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Sourceforge
EVMS 2.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289226
The EVMS team is announcing the next major release of the Enterprise
Volume Management System. Package 2.1.0 is now available for download.
This release is for the new EVMS design, which is based on user-space
volume discovery and communication with existing kernel drivers, such
as MD/Software-RAID and Device-Mapper. Downloads at the project page:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evms/ Please see the INSTALL file
in the 2.1.0 package for information about installing and getting
started with the new EVMS. Since this new design is based on user-space
discovery, there will no longer be boot-time volume activation. Please
see the INSTALL file for information about how to activate your volumes
using the EVMS user-interfaces and utilities. The INSTALL file also
contains instructions for how users may easily "upgrade" an existing
2.4 kernel with Device-Mapper and EVMS 2.0.1 patches. Please see the
README file in the 2.1.0 package for more detailed notes concerning
this release and it's new features. EVMS 2.1.0 is supported on 2.4.21,
2.4.20, 2.4.19, and 2.5.73 kernels. If you have any questions, find any
bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to
the EVMS mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or visit the EVMS IRC
channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). Please see the notes and changelog
at: http://www.sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=168707
NDoc version 1.2 beta released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289572
A beta of the latest version of NDoc, the .NET Code Documentation
Generator, has been released. The new features include: - new HTML Help
2 documenter (beta version), - new HTML Linear documenter (alpha
version), - the MSDN documenter can now generate CHM or Online
documentation, - option to link to the .NET Framework SDK v1.0, v1.1 or
MSDN Online - support for Visual Studio 2003 and the .NET Framework
1.1, - plus many improvements and bug fixes... The NDoc v1.2 beta
source code is available for download at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36057&release_id=
168934
Columba 0.11.0 (unstable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289631
A new unstable 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 contains numerous new features we want you to
testdrive. http://columba.sourceforge.net/downloads_unstable.php For
more information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/news.php
Python 2.3b2
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=288768
Python 2.3b2 has been released (29-Jun-2003). We encourage you to test
your applications with this release, as we plan on a final Python 2.3
release by early August.
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-06-20 EDITION
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289543
0. Intro. 1. Improved Search. 2. Project of the month: Megamek. 3.
Updated Project Registration System. 4. New RSS Feeds. 5. Stats and Top
Projects.
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Dear SourceForge.net, One of our biggest challenges in managing
SourceForge.net has been handling our growth. With approximately 70 new
Open Source Projects and 700 new registered users being added to the
site each day, it can be quite a trick trying to stay ahead of the
curve. This month I want to mention two improvements that are
noteworthy. The first is project search. You can read about it below,
but essentially the average time for searching for projects (using the
left navbar) been reduced from 30 seconds to 1 second. The second is
the beginning of the process of weeding out "dead" projects. These are
projects that haven't had any real activity in the past 6 months and
have never released any files. This is a big change for us. When
SourceForge.net was started over 3 1/2 years ago, the vision was that
it would be the permanent record of Open Source Software - Nothing
would be deleted. We held on to the mission so strongly that we never
developed internal tools to delete projects. Now with over 63,000+
projects and 70 new ones being added daily, we do realize that not
-every- project has taken root. The real crusty/vacant ones (haven't
released files and have zero activity) will be put in a queue for
removal. This process will be done very carefully; we will give the
registered admins of the project ample warning and the ability to
'opt-out' of the removal. The upside for the SourceForge.net community
is that soon things will be a bit cleaner around here. Search results
will list less dead projects and the software map will be easier to
traverse. We still have some growing pains, but I hope you enjoy these
latest improvements. I want to thank you for supporting SourceForge.net
and the Open Source community. As always if you have some feedback or
issues related to the site, please feel free to email me directly at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick McGovern Director, SF.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] Improved
Project Search --------------------------------------------- As
SourceForge.net continues to have significant growth in the size of its
user base, count of hosted projects, and daily activity, a significant
amount of work is done by the SourceForge.net team to ensure suitable
site performance and to work to resolve existing performance problems.
The SourceForge.net team is happy to announce that the "Software/group
search" facility is now operating in a more proper and functional
manner. Searches are now performed in real time and last only seconds.
Search users should no longer encounter the dreaded "search server is
overloaded" messages previously offered during peak traffic hours. The
SourceForge.net team expects to further expand the search facility in
the near future, and to increase the frequency of search updates
(currently twice-weekly) to better meet the needs of our hosted
projects. Your patience has been appreciated; we hope you enjoy your
search results... http://sourceforge.net/search/ Project of the Month:
MegaMek --------------------------------------------- The
SourceForge.net team loves games. Our favorites are online, net-based
games that offer the ability to battle friends and foes from all over
from world. SourceForge.net's June 2003 project of the month, MegaMek,
is a Java based networkable game for 2 or more players. It's a
strategic game that features brains over fast reflexes. The Software,
licensed under the GPL, has enjoyed a position in the top 25 SF.net
most active projects since it's founding in February 2002. With new
features being added daily, MegaMek is a project to keep an eye on.
