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Sourceforge
SCons 0.11 is now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251609
SCons alpha release 0.11 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 0.11 contains the following interface
changes: - The default suffix for static object files when using gcc
has been changed to ".os" to allow shared and static object files to
exist side-by-side in the same directory. - When no command-line
targets are specified, the default behavior is now to build all derived
files in or below the current directory (like Make). This can be
disabled by explicitly specifying "Default(None)" in an SConscript
file. - Setting the BUILDERS construction variable now clears previous
Builder attributes from the construction Environment. - An "env"
argument has been added to the strfunction() method of Python function
Actions. See the release notes for more information about these
changes. This release adds the following features: - A new CacheDir()
function and related command-line options --cache-disable,
--cache-force and --cache-show support the ability to share derived
files between builds. - Support for the IRIX platform and SGI MIPSPro
tool chain. - Support for the PharLap ETS tool chain. - Support for
compiling with Microsoft VC++ when running Cygwin Python. - New
AddPreAction() and AddPostAction() functions. - Python function Actions
can now include the contents of construction variables in their
signatures. - A new strfunction() method has been added for external
command Actions. - The SConscript() function now takes optional
"build_dir" and "duplicate" keyword arguments that make it easier to
set up a build directory. - The same Win32 object files can now be
linked into either shared or static libraries. The following fixes have
been added: - Fixed many (not all) situations when interrupts (CTRL-C)
wouldn't actually stop a build. - Libraries in the LIBS construction
variable can now explicitly include a library prefix and suffix. - The
Win32 scons.bat script now has DOS-standard CR-LF line endings. - Fixed
how the Environment.Append() method works BUILDERS (and other
dictionaries). - Fixed how a file prefix is added when the target isn't
specified. - Better error messages whene a BuildDir is read-only. - A
platform or tool module can now be directly imported even after it's
been included in a construction Environment. - The output of -c -n is
now correct when a target is a directory. Performance has been improved
as follows: - Added support for caching values when use
--implicit-cache. The following changes have been made to the SCons
packaging: - Added new --standard-lib, --standalone-lib and
--version-lib options to the "setup.py install" command to make it
easier to install the SCons build engine (library) into different
locations. If no explicit library installation location is specified,
the SCons "setup.py" script now looks for an existing SCons build
engine in these three locations and prefers where the build engine was
installed previously. The documentation has been improved: - Eliminated
description of some deprecated keywords. - Updated description of
BuildDir() to try to explain more clearly how to set up a build
directory.
FinkCommander (GUI for Fink package mgr) v. 0.5.0
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251651
Version 0.5.0 of FinkCommander has been released. It has a number of
significant new features, including a package browser, which provides a
Finder-like interface for viewing the files intalled on your system by
a particular Fink package. FinkCommander is a graphical user interface
for the Fink software packaging system for Mac OS X. It provides an
intuitive front-end to the Fink command-line tools for downloading and
installing Unix software. If you have version 0.4.3 installed, you will
need to move it to the trash before installing this version.
Freevo version 1.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251680
Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card
and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set
top box. It uses MPlayer to play and record audio+video. It is
optimized for use with a TV+remote. There is a new stable binary
release (1.3.1) available on SourceForge.net's download page. It
includes a number of important changes from the last stable release
(1.3.0). The binary release now includes all external libraries (e.g.
SDL) and applications (e.g. MPlayer). The current version is useful for
watching/recording TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MP3/OGG, viewing images.
AOLserver 4.0 beta 2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250769
The second beta release of AOLserver 4.0 is available. In addition to
bug fixes, this includes enhancements for international and Win32
support. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable
and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites.
AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic
page scripting language.
Tiny COBOL Compiler release 0.60
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250879
The Tiny COBOL compiler project is developing a COBOL compiler for use
on Linux; it generates GNU x86 assembler code. With this release,
improvements have been made in the following areas: locking for
relative files, better support of print files (write after and before
advancing) and better compatibility with 85 Standard for some indexed
file I/O operations.
Mailman 2.1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250930
This is the the first patch release of GNU Mailman 2.1.1 Mailman is
free software that enables users to manage email mailing lists and
e-newsletters. Its integrated web interface provides easy-to-use access
for list members and list administrators. Mailman supports built-in
archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest
delivery, spam filters, and more. Mailman 2.1.1 is a bug fix release,
including the patching of a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
Marathon 0.12 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251022
Marathon runs gui based acceptance tests against swing applications. It
is composed of a runner, and recorder, and an editor, and its tests
scripts will be stored using a simple python based language. This
release includes bug fixes, feature enhancements and is more readily
usable (a single .JAR contains everything you need). details at
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=46616&release_id=
139116
JFreeChart 0.9.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250290
JFreeChart version 0.9.5 has been posted. This release contains the
much-requested dual axis charts, plus a host of other changes.
JFreeChart is a class library, written in Java, for generating charts.
Utilising the Java2D APIs, it currently supports bar charts, pie
charts, line charts, XY-plots and time series plots.
POPFile v0.18.0 Windows and Cross Platform Release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250488
It has been close to 2 months since the last POPFile release and boy
have I and others been busy. POPFile v0.18.0 is a *major* change from
v0.17.9 and you'd do well to read the section entitled ESSENTIAL
READING before you install it. POPFile is an email classification tool
with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It
runs on most platforms and with most email clients. This version is
backwards compatible with previous versions (even autofixing some
errors that the old versions created) but there are some differences.
This is also the first release in which two additional developers
(additional to me that is) really contributed a lot of code to POPFile.
They are Stanley Krute and Sam Schinke. Stan and Sam worked on many of
the changes to POPFile (which you can read all about in the CVS logs)
including massive changes to the mail parser, whole new skinning
system, HTML 4.01 compliance, tons of testing, lots of user interface
changes. Guys, *you* made a big difference to POPFile, and I want to
say a big "Thank you" in public. This version of POPFile supports
unlimited numbers of connections, multiple natural languages, has a
much improved UI, has many improvements to help catch spam, has a new
Quarantine feature that lets POPFile automatically hide all the mail in
a specific bucket (each mail is replaced with a new mail stating that
POPFile quarantined a message with an option to see the original), and
incorporates features and bug fixes submitted by users. ESSENTIAL
READING 1. BACK UP YOUR OLD INSTALLATION: POPFile makes this really
easy, just copy the entire POPFile directory somewhere. You can then
safely install POPFile v0.18.0 on top of your current installation; I
just think a back up is a sensible precaution. 2. YOUR HISTORY WILL
CLEAR: I have changed the format of the History files used in this
version which means that the old History files will not be read by
POPFile and will in fact be deleted to save disk space. If you need to
do any reclassifications prior to installing v0.18.0 do them! POPFile
does NOT clear buckets, statistics or anything else on install of this
version, just the History files. To refresh the History view click the
History tab at any time; POPFile will check disk for new messages. 3.
