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[osdn developer] December 04, 2002
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 03:15:49 EST
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December 04, 2002 DEVELOPER SERIES
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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
Class Action Filed Against Bonzi Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/0114222
An anonymous reader writes: "A nationwide [0]class action lawsuit was
filed on November 25, 2002, in the Superior Court of Spokane County
against Bonzi Software, Inc. Bonzi is among the world’s most prolific
issuers of internet advertising banners. Bonzi’s website has been
ranked as one of the most frequently visited websites in the world. In
case you are wondering Bonzi is the company responsible for those
irritating popup ads which say things like 'Your computer is
broadcasting an internet IP Address...' and 'Your internet connection
is not optimized ...'" The attacking lawyers [1]provide some samples of
the ads they say are misleading.
Links
0. http://www.lukins.com/bonzi/
Why The Dinosaurs Won't Die
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/013252
[0]DaveAtFraud writes "[1]Ace's Hardware has a nice introductory
article to the animal that will not die: [2]The Mainframe. Ever wonder
why these things are still around and what makes them different from a
PC or UNIX box? The article is IBM-centric so there's no discussion of
say the CDC Cyber series but when most people don't even believe that
mainframes exist anymore, what the hay, let's disabuse them of that
notion first. Hopefully, the author will follow up with the additional
promised articles that go into more technical detail but this is a good
place to start. I wonder if they still make card readers, too?" This
guide came out last month, but it's worth looking through, even just
for the pictures.
Links
0. mailto:dave@davenjudy.org
1.
http://www.aceshardware.com/
2.
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000316
UK Team to Study Rainmaking Machines
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/1830214
[0]RobertB-DC writes "The BBC reports that a Edinburgh University team
has received a grant to research [1]Wind-Powered Rainmaking Machines.
You have to have winds blowing towards a mountainous coastline, but the
article says that the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf are well-suited. For
a cautionary note, though, the BBC includes a link to the story of a
1952 [2]cloud-seeding experiment gone terribly wrong."
Links
0.
http://www.dixie-chicks.com/
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2535343.stm
2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1516880.stm
3-D Movies Turn 50 ... Sort Of
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/218214
[0]jonerik writes "[1]The Associated Press has [2]this article on the
50th anniversary of the release of [3]'Bwana Devil.' Released on
November 26th, 1952, the film would be largely forgotten today if not
for the fact that it's generally regarded as the first full-length 3-D
movie, kicking off a burst of 3-D filmmaking which lasted into the
mid-'50s and which still takes place today, particularly in the adult
film industry and on the [4]IMAX circuit where this year's 43-minute
[5]'Space Station 3-D' has brought in about $33 million so far. 'Bwana
Devil' utilized the Polaroid method, which used two lenses filming, and
involved lightwaves passing in perpendicular planes to the other lens.
However, considering that a long string of 3-D films were made as far
back as 1922 using more primitive processes, the claim that 'Bwana
Devil' was first can be regarded as open to question. Either way,
Robert Stack, who starred in 'Bwana Devil,' is somewhat ambivalent
about his small part in movie history, saying 'I'm not sure it was
anything to be proud of. It's an honor like being the world's tallest
midget.'"
Links
0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
1.
http://www.ap.org/
2.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/29/3d.movies.ap/index.html
3.
http://www.lionlmb.org/tsavo/bwanadev.html
4.
http://www.imax.com/
5.
http://www.imax.com/spacestation/Finnish Taxi Drivers Must Pay Music Royalties http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/216234
[0]jonerik writes "According to [1]this story from [2]Ananova,
[3]Finland's Supreme Court has ruled that taxi drivers must pay royalty
fees of about $20 annually if they play music in their car while a
customer is in the backseat. According to the article, 'Lauri Luotonen,
chairman of the Helsinki Taxi Drivers' Association, says the ruling is
likely to force most drivers to keep their radios off.'" This includes
if they play the radio, which ostensibly already pays such fees.
Links
0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
1.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_721008.html
2.
http://www.ananova.com/
3.