http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-06.php Updated Project
Registration System ---------------------------------------------
SourceForge.net provides hosting for Open Source software development
projects. Each day, SourceForge.net evaluates more than 100 new
projects for hosting. Historically, there have been a number of
pitfalls in this process. In particular, ensuring that each new project
registration contains enough information to be properly considered by
the SourceForge.net team without the added delay of asking the
submitter for more information. Delays due to lack of information
previously impacted roughly 15% of our new project registrations,
causing these registrations to take more than our ideal two business
days to be processed fully. The project registration system on
SourceForge.net has recently been completely rewritten, integrating
fixes for all previously-reported issues (in the past couple of years)
and generally making the process more seamless for the submitter. Based
on information collected during the early stages of the project
registration process, the project registration system automatically
advises you as to what should be included in your project description,
and helps to bring potential pitfalls to your attention before the
registration request is submitted. Users of our past project
registration pages will note a larger amount of integrated
documentation, the ability to easily return to earlier stages in the
process without losing entered data, and the capability to review the
information you have provided (and make necessary changes) before
submitting it to the SourceForge.net team for consideration. We hope
these changes will help make the process of registering a project on
SourceForge.net easier to understand, and help us to further improve
the turnaround time on hosting requests. New RSS Feeds.
--------------------------------------------- This is information from
the last sitewide email, but we think it's worth repeating. A
convenient way to keep up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site,
project news, activity information, and new projects is now available.
SourceForge.net provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed
using an RSS reader or aggregator (some content management systems also
allow you include data from an RSS feed on your website, much as
Slashdot and Freshmeat do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using
these RSS feeds, you can keep up-to-date with the latest project news
and file releases, Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics
(such as top projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed
using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on
the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of
the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including
information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete
list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1
Stats and Top Projects. ---------------------------------------------
Number of Projects: 63,569 Number of Registered Users: 642,495 Daily
Stats for June 11th, 2003 SF.NET : 1,762,941 pages served SF.NET
project web space : 4,037,233 pages served Total Pages: 5,800,174 CVS
updates: 15,017 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 310,666
Outgoing Mailing list emails: 124712 Top 25 Projects: 1. GAIM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is a GTK2-based instant
messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules,
including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and
Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as
many unique feature. 2. phpMyAdmin
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a tool
written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the
WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter
tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys
on fields. 3. JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The
JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE
based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java 4. AWStats
http://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats/ Advanced Web Statistics
(AWStats) is a free powerful and featureful web server logfile analyzer
that shows you all your Web (but also FTP or Mail) statistics including
visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords,
robots, etc. 5. Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/
Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set.
6. guliverkli http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ Home of
VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 7. BZFlag
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/ OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer
Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag. 8. Tiki CMS/Groupware
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is a powerful
CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image
gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ,
chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on
or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) 9. ScummVM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform
interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like:
Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It
also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 10.
Freecraft http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecraft/ This is a free
cross-platform real-time strategy game engine. It is possible to play
over LAN, internet or against the computer and to build C&C, W*rCr*ft,
St*rCr*ft or AOE like RTS games with it. Currently only a W*rCr*ft 2
compatible theme is available. 11. XboxMediaPlayer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/ The XboxMediaPlayer for the
Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2,
MP3, JPG & other supported video/audio/picture formats via your TV so
it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports streaming media
over a network. 12. wxWindows
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/ wxWindows is a free C++
framework that facilitates cross platform software development,
including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc.
13. POPFile http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an
email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy
and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email
clients. 14. moregroupware
http://sourceforge.net/projects/moregroupware/ Web-based groupware
written in PHP4. Including modules like webmail, notes, todo, contacts,
project management, calendar and others. 15. Compiere ERP + CRM
Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart
ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace
covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and
accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click"
first tier functionality. 16. TUTOS
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ TUTOS is the ultimate team
organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage
events/ calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes,
documents and your time spent with these things. 17. filezilla
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ FileZilla is a fast FTP
client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a
reliable FTP server. 18. Armagetron
http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetron/ Armagetron is a simple
action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron.
The main focus lies on the multiplayer mode, which has already made
Armagetron a popular warmup game on LAN parties. 19. ffdshow
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ ffdshow is DirectShow decoding
filter for decompressing DIVX and XVID movies using libavcodec or xvid
with rich set of video postprocessing filters. ffdshow can also be used
as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders. 20. TV-Browser
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvbrowser/ TV-Browser is a java-based
TV guide which is easily extensible using plugins. It is designed to
look like a paper based tv guide. 21. Mobicq
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobicq/ Mobicq is a native ICQ client
for mobile devices, such as celluar phones. It is written using Java 2
Micro Edition (MIDP 1.0) and uses ICQ protocol version 8. 22. Alvaro's
Messenger http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn/ Alvaro\'s Messenger is
a MSN messenger clone for linux/unix/windows/mac. It features
multilanguage support, file transfers, new graphical interface,
emoticons, multiple profiles support, dock icon, sound events, email
notification, url processing... 23. MAMEoX
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameox/ MAMEoX is a port of the popular
MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) system to the XBOX. The main goals
of the project are to provide a well documented port with a consistent
coding style. 24. WebCalendar
http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar/ WebCalendar is a PHP
application used to maintain a calendar for a single user or an
intranet group of users. 25. TortoiseCVS
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/ TortoiseCVS is an
extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer that makes using CVS fun and
easy. Features include: colored icons, tight integration with SSH, and
context-menu interactivity.
Slashdot
Another Water-Cooling System For Laptops
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2354216
[0]big writes "NEC has developed the world's first [1]slim sized
water-cooling module for notebooks. It uses a piezoelectric pump
driving method. This water cooling-module enables a highly advanced,
slim sized, notebook PC with minimal operating noise." Toshiba has been
working on [2]water cooling in laptops at least as far back as the year
2000.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/334/C1811/
2. http://www.arstechnica.com/archive/2000/0400-2.html
Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/0132204
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Philadelphia Inquirer
article [0]linking videogames to an alleged spree killing attempt.
