O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER August 01, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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The Software Testing Automation ramework (STAF) is a framework designed to improve the level of reuse and automation in test cases and test environments. The goal of STAF is to provide a complete end-to-end automation solution for testers. You can find more information about STAF Version 2.5.0 and download the binaries from the official STAF Web site at http://staf.sourceforge.net. See the History file for full details on new features and bug fixes. Some of the new features include: 1) Added support for z/OS V1.4+ 2) Added support for Windows Server 2003 3) Added support for converting line ending characters on a FS COPY FILE/ DIRECTORY for text files and added support for codepage conversion on text file copies 4) Added support for converting line ending characters on a FS GET FILE for text files and added support for displaying the file contents in hex 5) Fixed some code-page problems and added a new global STAF/Config/CodePage variable to show the codepage that STAF is using. 6) Added support for substitution of a userid/password in the shell option used when starting a process 7) Updated STAF builds to use InstallShield MultiPlatform 5.0 8) Changed to install all language support in a typical STAF installation 9) Provided a new STAF Service Developer's Guide which describes how to create STAF services, and includes implementation of a sample service in both Java and C++. Symbio 1.6 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=297423 Symbio 1.6 is out, with exciting new features such as IP banning and themable statistics, plus lots of tweaks for your convenience. Got a blog? Then you'll definitely want this commenting system. It's got lots of cool features, including themes, multi-language support, smileys, text styling and statistics, and best of all, it's free software! (Written in perl) Enjoy! http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/symbio/symbio-1.6.tar.gz?download Exult 1.1Beta1 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=297398 Exult is a complete game engine for running Ultima 7 on a variety of operating systems, and also includes ExultStudio, allowing you to make your own mods or even completely new games. This release includes many bug fixes and usability enhancements, including combat improvements, OGG Vorbis support, additional artwork, party-formation, and the port to the Zaurus. In addition, ExultStudio has been upgraded to use GTK-2.x, and has had many bugs fixed. giFT 0.11.3 Released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=297454 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). This release features only build environment improvements and new command line options to override the local, home, plugin, and data directories that giFT was configured to use. This feature is currently only being used by the poisoned developers to package a mostly self-contained giFT installation. Python 2.3 (final) http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=297438 Python 2.3 was released on Tuesday (29 Jul 2003). This is the latest stable release. The Python programming language is an object-oriented scripting and rapid application development language. Download it at http://www.python.org/2.3/ Slashdot The Thermal Paste Revolution http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/0432225 [0]arhines writes "[1]ZZZ is running an article about [2]an interesting new thermal paste which surpasses even solder in thermal conductance by 33 percent. If this paste makes it to the market sometime soon, we'll all surely be thinking about putting it in our boxes. In fact, if use of the paste becomes commonplace, it may even give the semiconductor industry a little speed boost." Links 0. http://zzz.com.ru 1. http://zzz.com.ru/ 2. http://zzz.com.ru/art174.html Castronova's Notes on Hacker Court http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/0254249 [0]scubacuda writes "[1]Cal State Fullerton's [2]Edward Castronova (who recently wrote an [3]excellent analysis of gender inequality between male and female Everquest avatars) has just [1]updated his notes on '[4]Hacker Court', a mock trial held at Vegas' [5]Black Hat Conference on whether virtual items destroyed during the hack of an online video game constituted real loss. 'No verdict was reached, but the jury and audience agreed that the damages were real,' says Castronova." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus poet 1. http://business.fullerton.edu/ecastronova/ 2. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=277893 3. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/06/24/1228219&mode=nested 4. http://www.hackercourt.org/ 5. http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-03/bh-usa-03-index.html Time Warner Cable NYC Begins DVR Distribution http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/0148200 [0]MikeTRose writes "Today's [1] NYT Circuits section has an article about the [2]proliferation of digital television choices for cable and satellite customers. They mention that Time Warner Cable will be starting to offer DVR cable boxes to New York City subscribers in September 2003. Apparently the time-shifting features of the new [3]Scientific Atlanta [4]Explorer 8000 ([5]flash demo) set-tops are unusually powerful, as I got mine in Brooklyn this past Tuesday. 80 GB drive, which equals an estimated 50 hours of digital cable programming (no quality controls a la TiVo or ReplayTV, everything is as-broadcast). Programming interface is integrated completely into the slightly-updated channel guide, and you hit one big ol' record button to save a show. The tuner can handle two channels at once, so you can watch one/record one, or record two programs while watching a prerecorded show (similar to the DirecTV TiVo units if I recall correctly). Works great so far, and there's no quality problem with recompressing the digital cable as there is with standalone DVRs, nor is there the annoying 2-3 second channel change lag while it caches video. At less than $10 a month -- no cost to the subscriber for the box -- that money we were saving for a TiVo is up for grabs." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/31/technology/circuits/31teev.html 3. http://www.sciatl.com/ 4. http://www.sciatl.com/consumers/Exp8000.htm 5. http://www.scientificatlanta.com/demo/dvr/dvr.html Microsoft Deploys Linux, Open Software in Test Lab http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/003252 [0]securitas writes "[1]Microsoft has deployed Linux and other open-source software in test labs used by business customers to experiment with Microsoft's products. The products include Linux, Apache, MySQL and Open LDAP directory-access software on Intel-based computers, according to Martin Taylor, who is in charge of Microsoft's Linux competitive strategy. He said the goal was to learn 'what can you do and how can you do it' using open-source software in a competitive analysis. This step comes after Microsoft's recent [2]admission that Linux is Microsoft's biggest threat after economic conditions. Mirrors at [3]CMPnetAsia and [4]InternetWeek." It'd be cool to see some patches come from Redmond, but that's probably wishful thinking. Links 0. http://geartest.com 1. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12803689 2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1321257&tid=109 3. http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=20697&Catid=8&subcat=79 4. http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12803715 Slashback: Blender, Paly, Dragon http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2254242 The last Slashback of July brings you updates on the open-source Blender and Diebold's approach to voting security, and a skeptical look at the design origins of the Dragon V CPU, John Poindexter's very own future, and more. Read on for the details. Desktop Linux Sliding in Under the Radar? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/2110221 [0]Paul Johnson asks: "[1]This article at [2]ComputerWorld describes a sysadmin's discovery that many people in his company are installing Linux on their desktops without consulting IT. The writer is concerned with the security implications, but there is a wider issue. At present the 'official' penetration of Linux into the desktop market is something around 1%. The writer of this article doesn't give figures, but it sounds like he may have stumbled on several times that percentage of desktop Linux installations. If so then this is an important trend. Linux got its foot in the datacentre door in exactly the same way a few years ago, with unofficial installations doing odd server jobs. If you are a sysadmin, in an organization that runs Windows on the desktop, have you stumbled on many unofficial Linux installations?" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,83406,00.html 2. http://computerworld.com/ Disposable Digital Cameras Have Arrived http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/1923215 [0]damiangerous writes "American chain Ritz camera has begun offering [1]disposable digital cameras for $10.99. The price includes 4x6" prints and a Photo CD of the camera's 25 photo memory. Pictures can be deleted, but there's no LCD." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/31/technology/circuits/31digi.html?ex=1060315200&en=49bda513e898e7ea&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE Get Your 802.11 Media Fix From SeattleWireless TV http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/1851237 [0]Michael Pierce writes "[1]SeattleWireless TV brings you the latest information on Community, Corporate, and Home Wireless applications, hardware, security, and innovators in the field. July 2003 Show Summary: On this monthÂs show, Peter and Michael report on the wireless project called '[2]SnowNet,' a project where Casey Halverson plans to [3]use mountain tops to connect communities via a 802.11b backbone. We then check out the first link connected to SnowNet. TacomaNode,' located in Tacoma, Wa. It will connect to Seattle via a wireless backbone through SnowNet. Scott Kennedy, the owner of the Drinkmore Café, tells us why he has decided to provide free WiFi to his customers while other places charge. And finally we had a chance to try out a new Linux embedded product called the [4]Prismiq MediaPlayer. Using this device, you no longer have to watch your media files on your small computer monitor. Using a wireless card, it can hook up to your network anywhere! You can view by choosing your player: [5]Windows MediaPlayer or [6]RealPlayer. If for some reason they don't stream there are some download links on the site. Also, if the stream links get messed up for any reason they are on the site, too." SnowNet is too cool to ignore. Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://tv.seattlewireless.net/ 2. http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/SnowNet?action=SpellCheck 3. http://www.piercedesigns.com/snownet/ 4. http://prismiq.com/ 5. http://tv.seattlewireless.net/stream/july2003.asx 6. http://tv.seattlewireless.net/stream/july2003.ram Last Chance for Slashdot T-Shirt Contest http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/196231 This is your last chance to enter Slashdot's [0]T-Shirt Design Contest that we announced a few weeks ago. The contest officially ends tomorrow. We've had over 200 submissions, and some of them are pretty cool, but I don't think there yet is a Lock for the winner. So if you've got what it takes to design a T-Shirt (we're too cheap/lazy to do it ourselves!) you can win store credit at [1]ThinkGeek plus free shirts with your winning design on them! Here are the [2]Official Rules. Read the original story for submission details. Links 0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1441203&tid=124 1. http://www.thinkgeek.com 2. http://images.slashdot.org/articles/03/07/tshirtrules.html EFF Chairman Interviewed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/1248201 [0]mpawlo writes "I have just published an [1]interview with Mr Brad Templeton, chairman of the board of the EFF, over at Greplaw. Mr Templeton presents, among other things, his view on spam and freedom of speech among. If that's not enough, there is also a rather unique [2]tongue-in-cheek interview with Professor Lessig." Links 0. http://www.pawlo.com/ 1. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/1547207&mode=flat 2. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/181226&mode=flat Freshmeat Abeni 0.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131093/ Abeni is a Gentoo Linux ebuild GUI editor written in Python/wxPython. It helps users create syntactically correct ebuilds efficiently. It incorporates the Scintilla editor for syntax highlighting and Lintool for syntax checking. AdaGPGME 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131185/ AdaGPGME is a thin Ada95 binding to the GPG Made Easy C API. It enables access to GPG functionality such as encrypting/decrypting, key management, and signing from within an application written in Ada95. Amrita VPN 0.98 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131116/ Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runs on the GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully in userspace and requires no kernel patches or enhancements. It uses SSL for strong encryption and authentication. B-Free 0.0.