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Sourceforge
Animal Shelter Manager 1.20 Stable released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=301793
This release contains the awaited medical tracking, lots of new
features, improvements and of course the obligatory bug fixes. Animal
Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries
and rescue shelters. Features complete animal management, document
generation, full reporting, charts, internet website publishing,
PetFinder integration and more.
Appalm 0.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=301886
This release includes more robust OS5 HiRes detection, JogDial support
and is Feature complete (time to debug). The PalmApple project seeks to
provide Apple IIe emulation to the Palm Platform, based on the YAE
AppleII Emulator.
SCons 0.91 adds support for Qt and SWIG
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=301868
SCons release 0.91, the second SCons beta release, is now available for
download. SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, or
substitute for Make) implemented in Python, based on the winning design
in the Software Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the
Cons build tool). This release most notably adds support for building
from Qt source (.ui) files and SWIG (.i) files. IMPORTANT: Release 0.91
contains the following interface changes: - The spelling of the
"validater" Builder option has been corrected to "validator". The old
spelling still works, but generates a warning. - The SConscript()
function no longer automatically splits its argument on white space
into a list of SConscript file names. You must now explicitly enclose
the argument in the Split() function (or do something similar) if you
want that behavior. See the release notes for more information about
these changes. This release adds the following features: - SWIG support
has been added. - Qt support for processing .ui files into .c files has
been added. - You may now specify a list of tools when calling
Environment.Copy(). - A new "sconsign" script can be used to dump the
contents of .sconsign files. - A new $MAXLINELENGTH construction
variables allows control of when a temporary file is used for long link
lines on Win32. - A Builder emitter can now be a dictionary that maps
different source file types (suffixes) to separate emitter functions. -
Builder "prefix" and "suffix" arguments can now be callables that
return generated strings, or dictionaries that map different source
file types (suffixes) to separate prefix or suffix values. - When
executing a Win32 long link line in a temporary file, SCons now also
prints the long line being executed through the file. - A new
$CPPDEFINES variables supports defining platform-independent C
preprocessor command-line arguments. - SCons now uses the C++ compiler
only if there are any object files from C++ sources being linked, and
otherwise invokes the C compiler. The following fixes have been added:
- Python Value Nodes now work when using timestamps for signatures. -
SCons now creates a .hpp file when the yacc file ends in .yy and the -d
YACC flag is used. - SCons now correctly deduces target prefixes from
source files in subdirectories in all tested cases. - When CVS checkout
errors occur, SCons no longer creates zero-length files by mistake. -
All Actions now print correctly when using the --cache-show option. -
The Command() Builder can now take a directory as a source. -
SConscript file or path names with white space now work. - The
Microsoft Visual C++ /TP argument has been added to the default
$CXXFLAGS value, so it can compile all the different C++ suffixes. - A
problem with checking whether certain Node types are up-to-date has
been fixed. - The LIB construction variable is now initialized for the
Intel compiler (icl). - The g++ and gcc Tool specifications now
actually use g++ and gcc in preference to c++ and cc. - SCons
configuration tests no longer hang if a piped command generates more
output than can be read in single buffer. Error handling has been
improved as follows: - Handling Python errors in SConscript files is
now more informative. - SCons now reports the target being built in
various error conditions that prevent the build Action from being
executed. - Incorrect arguments to the Install() function generates a
better error message. - A stack trace is now generated if the internal
task controller catches an exception. Performance has been improved as
follows: - A default environment is created when needed, not every
invocation. - Internal maintenance of various lists of dependencies has
been sped up by using a dictionary to search for duplication. - The
list of dependent children is now calculated once and cached. - The
-debug=pdb option now invokes the Python debugger directly, not by
recursively invoking Python+SCons. The following changes have been made
to the SCons packaging: - An incorrect distutils warning message when
using --prefix= option has been removed. - Building the SCons .rpm
package should no longer depend on the installation location of the
local distutils. The documentation has been improved: - The help output
generated by "scons -H" has been tightened. - An explanation about
SCons not propagating the external environment has been added to the
introduction. - The AlwaysBuild() function is now better explained. -
The SConscript function's "dirs" and "name" keywords are now
documented. - Typos have been fixed.
