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[osdn developer] November 19, 2002
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 03:15:49 EST
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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
FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/0117207
[0]noackjr writes "'The FreeBSD Project is proud to announce the
availability of the second Developer Preview snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0
(5.0-DP2). This snapshot, intended for widespread testing purposes, is
the latest milestone towards the eventual release of FreeBSD
5.0-RELEASE, currently scheduled for mid-December 2002.' See the
[1]announcement, [2]early adopter's guide, and the [3]release notes."
Links
0. mailto:noackjr@compgeek.com
1.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3139+0+current/freebsd-announce
2.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/early-adopter.html
3.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/relnotes.html
Bradley Trainer Support in MAME 0.62
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1930254
[0]TheAlchemist writes "The Bradley Trainer was a modification to
Atari's [1]Battlezone arcade game created for the US Army to help train
personel in the use of the [2]Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Supposedly only
two of these machines were built, and of the two only one of them is
known to exist today. The latest version of the arcade enumator [3]MAME
(0.62) has support for the Bradley Trainer, which hasn't been emulated
until now. Pictures and more information of the Atari Bradley Trainer
be found on [4]this site, and screenshots of it running in MAME can be
found [5]here."
Links
0.
http://www.atariage.com
1.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=B&game_id=337
2.
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/bradley/
3.
http://www.mame.net/
4.
http://www.safestuff.com/bradley.htm
5.
http://www.atariage.com/news/Bradley/index.html
Supercomputer To Use Optical Router
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/201201
Izmunuti writes "From a NYTimes article: 'Highlighting a radical departure in the design of the fastest computers, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology plans to announce on Monday that it will use an optical router [0]designed by a Texas company as the heart of a [1]campus-wide supercomputer that will be woven together with optical fibers.'" Links
Escher Paintings with Lego Bricks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1242251
sciuro writes "a couple of guys (A Lipton & D Shiu) have built three of
M C Escher's 3D-distorting paintings [0]using Lego bricks (and some
carefully chosen camera angles). Balcony, Belvedere & Ascending and
Descending are all down at the bottom of the page. Nice!" Some other
pretty pieces as well.
Links
0. http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/lego.htm
Black Ops of TCP/IP: Paketto Keiretsu 1.0 Release http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/2032225
[0]Effugas writes "After [1]pushing OpenSSH to perform feats of secure
tunneling far beyond what I ever expected it could do, it became clear
that some genuinely useful modes of network operation were simply
inaccessable without either replacing or manipulating core network
protocols. Since the basic infrastructure of the Internet isn't likely
to change any time soon, that left...creative manipulation and
reconstruction of the Lingua Reseaux: [2]TCP/IP. Taking advantage of
expectations, pitting layers against eachother, finding new uses for
old options and data fields -- instead of simply unleashing the latest
incarnation of some "Ping of Death", could such work unveil hidden
functionality within existing networks? As I discussed at [3]Black Hat
2002 and the inimitable [4]Defcon X, the answer is yes. And now, proof
of this is ready. BSD Licensed (in deference to the very source of
TCP/IP), [5]The Paketto Keiretsu, Version 1.0, is a collection of five
interwoven "proof of concepts" that explore, extract, and expose
previously untapped capacities embedded deep within networks and their
stacks, at Layers 2 through 4. The five -- [6]scanrand, [7]minewt,
[8]lc [9]( linkcat [10]), [11]paratrace, and the [12]OpenQVIS
cross-disciplinary-a-go-go [13]phentropy -- demonstrate Stateless TCP
Scanning, Inverse SYN Cookies, Guerrila Multicast, Parasitic
Tracerouting, Ethernet Trailer Cryptography, and quite a bit more. (For
details, stop by [14]DoxPara Research or check out [15]the latest
slides. The academic paper is coming "soon".) In terms of actual
usefulness, scanrand is no [16] nmap, but it's still interesting:
During an authorized test inside a multinational corporation's class B,
scanrand detected 8300 web servers across 65,536 addresses. Time
elapsed: approximately 4 seconds."
