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Books: BOFH Series - 3 Pack/Bundle!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5daf/
Cube Goodies: GeoMAG from Italy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5c82/
Electronics: i2eye Broadband Videophone
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5d7f/
Electronics: Si-5 Portable Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5bb3/
Computing: Latte Mini PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5d5b/
Electronics: SoundPaX Portable Stereo Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5d02/
Computing: Ratpadz GS Mousing Surface
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/3745/
Computing: Griffin PowerMate
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ca2/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ac8/
Books: GPF 2 - Gone With The Windows
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cad/
Books: BOFH 2 - Son Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca5/
Books: GPF 3 - And The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb0/
Books: BOFH 3 - Bride Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca8/
Books: BOFH 1 - Bastard Operator From Hell
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5c9b/
Books: User Friendly - Version 1.0
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb2/
Gadgets: Candela Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf5/
Electronics: Mustek MDC-3500 Digital Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5ca0/
Computing: iGesture Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5ccd/
Computing: Roll-Up Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5a7f/
Gadgets: InkLink Handwriting System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d08/
Sourceforge
bogofilter-0.11.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257794
The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the
lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam" . It is
written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X.
Version 0.11.1 is available, including a number of enhancements and
bugfixes. See the NEWS-0.11 file for details.
drjava-20030304-2327 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257786
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports
interactive evaluation of expressions. This development release of
DrJava provides a significant number of bug fixes, in preparation for
an upcoming beta release. The changes include improvements to saved
Interactions histories, improved undo support, key binding fixes, and
various user interface bug fixes. Please test this release by following
the "more download options" link on our home page.
Tcl/Tk 8.4.2 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257762
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.2 releases of the Tcl
scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the second patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.4. See http://www.tcl.tk/ for details.
Axualize 1.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257007
After successful beta testing, version 1.1.0 is now official. Axualize
is a language for building application from objects using an XML
dialect. Axualize is schema driven and infinitely extendable. Axualize
is currently implemented in Java but the Axualize schema does not
dictate a specific platform. The 1.1.0 release adds support for Ruby,
JavaScript and BeanShell scripting, as well as other enhancements.
1.1.0 Added: - Built in "Ruby" scripting support through BSF and JRuby
- Built in "JavaScript" scripting support through BSF and Rhino - Built
in "BeanShell" scripting support both through BSF and as the natively
supported scripting environment. - MrRoboto class which aids in
creating Axualize documents which implement simple java.awt.Robot
actions. The MrRoboto class implements KeyListener, and MouseListener
and is simply registered as such for each component which will be
recorded. - new BSF schema so to aid creating documents which utilize
both standard and BSF namespaces. changed: - ProcessHandler has been
refactored to behave more like HttpHandler.
IlohaMail 0.7.10 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257047
IlohaMail 0.7.10 has been released. This version includes security
fixes (also released in 0.7.9-2), three new languages (Korean, Standard
Portuguese, Catalan), APOP support, improved handling of RFC822
attachments as well as minor fixes to the IMAP and SMTP libraries. This
is the most recent update to the stable branch. IlohaMail is a PHP
based lightweight full featured multilingual webmail program with IMAP
and POP3 support.
gchch-1.9.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257203
This is a full port of the game to Gnome 2.0, along with numerous bug
fixes and enhancements. It's a prelease before the actualy 2.0.0
release. Gnome Chinese Checkers is an networked implementation of the
Chinese Checkers board game, supporting upto 6 players. The game
includes added goodies like an integrated chat window, player rotation,
etc. This has been updated for Gnome 2.0.
libmng 1.0.5 (final) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256928
This is the long-awaited major update of the MNG library. The MNG
specification is now covered to near 100% and as an added bonus this
release includes the new 'dynamic MNG' feature, that allows for easy
roll-over (hover/click; w or w/o mask) effects with a minimum of fuss.
libmng is the reference library for reading, displaying, writing and
examining Multiple-Image Network Graphics. MNG is the animation
extension to the popular PNG image-format.
