[osdn developer] December 16, 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
GT.M V4.3-001D now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235708

GT.M V4.3-001D is now available (binary, source, and release notes). This includes a couple of fixes relevant to VistA, including in the areas of error trapping, and pattern matching (see the Change History section of the release notes). GT.M[tm] is a vetted, industrial strength, transaction processing application platform consisting of a database engine optimized for high TP throughput and a compiler for the M (aka MUMPS) programming language. -- Bhaskar

Aqsis 0.7.2 available for download
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235777

Can't find what you're looking for?

There is a new version of both the Win32 installer and the source archive available for download, see the change notes for details. Aqsis is a Renderman(tm) compliant photorealistic 3D rendering toolkit. It is based on the Reyes rendering approach. Features include - programmable shading, true displacements, NURBS, CSG.

ircu2.10.11.03 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235828

Undernet's IRC daemon, version 2.10.11.03 has been released. This is a stable release and fixes several nasty desync bugs as well as fixing several minor bugs and adding a few minor features.

KBear 2.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235869

    We are very glad to announce the release of KBear 2.1 KBear is a     graphical FTP client for KDE/Linux with ability to concurrent     connections to multiple hosts. This release contains several bug fixes,     as well as new features including SOCKS support, firewall support, and     new translations of the GUI and documentation. This release contains     several bugfixes as well as new features: ->SOCKS support ->Directory     synchronizations localremote (experimental) ->Firewall support.     ->Ability to use a single connection for all operations. ->Ability to     set character encoding for remote site so for example chinese file     names are displayed correctly. -->Ability to automatically shut down     application, internet connection and even system after finished     downloads. ->Updated documentation translated into following languages:
-->English -->Swedish -->French -->Czech ->New GUI translations. Full
    translations available in following languages: -->English -->Swedish
-->German -->Italian -->French -->Traditional Chinese -->Dutch -->Czech
-->European Portuguese Partly translated languages: -->Russian
-->Romanian -->Hebrew -->Indonesian For a complete feature list and
    downloads see: http://kbear.sourceforge.net/

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

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

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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

Slashdot
More On Airplanes And Internet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/0244223

[0]fonixmunkee writes "as a sometimes-traveler for work, and a huge nerd, I am always excited about news like this. it appears that [1]some airlines may start offering internet access next year when you need to get that internet fix at 35,000 feet. I was pleased when they started selling wireless internet in airports, so this is another welcomed suprise for techie travlers. apparently they want to use satellite to get high-speed connections to the planes in the air. pretty cool. " Too bad [2]Northwest isn't going to have it for my DTW -> NRT -> KUL -> PER for [3]CALU.
Links

    0. mailto:fonixmunkee@yahoo.com
    1. 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=1&cid=528&u=/ap/20021215/ap_on_hi_te/in_flight_internet
    2. 
http://www.nwa.com
    3. 
http://conf.linux.org.au/

Kiwi Flight Before the Wright Brothers?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/0338254

[0]houseofmore writes "The [1]Toronto Star is is reporting that New Zealander Richard Pearse may have very well [2]made several flights beginning almost nine months before the Wright Brothers ever got off the ground. It also notes that "Mad Pearse's" machine was in some ways more advanced than the first Wright Flyer." Links

    0. mailto:jm@sweetas.co.nz
    1. 
http://www.thestar.ca/
    2. 
http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035775620594&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

Googling For Dates?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/0218225

[0]JAK writes "The New York Times' down-to-earth ethicist Randy Cohen writes on the moral implications of searching for a date's past on Google. He suggests that the practice is ok (even admitting to doing it himself) but warns against jumping to conclusions based on a quick search or confusing someone for others with the same name. He also writes that "the verb ''to Google'' is now a familiar neologism" (neologism: a new word, usage, or expression, I looked it up). You can read about it [1]The Times (free reg blah blah)" Links

0. mailto:jakv5@east91.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/15ETHICIST.html

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Decentralization
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/2224208

jamesgregory writes "'Geeks make new stuff primarily because it's fun, because it's useful, and [0]because they can. Suits make new stuff primarily because they hope to earn a profit. Yes, that is an oversimplification, and there's overlap between the two types -- there are plenty of profit-seeking geeks and geeky business folks. Still, the distinction is real.'"
Links

0. http://salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/12/13/supernova/index.html

Will Your CD Player Tell on You?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/2024207

An anonymous reader writes "Ever feel like not being a marketing statistic? Well just by playing certain store-bought compact discs in your home or office computer, your new music disc may be transmitting your listening habits in real time to the respective record company...." Charming. Read on for more...

Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/1941255

A wisely anonymous reader writes "Following my company's Christmas party on Friday, I found myself the proud recipient of... a bobble head doll of the company CEO! Needless to say I was PISSED. They didn't even comp. parking at the site of the party, let alone a bonus. yeah, yeah, times are tough. I should be happy just to have a job. but getting a damn doll of the guy who made 65 million last year just makes me angry. So... What did you get from your Company for Christmas?"

Web Zeitgeist
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/182240

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An anonymous reader writes "[0]CNN has a [1]story about Lycos and its 50 top "searched for" items of the year. After excluding "sex", "Dragonball" was #1, followed by "Kazaa", "tattoos", "Britney Spears", and the "NFL" (american football) rounding out the top 5. IRS was #7, and taxes acheived #14. "The Bible" is #21 followed by "Marijuana" at #22. It appears that pop-stars, supermodels, computer games, sports, and september 11th related words heavily dominate the rest of the top

How about the biggest declines? Boy bands. nSync down from 36 to 163, and Back Street Boys tumble to 250 from 58. Lycos is hosting the top 100 results this year [2]here with some commentary. Google also has [3]their own comprehensive lists (and cool charts) as well." Links
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/12/13/lycos.search/index.html
http://50.lycos.com/
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/1759227

[0]Bowie J. Poag notes this Register story about an [1]RIAA copyright infringement bust in New York. The RIAA claims the operation had [2]the equivalent of 421 CD-burners, which, translated from RIAA-speak, means "156 CD-burners but some of them were fast". How they expect anyone to take their statistics seriously is beyond me. Links

    0. 
http://www.ibiblio.org/propaganda
    1. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28574.html
    2. 
http://riaa.org/PR_Story.cfm?id=592

NYTimes Year in Ideas
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/1752251

jonbrewer writes "The New York Times is back again with their "[0]Year in Ideas" and one that Slashdot missed this year was the [1]RatBot. As featured in the [2]BBC and [3]Business 2.0 earlier this year, these critters are trained to navigate mazes based on [4]remote stimuli. Ethical? Doubtful. Cool? Yes."
Links

    0. 
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/index.html
    1. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/15REMO.html
    2. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1961798.stm
    3. 
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,42699,FF.html
    4. 
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0501_020501_roboratshtml

Google vs. Evil
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/15/1746203

wideangle writes "'The world's biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don't be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that [0]moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business. Take Brin's decision to refuse all alcohol and tobacco advertising. The fact that Google accepts advertising for adult content sites is an intriguing commentary on Brin's morality: Cigarettes and booze are evil; porn is not. It's a policy that would become progressively harder to defend were Google to go public.'" Links

0. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google_pr.html

Freshmeat
Accounting 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106625/

Accounting is software that was developed to keep track of money lent and owed. I use it from my RIM wireless pager. It is easy to install and use, and uses basic double-entry accounting.

bin86 0.16.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106638/

as86 and ld86 provide a complete 8086 assembler and loader which can generate 32-bit code for the 386+ processors. These tools are used to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries for linux. The syntax is not compatible with the GNU assembler.

Blassic 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106618/

Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language.

BrainSplatPHP 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106622/

BrainSplatPHP (BSPHP) is a simple single-user journaling program that supports commenting.

Buildtool 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106630/

Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.

cmv 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106615/

cmv is a Perl script that lets you easily rename multiple files in complex ways on Unix systems. The main advantage of cmv over other methods is that it finds the right order to rename files so that no files get clobbered. For instance, something like "cmv 'tr/abcd/bcda/' a b c d" will rename all the files without any of them disappearing.