Links
0. mailto:dan@doxpara.com
1.
http://www.doxpara.com/Advanced_OpenSSH.pdf
2.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt
3.
http://www.blackhat.com/
4.
http://www.defcon.com/
5.
http://www.doxpara.com/paketto/paketto-1.0.tar.gz
6.
http://www.doxpara.com/read.php/docs/scanrand_logs.html
7.
http://www.doxpara.com/read.php/docs/minewt_logs.html
8.
http://www.doxpara.com/read.php/docs/lc_logs.html
9.
http://www.wholesaledirectschoolsupply.com/html/plastic_safety.html
10.
http://www.allartsupplies.com/item.asp?cid=584
11.
http://www.doxpara.com/read.php/docs/paratrace.html
12.
http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Persons/Rezk/Research/VolRen
13.
http://www.doxpara.com/pics/index.php?album=phentropy/
14.
http://www.doxpara.com/
15.
http://www.doxpara.com/Black_Ops_Hivercon.ppt
16.
http://www.insecure.org/nmap
Meet The Leonids
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1727240
[0]Kathy Miles writes "The Leonid meteor shower is promising to be a
'once in a lifetime event.' It's not hard to photograph meteors, a
simple 35mm camera that you can lock open the shutter on works fine.
Here's [1]complete instructions for 35mm, video and digital
cameras.And, [2]on the same site is information such as lore and myth,
best way to watch meteors and times and skymaps for all US timezones.
Happy Meteor watching!" And [3]Geert Barentsen writes "As the
adrenaline for the final [4]Leonid meteor storm (November 19th) rises,
one site seems to do a call to everybody to [5]count the meteor
activity and help science. With a few thousand meteors predicted per
hour, it's going to be a busy night for true geeks :-)" [6]Kevin
Smolkowski writes "For the second year in a row, NASA will have [7]
Live Coverage of the 2002 Leonid meteor storm on Monday. Perfect for
those of you surrounded by city lights. The all night show is hosted by
NASA astronomers. They'll offer observing tips, answer phone calls from
sky watchers, and tour the skies with a video camera located at the
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama." Update:
11/18 22:40 GMT by [8]T: [9]McGravin writes "Everyone should also
[10]keep an ear on the extraplanetary visitors, too. I'm going to go
add some ear-flaps to the tin foil helmet that protects my brain from
them, so I can hear the meteors."
Links
0. mailto:kmiles@starryskies.net
1.
http://starryskies.com/The_sky/events/meteors/photograph-meteor-showers.html
2.
http://starryskies.com/leonids
3. mailto:gbar@barentsen.be
4.
http://www.imo.net/leo02/index.html
5.
http://www.urania.be/leoniden/genreport.php
6. mailto:kevin@smolkowski.com
7.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/16nov_leonidstv.htm
8.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
9. mailto:mcgravin@ c a n ada.com
10.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast26nov_1.htm
Real PDA Wristwatch
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1427246
[0]Larry Groebe writes "Just before COMDEX, Fossil announced a new PDA
in a wristwatch. Based on the Palm OS, this is nothing less than a
complete Palm Pilot on your wrist. See [1]here for features and a
picture. This is completely UNLIKE Fossil's *first* attempt at a wrist
PDA, which was a hopeless view-only gadget. This new model allows
regular Graffiti input and appears to run all Palm programs! At $149, I
may be the first in line when it comes out next spring."
Links
0. mailto:lgroebe@swbell.net
Nvidia GeForceFX(NV30) Officially Launched http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1824202
egarland writes "Tom's Hardware has a new article [0] previewing the new GeForceFX chip and discussing its architecture. 0.13 Micron, 16 GB/s memory bandwidth, 128-bit DDR2 memory interface, 125 M transistors, support for 8x FSAA. Sounds like an interesting chip. They stuck with a 128 bit memory bus so ATI's R300 still has more memory bandwidth (19.8 GB/s) but NVidia has new lossless memory compression so we will have to wait for benchmarks to see if NVidia comes up a winner here. The reference card also sports a [1]massive new cooling system which is worth a look." Readers Oliver Wendell and JavaTenor add links to additional stories [2]at The Register and [3]at AnandTech. Links
0.