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131216/ The B-Free project is a collaborative work aimed at creating a BTRON operating system from scratch, with free distribution. It is a preemptive multitasking operating system constructed through micro-kernel technology, which assumes 32-bit or higher CPUs. The BTRON operating system is a subset of the TRON project, which in turn, is a worldwide open Real Time Operating System (RTOS) specification. bemDB 0.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131201/ bemDB is a PostgreSQL database designed to store benefit and enrollment information for members of group health insurance plans. Its main feature is the ability to output HIPAA-compliant 834 Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance EDI transaction sets with all required segments and situational segments for which there is data. Biker's Log 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131213/ Biker's Log is a training log for a cycling enthusiast. The training log tracks distance, average speed, elapsed time, heart rate, weather conditions, route difficulty, etc. The program allows you to print training reports for an arbitrary period. BookmarkManager 0.04 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131109/ BookmarkManager is an online bookmark manager and is meant as a replacement for a browser's bookmark system. It runs on a servlet container, and needs no database. It uses the Prevayler system for storing its data. Borges Documents Management System 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131150/ Borges is an open-source project aimed at XML-aware documentation projects which care about internationalisation, reusable contents, teamwork, etc. The system currently support the DocBook DTD. cdrtools 2.01a18 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131136/ cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers. cgi.app.login.pm 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131133/ cgi.app.login.pm is a simple login module for CGI::Application. It looks up users in a MySQL table and supports usernames and passwords and client SSL certificates via Apache's mod_ssl. CheckRDF 38.1667 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131195/ CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program, for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and in an HTML file. It is highly configurable. Convertor class 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131160/ Convertor class converts encodings from and to windows-1250, iso-8859-2, utf-8, and unicode entities. You can use it with streamed data (XML). cpudyn 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131209/ cpudyn controls the speed in Intel SpeedStep, Pentium 4 Mobile, and PowerPC machines with the cpufreq compiled in the kernel. It saves battery, lowers temperature, and can put the computer disks in standby mode if a given period has passed without any I/O operation. It works well even with journaled file systems such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS. CWirc 0.9.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131212/ CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the sound card, or through an external sounder. darcs 0.9.12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131141/ Darcs is an advanced revision control system along the lines of CVS or arch. It has two particularly distinctive features which differ from other revision control systems: each copy of the source is a fully functional branch, and underlying it is a consistent and powerful theory of patches (the latter being darcs' most important feature). Debt Minder 1.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131211/ Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files dnspython 1.1.0b2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131120/ dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports almost all of the record types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0. dnspython provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records. Dr. Geo 0.9.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131208/ Dr. Geo is interactive geometry software that uses GTK. It allows you to create geometric figures and interactive manipulate them within their geometric constraints. eMotion Player I http://freshmeat.net/releases/131223/ eMotion is a Qt frontend to mplayer. EzSDK 4.77 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131167/ EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more. fingerdvd 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131113/ fingerdvd is a Python module and commandline tool which can fingerprint a DVD and use the fingerprint to submit or retrieve disc information. Firebird Browser 0.6.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131207/ Firebird (formerly known as Phoenix) is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component. It is similar to Galeon, K-Meleon, and Chimera, but it is written using the XUL user interface language, and is designed to be cross-platform. ftpcopy 0.6.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131158/ ftpcopy is a small mirror-like utility to copy files or directory trees with FTP. ftpcopy understands EPLF and traditional listing formats. GeoIP 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131210/ Geo-IP enables you to easily look up countries by IP addresses, even when reverse DNS entries don't exist. There is a free database that is updated yearly, and there are a number of open source APIs available. Gkrellfah2 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131221/ Gkrellfah2 is a plugin for GkrellM 2.0 that monitors and controls the Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] client. It features configurable text output, monitoring of CPU usage, configurable command execution, and automatic fetching of new workunits for modem users. Gled 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131138/ Gled is an implementation of a hierarchic server/client model written in C++, having an outside form of an object oriented framework. The master server exposes its object space to its first-level clients, which in turn provide mirroring facilities to second-level clients and also export their own object spaces. Each client therefore plays a role of a client, a proxy, and a server. Infrastructure for propagation and broadcasting of method invocation requests is provided and is general enough to allow for an efficient access control. Synchronization of object spaces is achieved via streaming of object graphs and a time-ordered delivery of method invocation requests. Objects can acquire their own threads to perform different tasks such as computation, data acquisition & analysis or