IF YOU HAD BROKEN MAGNETS: I have added automatic update of broken
magnets. If you had a magnet like [foo] which POPFile mistakenly
changed to \[foo\] it should get magically fixed and start working. 4.
ACCURACY MIGHT DROP FOR A SHORT WHILE: because of some changes made in
the mail parser it is possible that you might see accuracy drop
initially and you may find yourself reclassifying a few messages that
used to work. This is unfortunate but necessary to make POPFile even
more accurate than before and v0.18.0 incorporates changes that make
POPFile's classification accuracy better; however old corpuses might
need a little retraining. DOWNLOADING You can obtain the latest release
of POPFile by visiting
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63137 UPGRADING
Just install POPFile on top of the currently installed version. But did
you read the ESSENTIAL READING above first? FAQ zonk3r has spent a
great deal of time on a POPFile FAQ. Please check it out as it covers
many questions that you might have:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14421&group_id=6313
7 THE GORY DETAILS 1. Total rearchitecture of the POPFile code into a
collection of loadable modules to allow for future expansion of POPFile
with different proxy services and different UIs. The major modules are
now: - popfile.pl: controlling process that loads the modules that
implement POPFile's main functionality; - Proxy::POP3 the original POP3
proxying code from POPFile separated into its own module. In future we
should expect to be able to have other Proxy:: modules such as
Proxy::IMAP. - UI::HTML contains the current HTML user interface. I
hope that we'll add other UI modules such as UI::XMLRPC or UI::SOAP in
future. - Classifier::Bayes is the module that does the Naive Bayes
classification. (Note this module also includes a method called
classify_and_modify that performs the classification and modification
of email messages that may be of use to other module writers) POPFile
now supports two process types: the top level process round robins
between the main modules listed above providing concurrent access to
the UI and POP3 proxy. The POP3 proxy itself (see below) forks to
provide multiple simultaneous connections. (That last part was
originally requested by sschinke) 2. Introduction of a scheme for
localization of the user interface using message catalogs stored in the
languages/ subfolder. Currently shipping with languages: English,
French, German, Danish, Dutch, Brazilian, and (for fun and for testing)
H4X0R. Translators can take the English.msg file and translate the
strings within to create their own language for the user interface.
POPFile detects available languages on start up and they are available
from the Configuration page. (Originally requested by pfaelzerchen) 3.
Rework of much of the user interface to make pages shorter and clearer.
This is mostly limited to look and feel and no items have changed tab
in the UI. 4. Total rewrite of the history caching code for clarity
with a change from multiple arrays to a single hash containing all the
cached information. 5. Automatic update checking now defaults to off
and there's a large explanation of what it does in the user interface
to allay the fears of many people concerning the possibility that
programs like POPFile are spying on them. (Requested by quite a few
people) 6. When creating the user interface password the password is
now hidden when typing it. (Requested by kraelen, pfaelzerchen) 7. The
Proxy::POP3 now forks after a new connection is accepted from a valid
client and calls a special child() method that handles the connection
between a client and mail server via POPFile for the life of the client
connection. This is the beginning of a version of POPFile that supports
a very large number of clients. (Requested by many people) 8. A new
command line parameter -test_language can be set to 1 for UI
translators. The UI will show the language identifiers used for each
element rather than the strings associated with the identifier. 9.
Rework of the History page to take into account ideas and suggestions
from many people: Search now operates on From and Subject, From and
Subject have popup windows to show the full text of each, you can sort
by ID, From, Subject or Classification, you can filter by magnet
classified mail, navigation is at the top and the bottom, state is
remembered so that you can sort/filter and remove pages and reclassify
and stay in the same place, many small improvements. 10. Major work on
the MailParse.pm for dealing with improved mail parsing and the
handling of spammers tricks (like S P A C E D out words etc.). Switch
to using the Base64 and QuotedPrint modules from CPAN for improved mail
cracking. (Work done mainly by sschinke) 11. Automated test suite now
part of POPFile. (Suggested by aziegler) 12. Rework of all the HTML and
CSS so that everything can be skinned and so that the complete UI is
HTML 4.01 compliant. (Work done mainly by stanley_krute; there was a
request from nobody for this) 13. You can now filter the History page
by magnet filtered mails to look at them or delete them. (Requested by
jarmstro, tcdk, msc_buff, fitzsimons, dyoungmcwicom) 14. The UI
password no longer appears in URLs in plain text (requested by gribnif)
15. You can do multiple classifications at a time by selecting multiple
messages and changing the drop down and hitting any Reclassify button.
(Requested by dave823; implemented by sschinke) 16. You can now sort
the History page by message ID, From, Subject and Classification
(bucket). (Requested by jerometremblay, tomvoss, biobear) 17. When you
remove a page the History no longer goes back to the start but stays at
the same place in the History if it can. (Requested by ajweiner) 18.
After you reclassify a message the History page stays at the same
position (at the reclassified message). (Requested by harleythebrave,
transit) 19. The installer now picks up old settings from a current
POPFile install to fill in the options on the final dialog. (Requested
by harleythebrave) 20. Added two new options -logdir and -msgdir to
specify the location of the log directory (default to ./) and the
messages (where the history is stored; defaults to messages/).
(Requested by nobody) 21. Search in History now works on From as well
as Subject. (Requested by transit) 22. The navigation from page to page
in the History is now at the top and at the bottom of the page.
(Requested by transit, nobody, nobody, nobody) 23. There are new
[Remove] buttons on each message in the History to let you remove
messages one by one. (Requested by nobody) 24. The X-POPFile-Link:
repositions the History page at the message selected when you click the
link. (Requested by zonk3r) 25. There is a new filter for unclassified
messages. (Requested by nobody) 26. New -toptoo command line option
enables classification on the POP3 TOP command and is only recommended
for people on fast connections. (Requested by jberkes) 27. When viewing
a colorized message there is a blank line between the header and the
body of the message. (Requested by whiteg) 28. Message IDs (and History
filenames) are now globally unique per POPFile install. (Requested by
helphand) 29. You can now control the inclusion of the
X-Text-Classification and X- POPFile-Link headers. (Requested by
nobody) 30. Refreshing a page does not repeat the action any more.
(Reported by nobody) 31. Fixed a bug where magnets with certain
characters in them (e.g. [ or <) did not work and could not be deleted.
(Reported by nobody, nobody, nobody, alanmuk, boneill, bana-sea-) 32.