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/court.html#supremeAn Interesting Look at the Video Game Industry http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/0017223
Bamafan77 writes "USATODAY has an [0]interesting article in their Money section on the video game industry. The centerpiece of the story is an overview of DigiPen, the only accredited video game university, but it also describes aspects of the video game industry in general including the explosive growth of the industry (e.g. Barnes and Nobles would've reported a loss without their Gamestop subsidiary) and how many universities not only fail to prepare students for the game industry, but still don't take it seriously. However, I believe things are slightly better than the days when Trip Hawkins (EA's co-founder founder) Harvard professor told him to stop wasting time with games." Links
0. http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2002-12-03-video_x.htm
Bitrate Peeling with Ogg Vorbis
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/2033241
Yort writes "Thought this might be interesting to some audiophile /.ers
- there's been some discussion on the Ogg Vorbis lists, summarized in the most recent [0]Ogg Traffic, about "bitrate peeling". In short, it's where you can simply "peel off" the high resolution data from the ends of an audio stream packet to come up with a smaller, lower quality stream. Brings up a number of geek-cool opportunities." Links 0. http://www.vorbis.com/ot/20021201.html
Seeking Interesting Sites When Travelling the World? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/2211252
An anonymous reader asks: "Is there anyone besides me who likes to
travel and look at engineering projects? When I first read Neal
Stephenson's Wired article on his trip around the world to watch an
intercontinental fiber cable being built from England to Japan (still
available at [0]HotWired) I knew this was what I wanted to do with my
vacation days. Space launch sites, high-speed rail lines, container
ports, technology museums - I've tried them all. Does Slashdot have
suggestions for destinations, or for web sites where people share their
experiences."
Links
0. http://hotwired.lycos.com/collections/connectivity/4.12_mother_earth1.html
RC5-72 Clients Available on distributed.net http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/205253
[0]Yoda2 writes "From the [1]distributed.net site... 'The RC5-72
project is now officially up and running, as of 03-Dec-2002! You will
need to [2]download a new client in order to participate. Our
FAQ-O-matic has been updated with the beginnings of a [3]new RC5-72
section.' Also, there is a $10,000 prize for the winner, but as with
the other RC5 projects, the owner of the computer that finds the key
does not get all of the money."
Links
0.
http://www.greatmindsworking.com
1.
http://www.distributed.net/
2.
http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html
3.
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/faq/index.cgi?file=270
The Copyright Fuss Revisited
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/1952217
[0]mpawlo writes "I was going to clean up my apartement, but instead
[1]I wrote a piece for Greplaw introducing a framework for the debate
on how we should obtain a balance between users and authors where the
author has good incentives to innovate, but where society at large is
not too restricted due to the author's previous innovations. I am
afraid that I personally have few practical solutions to introduce, but
you might find my text useful as a quick introduction to what the
copyright fuss is all about and why you should care."
Links
Freshmeat
Active Spam Killer 2.3.beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105420/
Active Spam Killer (ASK) protects your email account against spam by confirming the sender's email address before actual delivery takes place. The confirmation happens by means of a "confirmation message" that is automatically sent to all "unknown" users. Once the sender replies to that message (a simple reply will do), future emails from that person will be delivered immediately. You can also specify (regexp) addresses to be immediately accepted, rejected (with a nastygram) or ignored. The package also includes a utility to scan your old mailboxes and generate a list of emails to be accepted automatically.
Apache Tomcat 4.1.16 Beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105408/
The goal of the Jakarta Project is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform that are developed in an open and cooperative fashion. Tomcat 3.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 Specifications. Tomcat 4.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 Specifications, and is a re-implementation of the Tomcat servlet engine from the ground up.
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105352/
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer adds visual impact and interactivity to the documentation of your parsers. It supports a wide variety of parser generation formats, including yacc, bison, JavaCC, and EBNF. It is a self-contained Java- based visualization application that dynamically creates visual representation of your syntax and grammar, saving it as images for inclusion in your documentation. It supports all common image formats, easy integration with your existing build environment, full customization of the look of your railroad diagrams, and multiplatform support.
claroline 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105388/
Claroline is an Open Source Web-based e-Learning platform dedicated to allow everybody or every institution to host courses administered by professors or teachers through the Web. It features a quiz generator, calendar, file manager, forums, group area, course description, and more. It is available in 12 languages: English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Thai, and Chinese. The same server can host courses in different languages.
Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105419/
CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all Unix vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers. A customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP Ghostscript is available separately to support printing of PostScript files within the CUPS driver framework. Sample drivers for Dymo, EPSON, HP, and OKIDATA printers are included that use these filters.
Condorcet with Dual Dropping 4.6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/105354/
Condorcet with Dual Dropping is a vote tabulation and ranking system for deciding single or multi-winner contests (elections) using preference or approval ballots. Dual Dropping will compute the Schwartz Sequential Dropping (SSD) and Tideman's Ranked Pair (RP) results for each contest round and select the combined SSD and RP contest outcome with the lowest overall dropping cost. It has options to compute just the SSD or RP outcome, various optional tie-breakers, and alternative measures of defeat and dropping cost (winning votes and/or margin).