According to the article, "Investigators suspect the three teens
arrested.. as they allegedly were about to launch a killing rampage in
the small town, found inspiration in violent computer games.. [police]
learned that the name the three reportedly had given themselves -
Warriors of Freedom - is also an Internet-based combat game." But only
a few media reports mention that the violent game connection was made
by Jack Thompson, a Miami lawyer and [1]outspoken critic of [2]violent
video and [3]computer games - is this a case of [4]shameless Googling
to find [5]any obscure game with a similar name and make a connection,
or is there genuine evidence here?
Links
0. http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/6253512.htm
1. http://www.fradical.com/Sniper_trained_on_Halo.htm
2. http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/5966240.htm
3. http://www.aim.org/publications/media_monitor/2003/02/26.html
4.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22warriors+of+freedom%22+game&btnG=Google+Search
5. http://www.dd-clan.org/rpg/
Armadillo Aero One Step Closer To Space
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2328203
[0]RobertB-DC writes "The folks at [1]Armadillo Aerospace have taken
another step toward the X-Prize, dropping their re-entry vehicle from
2000 feet with no major problems noted. As usual, the Armadillo crew
[2]documented the event with text, pictures and video, and the story is
also [3]covered by Space.com (though without as many cool technical
details). It's a bumpy ride, though -- instruments recorded some 10 G's
on touchdown."
Links
0. http://www.dixie-chicks.com/
1. http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
2. http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=215
3. http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/armadillo_test_030707.html
Wi-Fi, Linux, And VoIP In Canada
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2039213
WEFUNK writes "Canadian Business magazine has a [0]cover story
promoting Wi-Fi, VoIP, and Linux as 'Stuff that Works: 3 hot
technologies that live up to their hype.' The article goes on to
describe a number of Canadian success stories, ranging from [1]Spotnik
Mobile's growing network of Wi-Fi hotspots to the [2]Canadian National
Railway's use of Linux since 1993, and quantifies the benefits of VoIP
to a Canadian [3]insurance company's call centre. The article also
includes some shipment numbers for Linux servers in Canada, mentions
the growing number of Linux apps, and nicely downplays the SCO
debacle."
Links
0. http://www.canadianbusiness.com/columns/article.jsp?content=20030707_54765_54765
1. http://www.spotnikmobile.com/
2. http://www.cn.ca/
3. http://www.canadalife.ca/
Glitches in Massive Government Databases?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2059205
HBergeron asks: "Rather then post this as another YRO in the litany of
new government datamarts there is a more fundamental question for all
the coding Slashdot readers out there. [0]This story, in [1]Government
Executive magazine, outlines the range of programming glitches in what
is a relatively simple database. As a matter of public policy (and
taxpayer money) is this level of non-functionality to be expected in
these sorts of projects? Is the contractor just ripping off the
taxpayers with bad code? How hard is it to write software like this
that works?" The article focuses on the [2]SEVIS database, but have
others noticed similar trend in other government information systems?
Links
0. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0703/070303h1.htm
1. http://www.govexec.com/
2. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/0756253&tid=158
Extending And Embracing In Portland At OSCON 2003
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2222243
Officially, the theme of [0]this year's Open Source Software Convention
(OSCON) 2003 is "Embracing and Extending Proprietary Software," and to
that end approximately 1,500 attendees (and companies including Apple,
Active State, online book-seller Powells.com and MySQL) are sharing
space in three floors of Portland's downtown Marriott, and will until
the conference's close on Friday. ([1]Representatives from Microsoft
are along for the ride, too. Lunch on Wednesday is Microsoft's treat.)
An unoffical theme of ubiquitious connectivity and creative
collaborative in much in evidence as well: besides the
conference-furnished wireless access points throughout the classroom
area, numerous other base stations (like the one I'm connected to right
now) have popped up. What do you expect with more than a thousand
laptop-toting programmers in one hotel? There's also a
[2]"semi-unofficial" wiki ([3]applauded by Tim O'Reilly), an [4]ongoing
web log of the conference, and an irc channel filled with conference
attendees. Read on for more.
Links
0. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/
1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1185987,00.asp
2. http://oscon.kwiki.org/
3. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3404
4. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3438
Open Source Law
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/204225
[0]Russ Nelson writes "The U.S. Supreme Court just announced its
refusal to review the 5th Circuit's en banc decision that there can be
no copyright of privately authored laws offered to U.S. governmental
bodies for adoption. The model law itself may be copyrighted, but once
it's adopted, the law must be open source. The entire case is laid out
on [1]Peter Veeck's page." Slashdot [2]touched on this before, but
never really covered this dispute in depth. Here's a nice [3]legal
summary of the case.
Links
0. http://russnelson.com
1. http://regionalweb.texoma.net/cr/filings.htm
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/13/1921223&tid=153
3. http://www.gtwassociates.com/answers/veeck.htm
Evolving the Wireless Robot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1953238
An anonymous reader writes "This article is one of the first to discuss
[0]wireless robotics from an integrated approach. It explains the ins
and outs of wireless robots: their components, their shortcomings, and
how they can interact in a competitive or cooperative team within
professional environments. Learn how smarter robots can relieve us of
the most tedious -- and dangerous -- tasks."