Fixed a bug where you could make POPFile exit with a divide by zero
error if you started it with no corpus and then tried to Lookup a
word's probability. (Reported by sunshine, gribnif) 33. Fixed a bug
where the Shutdown link on the POPFile Control Center did not work if
the UI password had been set. (Reported by actoews, nobody) 34. Fixed
an embarassing bug where any POP server that contained the word 'stat'
would not work with POPFile. (Reported by nobody, markabcxyz) 35. Fixed
a bug where To magnets did not work correctly in the presence of other
To style email headers. (Reported by dyoungmcwicom) 36. Fixed a bug
where a specific email was causing the History page to lock up when you
tried to view the colorized version. (Reported by ajweiner) 37. Fixed a
bug where having pages in POPFile automatically refresh every ten
minutes could cause POPFile to repeat an action (such as
Reclassification) every 10 minutes. (Reported by mayfoev) 38. Fixed a
bug where parts of a > attribute could appear in the From or Subject
lines on the History (Reported and fixed by sschinke) 39. Fixed a bug
where some CLS and MSG files were not getting deleted from the History
when they were no longer needed. (Reported by helphand) TRANSLATIONS
Thanks to the following for helping to make POPFile a global piece of
software: Brazilian Adriano RG Danish Nicki Brøchner Nielsen Dutch
Jilles Oldenbeuving French Antony Boucher German Matthias Deege
Norweigian Jo Inge Fjellstad Russian Alexander Saltanov Please
translate the UI and the manual into your language. DONATIONS Thank you
to everyone who as clicked the Feed Me! button and donated their hard
earned cash to me in support of POPFile. Thank you also to the people
who have contributed patches, feature requests and bug reports. Keep
the ideas and bug reports coming. John.
samba-vscan 0.3.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250483
The new release offers some performance improvements, a basic ICAP
client to re-enable Symantec support, some fixes for F-Prot daemon and
updates for mks. samba-vscan is a proof-of-concept module for Samba,
which uses the VFS (virtual file system) features of Samba 2.2.x/3.0
alphaX to provide on-access virus scanning. Samba is an Open
Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print
services to SMB/CIFS clients
Slashdot
Finally, A Working NES!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/140233
[0]vandel405 writes "We've seen the [1]NES PC Conversion, and we've all
lusted over the [2]top-loading NES. But, top-loading NES's aren't
something you're going to pick up at a garage sale. How can you
resurrect your 8 bit console hero? Easy, with this news guide from
[3]ArsTechnica! Now you can make your 8Bit NES as reliable as your
linux kernel. No more Blow and Pray!"
Links
0. http://www.neo-modus.com
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1346203&tid=137
2. http://www.vgmuseum.com/systems/topnes/
3. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-1.html
Slashdot over IPv6
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/2036205
[0]fuzzel writes "Even though Slashdot has run a number of articles
about IPv6 ([1]1|[2]2|[3]3) it apparently isn't reachable over IPv6
directly. But for the people that do already have IPv6 they can use
[4]http://slashdot.org.sixxs.org and they will be automaticaly
gatewayed. This trick works for most sites by simply appending
.sixxs.org to the domain part of a url, eg
[5]http://www.google.com.sixxs.org, the gateway will the rewrite url's
to have it appended automatically so that everything goes over IPv6.
Full information is available on [6]http://ipv6gate.sixxs.net. Oh and
yes if you don't have IPv6, those domains under sixxs.org won't work
:)"
Links
0. http://unfix.org
1. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/2038223&tid=156
2. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/01/1747254&tid=99
3. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/14/176224&tid=99
4. http://slashdot.org.sixxs.org/
5. http://www.google.com.sixxs.org/
6. http://ipv6gate.sixxs.net/
Sony's MMORPG "Sovereign" Dead
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/2344238
[0]Gudlyf writes "Although the [1]main site for this
massive-multiplayer game by [2]Sony (once known as Verant) was updated
at some point late last year, it seems that [3]according to CNN Money,
it's gone quietly dead after 4.5 years in development (reminds me of
why I posted my vote in a [4]previous story on vaporware): "Work on
'Sovereign,' a massively multiplayer real time strategy game, has been
terminated after more than four-and-a-half years of development.
Ambitious in nature, the game had hoped to replicate a continuous
global war that supported up to 500 players. Diplomacy would have
played as significant a role as the player's tactical abilities. 'We
came to a decision that it was not going to be what we wanted it to
be,' said McDaniel. 'It never really had the magic.'""
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://sovereign.station.sony.com/
2. http://www.sonyonline.com/
3. http://money.cnn.com/2003/02/11/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/02/2211205&tid=133
Mozilla, Gecko, Netscape, And Their Future At AOL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/2117202
[0]bluephone writes "I've been lucky enough to receive some interesting
information from within the Netscape/AOLTW firewall, although in light
of AOL's recent [1]massive losses, [1]poor outlook, and high profile
execs [2]resigning their [3]positions, I'm not sure if these battle
plans are still intact. As it stands, Netscape 7.x has one major
release left for the forseeable future, but Gecko will soon overshadow
everything, becoming the core platform for all of AOL's Internet
content distribution. For all the details and much more, read it
[4]here."
Links
0. http://{jesus_x} {at} {mozillanews.org}
1. http://money.cnn.com/2003/01/29/technology/aol/index.htm
2. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/12/case.resignation/index.html
3. http://money.cnn.com/2003/01/29/news/companies/turner/index.htm
4. http://www.mozillanews.org/index.php3?article=ee36b2404cfa65b733ae1190a7f6405b
Intel Announces New, Slower, Chip
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/2048227
[0]kshkval writes "According to [1]Business Week, [2]Intel is marketing
the [3]Centrino, a 1.6 Ghz chip that is slower than previous laptop
processors from Intel, but does more. Hey, isn't that what Apple and
AMD have gotten so much guff about? The worm turns..."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2003/tc20030211_8644_tc119.htm
2. http://intel.com
3. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20030108corp.htm
Plex86 Lives, As Lightweight VM Technology
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/2059250
[0]Kevin P. Lawton writes "[0]Plex86 has been completely overhauled,
and simplified to be a user (application) code only Virtual Machine
technology. For running user code, many of the heavy weight x86-VM
techniques are unnecessary. But the bonus is, Linux can easily be made
to run inside the plex86 VM, so that the kernel is actually 'pushed
down' to user privilege level. This has been demonstrated on both
[1]Linux 2.4 and [2]2.5 kernels. Thus, Linux can run in a plex86 VM
without the need for any heavy virtualization. My goal is to keep the
code base trim, tight, auditable and get to usable releases quickly.
And to favor those goals over adding unnecessary complexities. The
first milestones have just been reached, so it's still early in
development. There are email lists available on the main plex86 site."
