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[osdn developer] December 11, 2002
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 03:15:49 EST
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December 11, 2002 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Thinkgeek
Cube Fodder: Tangle Desktop Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5a38.shtml
Gadgets: Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a3c.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher
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Caffeine: Energy Gum
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Gadgets: Super Bright GREEN Laser Pointer! http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1d.shtml
Gadgets: SoundBug - Turns Glossy Surfaces Into Speakers! http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a15.shtml
Tshirts: It Must Be User Error
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59fe.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher Privacy Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Gadgets: Mini Wireless Color Video Cam (for RC rovers) http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59eb.shtml
Cube Goodies: Levitron Desktop Levitation Toy http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59a9.shtml
Tshirts: Bug Off, I'm On My Break
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Watches: onHand PC Watch
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Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
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Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml
Cube Fodder: New Desktop Mini Fridge/Warmer http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5991.shtml
Mods: New Lian-LIi Cases
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Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
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Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/59de.shtml
Sourceforge
BZFlag 1.7g0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233929
OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag. World file caching, team killers die, tank labels on roaming, new GUI options including a smaller display for slow systems (set opacity all the way up), and much more!
Sixth release of ReAIM
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233848
ReAIM is an AOL Instant Messenger Proxy for iptables-based firewalls. It allows direct connections to be made to hosts behind an address-translating firewall. MSN and Windows Messenger are also supported. It has been quite a while, but with the fixes to Messenger transfers, and the new support for NetBSD, it seemed like time to cut the next release. IMPORTANT: Please be aware that you have to add a new range of ports to your firewall rules for direct connections to work with this release. Thank you to everyone for your emails with bug reports, thanks and for testing out changes for me.
NSIS 2 beta 0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233845
The first beta version of NSIS 2, the new version of the popular win32 installer/uninstaller system is ready. NSIS 2 supports highly customized user interfaces, multiple languages, easy usage of plugins and more. And it's even smaller than before, with an overhead of only 34KB. A lot of time has passed from the release of Alpha 7, but not even a second of it was for slacking around. New features were constantly added, tons of bugs fixed. All was done to make NSIS quicker, smaller, easier and more powerful. This release, unlike earlier alphas is no longer an unofficial modification. As of Beta 0 this is an official beta as we work correspondingly with Justin Frankel, the original author of NSIS. The main changes from Alpha 7 are: * Easier Modern User Interface with lots of new features * New paging system which makes is easier to add custom pages to your installer * New multilingual user strings * Lots of new and improved plug-ins which you can use to download files from the internet, display additional graphics, run console programs and more! * Over 15 new translations * New documentation format
seahorse2-0.4.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233851
Seahorse is a Gnome front end for GnuPG. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI, and Key Management operations also can be performed. This release just contains minor updates to 0.3.7, but more importantly is the beginning of the move to seahorse-0.6.0. Please use and test and send us any bug reports. Planned features for seahorse-0.6.0 are a file manager, basic key editing, and support for key servers.
Major ScummVM update - 0.3.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233861
ScummVM, the premier (eg, only) interpreter/emulator designed specifically for LucasArts (tm) and AdventureSoft (tm) games, has reached a new major version - 0.3.0. This release includes major bugfixes, and new support for several games. New game support includes: The Dig, Simon the Sorcerer 2, and Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade... Downloads, Release Notes and more info can be found on our homepage, at http://www.scummvm.org/
bogofilter-0.9.1.1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233454
This is a bug fix release with updated documentation and a minimum of code changes. The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam" . It is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X.
samba-vscan 0.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233291
This new release provides some smaller bug fixes, a quarantine feature and virus notification via windows message service. samba-vscan is a proof-of-concept module for Samba, which uses the VFS (virtual file system) features of Samba 2.2.x/3.0 alphaX to provide on-access virus scanning. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.
