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[osdn developer] December 17, 2002
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 03:15:49 EST
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December 17, 2002 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
TixApps 1.8
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235913
Announcing the release of TixApps 1.8 - the Tix Application Framework for Tcl and Python. Tixapps provides a set of widgets utilities and applications that make use of Tix's object-oriented intrinsics. Applications included are: Tixinspect - a dynamic inspector for Tcl/Tk and Python/Tkinter Tixdebug - a dynamic debugger for Tcl/Tk Tixinfo - a GNU info browser
JFoxMX Release 1.0
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=235906
This version fully implements JMX specification 1.1. JFoxMX brings 15% performance increment than JMX RI.
XPS 0.1.5 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=236149
The first release of the eXtensible Programming System is now available. This version provides an initial version of the XPL Compiler that performs schema validation on XPL programs. The main focus of this release is to provide a sane build environment, various utilities, and a skeletal framework for the various XPS programs (xplc, xvm, xvmsh). The next release 0.2.0 will provide a working version of xplc and better documentation.
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
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/
Slashdot
FCC Approves 802.11b Phased Array
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/0237221
n6zfx writes "802.11b Networking News is [0]reporting that [1]vivato
received FCC approval for the [2]802.11b AP that has a range of 4
miles... This was [3]discussed recently here on slashdot -- There were
[4]comments that it might not be totally legal. Hopefully, this paves
the way for more WISPs, bigger hotspots, and replacement of [5]outdated
wireless technology that seemed to be the only competitor to DSL and
tv-cable for the last mile."
Links
0.
http://80211b.weblogger.com/
1.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.121602/223500131
2.
http://www.commsdesign.com/news/OEG20021104S0025
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/2053258&tid=137
4.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=4598554&sid=44174&tid=137
5.
http://www.sprintbroadband.com/Aussie Uni Dumps Dual-Boot In Favor of Linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/2224251
[0]kNIGits writes "[1]News.com.au is [2]reporting that the
[3]University of Wollongong have dumped their previously dual-boot
installations in favour of booting Linux only. Among other reasons,
staff enjoy the ease with which they can 'lock down' first year
students, stopping them messing with the systems prior to learning
anything about them."
Links
0.
http://www.dual-enforcers.net/
1.
http://www.news.com.au/
2.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5687204%255E15306,00html
3.
http://www.uow.edu.au/
A Conference About Spam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/0056249
[0]zonker writes "January 17th will be the first (annual?) meeting of
the [1]Spam Conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The informal
meeting will feature [2]Paul Graham, [3]John Graham-Cumming, [4]John
"Cap'n Crunch" Draper among others (possibly including [5]ESR though he
hasn't yet confirmed). The free conference will consist of a number of
talks about new ways to combat the growing spam problem, after which
everyone's going out and getting some Chinese food. Should be an
informative and fun meeting and a chance to meet some interesting
people."
Links
0.
http://monkeysvsrobots.com/
1.
http://spamconference.org/
2.
http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html
3.
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
4.
http://shopip.com/
5.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/
Who Owns Science?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/006254
immerrath writes "The New York Times has an [0]article [Sorry,
tomorrow's article, no Google link yet] on a movement that is rapidly
gaining support in the scientific community: the [1]Public Library of
Science(PLoS). The founders, [2]Nobel Laureate [3]Harold Varmus,
Stanford biologist [4]Pat Brown and Berkeley Lab scientist [5]Michael
Eisen, argue that scientific literature cannot be privately controlled
or owned by the publishers of scientific journals, and must instead be
available in public archives freely accessible by anyone and everyone.
