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Sourceforge
FreeCraft stable 1.18 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259595
The FreeCraft team is proud to announce the release of FreeCraft 1.18.
Thanks to everyone who contributed code, reported bugs, and suggested
ideas. FreeCraft is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game
engine. Here are the main new features: o Save and Load (Single Player)
o Shared Vision and Diplomacy o Replays o Auto Spell Cast o Much
Improved Multiplayer Support o FcMP and WC2 can be played against each
other o Many bug fixes For a complete list of changes, please see the
ChangeLog:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/freecraft/fre
ecraft/doc/ChangeLog.html?rev=1.449 You can find a game on
irc.freenode.net, channel #freecraft. Enjoy!
phpESP 1.6 Final
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259801
phpESP provides scripts to let non-technical users create surveys,
administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online
after database initialization. MySQL database backend. Version 1.6
incorporates several large changes since version 1.5. New features
include: save/resume feature on surveys, self-sign-up for respondents,
viewing of individual responses, a graphical interface for cross
analysis, and a system test script. Additionally, the install procedure
has been streamlined, and the documentation has been updated.
Non-English translations should be available out of the box for many
more platforms that have GNU Gettext support. Several new translations
are available in 1.6 including: Japanese, Swedish, and Greek. There
have been some minor database changes since 1.5, so please read the
INSTALL guide.
PCGen 4.3.5 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259786
PCGen is a Java-based RPG character generator and maintenance program
that works on all platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc). All
datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available
through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. We'll soon
be releasing another production release of PCGen - version 5.0.0. We'd
appreciate feedback on the editors, the Companions section of the
Resources tab (especially for Paladins and Blackguards) and the
Equipping tab. We're also considering using that release to migrate
PCGen to using java 1.4.1 now that Apple has released it. This decision
is not final yet, pending our testing efforts. For users who have
trouble getting the 3 zip files to unzip properly, we have some
OS-specific installs that should help minimize the chance of install
related errors. Links to these installs can be found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/files/Alternate%20PCGen%20Releases/
These are the same PCGen everyone else uses, just packaged with
installers which target Windows and Mac OS X users specifically.
Typically there is a lag between when the official release is done and
when these special installers are ready. We always recommend that users
install new versions of PCGen in a 'new' directory. Below is a list of
everything that has been addressed in this release. If you reported one
of these, please verify that it is was addressed properly. PCGen is
available at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net , and the main discussion
group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen . If you wish to
discuss making your own custom lst files for use with PCGen, the data
monkeys have made their home at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgenlistfilehelp and they pride
themselves in being able to field all questions about the data - from
very basic to very advanced. All three zips are required to run PCGen:
pcgen435_part1of3.zip, pcgen435_part2of3.zip and pcgen435_part3of3.zip.
