[osdn developer] December 15, 2002

Electronics: Archos Jukebox Studio 20/ Radio FM 20 MP3 Players http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5784/

Computing: Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5c3f/

Electronics: Universal System Selector
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5c1b/

Other Apparel: Power Golf Shirt
http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/golfshirts/5b8f/

Computing: Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5c3f/

Other Apparel: The ThinkGeek Monkey Hoodie http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hoodies/5b88/

Electronics: Hitman 2 for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5c6e/

Computing: Sylvania SF170 17" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5c73/

Electronics: Splinter Cell for Xbox
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5c69/

Electronics: Samsung DVD Player
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5c76/

Cube Goodies: Tiny R/C Digi Q Cars
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ad6/

Electronics: Gungrave for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5c5e/

Electronics: QCast Tuner Software for PS2 http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5c3b/

Sourceforge
Mailman 2.1 beta 6
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=234869

This is the sixth and last planned beta release for Mailman 2.1. This is primarily a bug fix release. This version is in production use at python.org. Mailman is the GNU mailing list manager. It provides standard list management features, integrated with a web interface.

Fire 0.32.a released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=234899

Can't find what you're looking for?

This is a huge release with improvements across the board. The highlights include Oscar support (AIM file send, .mac support, typing notifications, away message reading, direct IM receive), upgraded ICQ library, MSN file send and receive, upgraded Yahoo library, Jabber SSL support, updated Help files, and improved handling of server buddy lists in AIM Oscar, MSN, and Yahoo. Many thanks to Graham, Alan, Matt, Nick, Stephane, Heimir, Martin, and Alessandro for all their hard work in putting this together. Happy Holidays and enjoy! http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.a.dmg?download

Fink 0.5.0a released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=234951

Fink, the free open source UNIX porting project for Mac OS X, reached another milestone December 8th with the release of version 0.5.0a. This release brings full Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) compatibility. Applications included in Fink range from well-known UNIX desktops such as KDE3 and GNOME, open-source alternatives for graphics editing such as the Gimp, and special-purpose applications for genetic and molecular modeling. In total, over 700 binary packages for Mac OS X as well as over 1800 source packages can be easily installed (and removed) with the aid of fink. Fink 0.5.0a is available at http://fink.sf.net/

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

Don't know where to look next?

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.

Slashdot
Console Games Sales Beat Out PC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/032201

[0]ttol writes "In the [1]Star Tribune, they write that "PC games fell
6.2 percent through the first 10 months of this year, making the first such decline ever." They go on to say that consoles will break record sales this year, and that there is a shift towards console gaming from PC. Is this due to the fact that there are now three major contenders (XBox, Playstation 2, Game Cube) and all the advanced features they offer (DVD ability on the first two etc)? I, for one, will continue with my Battlefield 1942 on my PC." Links

0. mailto:thetreeoflife@hotmail.com

http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3524128.html

Speakeasy Welcomes WiFi network sharing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/0247238

sedawkgrep writes "[0]Speakeasy.net has recently published a policy concerning their subscribers. [1]They're openly welcoming the sharing of subscribers bandwidth via WiFi as long as you don't violate the existing [2] terms of service. Speakeasy has always had a very liberal and open policy with their users. Even though I wouldn't open my network via WiFi, it's refreshing to see a company who is taking a more open approach rather than restrictive when dealing with its customers." I've been a Speakeasy customer for a while now ('tho my move from Boston to Ann Arbor meant going from 768 to 144 *sigh*) and have always been impressed with them. Great step supporting WiFi as well. Links

    0. 
http://www.speakeasy.net/
    1. 
http://www.speakeasy.net/main.php?page=hzpolicy
    2. 
http://www.speakeasy.net/tos

Lord of the Rings News from New Zealand
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/0240225

wonton_mein writes "The New Zealand Herald is doing some [0]daily coverage of the LOTR - TTT. Can't wait for Dec. 18." Links

Confused? Frustrated?

0. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyarchive.cfm?reportID=56531

100th Anniversary of Quantum Physics
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/0235204

[0]EricR writes "On December 14, 1900, [1]Max Planck presented
experimental results in front of the German Physical Society and announced that they could best be explained if energy exists in discrete packets, which he called "quanta." Today is the 100th birthday of [2]Quantum Physics."
Links

    0. 
http://www.yankthechain.com
    1. 
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Planck.html
    2. 
http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/science/what.html

DARPA Has $3.2M to Sniff You Out
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/0233253

