O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER September 22, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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You can download the new release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=66634&release_id =185211 JPTC 0.2.2 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=311989 JPTC is a graphical tool for testing the performance of java-classes. JPTC is written using java and java-swing. The new release fixes some smaller bugs and adds new behaviour to the existing package, please look to the release letter and visit http://www.jptc.org. You can download the latest release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50653&release_id =84527 EsiObjects V4.1.1 Released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=311830 V4.1.1 of EsiObjects has been released. This is the latest development environment. It contains too many new features to list. Please refer to the V4_1 New Features.txt file for a complete list. EsiObjects - An Object Oriented Programming Language and Development Evironment - Extending ANSI MUMPS. This version of EsiObjects has been under development for some time and is currently running in a production environment. The documentation has not been completely updated in this release. The Language Reference Guide is complete and submitted. The other guides are not complete but will be submitted soon. PCGen 5.3.9 is available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=311454 PCGen is a Java-based RPG character generator and maintenance program that works on all platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc). All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. Mac OS X users - if you quit PCGen using close or quit, your preferences will not be saved. The preference files are only saved if you use the File->Exit menu item to exit PCGen. This is a java issue (our thanks to Conor for finding the reason for this long-standing issue!) The pdf library that we use to generate the way cool pdf character sheets changed in version 5.3.3. If you've updated beyond version 5.3.3 and want to use the pdf character sheets and you haven't downloaded the new pdf library yet, it can be found at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pcgen/pdf_new.zip?download unzip the above library into your pcgen's lib folder. Data for the core 3.5e books is being actively developed on our yahoo site. It should soon be ready for inclusion in a beta release. After that release we will move PCGen to be based upon java 1.4, which means that releases after that will require users to download java 1.4. We've been encouraging users to install java 1.4 since it runs faster than java 1.3. Those on Mac OS 9, Mac OS X (10 - 10.1) will need to upgrade to Mac OS X (10.2 or higher) in order for their machine to handle java 1.4. For users who have trouble getting the 3 zip files to unzip properly, we have some OS-specific installs that should help minimize the chance of install related errors. Links to these installs can be found at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/files/Alternate%20PCGen%20Releases/ These are the same PCGen everyone else uses, just packaged with installers which target Windows and Mac OS X users specifically. Typically there is a lag between when the official release is done and when these special installers are ready. We always recommend that users install new versions of PCGen in a 'new' directory. Below is a list of everything that has been addressed in this release. If you reported one of these, please verify that it is was addressed properly. PCGen is available at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net , and the main discussion group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen . If you wish to discuss making your own custom lst files for use with PCGen, the data monkeys have made their home at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgenlistfilehelp and they pride themselves in being able to field all questions about the data - from very basic to very advanced. All three zips are required to run PCGen: pcgen539_part1of3.zip, pcgen539_part2of3.zip and pcgen539_part3of3.zip. Bugs 808310 Copy in Lst Editor not working 807478 HP window pops more times than it should 801481 Can't create custom potions/items 802004 CMP:SUBCLASSLEVEL and SPELL don't work together properly 802758 SPELL getting evaluated regardless of level 800830 HPs changing for another character 792369 Martial Weapon Proficiency appearing twice after reload 800756 Specialist Wizards have no Class Skills Features 782638 CLASSES:TYPE.blah=x 806718 CLASSES:ALL=x 801152 BONUS:SKILLPOOL|NUMBER| 803527 Improve Add All on equipment tab PCGenDM: Bugs 805384 Green Steel Monk AC and movement not stacking with Monk 805381 Cleric and Paladin not qualifying for Extra Turning 798167 Military / Riding Saddles Weight Incorrect 804165 Duplicate entry in phb.pcc file PCGenDM: Tag Additions 711063 Boots of Str/Spring: Speed not right PCGenDM: Tag Modification Request 711565 BONUS:MOVE replaced with BONUS:MOVEADD The PCGen Development Team New eGroupWare module available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=311427 "JiNN is a multi-site, multi-database, multi-user/-group, database driven Content Management System written in and for the eGroupWare Framework. JiNN makes it possible to have a lot of site-databases moderated by a lot of people all in one system. Access Rights are assigned at table-level and every site can have one or more site-administrators. JiNN is a very useful tool for webdevelopers who need to setup a CMS for their frontend website product. Developers able to setup a nice idiot-proof interface for a complex database design