O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER May 30, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
The 'Developer Series' Newsletter is developed to bring Open Source related content to a user with a focus for development with Open Source If you'd like to receive more content relating to Open Source subscribe at http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/ ============================================================== Sponsored by Thinkgeek http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ ============================================================== Thinkgeek Computing: ThermalTake Aquarius II CPU Cooler http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6044/ Computing: ThermalTake HardCano 10 http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6055/ Computing: ThermalTake Xaser PC Cases http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6036/ Gadgets: Squid Light http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5ffb/ Interests: Tempt me. http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5c37/ Interests: I'm blogging this. http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5eb7/ Gadgets: USB Memory Watch http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/ Cube Goodies: R/C Hovercraft http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ef3/ Caffeine: Octane Energy Gel http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/5f0b/ Gadgets: Yes Solstice http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/6004/ Computing: TouchStream LP ZeroForce Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fff/ Cube Goodies: Duct Tape Wallet http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5f21/ Computing: Ideazon Zboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fed/ Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fd7/ Gadgets: Inova X5 LED Flashlights http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5fd3/ Tshirts: fork agent smith http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5f84/ Caffeine: Jo Mints w/Guarana http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f3c/ Tshirts: Follow the white rabbit. http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5f79/ Cube Goodies: Midnight blue 'geek.' glass http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/5f01/ Tshirts: M.A.D. http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5e8f/ Sourceforge WebGUI 5.3 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279638 WebGUI 5.3 is here and packed with new goodies. It includes a new theme management system that will easily enable you to transport your designs and templates from one site to another with the click of a mouse. 5.3 also includes a new Data Form wobject that allows content managers to build simple data entry applications on the fly. The default rich editor has been upgraded to include direct integration with the collateral manager, spell checking, and emoticons. There is also a brand new trash and clipboard management system which makes it even easier to move your content around. Among dozens of other features there are also over 10 new macros to make your content mangement experience faster and easier. You can find our latest release here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51417 FreedroidRPG 0.9.5 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279673 Version 0.9.5 of Freedriod RPG has been released. Freedriod RPG is a graphical single player role playing game for Linux, featuring the Tux as the hero battling evil MS machines in a future universe. Version 0.9.5 now comes with map editor, dialog editor and item editor. Any new submissions for characters, dialogs, quests and other content welcome. You can find our latest release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54521 YAM Amiga 2.4p1 bugfix release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279701 The YAM (Yet-Another-Mailer) open source team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4p1 of the well-known AmigaOS Email client (MUA). This release is a minor bugfix release which mainly fixes some last-minute bugs that weren't fixed in the last full 2.4 release. YAM (short for 'Yet Another Mailer') is a MIME-compliant Internet mailer written for AmigaOS computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, configurable GUI, ARexx interface. You can find the latest release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13560 Columba 0.10.1 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=280523 A new stable version of Columba is now available. Columba is an email client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface with wizards and internalionalization support. Its a powerful email management tool with features to enhance your productivity and communication. So, take control of your email before it takes control of you! This version fixes several bugs related to i18n and attachment issues. http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download For more information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=news par2cmdline v0.2 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=280247 PARv2.0 is a parity archive file format specification that uses reed-soloman code to protect sets of files within your filesystem. PARv2.0 allows for protection of files without having to archive them first by operating on virtual "blocks" of data within those files. For every N recovery blocks, you can recover N missing or corrupted blocks. PARs main purpose is helping to insure binary usenet propigation, but is by no means limited to that purpose. Announcement: Version 0.2 of par2cmdline is now available for download in source code form from the following URL: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/parchive/par2cmdline-0.2.tar.gz?down load This version has been compiled and tested on the following platforms (and you can download pre-compiled binaries for them from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30568&release_id= 161776): CPU OS Distribution --- -- ------------ Alpha Linux 2.2 Debian 3.0 Cerfcube SA1110 Linux 2.4 Debian 3.0 J2EEE IBM Websphere PPC G4 MacOS X 10.2 Server Edition Sparc R220 Sun Solaris 8 Sparc Ultra 60 Linux 2.4 Debian 3.0 x86 Cygwin 1.3.22 x86 Linux 2.4 Debian 2.2 x86 Linux 2.4 Red Hat 7.3 x86 Linux 2.4 Red Hat 9.0 x86 Windows The following changes have been made since version 0.1 was released: * Corrected a fault in the handling of filenames that have 8-bit characters. * Reduced restrictions on permitted characters in filenames on unix operating systems. * Added many portability enhancements including the use of GNU Autoconf/Automake for configuration and compiling on different cpu/os platforms. * Added support for verifying and repairing using version 1.0 PAR files. Please report any problems you encounter with this version of par2cmdline in the parchive tracker at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=30568 Peter B Clements (Author of par2cmdline and QuickPar) The Parchive Project http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/parchive OggCarton Home Jukebox goes beta http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=278737 OggCarton is a cross-platform CD ripper, database, and web server for Ogg and MP3 files. OggCarton needs no external database or web server. With this release, the OggCarton Home Jukebox software moves from the alpha to the beta stage. Accordingly, binaries and installers for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows are now available for those who prefer to not roll their own. Full source is still available for those who do. Enjoy! Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=278739 Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and very portable interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and extensible, and has been widely used since its creation in 1988 by John Ousterhout. The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.3 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the third patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 Release Announcement May 20, 2003 The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.3 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the third patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. More details can be found below. We would like to express our gratitude to all those who submit bug reports and patches. This information is invaluable in enabling us to identify and eliminate problems in the core. Where to get the new releases: ------------------------------ Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 sources are freely available as open source from the Tcl Developer Xchange web site at: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html This web page also contains additional information about the releases, including new features and notes about installing and compiling the releases. Sources are always available from the Tcl SourceForge project's file distribution area: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894 Windows, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX binaries are available from: http://www.activestate.com/Tcl For additional information: --------------------------- Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site: http://www.tcl.tk/ This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the core Tcl and Tk distributions, Tcl development tools, and much more. Thank you for your contributions: --------------------------------- As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl community. We have a page honoring these contributors at: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/contributors.html Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.2: -------------------------------------- The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.3. A complete list can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree. The more complete ChangeLog is also included with each source release. This is a patch release, so it primarily included bug fixes and corrections to erratic behavior. Below are only the most notable changes. * Correct case-insensitive unicode string comparison in Tcl_UniCharNcasecmp * Corrected loading of tclpip8x.dll on Win9x * Correct Tcl_SubstObj handling of \x00 bytes * Correct wide int issues in 'format' * Remove assumption that file times and longs are the same size * Allow Tcl to differentiate between reparse points which are symlinks and mounted drives on Windows * Bad command count on TCL_OUT_LINE_COMPILE * Store pointers to notifier funcs in a struct to work around some platform linker issues * Load correct (non-)debug dll for dde or registry * Fixing ObjMakeUpvar's lookup algorithm for the created local variable * Make sure that tclWideIntType is defined and somewhat sensible everywhere * Corrected inconsistent results of [string is integer] observed on systems where sizeof(long) != sizeof(int) * Substantial changes to the Windows clock synch phase-locked loop in a quest for improved loop stability * Made changes so that the "wideInt" Tcl_ObjType is defined on all platforms, even those where TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG is defined. Also made the Tcl_Value struct have a wideValue field on all platforms. Potential incompatibility for TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG platforms because that struct changes size *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** * Catch any errors returned by the Windows functions handling TLS ASAP instead of waiting to get some mysterious crash later on due to bogus pointers * Correct 'glob -path {[tcl]} *', where leading special character instead lists files in '/'. Bug only occurs on Windows where '\' is also a directory separator. * Fixed memory leak in threaded allocator on Windows caused by treating cachePtr as a TLS index * Ensure cd is thread-safe * Correct mem leak on closing a Windows serial port * Prevent string repeat crash when overflow sizes were given * Worked around the issue of realpath() not being thread-safe on Mac OS X by defining NO_REALPATH for threaded builds on Mac OS X * Correct handling of the gb2312 encoding by making it an alias of the euc-cn encoding and creating a gb2312-raw encoding for the original. Most uses of gb2312 really mean euc-cn. * Corrected another putenv() copy behavior problem when compiling on Windows and using Microsoft's runtime * Stop buttons from being very wide when a tk_messageBox has a lot of content on Unix * Fixed crash in [winfo server] on Mac OS X * Correct compound button display in the disabled state * Correct crash when generating postscript for a single-line polygon (point) with no color * Updated French message catalog * Use gb2312-raw as the alias for gb2312* charset fonts on unix -- Tcl Core Team and Maintainers Jeff Hobbs, Tcl Core Release Manager SCons 0.14 adds Java support, Autoconf-like functionality http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279029 SCons alpha release 0.14 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). This release most notably adds support for Java builds (javac, javah, rmic and jar), and adds integrated Autoconf-like functionality for finding #include files and libraries. This release also contains significant performance improvements from previous releases. IMPORTANT: Release 0.14 contains the following interface changes: - Tool specifications no longer take a "platform" argument. - Emitter functions in Builders are now passed Node objects, not strings, for all targets and sources. - New TargetSignatures() and SourceSignatures() functions have been added to replace SetBuildSignatureType() and SetContentSignatureType(). - The Export() function and the exported variables argument of SConscript() now search for variables using the same rules as Python: local first, then global. - The SetJobs() and GetJobs() functions have been deprecated in favor of using SetOption('num_jobs', num) and GetOption('num_jobs'). - Callable expansions of construction variables in a command line now take a fourth "for_signature" argument that is set when the expansion is being called to generate a build signature. - Construction variables for building a target are now frozen when the Builder is called; later changes to the Environment do not necessarily affect how the target is build. See the release notes for more information about these changes. This release adds the following features: - Support for the Java tools javac, javah, rmic and jar has been added. - A Configure() function has been added that supports a lot of functionality similar to Autoconf. - A new PLATFORM construction variable stores a string representing the platform on which SCons is being run. - Dependencies may now be specified on in-core Python values. - Help text can now be sorted arbitrarily. - New $TARGET and $SOURCE attributes: ".posix" expands to a path name with forward slashes as separators, even on Win32 systems; ".srcpath" expands to a path to the source of a file in a BuildDir; ".srcdir" expands to a path to the BuildDir itself. - A new clear() method resets a Node's state for re-use by continuous integration build interfaces. - Support for using Ghostscript to convert Postscript to PDF files has been added. - A stand-alone "Alias" function has been added. - Import('*') will now import everything that's been Export()ed. - New SetOption() and GetOption() functions support setting and fetching various command-line options within an SConscript file. - The Tool() function now adds tool names to a $TOOLS variable, which may be used to examine what tools are available. - The C preprocessor "#import" statement is now supported. - Newly-built .dll files can now be registered with the Windows registry using regsvr32. - An IDL scanner has been added. - A builder for Windows type library (.tlb) files from IDL files. The following fixes have been added: - Cygwin fixes: Use the .dll extension for shared libraries; don't use -fPIC when compiling shared libraries; use 'rm' to remove files; use MSVC '@' syntax