIM client written in pure Java.
It implements the TOC protocol and provides a solid framework for
understanding and writing your own IM clients or bots.
Space Hulk 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110455/
Space Hulk is a great board game which takes place in the world of
Warhammer 40000. It is a two player turn-based game where one player
plays the 'Marine', the other player plays the alien called
'Genestealer'. This video game is a complete conversion of the board
game with the 2nd edition rules. It features playing over the network,
either in real time or asynchronously via email.
SupportTicket System 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110446/
The SupportTicket system provides a Web-based support ticket system
designed to provide a helpdesk system for ISPs, though it is ready to
go for other organizations. It is scalable from one email address (i.e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) to as many as you have to track. Any email sent to one of
the tracked addresses is tagged and forwarded on to your admins or
customer service representatives and an automatic reply may be sent if
desired. All emails are stored in a MySQL database for lookup and
comment.
Sybase module for Python 0.36pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110458/
The Sybase module for Python provides an interface to the Sybase
relational database system. It supports all of the Python Database API.
Tag Soup 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110414/
TagSoup is a SAX2 parser written in Java that, instead of parsing
well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild: nasty
and brutish, though quite often far from short. By providing a SAX
interface, it allows standard XML tools to be applied to even the worst
HTML. It is a parser, not a whole application; it isn't intended to
permanently clean up bad HTML, as HTML Tidy does, only to parse it on
the fly.
The Backup Shell 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110428/
bksh is a simple program designed to be used as a shell by SSH. All it
does it to copy its input to a given backup file. Its goal is to allow
administrators to create backup-only accounts.
TinyDYN 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110437/
TinyDYN is a package of client and server software for operating
dynamic DNS services. It enables anyone to run dynamic DNS services
using strong authentication or to be a client of someone using TinyDYN
as a dynamic IP management system. The clients can communicate directly
by UDP with the server, by email, or by any other transport the admin
can imagine, as the mechanism is quite straightforward.
TkSQL 0.8.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110454/
TkSQL allows you to edit the tables of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases.
You can use it from the shell prompt, specifying the name of a table,
or an SQL satement, or just the name of a database. It has filter
capabilities which are very easy to use. Two views are possible (tables
and form) and both views can coexist. TkSQL can edit a join of two
tables (limited to the first of such tables). Totals and subtotals can
be done quickly, and displayed inline with the data or in a separate
window. Queries can be created in no time and all working conditions
can be saved at once (comprising subtotals, relative time constraints,
layout, etc.). It also provides basic tools for creating tables.
TriActive Java Data Objects 2.0 Beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110486/
TriActive Java Data Objects (TJDO) is an implementation of Sun's Java
Data Objects (JDO) specification (JSR-12). It aims to provide a viable,
spec-compliant JDO offering to complement other open source Java tools.
Turck MMCache 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110451/
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.
vshnu 1.0107
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110495/
Vshnu is a visual shell for Linux/Unix finally done right. Best used as
an optional color visual mode to a regular command line shell, vshnu is
handy for powerful directory listing and navigation, Unix command
assembly, special actions on file types, and fileset handling. Written
in Perl for portability and high configurability, it also provides the
advantages of a Perl interpreter as part of your Unix shell
environment.
Whiteboard Courseware System 1.0.1 (Whiteboard)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110444/
Whiteboard is a fully-featured integrated courseware system targeted
toward colleges and universities. It supports multiple departments and
courses including cross- listed courses, simple migration of courses to
new semesters, grade storage, checking, and calculation, assignment
submission, testing, and retrieval, documents, announcements, and
discussion boards. It is written using PHP and MySQL, and is
administrable through its Web interface.
X Resource Graph 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110397/
X Resource Graph (XRG) is a system monitor that shows graphs for CPU
usage, memory usage, network usage, disk usage, and current weather. It
is designed to use as little overhead possible while showing a lot of
information about the resource usage in a nice interface.
XML Catalog Manager 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110471/
xmlcatmgr is a command line script used to manipulate SGML and XML
catalogs. It is lightweight and simple, and was designed to be
integrated within system package managers. Basically, it can add and
remove entries from catalogs.
XmlConfig 2.0.0-b3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110485/
XmlConfig is a library for instantiating and configuring Java objects
from an XML configuration file.
XmlRpc++ 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110436/
XmlRpc++ is an implementation of the XML-RPC protocol written in C++.
It is designed to make it easy to incorporate XmlRpc client and server
support into C++ applications. The library is easy to incorporate into
C++ applications. Simple XML parsing and HTTP support are built in. All
I/O is non-blocking, so a slow client or network will not slow down the
server.
XPlanner 0.3.6 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110438/
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.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110474/
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams. Unlike other similar
programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal entries
for easy import. It also has a Perl script that can be used in procmail
recipes to automatically reformat incoming mail appropriately.
Zorp 2.0rc2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110462/
Zorp is a proxy firewall suite. Its core framework allows the
administrator to finetune proxy decisions (with its built-in script
language), and fully analyze complex protocols (including SSH with
several forwarded TCP connections, or SSL with an embedded POP3
protocol). FTP, HTTP, finger, whois, and SSL protocols are fully
supported with an application-level gateway. Zorp aims for compliance
with the Common Cirteria/Application-level Firewall Protection Profile
for Medium Robustness Enviroment.
