O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER July 30, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Release 1.3 adds support for FIFOs and sockets. It also has numerous optimisations and small bug fixes. There are new patches for Linux 2.4.21 and Linux 2.6.0-test1. Squashfs compresses both files, inodes and directories, and supports block sizes up to 32K for greater compression. It is implemented as a kernel module under VFS. RSSOwl ver. 0.3a released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=297188 RSSOwl is a RSS reader written complete in Java using SWT as fast graphic libary. Some features are saving of RSS favorites in different categories and a TabFolder that shows multiple RSS feeds. The following features were implemented in version 0.3a: Open RSS feed from URL or local file, save RSS feed favorites in categories, Change language english / german, Change fontsize. IMPORTANT: Although this release is intended for Win32 you can use the program on many other platforms, after you installed the SWT graphic libary for your OS. The libary can be downloaded here: http://download2.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/S-3.0M2-200307181617/index .php (at bottom of the page). Etherboot 5.0.11 (production) released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296680 This is the last planned release of 5.0. 5.0 now enters maintenance mode. See notes and change log. Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86 platforms. It is also a coordination point for information about free software related to network booting. Big Sister has got an official logo http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296772 Big Sister has finally got an official logo. The years of Tom's ugly hand-drawn symbols hurting your eyes are over! Special thanks go to Joerg Fischer, who cared for getting a well-designed logo and banner done. Big Sister is an SNMP-aware network and system monitor. BitAnarch 1.0.5-Alpha3 is available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=297112 BitAnarch is getting more stable and mature DAILY! Thanks to all the bug testers out there, all your postings to hkpcug.opensource really accelerates the development process a lot! BitAnarch is the most compact BitTorrent client ever. It is available in three languages, with multiple downloads support, full unicode filename support, newsgroup scanning, automation, drag and drop support, etc. you name it. With a RAM usage of less than 10MB! Changes in 1.0.5-alpha3: A faster newsgroup scanning algorithm is implemented The newsgroup scanner is now compatible with most newsgroup servers A better algorithm for refreshing the network status list is implemented A proper IPC algorithm is implemented Bugfix: unicode filenames not parsed correctly at the command line Bugfix: the vertical line in "Newsgroups" tab is not displayed Bugfix: file details does not work occasionally Bugfix: files are not released properly Bugfix: files cannot be resumed on some really fast machines Slashdot Technical Glitches Plague BuyMusic.com http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/0152255 An anonymous reader submits: "Despite its much larger target market, BuyMusic.com does not seem to be the runaway success that Apple's iTunes Music Store was. USA Today is reporting that customers have experienced [0]technical glitches that prevent them from playing their purchases. Another customer reports that the BuyMusic tech support does little more than say '[1]Sorry, but that's YOUR problem.' Finally, a musician whose music is for sale at BuyMusic [2]questions the legality of BuyMusic's catalog." Scriptygoddess's account of her unhappy experience is [3]mirrored here. Links 0. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-28-buymusic_x.htm 1. http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/004057.php 2. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/index.html#S15891 3. http://www.blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/27/002033.php Hardly Anyone Cares About Computer Voting Problems http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/0219239 [0]Avidwriter writes "It's a sad thought that Roblimo explores in a [1]NewsForge article about computer voting fraud and how you'd think all honest politicians would be working to make sure computerized voting systems are open source, and why open source wouldn't hurt well-run voting machine companies' profits. Not that most people care, since they don't even bother to vote, right?" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1349255&tid=4 Sharp Zaurus SL-C750 (P)reviewed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/2320211 [0]Bill Kendrick writes "[1]Dynamism loaned the Japan-only "C750" clamshell model [2]Zaurus Linux PDA to the folks over at BargainPDA.com, and they've put up a [3]mini-review, with the promise of a more in-depth review to come soon. The funniest part is they needed to scale down the screenshots to fit on their site." Links 0. http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ 1. http://www.dynamism.com/ 2. http://www.zaurus.com/ 3. http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=1524 Python 2.3 Final Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/0016212 An anonymous reader writes "Nineteen months in the making, [0]Python 2.3 has just been released. With a plethora of [1]changes since version 2.2, this release is definately worth the upgrade. Be sure to read the [2]Release Notes and the [3]Highlights file for more information." Links 0. http://www.python.org/2.3/ 1. http://www.python.org/doc/2.3/whatsnew/ 2. http://www.python.org/2.3/NEWS.txt 3. http://www.python.org/2.3/highlights.html Morse Code Migrating To The Net http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/235254 Rosco P. Coltrane writes "With Morse code [0]slowly