DiddleBug v.2.53 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233433
DiddleBug is a sketching/"Notepad"-style application for PalmOS. This
release includes a full-screen mode, bugfixes, and compatibility fixes
for PalmOS 5. What's new in 2.53? ============= * new fullscreen mode
without toolbar * added "priorities" for notes (also transfered to To
Do) * fixed mysterious crash when alarms add up without being
acknowledged * "Lock" doesn't affect all records any more in detailed
thumbnail list * separate setting for hardbuttons and menu/icon for
"Create after last" * compatibility fixes for PalmOS 5 Download
DiddleBug 2.53 from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/diddlebug/DiddleBug-2.53.zip
SCons 0.09 is now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233583
SCons alpha release 0.09 is now available for download. SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, substitute for Make) implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build tool). IMPORTANT: Release 0.09 contains the following interface changes: - The SetCommandHandler() function has been superceded by new SPAWN, SHELL and ESCAPE construction variables. - SCons now exits with an error message if any source or implicit dependency files for a target do not exist and have no Builder. - The 'lib' tool (the Microsoft library archiver) has had its name changed to 'mslib'. This release adds the following features: - A new Repository() method and -Y command-line option support building from source or target files in common repositories. - A new Prepend() Environment method appends values to the beginning of construction variables. - Support for the Intel Fortran Compiler (ifl.exe) has been added. - New messages tell when SCons is "Reading SConscript files ...," "done reading SConscript files," "Building targets," and "done building targets." A new -Q option supresses these. - Shared-object prefixes and suffixes may be specified independently usng new $SHOBJPREFIX and $SHOBJSUFFIX construction variables. - A new ParseConfig() command supports modifying an environment based on parsing output from a *-config command. - New EnsurePythonVersion() and EnsureSConsVersion() functions. - SCons now checks dynamically for the existence of utilities with which to initialize Environments by default. - SCons now supports Microsoft VC++ precompiled header (.pch) files, debugger (.pdb) files, and resource (.rc) files. - The File() and Dir() methods can now take a path-name string as the starting directory. - A new Options() object makes it easier to extend SCons' command- line arguments. - A new SetContentSignatureType() function allows use of file timestamps instead of MD5 signatures. The following fixes have been added: - Construction variable substition on scanner directories (in CPPPATH, F77PATH, LIBPATH, etc.) is now supported. - $$ in a string is now passed through as $. - File names and command lines with spaces and other odd characters are now fully supported. - The "lib" Tool (Microsoft library archiver) now supports long command lines. - Auto-deduced target file names now end up in the same directory as their source files. - Source files specified on the command line are no longer removed. - Using Default() with the -U option now fails gracefully. - SCons no longer unlinks files in certain situations when the -n option is used. - SCons now issues a warning when -c can't remove a target. - File names like '#/../foo' are now interpreted correctly on Win32 systems. - SCons now supplies an error message if there are no command-line or Default() targets specified. - The $ASPPCOM variable has been fixed for the GNU assembler. - The -U option is now properly case-insensitive on Win32 systems. - Using the -j option with multiple targets is now more robust. - SCons now handles a corrupt .sconsign file robustly. - Access and modification times of files in a BuildDir now match the corresponding source file, even without hard links. - Dependencies now propogate succesfully through Alias targets. - Fix unnecessary rebuilds cased by differently-ordered targets on case-insensitive systems. - Dependency scans when $LIBS is overridden now work properly. - Build errors in a list of build commands no longer cause the display of an overly-verbose stack trace. Performance has been improved as follows: - Unnecessary Scanner calls have been eliminated when a file doesn't exist. - The $_CPPINCFLAGS, $_F77INCFLAGS, $_LIBFLAGS and $_LIBDIRFLAGS variables are now generated on-demand, not with every command invocation. - Command execution overhead has been reduced by using the Python os.sytem() function instead of fork() and exec(). The following changes have been made to the SCons packaging: - New scons-local packages make it easy to ship SCons as a stand-alone build tool in other software packages. The documentation has been improved: - Documented the fact that Builder calls return Node objects. - Documented all new features, of course... Thanks to Chad Austin, Matt Balvin, Steve Leblanc, Jeff Petkau and sam th for their contributions to this release. Special thanks to Charles Crain for heavy work on the Repository feature, and Anthony Roach for a tremendous number of bug fixes and other features.