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q4/021118/index.html
1.
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q4/021118/geforcefx-03.html
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/28153.html
3.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1749
Movielink Snubs DRM-less Macs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/176225
[0]mcwetboy writes "CNET reports that [1]the Macintosh is being shut
out of online movie services like Movielink, and connects it to the
Mac's lack of digital-rights management. From the article: '[Apple VP]
Schiller says Apple has not released much in the way of protective
technology ... because effective techniques for securing content
without interfering with the experience of consumers have not yet been
invented.' A consumer-friendly attitude towards DRM may be a
double-edged sword (content may not be made available for that
platform), but if the content is locked out of the Mac for that reason,
do I really want it anyway?" In other news, the USSR provided free
bread only to the poor people.
Links
Moving Your Kids to Linux?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/0548240
telecaster asks: "My kids are aged 11, 7 and 3. All of them are
computer savvy. They use the computer for basically three things:
Games, writing papers and chatting with friends, as well as browsing
sites that are frequented by children their age ([0]Nick, [1]Cartoon
Network, [2]How Things Work, Yahoo!Kids, and others). All of this is
supervised and watched by my wife and I -- we don't use any parental
filters since we've found they just don't work, and it's just better to
keep a watchful eye anyway. I would like to move them off Windows XP
and introduce them to something less expensive (free) and more
reliable. I'm rebooting this machine probably four and five times a
week, not to mention the forever problem of lockups and hangs which
seem to happen during the times where the 3 year-old is using the
machine. I know the crashes are mainly due to the older games that the
kids play which are not totally compatible with XP, but hey, they USED
to run just fine under Windows98."
Links
0.
http://www.nick.com/
1.
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com
2.
http://www.howthingswork.com
Freshmeat
ABYSS X1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103941/
ABYSS aims to be a fully HTTP/1.1 compliant Web server. Its main design goals are speed, low resource usage and portability. ABYSS works on most UNIX based systems and on Win32 systems (Win95/98/2000/NT).
adevs 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103903/
adevs is a C++ library for developing discrete event simulations based on the Parallel DEVS and DSDEVS formalisms.
Astaro Security Linux 2.031 (Sun Cobalt) http://freshmeat.net/releases/103920/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
c2lib 1.2.25 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103930/
c2lib is a library of basic structures and memory allocators for C. It is designed to look similar to the C++ STL with many powerful string features borrowed from Perl.
cd_create 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103885/
cd_create allows users to interactively create CDs of an arbitrary size. Image creation and burning is supported via mkisofs and cdrecord.
Crash Recovery Kit for Linux 2.4.19 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/103861/
Crash Recovery Kit (CRK) for Linux is a tool which can recover your crashed PC.
duplicity 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103894/
duplicity is an incremental backup tool that backs up files and directories by encrypting tar- format volumes with GnuPG and uploading them to a file server. It supports local, FTP, and ssh/scp back-ends. Because it uses librsync, archives only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. It supports deleted files, full Unix permissions, directories, symbolic links, and fifos, but currently not hard links.
Filepp 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103935/
filepp is a generic file preprocessor designed to allow the functionality provided by the C preprocessor to be used with any file type. It supports the full set of C preprocessor keywords (#include, #define, #if, etc.). filepp is also highly customisable and allows users to easily add their own keywords or modify the behaviour of existing keywords.
Firestorm NIDS 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103926/
Firestorm is an extremely high performance network intrusion detection system (NIDS). At the moment, it just a sensor but there are plans are to include real support for analysis, reporting, remote console, and on-the-fly sensor configuration. It is fully pluggable and hence extremely flexible.
Freddy 0.70 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103946/
Freddy is a programmer's editor, written in Qt. It has a nice look, and is easy to use. It is extendable with its module support, and you can configure almost everything you want.
Freeside 1.4.1beta5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103940/
Freeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs.
