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[osdn developer] December 28, 2002
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Date: Sat Dec 28 2002 - 03:15:49 EST
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This release contains no new bug fixes, but has a much faster click detection algorithm, and up to 200 markers. Gnome Wave Cleaner is a digital audio restoration tool for CD quality audio wavefiles. Dehiss, declick and decrackle in a GUI environment. Have fun. Please let me know of any problems. jw (aka weltyj at yahoo.com)
Furthur 1.7.1 Released
Furthur is a peer-to-peer cataloging and music sharing tool that
allows: fully enforcable legal sharing model, instant downloads with no
waiting lists, in-depth cataloging functionality, and detailed
attribute searches. Upgrade to this version is recommended for all
existing users. This release includes fixes for known memory leaks,
high CPU usage issues, and an improved search system. Hello again, The
Furthurnet team is proud to announce the release of: Furthurnet 1.7.1
sylpheed-0.8.8claws released
Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client and newsreader. Supports POP3, APOP, IMAP, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, LDAP. Features multiple accounts, spell-checking, address book, SSL, GPG/PGP, filtering, scoring, and i18n. This is a bugfix release.
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December 2002 Version: 0.8.8claws SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
<http://claws.sylpheed.org> This release of sylpheed-claws is based on
version 0.8.8 of the main Sylpheed branch. Notes for this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This release fixes a bug which would run into
an infinite loop and eventual crash when invalid characters were
encountered in MIME header encoding. New features in this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * add 'Locked' flag to possible filtering
/ matcher conditions * Bug fix: [bug #633443] 'Crash on deleting
messages' * updated translations Bulgarian and code reorganisation,
cleanups, and more. CLAWS' EXTRA FEATURES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * pop
before smtp authentication * Automatic saving of message when composing
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238414 The GGI project is pleased to announce that new versions of LibGGI and LibGII have been released. LibGGI is a graphics API which focuses on portability between operating systems and graphics back-ends. LibGII is a stand-alone system for handling input devices which follows the same general design principles as LibGGI. Through a run-time modular system, a single application binary can be run on many different display systems. In addition, LibGGI and it's interchangeable run-time binary "targets" can be compiled on many architectures (like ia-32, ppc32, sparc, sparc64, arm, s390, etc.) and operating systems (like Linux, *BSD, Darwin, Solaris, etc.) and environments (like X11, fbdev, svgalib, aalib, etc.) The LibGGI core itself is a basic API meant for low level programming abstracting the simplest of primitives common to most display systems. When properly written, LibGGI applications can be made to work well in various bit-depths and to function on display systems that differ quite drastically in their implementations (e.g. backbuffered client/server systems like X11 versus direct hardware systems like linux framebuffer.) LibGGI includes an extension system which allows API sets to be added to the core LibGGI API. For example, two popular extensions are LibGGIWMH, allowing manipulation of parent window properties when a LibGGI program is running under a window based display system, and LibGGIMISC which supplements the LibGGI API with a few features like raytrace syncronization and VGA-style splitline which are familair to demo coders. Our team is working on future extensions which aim to bring the GGI philosphy of generic abstraction to graphics systems features such as Z/Alpha buffers, overlays, and ROP/BITBLT, allowing such features to be used by application developers without falling into the trap of writing code that is inextricably entangled to the display system used for development and testing. Like every Open Source project, we are always glad to receive help and new team members. This release represents a step forward not only in that several enhancements have been made but also in our release process. We now have a stable and developemnt tree system such that experimental features will no longer butt heads with bugfix releases. We expect this to improve our release interval for both development and stable projects. More detailed news, project contact information, online documentation, and much more is available at http://www.ggi-project.org/ SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2002-12-18 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238394 0. Intro 1. SF.NET Support Update 2. DevChannel Launch 3. NNTP Beta Continues 4. WebSphere on Compile Farm 5. Site Statistics --- Sponsored by: Buy Holiday Geek Toys Now! Thinkgeek is the holiday shopping mecca for geeks, technophiles, and anybody who enjoys computers, gadgets, and just plain old fun stuff. Whether you're looking to shop for the new geek in your life, or if you're looking to finally get the gifts you actually WANT this year, Thinkgeek is your one-stop-shop. http://www.thinkgeek.com/sf/ ---- Hello SourceForge.net user, Happy Holidays! It's been quite a year. We just had our 3rd year anniversary of SF.NET's existence and in the past 12 months we've added 225,000 registered users and 22,000 new Open Source projects (525,000 Users and 52,000 projects total). It's great to see that the community continues to grow. We've moved. You may or may not have noticed, but we physically moved last month. SourceForge.net has migrated to a new Cable & Wireless facility in Santa Clara, California (formally Exodus). Besides the shinny new racks, power and bandwidth, we have consolidated all our OSDN sister sites under one roof (Slashdot.org, Freshmeat.net, Linux.com, OSDN.com, Thinkgeek.com, etc). This move makes it easier for our Sys Admins to get their hands around all 250+ servers (all of OSDN) which use to be spread out over two coasts in the United States. December 2002's SF.NET project of the month is phpMyAdmin. Please check out the interview we did with them. Good stuff. http://sourceforge.net/pom_1202.php Our IBM DB2 transition continues to move forward. We will have SF.NET fully converted to the database in early 2003. On a related note, today we are announcing 3 new IBM WebSphere application servers on the SF.NET compile farm. This will allow you to test out any J2EE applications you might have. Instructions to access the compile farm are below in this email. On behalf of the SF.NET team, I want to wish you and your family very Happy Holidays. We are looking forward to working with you to make SourceForge.net and the Open Source Community even more successful in 2003. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email me directly at pat@sf.net. Thank you. Pat- Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net email: pat@sf.net 1. SF.NET Support Update
Mailman 2.1 rc 1
This is the release candidate for Mailman 2.1 final. 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. Barring unforseen problems, this is a snapshot of what will be released before the end of 2002. Cayenne "Holiday Release": 1.0a5 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238027 A new release of Cayenne is out. It plugs a few gaps in the core functionality, fixes tons of bugs and provides a much improved documentation. Cayenne is an object-relational persistence framework written in Java. It provides tools and libraries to work with relational databases in an object-oriented way. Cayenne consists of class libraries and a GUI tool for O/R mapping and deployment. Release highlights are: * Added flattened relationships (direct many-to-many relationships). * Introduced type-safe queries using Java Class as a root * Project structure update. Project map and node files now have predefined extensions. An upgrade from the old format can be done via CayenneModeler. Old format is compatible with Cayenne runtime. * Significantly improved and updated "User Guide". Created "Developer Guide" for contributors. * Usual Bug fixes, code cleanup and refactoring. Downloads available at http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/
Chordcast 0.9.9b
Chordcast 0.9.9b has been released. This is probably going to be the last version before 1.0. This release contains mostly bug fixes and enhancements. ChordCast is a JAVA (swing) program for creating guitar chords in files called chord sheets. The software uses XML files to save the chord sheets. It also allows to export to HTML files using PNG images for chords. It requires J2RE 1.4 to run. See the changelog for more information. The roadmap was also updated.
e1000-4.4.19 stable release
Linux kernel driver for the Intel(R) PRO/100 ethernet devices and Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit ethernet devices. This project serves as a focal point for further driver development and discussion. e1000-4.4.19 stable release is available in .tar.gz format to compile against any 2.4 kernel.
DSpace 1.0.1 released
DSpace, currently in use at MIT Libraries, is a Java-based Open Source digital library system designed for scalability, and the long-term preservation of data (such as books, documents, and multimedia publications). DSpace 1.0.1 is mostly a bug fix release. New documentation should be available in a couple of weeks.
Slashdot
RadioheadKid writes "Dartmouth College Professor [0]Victor F. Petrenko is getting a grip on ice. He and his colleagues have found ways to take advantage of the "protonic" semiconductor properties of frozen water. They see many applications of this discovery from [1]melting ice on power lines to [2]electronic speed control for skis and snowboards. I guess those [3]Petrenkos just love the ice." Links
0.
http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/thayer/faculty/victorpetrenko.html
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993209
2.
http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/thayer/research/ice-engg.html
3.
http://www.championsonice.com/skaters.php?Skater=9&Tour=0
How To Stop Piracy: Raid CD-R Moguls
An anonymous reader writes "In what appears to be a not-so-legal move,
Mexico's equivalent of the RIAA used federal police to raid the
installations of Grupo Mekong, responsible for 200 of the 400 million
virgin CDs imported each year, accusing them to be "capos" of the
Piracy bussiness in Mexico. What is the rationale? Record companies buy
only 20% of Mekong merchandise, so the other 80% must be going to
pirates! Yeah, Never mind computer users ,independent labels or other
legal uses. You can see the article [0]here but what amazes me is the
behaviour! What will the next step be? Raid the truck companies who
deliver the CDs? "
0. http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/256682/
Virtual Volunteering
An anonymous reader writes "Virtual Volunteering is new to me, so I thought that I would pass the info. along. Given the downturn in employment and the need to keep an active resume or CV, becoming a 'Virtual Volunteer', may be just the way to refresh your outlook and your resume. A [0] PC World article talks about two sites which list numerous opportunities; [1]Volunteer Match lists 41,538 opportunities associated with 23,359 organizations, and [2]World Computer Exchange which 'is a global nonprofit organization committed to helping the world's poorest youth bridge the disturbing global divides in information, technology and understanding. WCE does this by keeping donated PCs, Macs, and Laptops out of landfills and giving them new life connecting youth to the Internet in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.' There are most likely more organizations like this out there, anybody have a special one that they are associated with?" Links
0.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108190,00.asp
1.
