O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER July 16, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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A menu provides access to playlists, song titles, albums, artists, disk browsing and much more! Several input methods allow to control the menu and Winamp itself. 0.6.3a is a new alpha release and includes many bug fixes and two new major features: Custom character map for each LCD and dynamic menus. Please see the release notes for the full list of new features and bugfixes. Privoxy default.action 1.7 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293062 Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious junk. It is based on the Internet Junkbuster. Actions files are where all the per site and per URL configuration is done for ad blocking, cookie management, privacy considerations, etc. This actions file fixes a number of configuration issues with the 3.0.2 release. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade. Candidate: MinGW-3.0.0-rc3.exe http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293087 MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows: import libraries and header files for use with GCC to build native Windows applications; now with added extentions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality. File: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MinGW-3.0.0-rc3.exe?download ------------------------------------ Added missing files. ------------------------------------ MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Win32 Version 3.0.0 http://www.mingw.org MinGW version 3.0.0 contains the following list of packages: GCC-3.2.3-20030504-1.tar.gz binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1 mingw-runtime-3.0 w32api-2.3 gdb-5.2.1-1 mingw32-make-3.80.0-3 mingw-utils-0.2.tar.gz These packages are also distributed separately and can be found via the http://www.mingw.org/ website. This MinGW-3.0.0.exe package does not contain any documentation. The documentation for all of the is distributed with each of the separate packages. You may also find documentation online at the http://www.fsf.org for GCC, binutils, GDB and make. The w32api documentation can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com. Don't forget to use http://www.google.com to search for examples. Enjoy, Your MinGW Team Free Pascal Compiler 1.0.10 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292116 Version 1.0.10 of FPC has been released and uploaded to SourceForge. This will be the last 1.0.x version; we will now concentrate on the 1.1 branch, which will end in 1.2 or 2.0. The Free Pascal Compiler is a 32-bit Pascal Compiler for AmigaOS, DOS, Linux, *BSD, OS/2 and Win32; semantically compatible with Borland Pascal 7 with additional features such as operator overloading. The compiler itself is written in Pascal. giFT 0.11.1 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292637 After approximately two years of internal development, giFT has finally been released to the public! This release features OpenFT and Gnutella plugins as part of the standard distribution distribution. Be sure to read the QUICKSTART file available in the tarball for information on how to begin using giFT. giFT is a project designed to completely abstract low-level filesharing protocol communication while allowing seamless support for multiple networks. Currently available plugins include: OpenFT, Gnutella, and FastTrack (third party). ...and you thought it'd never happen? Ha! Slashdot Linux Beer Hike in Slovakia http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/2145241 [0]palfreman writes "The [1]Linux Beer Hike is less than a month away. This year it is in [2]Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, following last years success in [3]County Clare, Ireland, and the 2001 event in [4]Bouillon, Belgium. This year the dates are Saturday, August 9 to Sunday, August 17. There is also [5]registration site and a members mailinglist. I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.linuxbierwanderung.org/ 2. http://lbw2003.anteus.hu/ 3. http://www.lbw2002.draiocht.net/ 4. http://lbw2001.ynfonatic.de/ 5. http://www.lbwand.org/lbw2003/index.html Robot Balloon Escapes In Britain http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/0253256 [0]tjake writes "Theres an [1]interesting story running about a [2]intelligent robot balloon that escaped its handlers while being transported around the [3]Magna Science Adventure Centre. "The flyborg has a computerised brain which allows it to avoid obstacles. " It was freed by "a very strong freak gust of wind which ripped the airship out of the hands of its handlers". I'm thinkin, is this a random mistake or the start of the attack?" Links 0. http://www.darkridge.com/~jake 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/3060297.stm 2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/robots/images/home/flyborg.jpg 3. http://www.magnatrust.org.uk/ Grid Computing Coming Of Age http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/016221 [0]ravenousbugblatter writes "The New York Times online has an article discussing [1]grid computing and recent advances made by [2]Dr. Ian Foster, among others. The article compares the state of grid computing over the internet to where the internet was in 1994, which was soon after the development of the software for the use of URL's, HTML, and HTTP. Predictions are made in the article that in the near future the massive power of grid computing will be available to anyone with an internet connection, not just to big companies that can afford to hire [3]HP and [4]Sun to run a grid project for them." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://nytimes.com/2003/07/15/science/15GRID.html 2. http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/ 3. http://www.hp.com/techservers/grid/ 4. http://wwws.sun.com/software/grid/ New Linux PVR Box http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/008235 An anonymous reader points to this product from Interact-TV, known as [0]Telly, writing "Cool little box. PVR, stores photos, burns VCDs or DVDs (if you get a DVD burner), serves up stored content on your home network, nice gui, works with some satellite and digital cable boxes, 2.4.18 kernel. Freevo or mythTV can do about the same thing but this one is ready out of the box." Links 0. http://interact-tv.com/products.php Torvalds Says Linux IP Is Sound http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/2258245 An anonymous reader submits: "In an [0]interview with CRN, Linus Torvalds says he's confident there won't be any IP problems discovered in Linux. In fact, Torvalds, says he was extra careful with issues like the IBM Read Copy Update code." Links 0. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=43276 Lycoris Announces Desktop/LX Tablet Edition http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/2225209 penguinrenegade writes "[0]Lycoris has announced the release of a new [1]Tablet Edition of their popular [2]Desktop/LX Operating System. There are several screenshots in the tour, and it looks like a really polished system, including some of the things that you'd really need in a Tablet, like the virtual keyboard, actually working. It appears according to one page that there are already Tablets in production by some manufacturer, too. So much for Bill Gates and his vision of only Microsoft on a Tablet, eh?" Links 0. http://www.lycoris.com/ 1. http://www.lycoris.com/products/tablet/ 2. http://www.lycoris.com/products/desktoplx/ Scribus 1.0 Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/2143210 McShazbot writes "Graphics.com has [0]this article about the release of Scribus 1.0 ([1]homepage, [2]mirror) desktop publishing software. Check out some [3]screenshots. If it can even marginally compete with the [4]industry leader, this is a big deal -- I know a lot of people for whom Quark is the killer app that prevents them from moving to Linux, and most of them are tired of [5]paying a grand for the privilege of using it." Links 0. http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1780 1. http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/ 2. http://scribus.planetmirror.com/ 3. http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/scriscreen.html 4. http://www.quark.com/ 5. http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/purchase/#full_product Details of Linux-in-Munich Deal Revealed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1854215 An anonymous reader writes "[0]USA Today is running [1]a piece about the lengths which Microsoft went to in order not to lose the government of Munich's account to a Linux-based proposal from SuSE. Interesting to see how these types of contracts are structured, and just what Microsoft is willing to give up to prevent losing to Linux." Links 0. http://www.usatoday.com/ 1. http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030714/5320229s.htm Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1847212 gbjbaanb writes "Softbank, in Japan, has [0]built a gigabit ethernet network to replace DSL over ATM, which costs peanuts to maintain and run. For $21 a month, Japanese users get 12Mb/sec, free VoIP (without quality loss) calls to users on the same network, (3c/min to New York), and DVD-quality movies. The company needs users to stay with the service for 15 months to break even, given that it is giving modems away for free." Links 0. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pipedream.html Orbital Space Plane Problems http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1811228 [0]FTL writes "NASA's next big step in space (after getting the remaining Shuttles flying again) is the construction of the [1]Orbital Space Plane. It is a small vehicle designed to transport people to and from ISS. Jeffrey Bell takes a close look at OSP in [2]this article and comes to the conclusion that it will result in yet another crippled vehicle. Sounds like what people were saying about the [3]Shuttle's problems back when it was being designed." Links 0. http://neil.fraser.name/ 1. http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/news/2003/news-OSP.asp 2. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zj1.html 3. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/8004.easterbrook-fulltext.html Freshmeat 2Pong 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129377/ 2Pong is a pong clone. However, there is one visible difference from the regular pong--it is played with two balls instead of one. The game features three modes of play: the regular pong game with 4 difficulty levels, a kickups like mode with two balls, and a "2 vs 2" mode. Network support for "1 vs 1" games is also available. adamoto 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129337/ adamoto is an Application Deployment And MOnitoring TOol. It's a client/server based application for deploying software packages with a Web frontend. The Web frontend in conjunction with the server enables sysadmins to administrate and monitor the deployment of software packages on the computers in a network. It supports Linux RPM and Windows MSI files directly. AdvanceMAME 0.71.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129387/ AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for arcade monitors, TVs, and PC monitors. AdvanceMENU 2.2.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129388/ AdvanceMENU is a frontend for AdvanceMAME, MAME, MESS, RAINE and other arcade emulators. It supports extended features like PNG/MNG/MP3 animated snapshots, up to 192 previews at the same time, and many other features. Animal Shelter Manager 1.12 PRE 2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129354/ Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more. Argus Monitoring System 3.2.