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Books: High Score! The Illustrated History Of Electronic Games
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Computing: LED Light Sticks
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Cube Goodies: Activision 10-in-1 TV Games
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Cube Goodies: Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Games
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d39/
Computing: IQeye3 Network Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/netcams/5e3b/
Electronics: FM Transmitter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5dab/
Computing: UV-Treated Rounded Cables
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e1f/
Computing: 4-D Optical Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e45/
Books: Revolution OS DVD/VHS
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5dd5/
Gadgets: Wireless PenCam
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d8a/
Gadgets: WristLinx Communicator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5db8/
Gadgets: Laser-Sighted MiniTemp
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d95/
Computing: Labtec Axis 712 Digital USB Headset
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Computing: Fly Fan USB Fan
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Computing: Antec LanBoy Aluminum PC case
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Computing: UV-Treated 80mm Cooling Fans
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Computing: Viewsonic Airpanel Wireless 15" LCD
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Computing: Antec PlusView PC Case
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Computing: Klipsch GMX-D5.1
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Computing: iMic USB Audio Interface
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Sourceforge
SpamAssassin 2.52 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263444
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam using text analysis.
Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail
headers and body text, to identify "spam", or unsolicited commercial
email. The SpamAssassin 2.52 release contains a number of bugfixes.
Pick it up at http://spamassassin.org/downloads.html . Changes: - bug
1664: expiry imposed way too much load when a single site-wide Bayes db
was used, fixed - bug 1672: a typo in a backported patch for 2.51
caused Bayes to sometimes not unlock the db, fixed - INSTALL now
strongly recommends using DB_File - some NetBSD support fixes - bug
1601: option --syslog-socket wasn't implemented - bug 1260: corrected
description of --nocreate-prefs option
Licq 1.2.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262902
Licq 1.2.6 has been released. This version has quite a large change
log, so you should just check that out to see the many improvements.
Also, a new On Screen Display plugin has been released. Licq is an ICQ
clone written fully in C++. It uses an extensive plugin system to
manage many different functions. The main GUI is written using the Qt
widget set. Please see http://www.licq.org for information.
SoX 12.17.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262862
SoX is meant to be the Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utils. It
can convert audio files to other popular audio file types and also
apply sound effects and filters during the conversion. This release
adds support for reading and writing MP3 files using the external
libraries libmad and libmp3lame; and a number of bugfixes. I'd like to
announce the release of SoX 12.17.4. It is avaliable from
http://sox.sourceforge.net/. The following things have changed since
the release of SoX 12.17.3: o Peter Nyhlen fixed a problem with reading
Comments in Ogg Vorbis files. o Added install target to allow
installing libgsm from main Makefile. Leigh Smith. o Minor updates to
sox.c to free unused memory and close all input files during failures.
o Pieter Krul added a patch that makes play script look at AUDIODEV
environment variable if it exists to find which device to use. This
allows scripts to work with Solaris SunRays and is a good idea in
general. o Updated config.sub to detect latest supported OS's. o
Fabrizio Gennari added support for reading and writing MP3 files using
the external libraries libmad and libmp3lame. o Jens Henrik Goebbert
sent in several bugfixes for integer overflows in the compand effect. o
Dan Dickerman sent in patches for integer overflows in the resample
effect. o Jimen Ching sent in a fix for multi-channel sound file
processing using the avg effect. o Richards Bannister added patches to
clean up prototypes and filter private sizes being to small. o Jimen
Ching adds -d option to specify 64bit data size and changed Ulaw/Alaw
encoding to default to 8bit data size if not specified. o David Singer
pointed out that a MS program creates AIFF files with an invalid length
of 0 in its header. Changed SoX to warn the user but continue instead
of aborting since SoX can still read the file just fine. o Bert van
Leeuwen added a file handler for Psion record.app used for
System/Alarms in some Psion devices. o Richard Bannister sent in a
patch to make writing vorbis files work with Vorbis 1.0 libraries. o
Fixed configure scripts so that they can be ran with the
--with-oss-dsp, --with-alsa, and --with-sun-audio options. Was causing
compile time problems. Reported by Raul Coronado. o Change Ogg Vorbis
support to use VBR encoding to match defaults of oggenc based on
suggestion from Christian Weisgerber. o Prints error message now when a
channel value of -1 is given. Reported by Pierre Fortin. o Fixed bug
were memory could be trashed if a input WAV file contained a comment.
Found by Rhys Chard. o Change command line to compile soxmix.o slightly
to try and make Forte compiler happy. o Added support for ALSA 0.9
driver. Jimen Ching
FileZilla 2.1.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262828
FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. This
release provides a number of new features and bugfixes. New features: -
added statusbar to local and remote file list which shows the number of
(selected) folders and files with their size - added remote group /
owner column - sort settings of fileviews can be saved - Aborting file
exists dialog now skips transfer - enlarged transfer buffer, high-speed
FTP transfers should be slightly faster now. - renamed gssapi.dll into
FzGSS.dll. If you have gssapi.dll from older version in your FileZilla
folder, you can delete it. - improved exception handling - updated to
OpenSSL version 0.9.7a Fixed bugs: - FTP over SSL no longer forces
passive mode - remote column widths were not saved correctly - fixed
download options page in installer - fixed crash if no data was
sent/received during transfer for over 60 seconds and transfer did
continue then - silent installer now working properly (use /S switch)
NAT Monitor (natmonitor) v 0.5 STABLE relased
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262854
A graphical monitor to keep tracks of hosts bandwidth usage in a
Linux-NAT network. It autodetect hosts and has a nice summary
statistic. Now critical parts are complete. Program will still remain
in alpha state for a while, but seems stable and working. Next relase
will probabily have a better UI (I'm thinking about adding some menus
and a prefs windows) Download and test please, and summit me any
problem/bug!
