O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER June 11, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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OpenEJB 0.9.0 marked are first release with special Tomcat embedded support. Thanks to all the user feedback that support has just gotten better and better. The 0.9.2 release contains a neat surprise for OpenEJB/Tomcat users -- TOOLS! The new integration features a webapp with a setup verifier, JNDI browser, EJB viewer, Class browser, and even an Object invoker! You can browse the OpenEJB namespace and know right away exactly where the ejb is and what it is called. When you find one you like, just click it and it will open up into the EJB viewer. While there you can check out it's home, remote and bean classes in the class browser. The Object invoker allows you to actually create and invoke your EJBs without writing a single line of code. OpenEJB 0.9.2 also contains a new openejb.base variable to complement the openejb.home variable. The openejb.base variable allows you to have several configurations of OpenEJB all running against the same OpenEJB install. This makes using OpenEJB in IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans even easier. Move the openejb_loader-0.9.2.jar into your project's lib directory, set the openejb.base, and you'll be debugging your EJB apps front-to-back without the need for remote debugging support or special editor plug-ins. Thanks to all the OpenEJB users for all the great ideas! You speak, we listen. http://openejb.sourceforge.net/download.html LTI-Lib Version Beta 1.9.3 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282700 LTI-Lib is an object oriented computer vision library written in C++ for Windows/MS-VC++ and Linux/gcc. It provides lots of functionality to solve mathematical problems, many image processing algorithms, some classification tools and much more. This release provides new functors and features, many bug fixes and more documentation. Download -------- You can get this and previous releases from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45767 Homepage -------- For more information please visit our homepage: http://ltilib.sourceforge.net ChangeLog --------- For more details about the changes in this release please visit the ChangeLog page at: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=163728 Acknowledgments --------------- Thanks to all developers at the Chair of Computer Science: Suat Akyol, Pablo Alvarado, Daniel Beier, Axel Berner, Ulrich Canzler, Peter Doerfler, Thomas Erger, Holger Fillbrandt, Peter Gerber, Claudia, Goenner, Xin Gu, Michael Haehnel, Christian Harte, Bastian Ibach, Torsten Kaemper, Thomas Krueger, Frederik Lange, Henning Luepschen, Peter Mathes, Alexandros Matsikis, Bernd Mussman, Jens Paustenbach, Norman Pfeil, Jens Rietzschel, Daniel Ruijters, Thomas Rusert, Stefan Syberichs, Guy Wafo Moudhe, Ruediger Weiler, Jochen Wickel , Benni Winkler, Xinghan Yu, Marius Wolf, Joerg Zieren Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282686 Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 - This is the second (and, we fully expect, final) *release candidate* for Gallery v.1.3.4. Changes from RC1 essentially amount to small fixes for errors discovered since the first release candidate in the backup_albums.php script and the new "custom fields" code. Gallery is slick, intuitive web based photo gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great for communities. Download it: http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more about this release candidate: http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=75 phpwsBB 0.1.0 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282990 phpwsBB is a native bulletin board module for the phpWebSite content management system, version 0.9.2 or later. Today we release version 0.1.0 of phpwsBB. Features include anonymous posting, message editing and deletion for registered users, thread locking and message forking for admins, and ... well that's probably it. Be sure you have the latest version of phpWebSite installed: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu and then download phpwsbb from: http://phpwsbb.sourceforge.net. Aleph One 2003-05-30 Mac OS X Carbon and Windows releases http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282073 Aleph One plays Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and third-party content on a wide array of platforms with numerous enhancements. The new Mac OS X Carbon and Windows SDL 2003-05-30 releases add significantly improved Internet play, Lua scripting, Speex compression for realtime network audio (making it much more practical in Internet games), an anisotropic filtering option on video cards that support it, and more. Slashdot Investigating Angular Velocity http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1739236 [0]mbreitba writes "Sam Barros is at it again, Some may know him for his [1]Railgun research, and some may know him for his [2] homemade cannons. But now he's found a use for [3] all those old CD's you don't need anymore. Personally, I couldn't think of a better use for them." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.powerlabs.org/railgun.htm 2. http://www.powerlabs.org/cannons.htm 3. http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm A Shocking Controller For The Xbox http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/0338257 An anonymous reader writes "This is freakin' awesome - Kevin Rose from TechTV has built a 20,000-volt [0]shocking Xbox controller. Imagine playing your friends in Mortal Kombat now... you can actually feel the pain. Seems easy to build and runs about $40 in parts." Links 0. http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,24330,3450946,00.html Who Opposes Open Source Software In Government? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/014219 [0]Skapare writes "[1]Linux Journal is doing a story with a [2]roundup of who the players are that are opposing open source in governments. The one I find interesting is the Gates [3]connection to [4]BSA. But I think we all need to become familiar with this round-up of special interest groups not operating in our interests (as taxpayers)." Links 0. http://linuxhomepage.com/ 1. http://www.linuxjournal.com/ 2. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6927 3. http://www.prestongates.com/ 4. http://www.bsa.org/ A Model End Vendor License Agreement http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2244244 Teese writes "[0]Low End Mac is presenting [1]this article as a humor piece, but its vision of an End Vendor License Agreement seems to be pretty well thought out, and one that I wouldn't mind seeing in the real world." Links 0. http://lowendmac.com/index.shtml 1. http://lowendmac.com/lite/03/0610.html Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2324214 An [0]Anonymous Reader writes "Apparently someone inside SCO has stated that [1]SCO(actually Caldera) copied Linux code into System V. They did it to build what they now market as Linux Kernel Personality - the ability to run Linux software on their Unix. Now, the open source community(of course they don't mention who) is jumping on this, because they didn't return the changes to the OS community or give the community credit. Of course, SCO says it's a misunderstanding and, get this 'SCO also never used any of the Linux kernel code.'" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1123176,00.asp Hints for Planning a Network Gaming Marathon? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/217214 [0]Malfaetor asks: "Some friends and I are tentatively planning a public Network Gaming Marathon (LAN Party, except for an entire weekend) later this year, starting on a Friday night and ending the following Sunday afternoon. We've already acquired a file server and game servers, as well as did some testing on bandwidth usage of various games. We've also queried local hotels for available conference rooms, and thought about power consumption requirements, and so forth. I ask this of my fellow Slashdot readers: If you have ever hosted or attended a LAN party before, even if it was not of this scale, would you have any input (or horror stories!) that could help to ensure we have not overlooked anything? Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated!" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]om ['.c' in gap] Microsoft Acquires RAV Antivirus http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/196209 Webmoth writes "[0]Microsoft has [1]announced the assimilation of [2]RAV Antivirus from [3]GeCAD Software of Romania. This is significant, because RAV Antivirus was one of the few antivirus products that provided [4]cross-platform email virus scanning and spam filtering, integrating with sendmail and postfix on Linux (among others). No word yet on the impact to non-Microsoft users. In the process, they've left [5]RAE Internet, the (former) exclusive U.S. distributor of RAV Antivirus, along with a host of authorized resellers, in the dust." Links 0. http://www.microsoft.com/ 1. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Jun03/06-10GeCadPR.asp 2. http://www.ravantivirus.com/ 3. http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/shownews.php?i=153 4. http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/isp.php 5. http://www.raeinternet.com/ Quark Xpress 6 For OS X http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1826226 MikeXpop writes "[0]Apple's front page shows that [1]Quark Xpress has been announced for OS X and will be available as of next week. Anyone else getting a flashback to when Diablo II was in stores?" Links 0. http://www.apple.com/ 1. http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/quarkxpress/ Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Penguin Computers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1744248 [0]Pii writes "[1]News.com is running a [2] story about [3]Penguin Computing acquiring [4]Scyld Computing, a company founded by Donald Becker, of linux ethernet driver and [5]Beowulf cluster fame. Becker will stay on as Penguin's Chief Technology Officer, and the companies claim they don't expect any layoffs as a result of the merger." Links 0. http://.gro.rebasthgil. .ta. .idej. 1. http://www.news.com/ 2. http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-1014970.html?tag=fd_top 3. http://www.penguincomputing.com/ 4. http://www.scyld.com/ 5. http://www.beowulf.org/ How to Become a Patent Millionaire http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1727213 An anonymous reader writes "SF Gate has an article about people who [0]patent ideas for things they have no intentions of building, hoping to license technology or block competitors from doing something similar. As if the patent system weren't screwed up enough already." Links 0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/09/BU213833.DTL Freshmeat aedGUI 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125672/ aedGUI is a cross-platform C++ GUI library that works with SDL. Apolos 0.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125542/ Apolos is a GTK+2 CD player for Linux. It features support for the CDDB protocol, playlists, and normal CD functions. APT-RPM 0.5.5cnc6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125617/ APT-RPM is a port of Debian's APT tools for RPM based distributions (Conectiva, Red Hat, SuSE, ALT-Linux, etc). APT is an advanced package management utility front-end which allows you to easily perform package installation, upgrading and removal. Dependencies are automatically handled, so if you try to install a package that needs others to be installed, it will download all needed packages and install them. Armagetron 0.2.pre3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125575/ In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are trying to do the same to you. If you are fast enough, you may be able to trap them, but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic preparations followed by action-packed close combat! Bicycle Repair Man! 0.8 BETA 2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125557/ The Python Refactoring Browser helps Pythonistas everywhere glide over the gory details of refactoring their code. Watch him extract jumbled code into well ordered classes. Gasp, as he renames all occurrences of a method. Thank you Bicycle Repair Man! BitlBee 0.74 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125650/ BitlBee emulates an IRC server. Everything that is said on this server is forwarded to users on the MSN/ICQ/Jabber/Yahoo! networks, and responses are also returned. Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage Collector 6.2alpha6 (Alpha) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125563/ The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. It is also used by a number of programming language implementations that use C as intermediate code. Alternatively, it may be used as a leak detector for C or C++ programs. A slightly older version of the garbage collector is also included as part of the GNU compiler (gcc) distribution. Booby 0.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125552/ Booby is a multiuser, multilanguage, fully themeable Web-based desktop application which provides online management for bookmarks, contacts, todo's, and notes. It is written in PHP and is mostly database independent by using the database abstraction layer 'ADOdb'. It is fully themeable (using Smarty). Bugzero 2.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125590/ Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software, hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management. C->Haskell 0.11.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125549/ C->Haskell is an interface generator that simplifies the development of Haskell bindings to C libraries. The tool processes existing C header files that determine data layout and function signatures on the C side in conjunction with Haskell modules that specify Haskell-side type signatures and marshaling details. Hooks embedded in the Haskell code signal access to C structures and functions; they are expanded by the interfacing tool in dependence on information from the corresponding C header file. CDlinux 0.4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125411/ CDlinux is a Linux mini-distribution which runs from a CD-ROM. It aims to be an administration/rescue tool for Eastern Asian (CJK) users. It is also highly user configureable, and supports a wide range of hardware (PCMCIA/SCSI/USB). CDox 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125665/ CDox is an editor for CD documents like CD covers, back sides, and booklets. It features many image processing options like sharpen, contrast, etc. One can use images and text as elements, and those elements can be flipped/rotated/resized in any way. It has easy-to-use features for previously-made images that are meant to be CD covers. It has also some features for automatic cover creation from MP3 CDs, CDs with filesystems, and CDs with video files. Charlemagne 2.