O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER December 06, 2002 DEVELOPER SERIES
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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 Angry Spirited Away Fans Strike Back http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/040241 [0]peter_gzowski writes "[1]Anime News Network is [2]reporting that, 'The Japanese consumers in the Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures of Japan have filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Japan over the red tint on the Japanese DVD release of Spirited Away.' Japanese consumers who purchased the Spirited Away DVD were very disappointed when they discovered a red tint to the film. A hundred thousand consumers complained, but Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan (a subsidiary of Walt Disney) pretended [3]nothing was wrong with the disc. The original source of news of the suit can be found (in Japanese) at [4]Mainichi. No response from Disney yet." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ 2. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=2884 3. http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/newspro/arc6-2002.html 4. http://www.mainichi.co.jp/news/selection/20021203k0000m040155000c.html End In Sight For Alpha http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/0326217 [0]minektur writes "[1]news.com has an article stating that DEC ... I mean Compaq .... Uh, I mean HP has decided to [2]EOL the once mighty Alpha architecture. Let's all take a moment of silence." I was lucky enough to have access to a 533 MHz Alpha back when the fastest Pentiums were only around 200 MHz, and the Alpha architecture earned a special place in my heart. It will be missed. Links 0. mailto:junk@cl[ ].org ['ift' in gap] 1. http://www.news.com 2. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976211.html Shocker: Despicable Conduct From a Disney Lawyer http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/0614253 An Anonymous Coward writes: "[0]Phil Lelyveld, ([1]email) a senior intellectual property attorney for Disney, has written to the FCC to tell them to ignore [2]Digital Consumer's comments on the [3]Broadcast Flag issue. The Broadcast Flag is an inter-industry conspiracy to turn over the keys to general-purpose computing to Hollywood studio execs -- under this proposal, no one will be able to ship digital television technology (like DVD recorders and FireWire) without Hollywood's permission. Lelyveld wrote to the FCC -- who are [4]taking comments on the proposal -- without mentioning his day-job, to tell them that Digital Consumer, a civil liberties groups with more than 40,000 members, is nothing more than a "two dot.com millionaires" working to create a world "where we are all artist/waiters." Joined the [5]EFF Yet? (or is it time to renew?) Links 0. http://www.siimage.com/press/03_14_00.asp 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. http://www.digitalconsumer.org/ 3. http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/ 4. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-225218A1.txt 5. http://eff.org/join.html New Look at ADSL2 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/0231213 [0]genrader writes "[1]broadbandreports.com just posted a [2]news article which had an interesting story about the new ADSL2, which should be approved in 2003. They say it should be backward compatible with current hardware. It seems pretty interesting. [3]ISP-Planet has the featured in-depth look at it, so you might want to see if it is of any intrest to you." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.dslreports.com/ 2. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/24111 3. http://isp-planet.com/ Sony To Package StarOffice On European PCs http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/2051226 Jahf writes "This [0]News.com article talks about how Sony is adopting Sun's [1]Star Office suite over Microsoft office in some areas. It's nice to see it being adopted, maybe this is the beginning of a trend. While Star Office is still not as optimized as it could be (read: it eats memory and can be a little slow even compared to MS Office), it has all the features most people need and then some at a much better price." Specifically, as reader [2]Yacoubean points out (pointing to [3]coverage at InfoWorld),"The PCs will be sold in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland." Links 0. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-976239.html 1. http://www.sun.com/staroffice/ 2. http://www.techfeed.net/ 3. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/04/021204hnsonystar.xml Theater Morphing Into Multi-Player Gaming Arena http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/221244 J3zmund writes "This [0]article highlights the attempt by ESports Arena to bring gaming to the masses. They're building what looks like a command center with gaming equipment, comfy chairs, and big screens to follow the action. For the price of a movie, patrons can frag to their hearts' content for 2 hours (extra time available, of course). This could sprawn some interesting events (once gaming goes beyond 'kill'). With The Sims ready to go online this month, it could open this up to a much larger audience than the "young males" they currently identify. How 'bout some Sim Rocky Horror Online Saturday nights..." Links 0. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20021205-9999_1b5gaming.html Kid-Safe Domain Created http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/2255231 Jadecristal writes "The [0]Washington Post announces that [1]President Bush has [2]signed legislation to create a .kids.us domain. The legislation mandates that those with a .kids.us site not be allowed to link to any site outside the .kids.us domain." At the very least, it makes filtering easy. Links 0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ 1. http://www.whitehouse.gov/ 2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8016-2002Dec4.html Slashback: TIPS, FatWallet, MPlayer http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/2018254 Slashback with words on the demise of TIPS, MPlayer's newest add-in, Revolution OS on DVD, Wal-Mart blinking first in their fight with FatWallet, and more. Read on for the details. Wal-Mart Lindows PCs Selling Well http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/1942236 [0]andyring writes "[1]CNN.com is [2] reporting that sales of the $199 PCs have exceeded expectations. Although CNN terms them "full fledged, if low power," it seems customers don'd mind all that much if their computer does not run Windows and doesn't carry an Intel processor. Slashdot covered [3]two reviews of those machines July 4." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.cnn.com/ 2. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/12/05/sproject.hs02.cheap.pc.reut/index.html 3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/04/1151228&tid=163 How Much Do You Pay to Host Your Website? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/1257234 [0]DosGusanos asks: "I was curious how much people around the U.S. and around the world pay for hosting. Obviously size in cabinets/rack units/square feet, included features such as bandwidth, UPS/generator, management, etc. factor in. The configuration I am particularly interested in is three machines, one www, one search, and one database. The machines would be hooked up to a T1 and networked to one another over Ethernet. Anyone paying for colo or hosting in this same ballpark? How happy/upset are you with your provider?" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Freshmeat BSDftpd-ssl 0.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105606/ BSDftpd-ssl is a TLS/SSL-enhanced FTP server. It is based on FreeBSD's ftpd, and the TLS/SSL enhancement allows RFC 2228 "FTP Security Extensions"-compliant TLS/SSL support for both control and data connections. This feature requires special clients; with standard clients, this software operates as a standard FTP server. cscreenshot 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105596/ cscreenshot is a small Python program that takes a screenshot of a desktop and creates a thumbnail using ImageMagick. It can output HTML based on a template, and upload the HTML file and images via FTP. Facade 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105591/ Facade enables developers to build highly modular Web applications. Arbitrary event handlers can be easily mapped to parts of request or event URLs via a configuration file, whereby unitizing, refactoring, and maintaining Web applications becomes very simple. feh 1.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105608/ feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer which uses imlib2. It is commandline-driven and supports multiple images through slideshows, thumbnail browsing or multiple windows, and montages or index prints (using truetype fonts to display file info). Advanced features include fast dynamic zooming, progressive loading, loading via HTTP (with reload support for watching webcams), recursive file opening (slideshow of a directory hierarchy), and mousewheel/keyboard control. GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.24 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105585/ GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor. Graphical certification authority 0.2.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105589/ Graphical certification authority is an interface for managing RSA keys and certificates, and the creation and signing of PKCS#10 requests. It uses the OpenSSL library and a Berkeley DB for key and certificate storage. It supports importing and exporting keys and PEM DER PKCS8 certificates, signing and revoking of PEM DER PKCS12, and the selection of x509v3 extensions. A tree view of certificates is presented. gtkmm 2.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105597/ gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++ programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework. Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly create complex user interfaces. Iris 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105600/ Iris is a CGI script, config samples, and instructions to build an email server with virtual domains support and web based account and domain administration. It is based on Exim, Cyrus IMAP, MySQL, and Perl. Katie snapshot-16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105602/ Katie is a revision control system, somewhat like a cross between CVS and NFS, that was inspired by Rational ClearCase. The three most interesting features of Katie are that the repository is mounted as a filesystem (rather than being copied to a local workspace), that all versions of all files (even deleted ones) are accessible through this filesystem (so there is, for example, no need for a Katie-specific diff command like CVS has), and that directories are versioned (just like files are). Basic operations (creation of elements, checkout, checkin, dynamic views, config specs, and branches) work, but there is much work still to go before it will be generally useful. KXParse 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105610/ KXParse is a PHP-based, lightweight, easy-to-use XML parser, with no need of installation because it's just an include file that's loaded on the fly. lvs-kiss 1.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/105609/ lvs-kiss is designed to make load-balancing with fail-over simpler. The primary design-goal is for you to get load-balancing with fail-over up and running withing an hour or so. The secondary design goal is to be able to make this software as flexible as possible. Embedding of perl in configuration-files and load-balancing with custom made tests should be possible without too much hassle. MacOS9 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105571/ MacOS9 is a theme resembling the operating system of the same name. Megamek.NET 0.2954 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105603/ Megamek.NET is a Java application that allows one to chat and play MegaMek Games (which are very similar to Battletech). It also allows one to enroll into the ongoing campaign to fíght for one of the 5 houses or the Periphery. Currently it has a campaign set in 3025 but will soon feature another campaign set in 3060. Motiontrack 0.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105588/ Motiontrack is a set of tools that detect motion between two PNG or JPG images. MyPhpMoney 1.2.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105595/ MyPhpMoney is a tool written in PHP to manage bank accounts through a Web interface. It uses MySQL to store data and relies on the PHPLIB (template, session, and database abstraction). netclasses 0.993 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105580/ Netclasses is an easy to use interface to socket programming in Objective-C with GNUstep. The core netclasses supports virtually any protocol, but the distribution comes with everything needed for TCP/IP (opening ports, background connections, etc.). Netclasses seamlessly integrates into NSRunLoop, which means there should be no need for redesigning applications to use it. oo2c 1.5.