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129403/ Argus is a system and network monitoring application. It will monitor nearly anything you ask it to monitor (TCP + UDP applications, IP connectivity, SNMP OIDS, etc). It presents a clean, easy-to-view Web interface. It can send alerts numerous ways (such as via pager) and can automatically escalate if someone falls asleep. AutoDia 1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129416/ AutoDia is a Perl application designed to allow the easy creation of XML diagrams from various data sources. The output is meant for use with Dia (or any XML parser). AutoDia supports any language through the use of handlers, and a good handler for Perl as well as a simple handler for C++ are included. BEJY 1.2.1.45 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129355/ BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and other useful things. BG-Rescue Linux 0.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129396/ BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox 0.60.5 and uClibc 0.9.19 based rescue system with kernel 2.4.21. It is loaded either from two floppy disks or from one 2.8MB El Torito CD. The system runs entirely in RAM. It has full IDE/ATAPI support (including disk, cdrom, tape, and floppy). NFS mounts are possible. Support is included for several recent ISA/PCI, USB, PCMCIA, and PLIP network adaptors. Supported Filesystems are ext2/3, Reiserfs, cramfs, devfs, iso9660, minix, MS-DOS, NFS, NTFS (read), proc, smbfs, tmpfs, UDF, UMSDOS, and vfat. Software raid (0, 1, 4, 5, and linear), LVM, and USB keyboards are supported. Additional included programs are: e2fsprogs 1.33, reiserfsprogs 3.6.8, lilo 22.5.4, dosfstools, cramfs, umsdos-utils, fdisk, gpart, mdadm, lphdisk, smbclient, bzip2, cabextract, zip/unzip, loadlin, and pcmcia-cardmgr. Bob Shaffer's C++ Tools 1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129363/ Bob Shaffer's C++ Tools include libraries for working with delimited text files, MySQL databases, UNIX mail files, and CGI queries. Build it Fast 0.1.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129371/ Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of time. It brings the concept of the 'widget' to Web development. It features Cascade Skins and transparent session management. BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129335/ BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded system. Camera Picture Copier 0.0.1-0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129334/ 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. Cerberus Intrusion Detection System 0.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129386/ cIDS is an intrusion detection system, not based on packets, but rather based on actual intrusion recognition (as in a remote login from root, etc). It also logs scanning attempts and all remote attempts. It is good for private users looking for some form of security on their box. cfperl 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129380/ cfperl extends the cfengine syntax, preserving compatibility with the cfengine commands. It also introduces new functionality: user management (add/delete/modify), crontab management, file deployment from a configuration hierarchy, and Perl-based file editing. cfperl can coexist with cfengine, or it can be used as a standalone program. CGIcast 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129420/ CGIcast is a small collection of scripts designed to give users the ability to broadcast live audio, in either MP3 or Ogg Vorbis formats, using only a Web server. This is intended for users who have access to a Web hosting account which permits them to run CGI scripts, but not to run live streaming daemons like Icecast. This allows cheap hosting of Internet radio shows without having to spend more on specialist streaming providers. ColorDesigner 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129330/ ColorDesigner is a small app which lets the user design a color set. Conflux Groupware 1.0 (Lite) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129392/ Conflux is a Web-based groupware and file management solution intended to organise and facilitate the work of the client. The basic functionality includes shared calendars, tasks, contacts, discussions, and an email client. Built on open source components such as PostgreSQL, Python, mod_python, and Apache, Conflux is a stable and cost-effective solution for optimizing the time you spend on your daily tasks. Customer Information Tracker 20030419-1936-jam http://freshmeat.net/releases/129164/ CIT uses the Eros BBS engine to build a customer information tracker. It has two tables so far: contact (which stores first name, last name, pager, email, and an organization id) and organization, which stores a name for the organization, a billing address, and a shipping address. You can have as many contacts as you want, and as many organizations as you want (within the limits of disk space). So far, you can manage (add/edit/delete) contacts and organizations, and display the list of contacts associated with an organization. Cyrus SASL 2.1.15 (SASLv2) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129375/ The Cyrus SASL library is a generic library for easy integration of secure network authentication to any client or server application. It supports authentication via standard plaintext methods as well as CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 shared secret methods and KERBEROS_V4 and GSSAPI Kerberos methods. The SASL protocol framework is used by SMTP, IMAP, ACAP, LDAP, and other standard protocols. Database of Managed Objects 1.901 Alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/129422/ DMO is generic object management, documentation, and inventory software. It enforces defining an abstract hierarchical structure for the data stored, making object management very intuitive. All the data in a company can be stored in a structured manner, from hard disks, computers, and printers to routers, UPSes, and alarm systems. Powerful querying and PDF report generation, plugin support, a high level of customization, and very clean code make DMO a very powerful tool. dhcp-agent 0.41 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129345/ dhcp-agent is a UNIX Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) suite that is extendable via Scheme using Guile. The suite currently ships with a beta quality DHCP client and sniffer. dione 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129365/ dione is a Genetic Programming framework written in Python. It takes advantage of Python's internal compiler to make things simple, and includes basic genetic operations (rank/roulette selection, crossover, mutation, steady state, elitistm, etc.). Divine Intervention 1.