Bugs 588777 LEVEL:X:SA:Something tag misbehaving 700446 4.3.4 - Cannot
reopen some character files 699891 Container behavior 584972 New party
file format breaks mutiuser 698832 Equipping Tab - Keyboard Issue #2
698828 Equipping Tab - Keybard Issue #1 698826 Equipping Tab - Location
Popup autosized wrong 698702 Duplicate loading of familiar 698670 4.3.4
won't load phb.pcc Features 698824 Equipping Tab - Add All Equipment
698840 Equipping Tab - Put plus/minus on Item column 606205 Add Buy%
and Sell% on Right Click menu for items PCGen:DM Bugs 682005
melee+thrown weapons need .Thrown 699141 "thundering" magical attribute
PCGen:DM List File Fixes 686265 added type:humanoid to
slayershobgobraces.lst 686263 added type:humanoid to
slayersgnollraces.lst PCGen:DM Tag Modification Requests 677326
TARGETAREA - sovereignspells.lst 677325 TARGETAREA -
deadlandswebspells.lst 677323 TARGETAREA - wayhucksterspells.lst 677316
TARGETAREA - slayersamazonsspells.lst 677315 TARGETAREA -
necromancyspells.lst 677314 TARGETAREA - montecookwebspells.lst 677313
TARGETAREA - thouhtskillpowers.lst 677312 TARGETAREA -
eldritch2spells.lst 677311 TARGETAREA - eldritchspells.lst 677310
TARGETAREA - kalamarspells.lst 677309 TARGETAREA - arcanaspells.lst
677320 TARGETAREA - deadlandsspells.lst 677319 TARGETAREA -
seabloodspells.lst 677318 TARGETAREA - slayerstroglodytesspells.lst
677317 TARGETAREA - slayershobgobspells.lst 677307 TARGETAREA -
traptreachspells.lst 677306 TARGETAREA - spellsspellcraftspe
spellsspellcraftspells.lst 677304 TARGETAREA - mythicracesspells.lst
677303 TARGETAREA - starfarershbspells.lst 677302 TARGETAREA -
melnibonespells.lst 677301 TARGETAREA - guardianspells.lst 677300
TARGETAREA - touchedgodsspells.lst 677298 TARGETAREA -
beyondtheveilspells.lst 677297 TARGETAREA - warspells.lst 677294
TARGETAREA - dragonsspells.lst 657059 Verify pipe is the only
delimiter:VISION 677295 TARGETAREA - dungeonsspells.lst PCGenDocs:
Output Sheet Bugs 702203 Greatsword outputs with N/A for To Hit & Dmg
699956 SAs missing from _combined 686797 Two-handed weapons: 1-H lines?
697216 TO-HIT under PB Range incorrect PCGenDocs: Output Sheet Feature
Requests 634092 TAG for ONLY Domain Spells 700057 Remove the race name
from the innate spell header The PCGen Development Team
AviSynth 2.0.8 and 2.5.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259821
Two new versions of AviSynth has been released today. The 2.0.8 version
contains critical bugfixes, and is supplied for those who enjoy the
stability of the non-beta versions. Avisynth is a scripting language
and a collection of filters for simple (and not so simple!) non-linear
video editing tasks. It frameserves video to (most) applications.
AviSynth 2.5.1 beta is an update to the first 2.5.0 beta and contains
many fixes and additions, as well as some considerable speedups. Mainly
interlaced processing has been improved vastly, but also general
stability should be better.
Quartz 1.0.6 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258718
This release of Quartz, contains several small corrections and bug
fixes, as well as a few new features (see change log). Quartz is an
enterprise-class Job Scheduler for use in stand-alone and full-blown
J2EE Applications. Quartz is very light-weight, highy scalable, and
extremely easy to use within your own applications. Changes: Changes in
version 1.0.6 ========================== 1- Added DB2v6Delegate for
usage with JDBC-JobStore and older versions of DB2. 2- Added
HSQLDBDelegate for usage with HSQLDB 1.7.X - previously, MSSQLDelegate
was used by HSQLDB users, but that was confusing. 3- Updated JavaDOC
and table-creation docs for all db types / delegates. 4- Implemented
JobStoreTX.getTriggersForJob(name, group) - it used to throw an
UnsupportedOperationException. 5- Misc small JavaDOC corrections. 6-
Additions to the Quartz tutorial. 7- Introduced
"org.quartz.spi.SchedulerPlugin" interface. 8- Introduced
"org.quartz.plugins.history" package - with plugins for recording
historical data. 9- Fixed bug in CronTrigger related to expressions
using "#" in the day-of-week field. 10- Fixed bug using non-global
JobListeners with the JDBC-Jobstore using OracleDelegate.
LameFE 2.2 Final released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258899
The LameFE project proudly announces the release of LameFE 2.2 Final.
