O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER January 25, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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This will provide some of the more advance functions of the 5250 datastream such as edit masks, graphical windows, continued editing fields, etc. This release includes numerous feature enhancements, including improved file transfer capability, Jython scripting support, and the ability to export spool files to PDF or text file. Changes - wow where to start. There have been a lot since the last release. I will try to put a release out sooner from now on as there are so many changes it is impossible to keep up. This release features the following new functionality/fixes: 1. Scripting support via jython. See web page for details There is a script running indicator as well. You can define a script to run on connection This uses the jython project from http://www.jython.org 2. Reworked file transfer from host screen with the following: - Main screen has been reworked to make it less confusing - New filters have been added - Delimited and Fixed Width - Interaction with the Java Toolbox for AS400. See website for more details under file transfers. - A new sql query wizard has been implemented so you can graphically select and form your sql point and click with mouse. - E-mail your transferred file directly from the transfer screen 3. New SpoolFile export function to PDF or Text. You can also e-mail the exported file directly from the screen. This uses the itext project from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/itext When you download the itext-0xxx.jar make sure you rename it to itext.jar or it will not work 4. SSL socket support for users of JDK 1.4 and greater. 5. New applet support. Take the test drive with the live applet test from the website 6. Keyboard buffering fixes 7. New interaction of the popup menu with short cut keys automatically defined from you remapping. 8. Able to map keys to macros and scripts. See website for more information on macros and scripting in jython. 9. Printing fixes. 10. Better performance Lots and Lots of bug fixes. Thanks to all for helping with the testing of this release Enjoy Kenneth Open For Business 2.0.0 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=245533 The Open For Business Project released version 2.0.0 of its business automation tools, components, and applications on Monday the 20th of January 2003. This is the first stable release of the project and offers a new option for organizations of all types that have asked the question of Build vs. Buy. More information about Open For Business can be found on the web site at http://www.ofbiz.org Organizations using OFBiz can shorten enterprise information project cycles by months through a well designed architecture and corresponding framework and through pre-built components and applications. The goal of the Open For Business project is to provide useful, standards compliant tools and applications. These standards will include: XML; J2EE; WfMC; BPML; ebXML; UNSPSC; GAAP & FASB; OMG's GL, Party, Workflow, etc; ArapXML; OAGIS; and many others. The OFBiz Core Framework consists of the following tools: Entity Engine, Service Engine, Workflow Engine, Rule Engine, XML Mini-Languages, and a web application framework. Applications and application components (including entities and services) in the project cover the following business areas: e-commerce, products, orders, parties, facilities, work efforts, content, marketing, accounting, human resources, and so forth. The most mature and deployed application in the suite is the e-commerce application with functionality that measures up to the largest available commercial alternatives and many live sites, including the award-winning ReturnBuy.com site (see http://www.internetretailer.com/article.asp?id=8137 ) Other OFBiz applications and components are stable and being used by various organizations and in various commercial products. More details are available on the website. OFBiz has received great attention in the open source and IT communities. The project has been featured on SourceForge and release notices have appeared on FreshMeat.net, TheServerSide.com, and JavaLobby.org. The SourceForge project site shows around 100,000 downloads and 700,000 page views. Dozens of users of the project have contributed feedback, new ideas and even code and designs. Special thanks to the many users who have contributed to the project. Without user contributions the project could not be what it is today. QUESTION: What is the scope of the OFBiz applications, and how will vertical markets be targeted? ANSWER: We realize that we cannot target all functionality that will be needed by all organizations, or even all markets or industries. Our goal for the applications and application components is to include as much generic functionality as possible. This will allow many medium and large size organizations to get something useful running quickly and make it possible to concentrate resources on organization specific customizations. Software companies will be able to affordably create products for narrowly targeted markets or industries and spend time and effort on the needs of that market or industry instead of all of the generic functionality and framework components that can be generalized among all users of the software. QUESTION: If there are no licensing fees or corporate backing for OFBiz, how is the development and support of the project financed? ANSWER: The project is financed by providing for the needs of users of the project. This is done by offering services such as analysis, design, implementation, customization, training, mentoring, support and even prioritization of planned features. Much of the functionality in the project has been paid for by commercial adopters of the project and the rest has been contributed by generous developers from their own personal time. For more information on services offered, see the OFBiz.org Services Page at http://www.ofbiz.org/services.html QUESTION: This seems like a pretty big project, how much of