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Cube Goodies: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/
Gadgets: Ambient Orb Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5da2/
Cube Goodies: Desktop Retro Wind-ups
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6028/
Cube Goodies: The Red Swingline Stapler
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61b7/
Cube Goodies: Futurama Tin Signs
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/60e2/
Gadgets: USB Memory Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60a3/
Gadgets: FM Radio Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60bf/
Interests: Broken Miho Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6188/
Interests: Ph34r t3h Cute Ones Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6193/
Caffeine: Shock Triple Mocha
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6122/
Caffeine: Brute Force Energy Drink
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6184/
Caffeine: Chargers Caffeinated Espresso Beans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f75/
Computing: Archos AV120 w/ DVR Attachment
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fe2/
Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fd7/
PC Mods: ThermalTake SubZero CPU Coolers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cooling/603e/
Cube Goodies: Killer coding ninja monkeys Bumper Sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5faa/
Cube Goodies: I Brake For LAN Parties Bumper Sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5fbe/
Cube Goodies: geek. bumper sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5f96/
Interests: Megatokyo Bumper Sticker 3-pack
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5fc2/
Cube Goodies: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 bumper sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5fa6/
Sourceforge
Tkfp Windows 14 July 2003
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293277
Tk_familypractice is a clinical Medical Records system, written mostly
in Tcl/Tk. Some C, C++, PYTHON, PERL. For Family Physicians,
Pediatricians, Internists or Primary Care. Used in a 4 doctor group for
5 years. Network enabled. Tk GUI and web browser based interfaces.
HCFA1500 claim form. Another new Windows version. Using the file
notebook_start2.tcl, you can run all the windows now inside a tabbed
notebook. The look and feel is now exactly the same as the Linux
version.
pmd-jbuilder-1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293271
PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty
catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. This release
supports PMD 1.1.
QmailAdmin 1.0.24 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293583
QmailAdmin is a web interface for managing email addresses in virtual
domains created by Vpopmail. This release includes more cleanup as we
get closer to a stable release. Functional changes: works with non-idx
version of ezmlm again, updated Japanese translation.
wlandscape 1.0 build 0461 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293588
wlandscape 1.0 build 0461 is out with quite a few important bugs fixed
and a lot of improvements added. Build 0461 introduces many new
features. We have added the support of MapBlast again and integrated an
offline browsing tool. From the developers point of view it is believed
to be fairly stable. Wlandscape is a tool for collecting and
visualizing access point data of public wireless networks in order to
share it with anyone. The collected data is shown in really good maps
and of course all for free. Wlandscape is free because it is released
under the GNU General Public License.
phpWebSite 0.9.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293742
Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University,
phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. All
client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility
Initiative requirements. phpWebSite version 0.9.3 addresses stability
problems from 0.9.2. There have also been many updates to resolve
usability issues. Included with this release is a docbook user manual
for end-users and a skeleton module for developers. Enjoy! The
phpWebSite Development Team
Slashdot
Warp Pipe Project - GameCube Online
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/0431222
[0]chadlnx writes "[1]The Warp Pipe Project, an open source project to
bring LAN-based GameCube games online, recently [2]released a
specification detailing how GameCubes communicate over a network. The
Warp Pipe Project is aggressively seeking out developers who would be
interested in this project through its [3]SourceForge project page."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://cubeonline.gamefarmer.com/
2. http://cubeonline23.sourceforge.net/docs/lanspec.html
3. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cubeonline23/
Congress May Overturn FCC's Media Consolidation Plan
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/0237230
[0]Spril writes "A congressional committee [1]voted yesterday to
prevent the FCC from allowing even more consolidation of the media
industry. The original ruling was [2]covered on Slashdot. The committee
attached the pro-consumer proposal to a bill funding the Justice and
State departments for 2004. But the Bush administration has threatened
to veto the funding because they support ever-larger corporations
owning ever-bigger chunks of the spectrum that theoretically belongs to
the public. Clear Channel may need to cough up some more money for
their lobbyists."
Links
0. http://www.spril.com/
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2569-2003Jul16.html
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1638224&tid=149
BitTorrent Community Running For Cover?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/0122254
[0]govatos writes "[1]Bandwidth issues and DOS Attacks brought
[2]Bytemonsoon, a popular [3]BitTorrent page down, but now pages are
closing for scarier reasons. Torrentse.cx 'recieved a cease and desist
letter during the day of Wednesday, July 16, 2003 for copyright
infringement. The entire website has been removed and will not return.'
Will corporate pressure kill the BitTorrent movement, or will it keep
flying from site to site before it settles somewhere 'safe' like
Sealand's [4]HavenCo?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/0715003b.php
2. http://www.bytemonsoon.com/
3. http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
4. http://www.havenco.com/
Slashback: Benchmarks, Sobig, Blob
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/2216227
Slashback is back, with more this time around on NASA's G5 benchmarks,
an in-depth look at the Sobig.E virus, an update on the Internet Book
List (growing rapidly), the fate of both the Microsoft-purchased
Virtual PC and one very unlucky sperm whale, and more. Read on for the
details.