pureIRCd release 2.7.1304
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257000
pureIRCd is a Win32 IRCd written in Visual Basic, that operates Fast
and efficiently in networks as well as standalone. This release
features better Server to Server linking, some statistics additions and
Server - Server autoconnecting. Autoconnecting is new to pureIRCd and
may have some glitches, so dont trust on it, it's alpha, really. You
dont have to upgrade to this version of pureIRCd if you mostly use it
standalone as most changes only affect server links. To download the
new version, please go here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71720&release_id=
143841
Qixite 0.0.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256961
Qixite allows easy template based generation of web sites. It organizes
the web site into a tree of nodes representing Pages, Text Sections,
Images, and Links. It provides quick and easy way to publish your
thoughts and information on Internet. The program generates links,
style sheets and other things, the only thing user has to warry about
is information. Changes in 0.0.8: - Possibility to use external editor
(eg. Mozilla) for editing articles in WYSIWYG mode was added - French,
Spanish and Lithuanian translations were updated - Several non-critical
bugs were fixed To download, please go here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40222&release_id=
83910
Burn To The Brim v2.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256875
Burn To The Brim is a utility for grouping files and folders together
in the most efficient way to fill up an entire CD, DVD or other medium.
Burn to the Brim version 2.5 now allows the user to directly create ISO
9660 files of the filled CD's, using mkisofs by Joerg Schilling. These
files can then be burned by an arbritary burn-program that supports the
ISO 9660 format. You can find the new version at
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49999
Slashdot
Defining "Planet"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/2249257
[0]beardoc writes "[1]The Sydney Morning Herald is running a [2]story
today about a controversial proposal to define what size a planet might
be - depending on what the final definition of how big a planet is, we
could end up losing Pluto (at 2300 kilometres) to the status of
"asteroid" or gaining three more planets - Quaoar, Varuna and Ceres."
Links
0. http://www.hyslop.org
1. http://www.smh.com.au/
2. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/09/1047144868646.html
New Zealand Looks at Internet Censorship
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/199243
David writes "The New Zealand Government 'Select Committee', upon
reviewing censorship law, has issued a [0]report which among other
things, recommends that ISPs face [1]compulsory licensing "in order to
control their behaviour", the [2]forcing of a code of conduct upon
ISPs, and recommends the implementation of an internet filtration
programme not dissimilar from that of [3]Australia's (although it is
hazy on the details of what this would mean). They're starting to
become really worried about the [4]dangers of the internet."
Links
0. http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/Content/SelectCommitteeReports/i5a.pdf
1.
http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/DF3A054F76F9698ECC256CE10008E9D4!opendocument
2.
http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/81476e1c0cf66ad0cc256896007c00e7/2467ab08fccd3656cc256ce1000d4075!OpenDocument
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/0116227&tid=153
4.
http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/A7760BE0575EC33DCC256CCF00746B3C!opendocument
Yet Another Perl Conference: North America
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/0216234
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Registration for [0]YAPC::NA is in process.
It will be held in Boca Raton, FL June 16-18. YAPC is a low-cost
($85USD) conference, but still has high quality speakers and topics.
Although submissions for talks is still going on (ends March 15), many
terrific ones are already in the queue. [1]Register today!"
Links
0. http://yapc.org/America/
1. http://yapc.org/America/register.shtml
Kernel 2.2 - It Lives!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1915203
Build6 writes "For those of us still using 2.2 (how's that for
"conservatism" eh?) -- 2.2.24 is out (and has been since last week) -
see [0]kernel.org for downloads. I see networking code tweaks, but no
changelog. Time to give our old RH 6.2 machines one last
kernel-recompile before Red Hat's end-of-life date arrives for 6.2? :-)
What I'd like to know is - who else (besides me) out there still has
machines running 2.2 and intends to keep it that way?"
