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Cube Fodder: Tangle Desktop Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5a38.shtml
Gadgets: Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a3c.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Tshirts: Kids: newbie
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59cc.shtml
Caffeine: Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/5a35.shtml
Gadgets: Super Bright GREEN Laser Pointer!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1d.shtml
Gadgets: SoundBug - Turns Glossy Surfaces Into Speakers!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a15.shtml
Tshirts: It Must Be User Error
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59fe.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher Privacy Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Gadgets: Mini Wireless Color Video Cam (for RC rovers)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59eb.shtml
Cube Goodies: Levitron Desktop Levitation Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59a9.shtml
Tshirts: Bug Off, I'm On My Break
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/5a00.shtml
Watches: onHand PC Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1a.shtml
Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/beer.shtml
Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml
Cube Fodder: New Desktop Mini Fridge/Warmer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5991.shtml
Mods: New Lian-LIi Cases
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/cases-mods.shtml
Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59e0.shtml
Cube Fodder: Rogers Connection Magnetic Set
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59b4.shtml
Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/59de.shtml
Sourceforge
Automated Security Tools
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51027
Release Candidate 1
phpLotto
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53340
phpLotto 1st Release
Legend of the Wonderer TCG
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44698
battle system in the project Docs
Advanced Simlulation Toolkit
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48818
Recruiting
PHPortal
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28568
PHPortal version 0.1.9 released!
PCGen -- A d20 Character Generator
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576
PCGen 2.6.3 is available
MySQL Objective C API for Cocoa
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42424
SMySQL version 0.7.0
i810 Framebuffer Device Driver
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39579
Video Overlay Support for the Intel 810 and 815 Framebuffer
'Just For Fun' Network Management System
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46041
JFF Network Management System 0.6.4
VietPad
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46758
VietPad 1.0.2 Release
Slashdot
Sony Introduces Passage
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/0346223
[0]UncleCrispy writes "[1]Sony, a newcomer in the cable industry
announced its new technology, [2]Passage, on the opening day of the
[3]BroadBand Plus Show to the receptive ears of the cable community.
"Sony's Passage Technology is a simple, elegant solution that allows
equipment from multiple vendors to peacefully co-exist on legacy
digital CATV networks" Now you won't be stuck with the SetTopBox your
cable provider forces on you, but with Passage you should be able to go
to the store and buy any box you want. If you want a DVR box, you can
buy it, and you'll no longer be stuck with the rental fees. Sounds like
it's a good deal for the cable providers and consumers, but how will
current SetTopBox monopolies take the news?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.sony.com/
2. http://www.sonypassage.com/
3. http://www.broadbandplus.org/
eGovOS Running Again
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/0318238
Tony Stanco, host of the most recent [0]eGovOS meeting is putting
together anyone. I've included the salient information below - but one
thing of note is that it's going to be an opportunity for open source
vendors to hook up with the government. In other conference news, I've
got my plane ticket for [1]CALU - woohoo!
Links
0. http://www.egovos.org
1. http://conf.linux.org.au/
Fuel Cell Powered Backup System
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/2327254
bassrat writes "Coleman just announced the world's first backup power
system with Fuel Cells. Like any new technology, it's a bit pricey at
$6K but the rest of the specs are pretty decent. Info at
[0]http://www.airgen.com/";
Links
0. http://www.airgen.com/
Earth as Art
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/1354221
bravehamster writes "There's a new exhibit at the Library of Congress
displaying [0]images taken of earth by the Landsat satellites. The
exhibit displays satellite photos that have an intrinsic aesthetic
quality, showing the beauty of Earth as seen from really far away.
There's an article about it on MSNBC [1]here, and don't forget to check
out those [2]fjords!"