disappearing off the air, there seems to be a growing number of people who carry out conversations in [1]Morse over the internet. Several Windows and Linux clients using VoIP or special protocols, such as [2]EchoLink, [3]EchoLinux, [4]MorseMail, [5]CW Communicator or [6]CWirc exist for Morse lovers worldwide to pound brass and make contact with one another. Could the next must-have computer input device be a morse key ?" Links 0. http://www.wiavic.org.au/ 1. http://morsecodeonweb.homestead.com/Index.html 2. http://www.echolink.org/ 3. http://cqinet.sourceforge.net/ 4. http://www.seanet.com/~harrypy/MorseMail/ 5. http://www.mrx.com.au/d_cwcom.htm 6. http://webperso.easyconnect.fr/om.the/web/cwirc/ Chinese "Dragon" Chip On Sale http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/2222244 [0]mrseigen writes "The processor that Chinese firms have been working on as a response to foreign equipment and software is now available for pre-order. The Inquirer did an [1]article here, and the [2]company website is here. The chip will supposedly ship with [3]Midori Linux." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10724 2. http://www.culturecom.com.hk/ 3. http://midori.transmeta.com/ Rechargeable Batteries - Yes or No? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/1952238 [0]TheFifthElephant asks: "I currently use quite a few devices that require various size batteries and I feel horrible just tossing them when they die. I saw a recharger at a retail store today and was thinking to myself how much waste it would reduce by using rechargeable ones. Which units have you used happily and/or which units have you heard of/read about satisfying someone else? Are the more expensive units better? What chemical rechargeable batteries last the longest/recharge the most?" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Sleuths vs. Secret Networks http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/1918235 [0]amnfinch writes "I saw this article on BBC news and frankly, I was blown away. Just another example of the relentless campaign to [1]treat file swappers as criminals when their 'crime' is murky at best." Sir Haxalot provides an article on the flip-side: "CNN has a story on [2]'exclusive' Peer to Peer networks, that require 'knowing the right people and having a wealth of content on your hard disk to get into the clique.'" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3104281.stm 2. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/29/private.fileshare/index.html Citizens' Protection in Federal Databases Act Introduced http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/1848243 SewersOfRivendell writes "Quote from [0]http://boingboing.net/: 'EFF, EPIC, CDT, ACLU and Free Congress have drafted a bill that's been introduced by Senator Wyden today, for a new law called "The Citizens' Protection in Federal Databases Act." This is a hell of a law. It finds that various species of spooks are making avid use of commercial and governmental databases, merging them and aggregating them, without transparency, accountability, or any real understanding of the danger to civil liberties involved in this practice. Accordingly, it requires any Fed agency using non-Fed databases to cut it out and make a full report to Congress on who they're buying database and database-services from, what they're doing to preserve privacy, why they're doing what they're doing, and whether they actually have a realistic chance of catching any bad guys. And it calls into account Feds who abuse their authority and limits the kind of doomsday hypotheticals that can be used to justify such abuse.' [1]PDF draft of the bill here." Links 0. http://boingboing.net/ 1. http://boingboing.net/cpbdb.pdf (Solar) Power to the Masses http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/1728228 [0]D3 writes "This [1]report on a solar power tower (pdf) looks extremely interesting. Maybe one day we can have international power lines where all the countries with lots of sunshine provide power to the rest of the world? How cool would that be?" The NY Times has a good article on [2]solar power in Japan. Links 0. http://.dhenning. .at. .speakeasy.net. 1. http://www.sandia.gov/awards/images/R&D/Solar.pdf 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/business/worldbusiness/29SOLA.html Freshmeat a place to go 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130914/ aptg(2) (a place to go) is a Web-based email client written in PHP, using localhost connections to a running IMAP4 server. It is designed to work with Postfix. Authentication is against a MySQL database as used by pam_mysql (username + password) or by using one of the virtual email addresses (also stored in the MySQL database) and that password. A powerful addressbook is also included. It uses its own session handling system with one-time session ids. ActiveDeveloper 2.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130916/ ActiveDeveloper is an incremental runtime Objective-C and C IDE, JIT compiler, and debugger for Cocoa and QuickTime. It features fast incremental Objective-C and C compilation, full native speed applications in deployment, and no ActiveDeveloper dependency in your products. Aegis Virus Scanner 0.