Links
0. http://plex86.sourceforge.net/
1. http://plex86.sourceforge.net/xclipboard.jpg
2. http://plex86.sourceforge.net/linux2.5.59-vga.txt
House and Senate Reject E-mail Surveillance
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/223219
[0]vena writes "The Star Tribune reports the House and Senate today
[1]agreed not to allow email surveillance of American citizens proposed
by the Total Information Awareness program. Additionally, negotiators
agreed to halt all future funding on the program without extensive
consultation with Congress."
Links
0. http://www.vena.net
1. http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/3647992.html
Optimizing Linux Advocacy Efforts
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/2045249
An anonymous reader writes "Open source advocate Tony Stanco, of the
George Washington University [0]Cyberspace Policy Institute has been
[1]getting flamed for allowing Microsoft reps to speak at an [2]Open
Source in government conference he's putting on next month. Today, in
[3]a commentary on NewsForge, Tony responds to the flamers. He says,
"Leave it to the kooks in the community to make Microsoft look
sympathetic." Is he right? Should we be willing to listen to what
Microsoft has to say? Aren't open minds important to open source?"
Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.
Links
0. http://www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu/home.php
1. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/2138247
2. http://egovos.org/march-2003/
3. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2118256&tid=19
NCR Patents the Internet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/200209
An anonymous reader writes "We all know about NCR's lawsuit against
Palm & Handspring, but I haven't seen much press about patent
infringements they are claiming against some of the biggest sites on
the planet. According to documentation that a friend's company has
recently received, their patents protect everything from keyword
searching to product categorization. Patents to look for (and filed in
1998) include [0]6,253,203, [1]6,169,997, [2]6,151,601, [3]6,085,223
and [4]5,991,791 . IMHO, this is absolutely outrageous and is likely to
cause billions in both legal fees and eventual licensing fees (eBay,
Amazon and MSFT have already licensed from NCR). How is this not the
lead story on every site? every day? Maybe because no one wants to get
sued for having an online business."
Links
0.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6253203.WKU.&OS=PN/6253203&RS=PN/6253203
1.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6169997.WKU.&OS=PN/6169997&RS=PN/6169997
2.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6151601.WKU.&OS=PN/6151601&RS=PN/6151601
3.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6085223.WKU.&OS=PN/6085223&RS=PN/6085223
4.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5991791.WKU.&OS=PN/5991791&RS=PN/5991791
Snowboarding Soul Ride Engine Goes GPL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/1735246
TuringTest writes "LinuxGames reports this [0]news update at the
[1]Soul Ride game site. Soul Ride is a snowboarding game with real
character physics, and its engine is now released under GPL and
[2]available for download. You may see its [3]beautiful screenshots
until it gets /.ed. Note that only the engine is GPL'd, not the artwork
and data. Can you imagine a GPL game with the Fellowship of the Ring
crossing the Caradhras with [4]these graphics?" I hope this release
spawns a Linux-friendly snowboarding simulator -- Soul Ride is limited
to Windows (9X, NT, 2000) for now.
Links
0. http://www.soulride.com/products/news.html
1. http://www.soulride.com/products/sr_features.html
2. http://sourceforge.net/projects/soulride
3. http://www.soulride.com/products/screenshots/screen.pl?num=11
4. http://www.soulride.com/products/screenshots/screen.pl?num=18
Freshmeat
ADODB 3.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112708/
ADODB is a set of advanced PHP database abtraction classes. It supports
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere,
Oracle, MS SQL 7, Sybase, DB2, FrontBase, Foxpro, Access, ADO, and
generic ODBC. A metatype system is built in, making it possible to
figure out that types such as CHAR, TEXT, and STRING are equivalent in
different databases. It also features an SQL to HTML popup menu and SQL
to HTML table support. It has code to support record paging and
blob/clob support.
Anthill Pro Build and Release Management Server 2.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112673/
Anthill Pro is an automated manager for the build and release process
of software development. It can provide daily reports of an overnight
build, with automated test runs, a revision log which lists newly
implemented features. Anthill Pro adds to the already robust feature
set of the open source version of Anthill. Anthill Pro is easy to use
in heterogeneous environments since it allows you to use different JDKs
and different classpaths to build different projects. It also provides
robust support for project dependencies, allowing you to rebuild all
dependent projects with the latest version of a dependency. Every
project can store its latest artifacts in Anthill's built-in
repository, and Anthill gives you the ability to rebuild any previously
built version.
apachelogrotate.pl 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112736/
apachelogrotate.pl rotates and packs the logfiles of the Apache Web
server on a Linux system without interrupting its service and without
the need for a permanent change in the Web server configuration.
Assuming that Apache is running, it will identify the log files which
have to be rotated without any configuration, making it easy to
install. By default, logfiles with more than 10 MB are rotated, but
this parameter may be changed and/or a daily, monthly, or yearly
rotation period can be configured. Documentation is included in the
script itself.
appendX 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112813/
appendX is a steganography tool which simply appends data to other
files (like JPEGs or PNGs) to hide it. It supports PGP header
stripping.
Apple Safari 1.0 Beta (v60)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112801/
Safari is Apple's Web browser based on the Konqueror rendering engine.
It offers outstanding performance, rendering even the most complex of
pages at high speed. It uses advanced Mac OS X interface technologies
to offer an all-new, much easier view of the Web, and features an
advanced bookmark manager, built-in Google search, seamless downloads,
and a pop-up blocking mechanism.
Axualize 1.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112768/
Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java
objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to
allow developers to create Java applications dynamically using XML. To
understand how this could be useful, imagine a J2EE application with
multiple client UIs being generated from Web applications. Using
Axualize, you can present multiple form-based GUI front ends to your
application by dropping in a Web application which builds your GUI
applications using Axualize XML generated with JSP and whatever
application framework you please.
beltane 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112749/
Beltane is a Web-based central management console for the samhain file
integrity system. If samhain is used in a client/server setup, beltane
enables the administrator to browse client reports, acknowledge them,
and update file signature databases stored centrally on the log server.
BitLife 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112759/
BitLife is an implementation of life using boolean operations (AND, OR,
XOR), computing each new cell from 9 bits (itself & neighbours).
It's performed in parallel on the whole image by bitblit operations
(with hardware accelearation where possible). This also allows many
parallel life games to run in each bitplane of the screen, giving a
translucent blending effect. A proof-of-concept Python (pygame/Numeric)
implementation and an xscreensaver hack are included.