Links
0. http://kernel.org
Geek Roadtrips Through the Heartland
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/2144210
While researching a roadtrip which I'll be taking from St. Paul,
Minnesota to Placerville, Ca I did what any geek would do, I checked
out the [0]t-mobile hotspots along the route (some), did various
searching on [1]wi-finder (some) and other sites and have been doing
some googling around on the topic. I know that there must be some
802.11b access points along and inside the towns along I-80, but for
the life of me I'm finding it difficult for me to find any of them. I
of course have various wireless sniffing apps, but that is hardly an
efficient way to find access. I don't mind paying a small fee,
so....with that in mind, if you were to take a trip across the country,
where would you stop for access? For specifics, Read More...
Links
0. http://www.t-mobile.com/hotspot/
1. http://www.wifinder.com
Serial SCSI Standard Coming Soon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/190212
rchatterjee writes "SCSI is very close to joining ATA in leaving a
parallel interface design behind in favor of serial one. [0]Serial
attached SCSI, as the standard will be known, is expected to be
ratified sometime in the second quarter of this year according to this
[1]article at Computerworld. Hard drive manufacturers [2]Seagate and
[3]Maxtor have already said that they will have drives conforming to
the new standard shipping by the end of the year. The new standard will
shatter the current SCSI throughput limit of 320 megabit/sec with a
starting maximum throughput of 3 gigabit/sec. But before this thread
turns into a SCSI fanboy vs. ATA fanboy flame war this other [4]article
states that Serial Attached SCSI will be compatible with SATA drives so
you can have the best of both worlds."
Links
0. http://www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/sas/definition.html
1. http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,78947,00.html
2. http://www.seagate.com/
3. http://www.maxtor.com/
4. http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,78946,00.html
Cow Manure --> Electricity
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1823206
[0]jmtpi writes "ABCNews has [1]a story about a dairy farm in Minnesota
that uses its cow manure to generate enough electricity to power the
farm plus 80 homes and create fertilizer. There's also a [2]more
detailed story."
Links
0. http://www.stanford.edu/~joshmt
1. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/SciTech/cow_power030308.html
2. http://www.auri.org/news/ainjul01/05page.htm
Review of Nokia 7250 - Triband GSM w/camera
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1815229
An anonymous reader writes "The new [0]Nokia 7250 is out. Small, very
cool looking phone that even has a built-in camera. [1]3 page review
with 6 pages of photos, including a photo gallery of images taken by
the 7250 itself - with some human help, of course."
Links
0. http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,5184,4541,00.html
1. http://mobile.burn.com/review.jsp?Id=252
Salvaging Defective DRAM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/046206
An anonymous reader writes "Ever wonder [0]what happens to DRAM that
fails quality assurance testing during manufacturing? Turns out a lot
of it ends up as 'downgrade' memory and ends up in OEM memory modules.
Last resort: use it in an answering machine, where the sampled audio
can be very tolerant of bit errors."
Links
0. http://www.evaluationengineering.com/archive/articles/0303ate.htm
More on 64-bit Gaming
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1653205
waytoomuchcoffee writes "Valve has [0]announced "immediate
availability" of a linux 64-bit dedicated Counterstrike server,
designed to run on AMD's upcoming Opteron. This follows on the heels of
Unreal Tournament 2003, [1]previously reported on Slashdot. Gamespy has
a [2]related story up on a presentation of the future of 64-bit gaming
(sponsored by AMD) at last week's Game Developers Conference. As Intel
is in [3]no hurry to make the jump to 64-bit desktops, this leaves AMD
to court the gaming market."
Links
0. http://www.amdzone.com/releaseview.cfm?ReleaseID=1050
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/0047225&tid=137
2. http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/64bit/
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2050237&tid=118
Freshmeat
BitTorrent++ 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115666/
BitTorrent++ is a client for the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing
solution. Based on the original BitTorrent software, it is also written
in Python using wxPython for the GUI, thus allowing it to run on Win32
as well as Linux-like platforms. It improves (or will improve) many
parts of the original software, like downloading of multiple files at
once, configuration of upload and download speeds, as well as other
behaviours. The GUI and usability is also to be improved greatly.