it is actually done, or rather how far along are the various components and applications? ANSWER: At this point all of the framework components are very stable, and many of the applications are too. This is why we have chosen to do the 2.0.0 final release. From here on out releases will be done more incrementally as the current framework and applications are improved. The e-commerce and related applications such as the Party, Order, and Catalog managers are the most stable and mature. Following close behind is the Facility Manager which handles all aspects of warehouse and inventory management. The Work Effort Manager has many useful pieces in place, but there is still a lot of work to do there. Other applications such as Accounting and Content Management have only recently been started. The Data Model is very complete and mature. It has been reviewed and improved dozens of times and by many different people. It is cleaner in the areas where corresponding applications and components are implemented, but we have put a great deal of effort into making sure that there was a master plan for the data model that would not have to change much as applications are added or improved. Vorbis Encoder Plugin for LameFE released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246410 A new OGG/Vorbis Encoder plugin for use with LameFE 2.2 RC 1 has been released. This plugin features Ogg/Vorbis 1.0 support, Quality based encoding, ABR / VBR / CBR encoding, and support for standard Ogg Tags. You can download both LameFE and the plugin at http://lamefe.sourceforge.net/index.php?showpage=download Thees Winkler - Project Administrator DWSII 1.2 Beta Release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246417 DelphiWebScript is a scripting language for use in Borland Delphi(tm) projects. The programming language is similar to Delphi. It's HTML features are optimal for web applications and report modules. A beta release of DWSII is available. Most important new feature: Garbage collector for DWSII objects. See forum messages for more information. Streamsicle 1.2Beta+ http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246437 The Streamsicle is a stand-alone webserver and streaming MP3 server. You can request songs, view what the server has to play, etc. New installer version released with later JVM support, should allow much larger MP3 collections to be loaded. 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. Slashdot MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/1245206 [0]defile writes "Since about midnight EST almost every host on the internet has been receiving a 376 byte UDP payload on port ms-sql-m (1434) from a random infected server. Reports of some hosts receiving 10 per minute or more. [1]internetpulse.net is reporting UUNet and Internap are being hit very hard. This is the cause of major connectivity problems being experienced worldwide. It is believed this worm leverages a [2]vulnerability published in June 2002. Several core routers have taken to blocking port 1434 outright. If you run Microsoft SQL Server, make sure the public internet can't access it. If you manage a gateway, consider dropping UDP packets sent to port 1434." bani adds "This has effectively [3]disabled 5 of the 13 root nameservers." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.internetpulse.net/ 2. http://www.nextgenss.com/advisories/mssql-udp.txt 3. http://forums.military.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=78919038&f=409192893&m=4551982416 How High is Your AP? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/2333239 [0]DeAshcroft writes "The [1]New York Times has a [2]piece [give up your data] on the wiring of Everest. Tsering Gyaltsen, the grandson of one of Sir Edmund Hillary's orignal summit-conquering Sherpas is bringing the net to the mountain (presumably bringing the mountain to the net was even more difficult). He's attracted a great set of 'technologists' to make this happen, and, best of all, it means the locals get access (including a school of about 250 students), not just the rich geeks who come to town to climb the thing." Links 0. http://www.cafeshops.com/usingrights/ 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/technology/circuits/23sher.html Cross-Site-TRACE http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/2324225 [0]quackking writes "Uh-oh! Looks bad for RFC 2068! Kudos to [1]WhiteHat out of Santa Clara, CA for this one. ALL current web servers comply with this RFC, which means they ALL are vulnerable to this newly named attack - XST - [2]cross-site-trace. When misused, TRACE, part of the HTTP protocol, allows an unauthorized script to be passed to a Web server for execution even if the server is secured against running such scripts. Even devices like web-managed routers are open to this." Links 0. http://www.quacken.com 1. http://www.whitehatsec.com/ 2. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C3973%2C841144%2C00.asp Where Are They Now: Q*Bert http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1543216 An anonymous reader writes "Two guys who worked on SNL and the Conan show cover the drug-addled history of Atari's classic blobish-looking character, [0]Q*Bert." Links 0. http://www.slushfactory.com/content/EpuFukEpAFFjrIoYJF.php IBM Trials TCPA Chip Under Linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1757221 keihin writes "From IBM: IBM's Global Security Analysis Lab (GSAL) has done [0]extensive analysis of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) chip available on some IBM systems. We have the chip running under Linux, and have studied it extensively. In order to clarify a lot of misunderstanding about the chip, we are making available some helpful white papers and open source device drivers for Linux, so that interested people can test and use the chip in an open environment." Links 0. http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/ Personal Submarine Cruises SF Bay http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1924257 [0]LandSonar writes "Graham Hawkes, the guru of the submarine design business, tried out his new submersible sea plane yesterday in SF Bay. Called the '[1]Deep Flight Aviator'. [2]Article and cool pictures. This craft doesn't use ballast like traditional subs. Flys more like a plane. 