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125660/ Charlemagne is a versatile genetic programming application. It includes a commandline client and an interactive console mode. It is written in Python and Lisp, and is user extensible to some degree in both languages. It features built-in input-output mapping support and provides the ability to define complex fitness calculations in Lisp or Python. Cheap Threads 2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125673/ Cheap Threads is a collection of portable C routines for implementing sychronous threads. It includes a scheduler and a facility for passing messages among threads. Threads may run in a round robin or according to a priority scheme. Each thread must voluntarily relinquish control from time, via an ordinary function return, so that other threads can run. Since the threads are synchronous, i.e. they don't interrupt each other, they don't need to use semaphores, mutexes, critical sections, or other facilities to keep from interfering with each other. One version of Cheap Threads is designed for embedded systems. CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125618/ CodeTek VirtualDesktop brings full virtual desktop support as available on other operating systems (Mac OS 9, Windows, Unix, Linux) to the Mac OS X platform. Condenser 1.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125567/ Condenser is a tool for finding and removing duplicated Java code. Unlike tools that only locate duplicated code, Condenser is also able to automatically remove duplicated code where it is safe to do so. CxxTest 2.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125572/ CxxTest is a JUnit/CppUnit/xUnit-like framework for C++ that doesn't require RTTI, member template functions, exception handling, or any external libraries (including memory management, file/console I/O, or graphics libraries). It is distributed entirely as a set of header files which makes it extremely portable and usable. DbVisualizer 3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125656/ DbVisualizer is a cross-platform database visualization and management tool which entirely relies on the JDBC, Java Database Connectivity APIs. DbVisualizer enables simultaneous connections to many different databases through JDBC drivers. Just point and click to browse the structure of the database, characteristics of tables, etc. Arbitrary SQL statements can be executed and saved between sessions. DbVisualizer supports a variety of databases including Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL, Informix, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cloudscape, McKoi, SAP DB, and InstantDB. dmidecode 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125631/ Dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. It was first written by Alan Cox and is now being maintained by Jean Delvare. Part of its code can be found in the Linux kernel, because DMI data may be used to enable or disable specific portions of code depending on the hardware vendor. Thus, dmidecode is mainly used to detect system "signatures" and add them to the kernel source code when needed. Dnsmasq 1.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125641/ Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder designed to provide DNS (domain name) services to a small network where using BIND would be overkill. It can have its upstream DNS servers automatically configured by PPP or DHCP, and it can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. It can integrate with the ISC DHCP daemon to serve the names of local machines which are configured using DHCP. Dnsmasq is ideal for networks behind NAT routers and connected via modem, ISDN, ADSL, or cable-modem connections. DocLite 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125608/ DocLite is a simple documentation authoring system. It produces multi-page HTML output in a style similar to that found in the Linux HOTWTOs or other DocBook-created documents. DocLite processes a single XML file into a number of separate HTML pages, and it creates a contents page that contains links to the various topics within each page. The idea is to produce usable documentation with a minimum of hassle. DOLFIN 0.3.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125606/ DOLFIN is used as a platform for research in adaptive finite element methods for PDEs at Chalmers Finite Element Center and at the Department of Computational Mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Dr.Cat 0.4.1 beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/125639/ Dr.Cat (Dave's Remote Cat) concatenates a file on a remote Linux host that is running the Dr.Cat daemon (drcatd) to stdout in the clients terminal. It authenticates users versus the standard shadow password authentication facility and spawns a process with that users permissions to attempt to access the requested file. If the file exists and the user has the necessary permissions the file is sent to stdout on the clients terminal; otherwise it returns "file not found". EmPy 3.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125540/ EmPy is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text. It takes an EmPy source file, processes it, and produces output. This is accomplished via expansions, which are special signals to the EmPy system and are set off by a special prefix (by default the at sign, '@'). It can expand arbitrary Python expressions and statements in this way, as well as a variety of special forms. Textual data not explicitly delimited in this way is sent unaffected to the output, allowing Python to be used in effect as a markup language. Also supported are callbacks via hooks, recording and playback via diversions, and dynamic, chainable filters. The system is highly configurable via command line options and embedded commands. EXACT 1.34 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125583/ EXACT is a program that implements POP-before-SMTP relay authentication. It supports UW-imap, Qpopper, Cyrus, Perdition, EXIM, and Sendmail out of the box. POP-before-SMTP relay authentication is commonly used on systems that provide IMAP and/or POP services as well as SMTP services, to authenticate users for mail sending based on their previous authentication against an IMAP or POP server. Firebird Relational Database 1.5 RC3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125523/ Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. FreeBSD-boot-rescue 1.1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125666/ FreeBSD-boot-rescue is a small FreeBSD system for the purpose of system booting or repairing a boot/rescue system. You can put it on a CD or floppy and boot it. It has support for many filesystems (ext2, ufs1/2, ntfs, nfs, msdos, and iso9660). FreeIPdb 0.2-RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125592/ FreeIPdb is a Web-based tool designed to manage, assign, track, and audit IP address assignments and allocations. It uses a best fit/binary tree method to make the most of limited IP address space. It is designed for use by ISPs and end users. Features include SQL data storage, a self-collapsing tree, and reporting. Freevix 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125547/ Freevix is a tiny GNU/Linux distribution designed to provide a complete but small footprint environment for people wanting to build a Linux media player system with Freevo. Currently optimized for the VIA EPIA mainboards, it provides sub 45 second boot times, operation entirely from RAM, and supports loading from a 32MB CF card, HD, USB Flash Drive, CD, or PXE network booting. FUDforum 2.5.0RC5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125588/ FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators. genlop 0.