CrisoftRicette 1.0pre9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105386/
CrisoftRicette is a simple PHP application to build your personal archive of cooking recipes in a MySQL database. The interface has international support.
DCP-Portal 3.0 (SMB)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105371/
DCP-Portal is a content management system with advanced features like Web-based update, link, file, member management, poll, calendar, etc. Its main features include an admin panel to manage the entire site, a smart HTML editor to add news, content, and annoucements, the ability for members to submit news/content and write reviews, and much more.
DOM Tooltip 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105363/
DOM Tooltip allows developers to have dynamic and configurable tooltips on HTML pages. This library supports Mozilla/Netscape6+, IE 5+, Konqueror, and Opera 7. The tooltips are configured through three class definitions in a stylesheet, and consist of two parts, the caption and the content, where the caption is optional. Tooltips can be either greasy or sticky, where sticky tips stick around after mouseout and require a click to close. Sticky tips are also draggable. The key to this project is that it is powerful, yet simple. "Tooltips" can also mean dynamic embedded windows (using iframes, hidden HTML, or even hidden forms) or custom context menus for mouse click events. The infamous select box z-index bug in IE/Mozilla is also handled by this library automatically.
Ethereal Realms 2.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105374/
Ethereal Realms is a concept web-based chat system based loosely on WBS and IFC which are both now defunct. Utilizing Perl/mod_perl and MySQL, this system emulates what WBS had with certain improvements and refinements made over the course of its development.
eXchaNGeR 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105395/
The eXchaNGeR XML browser is a browser and editor framework, written in Java, that visualizes elements in a XML document. The user can browse through and manage the visible elements in the document with external services, or she can make changes to the content of the XML document with the built-in XML editor.
FELIP 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105370/
FELIP (File Editing and Listing In PHP) is a Web-based file editor. It was designed to allow remote editing and compiling of Java source files on a Linux server without the need for a terminal login, however, it can be used to edit any text file. It provides a directory browser to easily view files along with creating, uploading, copying, deleting, moving, renaming, and Java compiling features. Perl scripts are used for copying, moving, and compiling operations to avoid compatibility problems with PHP.
Firestorm NIDS 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105400/
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.
gbiff 0.2.0 (GNOME/GTK 2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105375/
gbiff checks for mail periodically, and can display headers when new mail has arrived. Its supported protocols are Unix mailfile, mh, qmail, IMAP4, POP3, and APOP. gbiff also supports any ISO-8859 encoding, and can be compiled and used with or without GNOME.
grafist 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105406/
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 provides internationalization support for 13 languages.
GSMBClient 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105410/
GSMBClient is a GTK 2 frontend for smbclient. It lets you browse Samba shares, upload/download files or directories, etc.
HelpWorks Professional 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105359/
HelpWorks Professional is a robust knowledge base support system written in PHP and MySQL. It is powerful and simple to use, and offers many customizable features and options.
Jconsole 1.37
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105379/
Jconsole is a JMX console for JBoss that provides a pre-built Web client for the JBoss application server. It deploys the JMX features of JBoss.
KernelDriver 5.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105404/
KernelDriver automates your Windows 2000/NT, Windows Me/98/95 and Linux device driver development by providing you with powerful tools for hardware debugging, driver code generation, and driver debugging. KernelDriver supports PCI / USB / ISA and EISA drivers. KernelDriver for Windows and Linux includes the powerful Driver Wizard. Using the Driver Wizard you can graphically debug your hardware by "peeking" and "poking" at it without writing a single line of code. After your hardware is diagnosed, use the Driver Wizard to generate a complete kernel mode device driver which will drive your hardware.
kruthles skin 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105194/
kruthles skin is a nice blue/grey theme. The window titlebar and menu have a 3d look, and the toolbar has a more flat look. The GTK theme in the screenshot is is lighthouseblue.
KWaveControl 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105402/
kwavecontrol is a little monitoring tool for WaveLAN devices. It shows information such as the link quality and bit rate.
LadyStar 1.0.006L (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105356/
LadyStar is a combination Visual Novel and Adventure Game which can be played in a Web browser. It is an episodic mystery about the search for an ancient and magical legend by seven girls who become powerful warriors. Versions are available for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows.