[0]quackking writes "The Army wants to sniff you out. This
fedbizopps.gov link to a [1]DARPA pre-RFRQ tells more. 'The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Technology Office (ATO), as part of the Odortype Detection Program, invites proposals to (1) determine whether genetically-determined odortypes can be used to identify specific individuals, and if so (2) to develop the science and enabling technology for detecting and identifying specific individuals by such odortypes. Total program funding for this effort will not exceed $3.2 million in FY 2003. Multiple awards are anticipated. Proposals are due by January 29, 2003.'" Links

0. http://www.quacken.com

http://www.eps.gov/spg/USA/USAMC/DAAD19/DAAD19-03-R-0004/SynopsisP.html

Taken?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/14/2049254

jeepliberty writes "Was I the only one to feel like I was "taken" by the latest Spielberg mini-series? It concluded last night on the
[0]SciFi channel. It started out great. The first five episodes were
excellent. Then like milk on the counter, it started going sour. My sister is a writer and after she sees a movie she always picks it apart for continuity, character development and plot. I always tell here "Get a life. It's just a movie." Well after I saw the 7th installment, I started picking up my sister's habits and began picking it apart. "Taken" seems to have taken a little bit from "Firestarter", "E.T.", "Sphere" and quite a few others."
Links

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0. http://www.scifi.com/

Bioinformatics in The Economist
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/14/1737222

[0]Erich Schwarz writes "Bioinformatics has gone from being an esoteric
sub-field to being a business. The Economist gives a useful
[1]overview, while warning 'Bioinformatics is not for the faint of
heart...'"
Links

0. mailto:emsch@its.caltech.edu

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1476685

Yet Another Call for Linux Standardization http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/14/1734225

An anonymous reader writes "Newsforge has an article [0]Commentary: United We Stand...the Division in the Linux World, in which David Meyer argues that UnitedLinux will provide standardization for the Linux community that will allow it to win the desktop market from Windows. The article has a number of supporting comments, but then this one particular negative comment that disagrees with David. This particular comment offers an alternative view on the need for standardization. This aternative view that is put forward simply argues that 'Over what is almost twelve years we have pulled ourselves up by the bootstraps. We have done this using a development model that allows us to produce software that proprietary vendors cannot compete with', and then summarizing that 'the Linux community does not need to set up businesses with the specific intention of trying to "win" users from Microsoft; all we have to do is continue to develop software in the same way, and the users will make the switch all by themselves'." Links

0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/11/0137256.shtml?tid=23

Old Age Simulator
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/14/174243

0. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw1039668480796B241&set_id=1

quackking writes "Tired of being young and healthy? Now you can
[0]simulate your own old age. This story describes a
sensory-modification suit which, among other things, selectively blocks out certain sound frequencies, and lets you experience arthritis." Links

Developing for the Motorola T720
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/14/160201

r0.ini writes "Nice [0]step-by-step introduction guide on how to make that cool app for your T720." Worth a read even if you never intend to write a program for your cell phone, for the comparison between BREW and J2ME (and implicitly between Verizon and AT&T). Links

0. http://www.colinfahey.com/2002dec14_j2me_cell_phone/j2me_phone_apps.htm

Freshmeat
AGT 1.07p1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106510/

AGT is a powerful console frontend to iptables, supporting nearly all of the iptables extensions (such as quota, random, MIRROR, multiport, owner, string, MAC address, and more). All options can be specified in a configuration file with similar syntax to 'ipf' and 'ipfw'.

audio recording server 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106524/

erec is a tool program for recording raw audio stream from the soundcard. Multiple instances of erec can be running at the same time sharing the same audio device. It works as a frontend to the audio device for programs wishing to listen at the same time.

bb-FreeBSD 0.60.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106513/

bb-FreeBSD is a theme featuring the FreeBSD logo and colors. There are two background options available in the menu file.

bb-Slackware 0.60.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106528/

bb-Slackware is a theme featuring the Slackware logo and colors. There are two background options available in the menu file.

bftpd 1.0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106542/

bftpd is a very configurable Linux FTP server which can do chroot without special configuration or directory preparation. It works on all Unix variants tested. Most FTP commands are supported, and user authentication is done via passwd/shadow or PAM. tar/gzip on-the-fly is supported.

BoolStuff 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106511/

Can't find what you're looking for?

BoolStuff is a small C++ library that computes the Disjunctive Normal Form of a boolean expression binary tree. The library also has a C programming interface.

Bytes Counter 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106537/

Bytes Counter displays detailed information about the number of bytes that have been transferred over a network interface.