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125646/ genlop is a small Perl script which shows you, in a nice colored output, useful information about your previously-emerged packages by looking at /var/log/emerge.log. genlop is for Gentoo/portage users only. Genmake 2003_06_10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125561/ Genmake creates Makefiles for C/C++ projects from a simple project description. The project description file can contain any number of projects and dependencies between them. The description is organized into workspace, projectspace and filespace and supports any number of build modes (debug, release, etc.). gluX 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125625/ GluX is a cross-platform, easy-to-use OpenGL extension loader. It offers a very simple mechanism for loading and using OpenGL extensions. It allows your code to compile under Windows and Linux even if your video card doesn't support the OpenGL extensions used by your program. At run time, gluX will detect if required extensions are present or not. GNOME-Mud 0.10.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125550/ GNOME-Mud (formerly AMCL) is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client that aims to make mudding a bit easier. It can define aliases, triggers, variables, keyboard shortcuts, and has a connection wizard for easy management of different player characters and MUDs. GNU Gadu 2.0pre3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125584/ GNU Gadu 2 is a modular instant messaging client with a GUI written in GTK2. It currently supports Gadu-Gadu, Tlen.pl, and Jabber. It is able to load Perl scripts, dock in several window managers, play sounds, talk to other programs via a UNIX socket, send SMS messages to Polish GSM operators, automatically check for updates, and use XOSD for displaying notices. GNU Transport Layer Security Library 0.8.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125568/ GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It implements the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols. GnuTLS is available for beta testing. Grammatica 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125624/ Grammatica is a parser generator (compiler compiler) for C# and Java. It can create readable and commented source code from an LL(k) grammar. It also supports creating a parser in runtime without generating source code. The grammar productions are described in EBNF and tokens in regular expressions. GreenIcos Icons .1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125530/ GreenIcos is a green-colored icon set for KDE 3.x. green_lotr_I 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125462/ green_lotr_I is a green theme based on Rivendell from The Lord of the Rings. Grip 3.1.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125612/ Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection. Guru for SELF 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125559/ Given a collection of Self objects, Guru produces an equivalent set of objects in which there is no duplication of methods or certain types of expressions. To achieve this, it creates a replacement inheritance hierarchy and methods for factoring out expressions. The central motivation is that as systems evolve the design can deteriorate. Automatically refactoring a system can help a programmer restructure the system to reverse any deterioration. Guru has been developed in and for the object-centric language Self. HelpmeICT 0.71 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125616/ HelpmeICT provides support team help desk functions with support for multiple sites, site groups, and role security. It features full issue tracking, cross-server knowledge bases, and management reporting and statistics. The entire system is Web enabled, including management and administration roles. Apart from just ICT, the system can be used for administration and reprographics requests and is being adapted as a pupil behaviour tracker. HFFzip 1.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125619/ HFFzip is a file compressor for Linux and FreeBSD based on Huffman coding. Although this file compressor is not so good as other compression programs (like gzip), it is right for embedded systems, because of its little size and the simple algorithm used. HTML::Embperl 2.0b9 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125544/ Embperl gives you the power to embed Perl code in your HTML or XML/XSLT documents and the ability to build your Web site out of small reusable objects in an OO-style. It can also build taglibs and use caching. You can also take advantage of hundreds of Perl modules which have already been written for such tasks as database access to a growing number of database systems. Embperl has several features especially useful for creating HTML, including dynamic tables, formfield-processing, escaping/unescaping, session handling, and more. Embperl is a server-side tool, which means that it's browser-independent. It can run in various ways: under mod_perl, as a CGI script, or offline. HTML::PopupTreeSelect 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125627/ HTML::PopupTreeSelect is a Perl module which creates an HTML popup tree selector using HTML::Template. The HTML and Javascript produced will work in Mozilla 1+ (Netscape 6+) on all operating systems and Microsoft IE 5+ on Windows and Mac. The design for this widget is based on the xTree widget from WebFX and resembles a Windows Explorer directory tree. IceWM Icons 0.9.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125636/ 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. iChatExporter 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125634/ iChatExporter extends functionality in iChat so you can export any real-time or saved chat conversation into a text file. This is a feature of most modern AIM clients that is sorely missing in iChat. Irmo 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125669/ Irmo is a generalized client-server multiplayer engine provided in the form of a library. It can be used as a base for development of multiplayer games. Issue Manager 0.8.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125602/ The Issue Manager is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information. JaxMeXS 1.00 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125536/ JaxMeXS is a parser for XML Schema, written in Java. Unlike Xerces or similar parsers, this one isn't written for validation of conforming instances, but for schema authors who like to use the schema information or extend the XML Schema language with private data. An excellent example is JAXB, the Java/XML binding specification. kavi2svcd 0.