GNU Enterprise Common Library 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103906/
GNUe-Common is the basis for the GNUe tools, such as Forms, Reports, and Designer. It implements a database abstraction layer that provides support for most major databases. A built in XML-to-Object parser and Object-to-XML marshaller are used by Forms, Reports, and Designer to save and read Forms/Report definitions to and from an XML file. Work has begun on an RPC abstraction layer that will allow server processes to define their public methods once and have them available to CORBA, XML-RPC, SOAP, and DCOM clients.
GNU Enterprise Designer 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103907/
GNUe-Designer is the IDE for the GNUe tools. It allows you to visually layout your forms in a RAD-style environment. It has a built in forms client, so you can quickly test your forms while still in Designer. It also has support for form creation wizards: answer a few questions, attach your form to a table, select the fields to include, and a basic form is created.
GNU Enterprise Forms 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103909/
GNU Enterprise Forms is a platform and UI-independent forms system. It reads an XML-based forms definition and creates GUIs for Win32 and GTK. It has a fully data aware widget set and can be used in both 2-tier and n-tier environments.
GNU Enterprise Navigator 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103910/
GNUe Navigator is a menuing system for GNUe Forms and Reports. It presents a consistent menuing interface (in a GUI or text) based on an XML "process definition." It uses the GNUe Forms or GNUe Reports clients to run the actual forms and reports.
GNU Enterprise Reports 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103908/
GNU Enterprise Reports is a platform and output-independent reporting system that reads an XML-based report definition and generates arbitrary XML output that can be further translated into any format for which there is an adapter. It has outputs for text, HTML, and CSV. Reports can output directly to a file, as an email attachment, to a printer, or to a HylaFax server.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103929/
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.
GnuCash 1.7.3 beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103927/
GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income, and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. It is backed by an active development community and is blossoming into a full-fledged accounting system.
GoFish Gopher Server 0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103897/
GoFish is a very simple gopher server. It is designed with security and low resource usage in mind, and uses a single process that handles all the connections. This provides low-resource usage, good latency, and good scalability. It also runs in a chroot environment. While GoFish must run at root privilege to be able to use port 70, it drops to a normal user while accessing files.
grafist 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103945/
Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a summary for each file. Grafist currently supports the English, Turkish, Russian, German, Azeri, French, and Italian languages.
Gringotts 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103936/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data (passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string, giving additional choices.
GSburn.app 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103937/
GSburn.app is a GNUstep-based CD burning program. It serves as a front end for cdrtools, cdrdao, and cdparanoia.
gstat 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103868/
gstat is a suite of tools to keep track of what your young child is doing during the day so that your working spouse can vicariously enjoy the "fun" via the Web from the comfort of his/her office.
i8kkmon 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103862/
i8kkmon is a KDE tool for monitoring temperatures on a Dell Inspiron notebook.
Internet Task Management System 1.0 (Build 107) http://freshmeat.net/releases/103892/
ITMS uses PHP to formalize the task delegation process in a business environment. Functionality includes the ability to create individual tasks and then combine them into a process of work items which can be easily delegated to any user of the system. Assignment and reminder emails are recieved based upon user preferences. Administrators of the system have the ability to manage all users and their task properties. It supports MySQL, Oracle, LDAP, and SSL.
JGraph 1.0.6 (For Java 1.3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103914/
JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.
K Time Tracker 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103902/
K Time Tracker is a small program aimed at contractors which allows them to keep track of billable time. Currently it allows users to set a rate and a time increment to bill by.
Kavlon Courier User Manager 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103919/
Kavlon Courier User Manager is a graphical tool to manage virtual users in CourierMTA with authMySQL.
kcurses 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103872/
kcurses is a set of simple widgets and UI abstractions for ncurses, to handle list boxes, vi-like field-editing, and mouse selections. It will probably include some database-connection abstractions as well in the future.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.48_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/103917/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth.
KISGB 4.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103899/
KISGB is an advanced PHP guestbook program that does not require sessions, cookies, or an rdbms. It can be public or private through HTTP authentication. Features include message editing by users, a theme builder, private messaging, flexible logging capability, a Web-based password protected admin section, email notification, IP logging, IP banning, a bad word filter, smileys, automatic link recognition, flood control and multi-language support.
KUDD 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103804/
KUDD is a small Content Management System for Internet radios. It includes a live show calendar, an artist database, and more.