'It looks like something NASA might build or the Blue Angels might fly.'" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.deepflight.com/subs/dfa.htm 2. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/24/BA111378.DTL The Long-Awaited MOO! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1950246 [0]Number13 writes "Quicksilver's [1]Master of Orion 3, [2]declared vaporware by Wired magazine, has [3]gone gold! Set to hit the streets on Feb. 25, MOO3 is the the successor to what many consider the best space strategy game series." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.moo3.com/ 2. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57023-2,00.html 3. http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030124/242237_1.html Issues for the Internet Society http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1748232 [0]DenOfEarth writes "The Economist has published a [1]series of articles detailing some of the issues facing our current society and the technological leaps and bounds that are leading to the future internet society. They include: [2]Protection of Privacy, [3]Constant internet connectivity, [4]Copyright 's Role in the Future, [5]Technology-based Democratic Process, [6]Government Authority, and [7]Social and Political Ramifications. There's a good deal of information to waste one's time with here, but some good discussion is bound to come out of it." Links 0. http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/~whelan 1. http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1534303 2. http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1534283 3. http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1534295 4. http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1534271 5. http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1534259 6. http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1534249 7. http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1534217 LinuxWorld Report, Day 2 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1747223 greechneb writes "Roblimo is reporting again on [0]LWCE's second day. Check out his reports on break dancers, hp, suse, gentoo, linux on laptops, and most important, free booze." See [1]yesterday's story if you missed it. Some other LWCE notes: United Linux is [2]sucking in more partners, and even [3]Microsoft won one of the show awards. And yes, Robin is going around asking the interview questions. :) Links 0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/01/23/2212240.shtml?tid=23 1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/198230&tid=163 2. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=39526 3. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny03/V33/press.cvn?id=11&p_id=12 .org TLD Now Runs on PostgreSQL http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1549207 [0]johnnyb writes "The .org domain, which has long run on Oracle systems, is now being [1]transferred to a PostgreSQL system. I guess we can now dispel the "untested in mission-critical applications" myth." Links 0. http://www.eskimo.com/~johnnyb/ 1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/idg2.nsf/All/2ADD84E6EBCEADE9CA256CB30075FA01!OpenDocument Freshmeat Aorta 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110563/ Aorta is a load-balancing clustered P2P application. It executes Tasklets (which have the ability to split themselves into sub tasks that can be executed in pararell). A typical cluster contains of a LAN with 1-256 computers, each one running aorta. A Tasklet can be of any type ranging from encoding MP3s to rendering Web pages for high speed/heavily loaded Web sites. You can make functions calls to C/C++, applications like Matlab, etc. asqredir 0.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110568/ asqredir is a small, fast, and simple redirect plugin for the squid webcache, written in C. It can be used for filtering out advertisements from Web sites or preventing proxy users from getting certain files by redirecting them to another URL. The to-be-matched URL patterns are kept in a file and are read into memory on startup. Because asqredir is based on URL pattern matching, it can be used for many different kinds of blocking. AutoUpdate 4.6.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110547/ AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date. Bacula 1.29 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110548/ Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is efficient and relatively easy to use, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. BHL 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110559/ 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. BotIrcServer 0.0.91 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110572/ 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). CamPop 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110550/ The CamPop system tries to make the life of usb digicam owner easier. It is composed of a deamon that watches the /proc/bus/usb/devices file to detect when the camera is plugged, and a small GUI built upon gphoto2, which is launched when a camera is found - but you can use them seperately. cgdb 0.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110526/ cgdb is a lightweight, but fully functional curses frontend to gdb. The goal of cgdb is to be lightweight and responsive, not encumbered with unnecessary features. The interface retains the familiar GDB text-based interface with 100% of the original functionality. The interfaces also provide additional features, such as a source code window, shortcut keys, visual setting of breakpoints, regex searching capabilities, and more. CLIP 0.99.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110557/ CLIP is a Clipper/XBase compatible compiler with initial support for FoxPro, Flagship, and CAVO syntax. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Win32 (via Cygwin). It features support for international languages and character sets, including two-bytes character sets like Chinese and Japanese. It also features OOP, a multiplatform GUI based on GTK/GTKextra, all SIX/Comix features (including hypertext indexing), SQL, a C-API for third-party developers, a few wrappers for popular libraries (such as BZIP, GZIP, GD, Crypto, and Fcgi), multitasking, mouse events, and more. dbaliasd 0.1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110585/ dbaliasd is a simple proxy daemon for MySQL which rewrites predefined aliases of database names with their real values. It allows you to create different names for the same MySQL database. It does not require any special privileges to run. dbf 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110535/ dbf is an easy-to-use command line tool to show and convert the content of dBASE III, IV, and 5.0 files. It reads dBASE databases and prints the content to the screen or converts it to comma-separated (*.csv) files which can be opened in Excel, StarOffice, and most other spread sheets. It can also be used to show some statistics about the content. Double Choco Latte 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110443/ Double Choco Latte is a system for tracking bugs, changes, enhancements, requests for software. The system is suited for multiple products and multiple accounts (clients). It is also known to handle call center activity, although this will evolve into a separate module. DRT 0.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110523/ DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications running under the X Window System. The tool automatically captures actions performed while using such an application. Functions particularly relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the action itself is described visually from fragments of the application display. One can search and browse these actions to learn about the design of an application. Easy Firewall Generator 1.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110570/ Easy Firewall Generator is a PHP Web application that generates an iptables firewall script. The generated script is designed for a single system connected to the Internet or a system acting as a gateway/firewall for a small private network. The generator prompts recursively for a variety of options. When the selected options form a complete set, it generates and returns a commented firewall script based on those options. The generator includes documentation on iptables and each option. ego file manager 0.7.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110565/ The ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for its VFS and provides evas2 and GTK tree views. ELinks 0.4.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110543/ ELinks is an enhanced version of Links, a Lynx-like text Web browser with support for tables, frames, background downloads, etc. It has a menu-fashioned user interface and is smaller and more lightweight than Lynx. ELinks adds many valuable features, like HTTP auth, proxy auth, reasonable cookies support, Lua scripting, etc. Gorm 0.2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110578/ Gorm is a clone of the NeXTstep `Interface Builder' application for GNUstep. Major features include drag-and-drop creation of GUI elements from palettes, run-time loading of additional palettes, direct on-screen manipulation of GUI elements, manipulation and examination of objects via inspectors, drag-and-drop creation of connections between objects, and saving data in a format loadable by GNUstep applications. GQview 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110531/ GQview is an image viewer for X windows. Features include single click file viewing, external editor support, thumbnail previews, thumbnail caching, and adjustable zoom. GQView has the ability to compare files and list similar or duplicate images based on content. Full screen view and slideshows allow for basic presentation of images. The program offers simple image file management with the ability to copy, move, rename, and delete files. Image collections, similar to a song playlist, are also supported. GtkAtlantic 0.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110584/ GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd servers. GUJ Chat 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110468/ GujChat is a chat server management system which can manage different chat servers, each one serving different rooms. A single GujChat installation is capable of serving diverse Webmasters with different templates, rooms and configurations. GujChat is completely multi-lingual and can be installed under any Servlet API 2.2 (or newer) compliant servlet container. HTTP Navigator 2.0 alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/110577/ HTTP Navigator is a PHP class that simplifies content grabbing from Web sites, while keeping track of previous sites, auth details, and cookies set along the way (in ways similar to a browser). Instant Messaging Database Admin (ODBC) 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110530/ Instant Messaging Database Admin (ODBC) runs on the SDBA Revolution IM App Server and allows you to view DB metadata and run SQL statements via IM (AIM) for any database with an ODBC connection. It saves multiple connections. Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9b-1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110558/ Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple (external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading, synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, upload limits (experimental), VPNs, ToS, denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list IP, log options and more. It doesn't flush all your existing iptables rules. JDistro 0.24 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110538/ JDistro is a project to build a Java distribution. The main subprojects are an application launcher, a desktop with a document management, and access to remote applications. jGal D1 [2003-01-24] http://freshmeat.net/releases/110560/ jGal is a Perl script that generates static XHTML image galleries, along with thumbnails and slides, from image files. It's derived from iGal. KBabel 1.2beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110541/ KBabel is a set of tools for editing and managing PO files created by gettext. Its main component is a powerful and comfortable PO file editor which features full navigation capabilities, full editing functionality, the ability to search for translations in different dictionaries, spell and syntax checking, showing diffs, and much more. It also includes a "Catalog Manager", which is a file manager view that provides an overview of PO files. Last but not least, it includes a standalone dictionary application which provides the additional capability of accessing KBabel's powerful dictionaries. libferris 0.9.93 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110564/ libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox (mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation decoders. LinuxMagic magic-smtpd 0.6.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110579/ MAGIC-SMTPD is a drop-in replacement for Dan Bernstein's qmail-smtpd, and was originally designed to be part of the LinuxMagic Magic Mail Server. This opensource version has been released to allow others to benefit from its anti-spam components, and valid user checking to reduce server loads and spam volumes. It is designed to support stock qmail installations, qmail/vpopmail installations, and database connectivity. Designed for ISP service, this will work for all mail servers large and small. LJKit 0.9.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110534/ LJKit is a framework of Objective-C classes that provide a wrapper to the LiveJournal client protocol. It is based on Apple's Cocoa framework (and could possibly be ported to GNUstep). MilliKeys 0.9.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110537/ MilliKeys implements a virtual keyboard on the silk-screen area of a PalmOS device. It supports multiple key layouts that are editable on the handheld itself, previewing on the screen, and macros to start programs or input keys. A 10x4 QWERTY layout is built in. MIME Email message class 2003.01.24 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110514/ The MIME Email message class composes and sends email messages. It features user- definable headers and body parts, MIME encoding of text and HTML body parts with user-defined character encoding using quote-printable, support for attachments with automatic content type detection, support for multipart/alternative and multipart/related messages (for HTML messages with embedded images), encoding of message headers with user-defined character encoding using q-encoding, definition of the error delivery address setting the Return-Path header, and several sub-classes for sending messages by different methods: PHP mail() function, sendmail, qmail, SMTP. It also includes support for sending personalized bulk mail by replacing the message parts that differ for each recipient. mod_security 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110551/ Mod_security is an Apache module whose purpose is to protect vulnerable applications and reject human or automated attacks. In addition to filtering requests, it also can create Web application audit logs. Requests are filtered using regular expressions. Mod_security can analyse POST payloads, unlike other similar projects. MyProxy 20030124 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110553/ MyProxy is a privacy-enhancing personal HTTP 1.1 proxy. Arbitrary URLs can be blocked by regular expression patterns and optionally replaced by transparent GIFs. Cookies can be controlled based on server/domain name. The "Referer", "User-Agent", and "From" HTTP headers can be dealt with in various ways. All user settings are configured through an HTML user interface. openMosixApplet 0.0.10-pre2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110561/ The openMosixApplet allows users to see the real-time status of an openMosix cluster. It consists of a daemon which the applet connects to in order to grab the necessary info, and uses the Chart2D library. Perl Oak Component Tree 1.4-2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110385/ The Perl Oak Component Tree is a set of objects designed to provide the maximum reusability to software development. Oak can be used in any development platform, but just the Web platform is implemented. In Oak, you define an XML file to each page and you will implement just the events. PostgreSQL Hierarchical Queries 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110546/ This is a patch to PostgreSQL which allows it to perform hierarchical queries in Oracle's style. SANTK 4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110583/ SANTK (Storage Area Network Configuration Toolkit) is a toolkit written in Java 1.3 to better facilitate SAN design and development. The major areas of difficulty in SAN design lie in the architecture of the SANs themselves. Scalability, network complexity, and netlist management become cumbersome as the number of nodes in the network increases. In order to address these problems, it is necessary to be able to dynamically design and record the topology of a network. The purpose of the SANTK is to assist in resolving these issues. slaf 0.