Links
0.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/library/wi-robotics.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01WirelessRobots
Inside Electronic Voting Machines
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1949200
[0]Alien54 and several other people wrote in about a couple of stories
published in a New Zealand webzine: an [1]examination of an electronic
voting system, and some less interesting [2]political speculation about
it. [3]Diebold voting systems are in fairly wide use, and apparently
provide zero security to keep election officials from writing in
whatever election totals they want.
Links
0. http://radiofreenation.net
1. http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
2. http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm
3. http://www.diebold.com/dieboldes/
Linux vs. SCO: The Decision Matrix
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/182211
[0]hexidec writes "Haven't seen this here yet, though I may have missed
it. Anyway... A group of Australian techies have put together an
analysis [1]matrix of the likelyhood of each SCO Unix claim being true,
and what outcome would most likely result if so. Puts a lot of the
various recent suppositions in one handy place."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cybersource.com.au/users/conz/linux_vs_sco_matrix.html
Freshmeat
2Pong 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128666/
2Pong is a Pong clone that is played with two balls instead of one. The
game features three modes of play: the regular Pong game, a time-based
mode against an unbeatable AI opponent, and a "2 vs 2" mode.
Network support for 1-vs-1 games is also available.
3D Pong for Palm Pilot 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128674/
3D Pong is a fast-paced three-dimensional pong game for Palm OS. It
features a computer opponent and multiple stages.
abcm2ps 3.6.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128627/
abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to
PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to
print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one
or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to
the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
ActiveDeveloper 2.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128641/
ActiveDeveloper is a runtime Objective-C and C IDE, JIT compiler, and
debugger for Cocoa and WebObjects 4.x. It features fast incremental
Objective-C and C compilation, full native speed applications in
deployment, and no ActiveDeveloper dependency in your products.
AODV-UU 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128646/
AODV-UU (Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing, from Uppsala
University) is a routing protocol under investigation by the IETF for
use in ad-hoc networks, where both end-users and routers are mobile.
This implementation supports IPv6 and multicasting and is compliant
with AODV Draft v.13.
Apollon 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128696/
Apollon is the filesharing client you were waiting for! It uses
giFT/openFT as a filesharing protocol, and the GUI is very
user-friendly and intuitive.
Arbitrary Command Output Colourer 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128610/
acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs that
display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the
target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream.
Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be
manipulated. acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output
and applies colours to those matches.
Bugzero 2.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128655/
Bugzero is an all-in-one product for software bug tracking, defect
issue incident tracking, trouble ticketing, help desk support, and
customer email management. It is simple to use and avoids complexity by
making the tasks or projects separate and independent. It is platform
and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple
projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file
attachment, email notification, inbound email management, metric
reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a
comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an
easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and
user account management.
Build it Fast 0.1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128651/
Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes
that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of
time. It brings the concept of the 'widget' to Web development. It
features Cascade Skins and transparent session management.
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128700/
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer adds visual impact and interactivity to the
documentation of your parsers. It supports a wide variety of parser
generation formats, including yacc, bison, JavaCC, BNF, EBNF and ISO
EBNF (ISO/IEC 14977). It is a self-contained Java-based visualization
application that dynamically creates visual representation of your
syntax and grammar, saving it as images for inclusion in your
documentation. It supports all common image formats, easy integration
with your existing build environment, full customization of the look of
your railroad diagrams, and multi- platform support.
CDAY Calendar Almanac 0.51 (cday-php)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128697/
The CDAY Calendar Almanac displays historical anniversaries such as
birthdays and general events. It displays the equivalent date in
multiple calendar systems, including Hebrew, Julian, JDNs, Great
Underground Empire (Zork), and Shire (Lord of the Rings). Separate
command line and Web-based versions are available, along with a free
library of thousands of events.
changedfiles 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128690/
changedfiles is a framework for filesystem replication, security
monitoring, and/or automatic file transformations--essentially any
application where you'd poll files or directories and either do
something to them or send them somewhere else (or both). The difference
is, the kernel tells you when they change, instead of you having to
poll. Besides which, it's an easy real time FTP push mirror to one or
multiple sites. The changedfiles system consists of two parts: a kernel
module (works with Linux kernel version 2.4) which reports to a device
whenever a file on the filesystem changes, and a daemon which runs in
user space and can be configured to do almost any action when a change
to a file matching the one of the patterns it looks for is reported.
The kernel module is SMP safe and has been tested on Intel, PowerPC,
and Alpha.
Cherokee 0.4.5 rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128626/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is
implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C
library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports
on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.
Cocoa 3D Tutorial 0.3 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128644/
Cocoa 3D Tutorial provides a Cocoa framework to interface the OpenGL
library in a more OO-fashioned style. It is not meant to be the fastest
code possible, nor to leverage all the power of OpenGL, but to give
developers a easy way to start working in 3D.
dnSQLpanel 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128618/
dnSQLpanel is an easy to use control panel for Bind, using the MySQL
SDB module. It provides direct access to the tables that Bind reads
from modifying data in real time.
eboard 0.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128645/
eboard is a chess board interface for ICS (Internet Chess Servers, like
FICS) and chess engines (like Crafty) based on the GTK+ toolkit. It
provides a friendly user interface with input history, locked scroll
back, and multiple board windows.
Echo Web Application Framework 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128623/
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.
eDContainer 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128640/
eDContainer is a PHP container that defines a framework for content
publishing via a Web interface or for building a Web application. It
enables you to set up a fully customizable Web site or a Web interface
for an application in a few minutes. It allows the definition of
multi-lingual content, skins, dynamic content, customized error pages,
and more.