Libxml 2.4.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103921/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress.
Mambo SiteServer 4.0 Build 9 BETA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103860/
Mambo SiteServer is a dynamic Web content management tool that is capable of building sites from several pages to several thousand. It comes complete with 10 built-in modules, a WYSIWYG editor, site statistics, an admin interface, and much more.
MCatS 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103876/
MCatS is a modular catalog system that makes it very easy to convert between different formats.
MiddleMan 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103942/
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies to and from certain sites, redirect requests, and even manipulate the contents of a Web page or file using the built-in rewrite feature or an external program. It fully implements the HTTP 1.1 protocol, including persistent connections, and can forward requests through another proxy or SOCKS4 firewall.
Monolith 1.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103932/
Monolith is an application framework for Web applications. It provides basic widgets for labels, buttons, images, input fields, and so on. The programmer uses these to construct whole applications or reusable "super-widgets" which can be embedded in other applications, distributed, or even sold. Writing Monolith widgets and applications strongly resembles tools like Java/Swing, Windows MFC, Motif, GTK, Tcl/Tk, etc. There are comprehensive manual pages for every widget and method, and a set of example programs.
Openglad 0.95.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103916/
Openglad is an SDL port of an old DOS game called Gladiator, which was developed by FSGames in the mid 90's. It is a top-down gauntlet-style RPG in which you hire team mates, go on missions, and improve your team with the spoils you reap. It can be played by up to 4 players (using split-screen), and features many classes, special abilities, and a scenario editor.
Phone Box Log Analyzer 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103891/
Phone Box Log Analyzer allows you to capture and view the logs from a PBX. By connecting to the serial port of the PBX (usually used for printing to a serial printer) the logs may be captured and fed to a PostgreSQL database. A PHP Web interface to this database is provided.
PHP DB Form Creator 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103905/
PHP DB Form Creator is a set of PHP scripts to help manage a HTML form to administer data in MySQL and PostgreSQL. It features easy management, customization, easy drop-down lists, filters, images, regular expressions, and more.
ProFTPD 1.2.7RC3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103913/
ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written from scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility.
ProxyAuth 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103895/
ProxyAuth is a transparent Web authentication daemon for FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux. It uses the ipnat API and a small internal Web server to prompt for a login and password. If the login and password are correct, it creates an ipnat rule that redirects all Web packets to the proxy port.
pthrlib 3.0.15 (stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103931/
pthrlib is a comprehensive library and toolkit allowing programmers to easily and quickly write small, fast, HTTP/1.1-compliant Web servers in C. It includes examples, full manual pages documenting every function, and a production quality micro-webserver called rws.
qconfirm 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103918/
qconfirm is an implementation of a delivery confirmation process for a mail address or ezmlm mailing list. It is invoked by qmail-local through a .qmail file, and can reduce the amount of junk mail hitting a mailbox or the mailboxes of mailing list subscribers.
QuickASCII 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103900/
QuickASCII is a movie player and picture viewer that works in your commandline, converting movies into ASCII animation on the fly.
referer logger 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103915/
referer logger is a simple statistic system written in PHP. It logs all incoming hits to your site and stores referers. It can display a list of top-referring domains and a list of most recent referring sites.
ReViewer 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103939/
ReViewer is an image viewer in Rebol that lets you view and sort images, drag and drop thumbnails, and build a Web site with your images.
S tar 1.5a09 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103925/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives. Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags, automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the only known platform independent "rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The "rmt" server from the star package implements all Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to contact any OS as server.
Scoutplans 4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103901/
Scoutplans was originally developed as a method for Scout units to share calendars with each other. It has evolved into a general-purpose calendar (called "Plans") with many useful features. These include recurring events, support for multiple organizations, merged calendars, event icons, "skinnable" stylesheet-based look & feel, MS outlook export, online help, and more.