TM4J 0.8.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262842
This is the latest stable release of TM4J. Primarily this release is a
bug-fix release. A number of bugs in the tolog query processing were
fixed. TM4J is a topic map engine implemented entirely in Java. Topic
maps are a standard paradigm for the interchange of knowledge
structures. This project aims to produce a complete suite of tools for
creating, processing and publishing topic map information. In addition,
this release clears up the way that resourceLocator and id properties
of objects interact when the topic map is exported to XTM files. For
more details see the release notes. Thanks to all those who reported
bugs with TM4J 0.8.1 and who provided patches and helpful comments.
Audacity sound editor 1.1.3 beta
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=261798
Audacity 1.1.3 is the latest development snapshot of Audacity, a
multitrack sound editor for MacOS, Linux and Windows. Version 1.1.3
includes a mixer toolbar for directly controlling the hardware input
and output levels and recording source, gain and pan controls in every
track, improved audio I/O with lower latency, higher quality
resampling, and more. Audacity's project files now use standard AU
files, so they can be read by other programs, but unfortunately this
version of Audacity cannot open project files written by previous
versions of Audacity.
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-03-18 EDITION
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262061
0. Intro 1. New RSS Feeds 2. New SF.NET Download mirrors. 3. Project of
the month 4. Work for SourceForge.net 5. Stats and Top Projects SF.NET
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Dear SourceForge.net Developer, With this sitewide update, I'm pleased
to announce two new enhancements to SourceForge.net. First, we've
implemented new RSS feeds that are accessible to all projects and
developers to aid in the publishing of information and project status
to other sites. Second, SF.NET has added two new download servers,
including our first mirror in Australia. Details below. Progress on IBM
DB2's deployment on SF.NET continues. We are in the final phases of
testing before we rollout it out to SouceForge.net itself. Currently,
only mailing list archives are being powered by DB2. As you might have
noticed in recent weeks, SF.net's project search database has been
overwhelmed at times. As we roll out DB2 to the rest of the site in
April, we expect this issue, and other issues like it to be resolved.
Finally, in this time of global political uncertainty, it is good to be
reminded that Open Source software has no boundaries. The work you do
on your Open Source project benefits countless individuals and nations
in every corner of the globe. Regardless of location, faith, or race,
developers are collaborating together to create software that will not
only benefit themselves, but all of humanity. At a time when it's hard
to see something positive in the news, remember in our own way, the
Open Source community is making a difference. Thank you for supporting
SourceForge.net and the Open Source software movement. As always, if
you have a question or want to share feedback regarding the site,
please feel free to email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pat- Patrick
McGovern Director, SF.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] New RSS Feeds.
--------------------------------------------- A convenient way to keep
up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site, project news, activity
information, and new projects is now available. SourceForge.net
provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed using an RSS reader
or aggregator (some content management systems also allow you include
data from an RSS feed on your website, much as Slashdot and Freshmeat
do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using these RSS feeds, you
can keep up-to-date with the latest project news and file releases,
Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics (such as top
projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed using the
"View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on the Summary
page for each project. Information about the full set of the available
SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including information on
the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete list of the
options available for each RSS feed, may be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1
New SF.NET Download mirrors.
--------------------------------------------- SF.NET now has two
additional download mirrors. The first, Flow Communications, is our
first mirror in Australia. We know, from looking at statistics, that
SF.NET has many enthusiastic developers 'down under'. We are very
excited that SF.net now has a server in Australia to allow users in
that part of the world acquire files faster. To learn more about Flow
Communication, please visit their website at: http://www.flow.com.au/
Our second new mirror is Aleron, located in Virgina, USA. Aleron
provides high-speed, high-performance Internet connectivity, data
transmission and value-added network applications for it's customers.
For more information, please visit their website at:
http://www.aleron.com/ The SF.NET team would like to thank Flow
Communications, Aleron, and our other download partners, in helping
distribute Open Source code and Open Source binaries around the world.
Currently SF.NET serves approximately 500,000 files daily and these
mirrors help a great deal in providing global accessibility to all of
the software generated by our 60,000 projects. SourceForge.net's March
2003 Project of the month.
--------------------------------------------- Keeping a team of people
on task and well organized is a difficult chore. There are timelines to
meet, information to organize, and the need to be more efficient.
SourceForge.net's March 2003 Project of the Month helps with all of
these difficult issues. TUTOS, 'The ultimate team organization
Software', is a broad focused Open Source Application targeted at
making groups of individuals more successful when collaborating. Tutos
Project of the month page: http://sourceforge.net/pom_0303.php Tutos
Home Page: http://www.tutos.org Tutos SF.NET Summary Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos Work for SourceForge.net
--------------------------------------------- We have a new position
for a senior web developer available at SourceForge.net. We are looking
for someone to help us maintain, upgrade, and add new features to
SourceForge.net. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of development
experience on high end, high volume websites (3+ million page views a
day). He/she as a vast level of knowledge of Internet technologies:
PHP, PostgreSQL, MYSQL, DB2, Linux, PERL, Apache, LDAP, Mailman. A
flare for design / UI is a bonus. SourceForge is a unique site with
unique challenges. We are looking for someone at the top of his/her
game. Location of Job is in Fremont, California. Please send resume and
URL's of sites you have worked on to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Text resumes
only. (No MSWORD files!) Stats and Top Projects.