LGPL is Viral for Java
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/2257224
[0]carlfish writes "According to [1]this post to POI-dev, Dave Turner
(Mr License) of the FSF has decreed that the steps required to use an
LGPL'd Java library will actually infect client code with substantial
GNU-ness via Section 6 of the LGPL. (The "Lesser" GPL is supposed to
protect only the Library, without infecting code using the library)
This, as you might imagine, puts a few LGPL Java projects that
previously thought they were embeddable without being viral in a bit of
a bind. [2]Various [3]weblogs have [4]further [5]coverage." Update:
07/18 02:44 GMT by [6]CN: The FSF's Executive Director, Brad Kuhn adds
"LGPL's S. 6 allows you to make new works that link with the LGPL'ed
code, and license them any way you see fit. Only the LGPL'ed code
itself must remain Free. Such 'client code' can even be proprietary; it
need not be LGPL'ed."
Links
0. http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/
1. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.poi.devel/5900
2. http://linuxintegrators.com/hl30/blog/general/?permalink=LGPL+clarification.html
3. http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page/roller/20030716#for_java_lgpl_is_viral
4. http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1519.html
5. http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/2003/07/16.html#a56
6. http://cowboyneal.org/
Honeytokens: The Other Honeypot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/2049234
martyros writes "I just read a fascinating article by Lance Spitzner
securityfocus.com about a concept he calls [0] honeytokens. The idea is
similar to that of a [1] honeypot, which he defines as "an information
system resource whose value lies in unauthorized or illicit use of that
resource". Rather than having a computer that's designed to be broken
into, however, you have say, a record in a database or a file has no
legitimate use; ergo, if anyone uses it, it must be illegitimate. An
example he gives: adding a record to the hospital database for a guy
named "John F. Kennedy". It doesn't correspond to a real person, so no
one has any business looking at the file. If someone does access it,
you know that they're abusing their privileges somehow. The article has
several other clever examples, which I found very thought-provoking."
Links
0. http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1713
1. http://www.tracking-hackers.com/papers/honeypots.html
Ogg Vorbis decoder chip a reality
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/2032226
[0]LinuxGeek writes "The design is finished and [1]announced for a low
power Ogg Vorbis decoder. Hopefully we will see portable players very
soon now."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.finearch.com/english/news/pr_20030715/pr_20030715.htm
On-line Documentary on Machinima
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/1656208
[0]Hugh "Nomad" Hancock writes "Over at [1]Machinima.com we've released
"[2]Artery: Machinima", a 22-minute broadcast TV program on the
Machinima movement- film-making in real-time 3D. Originally broadcast
on Scottish TV station STV, this documentary includes interviews with
[3]Uwe Girlich, the guy who got the whole thing started, sci-fi writer
[4]Charlie Stross, who is working with the Machinima group [5]Strange
Company, award-winning film director Peter Rasmussen, and Machinima
makers including the [6]Ill Clan (Hardly Workin'), Strange Company
(Eschaton) and [7]Nanoflix. Plus, lots of swords!" There's also a
[8]BitTorrent link to the documentary, courtesy GameTab.
Links
0. http://www.strangecompany.org
1. http://www.machinima.com/
2. http://www.machinima.com/films.php?id=292
3. http://www.planetquake.com/demospecs
4. http://www.antipope.org/
5. http://www.strangecompany.org/
6. http://www.illclan.com/
7. http://www.nanoflix.net/
8. http://www.gametab.com/files/torrents.php?fuse=54
DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/190232
MImeKillEr writes "The Register is [0]reporting that DirecTV is suing
anyone known to have purchased a smartcard programmer, regardless of
whether or not they're actually using the device to enable stealing
their programming. They're sending out letters & when people call to
clear up the confusion, DirecTV is demanding a $3500 settlement as well
as the programming device. They've filed 9000 federal lawsuits against
alleged pirates thus far. They're obtaining lists of who purchased the
devices during raids against the sites that offer them for sale."
Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31793.html
New Sony Clie PEG-UX50
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/182209
[0]webguru4god writes "Sony Japan has just released a [1]killer new
Clie, complete with integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a camera, in a
small laptop-like enclosure. It runs Palm OS 5.2, has a 65,000 screen,
and a built in keyboard! " I've always been a bit skeptical of
handhelds that have flip out keyboards like this, but have repeatedly
been impressed with the quality of various models of Clie. This might
be worth a look.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=5666
Freshmeat
8RDA hardware watchdog timer 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129667/
8rdawdt enables the hardware watchdog timer using the Attansic ATXP1
chip found on the Epox 8RDA(+) (and maybe others).
abcpp 1.3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129597/
abcpp is a simple yet powerful preprocessor designed for, but not
limited to, ABC music files. It was written to overcome
incompatibilities between ABC packages, and to allow one to write
portable, and more readable ABC files.