dynamic visualization. The obtained results can be pushed to other computing nodes or storage devices. As threads are spawned and controlled by standard method invocation requests, schedulers & job control mechanisms spawning across a whole Gled cluster can easily be implemented. On viewer level, Gled features automatically generated GUI widgets (using FLTK) and a sophisticated 3D rendering infrastructure (OpenGL). gURLChecker 0.6.0pre1 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131192/ gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page. HarvestMan 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131181/ HarvestMan is a multithreaded off-line browser.It has many features for customizing offline browsing through URL filters, depth-fetching, fetch levels, domain filters, file limits, thread limits, download depth, directory checking, and robot exclusion protocol. It is useful to download an entire Web site or certain files from a Web site to the hard disk for offline browsing later. It features an XML project file, and support for the HTTP/HTTPS and FTP protocols. It works transparently across proxies and can also crawl intranets. hhmalloc 1.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131108/ Hierarchical heap is an extension of the standard C malloc/free interface, which allows organizing memory blocks into naturally occurring hierarchies. HH can be used for a number of tasks including memory pooling, limited garbage collection, and simplified dynamic structure management. IPSquad Packages From Scratch 1.2beta2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131125/ IPFS (IPSquad Package From Source) is a system which allows you to trace an program's installation from sources and register it in your favorite packaging system (only the Slackware package system and RPM are currently supported). IPFS watches a command (generally make install), collects the list of added files, and then registers them in the chosen packaging system as if the install was made from a normal package. Unlike other similar products, IPFS is able to track both shared and statically linked programs. J.A.D.E. 4.6.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131130/ J.A.D.E. is a Java library that provides the physics and math packages (SI units, quantities, physical models, generic matrices, functions, etc), a framework for accelerating Java byte code execution by avoiding garbage collection interruptions, and a real-time XML parser that is 2 to 3 times faster than conventional SAX2 parsers. JamochaMUD beta10-03-07-30 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131100/ JamochaMUD offers Unicode, plug-in, and multi-language support (8 different languages) to allow a more enjoyable MUCKing/MUDding experience. It features command history, synchronized window controls, experimental SOCKS 5 support, and greatly improved ANSI colour support. It plays nice on Unix systems, supports a wide range of MU*s, and also includes emulation of some TinyFugue editor controls. It uses Java 1.1, and includes classes to be easily reused in other Java applications. Japha 1.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131124/ The Japha API is an attempt to port most of the major classes/packages in the Java 1.4.1 API to PHP for use in everyday applications. It includes, but is not limited to java.lang classes, HTTP, I/O, database abstraction, and a growing package for automated HTML creation called 'Phing'. PHP 5 is required. JATOMIX-DEPOT 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131165/ JATOMIX-DEPOT is a persistence layer for Java, working on relational databases, and offers fast, efficient, and easy development of Java-based database applications. JATOMIX-DEPOT carries out the entire communication with the database through a simple API, automatically generates the data model for any unmanipulated Java class, and permits the storage, loading, changing, and removing of any Java object. The intuitive generated data model allows easy access and change of the data on an SQL level at any time. It supports any relational database, versioning of different versions of a Java class, multiple user operations based on a transaction system, and excellent performance because of an elaborate cache system. Java Serialization to XML 2 2.0.9.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131132/ Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing "ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream" with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable" interface. JDistro 0.26 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131173/ JDistro is a project to build a Java distribution. The main subprojects are an application launcher, a desktop with a document management, and access to remote applications. JiBX Beta 2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131119/ JiBX is a framework for binding XML data to Java objects. It lets you work with data from XML documents using your own class structures. The framework handles all the details of converting your data to and from XML based on your instructions, and performs the translation between internal data structures and XML with very high efficiency while still allowing you a high degree of control over the translation process. jSaluki 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131147/ jSaluki is a small, easy to use Java hyperelliptic curve cryptography library. A simple hyperelliptic crypto system is implemented in the example file. Kismet 3.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131105/ Kismet is an 802.11b network sniffer and network dissector. It is capable of sniffing using most wireless cards, automatic network IP block detection via UDP, ARP, and DHCP packets, Cisco equipment lists via Cisco Discovery Protocol, weak cryptographic packet logging, and Ethereal and tcpdump compatible packet dump files. It also includes the ability to plot detected networks and estimated network ranges on downloaded maps or user supplied image files. KricketScoreboard 1.0.0 Beta 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131122/ KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches. It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing, batting and bowling statistics, etc. Kroneko 0.3.18 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131139/ Kroneko is a KDE3 tool for configuring cron and anacron. Kydpdict 0.5.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131161/ Kydpdict is a graphical frontend to Collins' English/German-Polish and Polish-English/German dictionaries. Libgcrypt 1.1.42 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131163/ Libgcrypt is a general-purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptographic building blocks: symmetric ciphers (AES, DES, Blowfish, CAST5, Twofish, and Arcfour), hash algorithms (MD4, MD5, RIPE-MD160, SHA-1, and TIGER-192), MACs (HMAC for all hash algorithms), public key algorithms (RSA, ElGamal, and DSA), large integer functions, random numbers, and a lot of supporting functions. License Manager 2.