Electronic Design Automation - Index 0.1-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128630/
Electronic Design Automation - Index is a system that can be used in
the electronic world to keep track of your: Schematic, PCB, Front
Plate, and Programmable Logic numbers. This is very useful when you
have drawn some electronic schematics and PCBs in an EDA program such
as Eagle, gEDA, Protel, or Orcad. It is also useful if you've created a
front plate layout in an image editor such as GIMP, Corel Draw, or
Photoshop.
EMacro 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128681/
EMacro is a .emacs that easily configures Emacs and XEmacs on most
platforms, without any elisp programming.
Emdros 1.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128620/
Emdros is a text database engine for annotated or analyzed text. It is
applicable in linguistics, publishing, text processing, and other
fields dealing with annotated text. Emdros has a powerful query
language for asking relevant questions of the data. It is middleware,
acting as a layer between a client (written by the user), and an
underlying database. PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported.
EMS PostgreSQL Manager 1.2.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128643/
EMS PostgreSQL Manager is a powerful graphical tool for PostgreSQL
administration and development. It makes creating and editing
PostgreSQL database objects easy and fast, and allows you to run SQL
scripts and queries, manage users and their privileges, extract, print
and search metadata, export data to 12 available formats, and import
them from most popular formats.
Eternal Lands 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128701/
Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D graphical online
world that will evolve into a fully-featured MMORPG. It requires a
hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2.
EzSDK 4.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128692/
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.
Gnome Run Program Utility 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128703/
gmrun provides a small window which lets you launch programs by typing
their names. It features tab completion similar to bash or Emacs. It
can complete program names from $PATH, or if the command starts with
"/" it will complete file names. It provides a command
history of configurable size, as well as the ability to perform
forward/backward searches through the command history. gmrun was
developed as a replacement for the Gnome Run program.
GOBLIN Graph Library 2.6.1 Build4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128628/
The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large series
of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk
scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user
interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but
provides only basic graph layout methods.
GraphPak for Qt 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128658/
GraphPak is a programming library of 2D and 3D charting objects for the
Qt toolkit. It provides software developers with a set of C++ objects
to easily create charts or graphs that aid in the visual presentation
of technical and business data. This release includes Bar, Line, Pie,
Ring, Area, Hi-Lo, Box and Whisker, and Polar charts. It is based on
the KD Chart product from Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB.
Grip 3.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128657/
Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It
has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use
external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated
frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc,
xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform
it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported.
Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information
from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a
unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.
hackerlab 1.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128609/
libhackerlab is a general purpose C library that offers a pleasantly
refreshing alternative to libc.
Hierarchical Data Format 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128647/
HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) is a general purpose library and file
format for storing scientific data. It arranges data into datasets
(multidimensional arrays) and groups (a structure for organizing
objects).
IBM OpenDX 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128678/
IBM OpenDX, the successor to IBM Visualization Data Explorer, (known
simply as DX) is a general-purpose software package for data
visualization and analysis. It employs a data-flow driven client-server
execution model and provides a graphical program editor that allows the
user to create a visualization using a point and click interface.
Applications can also be built on top of portions of the Data Explorer
system, so that custom, turnkey applications can be easily developed
using DX as the computational and rendering engine.
IPA 1.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128683/
IPA allows one to perform IP accounting based on FreeBSD IPv4/v6
Firewall (including IPFW2), OpenBSD Packet Filter, and IP Filter
accounting rules on Free/Net/OpenBSD. It supports limits for accounting
rules, and limits events such as "limit is reached" and
"reached limit is expired." It also has a flexible
configuration file with many sections and options.
IRCG XML 4 Gamma 21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128606/
IRCG is a solution for delivering XML messages to huge numbers of
clients in real-time. IRCG leverages the power of established IRC
products and the PHP programming language for providing low-latency
message streams over persistent HTTP connections. The use of
time-proven technology and an easy-to-adapt scripting language is
designed to reduce development time and to maximize the value of
existing hardware investments. Typical applications of IRCG include
online gaming communities and chat systems. IRCG is fully compatible
with the ActionScript XMLSocket technology found in Flash-enabled
clients.
iStumbler 0.8b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128616/
iStumbler is a small utility for finding local wireless networks and
services. iStumbler combines a compact Aqua user interface with
advanced wireless scanning and reporting.
ITracker 2.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128648/
ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support
multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features
such as full i18n support, multiple versions and project components,
detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports
with charts, configurable field values, and multiple email
notifications.
iWebXF 1.0-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128613/
iWebXF is a Website engine which allows users to easily create an
uniform layout for a whole site. It can take care of XML documents as
long as the corresponding XSLT stylesheet for the document dialect is
provided. It has some features which facilitate the localization of a
Web site, can create dynamic menus, and includes a cache system.
j 0.20.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128677/
J is a multifile, multiwindow programmer's editor written entirely in
Java. It features syntax highlighting for Java, C, C++, XML, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Tcl/Tk, Verilog, and
VHDL, automatic indentation, directory buffers, regular expressions,
multifile find and replace, autosave and crash recovery, undo/redo, and
FTP/HTTP support. All keyboard mappings can be customized. Themes may
be used to customize the editor's appearance.