Catch the Furball 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115701/
Catch the Furball is an icebreaker board game intended for friends to
play around a computer. It features a freshly-generated board for each
game, an eclectic collection of cards, and beautiful pictures of
Cambridge University. The distribution is intended both to allow Web
masters to quickly set up their own copy of the game, and to allow
tinkerers to use the game engine to make their own games. It includes
the editor used to create game data.
cDonkey 0.8.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115716/
cDonkey is an open source core client for eDonkey without a GUI. It
works together with eMule and ed2k_gui. It uses Berkley DB-4.1 for fast
List management. The eMule Packet data and source2source exchange was
implemented. It currently only works with Linux.
Checky 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115682/
The Checky Plugin for Mozilla, Phoenix, and Netscape is a simple
interface for Web content and resource developers to free and
commercial online validation and analysis services. With Checky, you
can easily set up, combine, and use 19 online validator and checker
services. Simply choose your services with Checky-Agent, then browse to
a Web resource and press F10 to display the results of the selected
services in a new browser tab or window. Service interfaces are
available for HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, SGML, WAI, 508, P3P, and
various viewers, valets, and purifiers.
Cherokee 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115699/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is
implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C
library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports
on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.
CIL 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115647/
CIL (C Intermediate Language) is a high-level representation along with
a set of tools that permit easy analysis and source-to-source
transformation of C programs. In essence, CIL is a highly-structured,
'clean' subset of C.
dchub 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115656/
dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with
some extra features dedicated to file sharing.
DCTC 0.85.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115650/
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the
direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.
Debt Minder 1.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115688/
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
disktype 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115665/
The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or
disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and
boot codes.
Documancer 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115709/
Documancer is a programmer's documentation reader for Unix which has
very fast fulltext searching. It has several advantages over using a
Web browser or specialized format-specific viewers (such as info),
namely unified access to all documentation formats and a GUI that is
better-suited for documentation reading than a generic Web browser. It
can display HTML manuals and both info and man pages.
Domain Technologie Control 0.10.7-8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115680/
Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is a set of PHP scripts that manage a
MySQL database that handles all the host information. It generates
backup scripts, statistic calculation scripts, and config files for
bind, Apache, qmail, and proftpd, using a single system UID/GID. With
DTC, you can delegate the task of creating subdomains, email, and FTP
accounts to users for the domain names they own.
Dragon Blade 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115655/
Dragon Blade is a theme based on a background made by Larry Elmore.
Elmo III 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115600/
Elmo III is a KDE 3.x theme package (pixmap theme, IceWM window
decoration, and color scheme) based on the "Elmo III" concept
art by Andreas Söllner. It attempts to be as close as possible to
the original idea without genuine low level coding efforts.
EzSDK 4.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115700/
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.
FCKeditor 0.9.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115686/
FCKEditor is an HTML editor that brings to the web many of the powerful
functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It's really
lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation in the client
computer.
FlightGear Scenery Designer 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115649/
FlightGear Scenery Designer is an interactive scenery designer/builder
for the FlightGear flight simulator project. The user will be able to
import map data, draw hypsographic curves, specify land use area, edit
taxiway path, and place 3D objects like buildings.
FVWM -- Crystal 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115651/
FVWM -- Crystal is a GUI and theme whose goals include finding better
ways of using the window manager and providing it with an eye candy
interface.
Galeon 1.3.3 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115677/
Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering
engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully
standards-compliant.
Hardware lister T.00.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115710/
lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton
on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact
memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU
version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
Hspell 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115715/
Hspell is a Hebrew linguistic project. It features a Hebrew
spell-checker, and aims to use the databases and algorithms developed
as a morphology engine (for example, for search engines), and in the
future for advanced things like Hebrew speech synthesis.