SpeedDemon Internet Accelerator 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103911/
SpeedDemon is an Open Source Java tool to accelerate your Internet downloads. It works by downloading different parts of a file simultaneously and then recombines them to a location you specify. It also allows you to resume disconnected downloads. If you specify mirror links, SpeedDemon will download the file such that the load on the servers are evenly distributed. It has been designed to support different protocols; support for any protocol can be developed by just implementing an Interface, packing it into a JAR file, and then copying the JAR file into a specific directory.
Stuffed Tracker 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103924/
Stuffed Tracker is used to track Return on Investment. It might be very useful for any site that uses advertising to attract visitors and that have some sort of ordering process (registration, selling products, etc.). With the help of the Stuffed Tracker, the site owner can learn how many visitors that came from online advertising were converted into customers (i.e., registered, bought something, etc.).
SynCE 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103947/
The purpose of the SynCE project is to provide a means of communication with a Windows CE or Pocket PC device from a computer running Linux, *BSD, or another Unix system.
The XSLT C library for GNOME 1.0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103922/
Libxslt is a C library for GNOME which allows developers to work with XSLT. It is based on libxml for XML parsing, tree manipulation, and XPath support. It is written in plain C, making as few assumptions as possible, and sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX for easy embedding. It should work on Linux, Unix, and Windows. Though not designed primarily with performances in mind, libxslt seems to be a relatively fast processor. It also include full support for the EXSLT set of extension functions as well as some common extensions present in other XSLT engines.
WebGUI 4.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/103898/
WebGUI is a platform built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer.
Slashcode
How to kickstart meta-moderation?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/13/0311207
I have a small slash site with a small number of users (by design) with a few dozen stories and probably fewer than 200 comments posted so far. The slash engine is handing out moderation points, perhaps because I reset some of the configuration variables. But meta-moderation is not operating.I recall that this has something to do with the number of moderations (I'd look in the archives but the search function on slashcode has been down for a while...). Unfortunately, I have one user who could stand some meta-moderation NOW, before he drives other users away with his down-mods. Yet I don't see any configuration variables or anything else I can tweak to make meta-moderation start up. I would rather the enforcement of community standards come from the community rather than some heavy-handed act by the site administration. Any way to force meta-moderation on?
Show Domains: Explain, please.
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/10/057254
On the user comments options page, an option exists to "Show the links domain only in recommended situations". What are the "recommended situations", exactly? How does this differ from the option to "Always show link domains"?
Upgrading to MySQL 4?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/03/015232
In order to support some other projects I need to roll out on my server, I need to upgrade to a real ACID database, which supports transactions. Has anybody yet tried using Slash running on MySQL 4.0, which now supports transactions? Are there any caevats or tricks to doing the switchover, beyond the general upgrade notes for MySQL?
Slash plugins and version 2.3
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/01/0552241
I've been looking at a lot of modules (specifically email.pm and Galleria), and it appears that they all require Slash version 2.3. Is upgrading from 2.2.6 to one of the 2.3 versions dangerous? Is it as simple as compiling and installing? Are there places to get these plugins written for the release version of Slash? Or am I being a nincompoop?
How to Make Users Authors?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/30/200220
What is the proper way to turn users into authors? I'm interested in this because I would like to use Slash as something my group uses to communicate with each other and the world. I would like the people in the group to function as the authors since it is their site. I've been looking around in documentation and FAQs but can't find this documented anywhere.
SubnetID is masked using what?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/30/1959257
When Slash stores the SubnetID in the database, what Subnet mask is it using? I was hoping to find this in the vars table, but no luck. Any ideas?
www.vorlonspace.org
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/2232226
It's still in development for other things, but vorlonspace.org is now up and running (for the most part). Thanks to the guys on the irc channel that helped me with some of the configuration issues I had. This site is going to be a nexus of Babylon 5 information stemming from the television show to the out of print customizable card game.
www.toborguru.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/28/037201
I have a new site up and running, not Much in the way of content but I do have some information about one of my projects up at this point. Enjoy.
Code for Moderator Status Headline on Front Page? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/26/1952222
Slashdot is now running a very useful banner on the front page when the user is a moderator: "You have X Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose 'em!". My users have been asking for something like this for weeks. Can someone point me to the appropriate template mod please?
Comment Status "Read-only" means what, exa http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/1558218