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Sourceforge
OpenEJB 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282705
The 0.9.2 release is one that the whole team is quite proud of. OpenEJB
0.9.0 marked are first release with special Tomcat embedded support.
Thanks to all the user feedback that support has just gotten better and
better. The 0.9.2 release contains a neat surprise for OpenEJB/Tomcat
users -- TOOLS! The new integration features a webapp with a setup
verifier, JNDI browser, EJB viewer, Class browser, and even an Object
invoker! You can browse the OpenEJB namespace and know right away
exactly where the ejb is and what it is called. When you find one you
like, just click it and it will open up into the EJB viewer. While
there you can check out it's home, remote and bean classes in the class
browser. The Object invoker allows you to actually create and invoke
your EJBs without writing a single line of code. OpenEJB 0.9.2 also
contains a new openejb.base variable to complement the openejb.home
variable. The openejb.base variable allows you to have several
configurations of OpenEJB all running against the same OpenEJB install.
This makes using OpenEJB in IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans even easier.
Move the openejb_loader-0.9.2.jar into your project's lib directory,
set the openejb.base, and you'll be debugging your EJB apps
front-to-back without the need for remote debugging support or special
editor plug-ins. Thanks to all the OpenEJB users for all the great
ideas! You speak, we listen.
http://openejb.sourceforge.net/download.html
LTI-Lib Version Beta 1.9.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282700
LTI-Lib is an object oriented computer vision library written in C++
for Windows/MS-VC++ and Linux/gcc. It provides lots of functionality to
solve mathematical problems, many image processing algorithms, some
classification tools and much more. This release provides new functors
and features, many bug fixes and more documentation. Download --------
You can get this and previous releases from:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45767 Homepage
-------- For more information please visit our homepage:
http://ltilib.sourceforge.net ChangeLog --------- For more details
about the changes in this release please visit the ChangeLog page at:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=163728
Acknowledgments --------------- Thanks to all developers at the Chair
of Computer Science: Suat Akyol, Pablo Alvarado, Daniel Beier, Axel
Berner, Ulrich Canzler, Peter Doerfler, Thomas Erger, Holger
Fillbrandt, Peter Gerber, Claudia, Goenner, Xin Gu, Michael Haehnel,
Christian Harte, Bastian Ibach, Torsten Kaemper, Thomas Krueger,
Frederik Lange, Henning Luepschen, Peter Mathes, Alexandros Matsikis,
Bernd Mussman, Jens Paustenbach, Norman Pfeil, Jens Rietzschel, Daniel
Ruijters, Thomas Rusert, Stefan Syberichs, Guy Wafo Moudhe, Ruediger
Weiler, Jochen Wickel , Benni Winkler, Xinghan Yu, Marius Wolf, Joerg
Zieren
Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282686
Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 - This is the second (and, we fully
expect, final) *release candidate* for Gallery v.1.3.4. Changes from
RC1 essentially amount to small fixes for errors discovered since the
first release candidate in the backup_albums.php script and the new
"custom fields" code. Gallery is slick, intuitive web based photo
gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to
install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great
for communities. Download it:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more about this
release candidate: http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=75
phpwsBB 0.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282990
phpwsBB is a native bulletin board module for the phpWebSite content
management system, version 0.9.2 or later. Today we release version
0.1.0 of phpwsBB. Features include anonymous posting, message editing
and deletion for registered users, thread locking and message forking
for admins, and ... well that's probably it. Be sure you have the
latest version of phpWebSite installed: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
and then download phpwsbb from: http://phpwsbb.sourceforge.net.
Aleph One 2003-05-30 Mac OS X Carbon and Windows releases
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282073
Aleph One plays Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and third-party content
on a wide array of platforms with numerous enhancements. The new Mac OS
X Carbon and Windows SDL 2003-05-30 releases add significantly improved
Internet play, Lua scripting, Speex compression for realtime network
audio (making it much more practical in Internet games), an anisotropic
filtering option on video cards that support it, and more.