Catweasel Linux Device Driver 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106516/

cwfloppy is a Linux device driver for the Catweasel Advanced Floppy Controller manufactured by Individual Computers. The Catweasel is a versatile Shugart bus controller (i.e., it can control floppy drives). It is extremely flexible and can be programmed to read and write just about any floppy disk in the world. This driver supports reading and writing of Amiga and MS-DOS DD/HD 3.5" disks.

chpox 0.3-a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106544/

chpox provides transparent checkpointing and restarting of processes on Linux clusters. It was originally designed for recovering of tasks that takes long execution time (i.e. numerical simulations) in case of system crashes, power failures, etc. It works with MOSIX and openMosix , is SMP safe, works as a kernel module, does not require kernel patches or program recompiling/relinking, and supports virtual memory, regular open files, current directory, termios, and child processes.

DConnect Daemon 0.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106518/

DConnect Daemon is a daemon which acts as a Direct Connect hub. It is written in pure C and utilizes threads. It aims to be very fast, with a very good protocol implementation.

DCP-Portal 5.0 (Final)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106520/

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.

Developer Todo 0.1.15-1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106525/

Developer Todo is a program to assist developers in maintaining a list of outstanding tasks in a heirarchical, colourised, and prioritised list. Additionally, it can automatically list outstanding items when you change into a directory.

Foxtrot 2.0 beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106541/

Foxtrot is a small and powerful API for using threads with the Java(TM) Foundation Classes (JFC/Swing). It is based on a new concept, the Synchronous Model, which greatly increases ease of use.

FXvt 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106539/

Don't know where to look next?

FXvt is a virtual terminal FOX widget. As such, it can be embedded in any application developed with the FOX GUI toolkit. It is a derivative work from the well-known rxvt virtual terminal.

gnomeradio 1.4 (Develoment)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106523/

Gnomeradio is another FM radio tuner writen in GTK+. It should work with every FM tuner card that is supported by video4linux. Remote controls are supported via (optional) lirc-support. Gnomeradio can also record radio as a Wave or MP3 file.

GNU Solfege 1.9.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106532/

Solfege is an ear training program for GNOME, but can also run with only the Gtk+ libs. It even runs on MS Windows.

JFtp 0.96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106533/

JFtp is a graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive directory upload, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a command-line mode.

libmpeg2 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106509/

Confused? Frustrated?

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.

Managing Gigabytes for Java 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106519/

MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a collaborative ongoing effort aimed at providing a free Java implementation of inverted-index compression techniques. MG4J tries to make the techniques accessible without having to deal with bit-level operations in a clean, object-oriented environment.

Millstone 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106522/

Millstone is a user interface library for development of Internet applications with Java. It provides a terminal independent component model that can be adapted to different terminal types and user interface themes. The development model of Millstone is closely related to traditional client side UI development: it has a continuous application lifecycle and an extensive event model. The Millstone library also provides an interface for directly connecting UI components to business logic and data storage.

motion 3.1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106535/

motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes snapshots of the movement which can be converted to MPEG movies in realtime (or later for low CPU usage), making it usable as an observation or security system. It can take actions like sending out email and SMS messages when detecting motion.

motion 3.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106534/

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pam_smbmount 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106543/

pam_smbmount is a Pluggable Authentication Module for FreeBSD that authenticates users against an SMB server (like Samba) and automatically mounts their home shares.

perltrash 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106521/

perltrash is a Perl script that emulates a "trash can". Instead of permanently deleting files, they are moved into the trash can. Files can be restored in the future if they are needed again. Single files can be permanently removed from the trash can. perltrash can automatically remove files from the trash can that are over a certain time limit or trash can size. It supports all kinds of files, including complete directories.

Phylographer October-11-2002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106545/

PhyloGrapher is a program designed to visualize and study evolutionary relationships within families of homologous genes or proteins (elements). It is a drawing tool that generates custom graphs for the given set of elements. In general, it is possible to use PhyloGrapher to visualize any type of interactions between elements you want.

Pine 4.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106531/

Pine® is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was designed by the Office of Computing & Communications at the University of Washington specifically with novice computer users in mind, but it can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well.

PowerAdmin 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106530/

PowerAdmin is a Web-based frontend for the PowerDNS DNS server. It interfaces with PowerDNS's generic database backends, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle, to add/modify/delete both forward and reverse zones, with full IPv6 support.

ROX-Session 0.1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106529/

ROX-Session is a simple and easy-to-configure session manager. It allows you to change window managers without logging out (and copes with window managers crashing) and provides a graphical configuration box for your X settings (default font, cursor blinking, mouse behavior, etc.). The default session starts ROX-Filer managing the background and one panel, but it can be easily reconfigured for other purposes.