IaraJS 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115718/
IaraJS is a set of JavaScript templates for the construction of Web
sites, using JavaScript components.
ispbs 2.3.b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115687/
ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user
management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip
providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts.
Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by
name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or
paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and
unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for
hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of
an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail
support, multiple customizable packages, and more.
Jabberwocky 1.0.RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115685/
Jabberwocky is a Lisp IDE containing a Lisp-aware editor with syntax
highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a
source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer.
It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project.
Jessica Alba theme 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115633/
Jessica Alba is a theme based on the Maxum picture of Jessica Alba.
Mbrowser 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115679/
Mbrowse is an SNMP MIB browser based on GTK, and net-snmp. Its features
include bookmarks, searching, and viewing MIB variable details.
miqser 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115668/
Miqser is yet another mixer device controller. It is written in C and
is very small and simple.
MisterHouse 2.79
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115697/
MisterHouse is a Unix/Windows home automation program written in Perl.
It can respond to voice commands, Web browsers, time of day, serial
port and X10 data, external files, etc., and can speak via Text to
Speech engines.
Movie Indekser 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115681/
MIndekser is a small utility that allows users to manage a movie
collection, with the ability to export it to HTML.
newfile 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115696/
newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured
template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for
example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A
user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied
with the package. It includes templates for making "empty"
files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.
nmaFPS 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115673/
nmaFPS is a simple, portable 3D first person shooter. The aim is to
shoot down as many drones as you can. You lose if the number of drones
flying around goes above 10.
One-Wire Weather 0.68.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115690/
Oww (One-Wire Weather) is a client program for Dallas Semiconductor /
AAG 1-wire weather station kits, providing a graphical (animated)
display to monitor outside temperature, wind speed and direction,
rainfall, and humidity. Extra temperature sensors may be added. A
1-wire "hub" may be used for improved reliability and range.
Weather data may be logged to CSV files, parsed to command line
programs, sent to the Henriksen Windows client, or uploaded to Web
servers at Dallas, The Weather Underground, and HAMweather.
PassGuard Framework 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115705/
PassGuard Framework is a library for the PassGuard suite of programs
that is used to manage numerous passwords in an encrypted file.
Encryption is managed with a plugin system, which allows easy support
for any kind of encrypted file.
Percival Network Monitoring System 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115689/
Percival is a network monitoring and capacity planning frontend to
RRDtool. It features a themeable Web interface, and support for MIB2,
Cisco, Linux, and Windows. Configuration is stored in a hierarchical
database, which supports on-the-fly editing, links, and multiple users.
PHP Layers Menu 2.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115719/
PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose
among the items. It works with both PHP3 and PHP4. It achieves a
compact view and a reasonably small file size for the page with a very
large number of entries. Its behaviour is analogous to the GNOME, KDE
and MS Windows main menus. Menus are dynamically generated from the
menu structures. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, 6.x, and 7.x,
Konqueror, Opera 5 and 6, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It
also provides solutions for browsers not supporting Javascript.
PHP Layers Menu 2.3.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115717/
PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose
among the items. It works with both PHP3 and PHP4. It achieves a
compact view and a reasonably small file size for the page with a very
large number of entries. Its behaviour is analogous to the GNOME, KDE
and MS Windows main menus. Menus are dynamically generated from the
menu structures. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, 6.x, and 7.x,
Konqueror, Opera 5 and 6, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It
also provides solutions for browsers not supporting Javascript.
Python/Tk Empire Interface 1.17.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115693/
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.
ReMedial 0.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115670/
Remedial aims to be an easy-to-use player for Windows media files under
Linux. It is a front-end to the excellent avifile library, and provides
a look and feel similar to that of Realplayer.
Remote Internet Connect 2.0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115652/
Remote Internet Connect simplifies connecting a Linux box to the
Internet from another machine running any operating system. A simple
GUI allows the user to quickly connect, disconnect, or see who is
online.
SerialBridge 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115711/
SerialBridge bridges data across two serial ports across a Palm device.