for linking long command-lines. - The SYSTEMROOT environment variable on Win32 systems is now automatically propagated to the execution ENV environment. - Remote CVS file names are now checked out using Posix-style path names. - Trying to expand an out-of-range subscript for a construction variable like $TARGETS or $SOURCES now interpolates the null string. - SCons now correctly links or duplicates files in subsidiary BuildDir() directories. - SCons now reports "Cleaning targets ..." when the -c option is used. - The "Entering directory" message now quotes the directory name exactly like Make does. - Export() now works correctly for local Python variables, and can accept a dictionary as an argument. - PDB files now get put in a BuildDir() correctly. Performance has been improved as follows: - Unnecessary redundant signature calculations for command lines and Nodes have been eliminated. Development tests suggest this may speed up builds up to 30% or more. Python 2.2.3 rc 1 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279300 The first and hopefully only release candidate for Python 2.2.3 is now out. See http://www.python.org/2.2.3 for details. We expect Python 2.2.3 final to be released within a week of this announcement. DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279457 Major bug fix for 1.61.1 and accumulated enhancements and fixes from previous releases. Slashdot LOTR The Musical! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/1957225 Blue Stone writes "The Lord of The Rings, is to [0]become a [1]musical, to be staged in [2]London's West End, in 2005, on the book's 50th anniversary. The £8m (US$12m) production has lyrics by [3]Shaun McKenna and music by Stephen Keeling and Bernd Stromberger, while [4]Matthew Warchus will direct." If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd go ;) Links 0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2944402.stm 1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,965572,00.html 2. http://www.londontheateronline.com/LondonTheatremap.html 3. http://www.mercurymusicals.com/associates/mckenna.html 4. http://www.zealpictures.com/production/warchus_bio.html Copy Protection a Crime Against Humanity http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/0227258 [0]Trevalyx writes "An article over at [1]Wired looks into the [2]relation between copy protection and the reality of a rational amount of 'wiggle room' that is typically provided by the legal system. It's a topic covered often on Slashdot, but it's still a good read. Should be accompanied by a visit to the [3]Electronic Frontier Foundation for your Daily Dose of Defending Digital Freedom." The article does a good job of giving examples of legal leeway that's granted every day. Links 0. http://www.trevalyx.com 1. http://www.wired.com/ 2. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/view.html 3. http://www.eff.org/ Running a Research Lab on Free Software? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/0221234 Neurotensor asks: "My lab is researching quantum computing, and I don't like the fact that Windows / Visual Basic [seems to be] the preferred solution for controlling the experiments. It's not just a pride thing, unlike many colleagues I know what I'm missing out on, in the free software world. I've wasted a *lot* of time and effort trying to implement some very simple stuff with free (and better) alternatives, simply because certain hardware manufacturers utterly refuse to support anything other than Windows." There were [0]older [1]articles that touched on this subject, 2 years ago, but are others still finding themselves in the same situation as the submitter? Links 0. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/24/0251208&tid=156 1. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/19/2015259&tid=134 YOPY Arrives http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/2356252 [0]Victor Tramp writes "Apparently the fabled Linux based [1]YOPY handheld has been put on the market after all! Not only do they look like cool PDA versions of a Gameboy Advance SP (they fold), they look like they give the Zaurus a real run for the money, featurewise. Though the fastest processor is 206MHz, they include CompactFlash and MMC slots on the [2]3700 model. Apparently you can download their [3]Linupy distro, too. And finally, they don't seem to be [4]vaporware!" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] a i l . c om 1. http://yopy.com/english/products/overview.htm 2. http://yopy.com/english/products/yp3700_overview.htm 3. http://yopy.com/english/download/overview.htm 4. http://yopy.com/english/preorder/predorder_orderinfo.htm Department of Defense Gadget Show http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/2347210 blackp writes "[0]DefenseLINK has an article about [1]Force Protection Equipment Demonstration IV. This year they had over 2,600 gadget and equipment for defense and government agencies. The list includes kevlar suits, body heat camo, a RoBoCop Suit, even biometric identification. Some pictures are available, although somewhat limited. This show seems perfect for the geek with a big budget." Or the government with a big budget. Still, some neat things on display. Links 0. http://www.defenselink.mil/ 1. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2003/n05142003_200305145.html Microsoft to Pay AOL $750M in Settlement http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/2245236 aoteoroa writes "Microsoft will [0]pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by AOL on behalf of its subsidiary Netscape last year, the companies said Thursday. At first blush the deal looks good, but I can't help but wonder how a deal that ties AOL to IE again will negatively impact my [1]favorite web browser." Here's a news.com story that [2]also covers it. Is the browser war over? If so, it sure was anticlimactic. Links 0. http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/29/technology/microsoft/index.htm 1. http://www.mozilla.org/ 2. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1011296.html 3 Major HD Makers Recalling Drives? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/1943216 [0]mauriceh writes "Seems that 3 major Hard Disk companies have a problem with defective 40GB platters. A [1]major recall is in the works." Seagate, Hitachi, and Maxtor 40 & 80 gig drives appear to be the troubled drives. Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article1.asp?datePublish=2003/05/26&pages=01&seq=2 A Supernova In Red/Blue Plaid, Please http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/1648241 Snotnose writes "The New York Times is reporting that scientists have found a [0] a supernova factory . From the article, scientists estimated that the cluster alone, which contains up to a million stars, probably produces a supernova once every two years. That is a rate 50 times higher than usual in entire galaxies. Stars explode in Earth's home galaxy, the Milky Way, only once in a century.. Sounds pretty awesome. " Links 0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/science/28ASTR.html Might Mars Contain Life? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/1939248 [0]stagmeister writes "According to the [1]BBC, the [2]Viking probes to Mars in the 1970s "detected strange signs of activity in the Martian soil - akin to microbes giving off gas," and that while those findings were not acknowledged as proof of life then, "[3]in 1997, reached the conclusion ... that the so-called LR (labelled release) work had detected life." At the same time, the British are [4]launching a probe to try to find life on Mars." Links 0. mailto:jasonlustig@@@adelphia...net 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 2. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html 3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2941826.stm 4. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/123715_mars27.html San Mehat On Web Services & .Net http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/1647201 A reader writes: "There's an interview with [0]San Mehat in regards to .Net & Webservices. He has some interesting comments about what will work and what won't work, and where things are going." San is well known for [1]his Netwinder work, as well as being a good [2]DJ. And, in the interest of full disclosure, San does work for [3]VA Software, the parent company of [4]OSDN, as is DevChannel. Links 0. http://webservices.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/0821232 1. http://www.netwinder.org/howto/Disk-Update-HOWTO-6.html 2. http://www.nthdegreerecords.com/sanmehat.asp 3. http://www.vasoftware.com 4. http://www.osdn.com Freshmeat Arkhe Theme 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124193/ Arkhe Theme is a nice-looking theme containing a CG Knot. AweMUD 0.1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124409/ AweMUD is a MUD server for use with fantasy-settings. Features include skill-based character development, fully dynamic objects and characters, and custom worlds. The engine will eventually have completely interactive rooms (items can be placed under benches, doors can be destroyed), complex magick, and interactive NPCs. Background Buddy 1.21 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124427/ BackgroundBuddy is an automatic wallpaper changer for GNOME 2.x, FluxBox, WindowMaker, and XFCE that supports multiple directories as well as subdirectories in those multiple directories and runs as a daemon. BenMP3 1.0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124339/ BenMP3 is a small and powerful sound player for the Linux console (with or without ncurses). It can play MP2, MP3, MPEG, OGG, wav, aiff, xm, it, mod, and CD formats. It has French and English interfaces. Bug-Track.com 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124422/ Bug-Track.com is a Web-based service specifically designed to log and track your project's bugs. You can access encrypted reports of your bugs, issues, or defects from anywhere at any time through a Web browser (or lock it into just your own Web server). It features unlimited users and unlimited projects. CCT Chinese TeX system 0.5.0 Beta 3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124324/ CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the Academy of Sciences in Beijing. cgipaf 1.3.0pre4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124393/ cgipaf is a combination of three CGI programs. passwd.cgi, which allow users to update their password, viewmailcfg.cgi, which allows users to view their current mail configuration, and mailcfg.cgi, which updates the mail configuration. All programs use PAM for user authentication. It is possible to run a script to update SAMBA passwords or NIS configuration when a password is changed. mailcfg.cgi creates a .procmailrc in the user's home directory. A user with too many invalid logins can be locked. The minimum and maximum UID can be set in the configuration file, so you can specify a range of UIDs that are allowed to use cgipaf. Cream for Vim 0.22 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124371/ Cream is a configuration of the famous Vim text editor that makes it easier to use, like an Apple- or Windows-style text editor. It uses Vim's own extensibility to improve menus, keyboard shortcuts, and editing behavior. Cream seamlessly maintains Vim's insertmode to access all the power of the original Vim plus many custom Cream extensions. CueAct 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124347/ CueAct is a utility that uses the CueCat driver to execute specific commands when a barcode is swiped with a CueCat reader. The program can run different programs based on different types of barcodes read, or the particular reader that has been used to read a barcode. The options for barcode recognition and commands to run are fully configurable, and the utility can run as a standard program or a daemon in the background. CueCat driver for Linux 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124345/ Linux device driver for CueCat barcode readers that supports multiple PS/2 CueCats on either the keyboard port, mouse port (without disabling the mouse) or USB port through a PS/2 -> USB adapter, or native USB CueCats. A standalone application that doesn't require the driver and also reads barcodes from a CueCat connected to a serial port through a homemade PS/2 -> serial converter is included as well. The driver separates CueCat barcode scancodes from normal keyboard or mouse scancodes, decode the barcodes, performs error-checking on them and send them in clear text through a normal character device file. NOTE : the company that created the CueCat has disappeared. CueCat readers are no longer produced or distributed. DivXWMAConverter 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124395/ DivXWMAConverter allows you to convert DivX movies files with WMA audio so that they can be converted under Mac OS X with DivX Validator. The WMA codec is not available under Mac OS X, as a consequence tools like DivX Validator won't be able to validate DivX files including WMA audio. Although movie players like MPlayer allow you to play such DivX movies, MPlayer is much slower than Quicktime for playing movies, and G3-based computers (500MHz and slower) may not be fast enough to play high-resolution DivX movies. For these machines, DivXWMAConverter can be very helpful. Dragon Character Training 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124431/ Dragon Character Training is a PalmOS program using stroke recognition to help you learn to read and write Chinese characters. It is good for learning Mandarin vocabulary and characters. DSPAM 2.6.0.64 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124354/ DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns SPAM using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning Anti-Spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.5% success rate with only 0.03% chance of false positives. EBsuite.com 05312003 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124385/ EBsuite.com is a Web-based e-business software suite for small to mid-sized businesses and developers. Its project management module contains integrated bug tracking, file checkin/checkout, patch management, project/task scheduling, a Gantt chart, a calendar/task application, and much more. ecamegapedal 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124418/ Ecamegapedal is a real-time effect processor tool that includes a graphical user interface for controlling effect parameters. It is meant to be used as a virtual guitar or studio effect box. In addition to real-time operation, it supports reading from and writing to audio files. All audio objects and effect plugin types provided by the ecasound libraries are supported, including ALSA, JACK, OSS, aRts, over 20 file formats, over 30 effect types, LADSPA plugins, and multi-operator effect presets. It uses the ecasound and Qt libraries. Echo Web Application Framework 1.0 Release Candidate 3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124341/ Echo is a framework for developing object-oriented, event-driven Web applications in Java. Echo removes the developer from having to think in terms of "page-based" applications and enables him/her to develop applications using the conventional object-oriented and event-driven paradigm for user interface development. Knowledge of HTML, HTTP, and JavaScript is not required. Tutorials, white papers, and full API documentation are available. EzSDK 4.69 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124353/ EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more. Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE 0.10.0pre2 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124359/ Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE (fou4s) is a bash script that provides the functionality of YOU (YaST OnlineUpdate), but can also work in background and check for updates every night. It supports resumed downloads and proxies by using wget. GPG signatures are also checked. FireStorm 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124416/ FireStorm is a powerful development tool that reduces the amount of coding required for a typical business application by automatically generating the persistence tier. It reverse-engineers existing data sources and generates a Java persistence framework that is independent of any specific persistence technology, and then offers the choice of generating implementation logic based on JDBC or EJB. The generated source code conforms to the widely accepted Data Access Objects (DAO) design pattern and has no dependencies on any proprietary runtime libraries. Flat Assembler 1.46.9.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124321/ The Flat Assembler is a fast and efficient self-assembling 80x86 assembler for Linux, DOS, and Windows. It supports all 8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! extensions. It can produce output in binary, MZ, PE, or COFF formats. It has advanced but easy-to-use macroinstruction support, and it does multiple quick passes to optimize the code for size. It is totally written in assembly language. Formmail-trap 2.6 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124336/ Formmail-trap is a CGI program that automatically detects attempts to probe a formmail open relay and reports the event to the ISP of the one who made the attempt. FreeJ 0.5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124397/ FreeJ is a digital instrument for video livesets, featuring realtime rendering of multilayered video and chained effect filtering directly on the screen. It plays with video4linux devices, DIVX/AVI files, and PNG images, letting you dynamically apply on each layer a chain of effect plugins. FreeMarker 2.3pre1 (Lazarus) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124335/ FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more. Genmake 2003_05_29 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124327/ Genmake creates Makefiles for C/C++ projects from a simple project description. The project description file can contain any number of projects and dependencies between them. The description is organized into workspace, projectspace and filespace and supports any number of build modes (debug, release, etc.). ggcov 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124374/ Ggcov is a GTK+ GUI for exploring test coverage data produced by C programs compiled with gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage. It's basically a GUI replacement for the gcov program that comes with gcc. gnokii 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124398/ gnokii is a Linux/Unix tool suite for Nokia (GSM) mobile phones. It provides a virtual Hayes-AT compatible modem to allow data calls to be made to a modem or ISP as well as providing a phone book, and SMS and ringtone management. Phones supported include recent models such as the 6310, 6510, and 6210, and older phones like the 3110, 3810, 8110, 5110, 6110 and their derivatives. gURLChecker 0.5.0 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124428/ gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page. iHook 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124403/ iHook is a graphical frontend for any command-line executable. It gives scripts a pleasant Aqua face, and allows script writers to provide graphical feedback without having to learn one of the higher APIs available for Mac OS X. iHook accomplishes this through its ability to understand a set of directives. When a script writes an iHook Directive to stdout, iHook will modify its own interface based on the content of the Directive. In this way, a simple shell script can have an Aqua interface, complete with a progress bar and drawer. When launched in the Finder, iHook prompts the user to choose a script to run; iHook also accepts file drops on its icon, and will attempt to run the dropped file. When no user is logged in, iHook tries to execute /etc/logout.hook. This makes iHook highly useful as an interface for Mac OS X LogoutHooks. imageSearch 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124307/ imageSearch is a Python script that recursively searches directories for duplicate images. When duplicates are found, they are displayed in a GUI as a tree with buttons for deleting the ones you don't want. j4RCS 0.1.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124406/ j4RCS is a simple Java Swing frontend for the RCS program. It allows you to manage projects made of several files instead of doing it file by file with the commandline program. JTAG Tools 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124348/ JTAG Tools is a software package which enables working with JTAG-aware (IEEE 1149.1) hardware devices and boards through a JTAG adapter. This package has an open and modular architecture with the ability to write miscellaneous extensions like board testers, flash memory programmers, and so on. KBabel 1.2beta2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124333/ KBabel is a set of tools for editing and managing PO files created by gettext. Its main component is a powerful and comfortable PO file editor which features full navigation capabilities, full editing functionality, the ability to search for translations in different dictionaries, spell and syntax checking, showing diffs, and much more. It also includes a "Catalog Manager", which is a file manager view that provides an overview of PO files. Last but not least, it includes a standalone dictionary application which provides the additional capability of accessing KBabel's powerful dictionaries. kcd 6.13.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124370/ kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you. KGuitune 0.2 (KDE3) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124391/ KGuitune is a guitar-and-other-instruments tuner. It takes a signal from the microphone, calculates its frequency, and displays it on a note scale graphic and an oscilloscope. It supports normal, Wien, and physical tuning. Kiwa 0.11.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124399/ Kiwa is a Web-based, object-oriented development and run-time environment. The goal of this project is to allow site administrators to graphically design their site's businness workflows (XML automats). It uses a template system to display pages, and offers easily extendable object libraries that can be plugged as cartridges. LANforge FIRE & ICE 3.7.3-beta3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124392/ The LANforge is a unified multi-protocol network traffic generation and WAN simulation application. It allows testing and verification labs to simulate real world customer traffic. The WAN simulator allows the injection of latency and other network oddities like dropped, duplicated, and re-ordered packets. The LANforge provides a scriptable command line interface with Perl libraries as well as a graphical user interface. libmplot 0.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124351/ libmplot is a library for drawing graphics primitives such as lines and text into a bitmap. licq-osd 1.2.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124362/ The licq-osd plugin that enables licq to display new messages as an On Screen Display message. Linux Security Auditing Tool 0.6.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124366/ Linux Security Auditing Tool (LSAT) is a post install security auditing tool. It is modular in design, so new features can be added quickly. It checks many system configurations and local network settings on the system for common security/config errors and for packages that are not needed. It has been tested on Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Debian, etc.) and Solaris (SunOS 2.x). linuxsms 0.64 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124401/ Linuxsms is a Perl script to send SMS to GSM phones. There is support for multiple servers/gateways (some servers require registration). The script has an adressbook, the ability to compress SMS, and the ability to check for new versions. Log Tool 1.