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Gadgets: Snap Digital Mini Camera
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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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Sourceforge
New release 0.5.5 of tn5250j is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244952
tn5250J is an AS400 Telnet 5250 written in java. 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
Why VHS Was Better
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/028207
[0]otis wildflower writes "An article in the UK's [1]Guardian describes
why, in the end, [2]VHS is better than Betamax. While this may not be
terribly useful knowledge on its own, the author then makes a pretty
convincing case that viewing something's success or failure purely on
technical merit is not an entirely accurate way of looking at things.
For better or for worse, success of new products and technologies is
determined by a broad range of factors that make up "the whole
product", quality being only one, and possibly a minor one at that.
Kind of explains what happened to the Atari Lynx and Jaguar, dunnit?"
Links
0. http://www.thoughtcrime.com
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/
2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,881780,00.html
Doom For the SonyEricsson P800 smartphone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/1138237
[0]Peter van Sebille writes "It's with the greatest pleasure that I
announce the availability of EDoom for the P800, version 1.0. You may
download EDoom for free from: [1]http://www.yipton.net EDoom for the
SonyEricsson P800 is fully playable by using the stylus as an on-screen
joystick, has 8 channel stereo sound support and an on-screen virtual
keyboard, alpha-blended in the Doom scene. Happy Dooming!!!!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.yipton.net/
Ants... In... Space
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/0149256
[0]Ant writes "The Fowler students [1]picked an experiment with ants,
rather than plants, because they wanted to see some activity in space.
They have been [2]following the ants' progress on the web. The students
and their teachers also have learned that sometimes the best
thought-out hypothesis does not pan out in reality. 'We predicted that
the ants would tunnel a lot slower in microgravity, but we're finding
out they're moving a lot faster,' said Golash. The students have a
control group of ants at their school, living in a similar environment
except with gravity. After the shuttle returns from its scheduled
16-day flight in early February, the young scientists will have 30 days
to put together a preliminary report. Their "Ants in Space" experiment
was sponsored by SPACEHAB, an aerospace company that has worked with
NASA for many years to design and build hardware for space
experiments."
Links
0. http://antfarm.ma.cx
1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/25/coolsc.spaceants/
2. http://www.starsacademy.com/sts107
Top of the Crops 2002
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/0137236
[0]Steeltoe writes "For those deeply familiar with [1]crop circles,
[2]2, they are truly an amazing wonder of the world. Not only are they
getting unnervingly [3]complex and [4]beautiful, but last year
researchers found themselves dumbfounded by an [5]ET-face with an
accompanying encoded CD-disc, [6]2, [7]3! Clearly, there are not enough
wonders in the world, but lack of wonder and excitement! If you like
adventure, you cannot turn your back on [8]this, [9]2! Check out the
cool circles of 2002 at [10]Crop Circle Connector and at
[11]Circlemakers 'Top of the Crops 2002', or even take a physical
*gasp* [12]tour during the high-peak season next summer and see for
yourself!! Only imagination may tell what will pop up from the crops in
2003."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.paradigmshift.com/defined.html
2. http://www.lovely.clara.net/education.html
3. http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2002/windmillhill/windmillhill2002a.html
4. http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2002/Normanton/Normanton2002a.html
5. http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2002/Crabwood/crabwood2002a.html
6. http://www.swirlednews.com/article.asp?artID=512
7. http://www.swirlednews.com/article.asp?artID=549
8. http://www.lovely.clara.net/biophysical.html#anchor631469
9. http://www.lovely.clara.net/crop_circles_sound.html
10. http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2002/2002.html
11. http://www.circlemakers.org/totc2002.html
12. http://www.chetsnow.com/cropcircles.html
The 1991 "X-Box"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/2246259
[0]Jim Hall writes "Back in college (1991), I wondered why no one had
bothered to make a DOS-based game console. One day, in the back of a
notebook, I [1]made some notes about how you might go about creating a
DOS-based game console. (I even called it an "X-Box", but really the
"X" was there because I didn't know what else to call it. Microsoft's
current "XBox" console is completely different, and I don't claim any
rights to the "X-Box" name.) I've posted some scans of my notes, and a
discussion about how you would create a DOS-based game console."
Links
0. http://www.freedos.org/jhall/
1. http://www.freedos.org/jhall/xbox/
Attorney Sues eBay over Negative Feedback
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/2225252
Mephie writes "MSNBC is running a story on an attorney who is [0]suing
ebay over negative feedback a seller left about him. It sounds like a
classic case of buyer leaves negative feedback for seller; seller
responds accordingly. The plaintiff claims he'd not be filing the suit
if he didn't feel ebay's policy needs revision, stating 'They can
control content and for them to fail to do so is unconscionable.' Yeah.