Lazy 0.23b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105418/
Lazy is a console-based CD player with freedb support. It provides artist, album, and song name display, looking at the main freedb-server for unrecognized songs. It can also extract audio digitally if the CD-ROM drive does not have an analog audio cable connected to it.
libcddb 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105340/
Libcddb is a library that implements the different protocols (CDDBP, HTTP, SMTP) to access data on a CDDB server (e.g. http://freedb.org). It tries to be as cross-platform as possible.
libmpeg2 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105355/
libmpeg2 is a library for decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams. Its main goals are standards conformance, speed, portability, and reuseability. The package also includes mpeg2dec, a small test program for libmpeg2.
LinAl 4.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105405/
LinAl was designed to bring together C++ and FORTRAN. At the same time LinAl is supposed to be easy to use, fast, and reasonably safe. The LinAl library is based on STL techniques and uses STL containers for the storage of matrix data and STL algorithms where feasible. Low level, algebraic operators, linear solvers, and eigenvalue solvers are implemented, based on calls to BLAS, LAPACK, and CGSOLX.
Linux Virtual Server 1.1.1 (IPVS for kernel 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/105368/
The Linux Virtual Server Project is an Open Source project to cluster many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance virtual server. The LVS handles connections from clients and passes them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP, DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client accessing the virtual service.
LMUSleuth 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105376/
LMUSleuth is a networked, turn-based, whodunit- type game closely modeled after the board game Clue.
LongPlayer 0.98.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105382/
LongPlayer extends the functionality of a traditional MP3 player and is meant for people with a large MP3 or Ogg Vorbis collection who want to listen to it all day. The GUI allows you to view, rate, replay, delete, etc. songs previously listened to, as well as define collections of music it will choose from to fill the MP3 player's playlist. It does this in a more advanced way than a traditional player, taking into account the rating of the song and the time that has passed since the song has last been listened to. LongPlayer works with both XMMS and WinAmp.
MailScanner 4.10-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105387/
MailScanner is an Email virus scanner, vulnerability protector, and spam tagger. It supports the Sendmail and Exim MTAs, and the Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, F-Secure, CommandAV, InoculateIT, Inoculan 4.x, Kaspersky, Nod32, AntiVir, RAV, Panda, and Clam anti-virus scanners. It supports SpamAssassin for highly successful spam identification. It is specifically designed to handle Denial Of Service attacks. It is very easy to install, and requires no changes at all to your sendmail.cf file. It is designed to be lightweight, and won't grind your mail system to a halt with its load. It can be integrated into any email system, regardless of the software in use.
MIMEDefang 2.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105427/
MIMEDefang is a flexible MIME email scanner designed to protect Windows clients from viruses. However, it can do many other kinds of mail processing, such as replacing parts of messages with URLs, adding boilerplate disclaimers, and so on. It can alter or delete various parts of a MIME message according to a very flexible configuration file. It can also bounce messages with unacceptable attachments. MIMEDefang works with Sendmail 8.11/8.12's new "Milter" API, which makes it more flexible and efficient than procmail-based approaches.
music on console 1.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105425/
MOC (music on console) is a console audio player with a simple ncurses interface in playmp3list style. It supports MP3 (with id3tag, VBR, and Xing header), OGG, and WAVE formats, and the OSS mixer. It uses libmad and libvorbis libraries.
Network Traffic Generator 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105411/
Network Traffic Generator is used to check what massive amounts of traffic of certain types will do to an intervening network. It does not try to measure throughput or response times.
NFS Share 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105088/
NFS Share is a simple Qt tool for controlling NFS server shares.
NumericalChameleon 1.4.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105423/
The Numerical Chameleon converts numbers with a precision of up to 1000 significant figures. It supports more than 1200 units in 73 categories, including lengths, areas, volumes, durations, bits & bytes, angles, temperatures, exchange rates, Roman numerals, spoken numbers, all 35 radixes, and more. You have unlimited access for adding, modifying, and deleting categories, units, and icons. Update exchange rates with the GUI or at the commandline (filters for seven webservices are supported). All configuration data are stored in flat files.
nxtvepg 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105377/
nxtvepg is a decoder and browser for Nextview - a subscription-free electronic TV program guide in the analog domain. Nextview currently is broadcasted in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France and covers the schedules of all major TV networks in these countries. nxtvepg is an X11 application with a GUI based on Tcl/Tk and uses the bttv driver for data acquisition through a TV tuner card.