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125587/ kavi2svcd is a GUI for generating MPEG files from an AVI file using transcode and mplex. It then generates a Video CD image using vcdimager and burns to CD with cdrdao. It can generate m1v, m2v, and mpa files, multiplex the MPEG file, generate cue and bin files, and allows the generated command lines to be edited before executing them. KdeAm 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125644/ KdeAm is an answering machine frontend for Linux, written using KDE. It needs to have the vboxgetty daemons running to handle the answering of calls. The vboxgetty stores the messages in the vbox spool directory, from which KdeAm then picks them up. Keylime for Zope 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125521/ Keylime for Zope is a set of generic objects to facilitate fast SQL application development. It offers the following objects, which can be used or overridden: htmlView, htmlInsert, formInsert, htmlUpdate, formUpdate, and htmlDelete. It uses Folder properties to define sqlTable, sqlKey, and sqlUniq so that the application will function using generic or overridden forms. Infinitely hierarchical application can be written very quickly. Sample apps and a Zope installation guide are included. Khttrack 0.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125620/ Khttrack is a easy-to-use offline browser utility with a KDE Wizard Interface. It is a frontend to Httrack, used as a library, for KDE. It allows you to download a WWW site from the Internet to a local directory, recursively building all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. It arranges the original site's relative link-structure. It can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. It is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system. KRconLinux 0.1RC3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125594/ KRconLinux is a KDE tool for querying and managing game servers like Half-Life mods (Counter Strike, Dod, etc.), Quake series, and more. It features a console to send rcon commands, a server log receiver, an (incomplete) IRC bot to monitor the games, and a chat console to interact with the players inside the game. It is capable of listing the available server maps and changing them, establishing server settings via configuration files, changing the current server password, updating and modifying the server ban list, kicking and banning players, and changing server variables. LibTomMath 0.03 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125548/ LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography). LILO 22.5.5-beta2 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125657/ LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot many other operating systems, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source, documentation and support files. Linbox Backup Server 20030604 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125599/ The Linbox Backup Server (LBS) is a server that, for client PCs, saves hard-disk images on a network server, restores, deploys one image, and keeps a hardware inventory. All that is needed on the client PC is a PXE or an Etherboot compatible network card for network booting. The LBS can be managed from any PC through a Web-based administration interface. Bootable installation CD-ROMs can also be generated from any hard disk image. It supports ext2/3, ReiserFS, NTFS, and FAT filesystems. LinPacker 0.4.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125541/ Linpacker is a tool to optimize the placement of rectangles in a band of semi-infinite size (2D bin packing problem). It can be useful for cutting stocks in trucks and factories. Lupy 0.1.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125632/ Lupy is a full-text indexer for Python. It is a port of Jakarta Lucene to Python, and reads, writes, and searches indexes in Lucene binary format. Like Lucene, it is sophisticated, scalable, and Unicode aware. MailStripper Pro 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125533/ MailStripper Pro is a mail scanner that aims to remove spam and viruses from incoming mail using the F-Prot anti-virus. It is written in Tcl and was designed to be MTA-independent. Mamory 0.2.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125640/ Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client. Managing Gigabytes for Java 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125610/ MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a collaborative effort aimed at providing a free Java implementation of inverted-index compression techniques; as a by-product, it offers several general-purpose optimised classes, including fast and compact mutable strings, bit-level I/O, fast unsychronised buffered streams, (possibly signed) minimal perfect hashing, etc. MerlinWork 0.9.0-rc1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125570/ MerlinWork (the Merlin Web Application Framework) is a framework for Web-based, event driven stateful applications written in PHP. It allows easy integration with databases, or other data sources such as text files. It is fully object-oriented so the code is very re-usable and extendable. mhWaveEdit 1.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125652/ mhWaveEdit is a program for playing, editing, and recording sound files. It supports .wav files and a few other formats. It is good at editing both large and small files, and has support for 8/16/24/32-bit signed and unsigned sample formats. minido 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125626/ minido is a simple, generic, multi-user, database-free todo list manager and tracking system written in GTK2. Its interface is generated from a simple data description file in XML. Mp3cdBrowser 1.9.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125647/ Mp3cdBrowser is a Java program which stores MP3 information in a database. You can add an MP3 manually or by scanning a hard drive/CD for files. Information about the MP3s is obtained using their ID3 (v1 and 2) tags. You can search the database for MP3s by CD ID, artist, album, title, etc. Mysql Data Manager 1.70 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125662/ 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. mysqlwdb 1.3.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125651/ mysqlwdb is a CGI script written in Perl. It is easy to configure and install, and is intended to be used to manage MySQL database tables via a Web interface. You only need to edit and configure one file. MythTV 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125539/ 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. NDir 0.8.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125579/ NDir is a terminal tool to display the contents of directories. It can both provide a brief overview on the present files and display all interesting information associated with the files. NDir is designed to display its output in a more legible and informative way than ls. This includes various degrees of verbosity, a statistics line for each directory, coloured output and intelligent handling of long file names. Neomik 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125528/ Neomik is a simple theme inspired by the KDE 3.x theme "keramik" along with a number of other influences. Netdisco 0.91 Beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/125628/ Netdisco is a Web-based network management tool. Users can locate the switch port of an end-user system by IP or MAC address. Data is stored using a SQL database. Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) optionally provides automatic discovery of the network topology. The network is inventoried by both device model and operating system (like IOS). It uses router ARP tables and L2 switch MAC forwarding tables to locate nodes on physical ports and track them by their IP addresses. For each node, a time stamped history of the ports it has visited and the IP addresses it has used is maintained. It gets all its data, including CDP topology information, with SNMP polls and DNS queries. Security features include a wire-side Wireless Access Point (AP) locator. NetEclipse 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125350/ NetEclipse is a console-based sniffer, written with pcap. Note Editor 2.