--------------------------------------------- Number of Projects:
58,245 Number of Registered Users: 586,017 Daily Stats for March 12,
2003 SF.NET : 1,907,806 pages served SF.NET project web space :
3,211,337 pages served Total Pages: 5,119,143 CVS updates: 14,161 Open
Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 454,134 Outgoing Mailing list
emails: 1,362,151 Top 20 SourceForge.net Projects 1. Gaim
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is an all-in-one IM client
that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC,
Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu, all at once. Gaim is NOT
endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, MSN or Napster. 2.
phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a
tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over
the WWW. Currently, it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter
tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys
on fields. 3. XboxMediaPlayer http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/
The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to
play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2, MP3, JPG & other supported
video/audio/picture formats via your TV so it can used as a multimedia
jukebox. It also supports streaming media over a network. 4. DC++
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcplusplus/ This project is aimed at
producing a C++ version of the popular DirectConnect client, enhancing
functionality and performance. A hub (server) is planned. 5. JBoss.org
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading
Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server
implemented in 100% Pure Java. 6. eMule for Linux
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmule/ This is a Linux port of eMule
client (see http://www.emule-project.net) using wxWindows class
library. 7 Miranda IM Client
http://sourceforge.net/projects/miranda-icq/ A free Win32 instant
messaging client. Smaller, Faster, Easier. 8. zenTrack
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zentrack/ A complete project
management, bug tracking, ticket, and tech support/help desk/phone log
system. Tracker is configuable and adaptable; a simple design. Supports
most databases, including mySql, Oracle, postgres, others. Works on
Windows and Unix. 9. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution
http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for
Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas
from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M
revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier
functionality. 10. POPFile - Automatic Email Classification
http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ 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.
11. PCGen -- A Character Generator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen/ PCGen is a java character
generator and maintenance program. All datafiles are ASCII so they can
be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An
XML conversion is underway. 12. Dev-C++
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw
or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 13. ScummVM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform
interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like
Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It
also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 14.
Newsfighter http://sourceforge.net/projects/newsfighter/ Newsfighter is
a J2EE web portal designed and geared for indy media. It combines a
skinnable template engine with a host of web-based content management
features. Cross-site data sharing and trust modelling features are in
the queue. 1.5 FreeCraft real-time strategy game engine
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecraft/ This is a free
cross-platform real-time strategy game engine. It is possible to play
over LAN, internet or against the computer and to build C&C, W*rCr*ft,
St*rCr*ft or AOE like RTS games with it. Currently, only a W*rCr*ft II
compatible theme is available. 16. Hibernate
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/ Hibernate - Relational
Persistence for Idiomatic Java. 17. TUTOS
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ TUTOS is the ultimate team
organization software; a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage
events/calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes,
documents, and your time spent with these things. 18. XMeeting
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmeeting/ The project goal is to
produce a Mac OS X native application that does Internet VoIP and video
conferencing. The application will base on protocol stack developed by
openh323.org. 19. bitpim http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitpim/ BitPim
allows synchronization of Phone Book, Calendar, WallPapers and
RingTones with the LG VX4400 cell phone. 20. Fink
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/ Fink is an attempt to bring the
full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X.
Packages are downloaded, built automatically and installed into a tree
managed by dpkg.
New release lksctp-2_5_65-0_6_8 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262312
A new release of lksctp based on linux kernel 2.5.65 is available for
download. This includes a kernel patch against 2.5.65 that includes
sctp specific changes that didn't go into 2.5.65; and a lksctp tools
tar ball that includes the user level library and test programs for
sctp users and developers. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
is a reliable, message-oriented, multihomed transport protocol.
Developed by the IETF SIGTRAN working group to transport SS7 over IP,
it is now the third general-purpose transport developed by the IETF.
NOTE: Several users reported build/configure issues for the previous
release of lksctp-tools. We are still investigating this issue, but
have been unable to reproduce this issue locally. If you see the
following error: ... checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify' Try
`ltconfig --help' for more information. configure: error: libtool
configure failed make: *** [config.status] Error 1 we'd greatly
appreciate any debugging/fix for the issue. Best Regards, Jon Grimm
SpamAssassin 2.51 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262344
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam using text analysis.
Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail
headers and body text, to identify "spam", or unsolicited commercial
email. Download at: http://spamassassin.org/downloads.html If you're
running 2.50, this release is strongly recommended, since 2.50 cannot
expire Bayes tokens from its databases. It's also no longer a beta
release. Changes: - Bayes locking and concurrency issues fixed - Bayes
expiration was not working; fixed - spamd was not enabling Bayes after
auto-learning without restart; fixed - safer way to attach spams, for
broken mail clients, using 'report_safe 2' - a few doco cleanups
Slashdot
False Information A-Okay in Primary FBI Database
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/0237257
blamanj writes "The FBI's [0]National Crime Information Center (NCIC),
which compiles a huge database on criminals, arrest warrants, missing
persons, etc., no longer has to put up with the [1]pesky problem of
ensuring the data is accurate. I guess the Justice Department isn't
particularly concerned with justice anymore." The full text of the
provision which the main FBI criminal database will no longer have to
adhere to is: "Each agency that maintains a system of records shall ...
maintain all records which are used by the agency in making any
determination about any individual with such accuracy, relevance,
timeliness, and completeness as is reasonably necessary to assure
fairness to the individual in the determination."