FileZilla 2.1.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=233608
Another version of FileZilla has been released. New in this version: Speed limits. FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. Here's the complete list of changes: New features: - added Speed Limit settings (written by Roman Ruckschloss) - SiteManager can be configures to not expand folder on start and to sort folders before sites (written by Jonathon Merz) - added dropdown menu to Sitemanager button in toolbar (written by Roman Ruckschloss) - added Traditional Chinese language files - added EPLF directory listing parser Fixes and improvements: - updated documentation - fixed parsing of paths containing spaces with quickconnect - fixed crash with very long filenames (>256 chars) - horizontal scrolling in message log did not work correctly - slightly improved directory listing parsing speed - fixed some interface glitches and rare crashes
Slashdot
QuickTime On Your Cell Phone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/0229222
blamanj writes "[0]Apple and [1]DoCoMo are confirming that [2]a new version of QuickTime is on the way supporting MPEG-4 images over 3G cellular service." Now if only these would make sense in the U.S. ... Links
0.
http://www.apple.com/
1.
http://www.ntt.co.jp/index_e.html
2.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=77&ncid=738&e=8&u=/mc/20021211/tc_mc/docomo_unveils_mpeg_4_phones__new_quicktime_coming
Project Entropia's Universe Solidifies
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/0233252
[0]Psyiode writes "Swedish interactive entertainment developer MindArk
today [1]announced the virtual universe [2]Project Entropia is going
gold on January 30th 2003. If you'll [3]recall, Project Entropia is a
MMORPG where everything is purchased with real money and slowly
degrades during use. Could this be the way most online games will be
played (and paid for) in the future?"
Links
0.
http://www.psyiode.net
1.
http://www.project-entropia.com/news/search_result.asp?id=131
2.
http://www.project-entropia.com/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/26/2112248&tid=127
Linux-Powered PVR/Satellite Machine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/0238200
[0]spicyjack writes "After reading [1]this story, I thought this submit
would be appropriate. A German company called [2] Dream-Multimedia-TV
has come up with a schweet [3] custom box targeted for the
PVR/Satellite markets. How about a machine with a 250Mhz [4]IBM
PowerPC, 2 SmartCard readers, one CompactFlash slot, UDMA66 IDE, MPEG2
support with [5]MPEG4 (DivX) support on the way, Ethernet, LCD display,
SPDIF out, yada yada yada ([6]zipped User's Manual). Oh, and it is
built specifically to run Linux. Available right now. Commence
hacking!"
Links
0.
http://www.portaboom.com
1.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/09/1436215&tid=129
2.
http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/cat_eng/
3.
http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/cat_eng/produkte/boxfeatures.php4
4.
http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/powerpc/
5.
http://www.divx.com/
6.
http://216.71.221.4/7000s.zip
Reviving Ricochet: Better Than WiFi?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/2115250
renard writes "[0]Slate is carrying [1]a column by Brendan Koerner
arguing that reviving the [2]Ricochet city-wide wireless network
infrastructure would be a better idea than [3]blanketing the
nation/world with 802.11-ish WiFi. He reviews all the [4]usual silly
reasons why Metricom, the original owners, were unable to make a go of
it, and makes a good case that things may go better [5]the second time
around."
Links
0.
http://slate.msn.com/
1.
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074905
2.
http://www.ricochet.com/
3.
http://www.wirelessanarchy.com/
4.
http://comments.fuckedcompany.com/phpcomments/index.php?newsid=67477&sid=1
5.
http://www.hoovers.com/co/capsule/4/0,2163,100734,00.htmlSklyarov Tells U.S. Court, 'I'm no hacker' http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/0049259
DaytonCIM writes "Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer at the centre
of the first Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prosecution,
yesterday [0]delivered his long-awaited testimony in the trial of his
former employer, ElcomSoft." There are also stories [1]at The Register
and [2]on CNET.
Links
0.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/4706187.htm
1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/28510.html
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-976621.html
Affero's Hack-a-Thon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/1659236
[0]Henri Poole writes "I've got friends who ride their bikes for a week
and get me and others to donate $100 to their cause. Spending more time
on lists then roads, we've set up [1]an analogous service for Free
Software and Open Source projects. Substitute the physical sweat with a
good hack, and you'll see the match. After you save your next newbie
from tech-hell, just ask them to help your cause. In [2]Lessig's blog,
he writes "If there's one thing I've learned from watching, and
tinkering, in this web-log space, it is that the many tiny brushstrokes
of thousands paints more and more powerfully than the blast of even the
most important and powerful papers...As I indicate on my Affero
[3]page, I count [4]FSF and [5]EFF as the two key players to support."