Jess 6.1p4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128642/
Jess is a fast, light rule engine and scripting environment written
entirely in Java. You can build Java software that has the capacity to
"reason" using knowledge you supply in the form of
declarative rules. It is supplied as a programmer's library, making it
ideal for embedding in larger applications. It is free for academic use
and can be licensed for commercial use.
Kalpa 0.0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128631/
Kalpa is a full-featured multi-user client-server cross- platform
accounting, management, market support, and CRM system for Russian
enterprises.
Krename 2.8.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128615/
Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename
a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the
files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename
supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename
to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every
word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing
parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and
modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.
Kroupware 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127895/
Kroupware is a Microsoft Exchange replacement that was commissioned by
the German government. It features email capability, task planning,
calendar scheduling, contacts management, notes keeping and sharing
resources with your co-workers in the group. On the client side, you
can use the following software packages: KMail, KOrganizer,
KAddressbook, or Kitchensync (for Palm sync).
lin-seti 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128663/
lin-seti is a command line program allowing the user to mantain a cache
of work units for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client. It should run without any
problem on Unix-like systems, including Linux. It is designed to be
fully compatible with SETI Driver (similar software for Windows), so
you can share the same cache on dual boot systems.
LiteSpeed Web Server 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128704/
LiteSpeed Web Server is a full-featured, high-performance, secure, and
easy-to-use Web server that runs on Unix and Linux. It supports HTTP
1.1, SSL, CGI, FastCGI, PHP, and JSP Servlets. It is easy to install
and easy to configure or control through its Web interface.
Litestream 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128679/
Litestream is a MP3 streaming server based on the Shout protocol and
written in C. It aims to be a small and robust MP3 streaming server
solution.
lowlife 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128654/
Lowlife is a documentation project which tells the user how to put
together a simple uClibc-based Linux boot-floopy. It also describes the
installation of the SVGA vncviewer on the floppy, thus enhancing it
with X terminal capabilities. Besides the documentation, the package
also contains a precompiled demo floppy image.
MegaPov 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128607/
MegaPOV is a version of POV-Ray that features various custom and
unofficial patches.
ModLogAn 0.8.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128632/
ModLogAn is a modular logfile analyzer that combines speed with
flexibility. It parses the logfiles generated by several server-types
(HTTP, FTP, mail, streaming, etc.) and other logfile sources
(flow-tools, ipchains, PABXs): currently 24 parsers. It features
incremental logfile processing and internal resolving, and is able the
split (mass-hosting) and combine logfiles (clusters) internally. The
output can be based on the internal template engine to generate your
own look & feel.
Mrwtoppm 0.0.a10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128625/
Mrwtoppm provides a command line utility and a Gimp plugin for
processing RAW image files from Minolta's DiMAGE 5 and 7 series digital
cameras. The programs decode Minolta's RAW format, perform Bayer
pattern interpolation, and color space conversion. The programs also
perform tone control and sharpening in CIELab color space. Utilities
for displaying much of the additional data stored in the RAW file are
also included.
MSBang! 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128669/
MSBang! is a Linux-based text editor. The name is a twist of the
creators' names. Some of the main features it has are: macro operations
that start recording, stop recording, and save and load oft-repeated
editing patterns, multi-threaded search capabilities with a choice of
thread scheduling priorities, syntax highlighting systems with an easy
facility for the creation of user-defined highlighting rules, extensive
documentation, and autosave and complete recovery of files in case it
crashes due to unforseen circumstances.
NetCDF 3.5.1-beta11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128650/
NetCDF is a format originally developed at NASA and then taken over by
Unidata. CDF stands for "Common Data Format" and is a
self-describing data format, commonly used in scientific and
engineering applications.
Netxx 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128686/
Netxx is a C++ network programming library. In addition to having a
nice clean API, it also provides a TLS/SSL abstraction layer via
OpenSSL.
NewSyslog 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128687/
NewSyslog is an updated version of a package put together by Theodore
Tso of MIT Project Athena (which is included in NetBSD, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, etc.). It manages the rotation and archiving of log files
(primarily those written to by syslogd). This version has a mix of
features from all of the other versions, and it has been made more
portable than any of the others with the help of GNU Autoconf.
O-Zone's EDITor 0.1.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128653/
O-Zone's EDITor is a simple GTK+ 2 editor that is designed to be used
for coding. Its design is based on SSEX, and it aims to be an
integrated IDE.
pam_dotfile 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128699/
pam_dotfile is a PAM module which allows users to have more than one
password for a single account, each for a different service. This is
desirable because many users have objections to using the same password
for (as an example) an IMAP4 mailbox and SSH access.
Pan 0.14.0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128675/
Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and
experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan
also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple
connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.
phpQuoteMunkeh 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128680/
phpQuoteMunkeh is a IRC quote bot used for the collection and display
of quotes for an IRC channel. It uses a MySQL backend to store quotes
and ratings, and supports numerous commands to add, remove, display,
and rate quotes.
PHPX 3.0.2 (PHPX 3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128684/
PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS),
forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have
feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of
programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums,
downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing,
support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management,
news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to
fully customize the look of your site.
PircBot 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128611/
PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily.
Its features include an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC
events, flood protection, DCC chat, file resuming, ident support,
multiple servers, and more. Its comprehensive logfile format is
suitable for use with pisg to generate channel statistics. Full
documentation is included, and the Web site contains a 5-minute
step-by-step guide to making your first IRC bot.
Pixory Beta 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128665/
Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store
your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums,
and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web
interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All
user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image
metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most
digital cameras and scanners.