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125621/ Note Editor is an editor for music notation that supports an unlimited number of staffs and up to 9 voices per staff. The import formats are MIDI files, recorded from MIDI keyboards and TSE3. The export formats are MIDI, MusiXTeX, LilyPond, PMX, MUP, and TSE3. Open CORBA Benchmarking Suite 1.15 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125593/ The Open CORBA Benchmarking Suite measures several basic performance aspects of various CORBA brokers. The suite produces an XML output that can be submitted to a searchable database of broker performance data and browsed in a graphical form. The suite is portable to a number of platforms and brokers. OperaHotlist2HTML 2.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125643/ OperaHotlist2HTML is a script that converts Opera Hotlist files into HTML 4.01-compliant Web pages. P::Classes 0.9.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125582/ P::Classes is a portable C++ Application Framework. It includes everything needed for real world application development, such as classes for networking, GUI, databases, config, logging, and plugins. Pancho 9.1.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125597/ Pancho is a utility that allows network administrators to make changes to the configuration for a single node or group of nodes through SNMP and TFTP. It also provides archiving functionality by allowing you to copy the device configurations to a remote server through a scheduled cron or at job. PandaScript 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125534/ PandaScript is a frontend to the Panda PDF generation API that reads from standard in and generates a PDF document as instructed. This makes it much easier to generate PDF documents from shell and Perl scripts. Passcheck 3.0rc2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125638/ Passcheck is a drop-in replacement or rewrite of the original cracklib, and shares no code with the original. It features an enhanced dictionary check, and the ability to use the standard system wordlist. Perl Database Admin 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125637/ pDBAdmin is a Web-based administration tool for MySQL databases. It is particularly suitable for fast and uncomplicated changes to table contents. Perl Panel 0.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125604/ PerlPanel is an attempt to build a useable, lean panel program (like Gnome's gnome-panel and KDE's Kicker) in Perl, using GTK 2. It has an object-oriented design for easy customisation and extension, and an applet architecture that means that you can create an applet in a matter of minutes. PHPTestManager 0.1.2beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/125513/ PHPTestManager allows you to create and maintain school tests through a Web interface. PJIRC 1.84 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125586/ PJIRC is a very complete IRC applet which handles multichannel, private conversations, text coloration, graphical smileys, etc. In addition, it's still quite light. Postfix 2.0.11 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125613/ Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and hopefully secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset your users. pychart 1.33 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125664/ PyChart is a Python library for creating high-quality Postscript, PDF, or PNG scientific charts ready for publishing. It supports line charts, bar charts, range-fill charts, and pie charts. PyGDChart2 2.0 Alpha 2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125661/ PyGDChart2 is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the GDChart graphing library. It features a full OO interface, an extensive manual, and support for the latest 0.11.x versions of GDChart. Quanta Plus 3.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125595/ Quanta is a web editor for KDE supporting HTML and more. It has dynamic preview, project management, context tag editing and context tag reference docs, auto-completion, DTD management, templates, loadable toolbars, document structure tree, and much more. rclean 1.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125564/ rclean provides a command-line tool to order and clean content of rc.conf, using option order from /etc/defaults/rc.conf and printing only choices that were different by the default value in /etc/rc.conf. Output is customizable from "only used values" to "full listing". Reason 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125577/ Reason is a theme which uses the orange motif engine. RPL/2 4.00pre6l (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125565/ RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL made by Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions (preprocessor, compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can draw graphics. rpmrebuild 1.4.3-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125581/ rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed. It can be used to easily build modified packages, and works on any Linux distribution that uses RPM. runit 0.9.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125585/ runit is a daemontools alike replacement for SysV-init and other init schemes. It currently runs on GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system's one-time initialization tasks. Stage 2 starts the system's uptime services (via the runsvdir program). Stage 3 handles the tasks necessary to shutdown and halt or reboot. Samsung Contact 8.0.3 BETA (Server) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125573/ Samsung Contact is Samsung SDS's Linux/Unix unified communication, business messaging, and collaboration system. It supports desktops running Microsoft Outlook, including support for calendaring, wide-area scheduling, public folders, and delegation. ScheduleWorld 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125670/ ScheduleWorld is calendar that is based on open standards and is compatible with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes. It provides a client and a server, and supports encrypted calendar components. By default the NHL and NBA schedules are included, along with date and time support for over 50 languages. It features HTML customization and multiple simultaneous color-coded calendar views, and works on any system with Java 1.4. Scraper 1.3.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125546/ Scraper is designed to scrape the Web for information. It is very easy to use. SecurID authentication for OpenSSH 3.6.1p2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125580/ SecurID authentication for OpenSSH is done as a patch for the official portable release of OpenSSH. It is done as keyboard-interactive authentication and [EMAIL PROTECTED] authentication (a non-standard solution provided in commercial implementations from F-Secure and SSH). All SecurID token states are covered (Next token code and New PIN). SimpleAIM 0.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125554/ SimpleAIM is a miniature console-based AIM client written in pure Java. It implements the TOC protocol and provides a solid framework for understanding and writing your own IM clients or bots. SNMP::Info 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125622/ SNMP::Info gives an object oriented interface to information obtained through SNMP. This module is geared towards network devices. Speciality sub-classes exist for a number of network devices and MIBs. SPIN Distributed Software Verification Tool 4.