Links
0. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ncic.htm
1.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=542&u=/ap/20030325/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_database_4&printer=1
Deathmatch for Dollars?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/028217
[0]quixado writes "[1]You Play Games is an online wager service where
you can bet and earn money for each kill or injury to opponents. You
can even cap how much money you can lose in a 24 hour period. [2]Return
to Castle Wolfenstein is the first title. The press release can be
found [3]here. [4]More info here too. And they said that spending days
on end playing first person shooters wouldn't pay off..."
Links
0. http://www.collectivedetective.org
1. http://youplaygames.com/
2. http://www.idsoftware.com/games/wolfenstein/rtcw/
3. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030304/latu045_1.html
4. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5423630.htm
Harvard Open Source Courseware
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/0139241
[0]mpawlo writes "[1]Gnuheter reports that the [2]Berkman Center for
Internet and Society releases the [3]H20 courseware software as open
source. Two years and 1 million USD are invested in the software so
far... The software has been tested at Harvard Law School, but should
be suitable for other disciplines than law."
Links
0. http://www.pawlo.com/
1. http://www.gnuheter.com/article.php?sid=2328
2. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/
3. http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/
Slashback: Security, Telephony, Solicitude
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/2035250
Slashback with more on Linux telephony, Mailblocks' terms of service,
the scary disease known as SARS, the status of civilian GPS accuracy
and more -- read on for the details.
Gnutella2 Specifications
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/2144240
An anonymous reader writes "After lots of heated debate regarding
Gnutella2, ([0]first story and [1]more recent story), the
specifications have finally been [2]released. There is a [3]mirror
here. Let the debates begin."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/1316251&tid=95
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1551251&tid=95
2. http://www.gnutella2.com/gnutella2_draft.htm
3. http://www.kiwiuk.net/gnutella2_draft.htm
Spirited Away Set for 800 Theatre Rerelease
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/2040249
[0]Robotech_Master writes "According to [1]the website of Jerry Beck, a
20-year-animation industry veteran and one of the co-founders of
Streamline Animation, when Spirited Away won the Oscar, it also "won
the right to be re-released to 800 theatres this Friday. Disney will be
announcing plans to re-release the Japanese masterpiece in theatres
later today." When I emailed Beck to ask him his source, he said it was
someone within the Disney publicity department and it would be made
public sometime today. According to Spirited Away's [2]numbers page at
[3]Rotten Tomatoes, it peaked during its first run at 151 screens.
Wonder how it'll do this time around?"
Links
0. http://www.eyrie.org/~robotech/
1. http://www.cartoonresearch.com/news.html
2. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/SpiritedAway-1116064/numbers.php
3. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) Is Available!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/204225
Not to load you up with Mandrake, but joestar writes "Mandrake Linux
9.1 (Bamboo) is now officially available at a number of FTP mirrors.
This version appears to be a key release for MandrakeSoft and includes
many [0]new features such as a new simplified installation procedure,
ZeroConf network support, Wi-Fi support, NTFS partition resizing and a
brand-new... MandrakeGalaxy theme. It's very beautiful and the whole
thing has apparently very few bugs, which is a good news. A full
presentation is available at [1]Mandrake's website, download is
available from their FTP page [2]as usual. As I see it, it's certainly
the most important Mandrake release since version 7.0..." Update: 03/25
21:44 GMT by [3]T: And if you like the distro, you can do both yourself
and Mandrake a favor by ordering [4]box sets straight from them, or
joining [5]Mandrake's Club.
Links
0. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.1/91PR.php3
1. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.1/features/
2. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3
3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4. http://www.mandrakestore.com/
5. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/
TEACH vs. DMCA Showdown Looming
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1940259
[0]TVmisGuided writes "A copyright showdown between the DMCA (Digital
Millennium Copyright Act) and the Teach (Technology Education and
Copyright Harmonization) Act is brewing that will have serious
implications on the future of higher education on-line. The [1]article
from Chronicle.com spells out the upcoming brouhaha. IMO, this will be
one of the strongest litmus tests of the DMCA since it was signed into
law in the U.S."
Links
0. mailto:awjump@@@sprintmail...com
1. http://chronicle.com/free/2003/03/2003031801t.htm
Intel Patents Anti-Overclocking Technology
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1825201
VCAGuy writes "It appears that Intel has pantented a crystal-locking
technology to lock processors to the processor's clock speed. [0]The
Inquirer has a story about it, and you can read the patent description
from the [1]USPTO. Let's hope AMD doesn't try to copy this..."
Links
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8518
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=6,535,988.WKU.&OS=PN/6,535,988&RS=PN/6,535,988
First Mandrake 9.1 Review Out
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1621234
icantblvitsnotbutter writes "With [0]Mandrake Linux 9.1 [1]right around
the corner, it's [2]OSNews first out of the gates with [3]a review of
this desktop-oriented distro's latest release. The review is actually
pretty bland, skimming the surface to linger on some of Eugenia's pet
peeves. Having used 9.1 in a production environment since beta 3, I can
say that the improvements to the installation and the signature
Mandrake tools are much-appreciated. Don't forget that [4]Mandrake Club
members get their own set of mirrors, as well as being eligible for
extras like the voting process that selected the packages for the 9.1
release." Update: 03/25 18:29 GMT by [5]T: [6]anyweb also points out a
[7]review of Red Hat Linux 9 on the same site, writing "an informative
article -- well I had to say that, I wrote it ;-)"
Links
0. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/
1. http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2003-02/msg10376.php
2. http://www.osnews.com/
3. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3116
4. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/
5. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
6. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
7. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3119
Freshmeat
align 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117519/
align is a general-purpose text filter tool that helps vertically align
columns in string-separated tables of input text. It also includes
width, another general-purpose text filter tool that helps you work
with the printing width or length of lines of input text.