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131191/ License Manager is a tool that enables developers and organizations to deliver securely licensed Java applications. Linbox Backup Server 20030730 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131137/ The Linbox Backup Server (LBS) is a server that, for client PCs, saves hard-disk images on a network server, restores, deploys one image, and keeps a hardware inventory. All that is needed on the client PC is a PXE or an Etherboot compatible network card for network booting. The LBS can be managed from any PC through a Web-based administration interface. Bootable installation CD-ROMs can also be generated from any hard disk image. It supports ext2/3, ReiserFS, NTFS, and FAT filesystems. LiVES 0.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131168/ LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is intended to be a simple yet powerful video effects, editing, and playback system. It uses commonly available tools (mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it should work on most Linux systems. MailManager 0.92 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131149/ MailManager helps teams deal with large volumes of email by allocating mail to the right person, providing tools to help answer it (prioritisation, reply templates, and a knowledge base), and allowing managers to set service levels for different types of mail and report on performance against service levels and volumes received. MailManager is based on Zope which is required to use it. It is cross-platform, but most of the testing has been under Linux and Mac OS X. MicroLogger 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131068/ MicroLogger is a small Java logger that features full logging functionality and is really easy to add to existing projects. It was modelled after Log4J and the JDK 1.4 logging system. mosquitotools 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131156/ The mosquitotools allow to read dive profiles from a Suunto mosquito dive computer and to show them graphically, including depth, tissue saturation, and ascend / descend speed vectors. Additional tools are allow to create dive profiles from a few command line options and to create decompression tables. MultiSync 0.80 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131179/ MultiSync is a free modular program to synchronize calendars, address books, and other PIM data between programs on your computer and other computers, mobile devices, PDAs or cell phones. Currently MultiSync has plugins for Ximian Evolution and IrMC Mobile Client calendars (supported by the Sony Ericsson T68i, Siemens S45i/S55) via Bluetooth, IR, or a cable connection. It also includes Backup and Remote Synchronization plugin, which connect two MultiSyncs over the Internet. MySQL DBDesigner 4.0.3.29 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130963/ MySQL DBDesigner is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation, and maintenance into a single, seamless environment. It combines professional features and a clear and simple user interface to offer the most efficient way to handle your databases. MZKey3 3.0.0 pre-release 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131142/ MZKey is a simple Java tool for encrypting and decrypting files using passwords. It supports the compression of encrypted files and runs on Java 1.3 or higher. newsrc-care 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131180/ newsrc-care is a set of scripts to manage your newsrc file. squish-newsrc safely shrinks extra long article newsrc lines, and rm-saved-newsrc prunes the number of archived copies of your newsrc. Newts 0.11.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131203/ Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and additional clients. NMM 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131169/ NMM is a multimedia middleware package that allows you to develop all kinds of multimedia processing applications. A number of plug-ins supporting various media-types, operations, and I/O devices are included. The Multimedia-Box application built on top of NMM provides an extensible home entertainment system for DVD and CD playback, TV with time-shifting, and MP3 playback and encoding. ObexTool 0.21-alfa http://freshmeat.net/releases/131200/ ObexTool is a graphical frontend for ObexFTP, which is able to communicate with mobiles and other devices using the Obex Protocol. Its goal was to create Open Source software which is able to communicate with mobiles and other communication devices using a standard communication protocol. Oracle Perl Procedure Library 1.03 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131214/ extproc_perl is an Oracle external procedure library that allows Oracle functions and procedures to be written in Perl. A Perl interpreter is embedded in the external procedure, and remains persistent for the life of a client session. OREGANO OPUS 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130531/ OREGANO OPUS is a version of Oregano modified to work with SPICE OPUS. It has a lot of new models of transistors, diodes, and ampops. It needs SPICE OPUS to work. Pan 0.14.0.93 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131183/ 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. PHPEmaillist 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131072/ PHPEmaillist is a Web-based one-way announcement system that allows you to send emails to your subscribers. Visitors to your Web site can easily subscribe and unsubscribe to multiple lists. Each email can be personalized with the recipients name, logs of all emails are kept, and large lists can be processed. phpHtmlLib 2.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131219/ phpHtmllib is a set of PHP classes and library functions that build, debug, and render XML, HTML, XHTML, and WAP/WML documents, as well as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images and complex HTML 'widgets'. It also has a powerful Form Processing engine that helps build/maintain complex HTML/XHTML forms. PHPlist 2.