O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER February 24, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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It uses a MySQL database to store information about your pictures. It comes with a HTML based installer, so you don't need experience in setting up SQL DB. The 0.5.1 release includes fixes for all previously-reported bugs. IRM 1.4.0 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254206 IRM 1.4.0 has just been released. This is the first STABLE version of IRM released in a little under 2 years. There are many new features, as well as streamlining and tweaking of existing functionality. IRM is a Web-based asset and problem tracking system built for IT departments and helpdesks. It keeps detailed information, both hardware and software, about each computer, as well as a complete history of all work requests ever placed. TclXML - New Applications Released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254197 Two applications built using TclXML are now available. tkxmllint is a GUI equivalent of libxml2's xmllint command-line tool. tkxsltproc is a GUI equivalent of libxslt's xsltproc. The TclXML family of packages provide XML support for the Tcl scripting language. There are several subprojects: TclXML (the parser), TclDOM, TclXSLT and xmlgen. Razor! (Game Engine for Palm devices) 0.9 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254187 Razor! 0.9 has been released. This release reorganises the source tree, improves some APIs, more bug fixes, more speed, an Armlet! Support for the Tungsten control pad. Razor! for Palm devices is a development framework for games. It can be used with both CodeWarrior and PRC Tools. It supports sprites, music, hard keys, timing, events, etc. gtkpod V0.42 released (GUI for Apples iPod) http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254113 gtkpod is a platform independent GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK2. It supports playlists, ID3 tag editing, multiple charsets for ID3 tags, detects duplicate songs, allows offline modification of the database with later synchronization, and more. This new release V0.42 is is a minor upgrade to V0.41. The main new feature is a more responsive user interface: you can interrupt the display update at any time, as well as select and deselect playlists and tab entries at any time. Updating in the foreground takes quite some time, though, therefore you have a new option to switch back to the old behaviour of just blocking the display until the update is done. Other than that quite a number of bugs have been fixed and new ones have been introduced for you to find. Streamsicle 2.0Beta released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254092 Streamsicle is a streaming MP3 server that is controlled via web interface. The 1.x versions were enjoyed by tens of thousands. Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves because this version promises to delight hundreds of thousands with its sleek new interface, ability to minimize to the systray in Windows, new queue functions, enhanced stability for very large MP3 collections, and more. It is the dawn of a new era! Streamsicle 2.0! Streamsicle 2.0! Streamsicle 2.0! (beta) mp3splt 1.3 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254056 mp3splt is a command-line utility wich splits mp3 files (without decoding), selecting begin/end time; if file is an album, you can get splitpoints automatically from internet or a local cue/cddb file. It splits also Mp3Wrap and AlbumWrap archives. This release contains clean-ups and corrections. With this release, files larger than 2 GB in size are supported. SableVM 1.0.6 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254096 SableVM is a portable bytecode interpreter. Its goals are to be reasonably small, fast, and efficient, as well as providing a well-designed and robust platform for conducting research. This version adds support for PowerPC. You can download the sources from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5523&release_id= 141425 wishweb Version 1.1.0 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=253931 WishWEB is a Java client to provide remote access to the X10 home control. The client can run as a standalone application or as a WEB client. The package includes a socket server for the X10 server, the Java source code, the precompiled Java archive, and the necessary .html pages to load the client. The wish project provides X10 device drivers for Linux, creating a /dev device for each X10 unit in the house. This allows command line, script, and program access to the X10 network.This driver currently supports the PowerLinc Serial, PowerLinc USB, CM11A, and Firecracker/CM17A. Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) 1.0 stable release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254100 FUSE lets you write your very own filesystem, as an ordinary program. It has a simple yet comprehensive interface, and provides an easy way to create a virtual filesystem for just about any application. Example applications include: automatic CD changer fs, remote filesystems for handhelds, filesystem view for databases, etc. FUSE currently works on all 2.4.x kernels (up to 2.4.20 and possibly later). Installation is simple, no kernel patching or recompilation is needed. Documentation for the interface and example programs are provided in the package. You can download the latest version from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf Slashdot Blog From Your Cellphone? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2047233 [0]seldo writes "The BBC has an article up about [1]blogging from your mobile phone. The idea is not really news, but the interesting part is the host of links to interesting new (free) software that lets you do it, including: [2]Manywhere Moblogger (Java), [3]WAPBlog (Perl), and [4]KABLOG (J2ME mobile Java, runs on devices like Palms, the Treo and Blackberries). All three of these interface to also-free server side tech which you need to set up yourself (KABLOG interfaces to the popular MovableType server and compatibles). The article also mentions the proprietary [5]foneblog service which seems very easy to use, but it is software intended to be run by cellphone companies for their users." Links 0. http://www.gaygeeks.org 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2783951.stm 2. http://www.manywhere.com/Moblogger.html 3. http://www.postneo.com/projects/wapblog/ 4. http://www.rawthought.com/projects/kablog/ 5. http://www.newbay.com/products_general.html Game Theory at 190mph http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2024231 cameronm writes "A recent article in [0]Slate discusses the value of NASCAR racing as a tool to study Game Theory. You can view the original study at [1]FirstMonday." Links 0. http://slate.msn.com/id/2078672/ 1. http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_2/ronfeldt/ Compiling Under Wine http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1939225 [0]now3djp writes "Interesting article over on CodingStyle that demonstrates how I successfully [1]eliminated wasted time maintaining an MS-Windows computer when I could build natively from my GNU computer! /. has [2]followed other cross compilers in the past. This article is different because I used MS's own compiler! This allowed me to get on with real games porting; with only a proportional increase in compile time. Wine has really come a long way in supporting simple apps, let us hope it reaches a 1.0 soon." Links 0. http://jguk.org/ 1. http://codingstyle.com/articles/using-ms-vcpp-with-gnu-wine.html 2. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1323238&tid=106 More on Columbia http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1837253 RodeoBoy writes "It seems that regardless of what NASA and Boeing [0]wants the public to believe there are still questions about damage to the shuttle's left wing. Some Boeing engineers have [1]raised concerns that [2]proper analysis of the damage was not done at the time, due to changes and cutbacks in Boeing. It is also coming out that more than [3]one chunk of foam might have hit and damaged the wing. With Boeing [4]having some financial troubles and NASA under public scrutiny again, what is the future of the space shuttle program..." Links 0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=676&ncid=716&e=21&u=/usatoday/20030221/ts_usatoday/4888537 1. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/5241209.htm 2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49819-2003Feb22.html 3. http://www.startribune.com/stories/1775/3668442.html 4. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4501-585574,00.html Salon Asks for Help http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1830217 [0]Henry V .009 writes "Salon.com is [1]appealing to the community for help. They haven't been able to [2]pay the rent since December. To date, they've lost about $80 million dollars. A cause of [3]rejoicing for some. But their many readers are understandably sorry to see them in such desperate straits. Personally I hope they stick around, I think they are one of the best sources of independant journalism on the web--even if I happen to agree with less than 10% of what they have to say. I also think that it would be a shame for them to close now that they've finally created an advertising scheme that has a snowball's chance in hell of working on the web. I can actually recall some of the adverts I've seen on Salon--what other web site can you say that about? Salon says that if they get another 50,000 subscriptions (they currently have 50,000) they'll break even for the year." In the old role-playing game "Paranoia", there was a nice quote about what would happen when the player characters (who had never been outside of their enclosed city complex) made an attempt to swim in water over their heads: "delaying drowning". Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2003/02/22/raise_limbaugh/index.html 2. http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/gtnews/TGAM/20030219/MESALO 3. http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030221/72/3827p.html UK to "get serious" About Renewable Energy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1825234 Bob Dobbs writes "Tomorrow the UK government will [0] announce ([1]observer.co.uk) it's going to "get serious" about renewable energy; in the bleakest look at global warming so far Tony Blair will warn that extreme weather will wreak £150 billion worth of damage across Europe within a decade and the current situation is "unsustainable". On the bright side, it's mentioned that sustainable energy sources are less susceptible to terrorist attack." Links 0. http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,901189,00.html 1. http://www.observer.co.uk/ A Music Industry Case Study http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1812235 spmkk writes "The [0]NY Daily News has an [1]uplifting look at the fate of a (hypothetical) 4-piece band "making it big" in today's [2]RIAA-driven music industry. The condensed version: A band that sells 500,000 records for $8,490,000 gross ends up (after a few iterations of the new math) with $161,909 in their pocket. Split four ways, that's a whopping $40,477.25 each for a record that probably took close to a year to produce. And this is for a record that goes gold (as per the article, only 128 of some 30,000 records released in 2002 were so privileged). And I bet you wanted to be a rock star when you were a kid..." Links 0. http://www.nydailynews.com/ 1. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/60991p-57008c.html 2. http://www.riaa.com/ AOL's Merlin Compromised? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1616206 [0]Neophytus writes "[1]The Inquirer reports that AOL's central customer database, Merlin, may have been been compromised by crackers. This, even though it required 'a user ID, two passwords, and a specialized ID code' to gain access to. That's 35 million user's names, addresses, emails and credit card details - a goldmine for spammers and fraudsters alike. As they they put it, 'AOL can now add another accomplishment to its list: Biggest security disaster in ISP history.' [2]The Register is also running a story explaining why this is not particularly likly, though." Here's the [3]original Wired story. Links 0. http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/ 1. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7928 2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29433.html 3. http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57753,00.html Unreal History of the Atari 2600 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1621212 Such_a_geek writes "[0]Atari fans, do you remember playing [1]Gunther Gebel Williams' Cage Cleaner, [2]Typing Tutor, and [3]Peabo Bryson's Cow Tipper on your 2600? How about playing the [4]interactive Foghat 8-track while playing with your [5]Pong action figures? Yeah, me neither. But thanks to this totally fake but quite convincing screenshots in this [6]alternate history of 2600 games, I almost find myself remembering these things." Links 0. http://www.atari.com/ 1. http://www.vgg.com/2600/best08_cagecleaner.html 2. http://www.vgg.com/2600/best04_typing.html 3. http://www.vgg.com/2600/best03_peabo.html 4. http://www.vgg.com/2600/inter8tracks.html 5. http://www.vgg.com/2600/pong.html 6. http://www.vgg.com/2600/ Gibson's Digital Guitar Finally Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1610250 [0]tdiman writes "The world's first [1]digital guitar, using Gibson's MaGIC digital transport standard, was introduced February 20th at the Intel Developers Forum." We've been following this one for awhile, I'm really curious to see what something like this can do. Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2003/feb19a.html Freshmeat BASHISH 1.9.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114052/ Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt, font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance. BBStatus 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114048/ BBStatus is an IP accounting package, and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its database. It can be used for IP accounting (using iptables, you can design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data via SNMP requests), IP monitoring (using ping, it stores and summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based access so that every user can log in and check the traffic from/through his/her IP addresses. It requires PostgreSQL and RRDTool. BELTS 1.0-RC6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114085/ The Basic E-Learning Tool Set (BELTS) provides a basic set of tools for using and managing learning objects. Users can search and download content stored in The Learning Federations Learning Exchange. Set up classes (groups of users) and lessons (sequences of learning objects) for others to interact with. The server allows for multiple schools to be hosted on the same system. bk_edit 0.6-8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114062/ bk_edit is an easy to use bookmark manager and editor. The program can read, write, edit, create, manage, and organize the bookmarks of the most popular browsers. There is also a simple drag and drop interface for adding new bookmarks from a running browser in a very comfortable way. There are plugins for Mozilla, Opera, Galeon/XBEL, and Netscape. Bloof 0.1 beta 3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114045/ Bloof calculates software evolution metrics against a version control like CVS in order to retrieve information about the evolution of the source code and the development process. Bloof is implemented in Java and comes with integrated database and Swing GUI. BPhpWebmail Frontend 1.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114044/ BPhpWebmail Frontend is an easy-to-use and easy-to-install Web mail frontend. It features support for multiple POP and IMAP servers, Inbox, Outbox, Sent, and Saved folders, and an address book. ctrlproxy 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114060/ ctrlproxy is an IRC server with multiserver support. It runs as a daemon and connects to a number of IRC servers, then allows you to connect from a workstation and work as the user that is logged in to the IRC server. After you disconnect, it maintains the connection to the server. It acts like any normal IRC server, so you can use any IRC client to connect to it. It supports multiple client connections to one IRC server (under the same nick), allowing you to connect to IRC using your IRC nick, even while you have an IRC session open somewhere else. It supports logging (in the same format as the irssi IRC client), password authentication, and ctcp (in case no clients are connected). dailystrips 1.0.26 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114084/ dailystrips is a utility to download your favorite online comic strips each day. What sets it apart from the rest is its "local" mode of operation, which automatically downloads strips for you. Avantgo is also supported, for downloading comics to PDAs. Debt Minder 1.