After nearly one year of beta testing we have reached the goal: LameFE
2.2 LameFE is more than a powerfull frontend for LAME. It reads CDDA,
Wave, APE, supports Winamp plugins. Besides MP3 it encodes to
Ogg/Vorbis, Monkeys Audio and Wave. Other Features: Cue-Sheets, FreeDB,
CD-Text, Batchprocessing mode for CD-Ripping, and many more. Download
English or German Version at:
http://lamefe.sf.net/index.php?showpage=download Thees Winkler. ---
Project Admin
Bossogg 0.9.3.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259518
Bossogg is a server based music (ogg/mp3) player. Completed clients
include: PHP and SDL (developed for TV out). Uses SQLite/PostgreSQL for
data storage and SDL_sound for playback. Bossogg 0.9.3.1 is a bugfix
release. The configuration file was unusable without modification, and
definatly not ready for end users. This fixes that, plus the link in
README to the home page location.
wv2-0.0.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258862
wv2 is a portable C++ implemenation of a MS Word import library. Right
now it supports importing of Word 97, 2000, and XP documents; support
for Word 6 and Word 95 is planned. The 0.0.8 release contains bugfixes.
TclXML version 2.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258863
Version 2.6 of the TclXML, TclDOM and TclXSLT packages are now
available. The TclXML family of packages provide XML support for the
Tcl scripting language.
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.
Slashdot
Wired's Wish List For 2013
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/0416251
[0]jpt.d writes "Wired has a nice [1]article on what they wish to be
for 2013. It is not too far fetched either! My personal favorite is the
roll up television screen made of light-emitting-polymer. How about
another Apple gadget? Their first item is an [2]iPhone bracelet,
including the functionality of a 'PDA, wireless Internet, a mini iPod,
and, of course, a phone.' Notice the Apple logo in the picture." I'd
settle for ubiquitous unmetered wireless network access.
Links
0. mailto:jeffreydrake @ m a c . c om
1. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/fetishwish.html
2. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/images/sp_futfetish_1_1.jpg
Legal Issues Don't Bother American Downloaders
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/231248
An anonymous reader writes "Ipsos-Reid has [0]released its latest
research on file trading. Bottom line, the great majority of users do
not believe they are breaking the law. Only 9% feel there is anything
wrong with their actions. With 40 million Americans identified as
active file traders this is indeed stirring information, though not
surprising. Another stat, 73% of US downloaders report that their
motivation for trading was to sample music for later purchase. You can
see the [1]charts and original press release here."
Links
0. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/notwrong.html
1. http://www.ipsospa.com/pubaff/dsp_displaypr_us.cfm?id_to_view=1763
Alternate Reality Games Grab Mindshare
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/2253241
An nonymous reader points to articles [0]at the New York Times and
[1]on the BBC about online games that require a lot more audience
participation and curiosity than conventional games do. "Known as ARGs
or Alternate Reality Games, these immersive experiences mix real world
clues, phone calls, voicemail, email chatter-bots, real people playing
roles in real life and a bevy of bogus and legit websites, to create a
fully rounded gaming experience that bleeds over into everyday life.
With central sites like [2]ARGN, [3]Unfiction, and endless forums and
Yahoo groups, the BBC claims that this is not only a quickly emerging
gaming trend, but that it may also have real-world applications like
group dynamics and problem solving. [4]Chasing the Wish claims to
already have a few thousand people worldwide playing since it opened
for play on Feb. 28. One sure sign of having people's attention is the
fact that it's already spawned a parody site, [5]Chasing the Fish."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/technology/circuits/06game.html
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/2735905.stm
2. http://www.argn.com/
3. http://www.unfiction.com/
4. http://www.chasingthewish.com/
5. http://www.chasingthefish.com/
MySQL A Threat to Bigwigs?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/2233232
[0]Disoculated writes "[1]Is MySQL a threat to bigwigs? is the question
asked in CNN's technology section. The article notes that [2]MySQL is
running perhaps 20% of the web databases but its revenue is merely
0.02%... yet the company is still making money and putting out an
excellent product. Is this a sign that the database market is in for a
drastic change? Of course, there's no mention of [3]PostgreSQL or
[4]mSQL, but I guess that's typical."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/12/fortune.ff.open.source/index.html
2. http://www.mysql.com/
3. http://www.postgresql.com/
4. http://www.hughes.com.au/
RMS Turns 50
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/2222254
[0]gnuhead writes "[1]RMS is turning 50 on the 16th, according to [2]
this post in the [3]FSF India mailing list. Some of the members [4]have
decided to give a birthday gift to RMS by celebrating March 16th to
April 15th as 'GNU/Linux' month, and having a 'It's GNU/Linux dammit!'