That's great."
Links
0. http://msnbc.com/news/863886.asp
DDoS for Fun and Profit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/2123244
First there's the Microsoft worm, [0]reported earlier, which in
addition to all the other [1]damage has apparently knocked Microsoft's
Windows XP activation servers (and [2]Bank of America ATMs) off the
net. Then we've got a report about the [3]ongoing demise of DALnet,
perhaps not the way [4]we expected it to go. And Canada discovers a
[5]risk of online voting.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/1245206&tid=109
1. http://www.msnbc.com/news/864184.asp
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43267-2003Jan25.html
3. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1573551
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/01/1239219&tid=98
5. http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/01/25/ndp_delay030125
Buy a Moller SkyCar Prototype on eBay
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/1944207
[0]HobbySpacer writes "[1]Moller International has announced that it
will offer its first working Skycar for sale on eBay starting January
31st - [2]Press Release. The M400P prototype has repeatedly flown short
hovering flights on tethers in tests since 2001 (see [3]videos). The
company [4] warns that although '[a]ll systems are operational.
Potential buyers are cautioned that this is a prototype model and
considered an experimental aircraft.' Also, 'the Skycar has not yet
been approved as a road vehicle.' A more powerful 2nd gen production
version is currently under construction for longer [5]untethered test
flights this year."
Links
0. http://www.hobbyspace.com/Links/sciTech.html
1. http://www.moller.com/
2. http://www.moller.com/news/pressrelease/level2_skycarsale.html
3. http://www.moller.com/news/media/
4. http://www.moller.com/news/pressrelease/skycarsale.html
5. http://www.moller.com/test/
Palladium Changes Name
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/1658230
thelinuxking writes "According to this CNET article, Microsoft has
[0]changed the code name of its highly controversial 'trusted'
computing platform from 'Palladium' to 'next-generation secure
computing base.' Microsoft claims that the name is being changed to
reflect the fact that Microsoft is 'embracing this technology in terms
of folding it into Windows for the next decade.' Also, an unnamed small
firm has claims to the trademark of 'Palladium'. Microsoft denies that
they changed the name due to the criticism 'Palladium' has recieved,
and released the source code to the core part of the software to show
that the software is secure and does what they claim." Notice the PR
diversionary tactic: it's being criticized because it does what they
claim, not because it doesn't. :)
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982127.html
SOHO Strikes Back
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/25/1637209
[0] Nick Lightfoot writes "As seen on /. [1]several days ago,
[2]Euroseti is holding a conference to show off itÂs collection of
pictures of 'UFOs' taken by SOHO cameras. SOHO has released a
[3]response page to show how a cosmic ray or other similar ccd artifact
could be mistaken for a UFO, especially after the image has been
enhanced. After watching EurosetiÂs [4]video featuring some of the
images, I was able to identify one of the ÂUFOÂ images as a comet,
and several others looked like they were just planets. Hopefully they
will release some images on the web soon so I taking take a closer look
at them without having to buy their £15 cd."
Links
0. http://www.geocities.com/nrlightfoot/
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1955238&tid=160
2. http://www.ufomag.co.uk/euroseti.htm
3. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_01_17/
4. http://sabre.legend.co.uk/Euro150kps.wmv
Freshmeat
AutoPKG 0.5.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110668/
AutoPKG lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions
similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
Binc IMAP 1.0.17-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110681/
Binc IMAP is a simple xinetd/tcpserver based IMAP server with support
for Maildir. It is very easy to install and use.
Bytes Counter 1.0pre9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110667/
Bytes Counter displays detailed information about the number of bytes
that have been transferred over a network interface.
CBoard 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110676/
CBoard is a console frontend to GNU Chess, using the ncurses library
for the interface. It can edit PGN tags, annotate moves with NAG, and
more.
Childsplay 0.65 (Game modules)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110656/
Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children. It aims
to be more games-like then gcompris.
Cow Outputs Waves 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110665/
Cow is something like a waveform editor in that it generates a wave
file from one or more graphs for amplitude and frequency. A graphical
user interface simplifies this process.
Darik's Boot and Nuke 2003012500 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110640/
Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that
securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will
automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that
it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or
emergency data destruction.
dbacl 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110648/
dbacl is a digramic Bayesian text classifier. Given some text, it
calculates the posterior probabilities that the input resembles one of
any number of previously learned document collections. It can be used
to sort incoming email into arbitrary categories such as spam, work,
and play, or simply to distinguish an English text from a French text.
It fully supports international character sets, and uses sophisticated
statistical models based on the Maximum Entropy Principle.