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131206/ PHPlist is a mailing list system that allows posting via a Web page. It works well when used for announcements, and can handle very large email address lists. Users can sign up to multiple lists, but will only receive a single copy of cross-posted messages. When signing up, users can identify their geographical location, and messages can be targetted to these. You can add place holders in your email that will be replaced with personal details (such as the person's name). Users can update their own information, and unlike many other mailing list systems, they can change their email address. HTML emails are supported. phpSERA 0.2rc7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131143/ phpSERA is a tool for Search Engine Ranking Analysis (SERA). The rankings are based on parsing output of search engines, using simple regular expressions. Given one or more search engines, one or more keyphrases and a single URL to look for, it connects to the search engine(s), parses the result pages, and displays a ranking report. Pixory Beta 3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131222/ Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums, and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most digital cameras and scanners. Posadis 0.60.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131198/ Posadis is a domain name server for Unix and Win32 systems. It can both act as an authoritive and as a caching DNS server, and it supports standard DNS master files, zone transfers, and DNS Notify. Its modular structure allows plug-ins to define new zone types and add new functionality. Posadis Master file editor 0.60.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131196/ Mfedit is a graphical editor for DNS master files based on GTK+ and Poslib. Using this tool, you can add, modify, and remove resource records, and run syntax checks on your DNS zones. It supports standard DNS master files as well as some BIND extensions. Poslib DNS library 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131197/ Poslib is a library which provides easy access to the Domain Name System. The client part can be used to create DNS client applications, while the server part lets you easily create a multi-threaded DNS server program, portable to many operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. PowerTerm InterConnect 6.6.1 (Linux) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131166/ PowerTerm InterConnect is a fast and secure terminal emulator, providing comprehensive emulation support via various communication modes. It meets the host access needs of many organizations, supporting the broadest and widest range of hosts, including IBM Mainframe, IBM AS/400, UNIX, OpenVMS, SCO, Tandem, HP, ANSI, Data General, Wyse, Televideo, and more. PowerTerm InterConnect offers state-of-the-art features, including SSH and SSL security, customizable function keys, multiple concurrent sessions, scripting, a menu bar, scalable and selectable fonts, intelligent copy and paste, printing, and more. PyGTK 1.99.17 (GTK 2.0) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131172/ PyGTK is a set of bindings for the GTK widget set. It provides an object oriented interface that is slightly higher level than the C one. It automatically does all the type casting and reference counting that you would have to do normally with the C API. PyORBit 1.99.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131174/ PyORBit is a Python binding for the ORBit2 CORBA ORB. It was developped to suit the needs of the bonobo bindings in GNOME-Python, but is usable for other purposes as well. It aims to follow the standard Python language mapping for CORBA. It can generate stubs at runtime from typelibs, IDL files, or by introspecting remote objects using ORBit2's IModule typelib capabilities. Python Web Objects 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131202/ Python Web Objects is a dynamic page generation system that allows the developer to embed Python code inside HTML. QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131184/ QDBM is an embeded database library compatible with GDBM and NDBM. It features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API. qdvbzap 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131177/ Qdvbzap is a graphical application that makes watching TV with your DVB card much more comfortable. It isn't a movie player like Xine, but a simple frontend app that uses your favourite apps to start watching DVB. Dvbstream is used as a basic app and pipes its output to the selected frontend movie viewer (such as Xine). It will handle all of this transparently for you, so you can fully concentrate on enjoying our favorite TV show. Quick Spam Filter 0.7.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131126/ Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email as being possible spam. RealBasic ColumnMover 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131182/ RealBasic ColumnMover is a class that allows for graphical column moving, ala Microsoft Entourage or other carbon-style listboxes. remark 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131193/ Remark turns a file of plain text, with some very simple conventions, into DocBook XML, and thence into whatever format you can manage using DocBook as a starting point (e.g. PDF, PostScript, RTF, etc.). The "markup" that remark accepts is natural and intuitive to write (especially if you use Emacs), and can be easily consumed as-is. Remark's capabilites for producing DocBook XML are rather limited right now, but good enough for daily use, and can easily be extended. Remote Language Teaching 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131155/ The ReLaTe (Remote Language Teaching) tool combines in a single panel the audio, video, and whiteboard tools of the UCL Networked Multimedia Research Group. Currently, up to eight people can take part in a session. Ringlink 3.03 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131104/ Ringlink is a CGI Perl program that provides the tools you need to run one or more rings of Web sites (i.e., systems of links between Web sites of similar contents). RPMAutoUpdate 1.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131140/ RPMAutoUpdate is an RPM update management and reporting tool that can tell you exactly which RPMs provide updates relevant to your system. It is intended for systems administrators and power-users. SafariToHTML 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131178/ SafariToHTML creates a Yahoo!-like Web directory from Safari bookmarks. The output is customizable. Sagasu 2.