Compiere 2.5.0b released & Language Packs
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=301884
The Compiere team is proud to announce the availability of Release
2.5.0b. Compiere is a 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. Release 2.5.0b
provides improved Project Management functionality as well as Recurring
Documents, Merging Business Partners and Products, Improved support for
high latency networks and Replication (e.g. for remote POS). The first
Language Packs (Spanish and German) are out.
JGoose Echidna v1.5.1 alpha-release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=301724
This release contains a big step concerning the advanced refactoring.
Furthermore we have got an MDR file format support. Moreover we have
restored the old Echidna functionality to the new JGraphpad framework.
Beside it we have removed several small bugs. With Echidna you can
import and analyze Java Source Code. The Program makes a visual Graph
from the relations in the Java Source Code. The Graph contains several
Types of relations.
Slashdot
Apple's School Days are Numbered
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/2358216
[0]prostoalex writes "Business Week [1]describes the current situation
in the educational market, suggesting that Apple will lose its share
among the high school teachers and students. The worst enemies,
according to Business Week, are school superintendents. "We want a
single platform," one of them said. "We're trying to get there using
the carrot, or blackmail, or rewards, or whatever you call it.""
Links
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
1. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2003/tc20030813_3719_tc016.htm
Medal of Honor Linux Beta Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/0030252
[0]DF5JT writes "Icculus has finally released a [1]preview of his
current work on the [2]Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault Linux port, in
the form of a Beta executable. He says 'It's playable, but the sound is
wonky and has other issues.' You'll need an installed Windows version
of the game to start the binary."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://icculus.org/news/news.php?id=1607
2. http://www.eagames.com/official/moh_alliedassault/home.jsp
Scout Walker Kama Sutra
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/2041210
EvilXenu writes "What two things go better together than [0]Star Wars
and sex? Be sure to don your peril-sensitive glass before visiting.
Graphical descriptions abound, such as: 'This is one of the few
practical positions in which turretal stimulation of the rear sensor
array can be comfortably attempted for any length of time without both
of you having to disengage your leg stirrups.'"
Links
0. http://www.scoutwalker.com/
Louisiana Tries Anti-Spam Law
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/2038246
[0]chompyZ writes "The legislative battle against SPAMMING heats-up as
a new law became effective yesterday in Louisiana. According to
[1]KPLC, the new law [2]requires senders of sexually explicit e-mail to
include a note in the subject line, "adv-adult," to let unsuspecting
internet users know ahead of time. [3]The Olympian reports that [4]
Louisiana officials actually think this will be effective... leaves you
wondering if "officials" have any clue how SPAMMERS operate..."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.kplctv.com/
2. http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1404013&nav=0nqxHUfF
3. http://www.theolympian.com/
4. http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20030811/opinion/73138.shtml
RIM Color BlackBerry 7230 Review
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/2034220
[0]securitas submits this painfully well-linked piece: "eWEEK reviews
the [1]RIM BlackBerry 7230 color [2]handheld, [3]Research In Motion's
latest combination [4]wireless e-mail/phone/PDA, and the first
[5]BlackBerry to feature a full-color display. The tri-band GSM/GPRS
J2ME device features a 240-by-160-pixel, 65,000-color display, 16 MB
flash +2 MB SRAM, an Intel 386 32-bit chip, SMS, an HTML browser
(missing from the [6]preceding [7]BlackBerry [8]5810), a claimed 4
hours talk/10 days standby removable/rechargeable lithium-ion battery,
POP3/IMAP/Exchange/Notes wireless e-mail for up to 10 accounts with
file attachment management, security via Triple DES encryption, USB
sync/recharging and the usual organizer functions. RIM squeezes it all
into a 4.8 oz/136g, 4.4x2.9x0.8 inch/11.3x7.4x2.0 cm package ([9]tech
specs at RIM). The [10]BlackBerry 7230 is exclusive to T-Mobile USA
until 2004 and costs about $400. With this release, [11]RIM is moving
the BlackBerry into the prosumer/consumer market to expand its customer
base beyond enterprise users. The release comes amid speculation of
[12]BlackBerry doom following RIM's recent [13]patent ruling loss and
ahead of the highly anticipated [14]Handspring [15]Treo 600, its direct
competition (which includes the [16]MS Pocket PC Phone Edition
[17]Smartphone and the [18]Palm [19]Tungsten W). More at [20]Wired
News, [21]E-Commerce Times, [22]InfoWorld and [23]Forbes/[24]Reuters."