ADIOS boot CD 1.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129607/
ADIOS boot CD is built using Red Hat 8.0 and Linux 2.4.19 with
additional support for Cloop/squashfs, LIDS, and FreeSwan. The CD can
run from RAM, or use FAT/EXT files for /var, or copy the CD to FAT/EXT
files. The user can choose from KDE, GNOME, or IceWM. The user can
start User Mode Linux (UML) virtual machines, each of which can start
X. Each of the virtual machines can be networked via virtual ethernet
switches and hubs. ADIOS requires at least 128MB RAM to run X11.
aNTG 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129606/
aNTG (another Network Traffic Grapher) is a PHP program that collects
and graphs network traffic statistics on a Linux machine.
Arbitrary Command Output Colourer 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129569/
acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs that
display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the
target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream.
Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be
manipulated. acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output
and applies colours to those matches.
asterisk-oh323 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129628/
asterisk-oh323 adds H.323 support to the ASTERISK soft PBX. It does
this by interfacing the OpenH323 library to ASTERISK through a loadable
module. The package provides the channel driver as well as a wrapper in
a shared library form. It is able to initiate and receive calls to and
from H.323 endpoints, and has been successfully tested with the H.323
terminals on the OpenH323 site (ohphone, openphone) and Microsoft
NetMeeting.
Benson Distributed Monitoring System 3.1alpha4 (Alpha-devel)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129620/
The goal of the Benson Distributed Monitoring System project is to make
a distributed monitoring system with the extensibility and flexibility
of mod_perl. The end goal is for system administrators to be able to
script up their own alerts and monitors into an extensible framework
which hopefully lets them get sleep at night. The communication layer
uses standard sockets, and the scripting language for the handlers is
Perl. It includes command line utilities for sending, listing, and
acknowledging traps, and starting up the benson system. There is also a
Perl module interface to the benson network requests.
bidwatcher 1.3.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129618/
Bidwatcher is for eBay users. It tracks your current bids and listings,
and has an integrated snipe tool. You can run bidwatcher in the
background and it periodically checks your auctions status, and
executes any bids that are scheduled.
Bluefish 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129582/
Bluefish is a programmer's Web development editor written using GTK,
designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. It features
a multiple file editor, multiple toolbars, custom menus, image and
thumbnail dialogs, open from the Web, CSS dialogs, PHP, HTML, Java, C,
and XML support, external program integration (tidy, weblint, make,
javac), and lots of wizards.
Boot Scriptor 2.0.8b (CD Shell)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129578/
Boot Scriptor is a program that allows a high degree of interactivity
when booting from a CD or DVD drive. It provides a set of commands that
enable users to boot a system in a number of ways, as well as provide
interactive menus to choose boot options from. It provides similar
functionality to Diskem1x, as well as new original features and
interfaces to programs such as Isolinux/Memdisk and Ranish Partition
Manager. All features can be commanded through a console interface or
by constructing simple script files.
Builder Xcessory PRO for Linux 6.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129641/
Builder Xcessory PRO for Linux is the industry's most advanced
graphical user interface builder for Motif. BX PRO provides a
comprehensive visual reuse environment that speeds development of
mission-critical applications. BX PRO integrates three best-of-breed
tools to create an unparalleled application development suite.
CMSimple 2 beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129580/
CMSimple is a simple content management system for simple maintainance
of small commercial or private sites. It has a simple installation, is
easy to modify, and offers an unique combination of features. It uses
an HTML-file for storing the entire site, which can be edited in your
favorite editor. It has a dynamic TOC and document locator, a WYSIWYG
editor (no plugin--functions in IE and Mozilla), a search function,
link validation, image handling, and automatic backup. It is easy to
set up your own layout; just edit the template and stylesheet.
CMYK Plugin for The GIMP 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129636/
Th CMYK GIMP plugin allows RGB -> CMYK separation within the GIMP,
using littlecms for colour-management, and allows the result to be
saved as a CMYK TIFF.
comic-icons 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129540/
comic-icons are a set of icons in PNG format with a size of 64x64
pixels.
CPSSkins 0.9pre13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129614/
CPSSkings is an intuitive skin management system for the Nuxeo
Collaborative Portal Server. It can be configured through the Web, and
every element can be selected among a list of visual previews. Over 250
stylesheet parameters are addressed individually, and all modifications
are instantaneous. CSS level 2 is used extensively on browsers that
support it, but older and text-based browsers are also supported
through a simplified stylesheet generated on the fly.
Cyrus IMAP Server 2.2.1-BETA (2.2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129621/
The Cyrus IMAP server is generally intended to be run on sealed
systems, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox
database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to
Cyrus. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP
protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server large
advantages in efficiency, scalability, and administratability. Multiple
concurrent read/write connections to the same mailbox are permitted.