This has very important implications for the fundamental principle that
Science must transcend all economic, national and other barriers. For a
while now, PLoS has been trying to get scientific journals to release
the rights to scientific papers; many major [6]journals have not
complied -- in response, PLoS is starting PLoS-standard-compliant
[7]journals (for which they received a $9 million grant from the
[8]Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), to demonstrate the validity of
the idea and persuade academic publishers to adopt the free access
model. They even have a GPL-like open access [9]Licence, and their
journals have some very prominent scientists on the [10]editorial
board. Here is the text of an earlier [11]Newsweek article about PLoS,
and here is a Nature [12]Public Debate explaining the issues. Michael
Eisen received the 2002 [13]Benjamin Franklin award for his work on
PLoS. Don't forget to sign the [14]PLoS open letter!"
Links
0.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/science/17JOUR.html
1.
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
2.
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1989/
3.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Harold_Elliot_Varmus.html
4.
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem/brown.html
5.
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/GEN/eisenm.html
6.
http://www.sciencemag.org/
7.
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/journals.htm
8.
http://www.moore.org/
9.
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/licence.htm
10.
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/cgi-bin/plosEditors.pl
11.
http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/arch_July02.html#NerdNapster
12.
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/Eisen.htm
13.
http://bioinformatics.org/franklin/2002/
14.
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/openletter.shtmlAirships Tested As Two-Way Telecom Beacons http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/001206
[0]sgups writes "[1]The Toronto Star (no registration required:)) is
[2]reporting about this firm which will supply spherical airships that
will be used as high-flying telecommunications platforms to supply
two-way Internet access across the United States and into Mexico and
Canada. The article explains little of the technology though."
Links
0. mailto:sgups@ho[ ]il.com ['tma' in gap]
1.
http://www.thestar.ca/
2.
http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035775623359&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851
AOL Wins Anti-Spam Case
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/2150255
[0]saikou writes "CNet [1]writes in this story: 'A Virginia federal
court awarded America Online nearly $7 million in damages as part of
the Internet service providers' legal victory over a junk e-mail
operation, AOL said Monday.' Now, given tough times we should see more
and more ISPs sue (and, hopefully win) the evildoers if not for their
users mailboxes sake, then for their own budget. How long until there
will be a major ISP whose plans include discounts for spam-fighters?
(Help us to sue every spammer than sent mail to you and get $9.95
disount on your next bill :) )"
Links
Acacia Steps Up Content-Transfer Patent Claims http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/1949240
[0]MarkRH writes "Over at [1]ExtremeTech we've got an [1]in-depth story
on the 20-odd suits being filed against the online porn industry by
Acacia Research Corp., which has been [2]previously covered on
Slashdot. Now, several online porn companies are forming an association
called IMPA (the 'Internet Media Protective Association'). We sat in on
conference calls held by the industry, and interviewed Acacia
executives. Bottom line: the porn industry is just the beginning."
Links
0. mailto:mark_hachman@ziffdavis.com
1.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,767313,00.asp
2.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/106259&tid=155
Vanishing Features Of The 2.6 Kernel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/1928258
[0]chromatic writes "[1]Jerry Cooperstein has written an excellent
article summarizing the [2]features removed from the upcoming 2.6
kernel. One controversial change may be tightening restrictions on
binary-only modules." And [3]Lovechild writes with some more 2.6 news:
"I recently did an inteview with famous kernel hacker extraordinare and
all round nice guy Robert M. Love for [4]Tinyminds.org, about [5]kernel
2.6 and what can be expected for desktop Linux users, when the new
kernel series is released.
Links
0.
http://wgz.org/chromatic/
1.
http://www.axian.com/
2.
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/12/vanishing.html
3.
http://Lovechild at foolclan dot com
4.
http://www.tinyminds.org/
5.
http://www.tinyminds.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=845
Whither America's Technological Edge?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/1724232
[0]baldass_newbie asks: "Ben Stein wrote an editorial titled, '[1]How
to Ruin American Enterprise'. To me, technological innovation is a big
outward sign of a successful economy. Sometimes it appears like the
U.S. is losing its edge in technology. Well, I was wondering what the
Slashdot community at large thinks is wrong (or right) with the U.S.
and technological innovation?" The article deals less with technology
and more with the society on which said innovation is based, and the
problems that may bring it down around our collective ears. Give the
article a read, and share your thoughts on whether or not you think
it's an accurate assessment on the current and future situation of
America's technological advantage.