Slashdot
UK Councils May Dump Windows For Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/031229
An anonymous reader writes "Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham
are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows
to GNU/Linux. [0] ZDNet has the story. "If this is seen to work in
Newham, it has the potential to be a significant project, changing the
perceptions of other councils," said Tim Dawes, director of local
government technology consultants Nineveh."
Links
0. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t272-s2135726,00.html
Spammers Exploiting Hotmail Vulnerability
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/0257203
[0]chip rosenthal writes "Notice more Hotmail spam in your inbox
recently? There is a good reason for that. In March, spammers
discovered a [1]new vulnerability in the Hotmail service that allows
them to script their spam sending. So far I've seen a 2200% increase in
Hotmail spam as a result. We're now at three months and counting, and
the problem only seems to be getting worse."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.unicom.com/chrome/a/000262.html
17" Monitor Case Modding -- The "iMike"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/0245203
greyrax writes "So what does a Canadian cabinet maker who's a closet
techie do during those long winter months? You modify a 17" monitor
case to house your computer (think iMac). The [0]blow-by-blow
descriptions and pictures outline this three-month project. The only
question that I'm left with is 'What is that antenna for?'"
Links
0. http://members.shaw.ca/northvanmike/page1.html
Cheating Fruit (Slot) Machines
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/0051239
[0]ebbdr writes "Ever think that fruit machines cheat you? You would be
right, at least in the UK. This article provides proof that [1]fruit
machine outcomes are predetermined and that the players inputs have
little, if anything to do with it. And it lets you download the
[2]emulators and machine code required to test the hypothesis for
yourself...."
Links
0. http://barton_ed at hotmail.com
1. http://www.fairplay-campaign.co.uk/fruit/
2. http://www.fairplay-campaign.co.uk/fruit/fruit2.htm
Oracle's Hostile Takeover Bid For PeopleSoft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/239221
[0]rkuris writes "[1]Oracle has launched a [2]5.1 billion dollar cash
hostle takeover bid against [3]Peoplesoft. PeopleSoft's CEO Craig
Conway (a [4]former top executive for Oracle) called Oracle's offer
'[5]atrociously bad behavior from a company with a history of
atrociously bad behavior.' 'Obviously it is a transparent attempt to
disrupt the [1.7 billion dollar friendly] acquisition of [6]J.D.
Edwards by PeopleSoft announced [7]earlier this week.' The week's
events have reopened old wounds between the companies, which have a
[8]history of hostility and name calling."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://oracle.com/
2. http://www.business-standard.com/updates/news.asp?story=4211
3. http://www.peoplesoft.com/
4. http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/about/overview/leader_profiles.jsp
5. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1013893.html?tag=lh
6. http://jdedwards.com/
7. http://news.com.com/2100-1021-1011938.html?tag=nl
8. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/6036048.htm
Maine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/2255238
Neophytus writes "The [0]University of Maine has now almost completed
its [1]solar system model, to be unveiled officially on the June 14th
at Westfield. The final planet, Uranus, will be set in place on the
13th. At forty miles from Pluto to The Sun and built to a scale of
1:93,000,000, it will be the largest three-dimensional scale model of
the Solar System in North America."
Links
0. http://www.umpi.maine.edu/
1. http://www.umpi.maine.edu/info/nmms/solar/index.htm
DoCoMo Will Launch Fuel-Cell Mobile Phones By 2005
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/2110231
[0]prostoalex writes "Japan's major telecom provider NTT DoCoMo
[1]plans to use fuel cells for its 3G phones. 'Users of cellphones with
a fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container
to refuel the battery', says Reuters."
Links
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals
1. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2881770
A Solution For Making WiFi Cost Effective
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/1840257
[0]rkohutek writes "This whitepaper came out of my employer's desire to
deploy high speed wireless internet to an underserved, mostly rural
area. Although very easy to do on the ground level, I found it to not
be a cake walk when it came to actually making it a viable network case
-- in a "normally" deployed wireless network it is very easy to spoof
an IP or MAC address and hop on the network and get free bandwidth.