CORBA::MICO 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106617/

CORBA::MICO is a Perl interface to the MICO ORB. Its most distinctive feature is that it is completely dynamic. It is not necessary to pregenerate "stubs" or "skeletons"; all necessary information is retrieved at runtime.

CRUX 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106611/

CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is "keep it simple", which is reflected in a simple tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries.

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Dav 0.7.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106595/

Dav (Dav Ain't Vi) is meant to provide a stable text editor that is efficient in both memory and processor usage. Its user interface is designed to be intuitive and to increase productivity.

dbacl 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106596/

dbacl is a digramic Bayesian text classifier. Given some text, it calculates the posterior probabilities that the input resembles one of any number of previously learned document collections. It can be used to sort incoming email into arbitrary categories such as spam, work, and play, or simply to distinguish an English text from a French text. It fully supports international character sets, and uses sophisticated statistical models based on the Maximum Entropy Principle.

Dialog CD Writer 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106639/

Dialog CD Writer is a dialog front end to burn CDs under GNU/Linux and Unix. It can write data and audio CDs, make MP3 files, and ISO images, and burn on-the-fly copies. X is not need to run the script.

E-AcpiPower 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106624/

The E-AcpiPower epplet is based on E-Power. It is modified to read battery status information using the new acpi kernel module, making it much more accurate and reliable than the old apm method.

Elm ME+ Elm 2.4ME+ PL100 (25)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106602/

Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It also includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.

Fast File Search 0.9.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106613/

Fast File Search crawls FTP servers and SMB shares (Windows shares and UNIX systems running Samba) and stores the information about files to a database. A Web interface is then used for searching files.

GNOME Installation Guide 12/2002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106616/

The GNOME Installation Guide was written to help unfamiliar users install a stable GNOME system that includes more than the default applications. It teaches readers how to compile GNOME on their own instead of installing precompiled packages. It also covers installation of extra GNOME programs, both those hosted by the GNOME project and those which are not.

GNU Anubis 3.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106621/

GNU Anubis is an outgoing mail processor. It goes between the MUA (Mail User Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent), and can perform various sorts of processing and conversion on-the-fly in accordance with the sender's specified rules, based on a highly configurable regular expressions system. It operates as a proxy server, and can edit outgoing mail headers, encrypt or sign mail with the GnuPG, build secure SMTP tunnels using the TLS/SSL encryption even if your mail user agent doesn't support it, or tunnel a connection through a SOCKS proxy server.

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Java Aspect Components 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106634/

JAC is a Java framework that provides some facilities to achieve Aspect-Oriented Programming and to separate concerns when programming (distributed) applications (for instance, the persistence or authentication aspects can be considered independently from what the application is doing). It provides a runtime execution environment that supports Aspect-Oriented applications written with the JAC framework that provides visualisation, administration, and configuration tools for the applications and for their aspects.

Java XiangQi .5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106593/

Java XianQi lets you play Chinese chess with yourself (not the computer) or an online opponent.

KDE DivX subtitles editor 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106644/

ksubeditor is a DivX subtitle editor for KDE 3.x. It is able to edit and convert subtitles between different subtitle formats. It is able to easily change the time of the subtitle and fit it to the movie.

KHeiseReg 0.7 (KDE 3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106642/

KHeiseReg is a utility to search offline within the article data base ("Heise Register") of the magazines "c't" and "iX" from the German publisher Heinz Heise.

Confused? Frustrated?

Knoppix 3.1-12-12-2002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106599/

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.

KPortage 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106640/

KPortage a graphical frontend for the Gentoo Linux portage system.

libchipcard 0.7beta1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106594/

Libchipcard is a C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and has been tested with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel.

Linux 2.4.21-pre1 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106605/

Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.

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LiVES 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106610/

LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is intended to be a simple yet powerful video effects and editing system. It will use commonly available tools (mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+, and in the future possibly gstreamer or xine), so it should work on most systems. It is currently usable for small video files.

mailtrace 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106598/

mailtrace reads a mail header on stdin and dumps a trace of SMTP hosts in a human readable manner on stdout. This is quite useful to check which host is responsible if a particular message is not delivered in a few minutes.