Links
0. http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart
1. http://www.msnbc.com/news/842531.asp
2. http://astroboy.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/fjords.html
LaCie Releases 500GB Add On Drives
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/2225234
[0]Glewtion writes "LaCie has release their "Big Disk" - a large
capacity FireWire case (400 / 500GB) with decent specs. The only thing
they're not clear on is the fact that there are two drives in the
case...but that only seems logical. Looks like it's only available in
Europe though, so here's a link to a [1]French Hardware site's
description of it (translation courtesy of Google). Pretty cool for a
portable MP3 collection. [2]Here's the LaCie page." What's not apparant
is that this case has two drives in it apparantly. Very Slick.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://wwwinpact-hardware.com/read_comment.php3%3Fid_news%3D7655&prev=/search%3Fq%3DLaCie%2B%2522Big%2BDisk%2522%26num%3D30%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff
2. http://www.lacie.com/products/product.cfm?id=D9D5898F-01A6-11D7-98250090278D3ED0
IDE RAID Examined
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/2245253
Bender writes "The Tech Report has [0]an interesting article comparing
IDE RAID controllers from four of the top manufacturers. The article
serves as more than just a straight product comparison, because the
author has included tests for different RAID levels and different
numbers of drives, plus a comprehensive series of benchmarks intended
to isolate the performance quirks of each RAID controller card at each
RAID level. The results raise questions about whether IDE RAID can
really take the place of a more expensive SCSI storage subsystem in
workstation or small-scale server environments. Worthwhile reading for
the curious sysadmin." I personally would love to hear any ide-raid
stories that slashdotters might have.
Links
0. http://tech-report.com/reviews/2002q4/ideraid/index.x?pg=1
Secure Interaction Design
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/2138200
[0]Pingster writes "Next week, [1]ICICS 2002 will take place in
Singapore. Out of [2]40 papers at the conference, there will be just
[3]one paper that looks at human factors. Though many people know that
usability problems can render even the strongest security useless, the
security community has only [4]recently started paying attention to
usability issues. More serious thinking about usability and security is
desperately needed. The [3]paper proposes [5]ten interaction design
principles. Maybe you'll find them obvious; maybe you'll disagree with
them entirely. Great! Let's have a discussion."
Links
0. http://zesty.ca/
1. http://www.krdl.org.sg/General/conferences/icics/Homepage.html
2. http://www.krdl.org.sg/forthcoming-events/icics/conferenceProgram.html
3. http://zesty.ca/sid/uidss.pdf
4. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~rachna/security_usability.html
5. http://zesty.ca/sid/
Build Your Own Linux PVR
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/2125257
linuxwrangler writes "A few weeks ago Russell Pavlicek, Infoworld's
'Open Source' columnist mentioned a [0]personal linux video
time-shifter (PVR) he built. In response to reader requests he has now
posted a [1]page describing the project." Escaping the monthly fees of
TiVo is a good motivation -- and the total cost here isn't bad either.
Links
0. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/10/07/021007opsource.xml
1. http://www.linuxprofessionalsolutions.com/pavlicek/tv.html
Week-Long Free-Software Class for Kids?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/1333200
[0]mmol_6453 asks: "I have the opportunity to submit a plan for a
week-long class about 'Alternative Operating Systems' to our local
community college's Computer Camp. The students will be aged 8-16.
We've had classes attended by students who used Linux, but we've never
set up a class with alternatives as options. We've found that students
in this age range, when interested in the material, can absorb a great
deal of information in a short time. This means there's a lot of
potential to teach them about Linux, *BSD, and open-source. We often
get extremely bright students here, the kind who are likely to go out
and earn $80,000/yr in a post-90s economy. Some of them are even on
Slashdot. I want to give the rest a boost in the right direction."
Links
0. mailto:short.circuit@mail. g r n e t.com
Did Life Originate Underwater?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/1842213
TuringTest writes "Sciencedaily reports a highly controversial [0] new
theory about the origins of life from Professor William Martin of the
University of Dusseldorf and Dr Michael Russell of the Scottish
Environmental Research Centre in Glasgow. The theory briefly states
that inorganic cells where first, then living systems evolved inside
these incubators which allowed an enough rich micro-environment. The
small compartments would have been formed in iron sulphide rocks near
hot, hydrothermal vents on the sea floor, not in the atmosphere. Wow,
that would answer the chicken-egg problem."