DCP-Portal 5.0.2 (Final)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110650/
DCP-Portal is a content management system with advanced features like
Web-based update, link, file, member management, poll, calendar, etc.
Its main features include an admin panel to manage the entire site, a
smart HTML editor to add news, content, and annoucements, the ability
for members to submit news/content and write reviews, and much more.
dmx4linux 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110646/
Dmx4linux is a driver package for accessing DMX interfaces with Linux.
DMX is a protocol for controlling devices supporting DMX512 like
dimmers, moving lights, or scanners. Many commercial and free
interfaces are supported. The package includes some simple console and
X applications to test the drivers and your hardware immediately.
DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.60.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110674/
DocBook is an XML and SGML dialect that enables you to author and store
document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the
logical structure of the content. Using the modular DocBook stylesheets
and related resources, you can transform, format, and publish your
DocBook content as HTML pages and PDF files, and in many other formats,
including TeX, RTF, FrameMaker MIF, JavaHelp, Microsoft HTML Help, UNIX
man pages, and TeXinfo.
Dr. Genius 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110644/
Dr. Genius is the GNOME Geometry Exploration and Numeric Intuitive User
System, an Euclidian geometry application where geometry figures are
interactively manipulated. It is Guile aware to allow user
scriptability of the geometric figures.
Examplotron 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110638/
Examplotron is a XML schema language based of examples: instead of
using a specific syntax to say that there should be an element
"foo" here, you just write the element:
"<foo/>".
gimp-print 4.2.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110657/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for
UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality
and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the
GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and
IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This
driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to
enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various
printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the
quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or
exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
Hardware lister T.00.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110642/
lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton
on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact
memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU
version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
ImageBackup 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110672/
ImageBackup is a fully automatic incremental backup system for digital
pictures. It will create backup CDs, one at a time, until all images
have been backed up. You than then run the program regularly and it
will keep gathering images until another disc is full. Once a disc is
full, it can use AutoScrapbook to create Web-based index files,
automatically generate an ISO image, and reset the staging area. Once
an image has been stored in a backup ISO image, it will not be backed
up again. Any new images, regardless of where they are mixed into your
directory structure, will be added to backups when necessary.
Kemistry 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110649/
Kemistry is a collection of chemistry applications written for the K
Desktop Environment. Most of the applications are simply ports to KDE
of existing X11 applications.
KZap 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110673/
KZap is an addictive puzzle game based on Zoop. The object is to clear
the blocks that quickly advance towards the center grid.
LABE 3.2-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110685/
LABE, the LDAP Address Book Editor, is a Web application created to
administrate a centralized LDAP directory. It's compatible with
Mozilla, Evolution, and Outlook.
Leafwa 0.7.0a1-ap
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110659/
Leafwa is a simple Web-based administration package for the Leafnode
NNTP server, written in PHP. It is a revival of the original Leafwa
scripts by Phil Hunt, and aims to add features and improve security.
libchipcard 0.7.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110682/
Libchipcard is a C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards
via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by
the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip
cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and has been tested
with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel.
linuxTheTools 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110603/
TheTools is a handy collection of bash commandline tools for
administrators and power users. The scripts facilitate day-to-day
management and system navigation. It is a companion package to
slakbootIBS.
LiVES 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110641/
LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is intended to be a simple yet
powerful video effects and editing system. It will use commonly
available tools (mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+, and in the future
possibly gstreamer or xine), so it should work on most systems. It is
currently usable for small video files.
Makecheque 0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110664/
Makecheque is a tool (written in Ruby) to print bank cheques, either
using bank-supplied stationey, or blank check paper (in conjuntion with
a MICR font and perhaps special laser toner). It is intended to be used
as part of an interactive bookkeeping system. Makecheque quickly and
easily prints large batches of checks based on textual format
specifications given as standard input and emits ready-for-printer
Postscript on standard output.
mICQ 0.4.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110680/
mICQ (Matt's ICQ Clone) is a portable, small, yet powerful
console-based ICQ client. It supports password changing, auto-away,
creation of new accounts, and other features that makes it a very
complete yet simple client. It is able to send and receive messages
from the ICQ network, list users that are offline and online (including
their online status), search for users by email address, and look up
basic (name, UIN, email) information.
mod_msff 0.99 (Apache 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110677/
mod_msff returns an informative message and a 403 status to Microsoft
IE on Fridays. It is an easy way to participate in the prank invented
by Dave Winer.
Net::Server::Mail 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110626/
Net::Server::Mail is a versatile and extensible implementation of the
SMTP protocol and its different evolutions like ESMTP and LMTP. The
event-driven, object-oriented API makes it easy to incorporate the SMTP
protocol to your programs.