The server supports access control lists on mailboxes and storage
quotas on mailbox hierarchies, multiple SASL mechanisms, and the Sieve
mail filtering language.
D Parser 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129676/
The D Parser is a scannerless GLR parser generator based on the Tomita
algorithm. It is self-hosted and very easy to use. Grammars are written
in a natural style of EBNF and regular expressions and support both
speculative and final actions.
Davenport 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129550/
Davenport is a Java Servlet-based application providing WebDAV access
to an entire SMB network. This enables users to connect to Windows and
Samba shares via WebDAV clients such as Mac OS X, Windows Web Folders,
etc. or any Web browser. Workgroups are browseable, and users are
authenticated against a domain. WebDAV clients can upload, download,
create directories, etc. Non-WebDAV clients (i.e., "normal"
Web browsers) can also access the network of shares and download files.
When run over HTTPS, this application provides a reasonably secure
means of accessing an internal Windows/Samba network over the Internet
without requiring a VPN.
digiquest 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129587/
digiquest is a system for creating and distributing electronic
questionnaires, surveys, and forms to collect data from people who fill
them out by answering the given questions. Beside different types of
questions, there is a flexible and extendable condition-based system to
check answers and control the flow of displayed questions.
Questionnaires and answers can be stored in different formats (XML,
database), and different platforms (desktop, Web servers, PDAs) are
supported.
DRT 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129543/
DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications
running under the X Window System. The tool automatically captures
actions performed while using such an application. Functions
particularly relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the
action itself is described visually from fragments of the application
display. One can search and browse these actions to learn about the
design of an application.
DTDDoc 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129588/
DTDDoc (DTD Documentation) is designed to help document your DTDs
efficiently. It is a straightforward extension of the javadoc concept,
and a not so straightforward implementation of some of the concepts
solidified by Donald E. Knuth.
E-Cell System 3.1.96 (ecell3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129564/
E-Cell System is an object-oriented software suite for modelling,
simulation, and analysis of large scale complex systems such as
biological cells. It allows many components, driven by multiple
algorithms with different timescales, to coexist.
Elvin 4 C library 4.1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129677/
Elvin is a publish-subscribe notification/messaging service. The C
client allows C and C++ programs to send and receive Elvin messages.
This library is required to build the Elvin 4 server daemon.
elvind 4.1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129679/
Elvin is a publish-subscribe notification and messaging service.
Message consumers use content-based subscriptions to request delivery
of structured messages. The Elvin 4 server daemon has a modular
architecture with support for TCP, UDP and HTTP transports, SSL
security and XDR or XML message marshalling. It has been used for such
tasks as instant messaging, workflow, distributed gaming, network
management, application integration and as an infrastructure for
computer supported cooperative work.
ENodes 1.0.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129610/
ENodes is a reliable Web development and publishing framework written
in Perl and geared on mod_perl. Working as a full layer on Apache, it
allows you to manage multiple domains dispatched between multiple Web
masters. It includes versioning, access locking, parallel version
testing, fine granularity of permissions and version management, user
workflow, import/export mechanisms, and a fully-integrated plugin
interface.
Eros BBS Engine 20030717-1638-jam (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129682/
Eros is a modular, object-oriented BBS engine intended to be used as a
library that builds upon proven open source software technology and W3
standards to implement and manage templates, permissions, membership,
database access, etc. It is currently in heavy development, and new
snapshots are released often.
Familiar Linux Distribution 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129619/
The Familiar Project is composed of a group of loosely knit developers
all contributing to creating the next generation of PDA OS. Currently,
most of our development time is being put towards producing a stable,
and full featured Linux distribution for the Compaq/HP iPAQ series of
handheld computers, as well as apps to run on top of the distribution.
FastReport CLX b4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129579/
A cross-platform report generator that includes a visual report
designer, avisual dialog designer, an object inspector, and a component
palette.
fBuilder Plus 2.4.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129611/
fBuilder Plus is a Web-based utility for building and configuring your
ipchains/iptables-based Linux firewall. It performs all actions in
real-time and includes a Firewall Creation Wizard, edit, insert, and
delete capabilities for firewall rules, rule shifting, support for DHCP
clients, DMZ creation through firewall wizard, NAT capabilities,
support for IP aliases, custom protocols, user defined chains, limit
matches, automatic log rule creation, state checking, log reporting,
email alerts, export capabilities, and an enhanced firewall log parsing
utility.
File Service Protocol 2.8.1b8 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129646/
FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many
benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable
on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind
firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not
overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem
lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from
your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active
continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years).
flP5 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129626/
flP5 is easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to extend
full-featured PIC (and most of the serially programmed device)
programming software.
Freenet 0.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129604/
Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of
information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of
censorship. It is completely decentralized (there is no person or
computer essential to its operation), meaning that Freenet cannot be
attacked like centralized peer-to-peer systems such as Napster. Freenet
also employs intelligent routing and caching to learn to route requests
more efficiently, automatically mirror popular data, make network
flooding almost impossible, and move data to where it is in greatest
demand.