Links
0. mailto:jay.brew-masters@com
Will We Need A SmartCard to Watch Digital TV? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/1846202
An anonymous reader writes "This story on EE Times points out that
[0]Hollywood and major electronics manufacturers are in agreement on a
SmartCard requirement for digital video interconnectivity. Note that
the article talks about them 'closing the analog hole.'"
Links
0. http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20021213S0034
Freshmeat
Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.7.3BETA-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106696/
Arno's IPTABLES firewall script was originally derived from Seven's (single-homed) IPTABLES script. The biggest differences are that this script has support for dual-homed machines, support for masquerading (NAT), support for ethernet ADSL/DSL modems (for both static and dynamically assigned IPs), support for all IP protocols, and support for IPSEC (Freeswan). It also features (stealth) portscan detection, extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to prevent log flooding, port forwarding, optimizing the throughput of your internet connection, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding (DoS attacks), and much more. It's easy to configure and highly customizable. It additionally includes a filter script (fwfilter) to make your firewall log more readable.
Baroque 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106685/
Baroque is an applet for the ROX Desktop. It shows the battery state of APM and ACPI systems.
BASHISH DR7.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106698/
Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt, font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.
buildpkg 0.0.2r28-pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106706/
Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def) which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be also used to track installations and create packages of the installed files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable) list of programs and the installation will be done here.
ClarkConnect Internet Gateway 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106746/
ClarkConnect is a software package that transforms an old beat up PC into a smart, simple, and secure Internet gateway and server for your home or small office network. In addition to connection sharing, the software comes with a strong firewall, Apache, dynamic DNS utilities, and Samba filesharing. The software is based on Red Hat Linux.
cplay 1.46
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106728/
cplay is a Curses frontend for various audio players. It aims to provide a power-user-friendly interface with simple filelist and playlist control. It is written in Python and can use either pyncurses or the standard curses module. The list of currently supported players includes ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod.
CStyleX 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106697/
CStyleX provides ref.xsl, man.xsl, and proj.xsl XSLT transforms that will convert an XML input file describing a library of C routines into an HTML references, man pages, and a project Web page.
Echelog 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106748/
Echelog is a distributed system consisting of one or more agents and one or more servers. Agents, distributed on computers over network, are monitoring the network's and hosts' state. Gained information is sent using SSL protocol to a safe server where the data are archived.
elf 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106719/
elf is a comfortable command-line ELF object file header analyzer. Unlike many other similar projects, this project is aimed at the analysis of the ELF header, so as a large feature-set as possible is planned.
Flash Plugin for Browsers 6.0.69 (Flash 6) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106678/
The Flash Player plugin for x86 Linux lets users experience Web animation and entertainment in their Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, or Konqueror Web browser.
FSlint 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106740/
FSlint is a toolkit to find various forms of lint on a filesystem. At the moment it reports duplicate files, bad symbolic links, troublesome file names, empty directories, non stripped executables, temporary files, duplicate/conflicting (binary) names, and unused ext2 directory blocks.
FUDforum 2.3.6RC4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106736/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.
fwlogview 0.3.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106731/
fwlogview is a graphical, realtime, colorized logviewer for netfilter and other logs written in Java. It displays the logentries which are related to the firewall action. You can hide unimportant columns or change the order in which columns are shown.
Genuts Framework 0.3.1b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106709/
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.
gnocl 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106738/
gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support. It is loosely modeled after the Tk package.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106693/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
GNUsound 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106689/
GNUsound is a sound editor for Linux/x86. It supports multiple tracks, multiple outputs, and 8, 16, or 24/32 bit samples. It can read a number of audio formats through libaudiofile, and saves them as WAV. GNUsound supports a large number of high-quality audio effects through the LADSPA plugin architecture (see http://www.ladspa.org).