Links
0. http://geartest.com
1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1211281,00.asp
2. http://rim.net/products/handhelds/data_voice.shtml
3. http://rim.net/
4. http://www.blackberry.com/products/blackberry7200/blackberry7230.shtml
5. http://blackberry.com/
6. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/04/141248&tid=100
7. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,9018,00.asp
8. http://www.blackberry.com/products/blackberry5810/index.shtml
9. http://www.blackberry.com/products/handhelds/blackberry7230.shtml
10.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030811/RRIMM/TPTechnology/
11.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030810.wrimm810/BNStory/Technology/
12. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1216189,00.asp
13. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/05/2313215&tid=155
14. http://www.handspring.com/
15. http://www.handspring.com/treo600/
16. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile
17. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/products/smartphone/default.mspx
18. http://palm.com/
19. http://palm.com/us/products/handhelds/tungsten-w/
20. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59982,00.html
21. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31312.html
22. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/11/HNcolorblackberry_1.html
23. http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/08/11/rtr1053844.html
24. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3253058
PS2 Exploit Allows Running of Unsigned Code
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/1621211
DrEldarion writes "[0]This man has figured out a way to make the PS2
run unsigned code without a modchip. "To make a long story short, the
exploit allows anyone with a memory card and a valid, legal PS1 disc to
hijack the boot process and run any piece of code.""
Links
0. http://www.0xd6.org/ps2-independence.html
Profile of an eBay Scammer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/148202
[0]prostoalex writes "[1]FastCompany is running an article about [2]Jay
Nelson, whose primary income source for about 5 years included selling
goods on eBay. Considering that he chose to skip the delivery, the
profit margins were at an all time high. Under the names of
biggerthanu, harddrives4sale, diamondsoft, yoshiinc and susancutey
Nelson would collect five-digit PayPal payments from the buyers on eBay
and Yahoo Auctions."
Links
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
1. http://www.fastcompany.com/
2. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/73/kirsner.html
Superconductors as Electrical Grid Surge Suppressors
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/1354229
[0]securitas writes "The [1]New York Times published a story about
[2]Intermagnetics -- a company that plans to use '[3]superconductors as
valves on the electric-utility power grid, letting their temperature
rise to choke off the flow of power,' a day before the [4]largest
blackout in North American history. The timing couldn't have been
better. On the day of the blackout, Intermagnetics [5]announced a [6]$6
million contract from the Department of Energy to develop and install
superconductor 'valve' prototypes by 2006 in the Niagara Mohawk
distribution system. Considering that one of the leading theories for
the [7]cause of the cascading blackout is a surge in the Niagara Mohawk
power grid, this announcement seems incredibly timely."
Links
0. http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/technology/14GRID.html?ex=1061438400&en=9181fd84fed4491b&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
2. http://www.intermagnetics.com/
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/technology/14GRID.html
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/2050243&tid=99
5.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK1.story&STORY=/www/story/08-06-2003/0001995991&EDATE=WED+Aug+06+2003,+06:01+AM
6. http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2003/08/11/daily33.html?t=printable
7. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/2213252&tid=187
Guido van Rossum Interviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/1331240
Qa1 writes "Guido von Rossum, creator of [0]Python, was recently
interviewed by the folks at [1]O'Reilly Network. In this interview he
discusses his [2]view of the future of Python and the Open Source
community and programming languages in general. Some more personal
stuff is also mentioned, like his recent [3]job change (including the
Slashdot story about it) and a little about how he manages to fit
developing Python into his busy schedule."
Links
0. http://python.org/
1. http://www.onlamp.com/
2. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2003/08/14/gvr_interview.html
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/1549236&tid=156
Satellite Views Of The Blackout
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/1320201
An anonymous reader writes "These [0]Before and [1]After satellite
views of the blackout, from the NOAA, show the geographic extent and
intensity of the outage. Toronto, Ottawa, and Detroit seem the worst
hit. Currently, [2]a cnn article mentions that a reverse of power flow
around Lake Erie may have caused an overload that triggered the
programmed shutdown of the power grid. Would be interesting to know how
the system and software works, but then again, that information could
be dangerous in the wrong hands."
Links
0. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/nightlights/blackout081403-20hrsbefore-text.jpg
1. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/nightlights/blackout081503-7hrsafter-text.jpg
2. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/15/blackout.cause/index.html
Freshmeat
Abstract Purple 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132816/
Abstract Purple is an opalescent purple and green theme. The background
is by Dolcevitas (Panda Gielen).