It's mainly aimed at bridging the Wireless Modem and a USB/Serial port
on a Treo.
shn2make 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115675/
shn2make works with sets of shn audio files and the make program to
automate the process of burning CD-Rs and encoding mp3 and ogg files.
shn2make looks for the .nfo or .txt file, and attempts to interpret the
song names, CD listing, and other things according to the most common
.nfo file formats, it checks MD5 checksums, and, if everything makes
sense, outputs the text of a Makefile. The output Makefile fully
automates the processing of the set of shn files.
SlackCheck 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115713/
SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with
the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine
though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of
non-standard packages for every machine.
t1lib 5.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115653/
t1lib is a library written in C which implements functions for
generating bitmaps from Adobe Type 1 fonts. It uses most internal parts
of the Type 1 rasterizer provided with X11R5 and newer but tries avoid
the disadvantages known from that rasterizer.
TAMS 1.10a1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115704/
TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic
coding and data extraction-analysis system.
Ted 2.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115662/
Ted is a text processor running under X on Unix/Linux systems, with the
ability to edit rich text documents on Unix/Linux in a WYSIWYG way. It
also converts RTF to PostScript and PDF. RTF files from Ted are fully
compatible with MS Word.
tower toppler 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115643/
Tower Toppler (aka Nebulous) is the reimplementation an old 'jump and
run' game. In this game you have to climb to the top of a tower
avoiding all kinds of creatures that want to push you down.
trickle 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115645/
trickle is a lightweight, portable, per-application bandwidth shaper.
It works in collaboration, has peak detection, and does smoothing.
trickle works entirely in userland and does not require root to run. It
has been developed on OpenBSD and is known to run on Linux, FreeBSD,
and Solaris.
VetTux 2.0-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115661/
VetTux is a modern animal clinic management and POS system. It aims to
provide the veterinarian with a complete solution for running a clinic.
Workrave 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115702/
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of
repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to
take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily
limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using
GTK/Win32).
wv2 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115654/
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.
X11::GUITest 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115708/
X11::GUITest is a Perl package intended to facilitate the testing of
GUI applications by means of user emulation. It can be used to test and
interact with GUI applications which have been built (Xlib, GTK, etc.)
upon the X toolkit.
XElf 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115714/
XElf is a set of modules dedicated to XML processing for Python. It
currently features a Python XOM implementation.
xine gxine 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115659/
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It
also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local
disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It
interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and
some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a
reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your
applications.
xine xine-ui 0.9.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115658/
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It
also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local
disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It
interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and
some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a
reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your
applications.
Yet Another Free RAYtracer cvs20030309
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115721/
yafray is yet another free raytracer, still in development. Some
features like caustics, filters, depth of field, etc. are implemented.
Zeemo 1.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115683/
Zeemo is an application which combines free advertising, instant
messaging, filesharing, chatting, dating, buying and selling, and a lot
more. With Zeemo you no longer need to search through a lot of Web
pages, you don't have to create different accounts, and no longer have
to submit personal data.
Zina 0.9.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115706/
Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal
jukebox, and an MP3 streamer. It can run alone or as a Postnuke or
PHPNuke module. It is similar to Andromeda, but is released under the
GPL.
Slashcode
New Features!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/0322236
So bunch of new features are in the latest CVS. Including image and
file support int stories. Other hight lights include: Slash::Relocate,
an href tool that changes all of your links on your site to
relocateable links. Coming soon to this will be a task to track if the
link is dead or not (and give you an alternate link to google if it
is). Slash meta language. Now in stories (and soon in Journals) you can
use custom slash links to do all sorts of nifty little things. If you
notice the story before this one with the like to you will noticed the
hyper link to their homepage. Plus if you are logged in it will show
you your Zoo Relationships. Finally, we now have image and file support
with stories. Here is with his cat. Multi page documents are now
supported by using the SLASH tag language. Bunch more that I am
probably forgetting....