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125551/ Spin is an award winning (ACM) software tool that can be used for the formal verification of distributed software systems. The tool was developed at Bell Labs in the original Unix group of the Computing Sciences Research Center. stmpclean 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125635/ The stmpclean utility removes old files (and old empty directories) from the specified directory. It is meant to be used to clean directories such as "/tmp" where old files tend to accumulate. stmpclean never removes files or directories owned by root, which is a feature, not a bug. Great care is taken while descending into the directory, and the operation is secure. Anything that's not a directory, regular file, or symbolic link is also left alone (because programs like screen(1) create sockets and FIFOs under /tmp and expect them to be long-lived). Unlike other programs that do the same task, stmpclean never forks and consumes limited amount of memory. If stmpclean determines a race condition it will log the situation and exit with a failure. System Watcher 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125668/ Watcher is a daemon that gets some system information and stores it on a pre-configured file. The information stored by watcher are uptime, running processes, disk free blocks, disk used blocks, system users, etc. TA-Linux 0.2.0-beta4 (PPC) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125603/ TA-Linux is a Linux distribution that targets power users. It features a small base installation that end users can expand to include any required software. It also attempts to support as many different architectures as possible - at this time x86 is fully supported, with Alpha, SPARC, PPC, and PA-RISC around the corner. TA-Linux 0.2.0-beta4 (Alpha) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125600/ TA-Linux is a Linux distribution that targets power users. It features a small base installation that end users can expand to include any required software. It also attempts to support as many different architectures as possible - at this time x86 is fully supported, with Alpha, SPARC, PPC, and PA-RISC around the corner. TA-Linux 0.2.0-beta4 (i386) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125598/ TA-Linux is a Linux distribution that targets power users. It features a small base installation that end users can expand to include any required software. It also attempts to support as many different architectures as possible - at this time x86 is fully supported, with Alpha, SPARC, PPC, and PA-RISC around the corner. The Gimp 1.3.15 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125578/ The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc. Thy 0.6.193 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125601/ Thy is a lightweight HTTP daemon that is designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day. Despite its small size, it supports CGI, IPv6, SSL/TLS, and on-the-fly compression. Titan PhoneBook 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125605/ PhoneBook is a multi-user PHP program that stores names, phonenumbers, addressess, email addresses, etc. It has view by index, search, view all entries, and view details. It also has an admin feature that you can use to setup new users with access to phonebook, creating them a table to store their data in. TriviaShock 1.4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125537/ TriviaShock is a Web-based trivia game and quiz system which uses PHP, MySQL, and Flash. twocrypt 2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125649/ twocrypt (2c) is a tool for the ultra-paranoid, providing a traditional crypto, but also an option of deniable (subpoena-proof) encryption. It encrypts one or two files at once. Each file can be recovered with its respective passphrase, but the presence of more than one file cannot be demonstrated, and the presence of this option alone should not be a credible argument for data hiding. VisualBoyAdvance 1.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125562/ VisualBoyAdvance is a GameBoyAdvance emulator. It's not the fastest but it aims to be the most accurate. vofce 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125653/ vofce is a simple GUI graph plotting tool with a wide range of exporting features (for PNG, PDF, METAPOST, SVG, and MathML). WEB-ERP 0.1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125560/ WEB-ERP is a Web-based integrated accounting system. It offers multi-currency sales orders and accounts receivable, multi-currency purchase orders and accounts payable, multiple stock locations, unlimited number of price lists, pricing by customer and currency, integrated general ledger journals created for all transactions in accounts receivable and payable, standard costing, user definable sales analysis reports, and stock valuation and stock planning reports. wGui 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125545/ wGui is a simple, platform-independent dialog manager library using SDL and FreeType2. Written in C++ (with extensive use of the Standard Library and STL), the intention is to leave all of the antiquated C paradigms out of it (like #defines). white_dune 0.25beta04 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125574/ VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals. wmgtemp 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125630/ wmgtemp is a dock-app for Window Maker that graphically displays the CPU and System temperatures using the lm_sensors package. It was originally intended to work with the VIA686A chipset although it can dynamically detect chipset features to work with other sensors. It displays the CPU and System temperature values, a scaling graph of temperature history, and high-temperature warning lights. It should also work fine with other window managers. X-Itools pre2-0.6.00 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125558/ The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of several modules, and this project has been under development for several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module. Xaraya .9.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125607/ Xaraya is extensible, Open Source software written in PHP. It utilizes robust permissions, data management, and multilingual systems to dynamically integrate and manage content. Its modular, database-independent architecture introduces tools which separate form, function, content, and design. XFaceMaker 4.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125596/ XFaceMaker is a full-fledged Motif GUI builder and application development environment. It allows you to design and layout a Motif GUI. Its features include: generation of Xt and C++ classes for portions of the GUI (e.g. a dialogue box, menus, etc), design templates, extensions, numerous design aids (groups, specialized dialogue windows for complex set of resources, etc.), and much more. Xfprot 0.19beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/125648/ XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Small Business Edition. It is based upon the XSTEP-3.5.1 library. XML::Twig 3.