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.1-dev http://freshmeat.net/releases/106743/
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) comprises an XML schema for historical events, and xslt/Java, which transforms conforming documents into useful and possibly new views, including charts, time-lines, and maps generated in SVG. It is not meant to be the one and only language for marking up historical events, however it does aim to be a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add an historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.'
HTML Forms generation and validation 2002.12.16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/106680/
HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates HTML forms supporting keyboard navigation, server side and client side field validation, the ability to stop the user from submiting a form more than once, sub-form validation, composition and generation of the HTML output with fields displayed as fully accessible or in read-only mode, generation of Javascript field related functions, and automatic capitalization of the text of a field. A plug-in filter is provided for composing forms with the Smarty template engine.
IDE Studio 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106677/
IDEStudio is an enhanced version of the standard Python Idle IDE, using the Tix extension widgets to Tkinter. It features an Embedded Idle Editor (including syntax highlighting, command and method syntax tips, an integrated graphical class browser, and an integrated graphical debugger), a visual class and method inspector of editor files, integrated PYDOC on-line help, and integrated productivity tools such as find, grep, and execute scripts. It also works with GNU Emacs.
IlohaMail 0.7.9-RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106749/
IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library (it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It supports all essential functionality, including a full contacts list and a user customizable interface. Other features include support for multiple domains (virtual hosts), built-in spam prevention, and activity logging.
Java Serialization to XML 1.0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106688/
Java Serialization to XML (JSX) allows you to write and read any Java object graph as XML data with one line of code. You can verify your data and manipulate it with standard XML tools like DOM, JDOM, and XSLT. JSX automatically creates a file format/wire protocol for all Java objects, so that it is always up to date as the code evolves. When you need backward compatibility, JSX provides the evolution techniques of Java Object Serialization, and you can also modify the XML directly. Unlike databinders, such as JAXB and Castor, no explicit mapping is required, and JSX works for all objects.
JOELib 2002-12-16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106739/
JOELib is a computational chemistry library which supports SMARTS substructure search, descriptor calculation, processing/filtering pipes, and conversion of different chemical file formats. It is written in 100% pure Java, and interfaces to external programs are available.
jpgind 0.64
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106716/
Jpgind is commandline tool for generating Web galleries from JPEG/Exif files. Each image's page can be supplemented with EXIF info and HTML metadata from a separate text file.
JpGraph 1.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106702/
JpGraph is a OO Graph drawing library for PHP 4.0.2 and above. Highlights of the available features are: text, linear, and log scales for both the X and Y axes, anti-aliasing of lines, color-gradient fills, support for GIF, JPG, and PNG formats, support for two Y axes, spider plots (a.k.a Web plots), pie-charts, lineplots, filled line plots, impulse plots, bar plots, and error plots, support for multiple plot types in one graph, intelligent autoscaling, and extensive documentation (145 pages).
Kaspaliste 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106710/
Kaspaliste is a literature database. It handles all kinds of books, articles, journals, Web pages, etc. The database goes beyond storing bibliographical information. It is possible to create annotated links between pieces of information (like the content of a book chapter) and to group links into categories. The user interface works just like a Web browser. You may walk back and forward through previously edited records, change fields, and create or delete links, publications, authors, etc. Kaspaliste stores files as well as information about publications, and it handles various formats like HTML, PDF, PS, DVI, and pictures. The fulltext search covers these files. Another feature is the automatic generation of BibTex files.
KDE Pocket PC Contacts Import 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106720/
KDE Pocket PC Contacts Import lets you import your Windows CE (or PocketPC) contacts into KDE's address book.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.52_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/106676/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth.
Kyro Linux Tools 0.165
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106745/
Kyro Linux Tools allows owners of the Kyro 1/2 graphics cards to configure and tweak it to get the most out of it. It is currently translated into English, Catalan, Spanish, French, German, and Dutch.