Blender 2.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112782/
Blender is the in-house software of a high quality animation studio. It
has proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design instrument. The
software has a personal touch, offering a unique approach to the world
of three dimensions. Blender can be used to create TV commercials, to
make technical visualizations or business graphics, to do some
morphing, or to design user interfaces. Developers can easily build and
manage complex environments. The renderer is versatile and extremely
fast. All basic animation principles (curves and keys) are implemented.
Bugzero 2.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112731/
Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and
incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software,
hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database
system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects,
group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email
notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced
search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control
integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project
configuration and user account management.
Castor 0.9.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112733/
Castor is the shortest path between Java[tm] objects, XML documents,
SQL tables and LDAP directories. It provides Java to XML binding, Java
to SQL/LDAP persistence, and then some more. Features include Castor
XML: Java object to XML document, Castor JDO: Java object persistence
to RDBMS, Castor DAX: Java object persistence to LDAP, Castor DSML:
LDAP directory exchange through XML, XML-based mapping file specify the
mapping between one model and another, in memory caching and
write-at-commit which reduce JDBC operations, OQL query mapping to SQL
queries, and EJB container managed persistence provider for OpenEJB
CDLoop 3.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112777/
CDloop is an audio CD player with special looping capabilities,
intended for musicians who want to analyze or play along to parts of a
CD. The boundaries of the looped area on the CD can be adjusted in
small steps, and cdloop can pause before repeating the loop again so
you 'stay in the groove'. You can save your loop boundaries as
bookmarks. It runs under Linux/X11 with guile-gtk.
CGIForum 1.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112798/
CGIForum is a highly configurable template-based discussion board. It
supports expandable/collapsible threads of unlimited depth, name
registration with password encryption, multiple sections from within a
single script, previewing, searching, and marking of new entries. It
also lets you specify date-ranges to limit the number of displayed
entries. The included administration script lets you change, delete,
and restore entries at any time.
CryptoHeaven 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112728/
CryptoHeaven offers secure email and online file sharing/storage. Its
main features are secure and highly encrypted services such as group
collaboration, file sharing, email, online storage, and instant
messaging. It integrates multi-user based security into email, instant
messaging, and file storage and sharing in one unique package. It
provides real time communication for text and data transfers in a
multi-user secure environment. The security and usability of
CryptoHeaven is well-balanced; even the no-so-technically oriented
computer users can enjoy this crypto product with very high level of
encryption.
DarkIce 0.13.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112765/
DarkIce is an Icecast, Icecast2, and Shoutcast live audio streamer. It
takes audio input from a sound card, encodes it into MP3/Ogg Vorbis,
and sends the stream to one or more servers (Icecast/Shoutcast if it's
MP3, and Icecast2 if it's Ogg Vorbis).
DTDDoc 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112797/
DTDDoc is designed to help document your DTDs efficiently. It is a
straightforward extension of the Javadoc concept, and a not so
straightforward implementation of some of the concepts solidified by
Donald E. Knuth.
EPD Core 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112763/
EPD Core is a business software framework written in PHP. It is
designed to be modular so functionality can easily be added to it by
other developers. The goal of EPD Core is to produce a plug-in
framework for business applications that joins them together seamlessly
and reduces redundancy.
Expresso Framework 5.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112753/
Expresso Framework is an open standards-based J2EE architectural
framework that allows the developer to concentrate on application
logic. It is a library of extensible Java Server application framework
components for creating database-driven Web applications based on open
standards. Expresso integrates with Apache Jakarta Struts, which
emphasizes presentation and application configuration, and bringing a
powerful tag library to Expresso. Expresso adds capabilities for
security, robust object-relational mapping, background job handling and
scheduling, self-tests, logging integration, automated table
manipulation, database connection pooling, email connectivity, event
notification, error handling, caching, internationalization, XML
automation, testing, registration objects, configuration management,
workflow, automatic database maintenance, and a JSP tag library.
eXtended Account Managing Software 0.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112784/
eXtended Account Managing Software (XAMS) allows Administration of
Unix, Web, FTP, DNS, and email accounts to manage a provider's typical
userbase. Especially focusing on email account management, it enables
you to easily create accounts, set aliases, and delegate domain
administration to 2nd party resellers or customers. It uses PHP with
MySQL or PostgreSQL as a backend, and is therefore able to manage tons
of email accounts independently from your Unix/Linux accounts. Exim for
SMTP and Courier for POP/IMAP are fully supported, but postfix, Cyrus,
and qmail can be used too.
Fractal View 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112713/
Fractal View is a fractal viewing application that can be used to
explore common fractal sets. It runs full-screen, supports four
different fractal sets, has 22 different color palletes, support for
PNG files, and performs anti-aliasing and zooming in all sets.
FUDforum 2.3.8RC2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112754/
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.
GKrellMBUPS 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112771/
GKrellMBUPS is a plugin for GKrellM which allows the status of a Belkin
UPS to be displayed in a number of charts. Belkin's Sentry Bulldog
software must be installed and the upsd service running for this plugin
to operate.
GNUitar 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112735/
GNUitar is guitar effects software that allows you to use your PC as
guitar processor. It includes the following effects: wah-wah, sustain,
distortion, reverberator, echo, delay, tremolo, vibrato, and
chorus/flanger.
GPL Arcade Volleyball 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112742/
GAV (GPL Arcade Volleyball) is an object-oriented multi-platform Arcade
Volleyball clone. It supports multiplayer and theme customization.
Grip 3.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112767/
Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It
has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use
external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated
frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc,
xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform
it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported.
Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information
from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a
unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.
gwavmerger 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112722/
gwavmerger is an interactive memory training tool that is designed to
assist with learning foreign languages. It helps you to memorize long
passages of text.
IceWM Icons 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112695/
IceWM Icons is a set of XPM 16x16 and 32x32 icons for IceWM. It also
includes an improved winoptions file to add icons of some applications
to frames and the taskbar.
iptacct 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112727/
iptacct is an iptables/netfilter accounting tool written in perl. It
uses an XML configuration file and stores the data in a completely
user-configurable, modular way. You can use any backend you want to use
in order to store the data, instead of being forced by the software to
save the accounting data in a SQL database, a text file, or an RRD
database.
Jamon 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112718/
Jamon is a text template engine for Java that is useful for generating
dynamic HTML, XML, or any text-based content. It has a rich feature set
that supports encapsulation, parameterization, functional
decomposition, and reuse of presentation logic. Templates declare the
arguments they require for rendering, including dynamic template
content ("fragments"), and are translated into Java classes
with public methods whose signatures reflect the arguments declared in
the templates. This provides compile-time type- checking as well as
excellent performance.
jCIFS 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112786/
jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely
follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes,
batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted
authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file
enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol
handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication,
and more.
JFtp 1.00pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112752/
JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the
basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive
directory upload, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume
downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API
is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party
applications or in a command-line mode.