Freeside 1.4.1rc5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129617/
Freeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs.
Gaim 0.65 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129568/
Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports
multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN,
Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features
found in other clients, as well as many unique features. Gaim is not
endorsed by or affiliated with AOL TimeWarner, Microsoft, or Yahoo.
Gander 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129664/
Gander serves Python applications over HTTP by doing as little as
possible: a request for a root URL returns an index page, a request for
non-valid application returns "404: Resource NotFound", a
request for uninstantiated object returns "412: Object Not
Instantiated", and all other responses come from the Gander-served
application for which Gander translates URL-style requests into object
method-calls.
Genoa Active Message MAchine 03-06-13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129521/
The Genoa Active Message MAchine is a low-latency, high-throughput
driver wrapper for the Linux kernel, using Active Ports (a version of
Active Messages). It runs parallel to the IP stack and is designed for
LANs only.
Gnosis Utils (Python) 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129595/
Gnosis Utils contains several Python modules for XML processing, plus
other generally useful tools: xml.pickle (serializes objects to/from
XML, API compatible with the standard pickle module), xml.objectify
(turns arbitrary XML documents into Python objects), xml.validity
(enforces XML validity constraints via DTD or Schema), xml.indexer
(full text indexing/searching), and many more.
Gossip 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129675/
Gossip aims at making Instant Messaging with Jabber as easy as
possible, while giving users of the GNOME desktop a user-friendly way
of keeping in touch with their friends.
Gtkboard 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129634/
Gtkboard is a board game architecture and implementation. It implements
all the common aspects of board games, such as the user interface, move
parsing code, AI (i.e., game tree search) and file format. It has a
simple API which makes it very easy to write a new game. Games are
fitted in as plugins.
HTML_ToPDF 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129663/
HTML_ToPDF takes the hassle out of generating a PDF file from a Web
page. It will convert any HTML document into a format that will look
the same on any platform and printer. It includes support for
converting images, using the stylesheets to customize the look of the
PDF file, and error handling.
iCalendar 1.032
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129573/
iCalendar generates ICS files for importing events into iCalender
compatible programs.
ifinfo 0.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129557/
ifinfo is a simple commandline network inquiry/formatting tool
specifically designed to output some useful information about your
network connection. It works by querying the relevant tables in /proc
as well as the output of various Unix commands. Its entire purpose in
life is to tell you what you want to know, hopefully in the format you
wish to see it.
J-Pilot 0.99.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129639/
J-Pilot is a full-featured desktop organizer application for the Palm
Pilot that runs under Linux and UNIX. It includes support for
datebooks, addresses, memos, todos, expenses, and has plugin support.
It uses the GTK+ libraries.
Jakarta Velocity Tools 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129565/
Jakarta Velocity Tools provides servlets and tools for rapid, clean,
MVC Web development with Velocity, tools for using Velocity with the
Jakarta Struts framework, and a set of generic tools to help with any
Velocity project.
JedABC 1.12.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129583/
JedABC is an extension to the JED editor that turns it into a powerful
and easy to use IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for ABC files,
with full integration with players, and previewers. It is similar in
concept to BarFly or runabc, with several advantages. It works on
Windows and Linux, and possibly other Unix variants.
JGraphpad 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129575/
JGraphpad is a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag
and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more. With
JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and networks
with thousands of nodes. JGraphpad is available with sourcecode, which
may be used to develop new (commercial) applications.
Jin client for chess servers 2.07rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129608/
Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. While it currently only
supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet
Chess Server (freechess.org), it is written to be flexible enough to
support any chess server. It is based on the Swing UI toolkit and runs
on any Java 1.1 compatible JVM.
K3b 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129592/
K3b is a CD-burning program designed for people who are used to using
Windows to burn CDs. It has a user interface similar to Ahead's Nero.
It currently allows you to create filesystem trees via drag'n'drop, and
to burn audio CDs from WAV and MP3 files.
Kile 1.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129522/
Kile is a LaTeX source editor, TeX shell, and gnuplot frontend for KDE
3.
LinPacker 0.4.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129635/
Linpacker is a tool to optimize the placement of rectangles in a band
of semi-infinite size (2D bin packing problem). It can be useful for
cutting stocks in trucks and factories.
Loudmouth 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129656/
Loudmouth is a lightweight Jabber client library written in C/Glib.
Lucane 0.5 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129632/
Lucane is an extensible groupware platform written in Java. Some sample
applications are bundled with the platform, like a peer to peer quick
message service, client/server and peer to peer file sharing,
multi-user chat, and forums. The platform as a whole provides easy
development for your networked applications with an object based
network protocol, client/server and peer to peer integration, user and
groups management, internationalization, and more.
Maillog View 1.03.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129391/
Maillog View is a Webmin module that allows you to easily view all your
/var/log/maillog.* files. It features autorefresh, message size
indication, ascending/descending view order, compressed file support,
and a full statistics page. Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, and Qmail
(partially) are supported. Courier MTA support is experimental.