This is not acceptable and the acronym WARTA, Wireless Authentication,
Routing, Traffic control, Accounting was thought up to cover the things
that we needed to do. Read on for how we managed to make it work using
Free Software: [1]HTML or [2]PDF." Update: 06/07 20:42 GMT by [3]T: He
sends along word of [4]this mirror as well.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.hpi.net/whitepapers/warta/
2. http://www.hpi.net/whitepapers/warta/warta.pdf
3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4. http://129.19.75.194/~jakalowiw/warta
Quantum Cryptography: 100km Barrier Broken
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/1720241
jdfox writes "Toshiba Research Europe have just demonstrated [0]quantum
crypto over 100km fibre links. Sounds like there's still a fair bit of
work to be done before it leaves the lab, but it's amazing that they've
got as far as they have. There's another article about it, though still
not much technical detail, [1]here on the BBC and [2]here on The
Register."
Links
0. http://optics.org/articles/news/9/6/3/1
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1709322.stm
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31077.html
Greplaw Interviews Phil Zimmermann
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/2038214
[0]LawGeek writes "The venerable [1]GrepLaw crew has struck again, this
time with Editor [2]Mikael Pawlo interviewing PGP author and all-around
encryption expert [3]Phil Zimmermann. Pawlo discussed a number of
topics with Zimmerman, including the current state of encryption export
laws, DRM, and activism against erosion of privacy both in the U.S. and
internationally. The [4]interview is here."
Links
0. http://grep.law.harvard.edu
1. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/
2. http://www.algonet.se/~mpawlo/
3. http://www.philzimmermann.com/
4. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1441247&mode=nested
Freshmeat
Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/865
I first met this book at a bioinformatics course I attended at NCSU
last year. I've been reading books on bioinformatics since 1997, and I
was a little skeptical about this one. I thought it was "just another
bioinformatics book". I was wrong. It has some really outstanding
features I'd like to highlight.
Alexandria Archives 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125281/
Alexandria Archives is designed to catalog your files and directories
on CD, floppy disk, hard drive, Zip Disk, USB memory, etc. and search
for them later.
Anthill 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125264/
Anthill is a bug tracking database system written in PHP. It provides
the standard bug tracking features such as: user logins, summary
reports, submitting bugs, querying bugs, various severity and status
levels. It also provides some unique features, such as a template
system, and multi-lingual support.
Autopoweroff 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125286/
Autopoweroff is a script that shuts down a computer at a specific time,
but only if some conditions are met. It works well on home
router/firewalls where the machine can be switched off every night and
powered back up in the morning. It can be configured to only shut down
the server after any computers which depend on the server for Internet
access have been shut down.
bbfinger 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125275/
bbfinger displays the current users in a tiny X11-decorated window. It
supports commandline options to set/unset transparency, foreground
color, border size, display, and position. It can also be configured
through a configuration file.
Boot Scriptor 2.0.6b (CD Shell)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125271/
Boot Scriptor is a program that allows a high degree of interactivity
when booting from a CD or DVD drive. It provides a set of commands that
enable users to boot a system in a number of ways, as well as provide
interactive menus to choose boot options from. It provides similar
functionality to Diskem1x, as well as new original features and
interfaces to programs such as Isolinux/Memdisk and Ranish Partition
Manager. All features can be commanded through a console interface or
by constructing simple script files.
CjOverkill 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125291/
CjOverkill is a traffic trading script developed to track traffic
trades between sites. These kind of scripts are mainly used for adult
sites like TGPs, links lists, toplists or similar. It includes
productivity, raw and unique hits traffic tracking also as several
cheat protections like extreme low or extreme high productivity,
minimum hits per day and maximum proxy percent per day. It also
includes several integrity and security tests and a traffic filter in
order to minimize hacking attempts.
Cornice 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125282/
Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, wxPython,
and PIL.
Dark Commander 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125285/
Dark Commander is a Norton Commander clone that supports browse, copy,
delete, rename, chmod, and viewing operations. It features a built-in
image viewer that is capable of showing many popular image formats, and
a small file editor. The view can be customized and files sorted in
various ways.
dopewars 1.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125290/
dopewars is a UNIX rewrite of the MS-DOS program of the same name,
which in turn was inspired by John E. Dell's "Drug Wars"
game. You have one month to buy and sell drugs on the streets of New
York, the aim being first to pay off your debt to the loan shark and
then to make a fortune. And if you have to shoot a few cops in the
process, well... The game includes TCP networking allowing you to meet
(and shoot) other human drug dealers. Computer drug dealers are
currently in development.