Ozibug 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105381/
Ozibug is a platform-independent, Web-based bug tracking system. It is written entirely in Java, and utilizes servlet technology. This allows Ozibug to be installed and run on any platform for which a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and servlet container are available. It provides features such as reports, file attachments, email notifications, audit trails, an administration interface, and system statistics. For those who require more flexibility, it also offers fine-grained access control, multiple module support, a customizable appearance, customizable reference data and full internationalization.
Package DataBase View 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105390/
Package DataBase View generates an HTML view of an RPM or a dpkg database. Its modular design allows support for other database formats and other output formats (like XML).
phpDnsZoneAdmin 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105389/
phpDnsZoneAdmin is a PHP-based application designed to take some of the headaches out of running a BIND nameserver. It features a simple to use interface for adding, deleting, and modifying zones, user management, and server management functions. The main goal of DnsAdmin was to allow remote admins to manage zones on the server without needing access to the commandline.
php_imagick 0.9.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105417/
php_imagick is an extension for PHP4 that makes the ImageMagick image manipulation library available from within PHP scripts. The extension can be built as a self-contained shared object or as a module built into PHP.
Presenting XML 0.7.9b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105391/
Presenting XML is a framework for XML/XSLT applications that aims to achieve a complete separation of content and presentation. It supports various kinds of content including XML files, dynamic content, and flat files, and can perform XSLT transformations in a SAX pipeline. It also supports filtering a stream of XML content in a pipeline without requiring the construction of a tree representation of the document, serialization to PDF using the Apache fop processor, user defined serializers and instructions, and different kinds of media with different flavors of markup (such as HTML and WML).
Qt/GRASS GIS 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105383/
Qt/Grass is a C++ library that makes it easy to create applications using the GRASS GIS system and Qt. It supports layering with a dialog that can control the color attributes of each layer and ordering, rendering of all GRASS 2-D formats (raster, vector, site) on any Qt painter, Interactive zoom, pan, xy-to-lat- long, and distance-x1-y1-x2-y2.
qvwm win2000 theme 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105085/
This is a Windows 2000 theme and icons for qvwm.
rpmrebuild 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105378/
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.
Scilab Image Processing Toolbox 20021203 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/105416/
SIP provides image processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision routines for SciLab, a Matlab-like matrix-oriented programming environment. SIP is able to read/write images in almost 70 major formats, including JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, FITS, and TIFF. It includes routines for filtering, segmentation, edge detection, morphology, curvature, fractal dimension, distance transforms, multiscale skeletons, and more.
SimpleData 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105326/
SimpleData is a Web application for managing your sales, inventory, invoices, quotes, purchases, and requests for quotes. It offers the ability to track all payments and balances on purchases and orders, and allows reports and forms to be printed or emailed. The printed forms are intended to fit in a standard 2-pane envelope for easy mailing. It features four sales and purchase reports, and can be easily extended.
SMELT 0.2.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105426/
SMELT (Simple Monitoring Evaluating and Logging Tool) is a tool created to monitor the disks in a single host or an entire network. It's totally written in BASH script. This way this tool can be installed and used normally in every distribution of Linux or Solaris operating systems. When a single host is monitored, the results can be sent via e-mail to the host's administrator. When an entire network is monitored, SMELT can work in client/server model. The results can be sent to the server via FTP and, using a Web server, be published in a frame-based HTML page, as well via email.
SpamX 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105385/
SpamX is a small application which cleans unwanted email from your POP3 mail account. It does so by logging in directly to your server and deleting messages on the spot, without having to download them locally. It also includes bouncing back to spammers.
srcconf 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105397/
srcconf is a software package which enables user friendly configuration of software source code packages. srcconf is based on the lxdialog and kconfig (a.k.a. lkc) programs extracted from the Linux kernel version 2.5.50.
Tiki 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105415/
Tiki is software written in PHP4 to develop portals, community sites, and applications. It includes a Wiki, Weblogs, a CMS system, banners, file galleries, image galleries, a dynamic content system, comments, and a lot of other features. A permission system and admin panel allows any configuration for the application. Tiki can be customized to your needs using templates (Smarty) and CSS files for themes. Multiple languages are supported. There is complete documentation for users and developers.
tk7 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105407/
tk7 is software for configuring the ICOM IC-Q7A walkie-talkie radio. It lets you read a memory image from the IC-Q7A walkie-talkie, a native tk7 file, or from a Q7 file. A graphical user interface is used to display and edit settings, then write the image back to the radio or save it in a file. Memory channel information can be imported from, or exported to a .csv (comma-separated) file. Users may sort memory channels by frequencies within one or both banks.
whatsnewfm 0.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105384/
whatsnewfm is a filter for the daily freshmeat newsletter. It shows only news items that you haven't seen before (so you don't have to read about every update of applications that you aren't interested in). You can also set up a list of "interesting" applications where you want to be informed of every update.