http://www.volunteermatch.org/
2.
http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/
Military Healthcare Data Stolen
An anonymous reader writes "TriWest, a federal contractor providing healthcare to the military, had computer hardware stolen from one of their offices. Social security numbers, credit card numbers, and healthcare information about 500,000 US military personnel and their families is contained on the stolen hardware. The [0]AP picked up the story. The theft is also being covered by the [1]Salt Lake Tribune and the [2]Arizona Republic. This opens the door to speculation about who would be interested in the data held by a military contractor and what they will do with the information." Links
0.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Records-Stolen.html?ex=1041995809&ei=1&en=9f4bf2a3b812c451
1.
http://www.sltrib.com/2002/dec/12272002/utah/14893.asp
2.
http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/1227recordtheft.html
2003: Year of Linux in Asia?
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "The Register has a [1]story about traveling to a magical country where seeing Linux laptops displayed in stores is perfectly normal. The author then goes on to predict that this year will see much more desktop action coming not from Red Hat or Euro-Distros, but from China and India. Makes sense to me." Links 0. mailto:zhunt@zee4.com
Spam Conference in Boston
bpfinn writes "Are you working on your own anti-spam solution? Would
you like to compare notes with other coders? You'll get your chance at
the [0]Spam Conference in Cambridge on January 17, 2003. Among the
speakers are: Paul Graham (of [1]"a plan for spam" fame), [2]ESR, John
Graham-Cumming (of [3]"POPFile" fame), and Matt Sergeant from
[4]MessageLabs. According to the homepage, this conference will be very
informal: "no fees, sponsorships, proceedings, luncheons, contests,
etc. Just a series of quick, concentrated talks, and then we all go off
and get Chinese food." Slashdotters who are peeved about spam can
[5]register here."
0.
http://www.spamconference.org/
1.
http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
2.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/
3.
http://www.usethesource.com/Software/02/08/30/1734204.shtml
4.
http://www.messagelabs.com/
5.
http://spamconference.org:4000/servlets/spamreg?r
The Humane Environment
[0]rael9real writes "Jeff Raskin, developer of the MacOS and author of
The Humane Interface [ed.: which was [1]reviewed last year], has been
hard at work with several others coding [2]The Humane Environment. They
have a developers edition out for Christmas. It runs on Mac OS 9/X.
Reading the manual, it is basically a text editor/Python IDE, but it
does seem to incorporate some neat ideas in the field. I can't wait to
get home and try it out!"
0. mailto:rael9 at (nospam) earthlink.net
1.
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/12/2259254&tid=156
2.
http://humane.sourceforge.net/the/
Open Source, Closed Documentation?
[0]sunset asks: "Recently I was motivated to look at [1]WebGUI which
looks like a pretty cool open source project. However I was having
trouble making it work with Red Hat 8.0 which includes Apache 2.0. This
seems like a reasonable thing to want, as Red Hat 8 has been out since
September and Apache 2 has been publicly released for close to a year.
Checking the WebGUI community discussion forum, I found that [2]
someone else had already inquired about this. Following the rest of the
thread, you learn that the product's vendor considers this information
to be proprietary, and that you must pay $50 to join their Support
Forum to get the information. It gets better. The associated
[3]Membership Agreement for the Support Forum includes the clause 'You
shall not to share [sic] the information contained herein with any
other party.' So if I join up, I am locked out of sharing valuable
information with the open source community about how to install this
open source product. In the end I found out what I needed to know
without giving up my rights or my hard-earned bucks, but frankly this
attitude from the vendor pisses me off. Am I alone in this? What do you
think?"
0.
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
1.
http://www.plainblack.com/
2.
http://www.plainblack.com/discuss?func=showMessage&mid=100318&wid=4
3.
http://www.plainblack.com/support_programs
PHP 4.3.0 Released
[0]aftk2 writes "[1]PHP.Net has just reported the release of PHP 4.3.0.