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130932/ Aegis Virus Scanner is a virus scanner for Linux/Unix systems with a simple and intuitive user interface. It uses the File:: Scan module for detecting viruses. AirSort 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130983/ AirSort is a PHP/MySQL Web-based application that lets you search for an airport by name, IATA, ICAO, city, longitude, or latitude. Output is textual and graphic, and a cross shows you the position of the airport on a world map. ARIA Business Management 0.99 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130944/ ARIA is business class management (ERP) software. It lets you manage inventory levels, maintain payroll, and process orders. It is written primarily in PHP and incorporates the ADODB database abstraction layer. AzDGDatingLite 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130892/ AzDGDatingLite is a Web-based dating platform featuring PayPal support, uploading of photos, internationalisation, templates, 35 registering fields, messaging system, birthdays, a recommend us script, a powerful admin mailing list feature, quick/simple/advanced search, a favorites users list, security system, 2CheckOut integration, an affiliates program, e-cards, banner ads, and more. Beats By Design 0.4.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130929/ Beats By Design (bbd) is an artificially-intelligent drum machine/step sequencer. You can use it to compose and play beats, and train it to edit beats with you, responding appropriately to your changes. All of this can be done live. BomberClone 0.10.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130967/ BomberClone is a free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The rules of the game are simple: run though a level and bomb other players. It features powerups that give you more strength, make you walk faster through the level, or let you drop more bombs. Camera Picture Copier 0.0.2-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130957/ Camera Picture Copier reads files from a source and copies them, making a directory for each day and renaming all files to the time they where last modified. This can be used to copy/rename pictures from a digital camera (USB-mounted) to have them make more sense. Clubmask Resource Manager 0.5b84 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130937/ Clubmask is a 'glue' package that combines the outstanding management and speed of the Bproc distributed process layer with the power and configuration of the Maui HPC Scheduler. It uses the Supermon resource monitor to gather node information. This node information is combined with job submission data, and suplied to Maui. Maui issues job start and termination commands which are handled by Clubmask via the Bproc layer. Clubmask also supplies a 'supermon2ganglia' translator that allows supermon data to be displayed in a ganglia Web frontend. CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130941/ CodeTek VirtualDesktop brings full virtual desktop support as available on other operating systems (Mac OS 9, Windows, Unix, Linux) to the Mac OS X platform. Construo 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130897/ Construo is a simple 2D construction program for objects that consist of rods and springs that react to physical forces. It can be used to construct buildings and structures like bridges, towers, and space shuttles, and lets you watch them fall to the ground, smash, and break. Contenido 4.3.2.1b (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130907/ Contenido is a Content Management Systems. It features advanced workflow and user management, insite-editing, WYSIWYG-editor, and more. cyrus2courier 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130981/ cyrus2courier is a little hack to convert a single mailbox from the format used by Cyrus-Imap into the Maildir++ format used by the Courier-Imap IMAP server. DSPAM 2.6.2.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130889/ DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives. dxr3Player 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130938/ dxr3Player is a lightweight command line DVD player for Linux and the DXR3 (aka Hollywood+) MPEG-2 decoder boards. It supports all major DVD features, including menus, navigation, fast forward and backward playback, subtitles, and camera angle changes. The player is very conservative on memory usage and tries very hard (and mostly succeeds) to keep video and audio in sync. Echo Web Application Framework 1.1Beta1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130901/ 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. Ewe Programming System 1.29 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130954/ Ewe is a programming system that allows users to write applications, using Java, which run exactly the same on desktop systems, on mobile systems, and even in a Web browser as an applet. The same deployment can be run on Mac OS X, Windows 9X, Windows NT, Linux, Palm, PocketPC, and any system using the Java runtimes. File access statistics 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130936/ File access statistics is a Perl script that can check the last access time of your files. The script sorts the files in packages (packages by file type). In a Debian Linux system it can sort the packages using the Debian PacKaGe (DPKG) groups. The main usage of this script is to detect which Debian packages are not used for a long time, so they can be removed from the system. FreeMarker 2.3pre10 (Lazarus) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130966/ FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more. Fremtris 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130969/ Fremtris is a J2ME implementation of the well-known Tetris game. It works on every Java (J2ME) compatible mobile phone and PDA. fscaps 0.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130805/ fscaps implements filesystem capabilities for the Linux operating system (2.5 and up). With filesystem capabilities, you will be able to grant selective privileges to executables on a needed basis. This means there is no need anymore to run executables as root or as a suid root binary. GKrellM gamma 2.02 (GKrellM2) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130947/ Gkrellm gamma is a Gkrellm plugin which allows you to control your monitor's gamma correction with XFree86 (as xgamma). GKrellM xkb 1.