within minutes. Even complex field relations are a peace of cake. JiNN support field-plugins for table fields. This way HTML-form-fields can be specially formatted or the inserted data can be filtered, validated or processed before its stored in the database. Some plugins are: Image Upload and Resize plugin, Attachment Upload plugin, WYSIWYG-plugin, date-plugin, boolian yes/no plugin, selectbox plugin, etc ... Currently it's only tested with MySQL but because it uses the phpGW-API database calls it may work with PostgreSQL from out of the box" JINN is currently available in CVS and will be included in the next full release. Slashdot Analysis Of Symantec's Stance On Censorship http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/0113236 robochan writes "[0]According to this report in the Sydney Morning Herald, Chief Operating Officer of Symantec, John Schwarz, was quoted as 'calling for laws to make it a criminal offense to share information and tools online which could be used by malicious hackers and virus writers.' [1]This article takes a look at the negative affects and also a couple of recent examples of "censorship legislation" backed by the COO of Symantec, and what little effect it has had on criminals, while having a substantial affect on responsible citizens." Links 0. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/12/1063268553158.html 1. http://www.nuclearelephant.com/papers/symantec.html Protests, Politics And Parties In MMORPGs http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/0243255 [0]The Importance of writes "[0]LawMeme's James Grimmelmann has written an [1]interesting piece on protests, politics and parties in MMORPGs. In particular, he talks about the '[2]tax revolt' in [3]Second Life." Links 0. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/ 1. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1222 2. http://secondlife.com/notes/2003_08_11_archive.php#20030812 3. http://secondlife.com/ Torvalds And Cox Write EU Parliament On Patents http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/21/2330232 [0]replicant_deckard writes "Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox have sent [1]an open letter to the members of the European Parliament. They ask for strict limitations to software patents, argue for open standards and ask the members of the parliament to follow [2]FFII's voting recommendations. Vote on the controversial software patents directive will be on Wednesday and it is expected to be a very close one. Well, do you believe these guys have any impact in Brussels?" Links 0. http://www.effi.org/ 1. http://www.effi.org/patentit/patents_torvalds_cox.txt 2. http://www.ffii.org/ Microsoft Offers A DRM Patch http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/21/2246209 Transcendent writes "[0]Microsoft Windows Update is offering a [1]download for their 1.0 version of the 'Microsoft Windows Rights Management client,' if you care to download it. Seems that you need Win98 SE and up (or at least that's the minimum 'supported'). Details are [2]here. Although it's not required or a 'critical' update, this just paves the road for all of Microsoft's software to require DRM technology on your computer. Quote from the details page: 'Installing this client allows RM-aware applications to work with Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) to provide licenses for publishing and consuming RM-protected information.' This, dubbed 'Activation', entails that 'your computer will be automatically connected via the Internet ... in order to create and save on your computer a system component that is associated with your hardware.' Hmmm... me no like ..." Links 0. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ 1. http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/1/4/6144b69b-826e-4633-9ded-a7f7fa954329/MSDRMClient.exe 2. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3115A374-116D-4A6F-BEB2-D6EB6FA66EEC&displaylang=en Where Is Spam When You Want It? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/21/2121248 Sean writes "In a complete twist to what everybody else is trying to do these days, I need to attract spam to an e-mail address for a research survey I am conducting. I have submitted a few articles to a handful of Usenet groups, and I have signed up to some general mailing lists but so far I have nothing to show for it. How come by personal account gets 100+ spam each day yet when I try to find it I get nothing? Where should I post my address so that it attracts spam?" Total Information Awareness, For One http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/21/2031227 Jason writes "This guy has created his own TIA program for his electronic transactions around DC. He writes, 'Conceptually, I decided to create a personal TIA program to track my own electronic movements... and to document [0]every single electronically-recorded transaction I've made.' A small vignette into what could be done with your electronic droppings." Links 0. http://vilimpoc.org/research/datavis-tia/ Replica Flyer Foiled By Weather http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/21/194250 An anonymous reader submits: "A replica of the Wright Brothers' 1903 flyer [0]failed to fly yesterday afternoon at a demonstration in Chicago. Organizers blamed the measly 5 MPH winds. Kitty Hawk had 25 MPH back on December 17, 1903. IIRC, isn't Chicago the 'Windy City?'" Here's an earlier story about the various groups [1]attempting to re-enact the Wright brothers' pioneer flight. Links 0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40516-2003Sep20.html 1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/18/060257&tid=126 Personal File Server For The Masses http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/21/1836207 [0]prostoalex writes "California-based [1]Inspiri is coming to the market with Mirra - [2]a personal file-server with simple backup solutiion, remote access as well as file-sharing capabilities. The $399 device comes with 120 GB hard drive, front-mounted USB ports and Ethernet interface. There are some pictures of Mirra on the [3]corporate Web site. The founder of Inspiri, Tim Bucher, according to the corporate documents, had an interesting career, having worked at both Apple and Microsoft, while the VP of Engineering in this company used to work as acting CEO of Apple's Newton business group." Links 0. http://www.itfacts.biz 1. http://www.mirra.com/corp3/product/index.html 2. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112505,00.asp 3. http://www.ispiri.com/corp3/about/press.html Galileo, Consumed by Jupiter http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/21/1322240 Conceived in 1977, launched in 1989, the spacecraft [0]Galileo ends its 34th orbit exactly one hour from now, hitting the atmosphere at 48 kilometers a second. In its [1]long history, it taught us much, despite the failure of its main antenna that left only its tiny backup to send data, but its enduring legacy will always be the discovery that Europa's icy crust hides a planetary saltwater ocean. That ocean's potential for alien life is why the craft will self-vaporize: to avoid possible terrestrial contamination. The JPL's [2]webcast starts roughly now, and should last about two hours (light delay). Don't miss the [3]view from the prow and [4]impact animations. If you're into these spacecraft and the people who build them, read [5]Journey Beyond Selene. And while we grieve for Galileo today, remember, orbital insertion for [6]Cassini-Huygens is only 283 days away! Links 0. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ 1. http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/galileo_end.html 2. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/webcast/galileo/ 3. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/countdown/image2.html 4. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/countdown/impact.html 5. http://isbn.nu/0684847655/ 6. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ Now We Have the Internet, But Why Do We Need It? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/21/1438248 [0]ReLik writes "[1]BBC News is [2]reporting on a survey carried out on the statistics of internet users in the UK, 'While the battle for digital access is being won, we now face a struggle to convince everyone the net is worth using' said Professor Richard Rose, of the [3]Oxford Internet Institute. It begs the question why goverments around the world are encouraging everyone to use the internet, but is there really enough of a reason for everybody to need to? Is the internet suitable for everybody? Will it ever be?" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3121950.stm 3. http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Freshmeat AbiWord 2.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136606/ AbiWord is a cross-platform Open Source word processor. The goal is to make AbiWord full-featured, and remain lean. AnimalTracker 0.67 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136585/ AnimalTracker can be used to track the position of animals and their behavior in the context of an observation. Users can draw a map of the area and position the animals on it. The application can then calculate the distance between the animals and the distribution of them on the map across a specified time period. All data can be exported as tables to be used in spreadsheet applications or statistics programs. BASH Debugger 0.42 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136561/ BASH Debugger provides a patched BASH that enables better debugging support as well as improved error reporting. It also contains the most comprehensive source code debugger for BASH that has been written. It can be used as a springboard for other experimental features (such as a timestamped history file), since development is maintained openly and developers are encouraged to participate. Blassic 0.7.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136582/ Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language. CGI-Shell 0.21 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136611/ CGI-Shell provides a shell using CGI, so everyone who has a CGI directory on a Web server can also have a shell on it. It's comparable to telnet or SSH. College Radio Database 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136589/ The College Radio Database is Web-based software for radio stations. It allows you to track large collections of CDs by unique ID, assign status, do basic searches, and more. It also tracks airplay, allowing easy entry of spins from the CD database, as well as entry of DJ-supplied music. Top XX overall/by genre charts can be generated between 2 dates, and you can check up on DJ attendance, number of spins versus station spins, and more. It also includes the ability to maintain DJ schedules in table form for multiple semesters. This software has been in use at WMBC Radio and evolving since the year 2000. CRM114 Discriminator 2003-09-20-Beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/136627/ CRM114 is a Controllable Regex Mutilator and Smart Filter, designed for easy creation of filters for things like incoming email redirection, spam filtering, system logs, or monitoring processes. Filtering rules can be either hard-coded (such as regexes), soft-coded (calculated at runtime or read from an external file or process), or learned dynamically by phrase matching (by SBPH hashing). This makes it possible to create very accurate filters with very little actual work. Accuracies over 99.9% are achievable. Dnsmasq 1.16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136590/ Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder designed to provide DNS (domain name) services to a small network where using BIND would be overkill. It can have its upstream DNS servers automatically configured by PPP or DHCP, and it can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. It can integrate with the ISC DHCP daemon to serve the names of local machines which are configured using DHCP. Dnsmasq is ideal for networks behind NAT routers and connected via modem, ISDN, ADSL, or cable-modem connections. eMoviX 0.