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124424/ Logtool is a syslog file parser, report generator, and monitoring utility. It takes logfiles from syslog, multilog, or other ASCII log generating sources as input from stdin, and depending on command line switches and/or config file settings, will parse and filter out unwanted messages from the logfile accordingly, and generate output in ANSI color, formatted ASCII, CSV (for spreadsheets), or HTML format. It is very handy for use in automated nightly reports, and online monitoring of logfile activity. It comes with some simple example scripts and documentation. m0n0wall pb11r400 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124413/ m0n0wall is an all-in-one firewall software package that is based on FreeBSD. It is geared towards embedded PCs, but the CD-ROM version also works on standard PCs. It includes an easy-to-use Web interface like commercial firewall boxes do. PHP is used instead of shell scripts, and the entire system configuration is stored in a single XML-formatted file. There is support for wireless LAN, VPN, traffic shaping, and more. mkvtoolnix 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124410/ mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska Direct Show filter under Windows. mod_security 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124372/ Mod_security is an intrusion detection and prevention module for the Apache Web server. Its purpose is to protect vulnerable applications by detecting and (optionally) rejecting attacks. In addition to request filtering, it also can create Web application audit logs. Requests are filtered using regular expressions. Mod_security can analyse POST payloads, unlike other similar projects. Moodle 1.0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124389/ Moodle is a learning management system for producing Internet-based course Web sites. It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has been designed to support modern pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and includes activity modules such as forums, resources, journals, quizzes, surveys, choices, and assignments. It has been translated into 30 languages, with more on the way. Moodle offers a free alternative to commercial software such as WebCT and Blackboard, and is being used by a growing number of universities, schools, and independent teachers for distance education or to supplement face-to-face teaching. Mozilla 1.0.2 (1.0) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124383/ Mozilla is a Web browser that is being developed by the Free Software Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape. The current Mozilla is a completely new software based on the "NGLayout" layout engine and runs on almost all current operating systems. Mozilla's user interface is written on top of NGLayout using XUL and JavaScript. The Mozilla project only develops and tests the source code for other projects / companies to use. Netscape 6 (the Web browser from Netscape) and Beonex Communicator (an open-source project to make a Mozilla for end-users) are directly based on Mozilla. Many other projects use/embed Mozilla's rendering engine (e.g., Galeon). Mozilla 1.4beta (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124390/ Mozilla is a Web browser that is being developed by the Free Software Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape. The current Mozilla is a completely new software based on the "NGLayout" layout engine and runs on almost all current operating systems. Mozilla's user interface is written on top of NGLayout using XUL and JavaScript. The Mozilla project only develops and tests the source code for other projects / companies to use. Netscape 6 (the Web browser from Netscape) and Beonex Communicator (an open-source project to make a Mozilla for end-users) are directly based on Mozilla. Many other projects use/embed Mozilla's rendering engine (e.g., Galeon). Music Player Daemon 0.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124357/ Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing music (MP3 and Ogg Vorbis) and managing playlists. The design focus is on integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network. Currently, it includes a Web interface, phpMp. The goals are to be easy to install/use, to have minimal resource requirements, stability, and flexibility. MyClassifiedsSQL 2.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124363/ MyClassifiedsSQL is a Perl/CGI/MySQL implementation of online classifieds, similar to other classifieds or auction sites. It displays all aspects of the classifieds and creates all of the files for you. Only one file needs to be edited to specify the categories, colors, template, and a few other site-specific variables and preferences. The script supports email and deletion/modification of ads by users, as well as searching ads, and auto-delete after an admin-specified number of days. NewsMonster Beta2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124426/ NewsMonster is an advanced Weblog manager, reputation system, micropayment economy, and semantic Web application. It allows the user to keep track of news and use reputation within the blogging community to help discover new Weblogs, important articles, and other compelling relationships. OBM 0.6.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124277/ OBM is an Intranet application written to help manage a company. It can also be used as a contact and customer database or as a shared calendar. It is written with PHP and requires MySQL to work (although support for other databases is possible). It supports internationalization and themes, and it includes: sales force, help desk, time tracking, user, and administration modules. Open BEAGLE 1.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124379/ Open BEAGLE is a versatile C++ evolutionary computation framework. It provides an Object-Oriented software environment enabling the implementation of almost any kind of evolutionary algorithm, such as genetic algorithms and genetic programming. OpenClinic 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124334/ OpenClinic is an easy to use, open source medical records system. It has been mainly developed for private clinics, surgeries, and private doctors. It is platform independent and has a multi-language architecture. oradump.pl 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124380/ oradump.pl is a Perl script to reverse-engineer Oracle structures like Tables, Views, Sequences, Indexes, Triggers, and Packages as SQL. OS X mod MPlayer Skin 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124360/ OS X mod MPlayer Skin is a modification of phantomas's OS X Brushed MPlayer skin. It includes the play and pause buttons as one in the same, uses window manager window decorations, includes a playbar for fullscreen mode (go to preferences/misc and select enable playbar), and includes load, playlist, and fullscreen buttons from Everaldo's Crystal icon theme. It also includes an about button based on an adaptation of the MPlayer logo. Panda PDF Generator 0.5.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124350/ The Panda PDF Generator is intended to make PDFs on the fly for the Web, but may be used to generate any PDF document you want. PennMUSH 1.7.7p14 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124378/ PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS. phpWebThings 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124320/ phpWebThings is a set of PHP classes for creating a cool Web site with user login, news, forum, user messages, downloads, FAQs, and more. It allows the Webmaster to create his own site with freedom, using only the features he wants, and allowing new features to be added easily. poplimitd 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124337/ poplimitd is a daemon process that monitors a server maillog file for POP3 or IMAP connections. Using configurable settings it monitors the rate of logins based on the user account and IP address. If it finds excessive usage, it will send a preconfigured email with the users information to that user asking them to stop. On servers that suffer from high POP3/IMAP load, this can dramatically modify user behaviour and limit POP and IMAP connections and load. pyDDR 0.6.