Asymptopia Crossword Builder 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132875/
Asymptopia Crossword Builder is a JavaScript application. A robust GUI
allows users to submit arbitrary length lists of key-hint pairs which
can be regenerated an unlimited number of times until the user wants to
accept the layout. The dhtml interface provides a configuration panel,
key- generating panel (i.e. answer sheet), puzzle-generating panel
(blank squares with numbers for accross/down), and an across-down-hints
panel which generates the text hints and numerical location on the
puzzle.
Audio Input-Output Library 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132864/
libaio is meant to solve the problem of differing digital audio
platforms once and for all. JACK is unnecessarily complex for most
applications, and while libao's support for file output is cool, it
limits what the API can do and is therefore inadequate for any kind of
real time application. libaio provides a clean application interface
and a simple compile-time driver switching decision, yielding a
lightweight way to use the local sound hardware without having to care
what it is.
BATTS 20030815 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132781/
BATTS (Barnhard Associates Trouble Ticketing System) is a lean, elegant
trouble ticket system with both command line and Web interfaces,
written in Perl. It uses MySQL for its backend, and has a
ticket-via-email interface for submission and informational logging.
Features include support for tickets pending on or resolved when other
tickets are disposed of, an ability to assign tickets to a person, an
ability to categorize and prioritize tickets, and associating billing
codes with various logging events.
BitMagic C++ library 3.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132851/
BitMagic is C++ library designed and developed to implement efficient,
platform-independent bitsets. It features several types of on-the-fly
adaptive compression, dynamic range of addressable space of 2^32-1
bits, efficient memory management, serialization in a
platform-independent, compact format suitable for storing in files and
databases, performance tuning for 32-bit and 64-bit systems, and
optimization for Intel SSE2 128-bit integer SIMD.
Bluecurve for Mozilla 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132800/
Bluecurve for Mozilla uses the Red Hat artwork from Garrett Lesage to
create a look and feel for Mozilla which is compatible with the
Bluecurve theme as used in Red Hat 8.x.
Cherokee 0.4.6 pre-030816
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132865/
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.
Datamaster 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132817/
Datamaster is a set of utilities that generates databases and
customizable Web applications automatically from UML class diagrams.
dealbumwrap 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132863/
dealbumwrap is a small script which extracts individual songs from the
MP3 files created by AlbumWrap. AlbumWrap is a Win32 program that
combines several MP3 files into one big continuous MP3 file.
Debt Minder 1.8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132823/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user
friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account
subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split
interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization
capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs,
debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated
amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included,
and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited
files
dxr3Player 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132828/
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.
Electronic Design Automation - Index 0.4-1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132840/
Electronic Design Automation - Index is a system that can be used in
the electronic world to keep track of your: Schematic, Printed Circuit
Board, Front Plate, and Programmable Logic Unit numbers. This is very
useful when you have drawn many electronic schematics and PCBs in an
EDA program such as Eagle, gEDA, Protel, or Orcad. It's also useful if
you've created a front plate layout in an image editor such as GIMP,
Corel Draw, or Photoshop.
Elm ME+ PL106 (25)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132827/
Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character
set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass
mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It can also view digests as a mailbox
and reassemble fragmented (message/partial) messages. It includes
modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE 0.10.0pre6 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132872/
Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE (fou4s) is a bash script that provides the
functionality of YOU (YaST OnlineUpdate), but can also work in
background and check for updates every night. It supports resumed
downloads and proxies by using wget. GPG signatures are also checked.
Gaim for Qtopia 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132821/
Gaim for Qtopia is an official port of the Gaim instant messenger. It
is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for the Qtopia and OPIE
embedded environments, compatible with the AIM (using the Oscar
protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu,
Napster, and Trepia networks.
Geek Code Wizard 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132843/
Geek Code Wizard helps you generate your geek code.
Generic Game-Tree Library 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132812/
GGTL is a C library to help people program computer games. It is
targeted in particular at two-player zero-sum games with perfect
information. Examples are Chess, Checkers, Go, Othello (Reversi),
Tic-Tac-Toe, and Connect-4. For such games, GGTL can provide Alpha-Beta
game-tree search (both fixed-depth and iterative deepening), unlimited
undo, and saving to/resuming from files. Three example games, Othello,
Connect-4, and Tic-Tac-Toe, are included.