email sig. for this month. Happy birthday RMS!!!"
Links
0. http://gnu.org.in
1. http://stallman.org/
2. http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2003-March/000742.html
3. http://fsf.org.in/
4. http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2003-March/000741.html
Teach A Robot To Drive, Win A Million Bucks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/218228
An [0]Anonymous Reader writes "[1]DARPA has released the details of a
'[2]Grand Challenge,' with a $1 million prize. The challenge is to
build an autonomous vehicle which can 'navigate on its own over a
250-mile desert course in less than 10 hours.' from L.A. to Vegas,
'without external communication or human control.' The contest is to be
conducted in March 2004, and is open to all comers. Can we get at least
one entry to represent slashdot?" We've mentioned [3]this contest [4]a
few times before: any intended entrants out there want to disclose your
secret plans?
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.darpa.mil/
2. http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/
3. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/06/0336205&tid=126
4. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/1748210&tid=126
Oil-Cooling 802.11 Infrastructure
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/2023221
[0]gomoX writes "A [1]group of 802.11b fans in Tordera, Spain, are
running a [2]wireless node on the roof of a building, with the idea of
a free wireless network for everyone on the neighbourhood. It´s a
system running linux with a home made can antenna, mounted on a plastic
tool box in the roof. To keep it cool under the sun and protect it from
rain, wind, they have immersed it into vegetable oil (yes, the whole
thing). As oil is non-conductive, everything should run fine. The site
is in Spanish, here is the [3]google translation and the [4]google
cache."
Links
0. http://gomo AT datafull DOT com
1. http://www.sorgonet.com/torderawireless/
2. http://www.sorgonet.com/torderawireless/nodo1mejorado.html
3.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sorgonet.com%2Ftorderawireless%2F&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=es&ie=ISO-8859-1&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
4.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:R-yM9N_JvFkC:www.sorgonet.com/torderawireless/+tordera+wireless&hl=es&ie=UTF-8
Fuel Cells Promised For Next Year
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/1835218
An anonymous reader writes "According to an [0]article in today's New
York Times, fuel cells for portable consumer electronic devices will
start appearing next year. First for laptops, and later for smaller
devices like cellphones. Among the interesting benefits of fuel cells
over batteries is the ability to swap cells without having to power
down the device." The article mentions the [1]Toshiba cells
demonstrated at CeBit, and -- no surprise -- Japan is likely to be the
first market for these tiny fuel cells.
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/business/yourmoney/16FUEL.html
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/196256&tid=126
Commander Keen: 13 Years Later
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/1718207
16977 writes "I just noticed that [0]Id Software is now selling
downloadable versions of its classic titles [1]Commander Keen: Invasion
of the Vorticons and [2]Goodbye Galaxy. Although the game is over 10
years old by now, there is still a [3]thriving community of Keen fans
out there whose interest has not waned. We now have [4]level editors
for both Keen Vorticons and Goodbye Galaxy, unofficial Keen [5]fan
software, and of course the infamous [6]Dopefish, which has by now made
cameo appearances in well over a dozen computer games. However, we have
yet to see [7]Commander Keen: The Universe is Toast, the sequel to the
previous Keen game that was planned but never made. With the original
developers pursuing their own independent projects, it doesn't look
like it will happen anytime soon. But in the meantime, die-hard Keen
fans have been getting by, not unlike Farscape fans after their show
was cancelled."