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136565/ eMoviX is a micro (7MB) Linux distro meant to be embedded in a CD together with all video/audio files you want. A CD burned with eMoviX will be able to boot and play automagically all of its files with MPlayer. Supported formats are AVI (in particular DivX & XviD formats), MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, Ogg, and in general everything supported by MPlayer. Eternal Lands 0.8.3 Alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/136608/ Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D isometric MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2. FetchmailMon 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136615/ FetchmailMon is a set of tools that allows the user to monitor fetchmail processes. FIFOs 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136562/ FIFOs is a program that can be inserted into a pipe and, when given the total size of a stream, will buffer the input the proper amount for the measured Input Rate and Output Rate. Firebird Relational Database 1.5 RC6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136600/ Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. freecolor 0.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136563/ freecolor adds color and bargraphs to the "free" command. gbsplay 0.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136596/ gbsplay emulates the sound hardware of the Nintendo Gameboy. It is able to play the sounds from a Gameboy module dump (.GBS format version 1 and 2) over /dev/dsp. Also included is an XMMS input plugin and a tool to display information about a .GBS file. GKrellM Dell Plugin 2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136613/ i8krellm is a GKrellM plugin to control the fans on Dell Inspiron/Latitude notebook computers. It requires the Linux kernel module and i8kutils package found at http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/. It displays the current CPU temperature, mode indicator, and two animated fans. Temperature triggers can be set to cycle the fans off, low, or high speed. GKrellm SNMP Monitor 0.21 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136584/ GKrellm SNMP Monitor is a plugin for GKrellM that lets you easily monitor SNMP vars. Some examples are server load via UCD-SNMP daemon or ambient temperature via router environment MIB. Glacier GTK 2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136583/ Glacier GTK is a calm, simple greyscale theme inspired by Mac OS X. gmorgan 0.17 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136633/ gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time. Group-Office 1.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136580/ Group-Office is Web-based office suite written in PHP that is extensible with modules. It features user management (optionally synchronized with system and Samba), module management, an email client, a file manager, a scheduler, project management, and Web site management. Hamilcar 0.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136631/ Hamilcar is an XML application server inspired by Apache Cocoon for Objective Caml, using the Yaxi library. It is designed around the concept of a pipeline that is traversed during the processing of a request with control structures embedded in XML tags directing the process according to various criteria. hk_classes 0.6.1-test3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136597/ hk_classes is a set of C++ libraries for rapid development of database applications with all features a modern database application should have, like forms and reports. hk_classes is database and GUI independent. It also includes command line tools to use hk_classes in scripts. HTML Contain 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136556/ HTMLContain is a script that converts an HTML page to standard Python dictionaries and lists. Tags are broken up in order and in depth. This makes them easy to get, manipulate, and rebuild into HTML again. All tag keys are lower cased and extra spaces are removed. In addition, you can convert any Web page to a contained state, and revert it back to HTML that is identical to its original state. Ked Password Manager 0.2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136614/ Ked Password Manager helps to manage large amounts of passwords and related information, and simplifies the tasks of searching and entering password data. It is written as an extensible framework, which allows you to plug in custom password database backends and custom user interface frontends. knoda 0.6.1-test3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136634/ knoda is a database frontend for KDE based on the hk_classes library. KTagebuch 0.72 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136577/ KTagebuch is a diary program for KDE 3. It has word processor-like functions and has a plugin to save the mood for every entry. LaTeX Service 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136564/ LaTeX Service returns a LaTeX rendering of selected text as a TIFF image. libopennet 0.