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131102/ Sagasu is a GNOME tool to find strings in multiple files. The user specifies the search directory and the set of files to be searched. Double-clicking on a search result launches a user command that can for example load the file in an editor at the appropriate line. The search can optionally ignore CVS directories. Sagasu is a Japanese word that means "to search." screen-scraper 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131164/ screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract information from Web sites using special patterns and regular expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database. It can be used with PHP, Java, or any COM-friendly language such as Visual Basic or Active Server Pages. Shuriken 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131117/ Shuriken is an XML-based tool for Linux system administrators to set up spans of time when the system should be up. Using the RTC daily alarm (requires BIOS, hardware, Linux support), the system will automatically power-on (if it is off) for these intervals. Automatic power-off is supported, but this feature is not recommended if users intend to log in to the system and not have it shut down on them. Software Testing Automation Framework 2.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131188/ STAF (Software Testing Automation Framework) is a framework designed to improve the level of reuse and automation in test cases and test environments. Its goal is to provide a complete end-to-end automation solution for testers. stresslinux 0.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131146/ stresslinux is a minimal Linux distribution that runs from a bootable CDROM or via PXE. It makes use of some utitlities such as stress, cpuburn, hddtemp, lm_sensors, etc. It is dedicated to users who want to test their system(s) entirely on high load and monitor the health of these systems. Strike HA 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131127/ Strike HA is a high availability system inspired by the Linux HA Heartbeat project and Freeha. It is designed to be easy but highly configurable. It features auto fail-back, packet signing, integrated IP and MAC take-over ability, and monitoring tools. SynCE 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131121/ The purpose of the SynCE project is to provide a means of communication with a Windows CE or Pocket PC device from a computer running Linux, *BSD, or another Unix system. tasks 1.7b2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131187/ tasks is built on PHP and MySQL. It features a dynamic hierarchical view of your tasks, scheduling due dates and associating URLs with tasks, an iCalendar of your tasks (scheduled tasks can go into the calendar as events or task list). and a mobile version for easy access with a PDA. Thy 0.7.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131135/ 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. Tiger Map Server 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131129/ The Tiger Map Server dynamically renders road maps of the United States. The server contains a multi-threaded Web server and a custom drawing library. All un-projected shape files are supported, including ESRI's version of the US Census' Tiger/Line Database. It is intended to be used on Web sites and in mobile GPS applications without Internet connections. tnftp 20030731 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131128/ tnftp (formerly known as lukemftp) is a port of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems. It offers many enhancements over the traditional BSD FTP client, including command-line editing, command-line fetches of FTP and HTTP URLs (including via proxies), command-line uploads of FTP URLs, context-sensitive word completion, dynamic progress bar, IPv6 support, modification time preservation, paging of local and remote files, passive mode support (with fallback to active mode), SOCKS support, TIS FWTK gate-ftp server support, and transfer rate throttling. tnftp is the default FTP client found in FreeBSD, MacOS X, NetBSD, and SuSE Linux. Ups shutdown script 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131099/ Ups shutdown script is a set of bash scripts that can be used to monitor a SNMP UPS and shut down servers if the power goes out. One of the scripts can run on a monitoring server and will report back when a UPS has gone offline. Verbiste 0.1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131215/ Verbiste is a French conjugation system implemented as a C++ library, a GNOME applet, and two commandline tools. It can conjugate verbs and analyze conjugated verbs to determine their mode, tense, and person. The knowledge base contains over 6800 verbs. VLC 0.6.1 (Trevelyan) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131092/ VLC (VideoLAN Client) is a multimedia player for Unix, Windows, MacOS X, BeOS, and QNX. It can play most audio and video formats (MPEG 1/2/4, DivX, WMV, DV, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, etc.), has support for VCD and DVD (with menus), and can read streams from a network source (HTTP, UDP, DVB, etc.). It can also act as a server and send streams through the network, with optional support for transcoding. vwebedit 0.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131106/ vwebedit is a Web editor for a version-controlled file system. It is designed to work as a front-end to tgen to allow a CVS-managed Web site to be edited using a Web interface, much in the Wiki tradition. Wallpaper Tray 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131148/ Wallpaper Tray is a wallpaper utility that sits in your GNOME Panel Notification Area. It gives you a random wallpaper from your chosen directory at logon, and allows you to select a new wallpaper at random from its menu. Warrdcraft 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131190/ Warrdcraft is a Perl script that creates RRDTool files/ graphs out of Warcraft III Battle.net information. It supports multiple users, gateway selection, and both versions of Warcraft III (RoC/TFT). WifiScanner 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131159/ WifiScanner is an analyzer and detector of 802.11b stations and access points. It can listen alternatively on all the 14 channels, write packet information in real time, can search access points and associated client stations, and can generate a graphic of the architecture using GraphViz. All network traffic can be saved in the libpcap format for post analysis. It works under Linux with a PrismII or CISCO card and with the linux-wlan, hostap, or Aironet driver wv2 0.1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131153/ wv2 is a portable MS Word .doc import filter. Currently, it supports Word 97, Word 2000, and Word 2002 (aka XP) documents; support for Word 95 and Word 6 is planned. Older versions like Word 2, 3, 4, and 5 aren't supported for now, but it's quite likely that they will be supported at some point. XDrawChem 1.7.4 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131205/ XDrawChem is a program for drawing chemical structures. Features include fixed length and fixed angle drawing, a ring tool to automatically draw rings, automatic alignment of structures in reactions, and structure diagram generation. It can access structures in the NCI database by name, CAS number, or formula. It can predict 1H NMR, 13C NMR, simple IR spectra, and estimated pKa. XDrawChem can work with its native file format, ChemDraw files, and any format supported by OpenBabel (MDL Molfile, CML, etc.). Xeuphoric 0.16.