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129339/ Divine Intervention consists of two programs. The first is a very accurate BPM measurement tool. The second is a player which can change the tempo of music. The player allows nudging, forward and backward movement by measures, and other nice things. Dolibarr 0.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129349/ Dolibarr is a small and simple Web interface with ERP and CRM capabilities. It is designed for small companies and freelancers, and can be used to deal with the bills and documentation required for company management. Drall 1.13.0.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129343/ Drall is a script which allows users to access their directories and files remotely without the need of using insecure FTP and telnet. It enables the user to treat the remote file system as if it was on their local hard disk through a normal Web browser. The interface resembles the well known Norton Commander and GNU Midnight Commander. Single or dual-panel views makes it easy to see an overview of the file system and the modular design means you only use the features you need. Drall is written in Perl for easy customization and expansion. EasyTAG 0.28.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129381/ EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, and Monkey's Audio files. It features a simple and attractive GTK+ interface. ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.3.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129351/ ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in plain ASCII files for easy and fast access. Enca 0.99.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129404/ Enca detects the encoding of text files, on the basis of knowledge of their language. It can also convert them to other encodings, allowing you to recode files without knowing their current encoding. It supports most of Central and East European languages, and a few Unicode variants, independently on language. Euphoria 2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129407/ Euphoria is a simple, flexible, easy-to-learn programming language. It lets you quickly and easily develop programs for Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, and Windows. Although Euphoria provides subscript checking, uninitialized variable checking and numerous other run-time checks, it is extremely fast. It also includes a complete reference manual. Filepp 1.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129340/ filepp is a generic file preprocessor designed to allow the functionality provided by the C preprocessor to be used with any file type. It supports the full set of C preprocessor keywords (#include, #define, #if, etc.). filepp is also highly customisable and allows users to easily add their own keywords or modify the behaviour of existing keywords. Fremtris 0.4.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129400/ Fremtris is a J2ME implementation of the well-known Tetris game. It works on every Java (J2ME) compatible mobile phone and PDA. GNUstep 20030715 (Daily Snapshot) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129118/ GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons, etc. GProFTPD 8.0.5 (GNOME 2) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129395/ GProFTPD is a GNOME frontend for the ProFTPD standalone server. gspi 0.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129358/ gspi is a Guile-based interface to the GNOME AT-SPI. It allows querying of the GNOME desktop via a Scheme evaluator. GTacToe 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129385/ GTacToe is a Tic Tac Toe game that features intelligent AI, network play, two player local games, and much more. Hastymail 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129326/ Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform IMAP/SMTP client application providing a clean Web interface for sending and reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away from their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text based and even PDA browsers like Blazer). iTree Pro-XQ Powertree 6.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129336/ iTree Pro-XQ Powertree is a Java tree menu with drag 'n' drop, tabs, scalability, and database friendliness. It also features a large variety of search facilities and runtime editors which are especially useful for large interactive application interfaces. Menu content can be fed from an easily written text file or database interface script. Other features include multi-state user-definable icons, true-type fonts, pixel-level customizable colors and layout, script triggers, multiple scrolling logics, checkbox and radio menu items, line-wrapping, and rollover effects. Java Email Server 2.0 Alpha 2 (2.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129399/ Java Email Server is a SMTP and POP3 email server written in Java. Java FileMover 0.6.