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114050/ 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 dvd::rip 0.50.4 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114091/ dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools. EarlyBlue 1.3 Beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/113947/ EarlyBlue reflects the early days of Mozilla (M4 to M8) and tries to restore the blue-styled look of like those early milestones in current builds without cutting any functionality. Efax-gtk 2.0.4 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114063/ Efax-gtk provides a GUI frontend for the efax fax program. It interfaces with efax directly, replacing the scripts supplied with efax, and can be used for receiving and sending faxes, and for viewing, printing, and managing faxes which have been received and sent. It requires the GTK+ and Gtkmm libraries. Ghostscript (gs) must also be installed. elmo 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114026/ elmo is an efficient console mail user agent. It supports POP3 and SMTP, uses the Maildir storage format, and sends 8-bit MIME messages regardless of the server's ehlo response (although it is able to decode qp and base64 encodings). Additionally, when replying to email in Polish, elmo makes an attempt to determine the sex of the person being quoted so that it can appropriately choose to use the Polish equivalent of "she wrote" instead of the Polish equivalent of "he wrote" in the quote's attribution. ElyCA 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113984/ ElyCA is yet another implementation of a Certification Authority written in Python using MySQL as a database. EzSDK 4.58 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114042/ 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. feh 1.2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114057/ feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer which uses imlib2. It is commandline-driven and supports multiple images through slideshows, thumbnail browsing or multiple windows, and montages or index prints (using truetype fonts to display file info). Advanced features include fast dynamic zooming, progressive loading, loading via HTTP (with reload support for watching webcams), recursive file opening (slideshow of a directory hierarchy), and mousewheel/keyboard control. Fingerprint Verification System 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114080/ Fingerprint Verification System is an easy-to-use library that allows programmers to integrate fingerprint technology into their software without specific know-how. It is fast and small, and is great for embedded systems. formula and libepe 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113863/ formula is mathematical expression and function parsing and evaluation software. The core of the software is the libepe library that provides an API for expression parsing and evaluation. Gambas 0.45 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114097/ Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for. Gammu 0.70 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114086/ Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410, 35xx, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 6610, 71xx, 7210, 82xx, 83xx, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line version with many functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It works on various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32. GNOME Remote Connection Manager 0.1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114040/ grcm (GNOME Remote Connection Manager) is a highly configurable remote connection manager that allows you to store remote connections like telnet, ssh, and rdesktop in a simple-to-use GUI application. GNU gengetopt 2.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114031/ GNU gengetopt takes a simple description of arguments and generates a C function that uses the GNU getopt_long(3) function to parse and validate the options. It is perfect if you are too lazy to write all that is required to call getopt_long(3), or need to use many options. The generated code also works with autoconf or automake. Graphical Voter Interface 2.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114019/ GVI is a voting GUI. It can potentially be used for any private or public election, and it comes with a demonstration package based on an actual general election. It can handle write-ins and multi-language elections, and it can automate voting along party lines. It can be used for advanced election methods, such as Condorcet voting and Instant Runoff Voting, which allow each voter to rank the candidates (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). It can also be used for Approval Voting, which allows each voter to select more than one candidate (without ranking them). It can also be "downgraded" for conventional plurality elections. It provides scripts for counting the votes and determining the winner based on plurality, Approval, or Condorcet rules. Grass After the Rain 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113959/ Grass After the Rain is a theme showing raindrops on blades of grass. The background is by Vlad Gerasimov. Hash Database Manager 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114096/ Hash Database Manager provides a commandline interface and an interactive terminal interface to GDBM (and other) hash DBs. Hell World 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114061/ Hell World is a thrilling FPS adventure game which features excellent graphics, a dark atmosphere and an excellent scenario. It is designed to be a port to the Windows-only version of Hell World. html2hdml 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114032/ Html2hdml is a HTML to HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) converter. It is designed to be lightweight, fast, and portable, and works on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Cygwin. IceCurve 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113860/ This theme is a modification of the IceCrack2 theme with additions from the the BlueCurve theme. It is made to be simple and clean cut. id3v2 0.1.