And if you don't think you can make a difference, do this math: A $1
donation to the FSF for every user of GNU/Linux would increase [6]their
budget by 30 fold."
Links
0.
http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=Poole
1.
http://www.affero.com/
2.
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/
3.
http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=Lessig
4.
https://agia.fsf.org/mp/order.py?make-donation=1
5.
http://www.eff.org/perl/join/
6.
http://www.guidestar.org/search/report/financial.jsp?npoId=505626&context=eNpVUr9v00AUfkkUmqQltAlCgACVgdXeUBESIAEBQ4oiRQxISNWr%2FWJfcHzm7rlxO1TqAgMrSGwwMFbMSPwDjPwJqLCysLAgwZ2TkNSSf9y773vv%2B77z4U%2BoagWuL0eOyGNHCd8JMxGQZlTOtnRCSpJUOvd0n1D50W2ZMOX89GNr%2F8tf%2Fb0MzS6c8FGxFzC0ukPcQTfGJHT7rEQSXu9CzVeCSQlkODPZz1jEbk%2FJlBQL0gbTCGQi1d0Rivg57EOpC1VaWNQHxH7UF3vE0F6Y4RktISnTYCVGzZsyEANBRsjqwqA7yGQQSymG9FjNWtZS1HosVTBdNxSlUnEPOZpWmop0FrPuHePVNWktZOLNiCdtUGyseklAuS1WTDedjUaodue8FZaM8SYaH6QLVJ6mJvjTVqhjhTrzRK61vu6lV2%2B8LRdKAxqgFWJZ5VxBe065jzpi3I6p%2FfnUlcsPfnyqQLkDjVhi0EGfpfKgzpExEsk4yNObt8BetXHNPCvmLjHUntGuzUEznO0oovW%2BHPAYFa13ZJYEyMaskWq1rhWDbfLONPnW0fsPvw9ebhihHlR3MM7ICFyd4x5lo21SLw7fXFx%2B%2Fe1VGSBPzdhLpllz7sKeUDQ8KD18wucqFlLo%2B7X07s9RzrDm6uLPc4UN2BnqNGVozoqTY2M4PytMXlvTwyvgRXLL1jnDheNEN9Rbky%2BL%2FA%2Fc%2BAe9OQJ4
Web of Trust Audio News Distribution
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/1938205
[0]c0rtex writes "[1]Wearlab (University of Bremen) has designed a
[2]cool web of trust voice message routing system with a decaying
credibility metric. It supports xmms and winamp. Source available for
Linux and win32. "MPN makes it possible to deliver completely
decentralized and independent news. Everyone has the possibility to be
a reporter, no filtering publisher is required...""
Links
0. mailto:spamfodder@c0rtex.com
1.
http://www.wearlab.de/index_en.xhtml
2.
http://matrixpn.auriga.wearlab.de/
New Mad Max Film
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/1813230
[0]IceDiver writes "According to Google News Mel Gibson has [1]signed
up for a new Mad Max film "Fury Road". His salary? A whopping
$25,000,000.00 Apparently the script has been in the works for 3 years
and is highly polished. As a big fan of all 3 Mad Max films, I am
looking forward to this one! "
Links
0. mailto:epeterso1@shaw.ca
Turn-Key Linux Audio
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/1755212
[0]gmaestro writes "The [1]Turn-Key Linux Audio project at the
[2]Eastman Computer Music Center has released it's first instant linux
audio workstation [3]package. Simply download onto your Mandrake
workstation, untar and type # ./install.sh."
Links
0. mailto:jasonNO@SPAMgMaestro.org
1.
http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/home.html
2.
http://wozzeck.esm.rochester.edu/
3.
http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/install.html
Human vs Computer Intelligence
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/1655229
DrLudicrous writes "The NYTimes is running an article regarding tests
devised to [0]differentiate from human and computer intelligence. One
example are captchas, which can consists of a picture of words, angled
and superimposed. A human will be able to read past the superposition,
while a computer will not, and thus fails the test. It also goes a bit
into some of Turing's predictions of what computers would be like by
the year 2000."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/10/science/physical/10COMP.html
Freshmeat
AppWrap 0.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106112/
AppWrap is a self-organizing Content Management System using a Web GUI and an SQL table as its fundamental building blocks. The site administrator creates a table in SQL, then runs a script to store information about the table. Users can then add and edit data stored in the table, as well as sort and filter it, chart it, calendar it, and track changes. Reports also are easily created and displayed onscreen. Data can be downloaded in a spreadsheet-friendly format. AppWrap is intended for companies wanting to manage mildly dynamic data without the labor of hand-coding and managing multiple CGI forms and templates, or the expense of CRM systems.