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124411/ PyDDR is a clone of DDR ("Dance Dance Revolution") written in Python. The idea of DDR is simple. There's a mat with four directional arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported. Python Web Objects 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124342/ Python Web Objects is a dynamic page generation system that allows the developer to embed Python code inside HTML. Qgfe 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124369/ Qgfe is a graphical interface to the gnuplot program. Qtexmaker 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124365/ Qtexmaker integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX in just one application. Ringlink 2.51 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124387/ Ringlink is a CGI Perl program that provides the tools you need to run one or more rings of Web sites (i.e., systems of links between Web sites of similar contents). ROX-Filer 1.3.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124346/ ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background. sa-exim-stats 0.70 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124349/ sa-exim-stats generates some spam/mail statistics from an sa-exim logfile. sa-exim is a patch for Exim which integrates SpamAssassin into Exim. Some of the statistics it displays are the "top n" spam/clean/overall recipients and the average spam/clean score. Salonify 0.76 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124344/ Salonify is a Perl script which displays images that you have organized in a directory hierarchy. The Web user can choose to see photos as thumbnails or in small, medium, or full-size format; rotate the images; modify the captions; move from folder to folder or image to image easily; and customize the layout. The administrator can also take away any of these abilities from the user if they want. By default, the captioning is totally democratic (or wiki-like)--anyone visiting your site can change the captions. You can also lock this down. Salonify generates nearly w3c-compliant HTML (getting closer all the time) and renders quite well in all tested browsers, including w3m-img, lynx, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.. It uses JavaScript when available but does not depend on it, and makes special allowances for bugs in certain browsers. Scriptix 0.24 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124408/ Scriptix is a light-weight scripting language designed solely for embedding and extending applications. It has most common language features, including arrays, classes, exceptions, functions, loops, and threads. Speed, flexibility, and simplicity are top priorities. Shell Intrusion Detection 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124367/ SID is a Shell Intrusion Detection system. The kernel part plugs into a terminal-processing subsystem and logs hashed terminal lines. The user part reads log entries (hashes), consults a list of allowed entries, and takes appropriate action upon unexpected log entries. Slackware Live CD 2.9.0.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124368/ Slackware Live CD is a 200MB live Linux distribution on CD that is based on Slackware. It features many add-ons, including the scripts required to create your own live CD. SSHTerm 0.1.4 (Signed Applet) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124376/ SSHTerm is a Java SSH client that provides a whole range of features, including port forwarding, password authentication, public-key authentication, ANSI/VT100/VT220/VT320 terminal, full clipboard support, record and playback input/output, and the ability to load/save connection settings to a file. SSHVnc 0.1.0 (Signed Applet) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124396/ SSHVnc is a standalone Java VNC viewer that secures VNC access by integrating the popular TightVNC viewer with the SSHTools Java SSH API. It features a clean and easy to use interface, simplifying the complicated processes currently used to secure the VNC protocol through SSH port forwarding. SSHVnc 0.1.0 beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/124377/ SSHVnc is a standalone Java VNC viewer that secures VNC access by integrating the popular TightVNC viewer with the SSHTools Java SSH API. It features a clean and easy to use interface, simplifying the complicated processes currently used to secure the VNC protocol through SSH port forwarding. Submount 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124404/ The submount removable media handling system automatically mounts and unmounts removable media devices such as CDROMs, DVDs, and floppy drives. It is a two part system, with a small kernel module and a userspace program. It provides the same functionality as supermount, but (hopefully) avoids supermount's stability problems. Sudoscript 2.1.0 beta1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124331/ Sudoscript is a pair of Perl scripts (sudoscriptd/sudoshell) that provide an audited root shell using sudo. TAMS 2.12a5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124303/ TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic coding and data extraction-analysis system. TechTables 20030528 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124402/ Tech tables is an asset and trouble ticket management system using PHP and PostgreSQL or MySQL. It lets you track computing assets, contacts, and trouble tickets. The Distribulator 0.51 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124355/ The Distribulator is an SSH-based command execution and file transfer utility. It includes support for both batch and console mode, XML configuration, multiple server enviornments, and auditing via syslog. The Distribulator is meant to be distributed computing for the rest of us. The Glasgow Haskell Compiler 5.04.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124330/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising compiler for the functional programming language Haskell. GHC compiles Haskell to either native code or C. It implements numerous experimental language extensions to Haskell for example concurrency, a foreign language interface, several type-system extensions, exceptions, and so on. GHC comes with a generational garbage collector, a space and time profiler, and a comprehensive set of libraries. ThingamaBlog 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124338/ ThingamaBlog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application written in Java. Basic features include the ability to maintain multiple blogs, the ability to easily manage lots of entries, customizable templates, find, edit, and delete entries functions, 'Quick Tags' for on the fly HTML editing, customizable archiving options, the ability to organize entries by category, previewing of entries in HTML or in plain text, and one-click publishing. Turck MMCache for PHP 2.3.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124358/ Turck MMCache is a PHP accelerator and encoder. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also uses some optimizations for speeding up PHP scripts' execution. It typically reduces server load and increases the speed of PHP code by 1-10 times. It is tested with PHP 4.1.0-4.3.1, and Apache 1.3 and 2.0 under Linux and Windows. VetTux 2.0-5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124322/ VetTux is a modern animal clinic management and POS system. It aims to provide the veterinarian with a complete solution for running a clinic. WebEater 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124394/ WebEater is a program for Web site retrieval and offline viewing. It's written in 100% pure Java, it's small, and it currently works with every site that uses pure HTML and most of the sites that use some sort of pre-processor language (such as PHP). WebJMS 1.0.0beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124230/ WebJMS is an HTTP to JMS bridge that automatically routes each HTTP request to the appropriate JMS topic or queue. Subscribers and receivers can then then process the request and respond to it asynchronously. It creates a new paradigm for developing highly scalable Web applications with unprecedented ease. Wheel 'O Yum 2.6.