Apache Ant 1.5.3beta1 (stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117447/
Ant is a Java based build tool, similar to make, but with better
support for the cross platform issues involved with developing Java
applications. Ant is the build tool of choice for all Java projects at
Apache and many other Open Source Java projects.
Atari Running on Any Machine 0.8.0beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117431/
Atari Running on Any Machine is a virtual machine that allows you to
run existing and develop new Atari ST/TT/Falcon applications on your
computer.
Autopilot UAV 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117496/
autopilot is a command and control system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
It provides hands-off flight controls for helicopters and simple
"moving map" control for the ground station. Manual control
is similar to operation under IFR with three axis EFIS.
BEJY 1.1.1.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117471/
BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to
inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of
new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server
implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete
connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its
protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is
done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP
protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also
contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and
other useful things.
BHL 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117435/
BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain text files into
HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, SGML (Linuxdoc), and TXT files. The BHL mode
handles common font-styles, three levels of sections, any kind of
lists, tables, URLs, horizontal rules, and Wiki names. BHL handles a
list of links (lol) and a table of contents (toc): you can browse the
lol and the toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the
sections' numbers with one keystroke.
Cerberus Helpdesk 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117485/
Cerberus Helpdesk is an email response system built to diminish the
need for redundant, time-consuming human interaction with your
customers. The system is built to allow your support/sales/billing/etc.
department to react quickly to inbound customer email inquiries. It was
written originally as a trouble ticket system.
CVSps 2.0b7 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117463/
CVSps is a program for generating 'patchset' information from a CVS
repository. A patchset in this case is defined as a set of changes made
to a collection of files, and all committed at the same time (using a
single 'cvs commit' command). This information is valuable to seeing
the big picture of the evolution of a cvs project. CVSps allows you to
see history of committed patchsets, restrict by author, date range,
files affected, branches affected. CVSps can generate a diff of a given
patchset.
DireqCafe 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117439/
DireqCafe is a full featured and complete open-source Internet cafe
system for use with the LTSP thin client solution.
Download4J 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117503/
Download4J is pure Java component (Servlet + JavaBean) that allows you
to download files. It can be integrated into any JSP/Servlet
application. You can download files from any folder, ZIP archive , or
Database (Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, etc.). You can count and set a
maximum limit for download hits, and HTTP authentication
(login/password) can be applied to each of the downloads. Configuration
is done through an XML file.
Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge 1.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117442/
The Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge allows applications on one machine to
access ODBC data sources on another. It supports multiple concurrent
connections from multiple clients to multiple target databases. The
principle application is to enable access from Linux and Unix platforms
to remote ODBC databases. For example, Apache/PHP programs on Linux can
read/write data held on MS SQL Server on Windows, and Perl programs can
read/write data held in a MS Access database. Supported applications
include Applixware, Open Office, Python, Rexx/SQL, mnGoSearch,
OpenLDAP, and Oracle sqlplus. Supported platforms include Linux,
MacOSX, IBM zSeries, Windows and various Unix flavors.
EPM 3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117504/
The ESP Package Manager (EPM) is a simple tool that generates software
and patch distributions in various formats, including AT&T software
packages ("pkg") used by Solaris, Debian ("dpkg"),
HP-UX software packages ("swinstall" or "depot"),
IRIX Software Manager ("inst" or "tardist"),
portable (installation and removal scripts with tar files), and Red Hat
Package Manager ("RPM").
Fade to Blue 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117416/
Fade to Blue is a blue fade-in, fade-out animated cursor scheme for
XFree 4.3. All included cursors fade in and out once every 1.2 seconds,
from a brilliant blue at 100% opacity all the way down to 50% opacity.
There are 20 frames of fading goodness per cursor.
Freecell Solver 2.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117441/
Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves
games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as
games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use
within third-party applications.
FUDforum 2.3.9RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117461/
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.
GKrellM giFT 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117512/
GKrellM giFT is a GKrellM plugin which monitors active giFT transfers
by showing their progress.
gmencoder 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117468/
Gmencoder is a GNOME 2 frontend to mencoder. It supports an output
codec for video (lavcodec) and one for audio (lame). It support
postprocesing, cropping, scale, subtitles ripping, and multiple
encoding passes.
GNU Source-highlight 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117518/
GNU Source-highlight produces a document with syntax highlighting when
given a source file. At the moment, it handles Java, C/C++, Prolog,
Perl, PHP3, Python, Flex, and ChangeLog as source languages and HTML
and XHTML as output formats.
GNUstep 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117470/
GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the
OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries
consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and
arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons,
etc.
Goben 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117482/
Goben is a GTK+ 1.2 GUI for playing Go. It allows any combination of
human vs computer, computer vs computer, or human vs human play, and
supports any board size from 5x5 to the full 19x19. Computer players
are controlled via GTP for compatibility with GNUGo and other GTP
talking Go programs.
Gpasman 1.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117459/
Gpasman is a password manager. People working with the internet have to
remember lots of passwords. Saving them in a textfile is not a secure
idea. Gpasman is a GTK solution to this problem since it saves the
password information encrypted, so now you have to remember only one
password instead of ten (or more).
GXMame 0.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117453/
GXMame is a frontend for XMame which uses the GTK library to provide
the same GUI as mame32. It can control xmame with almost all options.