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136566/ Libopennet allows developers to open_net() files or URLs alike, and get a file descriptor back that they can use to read data from. It supports HTTP (read-only) and FTP (read or write). It also comes with read_net() to do a forceful read(), and lseek_net() for calling lseek on the socket/file. libwebserver 0.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136593/ libwebserver is a library for adding Web-based remote interfaces to your programs. It is independent of other Web servers, easy to use, and supports HTTPS with OpenSSL. Linux on the Linksys wrt54g 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136630/ wrt54g-linux is a mini-distribution for the Linksys wrt54g 802.11b/g access point and router. It includes basic tools such as sh, syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, find, nfs modules, etc. The installation script runs in about 20 seconds and installs strictly to the RAM disk. If you mess anything up, simply reset the box. After installing the distribution you'll be able to telnet in, add Web pages, change iptable rules, change routing, configure snort, etc. Maildirtree 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136621/ Maildirtree is a small program which is able to take flat hierarchies of Courier-IMAP format Maildir directories and print them out in format similar to tree(1). It also scans for unread messages and counts the total messages for each valid folder, and has partial support for recursing into an actual directory hierarchy of Maildirs. MemAid 0.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136594/ Memaid is a software designed to predict optimal time of repetitions (computes best possible intervals between reviews, using an Artificial Neural Network). It may be used in learning anything. It makes your learning process much more effective: less time wasted, more things you remember. MIB Smithy 2.3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136626/ MIB Smithy is an application for SNMP developers, MIB designers, and Internet-draft authors. It provides a GUI-based environment for designing, editing, and compiling MIB modules according to the SMIv1 and SMIv2 standards. It accelerates the development process by providing an easy-to-use GUI environment for designing, editing, and compiling SNMP MIB specifications without the syntax and formatting concerns of designing MIBs by hand. It includes a number of built-in basic SNMP management tools, XML support, and (with MIB Smithy Professional) support for custom compiler output formats. MIB Smithy SDK 2.3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136622/ MIB Smithy SDK is a dynamic extension to Tcl/Tk (8.1+) that allows development of custom scripts for controlling SNMP agents, manipulating SMI definitions, doing conversions, and more. It is based on the core of Muonics' MIB Smithy, and the SDK supports SMIv1 and SMIv2, as well as SNMPv1/v2c/v3 with HMAC-SHA-96 and HMAC-MD5-96 authentication and CBC-DES privacy. It also provides complete read-write access to all elements of SMI/MIB Module definitions, unlike similar extensions that provide only read access to a limited subset. The SDK allows multiple discrete SMI databases and SNMP sessions, and provides all of the built-in validation and error recovery capabilites of the full product, without the visual MIB development environment. mnoGoSearch-php 3.2.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136574/ mnoGoSearch-php is a PHP frontend for the mnoGoSearch free Web search engine (formerly known as UdmSearch). It supports most of all original search.cgi features including cache mode, phrase search, weight factors, spell daemon, and others. multitail 2.9.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136602/ multitail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also use colors while displaying the logfiles, for faster recognition of which lines are important and which are not. It supports regular expressions. It has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions and deleting and adding windows. One can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and other software. Mysql - Exim - Qpopper interface 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136571/ This project is an Exim, Qpopper, and MySQL mail system administration tool. Mysql Data Manager 1.72 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136628/ Mysql Data Manager is a Web-based MySQL client that provides local and remote database access. It allows direct data access and management via an easy and intuitive interface. Mysql Data Manager is a platform-independent CGI script. Odot 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136603/ Odot is a task list manager that organizes your tasks hierarchically and emphasizes ones which are due. p0f 2.0.2-rc1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136592/ p0f is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting and masquerade detection utility, to be used for evidence or information gathering on servers, firewalls, IDSes, and honeypots, for pen-testing, or just for the fun of it. It is a complete rewrite of p0f version 1 that used to be maintained by William Stearns. Pauker 1.3.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136560/ 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. Perl Archive Toolkit 0.75 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136576/ PAR is a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool, dubbed as a cross between Java's JAR and Perl2EXE/PerlApp. It can turn your Perl programs into ready-to-run executables, build and use PAR files into @INC to avoid version conflicts, turn CPAN module distributions into PAR distributions, or install/uninstall/sign/verify PAR distributions. PHP Layers Menu 3.1.