Menstruation calendar 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129572/
Mencal is a simple variation of the well-known Unix command cal. The
main difference is that you can have some periodically repeating days
highlighted in color. This can be used to track menstruation (or other)
cycles conveniently.
MiddleMan 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129647/
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to
remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing
the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include
banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic
authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular
expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular
expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to
temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a
requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent
connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for
configuring the proxy.
minido 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129658/
minido is a simple, generic, multi-user, database-free todo list
manager and tracking system written in GTK2. Its interface is generated
from a simple data description file in XML.
moodss 17.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129577/
Moodss (the Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) displays data
described and updated in one or more modules loaded at startup time or
dynamically. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers,
summary tables, free text viewers, and threshold entries can be created
from any number of table cells. Moodss has full drag'n'drop support in
the UI, and comes with numerous modules for system, database, network,
and other types of monitoring. New modules can be developed in Tcl,
Perl, Python, or C. A monitoring daemon (moomps) for UNIX is included.
It can react to thresholds and record data history in any database for
later analysis or for presentation using common software.
Moto 0.20.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129673/
Moto is a server-side scripting language much like PHP or ColdFusion.
The difference between Moto and other server-side scripting languages
is that Moto pages can run interpreted (like PHP) or be natively
compiled into dynamically loadable Apache modules (an entire Web site
could be compiled into one .so file). It comes with a full suite of
objects and functions for state and session management, MySQL and
PostgreSQL database connectivity, and a slew of utility classes like
stacks, hashtables, string buffers, etc. There is also an included
interface definition language for exposing C functions to Moto. All
object allocation occurs in a shared memory segment, so maintaining
state in objects between page views is a snap.
MoviX2 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129644/
MoviX2 is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful
multimedia box. Using the GUI version of mplayer to play audio/video
files, after booting your PC with MoviX2 you will be able to play any
DVD/VCD, most video/audio files (most noticeably DivX but generically
any AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG), and also radio
stations on the Internet if you are connected to a LAN. And since all
systems will be completely loaded in RAM, you do not even need a HD to
use MoviX2.
MSNre 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129581/
MSNre is a lightweight but powerful console-based MSN Instant Messenger
clone. It has a easy-to-use curses BitchX-like user interface. It has
many features, including instant messaging, sending messages to cell
phones, file transfer, complete contacts/groups management, email
notifications, auto-away messages, netmeeting support, aliases,
messages logging, event scripts, local contact list, multi-user chat
support, ability to encode characters in the system locale, and much
more.
MySource 2.8.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129671/
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.
Myth2 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129654/
Myth2 is an implementation of a binary tree and used to run an
'interactive story'. The user traverses down the tree and at each node
is given a bit of story and two options to choose which path to follow.
If there is no story after the option, the user is given the chance to
add to the story. It is written in PHP 4 and uses MySQL for the
backend. Output is fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional compatible and fairly
flexible.
NSD 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129594/
NSD is a complete implementation of an authoritative DNS nameserver.
ObjectBox o:XML Compiler 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129653/
ObjectBox is an o:XML compiler and interpretor written in Java. o:XML
is a complete object oriented programming language, with features such
as multiple inheritance, function overloading, recursive procedures,
and much more. The syntax is straight-forward, intuitive XML. It also
features an extensible expression language modelled on XPath. The
ObjectBox is a complete implementation of the language and adds
comprehensive Java Language Extensions and Servlets support.
ObjectScript 1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129638/
ObjectScript is a general purpose object-oriented programming language.
It is designed to be simple to learn, easy to use, and powerful,
combining the convenience of an interactive interpreter with many of
the features of Java: a simple Java-like syntax, javadoc support, a
class system (single inheritance), private vs. public fields and
methods, exceptions, synchronization and threading, etc. Since it can
be interactively interpreted, ObjectScript can be used to debug or
learn Java systems. And since it supports extending Java classes and
interfaces, it can add sophisticated scripting to an existing Java
application.
Pan 0.14.0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129660/
Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and
experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan
also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple
connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.
pf2x 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129571/
pf2x is a PHP script that will take the output of your pflog and
convert it into various different output formats. These output formats
include plain text, XML, HTML, PDF, and MySQL INSERT statements for
import into a MySQL database. This was developed and tested on OpenBSD
3.3 but should work for any system that uses PF.
phpMyNewsLetter 0.6.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129631/
phpMyNewsLetter is a mailing list management script written in PHP. The
subscrition info is stored in a MySQL database. Its features include
subscription checking to determine whether the subscriber is not
already registered, welcome and farewell messages, and user-friendly
administration allowing you to send messages, list the subscribers, and
delete the subscribers. You can also send HTML email and view
newsletter logs.
phpWebSite 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129616/
phpWebSite provides a complete Web site content management solution.