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129329/ The FileMover is a tool which allows you to mass rename and move files in your preferred operating system using regular expressions. This program was inspired by mmv, a famous Unix tool. The files that match a specified regular expression are renamed. The new name is derived from a pattern which can include parts of the original name. Pre-defined and user-defined functions can be applied to the back references of the original name. The results of renaming can be previewed before actually being performed. Jaxe 1.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129374/ Jaxe is a Java XML editor with a graphical document-oriented interface. It is configurable with an XML schema and a configuration file. It supports validation at element insertion, and is customisable with Java modules. There is an HTML preview with an XSLT stylesheet. Examples include XHTML strict and a Docbook article. JaxMeXS 1.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129282/ JaxMeXS is a parser for XML Schema, written in Java. Unlike Xerces or similar parsers, this one isn't written for validation of conforming instances, but for schema authors who like to use the schema information or extend the XML Schema language with private data. An excellent example is JAXB, the Java/XML binding specification. Linstall Wizard 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129408/ Linstall is a full featured Linux installation wizard for X11. It allows Linux developers to distribute their programs in a easy to install and use interface. Make CD-ROM Recovery 0.7.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129394/ mkCDrec (Make CD-ROM Recovery) makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image, including backups of the Linux system to one or more CD-ROM(s) (multi-volume sets). Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another disk, NFS disk, or (remote) tape. After a disk crash or system intrusion, the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was. It also features disk cloning, which allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does not have to be of the same size, as it calculates the partition layout itself). Currently, ext2, ext3, minix, MS-DOS, FAT, VFAT, Reiserfs, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported. mkCdrec is also able to restore disks in Software RAID and LVM mode. MemAid 0.2.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129414/ 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. MIDAS NMS 2.0g http://freshmeat.net/releases/129350/ MIDAS NMS is a highly configurable network monitoring and network intrusion detection server. It uses a distributed client/server model that allows it to scale to very large networks, and features highly optimized Snort support that dramatically reduces the overhead of both the Snort Sensor and the alert data repository. It also supports Netsaint/Nagios plugins and Big Brother clients, allowing for easy migration. MilterQuota 0.23 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129417/ MilterQuota is a milter (mail filter) for sendmail using libmilter. It implements quotas for inboxes without any influence of the amount of disk space the user can fill. There is one central configuration file where you can enter pairs of user/max.inboxsize and you can also enter a default value for all users. This makes a site-wide configuration easy. An additional feature is the override address: as an administrator you can still send important mail to users with full inboxes. Mixmos 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129376/ Mixmos is yet another GTK-based OSS mixer program. It's attempt to create a nice and useful soundcard volume control program for Linux. Music Player Daemon 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129383/ Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Flac) and managing playlists. The design focus is on integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network. Currently, it includes a Web interface, phpMp. The goals are to be easy to install/use, to have minimal resource requirements, stability, and flexibility. mvc 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129327/ MVC is a text mode v4l video capture program that features motion detection. It is very small and easy to use, and could be used to monitor and record the people that enter your room. myServer 0.4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129338/ myServer is a free and easy-to-configure Web server. It is multhithreaded and supports multiprocessor machines. MySource 2.8.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129331/ MySource is a powerful, open source Web site and intranet content management system. It is designed to enable technically unskilled users to build and maintain their own online solutions securely, professionally, and inexpensively. It is written in PHP, and requires both MySQL and Apache. Once installed no programming skills are required to operate the system. NetBeans XML Project 3.5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129372/ NetBeans XML Project is an open source XML editor for the NetBeans 3.3.2 IDE. It provides an XML text editor with coloring and completion, an XML tree editor, XML entity catalogs support, a DTD documentator, and Java code generators. netBeep 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129405/ netBeep is a collection of a few Perl scripts that enable you to make music using only your computer's internal speaker. It was designed to work over networks, allowing you to use many computers to play the music--each one playing a certain (not necessarily, but usually, different) part. This means you can have a whole orchestra of computers, and it allows for chords and harmonies! You can, of course, use a standalone computer if you wish, but it won't show off the full potential of netBeep. A script is also included that converts Nokia-style ring tones to netBeep music files (scores). This will help you get started quickly. oBR-9x 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129292/ oBR-9x is a port of the clean R-9x style/theme to Openbox. OpenOffice.org 1.1 Release Candidate 1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129419/ OpenOffice.org is the Open Source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. OSS 3.9.7l http://freshmeat.net/releases/129406/ OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux, *BSD, Solaris, UnixWare, OpenServer, AIX, HPUX, LynxOS, VxWorks, and Tru64. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, synthesizers, and mixers found on sound cards. These sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API specification. OSS provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple. It supports over 200 brand name sound cards, and provides automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play support, support for PCI audio soundcards, and support for full duplex audio. OZradio 0.9.6.6 beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/129348/ OZradio is a Linux FM radio player, CD Player, and CD Ripper for KDE and GNOME. It supports Video4Linux compatible FM/TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording. PeopleLink IM Server 5.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129397/ PeopleLink IM Server is a robust instant messaging server that offers secure IM, content logging, file transfers, and group chat. It is simple to set up and can run inside or outside a firewall. It can use the PostgreSQL database to store login and buddy list information. PHPChain 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129421/ PHPChain is a secure Web-based password database designed to securely encrypt and store passwords. Data is encrypted using the Blowfish algorithm and stored in a MySQL database. phpIntranet 2.9.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129360/ phpIntranet is a PHP/SQL intranet application. It includes a front end for managing a staff database, an inventory database, modular calendars, a tournament engine (round robin, single elimination), SpamAssassin configuration integration, birthdays, image storing, etc. phpIntranet also includes a session -> SQL based shopping cart and an orders database to integrate into an e-commerce Web site. phpQLAdmin 2.0.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129367/ phpQLAdmin is designed primarily for administration of a QmailLDAP user database, but also has EZMLM and QmailLDAP/Controls management ability. phpSupport 3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129389/ phpSupport allows users to submit trouble tickets through a Web form or an email gateway. It gives the option of emailing the creator of a trouble ticket when updating or closing it. All tickets and information are stored in a MySQL database. Postfix 2.0.14-20030715 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129413/ Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and hopefully secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset your users. Prima 1.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129378/ Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development. Supported platforms include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2, and UNIX/X11 workstations (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, and others). The toolkit contains a rich set of standard widgets and has emphasis on 2D image processing tasks. A Perl program using Prima looks and behaves identically on X, Win32, and OS/2 PM. QmailAdmin 1.0.23 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129418/ QmailAdmin is a Web control panel for the administration of qmail/vpopmail-based POP, IMAP, LDAP, or Web mail accounts, forwarding, aliases, autoresponders, and mailing lists. It is perfect for ISPs, Web hosting sites, or companies that want to provide a nice interface for managing email accounts. It works with qmail, vpopmail, sqwebmail, and courier-imap. Reqwireless EmailViewer 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129390/ Reqwireless EmailViewer is a rich email client for mobile Java (J2ME) devices. In addition to sending and receiving simple plain text email messages, it supports advanced features including HTML-based email, images, links, spam filtering, Hotmail, attachments, and much more. Users enjoy a rich email experience on any mobile Java device. ROBODoc 4.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129411/ ROBODoc is an API documentation tool. It extracts specially-formated comment headers from a source file and puts them in a separate file. ROBODoc allows you to include the program documentation in the source code and avoid having to maintain two separate documents. ROBODoc can format the documentation in HTML, LaTeX, RTF, XML DocBook, or ASCII format. It is even possible to include parts of the source code. It works with Assembler, C, C++, Java, Perl, LISP, Occam, Tcl/Tk, Pascal, Fortran, shell scripts, HTML, and COBOL; basically any language that supports comments. Sacred 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129382/ SACRED is an enhanced version of the ROM 2.4b6 codebase. The enhancements include new player skills, spells, classes, and races. Also included are arenas, OLC, Mud Compression Protocol, a Clan system, new flags, questing, color, automatic auctions, enhanced immortal utilities, spellchecking, hints, and many more features. Security Filter 1.1-b1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129346/ SecurityFilter is intended for use by Java Web application developers. It provides robust security and automatic authentication services for Web applications. It mimics the behavior and configuration format of container-managed security, but has several important advantages that make it an ideal solution for single-context, public Web sites, or when it is necessary or simply desirable to avoid the server configuration hassles and portability issues associated with container-managed security. Sound Juicer 0.