Links
0. http://www.idsoftware.com/
1. http://www.idsoftware.com/games/vintage/ck-vorticons
2. http://www.idsoftware.com/games/vintage/ck-galaxy
3. http://pub128.ezboard.com/bpubliccommanderkeenforum
4. http://jump.to/keen
5. http://pub128.ezboard.com/fpimentogamedevelopment
6. http://www.dopefish.com/fishinfo.html
7. http://www.3drealms.com/keenhistory/
Fooling NMAP for Whatever Reason
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/165214
[0]taviso writes "Are you bored with your OS fingerprint? Do you dream
of being able to impress your friends by convincing them your webserver
is running on a [1]sega dreamcast, or Apple LaserWriter? Well Dream no
more! David Berrueta has written a paper oulining the techniques and
tools available to defeat [2]nmap's [3] OS fingerprinting, available
[4]here [[5]pdf]. Besides the hours of entertainment this could
provide, he also lists some of the more [6]serious reasons why you
might want to consider this."
Links
0. http://taviso.decsystem.org/
1. http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/dreamcast/
2. http://www.insecure.org/nmap
3. http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.html
4. http://voodoo.somoslopeor.com/papers/nmap.html
5. http://voodoo.somoslopeor.com/papers/nmap.pdf
6.
http://voodoo.somoslopeor.com/papers/nmap.html#Reasons_to_hide_your_OS_to_the_entire
Freshmeat
3D Lissajous Figures 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116459/
qliss3d renders 3D Lissajous figures (figures made of a different sine
function for each dimension) with a Qt interface. Users can look at the
figures from any viewing position they like and even "listen"
to the sound of the figures.
Abe's Amazing Adventure!! 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116520/
Abe's Amazing Adventure!! is a scrolling, platform-jumping,
key-collecting, ancient pyramid exploring game, written vaguely in the
style of similar games for the Commodore Plus/4.
alterMIME 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116457/
alterMIME is a set of utilities designed to assist in the modification
of MIME-encoded mailpacks often used by Inflex, XaMime, and other
email-scanners. alterMIME can add disclaimers and nullify specified
attachments. alterMIME is part of the commercial XaMime software suite,
but is being offered back to the OpenSource community.
annie 0.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116494/
annie is a C++ API (library) for neural network training and execution.
It can be linked to both Windows and Linux applications. Support for
multi-layer perceptron networks, radial-basis networks, and Hopfield
Networks is present. It can also be interfaced with Matlab's Neural
Network toolbox.
apt4rpm 0.64.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116512/
The superb Debian package installer APT has since some time become
available for RPM-based distributions. However, to install RPM packages
with apt, an apt repository is needed. apt4rpm creates the apt
repository from an RPM repository. The rpm repository can be located
locally or remotely. Once the apt repository has been created with
apt4rpm, the apt tools can be used to install RPMs.
Atlantik 0.5.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116487/
Atlantik is a KDE client for playing the Atlantic and Monopoly
boardgames with a monopd/atlanticd server.
AutoDia 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116456/
AutoDia is a Perl application designed to allow the easy creation of
XML diagrams from various data sources. The output is meant for use
with Dia (or any XML parser). AutoDia supports any language through the
use of handlers, and a good handler for Perl as well as a simple
handler for C++ are included.
b2 Smarty mod 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116477/
b2 Smarty mod is a version of the b2 Weblog system that adds support
for Smarty templates and caching. It also make it much easier to host
multiple b2 blogs on one machine. By using Smarty templates, blog
editors no longer need to know anything about PHP.
Catch the Furball 1.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116448/
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.
Comment 0.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116443/
Comment is a command line directory context note taker. Notes are
stored in both the local directory and each users home. It was
developed as a low impact tool for retaining flyaway information that
is often needed at a later date. The dual storage system provides
convenient access to prior notes, and all notes are stored in
plain-text format.