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124356/ The Wheel 'O Yum is a program to assist in deciding where to eat. All too often, excess time is spent among groups trying to decide. The Wheel 'O Yum allows one or more people to vote on their favorite restaurants and spin the wheel for a random, but educated, restaurant. Wordlog 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124332/ Wordlog is a Weblog written in PHP and backed by MySQL. Its interface is entirely ASCII-based and standards compliant. Features include on-the-fly page editing, multiple users, administration access, comment threading, URL parsing, and an easily customizable interface. X-Cart 3.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124352/ X-Cart can be used both as a ready out-of-the-box shopping cart solution and as a powerful shopping cart system for a customized Web shop. X-Cart is based on the Smarty PHP templates engine and the MySQL database backend. X-Cart features online credit card processing, product options, inventory tracking, real-time shipment tracking, order history, tax and shipping rates calculation, a powerful admin backoffice, a built-in Web-based template editor, database backup/restore, and more. X-Cart is optimized for smooth performance and a clear look. Xfsamba 0.1.372 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124312/ Xfsamba is an SMB (Windows) network navigator with upload, download, rm, rmdir, mkdir, and tar capabilities. Xfsamba does not need to mount remote Windows shares. Drag and drop is enabled for file uploads/downloads. XScreenSaver.App 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124434/ XScreenSaver.App is a Window Maker dockapp control for XScreenSaver. Slashcode Handling logging issues http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/0533218 I'm using cronolog for my apache logs, and I really, really like it. I'd like to be able to use it on the slash logs as well, which become large and cumbersome over time with many sites running on a server. How do you all handle your logs? What do you use for log rotation? How long do you keep logs? Is anyone using cronolog, or something like it with slash? RSS to Story? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1727241 Hi, I'm looking for a way to grab remote RDF and post them as stories. portald seems only to handle blocks. I'm aware of the elixus.org, and the RSS2Story plugin in their patch of slashcode, but I can't get the plugin installed, and it seems to be left unfinished. So is there any other way to do this? launch of slash site "stupidsecurity.com" http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/2133212 Announcing the opening of StupidSecurity.com. The site is meant to be a chronicle of idiotic and deceptive "security" measures. From the "three questions" that the airlines finally stopped asking to the closing of Meigs Airport in Chicago supposedly for security reasons, we want YOUR gripes about security measures that are just plain dumb! I'd welcome submissions (the stupider the better!), comments, complaints, and praise! MySQL 4.1+ http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1639224 I want to start using MySQL 4.1 to take advantage of the new Spatial extensions in MySQL to further enhance my plugin. I saw the recent story referring to using MySQL 4, but no direct mention of experience with versions 4+. Any tips or recommendations? Should I make the upgrade only on my development box, or is using 4+ okay. Any experience with 4.1, which is alpha? Section-specific Quick Links http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1540217 I'm in the process of setting up a intranet Slash 2 site for a company. With the aid of the Crow Book I've got everything installed and with the L'n'F that they want, and we are in the process of adding some initial content and getting the blocks running the way they want. However, we're having problems getting section-specific quick links blocks to work. Example: I have a section called legal, and a block called legal_qlinks which has different links to index_qlinks. index_qlinks shows up on the homepage as I expect, but nothing is displayed in the right "frame" if I click no the section title under an article. What am I doing wrong? The Crow Book (page 127) suggests that this should work. Need help building Slash templates http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/1634251 I have comps for a site I want built in Slash. While I have worked with Movable Type, building Slash templates is a whole different beast. I need someone to help me convert my comps into a functioning Slash site. If you have these skills, please drop me a line with your rates and scheduling availability. You can see what the site will look like here. --Markos Preventing duplicates from being posted http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/2021250 I'm getting sick of seeing duplicate posts all the time on Slashdot. I have a feature-request/enhancement that I would like to request for slashcode. It would be nice if before a moderator submits a story to check all of the URLS in that post and match it with the previous weeks/months stories for the same URL. If there is a match, throw up a warning saying that this story is a possible duplicate. This will help the moderator out too, since they wouldn't have to read every story on slashdot in the past two weeks. What do you think? Is this doable? --Min Idzelis Vorlonspace Is Back http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0415234 Announced back in October last year, Vorlonspace was launched as a Babylon 5 discussions site. In late January, the site went down and was taken off the YASS list. It is now back up and the premise has changed from Babylon 5 to a general sci-fi discussion site which has generated more interest. Adding ispell after slash is installed http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0414234 Hi, I read the (archived) thread at: http://ask.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/1 724238&mode=thread and I have "Running Weblogs with Slash", so I know that "... Slash 2.2 has added an ispell compatibility mode. If the ispell program exists and points to an ispell binary, the Edit Story page will include a list of potentially misspelled words.)" (thanks blagger), but I don't know how exactly what to add, and into what directory,. I installed freebsd 5.0, then built and installed the slashcode port, and now I've installed ispell. I then tried adding symlinks to ispell into various directories, including /usr/local/slash/bin, and restarting my browser and the freebsd box. Nothing obvious changes. Can someone tell me exactly which file to put where to enable spell-checking? I'm running slash-2.2.6 on Freebsd 5.0. Thanks... P.S. Sorry if I misspelled anything, but... Shouldn't Slash Be Represented at OSCOM 3? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/171253 I found out that OSCOM 3, The Open Source Content Management Conference, is taking place in Cambridge, MA, from May 28-30. I was surprised to see that Slash does not appear to be represented in any way. I posted a story to CTDATA suggesting that our community try to represent itself in some fashion. If anyone wants to discuss how we can influence the organizers of this conference to include a Slash presentation, please email me at dave_aiello at ctdata.com. 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