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129328/ Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool that features a clean interface and automatic tagging of files. Studycard Studio Lite 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129332/ Studycard Studio Lite is a program to create and memorize multimedia flashcards, tests, and tutorials, including picture and sound identification. It is meant for teachers, students, or anyone who has something to memorize. Students can create and study their own flashcards and track their progress. Teachers can create quizzes or flashcards for their students. SurakWare Base Library 0.4.0-beta2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129341/ SurakWare Base Library (libswl) is a native C++ multi-platform system library that provides an abstract layer to the key system routines as well as utility modules, STL add-ons, and other useful classes for solving common tasks (multi-threading, I/O streams, networking, etc.). Tapestry 3.0-beta-2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129384/ Tapestry is a rich, component-based object model for developing dynamic, robust, highly interactive Web applications. Applications are constructed in terms of Java objects, methods and properties, instead of URLs and query parameters. It builds and interprets all URLs, dispatching directly to application-specific "listener" methods. It includes complete source code, documentation, tutorials and a complete example J2EE application. Tentacles 0.7.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129402/ Tentacles is a peer-to-peer networking program for GTK+ 2 with support for detailed metadata, multi-sourcing, and file integrity control. Thy 0.6.321 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129344/ Thy is a lightweight HTTP daemon that is designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day. Despite its small size, it supports CGI, IPv6, SSL/TLS, and on-the-fly compression. Turl 0.1a http://freshmeat.net/releases/129353/ Turl is a TinyUrl clone that checks the URL to make sure it is valid and attempts to look up the title for each URL. Links are checked every day to make sure they are still active. After 10 days, inactive links are disabled but still checked. TUTOS 1.1.20030715 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129379/ TUTOS (The Ultimate Team Organization Software) is a groupware or ERP/CRM suite that helps small to medium teams manage various things in one place. Its features include personal and group calendars, an address book, product and project management, bug tracking, installation management, a task list, notes, files, mailboxes, and useful links between all of the above. vtkFlRenderWindowInteractor 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129352/ vtkFlRenderWindowInteractor is a class which enables you to create applications with full VTK and FLTK integration and interaction. This means that VTK renders to your FLTK UI, and your FLTK UI interacts with the VTK pipelines. Standard VTK interactor styles and picking work by default. This code has been tested successfully on Linux, SGI Irix, Sun Solaris, and Windows (NT and 2000). XML Security Library 1.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129366/ XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2. It provides an implementation for major XML security standards: XML Digital Signature and XML Encryption. xmlBlaster 0.849 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129333/ XmlBlaster is XML based MOM (Message oriented Middleware) with a lot of features. It is a publish/subscribe and point-to-point MOM server which exchanges XML-encoded messages. Communication with the server is based on CORBA (using JacORB), RMI, XML-RPC, native socket, or a persistent HTTP plugin. Subscribers can use XPath expressions to filter the messages they wish to receive and add their own MIME-based filter plugins. C/C++, Java, Perl and PHP client demos are included in the xmlBlaster test suite, and Tcl and Python demo clients are scheduled. XmlBlaster also provides a browser callback framework, allowing browsers (Netscape, Mozilla, MSIE) to receive instant callbacks over a persistent http connection. A security plugin framework allows authentication/authorization in many ways. Currently there are LDAP- and passwd-based plugins available. XPCE/SWI-Prolog 5.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129368/ SWI-Prolog is an implementation of the Prolog language which aims to provide a free, user-friendly, fast, and scalable platform for learning Prolog, for doing research in logic programming, and for application development. With its XPCE graphics library, it provides a development environment for Prolog and portable (Unix/X11, Windows, and Mac OS X) graphics to applications. It features a very fast compiler, compliance to ISO and many de-facto standards, scalability, modules, garbage collection (even for atoms), fast two-way C and C++ interfaces, embeddability, last-call optimization, and portability (ANSI-C, 32 and 64-bit platforms). Slashcode So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish! http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1816237 All things come to an end and its been a wonderful ride. Today is my last day at OSDN and this will be the last thing I will be posting on Slashcode. It has been fun working on Slash for the last few years and I have enjoyed working with the Slash community (tf32, ACS, vladinator, ericdano, and many more that I am forgetting). On Monday I start work for MySQL so I will be a bit busy for a while but I expect you will still see Slash stuff coming from me in the future. I will continue to be in #slash for a while, and you can still always reach me via email. The best of luck with you and your sites, it has been great! Spottedrabbit.com http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1756251 After much kicking and screaming, yet another Slash Site! The Spotted Rabbit with news and events for Sussex County