All client output is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web
Accessibility Initiative requirements. Features include articles, page
creation, menu management, an event scheduler, a form generator, and
much more.
POPFile 0.19.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129685/
POPFile is an automatic email classification tool using a Naive Bayes
classifier, a POP3 proxy, and a Web interface. It runs on most
platforms and with most email clients.
pwdutils 2.3.91 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129623/
pwdutils is a collection of utilities to manage the passwd and shadow
user information. The difference to the shadow suite is that these
utilities can also modify the information stored in NIS, NIS+, or LDAP.
PAM is used for user authentication and changing the pasword. It
contains passwd, chage, chfn, chsh, and a daemon for changing the
password on a remote machine over a secure SSL connection. The daemon
also uses PAM so that it can change passwords independent of where they
are stored.
Qingy Is Not Getty 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129687/
qingy is a replacement for getty. It uses DirectFB to provide a fast,
nice GUI without the overhead of the X Windows System. It allows the
user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console,
GNOME, KDE, wmaker, etc.).
QPostIt 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129669/
QPostIt is a "sticky" post-it note widget for Qt 3.x that
allows multiple pages. It provides a sample tester program to
demonstrate how to utilize the widget.
ratpoison 1.3.0-beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129586/
Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no large library
dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent
dependence. It is largely modeled after GNU Screen, which has done
wonders in the virtual terminal market. All interaction with the window
manager is done through keystrokes. ratpoison has a prefix map to
minimize the key clobbering that cripples EMACS and other quality
pieces of software. All windows are maximized and kept maximized to
avoid wasting precious screen space.
Recon 0.97.1beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129625/
Recon is a general SSL watchdog, checking for common,
certificate-related errors in SSL-enabled services. Provide it a list
of SSL services for which you are responsible, run it periodically, and
Recon will warn you of impending certificate expirations, mismatched
certificate names, and unavailable services.
Remote nmap 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129668/
Remote nmap (Rnmap) is a pair of client and server programs which allow
for various authorised clients to run their port scans from a
centralised server.
RendView 0.6.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129517/
RendView is a utility to have films rendered using POVRay (and maybe
other raytracers) and post-processed in a local distributed
environment. Features include rendering/filtering a sequence of frames
(f000.pov,f001.pov...) or a list of scene files and POVRay clock
values, tuning on per-frame basis, and resuming partly-rendered images,
all either completely locally or distributed in a local IP network.
Restricted RSH Daemon 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129674/
rrshd differs from rshd in that it ignores the remote user's alleged
identity and credentials, and unconditionally runs local tasks as a
specific unprivileged user ("nobody" or similar). It will
only allow execution of programs listed in a configuration file
(/etc/rrsh.allow), and will exec those programs directly without using
an intermediary shell of any kind. It also has TCP wrapper support.
These modifications make it a good deal more secure than traditional
rshd.
ROCK Linux 2.0.0-beta7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129558/
ROCK Linux is a distribution build kit for creating Linux
distributions. You can easily design and build your own distribution by
choosing packages, compilers, and optimization options, and optionally
enable the GCC Stack-Smashing Protector for enhanced security. It is
also possible to choose custom configure options, cross-compile, and
much more. Many specialized targets (customized distributions) have
already been created, such as a Desktop, Router, or Minimal
distribution. A variety of architectures are supported.
Samsung Contact 8.0.3 (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129596/
Samsung Contact is Samsung SDS's Linux/Unix unified communication,
business messaging, and collaboration system. It supports desktops
running Microsoft Outlook, including support for calendaring, wide-area
scheduling, public folders, and delegation.
SecretSanta 0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129648/
SecretSanta is Web application that provides a system for tracking any
number of groupings of individuals for handling "Secret
Santa" or "Pollyanna" picking, a method for picking
names from a pool of available names and assigning it to one of the
members of that pool.
Semi-Batched-Image-Editor 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129651/
SeBIE (the Semi-Batched-Image-Editor) has the following features: input
filename selection via regular expressions, creation of output filename
via regular expression and substitution, selection of image details
with a given proportion, and scaling to a given output format when
saving.
shellforge 0.1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129637/
shellforge enables you to write shellcode programs in C. It transforms
C program code into shellcode that will run on a Linux/x86 system. It
provides macros to substitute libc calls with direct system calls and a
Python script to automate compilation, extraction, encoding, and tests.
Siege 2.57b14 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129615/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a
single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can
read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program
reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response
time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1
protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and
basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user
basis.
Silver Circles 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129556/
Silver Circles is an abstract blue, pink, and silver theme. The
background is by dolcevitas (Panda Gielen).
Simple API 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129672/
Simple is a comprehensive Java framework for the development of HTTP
services. The framework consists of an API for the development of Java
HTTP services and a service engine to process them. The API provided
enables service components similar to Java Servlets to be developed.
Simple HTTP services provide functionality comparable to Servlets with
much better support for concurrency and component chaining, and a much
cleaner interface.