CSBuddy 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116514/
CSBuddy is a tool designed to help Counter-Strike server owners,
particularly those running AdminMod. It maintains a queryable database
of all players that have been seen on the server, and it filters the
raw logs of a Counter-Strike server and distills them into a single
CSBuddy log which shows only high-level activity such as excessive
friendly fire incidents, admin activity, and players complaining about
misbehavior or saying suspicious things. This tool is built upon an
included Counter-Strike log file parser which is provided in a simple
derivable class.
cwdaemon 0.2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116452/
cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the PC parallel port and a simple
transistor switch to output Morse code to a transmitter from a text
message sent to it via the UDP protocol.
Debt Minder 1.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116519/
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
Disk Based HashTables 1.0-13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116484/
Disk based hashes is a method to create multidimensional binary trees
on disk. This library permits the extension of the database concept to
a plethora of electronic data, such as graphical information.
Dragon Character Training 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116478/
Dragon Character Training is a PalmOS program using stroke recognition
to help you learn to read and write Chinese characters. It is good for
learning Mandarin vocabulary and characters.
E-Cell System 3.1.92 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116451/
E-Cell System is an object-oriented software suite for modelling,
simulation, and analysis of large scale complex systems such as
biological cells. It allows many components, driven by multiple
algorithms with different timescales, to coexist.
elmo 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116491/
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, elmo
makes an attempt to determine the sex of the person being quoted so
that it can choose the appropriate words to use in the quote's
attribution.
Enemies of Carlotta 0.21 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116460/
Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic
the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in
Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is
smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman.
Fan Control for Dell Laptops 0.3b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116445/
Fan Control for Dell Laptops is a little tool for full automatic fan
control and temperature monitoring on Dell Laptops under FreeBSD.
Fingerprint Verification System 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116492/
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.
Gambas 0.50 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116513/
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.
GNOME Installation Guide 16/03/2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116462/
The GNOME Installation Guide was written to help unfamiliar users
install a stable GNOME system that includes more than the default
applications. It teaches readers how to compile GNOME on their own
instead of installing precompiled packages. It also covers installation
of extra GNOME programs, both those hosted by the GNOME project and
those which are not.
GNU MP3 Daemon 2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116525/
GNUMP3d is a small, portable, and robust server for streaming MP3s,
OGGs, and other audio files. It presents a simple and attractive
interface to Web browsers, which allows you to navigate through your
music collection. Individual files may be streamed, as can whole
directory trees. Other features include the ability to see your most
popular tracks, and to search your collection for songs.
GNU VCDImager/VCDRip 0.7.14 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116474/
GNU VCDImager is a program for making Video CD (and Super Video CD,
a.k.a. SVCD) images out of MPEG movie files. The images it creates are
ready to use with programs which understand BIN/CUE images, such as
cdrdao. GNU VCDRip allows for reversing the process, ripping mpeg
tracks from (Super) Video CDs.
gnuPod 0.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116444/
gnuPod is a collection of tools which allow you to use your iPod under
Linux and other UNIX- like operating systems. HFS+ and FAT32 formatted
iPods are supported.
gURLChecker 0.3-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116502/
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.
Highlight 2.0b-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116447/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX
converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It
supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more
programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing
database.
JBidwatcher 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116469/
JBidwatcher is a powerful eBay-user tool implemented in Java. Its
features include tracking of auctions, bidding, sniping (automated
bidding in the last moments of an auction), and a unique multisniping
feature that allows you to snipe on a group of auctions, but stop the
sniping as soon as you win one. It also includes remote Web-based
management, XML-formatted save files, drag and drop support, some
support for auction sellers, and dozens of other useful auction
features.
JFtp 1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116450/
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 up/download, 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. The clients lets you browse the
server while transferring files in both directions. JFtp can also be
started in a Web browser via Java Web Start.