PsyncX 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128649/
PsyncX allows you to backup either part or all of your hard drive. You
can mirror your selected folder to a FireWire drive, a disk image, or a
network drive (this feature doesn't seem to be working right now). In
addition, psync will create a bootable drive if you mirror your entire
harddrive. PsyncX allows you to schedule regular backups as well.
(Note: your computer can't be asleep for this to work properly).
Qastrocam 3.6 Beta (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128639/
Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux
device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a
telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device.
It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do
long exposure (several seconds) captures.
Qingy Is Not Getty 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128660/
qingy is a replacement for getty. It uses DirectFB to provide a fast,
nice GUI without the overhead of the X Windows System. It allows the
user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console,
GNOME, KDE, wmaker, etc.).
Quick Spam Filter 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128689/
Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning
to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than
non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email
as being possible spam.
Ranquel 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128608/
Ranquel is a small Web server written in Perl. It serves static files
and CGI applications (via GET and POST methods). It is designed to be
highly portable and doesn't need any extra Perl modules or libraries,
and is based on DNHTTPD but remains small and fast by not providing any
"advanced" feature such as SSL support, virtual hosts, SSI,
etc.
rexima 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128636/
rexima is a curses-based interactive mixer which can also be used from
the command-line. It's intended to be a simple, general, usable mixer
without all the chrome usually present in other mixers.
Ringtone Tools 2.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128622/
Ringtone Tools is a set of tools for creating ringtones and logos on
mobile phones.
Ruby-GStreamer 0.1.1 (unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128619/
Ruby-GStreamer is a set of Ruby bindings for the GStreamer multimedia
framework.
skalibs 0.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128673/
skalibs is a set of general-purpose, low-level C libraries, all in the
public domain. It can replace or hide the standard C library to some
extent. It is designed to allow building of small static binaries. It
is used in building all skarnet.org software, including execline and
skadns.
SlideServlet 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128614/
SlideServlet is a Java servlet that allows you to share documents.
SWISH++ 5.14.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128667/
SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine (typically
used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on SWISH-E
although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite. SWISH++ is at least 10 times
faster and can handle much larger numbers of files. Additionally, it
has unique features such as selective non-indexing, on-the-fly filters,
user-selectable stemming, and more.
Thinlet Beta 6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128693/
Thinlet is a GUI toolkit, implemented as a single Java class, which
parses the XML defeinition of widget hierarchy and properties of the
GUI, handles user interaction, and calls business logic. It separates
the graphic presentation (described in an XML file) and the application
methods (written as Java code).
ThinStation 1.0 beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128637/
Thinstation is a mini Linux distribution that enables you to convert
standard PCs into full-featured, diskless thin clients supporting all
major connectivity protocols like Ica, Windows terminal services (RDP),
X, telnet, ssh, etc. It can be booted from the network using
Etherboot/PXE or from standard media like floppy/CD/hd/flash-disk etc.
The configuration is centralized to simplify terminal management.
tm4 1.4.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128676/
tm4 is a commandline application that can program 12- and 14-bit PIC
parts using Newfound Electronics' WARP-13 programmer. It also works
with programmers with the RX firmware.
WANPIPE 2.3.0-0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128688/
WANPIPE S-series is a family of intelligent multi-protocol WAN and ADSL
adapters that support data transfer rates up to 8Mbps. All WAN
protocols supported by WANPIPE are implemented in firmware and run on
the card. An advantage of an intelligent adapter is that it offloads
the system CPU and improves stability. By adding a Sangoma WAN/ADSL
component to the Linux kernel, one can create a powerful multi-T1/ADSL
router/firewall with proven reliability of Linux. Sangoma S-series
cards support an optional on board T1/E1 CSU/DSU that eliminates all
external components of a traditional routing solution: i.e. T1/E1 line
can be directly connected to the card. WANPIPE supports the following
protocols, ATM, ADSL, Frame Relay, PPP, MULTILINK PPP, CHDLC, X25(API),
BitStreaming (API), BiSync(API), and SDLC(API). Furthermore, WANPIPE
supports custom API development such as: Credit card verification,
Voice-over IP, Satellite Comm. All device drivers are part of the
standard Linux Kernel distribution.
WebDesk 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128635/
WebDesk lets the user embed a Web page into the desktop. The interval
at which the page should be reloaded can be specified.
WebShop 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128685/
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/JSP implementation of a shop.
wmpower 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128662/
wmpower is a Window Maker dock application allowing the user to
graphically see (and set) the power management status of his laptop. It
works with both APM and ACPI enabled kernels.
XBlockOut 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128629/
XBlockOut is an excellent 3D game of Tetris/Block Dropping. It has nice
graphics, offers great information support and it is very stable.
ZoneMinder 0.9.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128624/
ZoneMinder is a suite of applications intended for use in video camera
security applications, including theft prevention and child or family
member monitoring. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and
monitoring of video data coming from one or more cameras attached to a
Linux system. It also features a user-friendly Web interface which
allows viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies
captured by the cameras. The image analysis system is highly
configurable, permitting retention of specific events, while
eliminating false positives. ZoneMinder supports both directly
connected and network cameras and is built around the definition of a
set of individual 'zones' of varying sensitivity and functionality for
each camera. This allows the elimination of regions which should be
ignored or the definition of areas which will alarm if various
thresholds are exceeded in conjunction with other zones. All
management, control, and other functions are supported through the Web
interface.
|ped| 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128617/
|ped| is a console-based, portable text editor written in Perl. It
features automatic resizing when the terminal window is resized,
DOS/Unix line ending support, a search function, and correctly
functioning backspace and del keys.