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130946/ GKrellM xkb is a plugin for GKrellM which displays a small country flag indicating the currently-active national keyboard layout. It requires GKrellM2 and the XKB X Window extension. Gnatsweb 4.00 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130971/ Gnatsweb is a Web interface to GNATS, the GNU bug tracking system. GNU Smalltalk 2.1a (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130909/ GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language. GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130920/ GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor. imgv 2.8.7 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130977/ imgv is an image viewer that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MS-Windows, Mac OS X, and others. It includes standard features such as a file/directory browser, slideshows, zooming in and out, flipping, and rotating. It also has special features such as the ability to view 4 images on the screen at once, adjustable thumbnail sizes, image playlists, the ability to view images on Web sites, MPEG movie support, a customizable interface, and much more. ITracker 2.1.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130918/ 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. Jaffa 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130427/ Jaffa (Java Application Framework For All) is an enterprise-focused Java framework for rapid application development. It provides a complete Java Web application development stack, extending exsiting projects like Tomcat and Struts at the frontend with MVC-based web widgets, all the way through to a high-performance lightweight O/R persistence engine, with plenty of rich features in between including rules engines, declarative application, and data security. In addition to the runtime framework, there is a suite of component templates and other tools for rapid application development, including a TogetherSoft plug-in for UML intergration. JaxMeJS 1.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130958/ The JaxMe JavaSource generation framework (a spinoff of the JaxMe Java/XML binding tool) is an object-oriented view to a set of Java classes created by you. For example, there are objects JavaSource, JavaMethod, and so on. Features include automatic generation of import lists, semiautomatic indentation, and the ability to postprocess generated sources. This allows source code generation to be a pipelining process. Additionally, a framework for generating SQL is included. JBoss 3.2.2 RC 2 (3.2.x Development Releases) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130951/ JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans application server implemented in pure Java. JBoss provides JBossServer, the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure, JBossMQ for JMS messaging, JBossMail for mail, JBossTX for JTA/JTS transactions, JBossSX for JAAS based security, JBossCX for JCA connectivity, and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. It integrates with Tomcat Servlet/JSP container and Jetty Web server/servlet container, and enables you to mix and match these components through JMX by replacing any component you wish with a JMX-compliant implementation for the same APIs. The goal is to provide a full J2EE stack in the Free/Open Source software world. JGraph 2.2.1 (For Java 1.4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130887/ JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image. JPluck 0.9.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130931/ JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld. KDE 3.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130905/ KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. KDE is a completely new desktop, incorporating a large suite of applications for Unix workstations. While KDE includes a window manager, file manager, panel, control center and many other components that one would expect to be part of a contemporary desktop environment, the true strength of this exceptional environment lies in the interoperability of its components. KnowledgeTree 1.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130942/ KnowledgeTree is a feature-rich document management system featuring knowledge management, document version control, hierarchical document management, support for common file formats (MS Word, MS Excel, PDF, TXT, HTML), extensible meta data, creation of custom document types, application managed document links that guarantees consistent data and eliminates emailing documents, easy publication of documents, subscription agents, archiving according to expiry date, expiry time period, or utilisation for enhanced speed, and much more. Kodo JDO 2.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130915/ Kodo JDO allows you to write database calls using Java statements instead of SQL statements, by supporting the Java Data Objects standard for transparent persistence. It is the most complete implementation of the JDO specification for relational data stores, and comes with tools for producing a schema from an object model, producing class files from an existing schema, and a performance pack (distributed caching and statement batching) that improves performance by 15 - 30 times. It supports most relational databases, application servers, and IDEs, and reduces the total coding effort by 20-40%. Konstruct 20030729 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130906/ Konstruct is a build system which helps you install KDE releases and applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs, checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds, and installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as "cd meta/kde;make install". Optionally, you can install additional applications like KOffice, KDevelop, or Quanta (for example, "cd apps/koffice;make install"). LAN Instant Messenger 0.3.1 final http://freshmeat.net/releases/130924/ LAN Instant Messenger is a client/server chat/messenger application written entirely in Java. It supports common chat, direct messages, colors, emoticons, secure login (CHAP-like), ICQ-like status, experimental voice support, intuitive installation, and more. ldapmigrate 0.80 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130890/ ldapmigrate is a single self-contained script that can perform initial migrations of /etc files to LDAP. It supports SSL/StartTLS and can operate over the network. It is driven via command line arguments and is self documented via --help. libdvbpsi 0.