NJ, and Orange County, NY. It still looks a lot like basic slash, but I'm new to this, and we're working on it! --Ken Hall Multiple Instances http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1543202 Please indulge a beginner. I currently have slashcode setup on a single domain with its own IP address (wwwntm.biz) for testing purposes. Here is my dilemma. I am setting up a community similar to yahoo/geocities. It will be www.newthoughtcommunity.net and the individual communities will be sub-domains of this domain ex; community1.newthoughtcommunity.net, community2.newthoughtcommunity.net etc Residents of the communities will be set up as users ex; http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user1, http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user2 etc. Directory is: /home /newthoughtcommunity /community1 /community2 I know that slash can be setup with virtual domains, but can sub domains have there own instance. I need each community to have their own slash. Also. When I set up a new instance of slash for a virtual domain, do I use the same database and administrator with a new virtual user when I run DBI::Password? Thank you for any help you can offer John --John Macuga section as subdomain (2.2.5 based install) http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1444236 Hello, I have a slashcode version 2.2.5(*) based site under my command, for which an extension is planned, that would fit well in an isolated (isolate=1) section with a few modified templates put in the section-page (like header;etc;default). I managed to configure a second virtual host that uses the same SlashVitualUser directive as the main-server with the sectionname as subdomain (etc.myslash.company), overriding the rootdir-variable using SlashSetVar and enforcing the section using SlashSetForm: SlashSetVar rootdir //etc.myslash.company SlashSetForm section etc Everything works fine so far... I just wondered if it is safe to use the same slash-site (db and all) within two virtual-hosts. And I wondered the more if there isn't an easier way to accomplish this. As far as I understood mod_perl there shouldn't be any problem, but asking the masters seldom hurts but the professional pride... * I did fix the released security-holes!. tia,kind regards tomte Barrapunto.com see the light with 2.2.6 http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/150251 It has been hard, but after playing a little with all the configuration, we have reached a good balance in Barrapunto.com and now our users are very happy, the journals start to be filled with contents and the editors now are more active. We feel that the key was to serve the images from a differente machine, something that points to saturation in the connections for our main machine. Now the performance is very good with 70.000 pages/day and a PIII with 1 GB RAM with Slash and MySQL and a simple PC serving the images. Translation Guide? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/198224 Is there any guide on how to translate slashcode (interface, at least the one seen by the users) to some other language? Is the slashcode written so that can be easily translated to some other languages (UTF-8 not required) ? Thanks! Yet Another Security Site http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/174230 YASS should probably stand for "Yet another Security Site" LOL. I've been playing around with slash for about a week now, and finally have the beginnings of a site running. Feel free to pop in, drop some comments, break stuff and generally see what goes. The more participation I see, the more work I'll put into making it a nice site. A good name might help... now there's an idea for a poll. Democracy Now! http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/22/176211 Democracy Now! a U.S. based morning TV and radio news program launched it new site, based on a heavily modified cvs version of slash. (Hacked together and hosted by openflows.) As they become more comfortable with the system, and people on staff there get the hang of how slash works, we hope to add in the more community/interactive features of slash. For now it is simply a content management system, in the future it will become much more. In just the first few days the traffic and audience response has been overwhelming. stats from the second day the site was live: IPIDs Pages 11193 55190 Advice on setting up a new site http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1512203 I am trying to use Slash to set up an events-based discussion forum. Ideally I'd like it to be hosted by a turn-key hosting company with fairly punctual customer support. My internet connections are either behind a firewall or 56k modem, so speedy shell access is out of the question. Ideally the host would be friendly towards freedom of information and healthily disrespectful of authority (the site will NOT contain anything illegal, links or insight to anything illegal, but will be acting against the policy of a well-funded British institution whose ground-floor members support and are behind it). I would rather the host didn't drop me just because 'someone' asked them to. Who would you recommend for this? I'd like to modify Slash slightly by arranging it around the date of the event, rather than the posting date. Would it be as simple as an extra data entry and changing a couple of lines of code, or would that go against everything Slash is designed to do? Thanks for your help. Request for BLOB/Image Modifications http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2227225 I'm really happy with how the BLOB support in slash is working. I can now add images and files, and I move the select level up so registered users can only access files. It's great. I'd like to see how hard it would be to have Krow or someone add in placement tags for images. So you can "ALIGN=LEFT" or Right images and the like. Thanks! 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