Linux trustees 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106741/
The main goal of the Linux Trustees project is to create an advanced permission management system for Linux. The solution proposed is mainly inspired by the approach taken by Novell Netware and the Java security API. Special objects (called trustees) can be bound to every file or directory. The trustee object can be used to ensure that access to a file, directory, or directory with subdirectories is granted (or denied) to a certain user or group (or all except user or group). Trustees are like POSIX ACLs, but trustee objects can affect entire subdirectory trees, while ACLs a single file.
Luminance Panel 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106744/
Luminance Panel is a panel application written in GTK 2.0 for the Luminance Desktop project. The intent of the project is to produce a lightweight, visually appealing panel application. This project does not intend to rival other applications in number of features.
Lutel Firewall 0.65 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106700/
Lutel Firewall Script is a Linux iptables shell script written in bash for use as a firewall and NAT/masquerade router for home networks or multiple subnet applications. It shares access to an Internet connection from multiple workstations. Its main features are support for interface aliases, per subnet traffic definitions, UID and GID of packet owner restrictions, length of packet restrictions, SYN / flood protection, disabling routing between subnets, masquerading setups per subnet, transparent proxy support, port redirection, anti-spoof protection, TOS optimization, predefinied netfilter marking for 3rd party traffic shapers (such as tc), DHCP support, FTP active and passive mode support, and ZorbipTraffic.
mailgraph 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106715/
Mailgraph is a very simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix that produces daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of received/sent and bounced/rejected mail.
Mainstreet Credit Verification Engine 2.5.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/106724/
Mainstreet Credit Verification Engine (MCVE) is a scalable Credit Card Processing Engine for Linux and UNIX. MCVE is designed to handle credit card authorizations and is certified to support major clearing house protocols. Features include support for multiple modems, multiple merchant accounts, and multiple processors, all simultaneously -- as well as IP and SSL connectivity along side SQL database support. Designed in C, conforming to POSIX standards, and utilizing light weight processes (threads), this product is able to handle a large number of transactions with high speed and minimal CPU usage.
mcGallery 1.10 (Professional)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106679/
mcGallery is a photo gallery management script that allows you to display several albums. Each album and each photo can be shown with a title, a name, and a description. Thumbnails are automatically generated. The password protected admin panel lets you add or delete individual photos or entire albums, and shows the most popular photos. English and French language files are provided.
MemCheck Deluxe 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106718/
MemCheck Deluxe is a memory usage tracker and leak finder. It allows developers to find memory leaks quickly, as well as providing some memory usage information.
MiniXML 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106694/
MiniXML provides a simple API used to generate and parse XML. Its advantages are ease-of-use and the fact that no additional libraries are required. The set of classes allows developers to access XML data and create valid XML output with a tree-based hierarchy of elements. The PHP and Perl classes are independent and do not require any additional libraries.
Moto 0.16.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106737/
Moto is a server-side scripting language much like PHP or ColdFusion. The difference between Moto and other server-side scripting languages is that Moto pages can run interpreted (like PHP) or be natively compiled into dynamically loadable Apache modules (an entire Web site could be compiled into one .so file). It comes with a full suite of objects and functions for state and session management, MySQL and PostgreSQL database connectivity, and a slew of utility classes like stacks, hashtables, string buffers, etc. There is also an included interface definition language for exposing C functions to Moto. All object allocation occurs in a shared memory segment, so maintaining state in objects between page views is a snap.
MyDNS 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106701/
MyDNS is a free DNS server for Unix which was implemented from scratch and is designed to serve DNS data directly from an SQL database.
MyPFXAdmin 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106686/
MyPFXAdmin is a set of Web-based PHP scripts that allow easy administration of a Postfix setup. It allows adding and editing of domains, aliases, and users, without direct manipulation of the database.
MySQL Database Server 3.23.54a (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106687/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.