Astaro Security Linux 3.318 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106114/
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.
AstroFlow Bandwidth Management 1.002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106138/
AstroFlow Bandwidth Management is a bandwidth management solution that features reports and many configuration options. With little or no knowledge of bandwidth management and packet shaping, it is possible to manage the traffic on your network, prioritize certain protocols such as POP3, SMTP, or databases, and guarantee that all mission-critical applications will have bandwidth available to them at all times, regardless of what other protocols are doing on your network.
BMI 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106140/
BMI is a tool to help dieting people. It calculates your Body Mass Index (BMI) and gives you an indication of your fatness. It saves the results in a file, so you can through the program look at the file, and compare your results from one day to another. This gives you an overlook of your weight development over a period of time.
cgdb 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106119/
cgdb is a lightweight, but fully functional curses frontend to gdb. The goal of cgdb is to be lightweight and responsive, not encumbered with unnecessary features. The interface retains the familiar GDB text-based interface with 100% of the original functionality. The interfaces also provide additional features, such as a source code window, shortcut keys, visual setting of breakpoints, regex searching capabilities, and more.
CK-Ledger 0.4.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106107/
CK-Ledger is a double-entry ledger accounting system which runs on top of PHPGroupWare. It provides accounting and backoffice functionality to SMEs, and utilizes PHPGroupWare to administer user accounts and groups. It comprises 13 modules: Ledger Admin, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation, Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for Manager, and Human Resources.
deborphan 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106118/
deborphan finds packages installed on your Debian/GNU system that have no other packages depending on them. Its primary goal (and default action) is to trace unused libraries.
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse 1.1.17 http://freshmeat.net/releases/106147/
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) is a system of clients and servers that collect and count checksums related to mail messages. The counts can be used by SMTP servers and mail user agents to detect and reject bulk mail. DCC servers can exchange common checksums. The checksums include values that are "fuzzy", or constant across common variations in bulk messages.
Echo Web Application Framework 1.0 Beta3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/106109/
Echo is a framework for developing object-oriented, event-driven Web applications in Java. Echo removes the developer from having to think in terms of "page-based" applications and enables him/her to develop applications using the conventional object-oriented and event-driven paradigm for user interface development. Knowledge of HTML, HTTP, and JavaScript is not required. Tutorials, white papers, and full API documentation are available.
Erlang R9B-0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106098/
Erlang is a small concurrent functional programming language developed by Ericsson. It is being used by Ericsson as a systems programming language for large concurrent fault-tolerant distributed systems.
floppyfw 2.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106103/
floppyfw is a router and simple firewall on one single floppy. It uses Linux basic firewall capabilities, and has a very simple packaging system. It is perfect for masquerading and securing networks on ADSL and cable lines, using both static IP, DHCP, and PPPoE, and provides a simple installation, which usually involves editing of only one file on the floppy.
Galeon 1.3.1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106111/
Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant.
Genuts Framework 0.3b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106124/
The Genuts project provides a consistent Java framework for game development. It contains a library with classes primarily intended for sprite-based games, including functions for sprite manipulation and collision detection.
GNOME ALSA Mixer 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106123/
This project is a sound mixer for GNOME written for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA).
GPSBabel 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106080/
GPSBabel converts waypoint data between over two dozen file formats, including major Palm, PC, and GPS serial formats. It is endian and word-size safe, includes a GUI, and runs on a variety of operating systems. It also supports Groundspeak GPX extensions for geocaching.
GtkDiskFree 1.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106149/
GtkDiskFree is a small GUI application written with the Gtk+ library which shows how much free space is available on your filesystems, as well as some other information related to the filesystem.
Integrated System Management Infrastructure 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/106097/
Integrated System Management Infrastructure is a framework for effortless maintenance and statistical analysis of managed hosts. It was designed with a large network in mind and includes cpu, memory, disk, and bandwidth graphing as well as an automated security update infrastructure (db-dependent) and alerts notification system (think SQL-based syslog). On a nuts-and-bolts level it consists of a database, Web frontend, and system agents running on managed hosts and a centralised management server.