Green For Your Debian Box 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132769/
Green for your Debian Box is a space theme made with XaoS (for the
spiral logo) and The GIMP.
GtkAtlantic 0.2.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132841/
GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd
servers.
gtkSMS 0.3.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132854/
gtkSMS is a small application which assists in sending many SMS
messages. It includes a phone book. It uses a program called 'sms' as a
backend (http://www.ceti.pl/~miki/komputery/sms.html).
IIViewer 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132878/
IIViewer is an application for X, and optionally for the Linux
framebuffer device. It allows you to display pictures in a directory as
thumbnail images. Selected images can then be displayed at full size.
It reads BMP, GIF, and JPEG images (even without additional libraries),
but it is also able to use libjpeg, libtiff, and libpng.
ink_level 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132856/
ink_level is a kernel module which allows you to check the ink level of
your printer simply by reading two files in the /proc directory.
Inside Systems Mail 1.7-pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132860/
Inside Systems Mail is a Webmail system that is programmed in PHP,
makes heavy use of Javascript/DOM, and is designed to work with any
IMAP server (including Microsoft Exchange). It aims to be quick and
easy to use, with an interface that most users will find familiar and
several options that help fine tune the Webmail experience.
Io programming language 2003-08-15 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132820/
Io is small prototype-based programming language. It is a pure object
language, and it features an incremental garbage collector, exceptions,
light weight threads, and embeddability.
Java File Manager 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132874/
JFM is an Windows Commander, Krusader, MC, Norton Comander, etc. clone,
but written entirely in Java. It has no native parts, and is intended
to remain that way. You can use the same file manager in every OS that
you run, not having to get used to a new file manager when you boot a
new OS.
Kahakai 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132822/
Kahakai is a fork of the Waimea window manager, adding scripting
support for many languages through SWIG.
KameVoice 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132858/
KameVoice is a Program to utilize the Microsoft GameVoice USB device as
general control device in KDE. It is able to map all sort of standard
shell commands to the buttons of the GameVoice. It is easy to
configure, and should be 100% stable and use very few resources.
Keep It Simple Stock Quote 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132876/
KISSQ will link to Yahoo's financial site, download the information,
and then format it for your browser. Setup is very simple. The
application can be run as a PHPNuke module, PostNuke module, or stand
alone application. You can retrieve historical prices and download
them, as well as see a chart of the current day's data. A portfolio is
allowed using MySQL or other RDBMS. It also provides live quotes.
Kronophobia 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132826/
Kronophobia is a complete event-based school calendaring system that
supports recurrence, transportation assignments, alerts, parent/public
registration, custom reports, event tracking, and e-mail notification.
Krusader 1.25-beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132855/
Krusader is an "old-school" file manager. Its twin-panel look
follows in the footsteps of the great file managers of old such as
GNU's Midnight Commander© and the Norton Commander© for DOS.
Krusader features an intuitive GUI, complete drag n' drop capability,
transparent handling of archives, mimetype support, and more.
lambda 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132824/
Lambda is a Lambda calculus interpreter. It can convert Lambda
expression into the S, K, and I combinators and has auto-defined
numbers and many interesting pre-defined combinators.
Lestat 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132845/
Lestat is a simple system which is designed to allow trends in port
scans to be identified and displayed in a simple manner. The system
comprises a Perl agent which collects packets and logs them to a
database, and a presentation layer which draws graphs and presents a
GUI via PHP.
Libxml 2.5.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132837/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The
library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems,
etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml
implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages,
including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, Relax NG, RFC
2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML
Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications
in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the
following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP
client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas
is in progress. It includes xmllint, a command line XML validator.
Liferea 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132871/
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to
be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a
list of subscribed feeds, browse through their items, and show their
contents using GtkHTML.
LinuXchangE 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132818/
LinuXchangE is a powerful integration system that offers corporate
network services like email, DNS, WINS, PDC, and mass storage. It
pretends to be a complete replacement for Windows servers by storing
all its information using LDAP (like Active Directory does).
Liquid Installer 1.0beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132833/
Liquid Installer greatly simplifies the installation of software
packages for Web applications. Users can add new modules, themes, or
updates with just one click. Developers can create installation
packages for their own software in less than five minutes and
distribute them using the "share" feature.