The update sports a unified method of handling files and sockets, a
bundled GD library (for working with images), and finalizes PHP's
command line interface. For other information, check out the
[2]ChangeLog."
0.
http://www.electricstate.com
1.
http://www.php.net/
2.
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.phpEverQuest: What You Really Get From an Online Game http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1748252
[0]dsanfte writes "If you’re reading this, you may be considering
picking up EverQuest. Most likely you’ve heard from friends how great
this “addictive” game is, how in-depth it can become, and how much
fun you’ll have playing it. As usual, however, you aren’t getting the
straight deal. So before you pick up that EverQuest box, let me tell
you the other side of that euphoric story." The rest of Sanftenberg's
excellent article is below.
0. mailto:palad@sympatico.ca
Freshmeat
centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, and Jabber protocols. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features.
Custom 0.2
Custom is an E-Commerce system providing Ordering and Invoicing, Stock, Supplier, and Catalogue Management. Easily customisable, it is written in Python for use as CGI scripts (under Apache or any other Web server) with a simple example site and example database. Custom is intended as a modern replacement for Sage.
Deadman's Redirect 7.6
Deadman's Redirect is designed to replace whatever is loaded when you click on the Home button in your browser. It is a web-surfer's power tool that can be completely customized, using HTML, to fit the needs of the user. It allows for URL redirection as well as an interface to various search engines through its aliasing system. It also supports user-set aliases with functional arguments, RSS headlines, and a history of all the URLs that pass through it.
Elaya 0.5.4.d1 (Development)
Elaya is a compiler for the Elaya language.
empget 0.9
empget is a simple parser and downloader of the EMusic Package files
GNOME Crontab Editor 0.0.3
The GNOME Crontab Editor is a graphical interface to the crontab program. You can use it to create, delete, and edit scheduled tasks using a simple point-and-click interface.
GnoTime 2.1.1
GnoTime is a to-do list tracker and project timer with a built-in invoice generator. It allows users to keep track of how much time they have spent working on particular tasks, maintain a diary of that work, and create invoices with task-specific billing fees and rates.
GNU Smalltalk 2.0g (Development)
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
HotSaNIC 0.5.0-pre3
HotSaNIC is a Web-based information center for Unix-based systems. It gives you a graphical overview about certain network- and system statistics. HotSaNIC is programmed (mainly in Perl 5) in a modular way to give you a great flexibility of which items you like to use, and it can be extended with further modules written by yourself or others.
IPCop Firewall 1.2
IPCop Linux is a complete Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to protect the networks on which it is installed.
JPhotoBrush 2.3
JPhotoBrush is an image editing and enhancement application, making extensive use of Swing and Java's 2D capabilities. It includes a facility to open multiple images, the ability to load and save 24-bit GIF, JPG, and BMP. There are brightness/contrast controls, grayscaling, and color invert, etc. Filters include blur/smooth, sharpen, edge detect, emboss, noise reduction and generation, diffuse, mosaic, venetian blinds, buttonize, solarize, scramble, wave, camera effects, and plaster effects, etc. There is histogram and histogram equalization, blending, overlaying, arithmetic/logical operations of multiple images, image resizing, rotation, shear, flipping, and rendering effects. There is free-hand and line drawing with customized width, color, line style, and cap style and zoom in/zoom out options, amongst many other features.
Naamah 1.05
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.
NemeinAuthentication 1.5.2
NemeinAuthentication is a PHP session-based authentication library for Midgard sites and applications. It can be used for adding easy and secure authentication for Midgard-based Web services, and also includes utilities for handling password complexity checking against imported libraries. The module ships with an imported English library.
newfile 0.9.0.b.4
newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied with the package. It includes templates for making "empty" files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.
Nightfall 1.32
Astronomy for fun (education, science, whatever). Nightfall is an interactive application to simulate eclipsing binary stars, and to produce animated views, synthetic lightcurves and more. Takes into account the non-spherical shape of close binary stars, mutual reflection, and some other effects. Comes with documentation, on-line help, and lots of observational data of real binary stars. Supports the Gnome desktop, but doesn't require it.
Nokryptia 1.2
Nokryptia is a program to convert music files like MP3 to work on a Nokia 5510 (and maybe also for the Nokia HDR-1). The program uses a workaround for the encryption so that it is extremely fast compared to the official Nokia software. Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.11beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/107690/ Perdition is a POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression, and NIS modules ship with the distribution. The API for modules is open, allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access to any data store. PHP 4.3.0
PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available.
pork 0.2.0
pork is a UNIX console-based AIM client mostly fashioned after the look-and-feel of ircII.