MZiq 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106713/
MZiq is a Perl frontend for mpg123. Its main feature is the deployment of Perl's regular expressions for ease of playlist creation. It also supports other miscellaneous helping options like nice, caching, and the ability to read its options and patterns from a file.
nALFS 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106747/
nALFS is used for parsing the ALFS profiles (simple instructions in XML) and, following those profiles, do various things (like executing commands), one by one, to compile some packages from source.
OpenAFS 1.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106732/
AFS is a distributed filesystem which offers a client-server architecture, transparent data migration abilities, scalability, a single namespace, and integrated ancillary subsystems.
OSSP al 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106723/
OSSP al defines an abstract data type of a data buffer that can assemble, move, and truncate chunks of data in a stream but avoids actual copying. It was built to deal efficiently with communication streams between software modules. It especially provides flexible semantical data attribution through by-chunk labeling. It also has convenient chunk traversal methods and optional OSSP ex based exception handling.
pimentech-dbutils 1.0.20 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106707/
pimentech-dbutils provides a set of tools for designing a database in XML, computing the SQL database generation code and the diagram (in dot), and doing other useful tasks.
SCMxx 0.6.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106722/
SCMxx is a console program that allows you to exchange certain types of data with mobile phones made by Siemens. Some of the data types that can be exchanged are logos, ring tones, vCalendars, vCards, phonebook entries, and SMS messages. It works with the following phones: S25, C35i, M35i, S35i, ME45, S45, SL45, and probably some others, too. It basically uses the AT command set published by Siemens (with some other additional resources).
Siege 2.57b2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106714/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
SmokePing 1.18 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106725/
SmokePing is a network latency monitor which works in a way that is similar to MRTG. It measures network latency to a configurable set of destinations on the network, and displays its findings in easy-to-read Web pages. SmokePing has special support for monitoring hosts with dynamic IP addresses. SmokePing uses RRDtool as its logging and graphing back-end, making the system very efficient. The presentation of the data on the Web is done through a CGI which creates graphs on demand.
The EDDIE Tool 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106705/
The EDDIE Tool is a system and network monitoring, security, and performance analysis tool developed entirely in threaded Python. Its key features are portability, powerful configuration, and ease of expansion.
Thy 0.2.153 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106717/
Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day.
Tixapps 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106675/
Tixapps is a suite of development applications that run with Tcl/Tk or Python, using the Tix widget set. Applications currently included in Tixapps are tixinspect (an inspector for Tix/Tk applications), tixdebug (a debugger to work with tixinspect), and tixinfo (an info browser for GNU documentation).
Trickster Streaming Server 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106703/
Trickster Streaming Server is a pure Perl MP3 streaming server with a Web interface. It allows you to manipulate and browse the queue. The queue management API is done in a fairly simple UNIX manner, so you can easily extend it.
Virus Update Server 1.4.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106712/
Virus Update Server (vsuserver) helps you maintain an updated mirror of the antivirus updates from the McAfee/Network Associates servers without having to download the entire list of updates every time a new antivirus update is available. It mirrors all the files needed for serveral OSes, and it also includes a FAQ on how to configure clients to update for their version of the product.
Web components 1.00 (FormForge)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106708/
Web components is a collection of visual programming elements that can
be used when creating a PHP-based Web site. It is similar in spirit to
ASP.NET.
Web components 2.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/106681/
Web components is a collection of visual programming elements that can
be used when creating a PHP-based Web site. It is similar in spirit to
ASP.NET.
Slashcode
Integrating Slash with e-commerce?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/2223251
Does anyone know of sites that have integrated Slashcode with some sort of e-commerce / shopping-cart system? Or, how that might best be done? I'm looking at open-source e-commerce packages such as, for instance, phpShop (http://www.phpshop.org) and osCommerce (http://www.oscommerce.com/) and wondering if and how they could be melded with Slashcode. thanks, Tim.
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)