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130978/ libdvbpsi is a very simple and fully portable library designed for MPEG TS and DVB PSI table decoding and generation. libdvdcss 1.2.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130974/ libdvdcss is a cross-platform library for transparent DVD device access with on-the-fly CSS decryption. It currently runs under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, BeOS, Win95/Win98, Win2k/WinXP, MacOS X, HP-UX, QNX, and OS/2. It is used by libdvdread and most DVD players such as VLC because of its portability and because, unlike similar libraries, it does not require your DVD drive to be region locked. libnova 0.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130960/ libnova is a general purpose, double precision, celestial mechanics and astronomical calculation library. It can calculate aberration, nutation, apparent position, dynamical time, Julian day, precession, proper motion, sidereal time, solar coordinates (using VSOP87), coordinate transformations, planetary positions (Mercury - Neptune using VSOP87), planetary magnitude, illuminated disk and phase angle, lunar position (using ELP82), phase angle, elliptic motion of bodies (Asteroid + Comet positional and orbit data), asteroid + comet magnitudes, parabolic motion of bodies (comet positional data), orbit velocities and lengths, atmospheric refraction, rise/set/transit times, and semidiameters of the Sun, Moon, planets, and asteroids. licq-osd 1.2.7.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130925/ The licq-osd plugin that enables licq to display new messages as an On Screen Display message. lwm 1.1.4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130927/ lwm (Lightweight Window Manager) is a window manager for X that tries to keep out of your face. There are no icons, no button bars, no icon docks, no root menus, no nothing. If you want all that, other programs can provide it. Medialibrary 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130783/ Medialibrary is a standalone application which catalogs all of your media files (on hard disk and CD). You can browse, sort, search, and organize them once indexed. It features a user-friendly GUI, hierarchical categories, ADC (.cat) file support, search, and statistics, and MP3 ID3 parsing. Megamek.NET 0.326 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130940/ Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight against other players online. The game's community is already quite large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025 timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060. mnoGoSearch 3.2.14 (3.2.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130910/ mnoGoSearch (formerly known as UdmSearch) is a full-featured Web search engine which you can use to build search engines over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and NTTP servers, local files, and database big text fields. It supports Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, miniSQL, Solid, Virtuoso, InterBase, SAPDB, iODBC, EasySoft ODBC, and unixODBC database backends. mnoGoSearch is also known to work with MS SQL, SyBase, and Oracle through ODBC. It has text/html and text/plain built-in support, and external parsers support for other document types. An automatic language/charset guesser for more 70 language/charset combinations is included, along with basic authorization support, and you may index password-protected intranet HTTP servers with proxy authorization support. mp3riot 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130895/ mp3riot (formerly known as f2html.pl) is a command line utility that searches recursively through directories, builds a file list (with additional file information), and generates HTML files, playlists, etc. The output can be controlled, links can be corrected, and more. The script is mainly desigend to create Web pages, playlists, and databases for MP3 and Ogg files, but can also used for other purposes. Multi tape backup script 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130864/ Multi tape backup script writes to the tape; when it is full will eject the tape, tell the autoloader to change tapes, load the new tape, and then continue writing to the tape. Once the backup is done it will load the first tape and do a TOC to make sure there is data on the tape. NEdit 5.4RC1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130886/ NEdit is a Unix text editor for programmers and general users. It combines a standard, easy-to-use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day. It includes a macro language with a complete library of editing functions, state-of-the-art syntax highlighting for 30 common languages and text processors, and the best mouse-interactivity available in a Unix text editor. Node Data System (libnds) 2.1.1 (Version 2 (C++)) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130968/ Node Data System (libnds) is a cross platform library that dynamically manages data. It comes in two flavours, version 1 in C using a node structure, and version 2 in C++ using a node class. Libnds has a simple to use API that allows powerful management of data, and also supports simple and complex file I/O for saving and retrieving data. NSD 1.