Links
0. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021204080856.htm
Freshmeat
23 Ounces Of Glass 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105438/
23 Ounces Of Glass is an aqua glass styled blue and gray theme.
Alpha Amp 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105290/
Alpha Amp features the background of the KDE Alpha theme.
Amaya 7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105481/
Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes
equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface. It lets users both browse
and author valid Web pages, with standards including (X)HTML, native
MathML, and SVG documents. It also includes a collaborative annotation
application (RDF).
Arkeia 5.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105510/
Arkeia is the solution for automated backup/archiving and restoration
on Linux, UNIX, and Windows NT networks. ARKEIA utilizes an exclusive
multi-flow technology to deliver speeds that are 200 to 300% faster
than rival software packages. Its unique transaction engine allows
multiple backups and restores to be performed simultaneously with total
reliability. This is especially valuable for multiple users backing up
or restoring data on their own. (A multiple drive library is required).
atop 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105501/
Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top
command. At regular intervals, it shows system-level activity related
to the CPU, memory, swap, disks and network layers, and it shows for
every active process the CPU utilization in system and user mode, the
virtual and resident memory growth, priority, username, state, and exit
code. The process level activity is also shown for processes which
finished during the last interval, to get a complete overview about the
consumers of things such as CPU time. Atop only shows the active
system-resources and processes, and only shows the deviations since the
previous interval.
cDonkey 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105494/
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.
CGIProxy 2.0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105523/
CGIProxy is a Perl CGI script that acts as an Internet proxy. Through
it, you can retrieve resources that may be inaccessible from your own
machine. The user is kept as anonymous as possible from any servers.
HTTP and FTP are supported, and optionally SSL. Common uses include
VPN-like setups, anonymous proxies, personal proxies, and others.
Options include text-only browsing (to save bandwidth), selective
cookie and script removal, simple ad filtering, access restriction by
server, encoded target URLs and cookies, configuration by end user, and
much more (currently about 45 config options). An online demo is
available.
Coldtags suite 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105480/
The Coldtags suite is a collection of custom JSP tags that provides 90+
custom JSP tags for common programming tasks faced by JSP developers.
It also includes custom tags similar to the Web controls in the .NET
framework.
Connect Daily Web Calendar 2.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105512/
Connect Daily, a Web-based calendaring system, allows multiple users to
add and edit calendar events using a Web browser. The calendar display
can be directly integrated into your Web site. It provides advanced
capabilities for managing resources and facilities. The approval
processes allow many users to edit calendars, with the assurance that
all items added are approved. It supports event download to MS Outlook.
cvsplot 1.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105492/
Cvsplot is a Perl script which analyses the history of a CVS-managed
project. The script executes on a set of files, analyses their history,
and automatically generates graphs that plot lines of code and number
of files against time.
DNews 5.6e3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105517/
The DNEWS News Server is a (USENET) news server. Installing your own
local news server software gives you complete control to create your
own discussion forums for communication. DNews News Server software
provides many features, including ease-of-use, reliability, and
scalability.
eZ publish 3.0b4 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105491/
eZ publish is a professional open source content management system
(CMS). It lets you update and maintain the content of your site through
a user friendly Web interface, eliminating the need for HTML code. It
is dual licenced under the GPL and the eZ publish Professional licence,
where you can get the right to use the source code for making your own
commercial software. It is useful for building Web sites, Web shops,
intranets/extranets, news sites, portals, and more.
Fle3 1.4.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105508/
Fle3 is a Web-based learning environment. More specifically, it is a
server program for computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL).
The Fle3 Knowledge Building tool allows groups to carry out dialogues,
theory building, and debates by storing their thoughts into a shared
database. While knowledge building, groups may use knowledge types
(also called thinking types) to scaffold and structure their dialogues.
Fle3 WebTops can be used to store items such as files and notes,
organize them in folders, and share them with others. The Fle3 Jamming
tool is a shared space for collaborative construction of multimedia
data.