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110539/ Slaf is a new "LookAndFeel" for Java/Swing, which aims to be faster, consume less memory, be easily configurable, and be completely parameterized. It can be used by the end user and/or integrated by the developer. It provides many themes, including Gnome, KDE, Pilot, Aqua, BeOS, Redmond, Aluminium, and Alien. SmoothWall 2.0 beta 4 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110544/ SmoothWall is a popular Internet Security software package (based on Linux) offering automated modem/advanced ISDN autoprobing, ethernet ADSL/cable, USB ADSL (Alcatel Speed Touch Home only), and multiple ethernet card support within 5 minutes of install. Web managed and with full facilities normally only seen in expensive commercial offerings, it also offers full SSH, DHCP, and full firewall logging and auditing functionality. Available in English, French, German, and Dutch languages at this time. STADRIN 1.1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110536/ STADRIN adds strong authentication to system services that support PAM. It allows Linux applications to use strong one -time passwords (OTP) instead of weak static passwords. One-time passwords are generated by the VASCO authentication calculator and are protected by a user defined PIN. Sylpheed 0.8.9claws (Claws) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110554/ Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display, and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format. Umbrello UML Modeller 1.1.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/110555/ Umbrello UML Modeller is a Unified Modelling Language diagram tool for KDE. It is able to produce Class diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Collaboration diagrams, Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, and State diagrams. It uses an XMI-based file format. unixODBC 2.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110549/ The unixODBC project provides UNIX applications with the same ODBC 3.51 API and facilities available under Windows. It provides a Driver Manager that supports the full ODBC API and performs the ODBC 3 to ODBC 2 translations with UNICODE to ANSI conversion. It also includes a set of graphical utilities that allow users to specify connections to DBMSes to be used by applications, a collection of ODBC drivers including a simple text based driver, an NNTP driver, a Postgres driver and others, and a selection of templates and libraries that to aid in the construction of ODBC drivers. It works with MySQL, Postgres, StarOffice, Applixware, iHTML, PHP, Perl DBD::ODBC, Paradox 9, and many other applications and drivers. Connection pooling is also provided to increase performance with applications such as PHP. Vega Strike 0.3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110552/ Vega Strike is a Linux action space simulator designed to bring 3d space combat to a whole new level of graphics, gameplay, and customizability. WebGUI 5.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110529/ WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer. X Net Strength 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110582/ X Net Strength is a small utility for monitoring the wireless signal strength of 802.11b cards under Linux. It is written in C and only requires xlib. XM 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110567/ XM (XSLT Make) is a simple and affordable Web- publishing content-management solution that takes advantage of XML and XSL. It is developped as part IBM developerWorks' column "Working XML." Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.07 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110556/ 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. ZynAddSubFX 1.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110542/ ZynAddSubFX is a powerful real-time, multi- timbral software synthesizer for Linux. It has microtonal capabilities, and the instruments it creates sound like those from professional keyboards. It includes effects like reverb, echo, chorus, and phaser. Slashcode Can't locate object method - install-slashsite http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/186232 I'm getting the following error trying to move our slashsite from my devel box over to production. I decided the easist way to do this would be to do a clean slashcode install on the production box, then dump the DB and assorted config files over. I've gotten the slashcode, Bundle::Slash installed (MySQL, Perl, Apache w/ mod_perl were already there), and then ran install-slashsite: $ sudo ./install-slashsite What is hostname of your Slash site (e.g., www.slashdot.org)? [] my.hiddenservername.com What user would you like to run your Slash site as? [nobody] slash What group would you like to run your Slash site under? [slash] OK, I am planning on user my.hiddenservername.com as the unique name for the Slash site. If this is not ok, you need to fill in something else here. [my.hiddenservername.com] Which theme do you want to use? (*)1. slashcode "Slashcode.com theme" Skipping theme select since you only have one theme! Theme selected: slashcode Please select which plugins you would like ('*' marks default). (*) 1. Admin - "Admin Interface" ( ) 2. BunchaBlocks - This is a bunch of portald blocks you can add ( ) 3. CheesyPortal - CheesyPortal is a script to get an overall look at portal boxes ( ) 4. ForumZilla - "ForumZilla support" (*) 5. Hof - "High score stuff" (*) 6. Journal - "Journal system for users" (*) 7. Messages - "Messaging system" (*) 8. PubKey - "Just allows a user's pubkey to be displayed" (*) 9. Search - Slash Search is the default search engine for Slash. Hit 'a' to select all, otherwise select comma separated numbers or 'q' to quit a Plugins selected: Admin BunchaBlocks CheesyPortal ForumZilla Hof Journal Messages PubKey Search Would you like to install all the files as symlinks to the original? (If not, each file will be copied to your Slash directories). [Y] N Create a name for the site's admin account (8 characters or less). [slash] Create a password for the site's admin account. ('QUIT' exits):hiddenpasswd What is the email address of the account? [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Can't locate object method "prepare" via package "BunchaBlocks" (perhaps you forgot to load "BunchaBlocks"?) at /path/to/perl/modules/Utility.pm line 334. $ Does anybody have any insight into that "Can't locate object method "prepare" via package "BunchaBlocks" (perhaps you forgot to load "BunchaBlocks"?) at /path/to/perl/modules/Utility.pm line 334." error??? Thanks! Background Image http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/184247 Is it possible to get a background image into the site rather than the dull grey? 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. 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