Kino 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112741/
Kino is a non-linear DV (digital video) editor for GNU/Linux. It
features integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and
recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in RawDV and
AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream)
encodings. You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of
video/audio, and save to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most
edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands.
Also, Kino can load movies and export the composite movie in a number
of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3,
Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX. Still frame export uses Imlib1,
which has built-in support for PPM, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and whatever
your ImageMagick installation supports.
kkeyled 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112703/
KKeyled is a KDE panel tray widget which displays the LED states of the
keyboard (ie. Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock). It is particularly
useful for wireless keyboards without LEDs, and can be used to set the
LED states of the keyboard aswell.
LAoE 0.6.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112796/
LAoE is a graphical audiosample-editor, based on multi-layers,
floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, and
many plugins suitable to manipulate sound, such as filtering,
retouching, resampling, graphical spectrogram editing by brushes and
rectangles, sample-curve editing by freehand-pen and spline and other
interpolation curves, effects like reverb, echo, compress, expand,
pitch-shift, time-stretch, and much more.
Login Anomaly Detection System 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112809/
The Login Anomaly Detection System (LADS) detects anomalies in logins
and logouts and is able to perform various actions in response.
LRs-Linux 0.3.1-rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112800/
LRs-Linux is based upon Linux From Scratch (LFS). In contrast to LFS
and most common distros, LRs Linux has the ability to compile directly
from the CD. This means that binaries can be natively compiled for the
target host during the install, enhancing the performance of the
resultant system. The install process is largely automated.
lx_lib structural memory library 20030130-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112758/
lx_lib is a structural C data library designed for security,
functionality, speed, and convenience (in that order). Memory
allocation is handled using structures and may be performed
automatically. This promotes (among other things) more secure
programming practices, obviates the need to traverse a data buffer to
find its length, supersedes the practice of keeping the current
allocated amount in a separate variable or overallocating, and enables
strings to contain binary zeroes. Generic descriptors allow for better
buffering practices, hence potentially faster reading and writing
operations. They also allow for trivial (and fast) delimiter separation
during reads.
metalib 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112788/
metalib is a Python library which reads meta information from files
without using native code. Its interface can be simple or advanced,
depending on your needs. It can be used as a standalone program.
MobileRPC 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112732/
MobileRPC is a tool that generates all of the files required to enable
remote procedure calls (RPC) between J2ME client applications and Java
servlet servers.
mpiBLAST 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112719/
mpiBLAST is an MPI based parallel implementation of NCBI BLAST. It
consists of a pair of programs that replace formatdb and blastall with
versions that execute BLAST jobs in parallel on a cluster of computers
with MPI installed. There are two primary advantages to using mpiBLAST
versus traditional BLAST. First, mpiBLAST splits the database across
each node in the cluster. Because each node's segment of the database
is smaller it can usually reside in the buffer-cache, yielding a
significant speedup due to the elimination of disk I/O. Second, it
allows BLAST users to take advantage of efficient, low-cost Beowulf
clusters because interprocessor communication demands are low. mpiBLAST
achieves super-linear speedup in situations where the database is too
large to fit into RAM, and near linear speedup in other situations. It
does not require a dedicated cluster.
myDVDs 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112778/
myDVDs is a complete personal Web-based graphical DVD inventory
database based fully upon PHP with a MySQL backend and the master
Region1 DVD database. Additionally, it makes use of the :CueCat:
barcode reader for database Adds and Searches. It represents an easy
and efficient way of managing that ever-growing collection of DVDs.
netcount 0.3a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112783/
netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display
tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is
called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from
cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in
Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly
basis.
oidentd 2.0.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112729/
oidentd is an RFC 1413 compliant ident daemon which runs on Linux,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, OpenBSD, and Solaris. It can handle IP
masqueraded/NAT connections on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and
it has a flexible mechanism for specifying ident responses. Users can
be granted permission to specify their own ident responses. Responses
can be specified according to host and port pairs.
One-Wire Weather 0.68.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112734/
Oww (One-Wire Weather) is a client program for Dallas Semiconductor /
AAG 1-wire weather station kits, providing a graphical (animated)
display to monitor outside temperature, wind speed and direction,
rainfall, and humidity. Extra temperature sensors may be added. A
1-wire "hub" may be used for improved reliability and range.
Weather data may be logged to CSV files, parsed to command line
programs, sent to the Henriksen Windows client, or uploaded to Web
servers at Dallas, The Weather Underground, and HAMweather.
Perl Database Admin 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112815/
pDBAdmin is a Web-based administration tool for MySQL databases. It is
particularly suitable for fast and uncomplicated changes to table
contents.
perlbot 1.9.6 (Devel)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112791/
Perlbot is an IRC bot written in Perl. It depends on Net::IRC and its
goals are simplicity and modularity. The base bot allows auto-opping,
notes, multiple channels, etc., but much much more is possible through
the use of plugins. Many plugins are included, and it should be easy
for anyone with some knowledge of Perl to write her own.
PHP Generic Access Control List 3.1.0b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112774/
PHP Generic Access Control List provides a set of PHP functions giving
Web developers a simple, yet immensely powerful "drop in"
permission system for their current Web-based applications.
pkgconfig 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112787/
pkg-config is a system for managing library compile/link flags that
works with automake and autoconf. It replaces the ubiquitous *-config
scripts you may have seen with a single tool.
pycress 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112761/
pycress is a tiny tool to analyse the logfile access.log of squid.
rb.log 0.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112599/
rb.log is a full-featured weblogger written in Ruby. It features file
uploads, comments, blog- rolling, side-bar editing, bookmarklets, the
Blogger API, searching, RSS syndication, and archives. It also performs
well on slower machines by regenerating static pages after posts are
made.
rep-gtk 0.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112792/
rep-gtk is a binding of the GTK+ and GDK libraries for the librep Lisp
environment. It's currently targeted at GTK+ 1.2 and is based on the
Guile-gtk binding.
ReViewer 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112745/
ReViewer is an image viewer in Rebol that lets you view and sort
images, drag and drop thumbnails, and build a Web site with your
images.
samhain 1.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112750/
samhain is a daemon that can check file integrity, search the file tree
for SUID files, and detect kernel module rootkits (Linux only). It can
be used either standalone or as a client/server system for centralized
monitoring, with strong (192-bit AES) encryption for client/server
connections and the option to store databases and configuration files
on the server. For tamper resistance, it supports signed
database/configuration files and signed reports/audit logs. It has been
tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Unixware.