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114070/ id3v2 is a command line ID3v2 tag editor. You can add/modifiy/delete ID3v2 tags and convert ID3v1 tags to ID3v2 tags. imageBoot 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114092/ imageBoot is a boot floppy that autoconfigures networking (PCI & PCMCIA), gets a root image (tar.gz) via HTTP/FTP, and executes it. This can be useful for booting distcc to create a temporary cluster. Information Resource Manager 1.4.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114098/ IRM is a Web-based asset tracking and work request system built for IT departments and helpdesks. It keeps detailed information about each computer, as well as a complete history of work requests. It keeps track of detailed computer information such as CPU type/speed, amount of RAM, Hard Drive Size, serial numbers, etc. The system includes the ability to track networking hardware and any type of software. Also included is support for email notification of both users and technicians, and some support for monitoring computer systems via SNMP. Io programming language 2003-02-22 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114023/ Io is small prototype-based programming language. It is a pure object language, and it features an incremental garbage collector, exceptions, light weight threads, and embedability. Ion 20030223 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114051/ Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows. These features help keeping windows organized and quickly switching between them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive window manager for users who prefer the keyboard. JFtp 1.00 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114037/ JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive directory upload, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a command-line mode. JGloss 2.0 alpha 1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114064/ JGloss is an application for adding reading and translation annotations to words in a Japanese text document. This can be done automatically and manually. When a text document is first opened, kanji words will be looked up in a dictionary and the first reading and translation (if any) used to annotate the word. The user can then edit the annotations: choose among the readings and translations found in the dictionaries, enter your own readings and translations, remove annotations, and add new annotations. The document can be exported as plain text with annotations, HTML, or LaTeX. Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.0-pre3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114101/ Just For Fun Network Management System features an integrated syslog, Tacacs, TFTP configuration download, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journal, autodiscovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more. Everything uses a database MySQL/PostgreSQL) backend. It works in Linux and Windows. kcd 6.7.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114049/ kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you. LCARStrek 1.3 Beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/113948/ LCARStrek is a Star Trek skin, using the LCARS interface from the Federation Star Ships (heavily used in The Next Generation and Voyager series). It has rounded borders and hover (mouse-over) effects, be aware that it may look and feel quite unusual or strange, but keep in mind that this is an interface design which was not originally designed for the 21st but the 24th century. libmelf 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114025/ libmelf is a library interface for manipulating ELF object files. It is designed to be simplistic, powerful, portable, and require very few dependencies. libutempter 1.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114069/ libutempter provides a library interface for terminal emulators such as screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files. LILO 22.5-beta2 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114083/ LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot many other operating sysetms, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source, documentation and support files. LinuxRogue 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114043/ LinuxRogue is a cleaned up version of the original port of Rogue for Linux. Rogue is the classic RPG adventure for Unix systems with a character-cell based interface. linuxsms 0.60 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114047/ Linuxsms is a Perl script to send SMS to GSM phones. There is support for multiple servers/gateways (some servers require registration). The script has an adressbook, the ability to compress SMS, and the ability to check for new versions. ms-sys 1.0.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114073/ ms-sys is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft's "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT32 partition, except that it does not copy any system files (only the boot record is written). naim 0.11.5.5 (Release) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114076/ naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports IRC, ICQ, and Lily CMC. For AIM and ICQ, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving naim's classic look and feel. Nmap 3.15BETA1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114088/ Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host OS or device identification). Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification, decoy/stealth scanning, sunRPC scanning, and more. Most Unix and Windows platforms are supported in both GUI and commandline modes. Several popular handheld devices are also supported, including the Sharp Zaurus and the iPAQ. Not A Commander 1.0-SNAP-030223 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114087/ Not A Commander is yet another file manager modeled after the Norton Commander. Good integration with the command line is the primary goal. Note Editor 2.0.19 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114094/ Note Editor is an editor for music notation that supports an unlimited number of staffs and up to 9 voices per staff. The import formats are MIDI files, recorded from MIDI keyboards and TSE3. The export formats are MIDI, MusiXTeX, LilyPond, PMX, MUP, and TSE3. Open Mortal 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114024/ Open Mortal is a parody of the once popular coin-up fighting game, Mortal Kombat, for Windows and Linux. It is currently playable, has 8 playable characters, 6 more in the making. New characters can be added, so players can be their own Open Mortal actor. Package DataBase View 1.2.7 (1.x.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114065/ Package DataBase View generates an HTML view of an RPM or a dpkg database. Its modular design allows support for other database formats and other output formats (like XML). Parctrl 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114072/ Parctrl is a CGI interface for a parport interface used to control any kind of device. If you have such kind of home-made device (or even if you don't, it's easy to build), you may use Parctrl to remotely access your parport through a CGI script and browser. You may use it to turn remote machines on or off in your local network, turn lights on or off, security systems, alarms or any kind of electrical device. If you are connected to the Internet, you may access it from anywhere in the world. It has two parts: a driver, that does the low level access, and the CGI script, which acts as a interface for the driver. Parctrl uses secure SHA password authentication, and also allows you to restrict users access to some parport outputs. Photopub 0.1.6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114034/ Photopub is image publication software designed primarily for easily maintaining a Web site of pictures taken with digital cameras (although it can be used for arbitrary images, it has some features which make it most suitable for them). It runs as a CGI script or under mod_perl, and is fully themable and highly customizable. phpCourseBookingSystem 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114099/ phpCBS is a Course Booking System written in PHP4. It uses PHP4's session capabilities to authenticate users, the MySQL database system to store all its data in, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to configure the "Look and Feel". The administrator can set up new Courses and control the registered users. The users on the other side are able to register for a specific classplace. phpMyAdmin 2.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114090/ phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers. pixiliate 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114067/ Pixilate is a commandline packet generation utility that reads Cisco PIX 6.2x or Cisco IOS ACLs as input and generates the appropriate packets. Use it in conjunction with your favorite sniffer listening off of a span port for ACL validation. You can optionally send per-ACL payloads. Proteus EAI Toolkit 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114095/ Proteus is a toolkit for message-based Enterprise Application Integration. It includes adapters that allow databases, message queues, FTP servers, email, and other message sources and sinks to be addressed in a simple, uniform fashion. It also includes a simple but very capable message broker. The broker allows routing and transformation of messages from and to all the sources and sinks for which adapters exist. Transformations may be custom-written in Java or XSLT (the broker uses Xalan as its XSLT transformation engine). Python/Tk Empire Interface 1.17.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114071/ The Python/Tk Empire Interface (PTkEI) enables you to connect to empire 4.x.x (Wolfpack) servers. Empire is a real-time war game with long tradition. You can find out about Empire and currently running servers and other clients at its homepage. This client is an example for a truly portable cross-platform GUI, known to run on Unix, X11, Win32 and Mac. Additionally you do not give up any command line power as a player, but you have to to learn the empire commands to make use of this GUI client. QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114055/ QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. It 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. Qish 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114046/ Qish contains a runtime library with a reusable generational copying garbage collector for C or C++. QTParted 0.1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114066/ QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux. RC4Crypt 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114022/ RC4Crypt is a small yet extensive library that allows developers to use RC4 encryption/decryption easily in PHP. It is OO and handles everything internally, and includes some documentation within the class. Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.7.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114033/ The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver. Retro Native Forth 3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114079/ RetroForth is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system for computers using 80386 and higher CPUs. It attempts to be a simpler and easier to use alternative to more complex operating systems. Spkgtool 0.2.0pre0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114077/ Spkgtool is a software management system that uses symbolic links for maintaining packages and a "ports" style backend for building package from source tarballs. It has its own built linking application, but it also can act as a GUI frontend to your favorite symbolic link package system (supporting graft, epkg, and stow). It is written with bash scripts and Makefiles. The GUI is dialog and Xdialog (depending on your environment). Aside from building ports, it will also build and install "GNU-friendly" source tarballs. Spyrius 1.