JSVN 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116510/
JSVN is a Java graphical front-end to the Subversion revision control
system.
kbirthday 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116483/
kbirthday is a Panel applet which reminds you of birthdays and
anniversaries listed in your KDE addressbook.
linuxsms 0.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116475/
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.
Lorentz 0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116466/
Lorentz is a curve fitting program aimed for the fitting of
spectroscopic data. The fitting function is specified as a
user-extendable list of symbols representing various peak shapes,
backgrounds, etc.
Mah-Jong 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116518/
Mah-Jong is a set of three programs comprising a networked Mah-Jong
game, a graphical client for humans, and a basic computer player. The
game can be played by four humans, by a human and three computer
players, or any other combination. The version of Mah-Jong is that
generally called Chinese Classical. It should not be confused with the
solitaire games such as xmahjongg.
Mamory 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116523/
Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It
also has a CLI client.
mboxstats 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116470/
mboxstats creates top-10 lists of the messages in a mailbox (top
writers/subjects/messages per day, etc.).
Megamek.NET 0.305
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116476/
Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become
commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a
minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight
against other players online. The game's community is already quite
large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025
timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060.
mICQ 0.4.10.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116495/
mICQ (Matt's ICQ Clone) is a portable, small, yet powerful
console-based ICQ client. It supports password changing, auto-away,
creation of new accounts, and other features that makes it a very
complete yet simple client. It is able to send and receive messages
from the ICQ network, list users that are offline and online (including
their online status), search for users by email address, and look up
basic (name, UIN, email) information.
MoviX 0.8.0pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116497/
MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful
multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly
console menu will allow you to use MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play
any DVD/VCD, video/audio files (most noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG,
QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG/VORBIS), TV (provided you have a TV
card), and radio stations on the Internet (if you are connected to a
LAN). Since the entire operating system is loaded into RAM, you do not
even need a hard disk to use MoviX.
MrProjext 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116461/
MrProjext is a MrProject database extractor and converter. It can
search (extract) the tasks belonging to a specific time slot or
recource. As a converter, it can rewrite the extracted result as a
MrProject, Evolution, Yank, or Pilot file. It's a tool for doing those
jobs which are a little bit out of the scope of the MrProject
developer.
Mysql Data Manager 1.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116522/
Mysql Data Manager is a Web-based MySQL client that provides local or
remote database access. It allows direct data access and database
management via an easy and intuitive interface.
MythTV 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116515/
MythTV is a project aiming to create a homebrew set-top box. The end
goal is to have a nice interface for watching TV, recording shows,
listening to music, etc., all displayed on a TV and controlled by a
remote.
netcount 0.6a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116501/
netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display
tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is
called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from
cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in
Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly
basis. Also part of the package is nstat, an X utility to display
connection status, to hang up, and to start and terminate pppd.
nut 7.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116490/
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals
for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference, Release 15, which contains 6,220
foods. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats,
calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the
essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels
are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard
of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully
customized. Recipes can be added. The program is completely menu-driven
and there are no commands to learn.
phpOpenTracker 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116507/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site
traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that,
either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two
lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web
site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of
Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and
perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your
visitors' click paths).
phpShadow 0.62.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116485/
phpShadow is a complete but lightweight content management / portal
system (framework ) with a modular design.
Pixory Beta 2.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116467/
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.
PyKota Print Quota System 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116455/
PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the
Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). It features per-printer user and
group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator,
commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, and much more.
QTParted 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116464/
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.
ripMIME 1.3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116453/
ripMIME extracts attachment files out of a MIME-encoded email pack.
SlackCheck 2.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116471/
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.
snmptherm 20030316
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116504/
snmptherm is SNMP agent (uses Net-SNMP AgentX) for the DS1621 digital
thermomether-based PC thermometer/WebTherm. It uses libtherm, and it is
possible to monitor up to 8 sensors.
Spamcup 1.03 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116479/
Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same
actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web
browser, but from the commandline.