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105586/ Oberon2 is a simple and safe object-oriented language created by N.Wirth, the author of Pascal and Modula2. It is statically strongly typed and has garbage collection. Most of good ideas incorporated in design of Java were in Oberon2 long before. OOC is an open source project to produce a family of optimizing Oberon2 compilers. The compiler with an ANSI C back-end, oo2c, is quite mature, and provides a complete and convenient Oberon2 development environment. It comes with a rather comprehensive standard library, Code Navigator, and an Emacs mode. It is easy to call C functions and libraries from Oberon2. OpenAntiVirus samba-vscan 0.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105601/ samba-vscan provides on-access scanning of Samba shares with FRISK F-Prot Daemon, Kaspersky AntiVirus, OpenAntiVirus.org ScannerDaemon, Sophos Sweep (SAVI), Symantec CarrierScan, and Trend Micro (VSAPI). It supports Samba 2.2.x/3.x alphaX with working virtual file system (VFS) support. Openwall Linux kernel patch 2.2.23-ow1 (Linux 2.2) http://freshmeat.net/releases/105587/ The Openwall Linux kernel patch is a collection of security "hardening" features for the Linux kernel. In addition to the new features, some versions of the patch contain various security fixes. The "hardening" features of the patch, while not a complete method of protection, provide an extra layer of security against the easier ways to exploit certain classes of vulnerabilities and/or reduce the impact of those vulnerabilities. The patch can also add a little bit more privacy to the system by restricting access to parts of /proc so that users may not see what others are doing. Opera for Linux 6.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105614/ Opera for Linux is an alternative, lightweight, X11-based Web browser for Linux. palito 2002-12-04 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105594/ palito is a real-time strategy game inspired by Total Annihilation. Pan 0.13.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105611/ Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans. PgAccess 0.98.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105583/ PgAccess is a Tcl/Tk frontend for PostgreSQL. It allows creation/modification of database, tables, queries, reports, scripts, in a way similar to the Windows-based db client of the same name. PHP LDBI 0.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105612/ PHP LDBI is a library to handle local databases. It supports tables, sequences, indices, and searches using wildcards. It's primary goal is to serve as backend for SQL interfaces to local databases. It includes an SQL parser to execute simple SQL statements. pkg_search for OpenBSD 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105598/ pkg_search is an OpenBSD utility for searching for, downloading, and adding packages from the ports/packages tree. It is designed to work like apt-get does on Linux, but makes use of the OpenBSD mirrors as sources over HTTP, and also has built-in support for installing dependencies. It is written in Perl for portability reasons, and can be used with a basic OpenBSD 3.2 install with the default Perl package, and is also backwards compatible with previous releases of OpenBSD (with minor editing of the script). pymetar 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105604/ PyMETAR is a Python module that provides easy access to NOAA's METAR weather reports. ROX-Filer 1.3.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105605/ ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background. Server-side FileManager 3.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105582/ Server-side FileManager is a Java servlet which implements FileManager. You can use this servlet for remote site management: upload/download files, copy/move files, edit files, etc. Its main advantage is that it uses only the HTTP protocol for access to your host, which allows it to work through most firewalls. SiTE 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105592/ SiTE is a fast, lightweight Java template engine which cleanly separates presentation from application code. It parses any text-based template and creates a structured document representation that enables an application to change the template's contents at runtime without regard to its format. SMELT 0.2.11a http://freshmeat.net/releases/105590/ SMELT (Simple Monitoring Evaluating and Logging Tool) is a tool created to monitor the disks in a single host or an entire network. It's totally written in BASH script. This way this tool can be installed and used normally in every distribution of Linux or Solaris operating systems. When a single host is monitored, the results can be sent via e-mail to the host's administrator. When an entire network is monitored, SMELT can work in client/server model. The results can be sent to the server via FTP and, using a Web server, be published in a frame-based HTML page, as well via email. Subversion 0.16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105615/ The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. TalkSoup 0.03 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105581/ TalkSoup is a GNUstep IRC client built on netclasses. tk92 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105599/ tk92 is multi-platform software for configuring Radio Shack PRO-92 and PRO-2067 scanner radios. It lets you read a memory image from the receiver or an SPG file, view and change settings using a graphical interface, and sort memory channels by frequency or by label. Users can import and export memory channel and talk group data from CSV files. tk92 can then write the image from the computer back to the radio. Zionist In Space 0.99.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105613/ ZIS (Zionist In Space) is a text-mode (curses) multiplayer game like Konquest. It has an "autosend" and save/load features. Slashcode Mail bombing by our slash site http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/207255 We have a problem with our slash site. For the seond time now the site has mail bombed us. I have set it up to send me stories and headlines and I and all others that have signed up get over 3000 of them. The strange thing is that this does not happen every day. Anyone got a clue to how we can resolve this problem? We are using slash-2-2-4 ,Debian Linux version 2.4.17 and exim veriosn 3.35. Gunnar --Gunnar Lunde Collaborative News Networks http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/1720236 Anita J. Chan's thesis for MIT's Comparative Media Studies MA on: Distributed Editing, Collective Action, and the Construction of Online News on Slashdot.org Slashdot as a Collaborative News Network, Social Constructivism, Segregating Audiences and News Sourcing, Integrating Audiences and News Analysis, Distributed Editing and the Decentralization of Editorial Control, Community, Contest and Collective Action on the Network. gO | Open Source Intelligence 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. 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