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130917/ NSD is a complete implementation of an authoritative DNS nameserver. Nvclock 0.7 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130949/ Nvclock allows you to overclock your Nvidia card under Linux and FreeBSD. Onager 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130984/ Onager is a PalmOS GUI for mldonkey. It uses the low bandwidth (and low/almost not documented) GUI protocol to communicate. pg Request Tracker Report 1.0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130900/ pg Request Tracker 2/3 Report is a set of tools for generating reports for Request Tracker 2/3 (RT 2/3). Currently, it only supports the Postgres ("pg") backend, but MySQL support may be added in later releases. PHP Cascading Menu Class 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130945/ The PHP Cascading Menu Class creates a cascading menu complete with JavaScript code for image rollovers. It allows for CSS styles and infinite levels of menus. PHP Langadmin 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130922/ PHP Langadmin is a Web interface for translating applications using the GNU gettext utilities and a MySQL database as its backend. It features package administration to handle different applications, user administration, and language administration. It can parse output of the xgettext utility and create a language file for the translated messages. PHP-Nuke 6.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130891/ PHP-Nuke is a Web portal and online community system which includes Web-based administration, surveys, access statistics, user customizable boxes, a themes manager for registered users, friendly administration GUI with graphic topic manager, the ability to edit or delete stories, an option to delete comments, a moderation system, referer tracking, integrated banner ad system, search engine, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF format), Web directory like Yahoo, events manager, and support for 20+ languages. poc, mp3 streamer 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130899/ poc is an MP3 streamer supporting HTTP, RTP (RFC 2250 and RFC 3119), and FEC protocols. It can handle VBR streams, and comes with server and client programs that can all be used from the command line. PyKota Print Quota System 1.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130970/ PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) and LPRng. It features per-printer user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP backends, and much more. Q 4.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130934/ Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific programming and other advanced applications, and also as a sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode. QuickRip DVD 0.8-rc1 (Testing) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130913/ QuickRip is a basic DVD ripper for GNU/Linux written in Python and PyQt. It lacks options to fine-tune how you want to rip your DVD, but it makes ripping quick and easy, and so is ideal for those who aren't bothered about framerates, clipping, and other unecessary options. It uses mplayer and transcode to retrieve DVD info and rip the tracks. Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 0.9.11 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130930/ Raptor is a C library for parsing RDF syntaxes into RDF triples. It supports the latest revision of RDF/XML (including collections and datatypes), N-Triples, and some XML RSS via a tag soup parser. It handles the RDF/XML used by RDF applications such as RSS 1.0, FOAF, Dublin Core, and OWL. It can use either expat or libxml2 for XML parsing, libcurl when available for URI retrieval, and is portable to many POSIX systems. RRDtool 1.0.45 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130959/ RRDtool is basically the time-series graphing and data storage/management component of MRTG, broken out and `done right'. `done right' means that RRDtool is magnitudes faster than MRTG and extremely configurable. SCIM Chinese input method module 0.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130903/ This package provides the Chinese input method module for the Smart Common Input Method platform (SCIM). Only a pinyin input method module is currently available. SecureCGI 0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130893/ SecureCGI is a suid-ed wrapper which executes CGI scripts with owner rights. It also cleans environment variables, modifies resources limits, and drops Linux capabilities. SendIP 2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130935/ SendIP is a command-line tool to send arbitrary IP packets. It has a large number of options to specify the content of every header of a RIP, RIPng, BGP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, or raw IPv4/IPv6 packet. It also allows any data to be added to the packet. Checksums can be calculated automatically, but if you wish to send out wrong checksums, that is supported too. Smart Common Input Method platform 0.6.0 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130902/ Smart Common Input Method platform is a development platform that significantly reduces the difficulty of input method development. SCIM splits input method into three parts: FrontEnd, which handles user interface and communication with client applications, Server, which handles the key event to string conversion work, and BackEnd, which manages all of the Servers. Squash 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130885/ Squash is a C/Ncurses-based music player. It supports MP3 and Ogg Vorbis through libraries (with planned FLAC support). It uses statistics to determine songs to play automatically. It garners this information through whether or not a song is skipped. It also avoids picking the same song twice. Thus, it is like a radio station that plays the songs you like without you having to call in requests. Squashfs 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130923/ Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.6. It uses zlib to compress files, inodes, and directories. All blocks are packed to minimise the data overhead, and block sizes of between 4K and 32K are supported. It is intended to be used as a filesystem for archival use and in embedded systems where low overhead is needed, and has been tested on PowerPC, i586, and SPARC architectures. Symbio 1.