Kewl Session Manager 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106104/
The Kewl Session Manager provides a nice menu that allows you to choose which window manager, program, or script you wish to launch for the session after logging in. It uses Tcl/Tk and is designed for people that can not settle on one window manager or desktop environment.
KickPIM 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106110/
KickPIM is an applet for KDE's Kicker panel which displays your KAddressbook entries in a popup menu. You can view and edit address data and send email messages very easily. It will also remind you about birthdays.
KricketScoreboard 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106108/
KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches. It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing, batting and bowling statistics, etc.
LaNewsFactory 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106122/
LaNewsFactory is a PHP news and forum engine for Web sites. It requires no database software, and uses XML files to store news. It provides forums, news system behaviors, topics, moderation, several authentication levels, threaded comments, search capacity, HTML template support, Web admin, and internationalization (11 languages).
libpdb Suite 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106094/
The libpdb Suite is a group of libraries that are designed to provide scripting and plug-in support for applications. It is comprised of a database that stores information about procedures available for scripting, a lightweight, extensible IPC framework, and a library for accessing procedures stored in the procedural database of another process.
libXMLConfig 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106116/
The library libXMLConfig provides a simple interface to process XML configuration files and some additional helper functions.
libyahoo2 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106105/
libyahoo2 is a single-threaded, asynchronous Yahoo! Messenger library currently used in Everybuddy. It is written in C. Communication is by means of requests and callbacks.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106099/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an indefinite number of filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs, socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application. It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility is most important.
mail2nntp 0.2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106136/
mail2nntp is a bridge from the email realm to the newsgroup one. It can be used to replicate a mailing-list on a newsgroup server. It is a generic tool, using NNTP network commands. It is written in Perl and uses News::NNTPClient CPAN module.
Mamory 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106106/
Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client.
Martin's Picture Viewer 0.1.37
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106101/
Martin's Picture Viewer is a JPEG viewer for X Windows written in Perl and Tk. It is able to display and edit JPEG meta-information, including EXIF data, IPTC/IIM information, and embedded comments. It also serves as a frontend for performing lossless rotation, resizing, and filtering, and can displays images as thumbnails.
Minimum Profit 3.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106133/
Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features small memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file editing, ctags support, word wrapping, and more. It can be compiled for Linux / Unix (console), GTK, and MS Windows.
Moodle 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106127/
Moodle is a learning management system for producing Internet-based course Web sites. It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has been designed to support modern pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and includes activity modules such as forums, resources, journals, quizzes, surveys, choices, and assignments. Ten language translations are currently offered with more being developed. Moodle offers a free alternative to commercial software such as WebCT and Blackboard, and is being used by a growing number of universities, schools, and independent teachers for distance education or to supplement face-to-face teaching.
Open DC Hub 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106129/
Open DC Hub is a version of the hub software for the Direct Connect network that should run on all POSIX-compliant operating systems.
OpenCOBOL 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106126/
OpenCOBOL is a COBOL compiler, which translates COBOL programs to C code and compiles it using GCC.
P300DRV 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106134/
P300DRV is Linux printer driver for the Olympus P300 dye sublimation printer.
PHP LDBI 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106145/
PHP LDBI is a library to handle local databases. It supports tables, sequences, indices, and searches using wildcards. It's primary goal is to serve as backend for SQL interfaces to local databases. It includes an SQL parser to execute simple SQL statements.
phpIpacStats 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106148/
phpIpacStats is a PHP4 script that displays IP accounting statistics generated by 'ipac' or 'ipac-ng' on a Web page. It allows you to view data in a predefined timeframe or all data between two absolute points. It supports multiple templates (styles) and languages.
phpMyEdit 5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106143/
phpMyEdit generates PHP code for displaying/editing MySQL tables in HTML. All you need to do is to write a simple calling program (a utility to do this is included). It includes a huge set of table manipulation functions (record adition, change, view, copy, and remove), table sorting, filtering, table lookups, and more..
PowerDNS daemon 2.9.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106117/
PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases. Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.