Flight Gear 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105493/
The Flight Gear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source,
multi-platform, cooperative flight sim development project. Source code
for the entire project is available and licensed under the GPL. The
Flight Gear project is working to create a sophisticated flight
simulator framework for the development and pursuit of interesting
flight simulator ideas. We are developing a good basic sim that can be
expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing.
FluxboxDaemon 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105519/
FluxboxDaemon is a simple and clean style that goes well with FreeBSD
wallpaper.
Ghemical 1.50alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105486/
Ghemical is a molecular modelling software package with a GUI (one for
the GLUT library, and another for GNOME), and some nice
3D-visualization tools. It supports methods based on both molecular
mechanics and quantum mechanics (using MOPAC7, and MPQC for QM). The
geometry optimization (for MM and QM) and molecular dynamics (for MM)
algorithms are included. Ghemical is written in C++, and hopefully
offers a good framework for a generic freeware molecular modelling
tool.
Ghemical 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105487/
Ghemical is a molecular modelling software package with a GUI (one for
the GLUT library, and another for GNOME), and some nice
3D-visualization tools. It supports methods based on both molecular
mechanics and quantum mechanics (using MOPAC7, and MPQC for QM). The
geometry optimization (for MM and QM) and molecular dynamics (for MM)
algorithms are included. Ghemical is written in C++, and hopefully
offers a good framework for a generic freeware molecular modelling
tool.
GL-117 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105477/
GL-117 is an OpenGL- and SDL-based action flight simulator written in
C++. It provides a random terrain generator, lighting effects, sounds,
and joystick support.
Globus Toolkit 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105516/
Globus is a project to provide robust, secure, peer-to-peer distributed
computing on supercomputers, clusters, and other high-performance
systems. It differs from other such network toolkits in that it is
tuned to the needs of high-end machines.
GNU Pth 2.0b2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105507/
GNU Portable Threads (Pth) is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based
library for Unix platforms providing non-preemptive priority-based
scheduling for multiple threads of execution
("multithreading") inside server applications. All threads
run in the same address space, but each thread has its own individual
program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. The
scheduling is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are
dispatched based on priority and pending events. The event facility
allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including
pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message
ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback
functions.
GSMBClient 0.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105534/
GSMBClient is a GTK 2 frontend for smbclient. It lets you browse Samba
shares, upload/download files or directories, etc.
harvest 1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105478/
Harvest is a system to collect information and make it searchable using
a Web interface. It can collect information using HTTP, FTP, NNTP, and
local files. Supported formats include HTML, DVI, PS, fulltext, mail,
man pages, news, troff, WordPerfect, C sources, and many more. Adding
support for new formats is easy due to Harvest's modular design.
HaXml 1.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105500/
HaXml is a suite of libraries and tools for manipulating XML documents
in Haskell. It includes a parser, a pretty-printer, a validator, a
combinator library for transforming documents, and converters for
changing a Haskell datatype into an XML DTD, and for changing an XML
DTD into a set of Haskell datatypes. There are also tools for a query
language based on XQL.
IceWM Icons 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105214/
IceWM Icons is a set of XPM 16x16 and 32x32 icons for IceWM. It also
includes an improved winoptions file to add icons of some applications
to frames and the taskbar.
IlohaMail 0.7.9-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105482/
IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to
use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require
databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library
(it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It supports all
essential functionality, including a full contacts list and a user
customizable interface. Other features include support for multiple
domains (virtual hosts), built-in spam prevention, and activity
logging.
JDictP 0.1-SW3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105513/
JDictP is a Leitner system flashcard trainer, written in Java for
SuperWaba for use on handhelds.
KSocrat 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105530/
KSocrat is the simple English/Russian and Russian/English dictionary
for the K Desktop Environment.
KTextDecode 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105532/
KTextDecode is a simple conversion utility for Cyrilic texts with
support for the following decode types: DOS text file <-> Unix
text file, Windows text file <-> Unix text file, and ISO8859-5
text file <-> Unix text file.