Take a Joint 20030316
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116480/
Take a Joint has the goal to simplify the integration of Linux clients
into Windows networks. Sharing a directory should be as easy as under
Windows. Users should be able to share their directories even without
being root or knowing the Samba configuration file smb.conf. To fulfill
the high security demands, users who would like to share their
directories have to be activated by root first. The same applies to
directories or devices the user isn't allowed to access with his
regular rights. Currently both console programs taja (admin program)
and taju (user program) are usable.
TomPong 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116454/
TomPong is a very simple implementation of the classic Pong game, using
Python and Pygame. It features realistic physics for motion using
vectors, not-so-realistic but very fun spin dynamics, scoring, and a
well-implemented simple AI.
Vcard_Parse 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116481/
Vcard_Parse is a PHP class that allows you to parse vCard files and
text blocks, and get back an array of the elements of each vCard in the
file or text.
wapding 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116468/
wapding is a simple and fast WAP interface to the DING dictionaries of
Frank Richter.
WeeWM 0.01-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116488/
WeeWM (Wee Enhanced Environment) is a fast and light window manager
for. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable, and
has dock management, smart window placement, virtual desktops, and
more.
XPLC 0.3.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116498/
XPLC is a component system that tries to enable the use of components
in a pervasive way. It aims to be easy to use, have low speed and size
overhead, and be language and platform neutral. Basically, the idea is
to leave no excuse for an application not to be component-enabled
(being a component and/or using components).
Yet Another Advanced Log Analyzer 0.6.3 (Usable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116508/
"yaala" parses logfiles and generates very detailed
statistics in HTML format. The information one will get can be selected
by using SQL-like expressions, which provide filtering with relational
operators (like equal, greater than, less than) as well as regular
expressions. It includes input parsers for the Common Log Format (e.g.
Apache's access logs), NCSA logs (e.g. Apache's combined logs), Squid
access logs, the xferlog format (used by FTP daemons), bind9's query
logs, and postfix entries in the maillog.
Yet Another Mail Manager 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116458/
Yet Another Mail Manager (YAMM) is a Java email client with support for
MIME, POP3, SMTP, HTML, filters, multiple mail accounts on different
servers, and file attachments.
Slashcode
Upgrading
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2012236
I just wanted to suggest that someone out there who's rather good with
Slash write a How-To on Upgrading to the latest CVS, or upgrading to
the latest release, or both! It'd sure help me out. (a simple how-to in
the comments to this article would help a great deal as well!)
Misusing backSlash as Instant Messenger
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1712245
We just recently noticed, that backSlash is (in 1.x as well as 2.x) a
very fine instant messenger between authors who just have web access or
not liking IRC or ICQ. Just start a new story, put the message (up to
50 characters) in the title field, and hit preview. Immediately your
message is shown to all logged in authors when they load the next Slash
page. And if you then have the submission list open with it's refresh
of 900 seconds (the default valalue), you always have the newest
messages even without hitting the reload button. It also proofed to be
useful to send replies or ACK messages to acknowledge, that the message
has been read. But be careful not to submit those messages as stories.
This can be awkward. (So there's even a little bit of thrill when using
this type of IM... ;-)
What is the Mysterious future and why did it show
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1952234
Currently Slashdot has an article posted "in the Mysterious future"
showing on the main page. What up with dat?
SSL and slashcode fulltime
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/11/0737249
Does anyone know if Slash works with SSL (not just for auth. but full
time https)???? I need this and I'm not sure where to go from here.
Current setup: Linux 8.0 / apache 1.3 / latest slash. (works very
well). Some links and instructions would greatly be appreciated.
thanks, -Kam.
Streetnoise.org - Your Daily Political Roller Coaster
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/1820238
Without further ado, here are the fruit of my last 12 weekends. The
site runs on 2.6.6 and I probably won't touch it until there is a more
decent upgrade strategy. Let me know if you like it and if you're
interested in politics, please don't be shy and post a story when you
run into something outrageous (which is easy these days).
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
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