Mindmeld 1.2 RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132819/
Mindmeld is an enterprise-capable knowledge sharing system designed for
any Web community that needs to capture and share information. It is
unique in that the knowledge base grows smarter every time it's used.
It incorporates terms used in each search into a contextual map of the
answer itself, continually improving its ability to derive contextual
information from a given search. The system learns how people typically
search for an answer by identifying which terms are most valuable in
any specific context.
My Signup Sheet 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132870/
My Signup Sheet is a simple Web-based application that allows visitors
to sign up for events. It is intended to be used for teachers and
organizations wishing to allow users to sign up for events with limited
seats avaible. The admin may specify the events, number of seats
available, and information required from each user.
NeoMail 1.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132849/
NeoMail is a web-based email client written in Perl. It provides access
to a machine's local mail spools without requiring a POP3 server to be
running, and without giving users shell access. It supports sending and
receiving attachments, multiple folders, user themes and preferences,
templates for interface generation, quotas, language translations, etc.
OnDir 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132881/
OnDir automatically executes scripts in directories when you traverse
them at the command line. In addition, it also executes these scripts
in any intervening directories. Use it if you are sick of typing 'umask
022' when editing your Web pages in ~/public_html, or want to add a
directory to your PATH - but only while in certain directories.
pam_deny_uc 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132852/
The pam_deny_uc module can be used to force the use of lowercase
usernames. This is useful with authentication backends which ignore
case during username lookups, such as LDAP.
Pauker 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132831/
Pauker is a generic flashcard program written in Java. It uses a
combination of ultra-shortterm, shortterm, and longterm memory. You can
use it to learn all the things you never want to forget, like
vocabulary, capitals, important dates, etc.
phpSavant 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132844/
Savant is a PEAR-compliant template system for PHP. It does four
things. First, it accepts variables for parsing through to a PHP-based
template script via the assign() methods (you can assign references and
objects as well). Second, it parses and displays the template script
output via the display() method. Third, it parses and returns the
template script results via the fetch() method. Fintally, it acts as a
framework for plugins that provide "convenience methods" for
your display logic and business logic.
PicoContainer 1.0-beta-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132859/
PicoContainer is a tiny embeddable container for type-3 Inversion of
Control (IoC) Java components. Simple components for PicoContainer do
not have to extend, implement, or throw anything. They also do not ship
with XML declarations.
pkdump 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132825/
pkdump detects TCP and UDP port scans and connection attempt from
foreign hosts over the Internet.
QScintilla 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132868/
QScintilla is a port of the Scintilla C++ editor class to the Qt GUI
toolkit.
raidmon 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132850/
Raidmon is a shell script which runs as a daemon and monitors software
RAID devices (Linux MD). It starts to beep when a disk fails or while a
RAID device is resyncing after an unclean shutdown. Every event also
triggers the email alert mechanism, which sends mail to one or more
persons with the details of what's going on.
Rhino 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132836/
Rhino is a GUI Othello/reversi game for the Gnome environment. The goal
is to have a game with a strong AI, targeted to experienced players.
RSSOwl 0.53b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132835/
RSSOwl is a GUI desktop client (using SWT as fast graphic libary) that
reads the RSS format from a URL or a local file. It is divided into 4
areas: RSS Management includes quickview of an RSS feed, adding new RSS
favorites to a category, adding new categories, deleting an RSS feed or
a category, and fulltext searching with result highlights. RSS
Favorites shows all the saved favorites in the different categories in
a tree. RSS TabFolder displays the title and description of the RSS
feed plus a list of the newsheaders from the feed; it opens a new tab
whenever a new RSS feed is opened. RSS NewsItem displays the selected
news from the list of newsheaders from the TabFolder; the link to the
news can be clicked to open it in the browser. The supported languages
are German and English.
Ruby-LCD 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132834/
Ruby-LCD is a client library (lcd.rb) and a small collection of fairly
useful clients (such as an XMMS display client and an IMAP mail check
client) for the LCDProc system for small serial/USB LCD screens.
scsidev 2.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132846/
scsidev builds a list of devices on your SCSI busses and creates device
nodes to access them. The names are built based on their path, which is
a 4-tuple consisting of the host adapter number, the channel number,
the SCSI target ID, and the Logical Unit Number. Names build this way
are much more persistent than the enumeration scheme used by the kernel
(1st disk = sda, etc.). scsidev remembers the permissions of
disappeared devices and restores the permissions properly when devices
reappear. Optionally, it can create the devices as symbolic links to
the main device nodes in /dev/, create missing device nodes, and handle
missing permissions on the /dev/ nodes. You can assign alias names
based on various pieces of information, such as vendor and model name.