Netcat 6 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110658/
Netcat 6 is a netcat clone with IPv6 support. It is designed to be
tiny, extensible, and elegant, and it makes use of the new extended BSD
socket APIs.
PasTmon 0.2-3 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110663/
PasTmon (Passive Application Response Time Monitor) passively monitors
your application servers, measuring and reporting user response times,
throughput and congestion. It currently works with HTTP, telnet,
rlogin, rsh, FTP (control channel), SMTP, POP3, and IRC. Measurements
are recorded in a PostgreSQL database and are presented graphically via
a PHP Web front-end using R statistical analysis scripts to create the
plots.
PennMUSH 1.7.7p6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110684/
PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or
role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It
runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS.
Perl webmail 3.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110627/
Perl webmail is a CGI script that interfaces with a POP mail server
that you provide. It can check mail, read messages, reply, forward,
delete, send and receive attachments, and it doesn't have to be a local
mail server. This script talks strictly POP3 for receiving and SMTP for
sending mail. It also supports storage for mail folders, contacts, and
calendar notes.
pimentech-dbutils 1.0.23 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110661/
pimentech-dbutils provides a set of tools for designing a database in
XML, computing the SQL database generation code and the diagram (in
dot), and doing other useful tasks.
poBot 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110635/
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.
prometeo 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110647/
Prometeo is a modular, extensible proxy. It supports HTTP, FTP (with
SSL support), and SSL modules. Modules can be added or removed at
runtime and everything can be configured through a Web interface.
RAT 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110636/
Refractor2 Archive Tool is a multi-platform tool for extracting
Refractor2 archives (rfa).
Razor! Gaming Engine 0.8.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110639/
Razor! is a C++ gaming engine for Palm devices. It supports sprites,
three voice music, sfx, double buffering, hard key polling. It
accelerates many gfx operations through the use of optimized assembly
code.
Retro Native Forth 5, Development Release 1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110670/
RetroForth is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system for
computers using 80386 and higher CPUs. It provides a small, functional
core and several tools to aid in programming.
SlakbootIBS 8.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110678/
SlakbootIBS is a replacement set of run command scripts and utilities
for starting and dynamically configuring Slackware Linux installations.
It facilitates server configuration at facilities with multiple Linux
servers deployed, and suits many different uses.
SQLite 2.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110666/
SQLite is a small, fast, embeddable SQL database engine that supports
most of SQL92, including transactions with atomic commit and rollback,
subqueries, compound queries, triggers, and views. A complete database
is stored in a single cross-platform disk file. The native C/C++ API is
simple and easy to use. Bindings for other languages are also
available.
StepTalk 0.7.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110651/
StepTalk is scripting framework which can be used to create scriptable
servers or applications. It is written using Objective C and is
language independent; you can use it with any available scripting
language that is provided as a separate bundle.
Tapestry 2.4-alpha-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110683/
Tapestry is a rich, component-based object model for developing
dynamic, robust, highly interactive Web applications. Applications are
constructed in terms of Java objects, methods and properties, instead
of URLs and query parameters. It builds and interprets all URLs,
dispatching directly to application-specific "listener"
methods. It includes complete source code, documentation, tutorials and
a complete example J2EE application.
The Fish 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110669/
The Fish provides a GTK-based graphical tool to manage and edit FreeBSD
system variables stored in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. For
testing purposes, or, for users that need to have different
configurations, the program honours two environment variables:
FISH_RC_DEFAULTS and FISH_RC.
uClibc 0.9.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110662/
uClibc (µClibc) is a C library for developing embedded Linux
systems. It is much smaller then the GNU C Library, but nearly all
applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with uClibc.
Porting applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves just
recompiling the source code. uClibc even supports shared libraries and
threading. It currently runs on standard Linux and MMU-less Linux (also
known as µClinux) systems with support for ARM, i386, h8300,
m68k, MIPS, mipsel, PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.
UltimateIRCd 2.8.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110655/
UltimateIRCd is an advanced IRCd hybrid aiming to improve the IRC
experience for both users and admins alike. It has extended channel
access levels (channel administrators and half operators), and user
hiddenhosts.
UltimateIRCd 3.0.0.alpha28 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110653/
UltimateIRCd is an advanced IRCd hybrid aiming to improve the IRC
experience for both users and admins alike. It has extended channel
access levels (channel administrators and half operators), and user
hiddenhosts.
uMail 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110679/
uMail is a very simple message box for local systems.
VideoDB 2003-01-25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110643/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's
mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS
tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet
Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark
movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a
filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow
manager. It is a personal database, so no user
management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may
add/edit/delete movies.
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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