SAS's Accounting Statistics 1.0.1 (development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106527/

Sasacct fetches traffic stats via ipchains, ipfstat, iptables, pf, Cisco IP accounting, and SNMP. It makes mrtg-like graphics using rrdtool. A CGI interface is included for checking date-to-date traffic statistics and to generate on-the-fly graphics. It also includes support for fetching the necessary information remotely via a super-server (such as inetd or xinetd).

sed 4.0.5-pre (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106514/

Sed, the GNU Stream Editor, copies the named files (standard input default) to the standard output, edited according to a script of commands.

streamixer 1.18.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106526/

streamixer contains an audio stream mixer server, tools for monitoring and feeding the server, and a stream resampling tool with various different interpolation models.

Tcpreplay 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106508/

Tcpreplay is a set of Unix tools which allows the replaying of captured network traffic (pcap or snoop format). It can be used to test a variety of network devices including routers, firewalls, and NIDS.

Trommler 3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106538/

Trommler is an X-based drum machine with the following features: use of 16 bit 44100kHz mono drum samples, realtime audio output using the /dev/dsp device on Linux machines (or audio output to file), a variable number of beats per pattern, volume adjustment of drum samples, stereo panning of (mono) drum samples, and more.

WebShop 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106512/

Can't find what you're looking for?

WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as well as a sample servlet implementation of a shop.

WISE CAM 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106434/

WISECAM (WIreless SEnsor CAM) provides solutions to security and surveillance problems using wireless video sensors. It features motion detection, multiple client data collection over a network, a Service Discovery-enabled Wireless Video Sensor Network, and a browser-based GUI which offers access from almost anywhere.

Your Operating System 3.2.1-14122002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106515/

YOS is a compact, personalised, and optimised OS with support for RPM, deb, and tgz packages, with 200 packages carefully selected and compiled for speed and stability. It has an automatic hardware detection system, which should detect most modern hardware.

Slashcode
Stuartdrama.org - JEB Stuart High School Drama Dep http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/0643259

I have setup a new slashsite for the JEB Stuart High School drama dept.

Stuartdrama.org. While this isn't really as publically oriented as many other sites, if you live in the Washington DC area, and enjoy high school theatre, visit us! I warn you however - the site is hosted on a DSL line, so speed isn't something we have much of.

Undocumented Things You Should Set In Apache? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/234233

I've recently discovered a problem with blocks being updated but not appearing to be updated when the main page loads. I believe this has been discussed here. I'm wondering if anyone has written anything about configuration directives for Apache that are going to make your Slashcode site work correctly. Things like limiting the Max requests per child and stuff like that. I'd be happy to collect everyone's replies and make a guide to be posted here or somewhere. The documentation from Mister Orange has been a lifesaver for many I'm sure.

Kinosis.com - Health, Fitness, and Weight Loss News 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

Don't know where to look next?

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 site so that it does not look for the index.shtml when doing directory indexing, and only loads the index.pl script. This works for now, but it is completely sub-optimal, and I want to change it back ASAP. I also don't want to move the information from the header template into the templates that slashd is using to generate the index.shtml. That is a sloppy fix, and would most likely cause more problems in the future. This problem appears with the CVS code regardless of if I start with a fresh "install-slashsite" database, or if I upgrade using my current running database. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong, or have suggestions on what to try? Your help is greatly appriciated. Side Note: There are some SQL and filesystem errors during the "install-slashsite". The SQL stuff I'm not so sure about (I'm still learning, but catching on really quickly). The filesystem stuff appears to be mis-named or or mis-filed plugin support files. (I think a template in the Repository plug-in is misnamed, and during the Stocks plugin install, it's not looking in the template directory for the HTML templates, but in the plugin template's parent directory.) I don't think these are related to my problem above, but I thought I would include the information in case it helps. (and in case I did something wrong during the initial install to get those errors.) --Robert

Getting Slash to email properly
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1813256

I managed to get a slash site up and running, but cannot get it to send mail (passwords, etc) to remote email addresses. Everything (slash, mysql, sendmail wrapper for qmail, apache) is on one box. Is there a way to get Slash to support SMTP-AUTH? Or is there a way to get Slash to directly reference the sendmail command on the local box? Or is there another preferred solution? Please spell it out for me--I'm a newbie:-) Thanks in advance --Stefan Geens

Mail bombing by our slash site
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/207255

Confused? Frustrated?

We have a problem with our slash site. For the seond time now the site has mail bombed us. I have set it up to send me stories and headlines and I and all others that have signed up get over 3000 of them. The strange thing is that this does not happen every day. Anyone got a clue to how we can resolve this problem? We are using slash-2-2-4 ,Debian Linux version 2.4.17 and exim veriosn 3.35. Gunnar --Gunnar Lunde

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