Hatari 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117484/
Hatari is a portable Atari ST emulator using SDL based on WinSTon and
UAE's CPU core.
hdup 1.6.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117493/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of
the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none),
the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync),
and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
IceWM Menu Config 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117498/
IceWM Menu Config is a GUI menu configuration program for IceWm. It is
based on QT 3.1.0-free (or above). Cut and paste and Drag-n-Drop are
available.
Interactive BDD Environment 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117456/
IBEN is a tool used for teaching Reduced Ordered Binary Decision
Diagrams. It allows the student to work with ROBDDs without learning a
complex C or C++ interface to an ROBDD package. One can enter the
expressions interactively, and view the result as a graph or ask
questions about the ROBDD, such as the number of nodes in the ROBDD.
ITracker 1.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117454/
ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support
multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features
such as multiple versions and project components, detailed histories,
issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports with charts, and
multiple email notifications.
Java Serialization to XML 2 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117430/
Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into
streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing
"ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to
convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream"
with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX
subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their
place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct
your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it
with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object
graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even
handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable"
interface.
JFtp 1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117443/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP
with its own FTP API, SMB using jcfis, SFTP using j2ssh, and local file
IO using the j2se library. It includes many advanced features such as
recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while
transferring files, FTP resuming, browsing the LAN for Windows shares,
and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in
third-party applications or in a commandline mode. It should ideally be
launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4
plugin) but can also be started locally.
jpop 0.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117517/
Jpop is a Java replacement for Winpopup. It allows popup messages to be
sent to any machine which is capable of running Java. It also adds
functionality to the basic popup messages, like clipboard sharing.
kbarcode 1.1.90 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117464/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can
be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex
labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode
comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch
import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of
predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many
languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no
problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement
for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN,
UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
Kernel Graphic Interface 0.9 cvs (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117452/
KGI (Kernel Graphic Interface) has three main goals. The first is to
provide an in-kernel framework for video card drivers that allows 3D
accelleration on the console in Linux, *BSD, and other OSes. The second
goal is to provide video card drivers with full accelleration that run
on all supported OSes with only a recompile. The third goal is to
provide a flexible virtual console layer that allows easy switching
between multiple keyboards, multiple displays, and multiple virtual
consoles per display. Together with the GGI library, it can offer full
3D accelleration, and a very flexible development platform for games
and window managers.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.66_001 (For Linux 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117478/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user
programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can
access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user
programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege
level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it
seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such
methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so
forth.
LambdaTensor 1.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117506/
LambdaTensor is a CMU Common LISP library for efficient symbolic and
numeric higher-rank sparse tensor multilinear algebra. Originally
written to do some specialized calculations in extended supergravity
theories, it is especially well suited to interactively work with
exceptional Lie algebras and Lie groups, all the way up to the largest
(248-dimensional) exceptional Lie group E8.
LCARStrek 1.3-corrected
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117445/
LCARStrek is a Star Trek skin, using the LCARS interface from the
Federation Star Ships (heavily used in The Next Generation and Voyager
series). It has rounded borders and hover (mouse-over) effects, be
aware that it may look and feel quite unusual or strange, but keep in
mind that this is an interface design which was not originally designed
for the 21st but the 24th century.
Libxml 2.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117449/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The
library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems,
etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml
implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages,
including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, Relax NG, RFC
2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML
Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications
in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the
following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP
client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas
is in progress.
Linux 2.5.66 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117474/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
LTOOLS 5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117434/
The LTOOLS are a set of command line tools for reading and writing
Linux ext2 and ext3 filesystems from DOS, Windows, Solaris, or Linux.
They are useful for dual-boot configurations and system recovery. It
also includes an Explorer-like interface in a Web browser, and includes
a method of providing remote access to filesystems. A Java interface is
also included.
mgetty+sendfax 1.1.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117488/
The mgetty package contains an intelligent getty for allowing logins
over a serial line (such as through a modem) and receiving incoming
faxes. The companion program sendfax is used for sending faxes from the
commandline or from other applications. The third main component is
vgetty/vm which can be used with a voice-capable modem to implement an
answering machine, a voice menu system, and similar things.
Miscellaneous Unix scripts 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117437/
This is a collection of (mostly) Unix scripts for general use. The
package consists of scripts to aid system administration, text
processing, and more. They can mount devices via a menu, open documents
in new Netscape windows, justify ASCII text, split files into many
parts and restore then, print PS files with 4 pages per sheet, convert
encodings and UTF-8, trim Unix mailboxes, adjust system time, and
maintain databases of files on media.
My Personal Books Library 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117510/
MPBL is a curses application fitted for console used for simple books
listing. It allows you to keep a database with a listing of books with
the following criteria: Name, Author, Year, and Loaner.
mySiteMaker 3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117499/
mySiteMaker is a collection of CGI tools to rapidly create Web
interfaces to database tables. It includes a Web-based configuration
tool that automatically generates search, results, and edit HTML
screens. The search screen is easy to use and allows the data to be
exported in a variety of formats.
Object Relational Membrane 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117507/
The Object Relational Membrane is a Python package that provides the
functionality of an object relational layer like EJB or other
persistence storage systems. It is a thin compatibility layer between
SQL table layouts and Object Oriented Python. While providing a good
deal of functionality, it tries to be as small and simple as possible.
It works with PostgreSQL and MySQL.
OpenPGP Public Key Server 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117487/
The OpenPGP Public Key Server allows users to store and lookup PGP/GPG
public keys from the server's database. Additionally, it can
synchronize with other servers to make a distributed, replicated
database of public keys. This package provides only the server side.