PowerMail 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106132/
PowerMail is a redundant and distributed system for receiving mail via SMTP and storing it for users to access with POP. The way PowerMail works is quite unorthodox, and its design emphasizes speed and efficiency. Modified Maildir mailboxes allow PowerMail to employ hardlinks to save diskspace and deliver messages with thousands of recipients instantly. PowerMail can operate self-sufficiently or cooperate with a regular MTA to support mail forwarding.
Smart Card ToolKit 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106141/
Smart Card ToolKit provides a library and associated tools for smart cards. Phoenix and Smartmouse protocols are supported for ISO7816 asynchronous smart card access and debugging. JDM is supported for programming PIC-based smart cards like piccard, goldwafer (goldcard), and silvercard. SPI is supported for programming AVR based smart cards (funcard). PIC and AVR loaders provide access to external i2c EEPROM. I2c memory smart cards are also supported. All tools use Intel hex file format to store data. An Intel hex to binary and vice-versa converting tool is also provided.
ssh-keyinstall 1.0.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106139/
ssh-keyinstall is a script that helps an ssh user set up the keys at both ends of an ssh connection. It creates an rsa or dsa key if needed and copies the public half to the server. Once the process is done, you'll be able to log in with the passphrase and key instead of a password.
Stellation SCM 2002-12-09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106128/
Stellation is an extendable software configuration management system. It provides all of the standard functions available in any SCM system, and is distinguished by a number of advanced features, such as project-oriented versioning and lightweight branching, intended to ease the development of software systems by large groups of loosely-coordinated developers. It is also intended to be a platform for research on tools and systems that exploit fine-grained management of software artifacts, such as dynamic program organization, inter-programmer and inter-group communication and coordination, and UI mechanisms that effectively make use of these capabilities. It provides both a set of Eclipse plugins for using Stellation as a VCM provider for Eclipse and a commandline tool for using Stellation as a standalone SCM system.
SwingPBC 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106100/
SwingPBC (Swing Project Budget Consolidator) is a desktop application that complements WebPBC, serving as a thick- client on a desktop PC. It allows small to medium-sized companies to perform budget consolidations on their projects, and is especially suitable for managers that need to review and analyse budget data that has been entered by different departments. It directly accesses a central PBC database and performs consolidations locally.
Uxtobx 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106131/
Uxtobx processes interface (.i) files generated by the UIM/X Motif GUI Builder tool developed by Actional and converts them into an UIL file that ICS’s Builder Xcessory (BX PRO) can read and manipulate. Conversion is accomplished by giving the tool a list of files on the command line, which are read in and parsed. The resulting BX PRO UIL file is written to stdout and can be saved using standard file redirection. Any C/C++ code saved in a .i file is moved into a file called usercode.c during conversion process. After conversion, the user starts BX PRO and reads in the generated UIL file.
VGATron 0.2 (beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106121/
VGATron is yet another clone of the well-known game called "Tron". It uses svgalib and is a two-player game.
Warewulf 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106130/
Warewulf is a unique Linux distribution for cluster nodes. It facilitates a central administration model for all nodes and includes tools needed to build configuration files, monitor, and control the nodes. It is totally customizable and can be adapted to just about any type of cluster. The node distributions are built from a virtual node filesystem residing on the master, transfered to the nodes either by Etherboot or CDROM images, and run from RAM. Administration is scalable and easy. It was originally designed for Beowulf, but can be used in other environments as well.
webAlbum.sh 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106093/
webAlbum is a simple bash script to automatically generate a Web-based photo album. The script generates a page for each image and caption, with a navigation bar to view the images sequentially. Also, a thumbnail page is provided to jump to a specific image. The generated HTML pages do not require any scripting support for viewing.
Webmatic 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106115/
Webmatic is a system for dynamically creating a Web site directly on-line. The webmatic control panel makes it possible to manage the entire contents of a Web site without knowing any kind of programming language or HTML language. With webmatic you can create and manage a newsletter, create and manage a FAQ section, create a page with the horoscope, create and manage a search engine, create a page for user registration, differentiate the access levels for each user, manage up to 9 advertising banners easily, create a multi-language Web site with a panel for quickly changing the language, and change the site's graphical theme.
xferlogDB 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106142/
xferlogDB is a tool for analyzing xferlogs from glFTPd.
zawhttpd 0.8.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106102/
zawhttpd is a mini Web server that features HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 support, keep-alive persistent connections, IPv6 support, GET and HEAD requests, chunked encoding and content-range, directory listing, basic authentication, access logging, daemon mode, and more. Almost all options must be configured at compile time, as there is no runtime configuration file.