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131151/ Xeuphoric is a port of Euphoric, Fabrice Francès' Oric emulator, to the X window system. It emulates the Oric-1, the Oric Atmos, and the Telestrat. Xfstt 1.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131123/ Xfstt means "X11 Font Server for TrueType fonts". TrueType fonts are generally regarded to be the best scalable fonts for low resolution devices like screens. Examples where good scalable fonts improve the visual quality considerably are Mozilla, GIMP, and Java. A fonts.properties file for use with Java is provided. zpop3d 0.8.9.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131145/ zpop3d is an RFC 1939-compliant POP3 server. It features virtual domains support, POP before SMTP, and secure mailbox updates. It runs through tcpserver, xinetd, or the like. Slashcode YogaCircle.net (New Yoga Slash Site) http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0339211 Well this should be a first. A Yoga base Slash site. Check it out, if you have any questions or comments let me know. Thanks for the code. csdaily.com http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0337226 Yet another Slash site, Computer Science Daily News. Aims to be a resource for Computer Science professionals, researchers, students and instructors. Hopefully this fills a niche, computer science developments seem to be very decentralized, and hard to find. Slash seems to be working out nicely, though I'm still learning the ropes... --csdaily Slash on server running Livejournal? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0035257 Maybe this is the wrong venue to ask in, and I'm sorry if it is, but this question has been nagging me for about the past week or so. I have a personal server running Slackware 8 with a custom-compiled Apache 1.3.27 (with the appropriate mod_perl) and MySQL 4.0.13. This server is currently running the LiveJournal server code and works quite well at this. I'm interested in attempting to set up slash for personal use (the Livejournal code is running for personal use as well), and herein lies the question. Can slash be run on the same server in another VirtualHost without having a separate apache installation/process and doing some fancy trick with mod_rewrite? Or am I asking too much? I will be happy to provide any further info anyone needs through e-mail (the e-mail link above is NOT spam-armored at all). QubitNews is finally launched! http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0030227 QubitNews: News and Inforation from the Quantum Community. This is conceived as a meeting-point for the community working in the fast developing field of Quantum Information and Computation. This is an open and free project devoted to the exchange of information in this field.: news, stories, announcements, comments of scientific work, debates, polls, forums, etc... Many aspects of your work that cannot appear in scientific journals may find a place here. The main feature of QubitNews is that it is dynamical: you are wellcome to participate and modify the look and feel of this site. You may become an anonymous user, site user or an Author. Visit the homepage and consult the documents About, FAQ, How-To and GettingStarted. It may be useful, helpful and a lot of fun. Tuxedo.org Now running Slashcode http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2014232 Tuxedo.org is now running Slashcode. I should have done this a couple of years ago... Most recent story is Linus Torvalds Comments on SCO Lawsuit and Linux. Hope you all enjoy the new site! --Chuck Peters Best hosting service for Slash? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1449209 I'm going to be doing some "big things" with Slashcode but am interested in going through someone to set up Slashcode and the server, so that I can just right in and start building the site. What are the best hosting services out there? Will they set up Slash for me? What kinds of experiences have people had? Dissociated Press goes Slash http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1442252 After a bit of poking and prodding, I've converted Dissociated Press to Slashcode (2.2.6). Works great! So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish! http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1816237 All things come to an end and its been a wonderful ride. Today is my last day at OSDN and this will be the last thing I will be posting on Slashcode. It has been fun working on Slash for the last few years and I have enjoyed working with the Slash community (tf32, ACS, vladinator, ericdano, and many more that I am forgetting). On Monday I start work for MySQL so I will be a bit busy for a while but I expect you will still see Slash stuff coming from me in the future. I will continue to be in #slash for a while, and you can still always reach me via email. The best of luck with you and your sites, it has been great! Spottedrabbit.com http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1756251 After much kicking and screaming, yet another Slash Site! The Spotted Rabbit with news and events for Sussex County NJ, and Orange County, NY. It still looks a lot like basic slash, but I'm new to this, and we're working on it! --Ken Hall Multiple Instances http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1543202 Please indulge a beginner. I currently have slashcode setup on a single domain with its own IP address (wwwntm.biz) for testing purposes. Here is my dilemma. I am setting up a community similar to yahoo/geocities. It will be www.newthoughtcommunity.net and the individual communities will be sub-domains of this domain ex; community1.newthoughtcommunity.net, community2.newthoughtcommunity.net etc Residents of the communities will be set up as users ex; http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user1, http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user2 etc. Directory is: /home /newthoughtcommunity /community1 /community2 I know that slash can be setup with virtual domains, but can sub domains have there own instance. I need each community to have their own slash. Also. When I set up a new instance of slash for a virtual domain, do I use the same database and administrator with a new virtual user when I run DBI::Password? 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