Samsung Contact 8.0.0 (Clients)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112757/
Samsung Contact is Samsung SDS's Linux/Unix unified communication,
business messaging, and collaboration system. It supports desktops
running Microsoft Outlook, including support for calendaring, wide-area
scheduling, public folders, and delegation.
SDBA Revolution 1.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112744/
SDBA Revolution is an open-source server written in Perl which provides
an architecture to simplify and streamline the process of writing
applications that run on an instant messaging network. It features easy
scripting of IM responses, session variables which are consistent
across messages, session time limits, support for multiple
"apps" from one bot, basic security, and the ability to use
multiple access lists of password files. It makes writing IM apps very
much like writing mod_perl or PHP pages. The homepage has full
tutorials and documentation.
SGI XFS / Red Hat Linux system installer 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112794/
The SGI XFS installer for Red Hat Linux is a modified version of Red
Hat's anaconda system installer. It is available as a bootable ISO
which works with current Red Hat Linux installation media to allow you
to set up a new system running Red Hat Linux on SGI's XFS filesystem.
shorten 3.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112795/
shorten is a lossy/lossless audio compressor.
SimpleCDR-X 1.3-pre1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112812/
SimpleCDR-X is a GTK+ based frontend for CD writing, mastering, and
audio manipulation. Its design goals include ease of use and a clean
interface without compromising functionality. SimpleCDR-X utilizes many
common utilities such as cdrecord, cdrdao, mkisofs, cdparanoia,
cdda2wav, mpg123, ogg tools, and lame. SimpleCDR-X supports on-the-fly
CD track ripping to MP3 or OGG and importing of MP3 or OGG files to CD
in Audio CD Mastering. SimpleCDR-X also features CD Copying, burning
from a saved ISO, and Data CD Mastering.
SkunkWeb 3.4b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112720/
SkunkWeb is a scalable, extensible, and easy-to-use Web application
server written in Python. It is designed for handling both high-traffic
sites and smaller sites. Its features include a powerful component
model and an elegant templating language that encourages
component-based design, highly configurable caching (on disk and/or in
memory) of compiled templates and component output, message catalog
support for i18n, and remote component calls. It can be used with
Apache via an Apache module, or it can serve HTTP requests directly.
Smarty PHP template engine 2.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112781/
Smarty is a template engine for PHP. Many other template engines for
PHP provide basic variable substitution and dynamic block
functionality. Smarty takes a step further to be a "smart"
template engine, adding features such as configuration files, template
functions, and variable modifiers, and making all of this functionality
as easy as possible to use for both programmers and template designers.
Smarty also converts the templates into PHP scripts, eliminating the
need to parse the templates on every invocation. This makes Smarty
extremely scalable and managable for large application needs.
SmsSend 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112789/
SmsSend allows you to send free SMS to any GSM, connecting to Internet
sites using scripts. It is available both for Windows and Unix.
StatFreak 0.5.3 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112769/
StatFreak is a generator of skinnable, customizable IRC statistics. It
is a Perl script which reads eggdrop and mIRC logs and outputs an XHTML
file containing statistical information.
SuckBot 0.007
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112799/
SuckBot is an IRC bot written entirely from scratch, and entirely in C.
Its focus is to be lightweight and extremely modular. It supports
dynamic plugins that can be loaded/unloaded during runtime without
interruption. It is still in the early development stages. Some
programming experience is necessary to use it. It has been tested on
Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
Sylpheed 0.8.10claws (Claws)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112738/
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.
The Tamber Project 1.2pre5 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112756/
The Tamber project is a componentized n-tier Web site engine that uses
open languages such as XML and JavaScript. Content is stored in
separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects. Business
functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP. Presentation is
controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over
multiple channels such as HTML, WAP, and MHEG. Currently, Tamber can
deliver to HTML and WAP, and contains modules that support e-commerce
shopping carts, secure sign in, data access and conversion services,
and advanced session management.
Tiger Envelopes 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112751/
Tiger Envelopes makes cryptography work with almost any email software.
It is a personal mail proxy server with automatic encryption. Tiger
uses SMTP and POP3 to work with almost any mail client, CORBA and
crypto plugins to work with almost any type of cryptography, and Java
to run on almost any operating system. Plugins for PGP and GPG are
included.
TkNap 0.5.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112715/
TkNap is a bare-bones napster client written in Tcl/Tk. It supports
chat, firewalled download and upload, hotlists, and a limited set of
privileged user (e.g. moderator/admin) functions.
trollhunter 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112747/
trollhunter offers various tools to either analyze existing logfiles or
monitor firewall activity in real time. Currently standard log messages
generated by a Linux 2.4 kernel netfilter/iptables firewall are
supported. You can choose from a Perl/Tk interface or run in
commandline standard ASCII color TTY terminal.
uClibc 0.9.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112760/
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.
UnicodeConverter 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112780/
UnicodeConverter is a Java/Windows/.NET program that converts text and
HTML files in Vietnamese legacy formats (VNI, VISCII, VPS, TCVN, or
VIQR/Vietnet) to Unicode UTF-8. The .NET version includes support for
conversion of Word documents to Unicode native format.
VietPad 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112779/
VietPad is a Java/.NET cross-platform Vietnamese Unicode text editor
which allows you to open, edit, convert, print, and save Vietnamese
text files in Unicode formats.
Virtual Object System 0.11.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112717/
The Virtual Object System (VOS) is an infrastructure and collection of
applications for building a multiuser object-oriented virtual reality
for the Internet. An abstract messaging layer (the VOS core) provides a
powerful abstraction, presenting a peer-to-peer distributed system as a
single unified whole. The 3D client (Ter'Angreal) enables any number of
users to interact in a virtual environment by communicating with one
another and by modifying and building onto the virtual environment
itself. This projects aims to realize the vision of a free 3D immersive
Internet.
Visage Information Organizer 0.2alpha1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112748/
Visage is a program you can use to rapidly organize and visualize
information. You can use it to organize your thoughts or any sort of
information that needs to be thoroughly cross-referenced.
Visage Information Organizer 0.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112746/
Visage is a program you can use to rapidly organize and visualize
information. You can use it to organize your thoughts or any sort of
information that needs to be thoroughly cross-referenced.
wshare 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112712/
wshare is a command line-driven HTTP server that requires no setup or
configuration prior to execution. All directories listed on the command
line are indexed and shared via HTTP.
XFS 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112793/
XFS is a high-performance journaling file system. It provides quick
recovery after a crash, fast transactions, high scalability, and
excellent bandwidth.
XML Indent 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112776/
XML Indent is an XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is
analogous to GNU indent.
xrmap 2.25 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112764/
Xrmap is a program running under X that can interactively display
portions of the Earth, using the huge CIA world vector map. It is based
on an earlier console utility 'rmap'. It features political boundaries,
major and minor rivers, glaciers, lakes, canals, etc. The map remains
accurate under a very large zoom factor, which can possibly exceed 100.