Mozilla 1.3alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106609/

Mozilla is a Web browser that is being developed by the Free Software Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape. The current Mozilla is a completely new software based on the "NGLayout" layout engine and runs on almost all current operating systems. Mozilla's user interface is written on top of NGLayout using XUL and JavaScript. The Mozilla project only develops and tests the source code for other projects / companies to use. Netscape 6 (the Web browser from Netscape) and Beonex Communicator (an open-source project to make a Mozilla for end-users) are directly based on Mozilla. Many other projects use/embed Mozilla's rendering engine (e.g., Galeon).

Naamah 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106614/

Naamah is a Web application that stores the ID3 tags from your MP3s and details of your audio CDs in a MySQL database. It scans drives for MP3 files and can generate LaTeX listings.

OpenGLavity 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106608/

OpenGLavity simulates gravity between several bodies using a full N-bodies algorithm. It has an OpenGL interface.

OpenSSL 0.9.6h
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106604/

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.

Pam_mount 0.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106623/

The pam_mount module allows users to have NCP (Netware), SMB (Windows/Samba), or loopback-encrypted volumes mounted upon login, using the same passwords they typed to log in. A remote volume can even be used as a user's $HOME. Volumes mounted this way are automatically unmounted on logout.

Perl IRC Statistics Generator 0.44
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106646/

pisg is a smart Perl script which generates statistics from IRC logfiles.

Personal File Manager 1.65 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106641/

pfm is a terminal-based file manager written in Perl. All pfm commands are one- or two-key commands (case-insensitive). It features colored filenames according to extension or type, a single-file and multiple-file mode, support for executing user-defined commands (including wildcards) with only two keystrokes, and use of the ReadLine library for friendly commandline editing.

printquota 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106620/

Printquota is a printing service quota tracking tool. It allows an administrator to group the printer queues and users and to set permissions to control which user can use which printer. PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported.

procps 3.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106597/

procps is a package of utilities which includes ps, vmstat, top, w, skill, snice, pgrep, pkill, free, sysctl, pmap, uptime, and kill. These utilities report what is running, who is logged in, how long the system has been running, and what is using up memory. They can be used to kill processes and change run-time kernel configuration values.

ReMedial 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106600/

Remedial aims to be an easy-to-use player for Windows media files under Linux. It is a front-end to the excellent avifile library, and provides a look and feel similar to that of Realplayer.

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Scribus 0.9.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106601/

Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as professional as possible.

SmartPost 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106612/

SmartPost is a complete email platform based on Davide Libenzi's xmail. It has Web interfaces for adding and managing email domains, for postmasters to manage their email users, and for users to send and receive email.

updatedd 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106628/

Updatedd is a client to update a dynamic DNS. At the moment, it supports dyndns.org, ovh.net, no-ip.org, ods.org, and hn.org.

VetTux 2.0-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106648/

VetTux is a modern animal clinic management and POS system. It aims to provide the veterinarian with a complete solution for running a clinic.

Video Disk Recorder 1.1.20 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106637/

Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more.

VISUAL 0.0.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106606/

VISUAL is a collection of programs to allow a computer running Linux to interface with programmable controllers, exchange data with them, log data, run HMI (human machine interface) screens, and control a machine from a local computer or over an intranet. The live state of the machinery can be viewed in any browser using Java applets.

Web Package Surfer 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106607/

Web Package Surfer is a PHP-based package management system that lets you browse, search, and administrate a set of files contained in packages that are classified by (possibly nested) categories. It is particularly useful for maintaining a repository of downloaded files.

WebGUI 4.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106592/

WebGUI is a platform built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer.

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Slashcode
Spacesci
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/0843216

G'DayWe have launched our new slashcode site. spacesci.org is "News and Information for Australian Space Researchers".Our next project will be a peer reviewed online journal.

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)

Confused? Frustrated?

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

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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

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