Slashcode
Kinosis.com - Health, Fitness, and Weight Loss New
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/1758242
Two formerly fat engineers have created a website to help people learn the correct methods and principles of permanent weight loss. We are serious about answering your questions and seeing that you get results, having been there before and knowing how much it sucked. Yes, we know there are a lot of Twinkie-lovin', Coke swilling UNIX gurus reading this right now who need to get buff for the dates they don't have (yet) so head on over and check it out! ;) We chose LRSE Hosting and they've been very responsive and know how to get things done. Three thumbs up! (yes, I'm a mutant)
Proven developer & Slashbox needed
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/1756244
We are looking to implement a Slashbox to drive several medically related slash sites. We are searching for developers (preferably in the NY/NJ area) with a proven ability to implement, deploy and manage the collection of sites. The ability to manage all aspects of implementation including but not limited to networking, firewalling & security , databasing & querying, archiving, GUI modifications, hosting and general maintenance. We have not evaluated third party hosting due to the sensitivity of our data. Obviously, expertise in Perl, Apache, Linux, and MySQL are prerequisites. We have a creative services team that will design any artwork, banners/headers, buttons, and other artistic aspects of the interface one given requirements from the program lead. We are open to contracters or potential employment on a contract to permanent basis. We are only looking for people with past Slash deployment experience as we will need to deploy in mid Q103. Please contact (send resume and cover letter with links to deployed slash site(s)) to Michael Vinegra.
Geekgirl's Chronicle
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/0752207
The Geekgirl's Chronicle - with current events, science, technology, media, celebrity info, music & commentary! Participate in the growing trend of geekgrrls exploring the realms of information technologies. --LazyGirl
Cyberlodge.org
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/09/0244205
We just launched Cyberlodge.org - it's a new site exploring the possibility of a 19th century-style trade guild for tech workers. As the person entrusted with making this all work, I'm anxious for feedback on the site, the concept, and what you think might make this concept fly. Thanks! --Ian
Problem with slashd repeatly crashing: Solved. http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/08/0915230
Here at LRSE we had a problem with slashd crashing. I've seen others mention this, with no real definitive answer as to the cause or the solution. Here's what we know: Using: Slash 2.2.6 Perl 5.6.1 MySQL 3.23 FreeBSD 4.5 we were seeing the following in slashd.log: Thu Nov 28 06:55:23 2002 freshenup.pl updated articles:00/01/25/1236215 (Now What?) perl in malloc(): warning: recursive call Out of memory! perl in free(): warning: recursive call perl in free(): warning: recursive call perl in free(): warning: recursive call perl in free(): warning: recursive call perl in malloc(): warning: recursive call Out of memory! It does this for quite some time, and dies. We discussed this with the slash team, however given that this is not happening with CVS code, and only with the current release, there wasn't much interest there in finding and fixing the problem.It wouldn't have helped in anycase we suspect. Not everyone has this problem, and the slash code itself doesn't seem to really be at fault - rather, this seems to be a problem with perl itself. Upgrading perl to 5.8.0 on our production server seems to have made the problem go away. We haven't had to restart slashd for nearly 24 hours since we rebuilt with 5.8.0, and we were doing it sometimes as quickly as every few minutes before with 5.6.1. As such, I wanted to get this information out there for anyone having the same problem. --Scott Lockwood
Problems After Upgrading to CVS release (dec 2002) http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/07/2135235
I'm having problems with an upgrade of an exisiting 2.2.6 slash site up to the current CVS tree. It appears index.shtml is not being generated correctly after the upgrade, and this effectively breaks the site. If I start up apache after the upgrade, and go to the front page of the site, I get an error 404 page, (a slash generated error 404 page). If I go to /index.pl, the site displays fine (my templates are a little messed up with the new code base, but I think I can work all that out myself, if it is unrelated to this problem, like I think it is). If I then start "slashd", it will eventually generate an index.shtml file, but the file only contains stories and slashboxes. The "header(122)" template is not used in the creation of the index.shtml file. This makes the site look horrible, and pretty much unusuable. My work around has been to edit the apache configuration file for my s