Slackware Live CD 2.9.0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129567/
Slackware Live CD is a 200MB live Linux distribution on CD that is
based on Slackware. It features many add-ons, including the scripts
required to create your own live CD.
SmartHive CHTTPSERV 0.5.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129661/
SmartHive is an application server that features a Web and proxy
service (HTTP/1.1/1.0), ACLs, security, Web-based remote
administration, replication, and a servlet-like API. A JVM that
supports at least Java 1.4 is required.
Socrates Questionnaire Engine 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129342/
Socrates is a Java based questionnaire and survey engine and wizard
that enables fast delivery of questionnaires to the Web. It runs under
Jakarta's Tomcat. The backend for defining questionnaires is XML (a
database is in progress).
Stage Manager's Helper 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129566/
SMHelper provides Web-based tools to speed up the process of keeping
paperwork for each show. Features include a Daily Report generator and
viewer, and other commonly-used forms.
SuperVESA FrameBuffer Driver 0.9 beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129686/
SuperVESAfb is a framebuffer driver for VESA 2.0-compliant graphic
cards. It allows you to change the resolution and color depth
on-the-fly.
Tickletankle 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129629/
Tickletankle is a 2 player real-time tank game with fractal terrain
that can be played locally or over the Internet or a LAN. The game is
based on Giovanni Tummarello's game "Fractal Fighters".
uCON64 1.9.8-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129589/
uCON64 is a tool to backup all kinds of video games (cartridges and
CDs). It supports most available backup units for cartridge-based
consoles. It also performs many other tasks, like ROM hacking and
conversion of proprietary CD images for use with cdrecord.
Uxtobx 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129640/
Uxtobx processes user interfaces generated by the UIM/X Motif GUI
Builder tool developed by Actional and converts them into an UIL file
that ICSÂs Builder Xcessory (BX PRO) can read and manipulate.
Conversion is accomplished by giving the tool a list of files on the
command line, which are read in and parsed. The resulting BX PRO UIL
file is written to stdout and can be saved using standard file
redirection. Any C/C++ code saved in a .i file is moved into a file
called usercode.c during conversion process. After conversion, the user
starts BX PRO and reads in the generated UIL file.
Veejay 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129655/
Veejay is a live performance tool featuring non-linear editing and
mixing from multiple sources (to one). It lets you load multiple video
clips or Edit Decision lists, cut and paste portions of video/audio,
and save it as a (new) Editlist. Also, you can create video samples
from clips or tags from (live) streams. With these samples, you can
change playback speeds (slow motion/acceleration), set looptypes, and
set markers. With both samples and tags, you can edit the effect chain
and mix from multiple sources to one. Veejay has 50+ video effects and
many frame blending methods. "Gveejay", a graphical
interface, maps the control keys to mouse-click buttons and sliders.
Gveejay communicates over TCP/IP, and can be invoked from a remote
machine.
VIA High Speed Serial 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129576/
VIA High Speed Serial is a little kernel module (1 KB) which enables
high speed serial port modes of VIA VT82C686A or VT82C686B
southbridge-equipped motherboards. Basically, this is developed for
ISDN-TAs, which at least in europe are constrained by the normal serial
port speed of 115200 bit/s. With this module, you can use the serial
port at 230400 bit/s so that you can get the full 128000 bit/s from
ISDN-TA. The module has been tested with both 686A and 686B chipsets.
Functionality is the same as with SHSMOD patches, but you don't have to
patch the serial port driver.
webredirect 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129612/
webredirect is an extremely small Web server that gives the "301
Moved Permanently" response to all GET, HEAD, and POST responses.
All other requests are unsupported and result in a "501 Not
Supported" response.
white_dune 0.24beta42 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129539/
white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor. VRML97 (Virtual Reality
Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the
Web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime
interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). White_dune can read
VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields,
and load and store x3d (the next generation VRML XML format) files if
configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has
support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo
visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball,
or magnetic tracker.
WMAnsiEd 04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129624/
WMAnsiEd is an ANSI editor with functions like line drawing, ellipse,
box, etc., written in Qt. All IBM ANSI and ASCII characters are
included. Saved ANSI files can be shown in standard text Linux
terminals, konsole, or gnome-terminal with VGA as the font setting.
Worm Warner 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129630/
WormWarner is a Perl script that is used to warn hosts that are
probably infected by a worm. It decides wether a host is infected by
analyzing the data from the Apache log files. It currently recognizes
CodeRed, Nimda, the Linux.Slapper.Worm, and the FreeBSD.Scalper.worm.
Warning is done by trying to contact the SMTP server on the infected
host and sending an email to the postmaster.
[ell[hat 2 18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129585/
[ell[hat 2 is a Webchat solution for community-centric Web sites. It
supports more than 2000+ concurrent users on average powered server
hardware. Features include XML/XML-RPC support, ACLs, filters using
regex, multithreading, and SMP support.
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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