Spherical, rectangular, Mercator and Miller projections are
implemented, and all features can be interactively set from the GUI.
XT-Mail 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112714/
XT-Mail scans the contents of email messages using the Exim local_scan
feature. It operates after the sending client has completed the SMTP
data phase and is waiting for an answer from the servers. Messages
containing unwanted content can be rejected, redirected, or blackholed.
It supports the F-Protd Daemon and SpamAssassin, and handles compressed
attachments.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112755/
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.
Zoidberg 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112770/
Zoidberg provides a shell written, configured, and operated in Perl. It
is ideal to debug Perl programs, and allows users to access live Perl
objects with the same ease as a file system. It also aspires to be a
fully operational login shell with all the features one expects.
Slashcode
How do add a field to the 'newuser' form?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/0248246
Okay, I posted a similar question before, but since it didn't get
posted, I am trying to simplify my question (always a good idea ;-) :
When users sign up for their id, the current form asks for id and email
address. I would like to add a zipcode field and have that parsed and
added to the database. I know how to add the column and I will probably
put the zipcode into a new table as to not break things when I upgrade
to a new slash. My question is: how do I: get the form to show the
zipcode field (I looked at users.pl and am a bit confused) get the
zipcode into my database (since the call 'createUser' [users.pl line
419] calls the Environment.pm library which I don't want to mess with)
My idea was to maybe do a db call directly inside users.pl to add the
new uid (as a primary key) and the associated zip into its own table.
Any suggestions? Michael
Orion Robots - From Sol to Sirius
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1737206
This is really just a shameless plug. I wanted to let those people at
slash know about my site at orionrobots.dyndns.org. The site
specializes in robotics discussions, and will grow to include
galleries, robot design submissions and much technical info. all with
the ability to search and comment! Hooray for slash! --spacejunkie
Email Plugin?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/0313227
I'm in charge of a slashsite for the drama department at my school, and
I've had some requests from users and authors of email forwards from
their [EMAIL PROTECTED] to their actual email addresses. I was
wondering if anyone knew of a plugin or a simple-ish method of writing
a plugin that would be able to do that. Thanks!
How to point new_motd.pl to a new file?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/0319225
I'm trying to make new_motd.pl to use my own quotes that are relevant
to my site. Here's what I've done so far : Created text file with
quotes (myfile). Ran strfile -r myfile. Changed new_motd.pl to:
chomp(my $t = `/usr/games/fortune 100% myfile`); Well, it's not working
- anyone know what's up?
Ideas for an Online FAQ
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/0310243
So I am thinking about creating a section on Slashcode.com just for a
FAQ. We can use subsections to seperate out the FAQ (AKA Install,
MySQL, Slashd...) and if someone would be willing to come up with new
topics (for that matter new topics and icons are normally welcome) we
could use those. The thing is, would it be useful? Would a number of
you be willing to write up pieces of the FAQ? All you would need to do
is submit them as stories.
Bad install of libapreq-1.1
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/1737226
Problems with comments not getting updated and slashd hanging there
after. I noticed that my slash site was running just fine til someone
posted a comment. When they posted a comment and freshenup.pl ran it
updated the articles and ran /htdocs/index.pl. I'd then see index.pl
hung in my ps -ax. Once I killed the process everything ran fine (but
wouldn't update the index.shtml page til the next freshenup.pl call!)
So, I remembered some vague cpan install problem that required a manual
install from my .cpan/build directory. I searched for a way to remove
perl modules and found a script (thank you Alan Burlison you're a GOD)
that let me remove the libapreq-1.1 stuff. Once removed, I installed
the 1.0 version and things are running like a champ! You'll remember
that libapreq has Apache::Cookie in it. Hope this helps folks out.
Libapreq-1.1 just came out on January 31, 2003! (Which is why my
previous test installs were by the book and this one done this weekend
BOMBED!)And yes... I bought the book!P.S. If you're like me, and didn't
install slash in /usr/local like a good boy you'll need to change your
slashdir & sbindir variables accordingly. Apparently when you edit
your slash make file and change slash_prefix(?) it doesn't propogate to
these two fields. (I know, I'm such a pagan!)
Slash on OS X
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/1723252
I'm thinking of using Slash to host a site from my machine running OS
X. Has anyone had any luck following the INSTALL under Darwin and
actually getting Slash up and running? Or is there a good HOWTO I can't
find? Or best of all, can someone put together a .pkg to accompany the
.rpm?
How do I add additional fields in users.pl
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/0657222
I want to add a zip code field to the signup form for new users. Now,
obviously the generation of the form as well as the processing (and
saving the data in the DB) all happens through users.pl. My Perl skills
are VERY rusty and the last time I touched it (Perl 4) there were not
subs, so when I looked at the code it confused the hell out of me. Is
there an example out there of where someone added additonal fields?
Obviously, the zip code field needs to be there when users sign up,
needs to be processed and the field stored in the db (I know how to
create the column ;-) and if someone makes changes in his preferences,
it needs to show up there as well. I know this is a lot to ask, but can
somebody point me in the right direction? There is a line of code that
calls: if ($uid = $slashdb->createUser($matchname,
$form->{email}, $form->{newusernick})) { I assume that's where I
would add the new field. But what is $form-> and what do I need to
do to enable something like $form->{zipcode} ? Sorry for my
ignorance - I'm more of a Java guy... --Michael
Missing index.shtml (?)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/0655221
Ok... I've managed to get just about everything on the site working,
but now I've found a really bizarre error. It looks as if index.shtml
can't be found. Now, I don't know what's going on here, but after my
last install I decided I'd grab all of the latest plugins and install
them to see what they all did. Fine, right, except that I needed to
upgrade my slash too. Simple solution - get the latest via CVS, and
reinstall everything. However, the new install doesn't seem to have any
.shtml files anywhere except for the FAQ and a couple of others, and my
error log is telling me index.shtml can't be found. If I change the URL
from http://gytha.anu.edu.au to http://gytha.anu.edu.au/index.pl I get
past the 404. Also, once you've logged in, the 404 disappears. It seems
as if an anonymous user gets a 404, but once you've created an account
you're fine. My error log doesn't tell me anything except that I'm
missing index.shtml. Can someone help me out?
No year in date for articles
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2021253
Articles submitted and approved for the site have the date, but are
missing the year. For example a date looks like this: Wednesday January
29, @08:31PM The code in the appropriate template looks like this: [%
story.storytime %] I'm not sure at what point the "story" data
structure is generated. Probably that's where the problem is. Please
help.
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