Microbrew Message Center 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105495/
Microbrew Message Center is designed to be an immensely scalable mail
platform supporting multiple users, multiple domains, and multiple mail
servers. It is akin to iPlanet or post.office but is not as complex and
uses open source software to perform mundane services such as Web and
mail services.
nmaFPS 0.77 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105504/
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.
Noname Network 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105499/
The Noname network is a gnutella-based network that features a
different and more flexible protocol. The client and network currently
support filesharing, but the protocol can be extended to support more
features.
OSSP sa 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105503/
OSSP sa is an abstraction library for the Unix socket application
programming interface (API). It features stream and datagram oriented
communication over Unix Domain and Internet Domain (TCP and UDP)
sockets. It provides the following key features: address abstraction
(local, IPv4, and IPv6), type abstraction, I/O timeouts, I/O stream
buffering, and convenience I/O functions.
phpLicenseWatcher 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105533/
phpLicenseWatcher is a simple Web frontend to the FlexLM lmstat command
that gives information about the status of FlexLM servers. You can also
get information about features and number of licenses available on a
particular server, as well as who is currently using them.
phpOpenTracker 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105488/
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).
Qadmin 0.1 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105145/
Qadmin is a administration tool for Qmail written in PHP.
Simple Rescue CD 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105496/
Simple Rescue CD is a small Linux rescue CD, suitable for booting
systems that have become unbootable due to filesystem corruption or
other problems. It lies somewhere between minimalist boot floppies and
large full-featured rescue systems, and as such is suitable for when
space is tight, such as on business card CDs.
STORE 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105511/
STORE consists of two related parts: a framework for representing the
contents of a relational database as Java objects (similar to but
simpler than Entity EJBs), and a set of tools for automatically
creating Java classes and/or SQL statements from a DB diagram or
existing DB tables.
SWISH++ 5.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105528/
SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine (typically
used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on SWISH-E
although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite. SWISH++ is at least 10 times
faster and can handle much larger numbers of files. Additionally, it
has unique features such as selective non-indexing, on-the-fly filters,
user-selectable stemming, and more.
The Tamber Project 1.1.28 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105520/
The Tamber project is a componentized n-tier Web site engine that uses
open languages such as XML and JavaScript. Content is stored in
separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects. Business
functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP. Presentation is
controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over
multiple channels such as HTML, WAP, and MHEG. Currently, Tamber can
deliver to HTML and WAP, and contains modules that support e-commerce
shopping carts, secure sign in, data access and conversion services,
and advanced session management.
TightVNC 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105497/
TightVNC is a VNC distribution with many new features, improvements,
and bugfixes over VNC. It is optimized for faster operation on slow
network links such as modem connections, provides more configuration
options in the server, features automatic SSH tunneling in the Unix
vncviewer, and more. The modified servers and viewers are fully
compatible with the original VNC software.
tnailer 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105521/
Tnailer was originally written to automatically pull images from a
SmartMedia card and then create thumbnailed albums arranged in
cronological order, but it will work just fine with any group of
images. It will adjust the scale (physical image size) of any type of
image in the album, and can adjust the quality (compression level) of
JPEG and PNG files. It will work with over 66 other image formats,
including GIF, PICT, TIFF, and even PDF. It has some basic HTML
formatting options, and adds linear navigation to each image's
individual page so that browsing forward and backward through the
entire album is easy and intuitive.
Ufolib 0.1-SW3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105514/
Ufolib is an extension for Superwaba (Java for Palm) to have the full
Unicode range.
UploadBean 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105524/
UploadBean is a JavaBean that allows you to upload files. This bean can
be integrated into any JSP/Servlets application. You can store uploaded
files in a folder, a ZIP archive, a database, or in memory.
Restrictions such as file-size limit, blacklist/whitelist, and max.
uploaded files are available. An add-ons section provides tools such as
email notification on each uploads, real time progress bar on upload,
custom database store sample, and a Chinese upload JSP sample.