RubyInline 2.1.1
Ruby Inline is an analog to Perl's Inline::C. It allows you to imbed C external module code in your Ruby script directly. The code is compiled and run on the fly when needed.
SPASTIC 2.4 (Stable)
SPASTIC is an easy-to-use, powerful set of email filters to deal with Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE), a.k.a. spam, using procmail. Some of its features are filtering based on header and/or body contents, predefined sets of filters to get started quickly, a whitelist to bypass filters, options on where to send spam, and an optional script to rotate the spam file periodically. The Puto Amo Window Manager 1.8.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/107709/ The Puto Amo Window Manager is a full featured window manager, but without useless bells and whistles. It is small, fast, etc. VED 1.6
Ved (visual editor) is a small and very fast screen-oriented text editor that implements a user interface somewhere between vi and Emacs. It is powerful and easy to learn, and has no limitations on line length, file size, or the types of characters that may appear in a file. It is a highly portable editor for UNIX and most other OSes.
WifiScanner 0.8.0
WifiScanner is an analyzer and detector of 802.11b stations and access points. It can listen alternatively on all the 14 channels, write packet information in real time, can search access points and associated client stations, and can generate a graphic of the architecture using GraphViz. All network traffic can be saved in the libpcap format for post analysis. It works under Linux with a PrismII card and with the linux-wlan driver.
Yattm 0.1
Yattm is a fork of Everybuddy, and initially aims to address its problems. It should not segfault when you use it, and should be almost instantly usable by your mother. Almost useless prefs should be hidden, reserved for "advanced" users, and things have to work without wondering what this or that will produce.
Slashcode
I just recently installed slash 2.2.6 on a server in my company intranet. We're going to make use of it as a technical forum for the developers to collaborate. For the most part, everything has gone smoothly and I've had little trouble getting slash configured the way I want. The one problem I have come across is that I can't run runtask with any of the tasks in my slash-site. Every time I try to do it, I check my slashd.log and find a similar error: Tue Dec 24 15:01:50 2002 Starting runtask with pid 10011 glob failed (child exited with status
Geekizoid.Com
Well, we were going to wait until 31 Dec 2002, but since the cat is out of the bag already, Geekizoid.Com is back. Hosted by LRSE.
The Last Straw
I just put up my first site using slashcode. It took about a week to get from downloading the Mandrake ISO's to having the site pretty complete. I have never used Linux before and I took this on as a learning experience. I am quite happy with the way it all turned out! Anyway, about the site - I found that people seem to complain about celebrities a lot, so I figured that a slash site related to the stupid things celebrities say and do might be a good idea. Check it out and let me know what you think!
WML functionality?
I have been wondering if there is anyone out there using the WML/WAP functionality of Slash? There were some past articles on this subject, but seemingly with no clear answers. I was hoping to be able to generate .wml pages somehow like slashdot.org currently does. Any tips appreciated.
Graphics not appearing in Topic setup
My newly installed topics were given graphics, in the format of ./images/topics/graphicname.ext and the pictures don't show. I've gone back in and tried changing them to absolute URLs, but when I click "save topic" it reverts back to the old entry. I can click and change sections and those update fine, but the graphic entry doesn't.
Adding a rand photo block
Hello, i have written something for my slash site deporteyciencia.com
for having a nice random photo block, i try to describe the process
first, and later put all the code. (locally) you need a lot of free
photos (locally) you need imagemagick (locally) run the script
create_minis.pl for creating the thumbs. Take a look to the destination
directories. You can create a captions.txt with the syntaxis:
filename::caption(newline)... The captions will be drawn on the image!!
put the original images and the thumbs in your site (remote) put the
task rand.pl in your site (and change the directories as needed)
Topics not appearing after time
Installed slashcode and have been modifying it. I added a topic under the admin section. The topic now appears when I go to "new" to create a new story. I removed the build-in topics and added about 7 new topics. The new topics are not listed in the pull-down when I try and create a new story. I've waited more than 24 hours and tried restarting apache, restarting slashd, and rebooting the web server. The topics are listed everywhere on the site that I can look for them *BUT* they're not options when creating a new story. Anyone know why?
Users can't post comments
This is weird...I just put up a new slashsite for our dept. intranet, and the form to comment on a story doesn't appear when a user clicks "Read More" I'm guessing this is a simple matter of setting a variable, but I can't figure out which one. I've set the following vars: commentstatus = 1 defaultcommentstatus = 0 defaultdisplaystatus = 1 Any suggestions? Thanks.
Integrating Slash with e-commerce?
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
Spacesci
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.
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