FLASH Code 2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125128/
The FLASH code is a modular, adaptive, parallel simulation code capable
of handling general compressible flow problems in astrophysical
environments. It has been designed to allow users to configure initial
and boundary conditions, change algorithms, and add new physical
effects with minimal effort. It uses the PARAMESH library to manage a
block-structured adaptive grid, placing resolution elements only where
they are needed most. It uses the Message-Passing Interface (MPI)
library to achieve portability and scalability on a variety of
different message-passing parallel computers.
Gengen 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125304/
Gengen (GENerator GENerator) is a tool that, starting from a
parameterized text (template), generates a text generator that can
substitute parameters with values.
Genmake 2003_06_07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125278/
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.).
GPdf 0.102
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125273/
GPdf is a PDF viewer for GNOME, based on Xpdf.
GraphicsMagick 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125299/
GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries which
support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major
formats including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,PNG, PDF,
PhotoCD, SVG, and GIF. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which
provides a subset of SVG capabilities. C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python,
ColdFusion, and Ruby are supported. Originally based on ImageMagick,
GraphicsMagick focuses on performance, minimizing bugs, and providing
stable APIs and ABIs. It runs on all modern variants of Unix, Windows,
VMS, and MacOS 9.
GTetrinet 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125292/
GTetrinet is a clone of the popular Windows game Tetrinet. It is
written for Gtk/GNOME, and is designed to be fully compatible with the
original Tetrinet, as well as being identical in gameplay.
ical for Red Hat 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125298/
ical for Red Hat is an effort to provide the ical program in RPM format
for users of current versions of Red Hat Linux.
inlook 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125301/
inlook is an addressbook for sendmail with many features. You can add
users to an addressbook, and then send an email to a user by just
typing the name of the user (inlook will look up the email address
automatically). inlook is perhaps most useful for mail administrators
using sendmail.
JTicTacToe 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125303/
JTicTacToe is a version of the popular boardgame "Tic Tac
Toe", with the difference that you can have a gamefield of
arbitrary size and you need 5 X's or O's in a row to win. You need to
play against another human being; JTicTacToe is meant to be played via
the Internet.
libmplite 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125277/
libmplite is a library which provides a minimal C++ interface around
the mpfr library for multi-precision floating point arithmetic.
LogiCreate Application Framework 2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125287/
LogiCreate is a PHP-based application framework that handles database
abstraction, user profiles, arbitrary user groups, granular
permissions, and more. The system features installable modules, loosely
modelled after Java servlets. LogiCreate includes many sample modules
aimed at community-oriented sites (news, forums, broadcast emailer, and
so on) which can be used 'out of the box' or customized to fit your
needs.
Meta-Aqua 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125263/
Meta-Aqua is based on the Sawfish theme "Aquaified" by Justin
Hahn, using the same artwork.
MysticIRCd 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125294/
MysticIRCd is a powerful IRCd with several essential features. It is
based on UltimateIRCd 2.8.x, and adds several more features, such as an
extended help system with the HelpOp Notifications and an IRC based
help system. It also features BadWord Censors.
Natural Docs 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125300/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code
documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so
the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation.
It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
OpenGFS 0.2.1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125284/
OpenGFS is an enterprise-class clustered filesystem for organizations
requiring low-cost shared data storage and management. It is a
continuation of the GPLed version of the Global File System as
originally started by Sistina, which switched to a non-free license.
pekwm 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125265/
Pekwm is a window manager based on aewm++, but it no longer resembles
it. It is highly configurable, rather fast, and aimed towards being
usable while remaining pretty enough to look at. Features include
client window grouping into one window frame, automatic window size,
location, grouping and title rewriting properties, keychains, Xinerama
support, pixmap theming, and dynamic menus.