WIMS 3.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105484/
WIMS (WWW Interactive Mathematics Server) is a CGI Web application
designed to host interactive mathematical educational activities such
as exercises, computational math, and graphing tools. It features
automatic score processing with strong anti-cheating mechanisms,
virtual classes allowing teachers to guide/control student works,
online exercise creation, animated graphics, a message board allowing
inline mathematical formulas, and more. It can also be easily used for
education within other disciplines.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.2.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105502/
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server
and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is
written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant
searching and threading of your email messages.
Slashcode
Scylla
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/1927219
Scylla is an English language slashsite dedicated to everything that's
wrong in the world. What anyone might think is wrong is of course open
to debate, be it political, cultural, or just unhappy circumstance.
Visitors, comments, and input are welcome.
What does srandblock do?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/065239
I've been trying to figure out how to get a random sections block like
Slashdot has. As far as I've figured out so far the srandblock
(semi-random block) seems like a good start. When I look in the portald
daemon there is a function newSemiRandomBlock called, but I can't find
the function. Does anyone know how to make the random section block
work? I believe this was discussed before but I didn't see any answers.
Also, is there an easy way to have the section list that tells if there
are recent articles, like the one Slashdot has on the left? --mwmurphy
Submission Approval / Comments not working
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/0628241
I've been running slashcode now for about 2 years or so. Since around
version 2.2.5, I've had this problem on my site where neither the
comments or approving submitted articles will work. I believe the
problem is also aggrivated by the fact that I am using URL forwarding.
The URL of my site points to a java-script that opens my page on a
specific port within a frame. If a user tries to post a comment, the
submission page comes up fine, but when they click preview or submit,
it just brings them to the discussions list (comments.pl) instead of
posting the comment.. Any help would be appreciated, is this a bug? -
Delrin
Can Anonymous Coward Be Renamed?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/2159220
Is there a way to rename the nickname Anonymous Coward? If a site wants
to encourage anonymous submissions for some reason, calling them
cowards is a bit insulting. I called up user 1 and changed the Realname
field, but that didn't work. Template 101 edit_comments seems to use
user.nickname, but I can't find a place to change that outside of SQL.
Would something break if I did change it in SQL?
Elevador.org
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/2252222
After some weeks we're up and running! Elevador.org is a /. like site
for portuguese language speakers. Many thanks to Jamie McCarthy, Pudge
and all the good folks at #slash. And thanks to chromatic, Brian &
Dave for a very nice Slash book.
Emailing Stories into a Slash Site?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/1727227
Is it possible to email a story into a slash site rather then using the
web interface? I have a slash site setup as a company bulletin board.
One of the things I'm attempting to do is reduce the number of staff
wide emails by having them posted on the slash site. I figure if I
start positing these messages to the slash site and people receive the
daily email of last day's news they will start to use it. Any
suggestions?
Letting Apache authenticate
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/01/1942218
I have setup a Slash site that will be used as an Intranet (restricted
access) discussion site, yet lives out on the INTERnet. Does anyone
know a way to have Apache authenticate users (thus enforcing access
from valid IP addresses) and then grant Slash access to this user
authentication (thus eliminating double logins for users)?
Slashcode install on RedHat 8.0
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/29/090250
I just got Slashcode installed on RedHat 8.0 and I documented the
process here: http://www.heltzel.org/slashcode.html I hope this can
help others trying to do the same thing.
CTDATA.com Publishes Its 1,000th Story
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/0059255
I'm pretty proud of the fact that CTDATA.com published its 1,000th
article at 10:56am this morning. Not bad for a site that's still
running some pretty ancient code. We've done some interesting stuff
with Slash in the past year, but most of it is hidden from the casual
visitor to our three Slash-based sites. Hopefully, we'll get on the
main branch of the project in the next few months-- we can't be relics
forever.
What exactly is isolation mode for?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/074249
Each section has an isolation mode property, that determines (I think)
wether or not sories from that section will be displayed on the front
page or not. In addition, each story has it's own DisplayMode property,
that, in effect, does the same thing. Which takes precedence? If Slash
always uses the individual story's displaymode to determine whether to
display the story, what's the point of the section-level isolation
mode?
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