Storing Variable Calues
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/0216217
Another questions about template editing, but more specifically about
grabbing everything in an existing site that you've optimized and
converting that information into something you can use in a theme. I've
asked questions previously about templates and boxes (thanks to
lottadot and ), but now I'd be interested to find out if I can grab
things like site variables and menu alterations and stuff like that
from the database, and put them in a form that is convenient to install
in a new site. My guess is that it'll be in the form of some sql
queries that need to be run on initial installation (in the sql_prep
and _dump files in the theme)? Can anyone help me out? Is there an easy
way to do it? If there isn't, why hasn't this been implemented?
Innodb and Slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1952228
I'm wondering if people are using Innodb with Slash. The big issue
seems to be converting tables that have FULLTEXT on them (like
stories). Anyone know if there are any advantages to having Innodb
tables?
File Management System?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/0559213
Krow added Blob support for stories. That is great, however, it stores
all the info into a database. How hard would it be to design a plugin
that works more like the gallery plugin for slash. IE: To be able to
add PDF/Mp3s/Images, etc, into a story or comment, but have it stored
in a directory or something rather than the database.
Privatized user journals?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1824248
Is there any way to privatize user journals? I've noticed on the new
slashdot site that the ability to privatize your journal is offered if
you're a paid subscriber, is this a feature available in slashcode? If
not, any ideas on how to implement this? --TorinEdge
Changing Boxes in a Template
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1758241
A similar question to my one about templates earlier, but I've created
specific QuickLinks boxes and things I'd like to make part of my
template. Is there any way these can be grabbed from the database as
well, and used as my boxes? Actually, now that I think about it, would
it be better to just delete any (perhaps all) of the boxes, and just
create my own, putting them in appropriate locations myself. If I
choose to do the latter, can I make specific boxes a part of my
template? Or would I need to create a new Boxes plugin or something
that can put them in my site for me? I know I keep firing questions off
to you guys about what probably seems to be simple stuff, but if
nothing else it's at least providing some info about what might be
handy to have available in the future for simpler customisation.
Mandrake.Net
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1841236
It took 6 years to update my code after I handed rob the set of perl
code I hacked out to run my site, but finally I changed mandrake.net
over to running slash. I'm still working on bringing over the last of
the content from the old site, and still tweaking everything (I still
have the default slash color scheme) but it looks pretty good so far.
Email password problem
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1753230
Hi, My site does not seem to send out password emails to new users at
all, and also leaves this message in dailystuff.log: Can't call method
"bulkmail" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5
.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Slash/Utility/System. pm line 168. I am
still relatively a newbie to slash, and I attempted to search for this
message - but have seen no ref to it yet. I have also listed the users
in mysql to make sure there arent any wierd email addresses.
--orionrobots
ERROR WHEN RUNNING: install-slashsite -u user
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/0710226
I am new to installing Slash so let me appologize now less I not anger
the Gods for my stupidity. So I have started out the right way by
searching the past posts on this site, reading the FAQ and "How to
install Slash for dummies." In all that reading I have only found one
post here where someone else has documented experiencing this problem.
However no one responded to the poster's issue in 2002 so I am still at
an impase and will ask the question here again. Thanks in advance for
any help you can give me. Here is an excerpt of what I see after I type
"instal-slashsite -u virtslash." FYI... I am installing Slash on a
RedHat 8.0 system and have been following the install instructions for
ÂHow to install Slash for Dummies. [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]#
./install-slashsite -u virtslash Base class package
"Template::Provider" is empty. (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module
which defines that package first.) at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-m
ulti/Slash/Display/Provider.pm line 34
Installing Slashcode without Root Privileges
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/1838201
I have a question, and I'm not exactly sure where to ask it. Is it
possible for Slashcode to be installed without root privileges on a
normal user account? Can the required Perl modules be installed in a
subdirectory of Slashcode? Any information or responses in the form of
comments to the above two questions is appreciated greatly. Thanks in
advance!
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