The client side is usually an OpenPGP application (like GnuPG or PGP),
although you can use a simple HTML form to allow queries from a Web
page.
PCS Vision Uploader 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117472/
PCS Vision Uploader is a program written in PHP that allows you to send
files to your Sprint PCS Vision Phone. Filetypes include jpg, png, mid,
qcp, and wbmp.
Perl HL7 Toolkit 0.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117475/
Perl HL7 Toolkit provides a number of Perl libraries and scripts for
developing HL7-capable applications in Perl.
phpVideoPro 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117438/
phpVideoPro is a program to manage your collection of DVDs, Video CDs,
and video tapes. It stores all data in a database, and provides you
with features for adding/changing entries, displaying lists, printing
labels and lists, and more. An online help system is built-in to guide
you when necessary. Support for multiple languages is provided
(English, German, French, Polish, Bulgarian, Swedish, etc.), and
supported databases include MySQL and PostgreSQL.
PSMON 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117467/
psmon is a Perl script which can be run as a stand-alone program or a
fully functional background daemon, capable of logging to syslog with
customisable email notification facilities. The user defines a set of
rules in an Apache-style plain text configuration file. These rules
describe what processes should always be running on the system, and any
limitations on concurrent instances, TTL, and maximum CPU/memory usage
of processes. psmon scans the UNIX process table and, using the set of
rules defined in the configuration file, will respawn any dead
processes, and slay or "deal with" any aggressive or illegal
processes.
Pyndex 0.2a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117491/
Pyndex is a simple and fast full-text indexer implemented in Python. It
uses Metakit as its storage back-end. It works well for quickly adding
search to an application, and is also well suited to in-memory indexing
and search. It can handle phrase queries and has a Bayesian classifier
component. It performs best in applications involving a few thousand
documents, but its scaling is mostly limited by available memory.
Python Desktop Server 0.4.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117436/
The Python Desktop Server is a combined Weblog authoring tool,
XMLRPC/SOAP server, and news aggregator. It allows one to read RSS news
feeds, post to a community server (such as Radio Userland or any Python
Community Server installation), and includes tools for Weblog and
homepage management. It features a Web interface, a built-in Web
server, extensibility through scripts that connect via XMLRPC or
macros, and a plugin architecture.
Qmail Auditor 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117455/
QMail Auditor provides simple a method for auditing emails. It is easy
to configure and uses regular expressions as rules.
Radeox 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117451/
Radeox is a Wiki markup rendering engine written in Java. It is part of
the weblog and Wiki tool, SnipSnap.
Skaringa r1p8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117489/
Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform
Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema
definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting
a wide range of types, and speed.
Smart Cache 0.85 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117477/
Smart Cache is full-featured pure Java proxy cache server. It can cache
any pages and make them available for offline browsing. Other features
include a URL filter, cookie filter, ability to fake User-Agents,
Referer, and Cookie headers, Web forwarder (accelerator) mode,
background downloading, multiple logs, fast operation, very
configurable garbage collection, cache directory structure copies
server structure, and cached files are ready for use (no headers
inside).
SnipSnap 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117450/
SnipSnap is an easy to install and use Web log and Wiki engine written
in Java. It has no external dependency on Web servers or databases, as
both are built-in.
SNMP Trap Translator 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117494/
SNMPTT is an SNMP trap handler written in Perl for use with the
NET-SNMP/UCD-SNMP snmptrapd program. Received traps are translated into
friendly messages using variable substitution. Output can be to STDOUT,
text log file, syslog, MySQL (Linux/Windows), or a Windows ODBC
database. User defined programs can also be executed.
Spam-X 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117433/
Spam-X is a very unique and effective proactive approach to spammers.
Not only does it act as a spambot tarpit by trapping a spambot into
requesting page after page of random, fake email addresses, it also
acts as though it were on a very slow link by taking a full minute to
send each page of sixty random mailto: links. It outputs extremely
minimal HTML in an effort to minimize its bandwidth impact, while at
the same time allowing you to flood a visiting spambot's database with
thousands of worthless email addresses and consume a great deal of the
spambot's time. Placing a small or hidden link to the Spam-X script
above any valid mailto: links on your site will hopefully trap the
visiting spambot and prevent it from actually harvesting your valid
email addresses.
SQL ToolBox 0.5b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117481/
SQL ToolBox is a database administration and code generation tool that
features a graphical user interface, compatibility with JDBC databases,
a code generator for EJBs, and CSV and XML data support. Its JBuilder
and NetBeans integration supports a database browser and a SQL editor
with syntax highlighting and syntax checking.
Stuffed Tracker 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117465/
Stuffed Tracker is used to track Return on Investment. It might be very
useful for any site that uses advertising to attract visitors and that
have some sort of ordering process (registration, selling products,
etc.). With the help of the Stuffed Tracker, the site owner can learn
how many visitors that came from online advertising were converted into
customers, as well as the actual return on investment for every
advertising campaign. Stuffed Tracker also provides referrer-based
tracking.
tenc 0.5beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117486/
tenc converts your audio cd tracks into Ogg Vorbis files. It uses
information gained from freedb.
tentakel 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117440/
Tentakel is a simple program that executes the same command on many
hosts in parallel using ssh or rsh. It is designed to handle different
types of remote systems and unavailable hosts.