WinDriver 5.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105403/
WinDriver is a professional PCI/ISA/ISAPnP/EISA device driver development tool for Linux 2.0.31 and above. It lets you use powerful wizards to access and diagnose your hardware from an intuitive user mode interface. The wizard will also automatically generate your skeletal driver. Drivers written using WinDriver will also compile and run in Solaris 2.6, 2.7 (both x86 and Sparc), Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows CE, and VxWorks. It also supports cPCI and USB in Windows. It has API support for multiple interface USB devices, dual processor and SMP support on Linux, and scatter/gather DMA support on Linux 2.4.
XML Security Library 0.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105412/
XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2 and OpenSSL. It provides an implementation for major XML security standards: XML Digital Signature and XML Encryption.
Slashcode
Submission Approval / Comments not working
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/0628241
I've been running slashcode now for about 2 years or so. Since around version 2.2.5, I've had this problem on my site where neither the comments or approving submitted articles will work. I believe the problem is also aggrivated by the fact that I am using URL forwarding. The URL of my site points to a java-script that opens my page on a specific port within a frame. If a user tries to post a comment, the submission page comes up fine, but when they click preview or submit, it just brings them to the discussions list (comments.pl) instead of posting the comment.. Any help would be appreciated, is this a bug? - Delrin
Can Anonymous Coward Be Renamed?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/2159220
Is there a way to rename the nickname Anonymous Coward? If a site wants to encourage anonymous submissions for some reason, calling them cowards is a bit insulting. I called up user 1 and changed the Realname field, but that didn't work. Template 101 edit_comments seems to use user.nickname, but I can't find a place to change that outside of SQL. Would something break if I did change it in SQL?
Elevador.org
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/2252222
After some weeks we're up and running! Elevador.org is a /. like site for portuguese language speakers. Many thanks to Jamie McCarthy, Pudge and all the good folks at #slash. And thanks to chromatic, Brian & Dave for a very nice Slash book.
Emailing Stories into a Slash Site?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/1727227
Is it possible to email a story into a slash site rather then using the web interface? I have a slash site setup as a company bulletin board. One of the things I'm attempting to do is reduce the number of staff wide emails by having them posted on the slash site. I figure if I start positing these messages to the slash site and people receive the daily email of last day's news they will start to use it. Any suggestions?
Letting Apache authenticate
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/01/1942218
I have setup a Slash site that will be used as an Intranet (restricted access) discussion site, yet lives out on the INTERnet. Does anyone know a way to have Apache authenticate users (thus enforcing access from valid IP addresses) and then grant Slash access to this user authentication (thus eliminating double logins for users)?
Slashcode install on RedHat 8.0
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/29/090250
I just got Slashcode installed on RedHat 8.0 and I documented the process here: http://www.heltzel.org/slashcode.html I hope this can help others trying to do the same thing.
CTDATA.com Publishes Its 1,000th Story
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/0059255
I'm pretty proud of the fact that CTDATA.com published its 1,000th article at 10:56am this morning. Not bad for a site that's still running some pretty ancient code. We've done some interesting stuff with Slash in the past year, but most of it is hidden from the casual visitor to our three Slash-based sites. Hopefully, we'll get on the main branch of the project in the next few months-- we can't be relics forever.
What exactly is isolation mode for?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/074249
Each section has an isolation mode property, that determines (I think) wether or not sories from that section will be displayed on the front page or not. In addition, each story has it's own DisplayMode property, that, in effect, does the same thing. Which takes precedence? If Slash always uses the individual story's displaymode to determine whether to display the story, what's the point of the section-level isolation mode?
Restricting Article Access?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/073238
I've just started up a new slash site, however one feature that I would like, which doesn't seem to exist, is the ability to restrict users from reading certain stories. I know this seems counter-productive, however I have a valid reason. Namely that I have a subset of users who have more privileges, and thus stuff applies to them that wouldn't apply to regular users. It seems like the concept of a "security level", which users have, might be an ideal way to restrict Article viewing. I'm sure I can kludge something myself, but if there's already a supported/good way to do this, then that would be great.
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