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130964/ Symbio is a fully themable commenting system for Web sites and blogs. Its features include polls, multi-language support, smileys, text styling, and statistics. Systems Panel 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130933/ The Systems Panel features 6 functions for organizing any size IT department. These features include knowledge base, ticket system, contact directory, and system inventory. Systems Panel's knowledge base allows you to quickly store, search, and view technical documentation. The Trouble Ticket System can manage all support problems for your IT department. It does this by allowing you to quickly store, track, and search trouble tickets. The Inventory feature allows you to track your entire computer system inventory. Information like serial numbers, model number, warranty data, or problem history can be store and tracked right from Systems Panel. Systems Panel is built on PHP and MySQL and can be implemented alongside any current intranet on your network. The Battle for Wesnoth 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130898/ The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. The Distributed Library Project 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130948/ The Distributed Library Project is a distributed library of people's books and videos, an experiment in creating community and sharing information. Users create accounts complete with bios and interest enumerations, then list the books and videos that they own. Those users are then free to browse the books that others have listed, sorted by proximity, interest, and book commonality. If a book or video is available, a user can check it out directly from the owner. There is an eBay-style feedback system for managing trust--users who return books on time get positive feedback, while users who damage books or return them late get negative feedback. These points create an overall "score" that lenders can use to judge the trustworthiness of a borrower. The system also supports user reviews, ISBN lookups, and collaboritve filtering. The Linux Memory Game 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130882/ The Linux Memory Game is an X11 game using GTK+ library for children ages 3 and up. It is a lot more than the card game "Memory". It has five skill levels, the higher ones are challenging to adults as well. Additionally, one can choose from the menu to match 2 cards or 3 cards, or match different cards. This last "different card" mode can be a very good teaching tool for teaching languages, concepts, or association. ThingamaBlog 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130896/ ThingamaBlog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application written in Java. Basic features include the ability to maintain multiple blogs, the ability to easily manage lots of entries, customizable templates, find, edit, and delete entries functions, 'Quick Tags' for on the fly HTML editing, customizable archiving options, the ability to organize entries by category, previewing of entries in HTML or in plain text, and one-click publishing. Thunderbolt Integration Suite 3.01 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130972/ The Thunderbolt Integration Suite is a full integration server infrastructure featuring two phase commits between connectors, multiple stage failure recovery, a drag and drop business process design console, and runtime monitor GUIs. The engine was developed in C++ on Linux; Node controllers and connector libraries are in Java. The GUIs require Windows. TINTFU 0.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130908/ TINTFU is an editor for the .DOT files of the "GraphViz" program. Written in Java, it allows you to edit any attribute of a .DOT file's elements while at the same time displaying an immediate preview of the changes made. TrackStudio Enterprise 2.7 SP3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130919/ TrackStudio Enterprise is a powerful and scalable multi-platform defect tracking system based on Java. It includes a Web-based workflow manager and bug filter (AND, OR, and NOT). It supports custom fields, multi-level security, rule-based email notification, PDF reports with charts, locales, and timezones. It allows you to organize your database into projects and subprojects, and works with any database. Traffic tool Troll 1.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130926/ The Traffic Tool Troll is a traffic monitoring and managing skript. Traffic statistics are generated by port, hour, day, month, and year. You can define a special period for your needs. The script is written in Perl and uses iptables and MySQL to get and store the traffic. UltraMake 2.4 build 0.553 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130894/ UltraMake is a powerful tool for the management of build process from source code to binary software releases and for setting up automated test suites for the produced software. Its most important features are access to a standard scripting language (Tcl or Perl), extensive consistency checking of builds, and support for division of larger projects into smaller parts while retaining full consistency checking between the parts. It integrates with version control systems. uuturn 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130976/ uuturn allows you to detect someone remotely logging in to one of your boxen and then going on to another, without even logging into the box, by only analyzing the packets on the network. It's a connection correlator. Bullets not included. viPlugin 0.1.