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114029/ Spyrius is a multithreaded superdaemon that provides TCP connectivity to services that are implemented as loadable modules ("plug-ins"). The daemon was designed with extensibility, ease-of-use, and performance in mind. It was implemented on Solaris 2.x but should be generally portable to other POSIX systems. Spyrius is a prototype and is not a fully-implemented, release-quality package; it is made available in the hopes that it may prove to be useful in other open source projects. sr-convert 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114018/ sr-convert is a sample-rate conversion utility for WAV files. It supports a wide variety of sampling rates and can convert from any of the supported rates to any other. It runs under either x86 Linux or Windows and uses SSE instructions if they are available. Great pains have been taken to make sure that the sound quality of the conversion is excellent. Sybase module for Python 0.36pre5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114020/ The Sybase module for Python provides an interface to the Sybase relational database system. It supports all of the Python Database API. TR-IRCD 5.0.7-r http://freshmeat.net/releases/114035/ TR-IRCD is an ircd and a collection of services programs for IRC networks. The ircd is heavily influenced by ircd-hybrid and Bahamut. It includes support for IRC extensions such as md5-encrypted hostnames, local channels, and autokill exclusions, modules for commands, different protocols, channel modes, and languages. It supports IPv6 and many different architectures. Trackballs 0.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114039/ Trackballs is a simple game similar to the classic game Marble Madness. By steering a marble through a track filled with vicious hammers, pools of acid, and other obstacles the player collects points. When the ball reaches the destination, the player continue to the next, more difficult track - unless, of course, time runs out first. TRE 0.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114041/ TRE is a lightweight, robust, efficient, portable, and POSIX compliant regexp matching library. Key features include the agrep command line tool for approximate regexp matching in the style of grep, an approximate matching library API, portability, wide character and multibyte character support, binary pattern and data support, complete thread safety, consistently efficient matching, low memory consumption and small footprint, and strict standards conformance. tsemgr 0.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114056/ tsemgr is a GTK application to manage the T68 mobile phone. vdr2dvd.pl 0.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114054/ vdr2dvd is a simple script, handling all needed steps to create a DVD out of a VDR recording, including the burn process itself. The script merges multiple .vdr files to a big one per DVD title, converts it into a PS stream using ds.jar, multiplexes to the correct DVD-stream, creates the DVD structure, uses mkisofs to create the ISO image and uses dvdrecord to burn the image to the disc. VSTRING 20030220 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114059/ VSTRING is a C++ library which provides a large set of string manipulation features, including dynamic string objects that can be freely exchanged with standard char* types (so there is no need to change function calls nor the implementation when you change from char* to String (and vice versa)). The main difference from other similar libs is that the dynamic String class has no visible methods (except operators); it is used as a plain char*, but it will expand/shrink as needed. VSTRING also provides Perl-like arrays and hashes (VArray and VTrie) and a VRegexp class which automates regexp pattern matching. Vupdate 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114038/ Vupdate is a Tcl script which will download the latest virus dats from the McAfee FTP site. After downloading, it can also inform you of its status by sending an email or SMB message. wmnetload 1.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114028/ wmnetload is a network interface monitor dockapp for Window Maker. It is designed to fit well with dockapps like wmcpuload and wmmemmon. It tracks whether the interface is functioning and displays current network interface throughput, along with an auto-scaling graph of recent network activity (the graph separates upstream and downstream traffic load cleanly without resorting to colors). Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 4.0s-rc1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114053/ The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides stable and development kernels for either server or testing purposes. These kernels provide a server kernel and also a service for developers and end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request. x2vnc 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114027/ x2vnc is an implementation of the VNC RFB protocol designed to control a machine running a VNC server in a dual-monitor situation. Its effect is to make the controlled machine's display function as if attached to the controlling machine, allowing the use of just one set of input devices on two or more machines. Zmanim 1.0.1-3 (QT) http://freshmeat.net/releases/114082/ Zmanim is a software package that computes zmanim, the times (according to Jewish law) by which an observant Jew must complete specific prayers. Zmanim 1.