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125615/ XML::Twig is a Perl module built on top of XML::Parser. It is designed to process XML efficiently, with a tree-oriented interface that builds the tree only for parts of the documents. It has many convenient methods to simplify XML processing. A complete tutorial is available from the home page. Yahoo Group Archiver 1.9 (Attachments) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125629/ Yahoo Group Archiver is a command line utility to interact with Yahoo Groups. Messages are stored in Maildir format. YASM 0.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125553/ YASM is a complete rewrite of the NASM assembler. It is designed from the ground up to allow for multiple syntaxes to be supported (e.g., NASM, TASM, GAS, etc.) in addition to multiple output object formats. Another primary module of the overall design is an optimizer module. ZoneMinder 0.9.12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/125569/ ZoneMinder is a suite of applications intended for use in video camera security applications, including theft prevention and child or family member monitoring. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from one or more cameras attached to a Linux system. It also features a user-friendly Web interface which allows viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies captured by the cameras. The image analysis system is highly configurable, permitting retention of specific events, while eliminating false positives. ZoneMinder supports both directly connected and network cameras and is built around the definition of a set of individual 'zones' of varying sensitivity and functionality for each camera. This allows the elimination of regions which should be ignored or the definition of areas which will alarm if various thresholds are exceeded in conjunction with other zones. All management, control, and other functions are supported through the Web interface. Slashcode Handling logging issues http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/0533218 I'm using cronolog for my apache logs, and I really, really like it. I'd like to be able to use it on the slash logs as well, which become large and cumbersome over time with many sites running on a server. How do you all handle your logs? What do you use for log rotation? How long do you keep logs? Is anyone using cronolog, or something like it with slash? RSS to Story? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1727241 Hi, I'm looking for a way to grab remote RDF and post them as stories. portald seems only to handle blocks. I'm aware of the elixus.org, and the RSS2Story plugin in their patch of slashcode, but I can't get the plugin installed, and it seems to be left unfinished. So is there any other way to do this? launch of slash site "stupidsecurity.com" http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/2133212 Announcing the opening of StupidSecurity.com. The site is meant to be a chronicle of idiotic and deceptive "security" measures. From the "three questions" that the airlines finally stopped asking to the closing of Meigs Airport in Chicago supposedly for security reasons, we want YOUR gripes about security measures that are just plain dumb! I'd welcome submissions (the stupider the better!), comments, complaints, and praise! MySQL 4.1+ http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1639224 I want to start using MySQL 4.1 to take advantage of the new Spatial extensions in MySQL to further enhance my plugin. I saw the recent story referring to using MySQL 4, but no direct mention of experience with versions 4+. Any tips or recommendations? Should I make the upgrade only on my development box, or is using 4+ okay. Any experience with 4.1, which is alpha? Section-specific Quick Links http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1540217 I'm in the process of setting up a intranet Slash 2 site for a company. With the aid of the Crow Book I've got everything installed and with the L'n'F that they want, and we are in the process of adding some initial content and getting the blocks running the way they want. However, we're having problems getting section-specific quick links blocks to work. Example: I have a section called legal, and a block called legal_qlinks which has different links to index_qlinks. index_qlinks shows up on the homepage as I expect, but nothing is displayed in the right "frame" if I click no the section title under an article. What am I doing wrong? The Crow Book (page 127) suggests that this should work. Need help building Slash templates http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/1634251 I have comps for a site I want built in Slash. While I have worked with Movable Type, building Slash templates is a whole different beast. I need someone to help me convert my comps into a functioning Slash site. If you have these skills, please drop me a line with your rates and scheduling availability. You can see what the site will look like here. --Markos Preventing duplicates from being posted http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/2021250 I'm getting sick of seeing duplicate posts all the time on Slashdot. I have a feature-request/enhancement that I would like to request for slashcode. It would be nice if before a moderator submits a story to check all of the URLS in that post and match it with the previous weeks/months stories for the same URL. If there is a match, throw up a warning saying that this story is a possible duplicate. This will help the moderator out too, since they wouldn't have to read every story on slashdot in the past two weeks. What do you think? Is this doable? --Min Idzelis Vorlonspace Is Back http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0415234 Announced back in October last year, Vorlonspace was launched as a Babylon 5 discussions site. In late January, the site went down and was taken off the YASS list. It is now back up and the premise has changed from Babylon 5 to a general sci-fi discussion site which has generated more interest. Adding ispell after slash is installed http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0414234 Hi, I read the (archived) thread at: http://ask.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/1 724238&mode=thread and I have "Running Weblogs with Slash", so I know that "... Slash 2.2 has added an ispell compatibility mode. If the ispell program exists and points to an ispell binary, the Edit Story page will include a list of potentially misspelled words.)" (thanks blagger), but I don't know how exactly what to add, and into what directory,. I installed freebsd 5.0, then built and installed the slashcode port, and now I've installed ispell. I then tried adding symlinks to ispell into various directories, including /usr/local/slash/bin, and restarting my browser and the freebsd box. Nothing obvious changes. Can someone tell me exactly which file to put where to enable spell-checking? I'm running slash-2.2.6 on Freebsd 5.0. Thanks... P.S. Sorry if I misspelled anything, but... Shouldn't Slash Be Represented at OSCOM 3? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/171253 I found out that OSCOM 3, The Open Source Content Management Conference, is taking place in Cambridge, MA, from May 28-30. I was surprised to see that Slash does not appear to be represented in any way. I posted a story to CTDATA suggesting that our community try to represent itself in some fashion. If anyone wants to discuss how we can influence the organizers of this conference to include a Slash presentation, please email me at dave_aiello at ctdata.com. 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