PHPRecipeBook 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125266/
PHPRecipeBook is a Web-based cookbook with the ability to create
shopping lists from recipes selected. The lists can be saved and later
reloaded and edited. The shopping list also attempts to combine similar
items so that duplication does not occur.
RechnungsZentrale V2 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125289/
RechnungsZentrale V2 is a multiuser, Web-based billing application. It
facilitates the creation of bills and the management of customers. It
is written in PHP and uses MySQL. There are only currently only
language files for English and German.
RSS Mix Tape 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125268/
RSS Mix Tape reads items from specified RSS feeds and displays them in
a list. Selected posts can be categorized and commented on, and an RSS
feed is generated for each category. It also supports LiveJournal input
whether or not you are a paid user.
rssh 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125283/
rssh is a small shell that provides the ability for system
administrators to give specific users access to a given system via scp
or sftp only.
ScsiaddGui 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125302/
Scsiaddgui provides a graphical user interface for the Scsiadd utility,
which allows you to add or remove SCSI devices without having to
reboot.
shn2make 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125280/
shn2make works with sets of shn audio files and the make program to
automate the process of burning CD-Rs and encoding mp3 and ogg files.
shn2make looks for the .nfo or .txt file, and attempts to interpret the
song names, CD listing, and other things according to the most common
.nfo file formats, it checks MD5 checksums, and, if everything makes
sense, outputs the text of a Makefile. The output Makefile fully
automates the processing of the set of shn files.
sinus 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125270/
sinus is a program that generates interesting sine waves, plays them
and writes them to MS RIFF (.wav) files. It generates waves based on a
series of input frequencies which can be either static or a start and
end frequency. It is capable of creating waves of any sampling rate
which can be 8/16/32 bits and either Mono or Stereo. Each channel can
be controlled separately and the size of the waves is limited only by
swap space.
tgzdrop 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125269/
tgzdrop is an AppleScript droplet for Mac OS X that accepts files or
folders via drag and drop, and produces a .tgz compressed archive in
the same directory as the original, just as if you had run "tar
-zcf blah.tgz blah" from the command line.
Trusted Opensource Records for Care & Health 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125262/
Trusted Opensource Records for Care & Health (TORCH) is an
electronic health record application. It features a Web-based user
interface and can scale from a laptop used by a single physician all
the way up to geographically separated multi-site clinics.
Veejay 0.3.3rc9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125293/
Veejay is a video tracker/editing tool for Linux, which is similar in
concept to FastTracker and ProTracker but for video. You can make video
samples and line them up on a pattern. You can set looptype, playback
speed and do a number of effects or transitions on them while playing
back from multiple video sources in realtime. The project emphasizes
direct (user) interaction. It is possible to navigate through video
samples, define various types of looping, increase and decrease
playback speed, and navigate through the effect chain to apply a chain
of effects using the keyboard while the interface keeps track of what
you are doing.
vimdrop 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125295/
vimdrop is an Applescript droplet that allows you to open up and edit
files in your favorite editor by dragging them to the vimdrop icon. The
dropped file will be opened in a new Terminal window with the text
editor defined in the $EDITOR environment variable. A binary compiled
under 10.2.6 and the Project Builder files are included in the
distribution.
Vrcon 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125297/
Vrcon is a Curses-based rcon utility that allows admins to quickly
administer Half-Life based game servers. It lets them view players, ban
players, change maps, flag WONIDs, and more.
WebShop 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125296/
WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It
includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as
well as a sample servlet implementation of a shop.
xmcd2make 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125279/
xmcd2make is a set of Perl scripts which support users of the gramofile
recording, track splitting, and signal processing package. It consists
of 3 userland tools: findtracks.pl (a command line interface to
gramofile track detection), signalproc.pl (a command line interface to
gramofile track splitting and signal processing), and xmcd2make.pl (a
script that takes an xmcd file of song names and track timing files and
creates a makefile). When the makefile is run, it splits the tracks,
performs gramofile signal processing, and encodes the resulting tracks
to Ogg Vorbis format with the correct song names and good tags.
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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