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136599/ PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose among items on a Web page. It achieves a compact view and a reasonably small file size for pages with a very large number of entries. Its behavior is analogous to the GNOME, KDE, and MS Windows main menus. It also provides JavaScript-based Tree Menus whose look and behavior is analogous to the most commonly used file managers and to the Mozilla bookmarks management tool. Menus are dynamically generated using data retrieved from files, strings, and databases. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4, 6, and 7, Konqueror, Opera 5, 6, and 7, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It also provides accessibility solutions for browsers that don't support JavaScript. pkdump 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136570/ pkdump detects TCP and UDP port scans and connection attempt from foreign hosts over the Internet. PMK 0.6.4 (Snapshot) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136586/ PMK aims to be an alternative to GNU autoconf configure scripts. It attempts to avoid the use of scripts in packages that can hide trojans, to minimize the number of dependencies, and to be easy to use for users and developers. Qazoo 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136573/ Qazoo is a Yahoo! instant messenger client for Qtopia/ Sharp Zaurus. QCad 2.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136619/ QCad is a powerful but easy to use 2D CAD program for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It uses DXF as its standard file format. While other CAD packages are often rather complicated to use, QCad tries to stay comfortable, and even an absolute beginner can create professional drawings with a minimum of effort. QuickSwitch 1.05 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136581/ QuickSwitch lets you switch network profiles on the fly (IP address, DNS, routes, NFS shares, etc.). There is a command-line configuration mode by which you can change your entire network setting in one line (including DNS and routing table). It is highly configurable, supports DHCP/BOOTP/NIS/NFS/etc., and also includes a curses-based GUI which you can use as a profile selector on startup. RapidTeX 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136591/ RapidTeX is a LaTeX preprocessor that allows users to write more intuitive source files more easily. Short forms are available for a lot of common TeX commands. The source files are more like a plain text file and are therefore faster to make and easier to read. The Latin subset of Unicode is supported. It also comes with a RapidTeX to HTML converter called RapidHTML. rawdog 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136575/ rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. It uses Mark Pilgrim's feed parser. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports per-feed customizable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, and gzip compression to minimize network bandwidth usage. Shishi 0.0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136616/ Shishi is a (still incomplete) implementation of Kerberos 5, which can be used to authenticate users in distributed systems. It contains a library that can be used by application developers, and a command line utility for users. Shishi supports Kerberos authenticated telnet client/server, IMAP client/server (via GSSAPI), SSH client/server (via GSSAPI), rsh/rlogin client, and a PAM module for host security. Skipjack Payment 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136568/ Skipjack Payment is a class to facilitate online transaction through the Skipjack Payment Gateway. You can also fetch information about the transaction status. StarOffice 7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136624/ StarOffice is an integrated Microsoft Office-compatible suite of productivity applications. It provides Web-enabled word processing, spreadsheet, presentation graphics, email, news, charting, and graphics applications. Tutka 0.10.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136601/ Tutka is a tracker style MIDI sequencer for Linux (and other systems; only Linux is supported at this time though). It is similar to programs like SoundTracker, ProTracker and FastTracker except that it does not support samples and is meant for MIDI use only. wput 0.3.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136598/ wput is the opposite of wget, capable of uploading files to FTP servers with an easy to use command line interface similar to wget's (old) one. yawk 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136612/ yawk is a wiki clone written in gawk. It supports the usual text styles, lists, and tables. Additional and optional features are formatting with stylesheet classes, file uploads, and a framed user interface mode. It works on plain text files and does not require a database. Yaxi 0.3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136629/ yaxi is a library for OCaml XML data manipulation. It provides implementations of XML 1.0, XPath, and XSLT with a functional taste. Slashcode How to Allow Longer Subjects? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1923252 An anonymous reader asks: "By default there is a limit on how long a poster's subject can be. Is there a way to get beyond this limitation, so that the subject lines for comments and stories can be longer?" Sure, it's easy... this is a good introduction to using MySQL to customize Slash. 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! 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