It also supports retrieving the serial number, the WWID, and the HSV OS
ID and allows assigning names based on this information, thus providing
a unique identification.
Sherpath Groupware 0.9.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132832/
Sherpath Groupware is a Web-based (HTML and a few JavaScript),
high-performance groupware package. It features email, schedules,
contacts, a file explorer, email rules, notes, tasks, bookmarks, and
fax and SMS support. It requires Apache, PHP4 and MySQL. This was a
commercial project, but it has been under the GPL by its authors.
singapore 0.9.6 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132796/
singapore is a flexible PHP image gallery that stores information in a
CSV-file database. It has a Web-based admin and cached autogenerated
thumbnails (using GD or ImageMagick). Its output is XHTML- and
CSS-compatible.
Straw 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132877/
Straw is desktop RSS aggregator for the GNOME 2.0 environment, written
in Python.
Syntext Serna 1.0.b01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132643/
Syntext Sema is an XSL-on-the-fly WYSIWYG XML document editor. During
the editing process, it renders XML documents according to XSL
stylesheets (e.g., a Docbook XSL stylesheet similar to the Norman Walsh
one). As a result, authors constantly see rendered and transformed
content which looks similar to the final presentation. It also provides
on-the-fly XML schema validation and extensive entity support.
text2rtf 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132848/
text2rtf is a small command line application to convert plain text to
RTF. It can read from stdin and write to stdout, or it can convert a
list of files, appending the .rtf suffix. The font is set to either
Times or Courier.
The XSLT C library for GNOME 1.0.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132838/
Libxslt is a C library for GNOME which allows developers to work with
XSLT. It is based on libxml for XML parsing, tree manipulation, and
XPath support. Also included is 'xsltproc', a command line XSLT
processor. The library is written in plain C, making as few assumptions
as possible, and sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX for easy embedding.
It should work on Linux, Unix, and Windows. Though not designed
primarily with performances in mind, libxslt seems to be a relatively
fast processor. It also include full support for the EXSLT set of
extension functions as well as some common extensions present in other
XSLT engines.
VideoDB 2003-08-16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132839/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's
mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS
tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet
Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark
movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a
filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow
manager. It is a personal database, so no user
management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may
add/edit/delete movies.
wutils 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132866/
wutils is a set of wrappers for mv and rm. As wmv, it creates .htaccess
files for Apache with redirections so Web links don't break when you
rename files, and as wrm it prompts for a redirection (or '410 Gone')
for each deleted file.
xCHM 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132869/
xCHM is a graphical CHM viewer for UNIX. It's based on CHMLIB and
written using the wxWindows framework. It is not an extractor, but a
standalone viewer, able to generate and show the topics tree, figure
out the homepage for the document, print the current page, and go
forward and backward in its history.
Zina 0.10.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132847/
Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal
jukebox, and an MP3 streamer. It can run alone, be embedded into an
existing Web site, or be used as a Postnuke/PHPNuke module. It is
similar to Andromeda, but is released under the GPL.
Slashcode
Slash on Mac OS X
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/158239
This is how I installed Slash on Mac OS X Server 10.2.6 on August 8,
2003. YMMV. This is not intended to be a tutorial, it is a log of what
I did for my system. You may wish to use a release version of perl, to
include different Apache modules, to compile with DSO, etc. Whatever.
If someone wants to take some or all of this information and include it
in a more comprehensive guide, be my guest.
How to Force Previewing?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1931216
An anonymous user writes: "I'd like to see an option added to enable a
user to force themselves to preview a post before they actually post
the comment. At the moment, a user is required to preview a story
submission before they post it, but there is no way for this
requirement to be there for standard posts. I often find myself hitting
'submit' when I wish I'd previewed first. I know that a 'force post
preview' option could be added to the options section and implemented
in SLASH *very* easily, which would simply remove the 'Submit' button
from the initial post screen... so could someone do it? I'd do it
myself if I was able to update the CVS source :-)" This is a one-liner
change... details follow...
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!
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