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/114081/ Zmanim is a software package that computes zmanim, the times (according to Jewish law) by which an observant Jew must complete specific prayers. Slashcode Release of Galleria Photo Gallery plugin v1.0 http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1851255 The title says it all. Galleria v1.0 finally made it out of beta and has been released. More information is at Lottadot.com Slash::Blob http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/2044216 I've added Slash::Blob to the main dist in CVS. Its a module for storing binaries and serving them up on the web. It will be the foundation for most of the new features we are adding so that we can use images and pdf files with stories (and other subsystems). If you are writing modules you may find it useful for your own applications. Feedback is welcome. Link Tag to Enable Auto-Discovery of RSS Files http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1652216 Recently, I have been making small changes to my Slash sites to make them integrate better into the weblog communities dominated by Blogger, Radio from Userland, Movable Type, and similar tools. I found out that some of the weblog aggregation tools look for a specific link tag in the head portion of a site's home page in order to locate that site's RSS file. This is the kind of thing that can be added to a template without changing any code. Here's the code itself: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="__YOUR_RSS_URL__"> For more information about the research I did to arrive at this conclusion, see the article How Weblog Monitors Automatically Discover RSS Feeds on CTDATA.com. ExploitSeattle http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/0731202 ExploitSeattle is your daily dose of events occuring in the Emerald City. Its run by a horde of rain soaked Seattlites who's quest to relieve boredom and promote cool stuff(TM) caused them to create a site to list their hip and not so hip events. SuSE8.1 installation test failures for Mysql modul http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/2151208 I have installed slash test sites on debian a few times before, but now I'm trying to install a permanent site on SuSE8.1 I'm having problems installing Bundle::Slash - MIME, Mysql modules & libapreq are all failing their tests. I'm installing Bundle::Slash within a perl shell. I'll concentrate on Mysql module here. I'm no perl expert (not even a perl beginner), but it seems to be a problem with lib.pl in testing the Mysql module. At line 253 & 254, my build complains about these 2 lines with "Illegal character in prototype for main::ErrMsgF : @_ at t/lib.pl line 254" Here's the lines, what's wrong with them ? If they're wrong, how come they're in the bundle ? sub ErrMsg (@_) { print (@_); } sub ErrMsgF (@_) { printf (@_); } There's also a warning during the "perl Makefile.PL" phase about CAPI & PL_FILES which I don't understand either. " WARNING: CAPI is not a known parameter. WARNING: PL_FILES takes a hash reference not a array reference. Please inform the author. " Again, if the code is wrong, why is it bundled as a stable release ? I suspect that my problems are just a side effect of something else....can anyone out there point me in the right direction? I have a build log if anyone needs to see it. thanks! Nou la SURSE.RO http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1851222 Hi! Just wanted to let you know that I started my own slash-site, targeted at the Romanian audience. The site is intented to be a Romanian version of Slashdot, but focus falls on local stories. Enabling Comment Counting on Main Screen http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/19/1746215 Just installed Slash to support an internal project at work - sorry, site is not visible from the Net. I can't work out how to add the "comments counter" after the "Read More ... " link. I searched this site and the mailing list archive at sourceforge with no success. I know that it is probably something simple, but I can't find it. Can anyone help? --Paul Barry Discussion Posts http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/1753223 So here's the deal - I've got my site up and running and everything is looking and working fine. Except for one thing that could mean the whole project falls apart. So we all know stories need to be approved before they are posted, right? So, we have discussions which don't (necessarily) require approval before they can be published, hence providing the lay-user an opportunity to create 'posts' to a Discussion Board. However, it looks as if when I post a discussion, it is only displayed in my user profile and is not listed in the 'Active Discussions' list. To create somewhat of a bulletin board, I'd like to be able to have all user discussions appear in that list of active discussions. I've noticed the same thing happens here with Slashcode too. Can it be changed? And if so, how? ICANNWatch Converts to Slash http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/1741245 It's sort of been mentioned before, but ICANNWatch.org -- a site devoted to chronicles and critiques of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- has converted from PHP Nuke 4.2 to Slash. Whether or not this item gets published, we'd like to be added to the list of slash sites. And of course, if you are interested in the future of the Internet you may want to visit us to find out what ICANN is up to. Or, you might want to read our first month's status report. Scoop 2 Slash conversion script? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1846259 I've seen lots of requests going the other way, and there are some tools for that, but does anyone have a scoop to slash conversion kit of some sort? I've decided that scoop hosting isn't viable, and while we will continue to host scoop sites for our existing customers, we are now trying to get people to move in the slash direction, and are offering free extensions to customers who will drop scoop. 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