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130982/ viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.). Vyger b1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130803/ Vyger offers a D & D and Rogue-like environment in a graphical online roleplay game. Warrdcraft 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130888/ Warrdcraft is a Perl script that creates RRDTool files/ graphs out of Warcraft III Battle.net information. It supports multiple users, gateway selection, and both versions of Warcraft III (RoC/TFT). xawdecode 1.7.5beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/130979/ Xawdecode is a fork of xawtv that allows you to watch TV and make use of plugin extensions. It interacts with AleVT for Teletext and Nxtvepg for NextView, and uses the video4linux API. It can use deinterlacing filters and record video files with the ffmpeg and divx4 codecs. Xfstt 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130883/ Xfstt means "X11 Font Server for TrueType fonts". TrueType fonts are generally regarded to be the best scalable fonts for low resolution devices like screens. Examples where good scalable fonts improve the visual quality considerably are Mozilla, GIMP, and Java. A fonts.properties file for use with Java is provided. YAFFA alpha-0.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130953/ YAFFA is an SFTP/FTP application and filemanager with both a console-based user interface and a GTK-based user interface. ZZIPlib 0.10.82 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130955/ ZZIPlib provides read access on ZIP-archives. The library uses only the patent-free compression-algorithms supported by zlib. Functions are provided that transparently access files being either real files or zipped files, both with the same filepath. The zip-archive can be used in the place of a normal subdirectory. It is written in portable C. Slashcode YogaCircle.net (New Yoga Slash Site) http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0339211 Well this should be a first. A Yoga base Slash site. Check it out, if you have any questions or comments let me know. Thanks for the code. csdaily.com http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0337226 Yet another Slash site, Computer Science Daily News. Aims to be a resource for Computer Science professionals, researchers, students and instructors. Hopefully this fills a niche, computer science developments seem to be very decentralized, and hard to find. Slash seems to be working out nicely, though I'm still learning the ropes... --csdaily Slash on server running Livejournal? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0035257 Maybe this is the wrong venue to ask in, and I'm sorry if it is, but this question has been nagging me for about the past week or so. I have a personal server running Slackware 8 with a custom-compiled Apache 1.3.27 (with the appropriate mod_perl) and MySQL 4.0.13. This server is currently running the LiveJournal server code and works quite well at this. I'm interested in attempting to set up slash for personal use (the Livejournal code is running for personal use as well), and herein lies the question. Can slash be run on the same server in another VirtualHost without having a separate apache installation/process and doing some fancy trick with mod_rewrite? Or am I asking too much? I will be happy to provide any further info anyone needs through e-mail (the e-mail link above is NOT spam-armored at all). QubitNews is finally launched! http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0030227 QubitNews: News and Inforation from the Quantum Community. This is conceived as a meeting-point for the community working in the fast developing field of Quantum Information and Computation. This is an open and free project devoted to the exchange of information in this field.: news, stories, announcements, comments of scientific work, debates, polls, forums, etc... Many aspects of your work that cannot appear in scientific journals may find a place here. The main feature of QubitNews is that it is dynamical: you are wellcome to participate and modify the look and feel of this site. You may become an anonymous user, site user or an Author. Visit the homepage and consult the documents About, FAQ, How-To and GettingStarted. It may be useful, helpful and a lot of fun. Tuxedo.org Now running Slashcode http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2014232 Tuxedo.org is now running Slashcode. I should have done this a couple of years ago... Most recent story is Linus Torvalds Comments on SCO Lawsuit and Linux. Hope you all enjoy the new site! --Chuck Peters Best hosting service for Slash? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1449209 I'm going to be doing some "big things" with Slashcode but am interested in going through someone to set up Slashcode and the server, so that I can just right in and start building the site. What are the best hosting services out there? Will they set up Slash for me? What kinds of experiences have people had? Dissociated Press goes Slash http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1442252 After a bit of poking and prodding, I've converted Dissociated Press to Slashcode (2.2.6). Works great! 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? 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