Slashcode
Universal Slash Login
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1140217
I've been posting to a number of slash sites for a rather long time,
and I've had a thought (although it will probably be proven to be
crazy). Would it be at all possible to some how create a universal
login for a group of Slash sites? I'm looking at this from the point of
convenience, as one log in to rule them all would be great. YASS could
pop up and existing members of the (perhaps distributed) slash members
DB could start posting right away, taking their Karma and preferences
with them. Or perhaps not trying to be as fancy, even a centralised
user database from which user details could be imported - for example,
when signing up for a new site, you could have an option saying "import
my user deatils from site x", at which time you enter your username and
password for site x. I realise that this may require quite a bit of
planning in terms of compatibility across different versions of Slash,
but just how tricky would it be to do such a thing? What draw backs
would there be to such a scheme, and would anyone actually want
something like this?
Slash site dies, slashd running, apache running
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/0549234
I have a regular web site running at port 81 and slash running at port
82. I have a default page at port 81 that lets people know that
something is wrong (since the only reason they should ever see it is if
they go to the wrong port OR slash has died). About once a week the
slash site disappears and apache displays the default page for port 81.
Checking the logs, the last traffic was at 4:48 this morning (it gets
an hourly check for news). Given the 5 hour offset from GMT (since
slash wants GMT), it probably died at midnight. Slashd and httpd are
still running, and giving apachectl a restart returns the site to
working. I've checked the system logs in /var/log (mainly messages),
the apache logs in /usr/local/apache/logs, and the slash logs in
/var/local/slash/site/SITENAME/logs and nothing complains about a
problem at that time. Crontab doesn't appear to do anything special at
that time. Any ideas what could cause this? I'm on using redhat 7.1 and
nothing else strange happens at that time.
How to "remove" authors?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/1753256
In our website, we have a long list of users marked as authors for
historical reasons (we imported tons of articles from a legacy system).
Most of them are not active anymore and we downgraded seclev to 1, but
still they are flagged as authors, show up in the author listing and,
most important, have unlimited moderation power. I don't want to remove
the username, but is it possible to remove the author flag without
messing up the display of older stories?
Installing Slash on OSX (make install)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/0025233
I get the following error trying install slash on Mac OS X Server 10.2:
cp -rv plugins/* /usr/local/slash/plugins/ cp: illegal option -- v
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i] [-p] src target cp [-R [-H | -L
| -P]] [-f | -i] [-p] src1 ... srcN directory make: *** [install] Error
1 what is the v option? --Jeffrey Kunzelman
New Zoo Code
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/1950206
New Zoo code in CVS (and running on Slashcode.com right now). Leave me
a note if you see anything strange with your friends of friends or foes
of friends.
Can slash email authors when comments posted?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/1947214
Is there a way to have slash email the author when one of his stories
is commented on? I'm using slash as a personal journal, no article
submissions just the author writing stories. Is there a way to modify
it so I get an email whenever there's a comment made on one of my
entries?
Are there ways to integrate Drupal based sites int
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2342231
Is slash and drupal close enough in architecture so that they can pull
stories from each other or comingle successfully? I've enclosed the URL
and for anyone who doesn't know what it can do. It can be seen at
http://www.debianplanet.org/ The main page for Drupal is
http://www.drupal.org/
Karma Bonus
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/0015227
Slash used to allow users with good karma to have a +1 assigned to new
comments they were creating (so it would increment the value of comment
at creation). The way this is done was changed recently (like say on
Wednesday). What happens now is that the comment is logged with a value
of "yes" for karma_bonus. A user can adjust the value for what this
bonus means (by default it is +1). When you look on you own page you
see the raw score, which is 1. We have been getting rid of the +1/-1
and such type bonuses and going to a system where the user can decide
what they want to apply for a bonus.
Debian package for Slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/173223
I just installed the Debian package for Slash, and for the most part
everything just worked after the "apt-get install slash". There were a
few misplaced Perl modules, but that was fairly easily fixed. I am
still getting some errors though, and I was wondering if anyone could
make sense of these. I also have a problem where the Messages user
options page doesn't display any of the dropdowns, or any other options
for the user. It will just display the text about the page, and the
command button. http://www.parkmoor.dyndns.org/ is the address in case
any of my descriptions are unclear. Thanks for any help. Here's the
/var/log/slash/[sitename]/[sitename]_error.log output when I try to
load http://www.parkmoor.dyndns.org/messages.pl: [Fri Jan 17 03:58:53
2003] [error] /messages.pl:Apache::ROOTwww_2eparkmoor_2edyndns_2
eorg::messages_2epl:/var/www/slash/www.parkmoor.dy
ndns.org/htdocs/messag es.pl:22:Class Slash::Messages is not working
properly. Try `perl -MSlash::Messages -le 'Slash::Messages->new'` to
see why. [Fri Jan 17 03:58:53 2003] [error] Which was called
by:Apache::ROOTwww_2eparkmoor_2edyndns_2eorg::mess
ages_2epl:/var/www/slash/www.parkmoor.dyndns.org/h tdocs
/messages.pl:163:Class Slash::Messages is not working properly. Try
`perl -MSlash::Messages -le 'Slash::Messages->new'` to see why. [Fri
Jan 17 03:58:53 2003] [error] Can't call method "getDescriptions" on an
undefined value at /var/www/slash/www.parkmoor.dyndns.org/htdocs/mess
ages.pl line 101.
Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/1659252
O'Reilly's got a multi-part article series online about improving
mod_perl's performance. Since Slash is, uh, slightly, tied to mod_perl,
this may be some good reading for some of you. Here are links to the
parts: Part 1 The Big Picture Part 2 Essential Tools Part 3 Code
Profiling Techniques Part 4 Memory Part 5 More Memory
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