Webfish Linux 1.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117444/
Webfish Linux is aimed at servers, routers, and customised workstations
for experienced Linux users. It attempts to get away from the bloat
factor of many common distributions, and does not include large amounts
of binary packages or a package manager. It is based on a small base
set that provides kernel, gcc, Perl, sed, awk, bash, ethernet tools,
etc. (basically, all that is required to run a base system and compile
software but not any software itself).
Workrave 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117516/
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of
repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to
take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily
limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using
GTK/Win32).
xine xine-ui 0.9.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117469/
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It
also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local
disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It
interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and
some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a
reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your
applications.
XiStrat 0.6.59
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117515/
XiStrat (aka 'Extended Strategy') is in particular about turn-based,
networked multiplayer, non-cooperative, zero-sum, abstract strategy
board games (e.g., Chess, Go, Reversi variants, etc.) on 3D-visualized
polyhedra and contains a server, client GUI, autoplayer engine,
utilities, and documentation. Related recreational modern mathematics
(single agent, cellular automata, graph/group/complexity/knot theory,
discrete geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and mathematical physics) is
also dealt with.
Yet another nV Configurator 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117501/
YanC (Yet another nV Configurator) is a small tool which you can use to
change the nVidia-specific settings (almost) as easily as with the
Windows drivers. You can edit the settings for the AGP-Support, the
Cursor Shadow, the nVidia-Logo, for Digital Vibrance Control and, of
course, TwinView. Furthermore, YanC offers the possibility to run your
OpenGL applications (e.g., games) with your favourite settings for
antialiasing, anisotropic texture filtering, and vsync to blank without
difficult commandline operations.
zExtranet Portal System 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117448/
The zExtranet Portal System is a Zope-based portal and dynamic Web site
system that features static HTML, dynamic articles, polls, shopping
carts, a meeting planner, appointments, calendars, contact management,
file sharing, a time-off/sick planner, an RSS newsfeed manager, forums,
shift management, asset management, expense management, reminders,
timed events, and collective lunch ordering. It also features an
authentication system.
Slashcode
ricecooker.org, Asian and Asian American topics
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/181242
Hi everyone - We've just launched a slash site on Asian and Asian
American topics called ricecooker.org. Thanks so much for the software
and the inspiration. We're pretty nervous about whether this can take
off or will just linger in some obscure corner of the web, so if you
are interested in the community we're trying to create, please help us
by telling other people who might also be interested in our site! We
acknowledge our direct inspiration from slash in our mission statement.
Cheers everyone from the people at ricecooker.org!
Current Slash Tags
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1633257
Keep in mind that the type="op" is the syntax that is saved. Most have
multiple forms. Also keep in mind that to use links you need to have
Slash::Relocate installed and Slash::Blob. For image and file uploads
all you need is Slash::Blob. Read one for the entire list:
SLASH tags
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/0315249
Thanks for all the help with the upgrade, but I have another question.
What's the syntax for the new SLASH tags? I've tried looking through
the code, but alas, I'm not much of a perl programmer, and
expirementing hasn't given me much help.
Cluster Rant
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/234230
Yet another slash site for Beowulf/HPC cluster users. Check out Cluster
Rant if you are interested. --deadline
Upgrading
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2012236
I just wanted to suggest that someone out there who's rather good with
Slash write a How-To on Upgrading to the latest CVS, or upgrading to
the latest release, or both! It'd sure help me out. (a simple how-to in
the comments to this article would help a great deal as well!)
Misusing backSlash as Instant Messenger
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1712245
We just recently noticed, that backSlash is (in 1.x as well as 2.x) a
very fine instant messenger between authors who just have web access or
not liking IRC or ICQ. Just start a new story, put the message (up to
50 characters) in the title field, and hit preview. Immediately your
message is shown to all logged in authors when they load the next Slash
page. And if you then have the submission list open with it's refresh
of 900 seconds (the default valalue), you always have the newest
messages even without hitting the reload button. It also proofed to be
useful to send replies or ACK messages to acknowledge, that the message
has been read. But be careful not to submit those messages as stories.
This can be awkward. (So there's even a little bit of thrill when using
this type of IM... ;-)
What is the Mysterious future and why did it show
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1952234
Currently Slashdot has an article posted "in the Mysterious future"
showing on the main page. What up with dat?
SSL and slashcode fulltime
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/11/0737249
Does anyone know if Slash works with SSL (not just for auth. but full
time https)???? I need this and I'm not sure where to go from here.
Current setup: Linux 8.0 / apache 1.3 / latest slash. (works very
well). Some links and instructions would greatly be appreciated.
thanks, -Kam.
Streetnoise.org - Your Daily Political Roller Coaster
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/1820238
Without further ado, here are the fruit of my last 12 weekends. The
site runs on 2.6.6 and I probably won't touch it until there is a more
decent upgrade strategy. Let me know if you like it and if you're
interested in politics, please don't be shy and post a story when you
run into something outrageous (which is easy these days).
New Features!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/0322236
So bunch of new features are in the latest CVS. Including image and
file support int stories. Other hight lights include: Slash::Relocate,
an href tool that changes all of your links on your site to
relocateable links. Coming soon to this will be a task to track if the
link is dead or not (and give you an alternate link to google if it
is). Slash meta language. Now in stories (and soon in Journals) you can
use custom slash links to do all sorts of nifty little things. If you
notice the story before this one with the like to you will noticed the
hyper link to their homepage. Plus if you are logged in it will show
you your Zoo Relationships. Finally, we now have image and file support
with stories. Here is with his cat. Multi page documents are now
supported by using the SLASH tag language. Bunch more that I am
probably forgetting....
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