Slashcode
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1816237
All things come to an end and its been a wonderful ride. Today is my
last day at OSDN and this will be the last thing I will be posting on
Slashcode. It has been fun working on Slash for the last few years and
I have enjoyed working with the Slash community (tf32, ACS, vladinator,
ericdano, and many more that I am forgetting). On Monday I start work
for MySQL so I will be a bit busy for a while but I expect you will
still see Slash stuff coming from me in the future. I will continue to
be in #slash for a while, and you can still always reach me via email.
The best of luck with you and your sites, it has been great!
Spottedrabbit.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1756251
After much kicking and screaming, yet another Slash Site! The Spotted
Rabbit with news and events for Sussex County NJ, and Orange County,
NY. It still looks a lot like basic slash, but I'm new to this, and
we're working on it! --Ken Hall
Multiple Instances
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1543202
Please indulge a beginner. I currently have slashcode setup on a single
domain with its own IP address (wwwntm.biz) for testing purposes. Here
is my dilemma. I am setting up a community similar to yahoo/geocities.
It will be www.newthoughtcommunity.net and the individual communities
will be sub-domains of this domain ex;
community1.newthoughtcommunity.net, community2.newthoughtcommunity.net
etc Residents of the communities will be set up as users ex;
http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user1,
http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user2 etc. Directory is:
/home /newthoughtcommunity /community1 /community2 I know that slash
can be setup with virtual domains, but can sub domains have there own
instance. I need each community to have their own slash. Also. When I
set up a new instance of slash for a virtual domain, do I use the same
database and administrator with a new virtual user when I run
DBI::Password? Thank you for any help you can offer John --John Macuga
section as subdomain (2.2.5 based install)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1444236
Hello, I have a slashcode version 2.2.5(*) based site under my command,
for which an extension is planned, that would fit well in an isolated
(isolate=1) section with a few modified templates put in the
section-page (like header;etc;default). I managed to configure a second
virtual host that uses the same SlashVitualUser directive as the
main-server with the sectionname as subdomain (etc.myslash.company),
overriding the rootdir-variable using SlashSetVar and enforcing the
section using SlashSetForm: SlashSetVar rootdir //etc.myslash.company
SlashSetForm section etc Everything works fine so far... I just
wondered if it is safe to use the same slash-site (db and all) within
two virtual-hosts. And I wondered the more if there isn't an easier way
to accomplish this. As far as I understood mod_perl there shouldn't be
any problem, but asking the masters seldom hurts but the professional
pride... * I did fix the released security-holes!. tia,kind regards
tomte
Barrapunto.com see the light with 2.2.6
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/150251
It has been hard, but after playing a little with all the
configuration, we have reached a good balance in Barrapunto.com and now
our users are very happy, the journals start to be filled with contents
and the editors now are more active. We feel that the key was to serve
the images from a differente machine, something that points to
saturation in the connections for our main machine. Now the performance
is very good with 70.000 pages/day and a PIII with 1 GB RAM with Slash
and MySQL and a simple PC serving the images.
Translation Guide?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/198224
Is there any guide on how to translate slashcode (interface, at least
the one seen by the users) to some other language? Is the slashcode
written so that can be easily translated to some other languages (UTF-8
not required) ? Thanks!
Yet Another Security Site
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/174230
YASS should probably stand for "Yet another Security Site" LOL. I've
been playing around with slash for about a week now, and finally have
the beginnings of a site running. Feel free to pop in, drop some
comments, break stuff and generally see what goes. The more
participation I see, the more work I'll put into making it a nice site.
A good name might help... now there's an idea for a poll.
Democracy Now!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/22/176211
Democracy Now! a U.S. based morning TV and radio news program launched
it new site, based on a heavily modified cvs version of slash. (Hacked
together and hosted by openflows.) As they become more comfortable with
the system, and people on staff there get the hang of how slash works,
we hope to add in the more community/interactive features of slash. For
now it is simply a content management system, in the future it will
become much more. In just the first few days the traffic and audience
response has been overwhelming. stats from the second day the site was
live: IPIDs Pages 11193 55190
Advice on setting up a new site
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1512203
I am trying to use Slash to set up an events-based discussion forum.
Ideally I'd like it to be hosted by a turn-key hosting company with
fairly punctual customer support. My internet connections are either
behind a firewall or 56k modem, so speedy shell access is out of the
question. Ideally the host would be friendly towards freedom of
information and healthily disrespectful of authority (the site will NOT
contain anything illegal, links or insight to anything illegal, but
will be acting against the policy of a well-funded British institution
whose ground-floor members support and are behind it). I would rather
the host didn't drop me just because 'someone' asked them to. Who would
you recommend for this? I'd like to modify Slash slightly by arranging
it around the date of the event, rather than the posting date. Would it
be as simple as an extra data entry and changing a couple of lines of
code, or would that go against everything Slash is designed to do?
Thanks for your help.
Request for BLOB/Image Modifications
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2227225
I'm really happy with how the BLOB support in slash is working. I can
now add images and files, and I move the select level up so registered
users can only access files. It's great. I'd like to see how hard it
would be to have Krow or someone add in placement tags for images. So
you can "ALIGN=LEFT" or Right images and the like. Thanks!
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