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[osdn developer] December 29, 2002
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 03:15:49 EST
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December 29, 2002 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
Benchw release 0.5b
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238626
Benchw provides a toolset to benchmark the capabilities of several different database engines for data warehouse type activities. It is designed to provide a simple way to test data loading, index creation plus query performance in the spirit of TPC-H. This release adds default index generation and sapdb load capability - so now Oracle, Mysql, Postgresql, DB2 and Sapdb are supported. The documentation has been brought closer to completion. The generated form of the queries has been finalized (it has changed from the alpha releases). A BSD style license file has been included.
Gallery v1.3.3 bugfix release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238913
Gallery is a slick, intuitive web based photo gallery (written in PHP) with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great for communities. This release includes a security fix and a number of small bugfixes. This release is primarily aimed at fixing a variety of small bugs that have existed in Gallery for a few releases, as well as a couple of fairly serious bugs (including a very serious SECURITY bug that can lead to a remote exploit) that were introduced in the version 1.3.2. If you are using the 1.3.2 release we STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you upgrade to 1.3.3 as soon as possible to minimize the possibility of a web server compromise. Bugs fixed: - Fix SECURITY HOLE introduced in the Windows XP Publishing feature introduced in 1.3.2 (as of 1.3.2 build 27) See http://gallery.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=64 for specific details. - Hiding all elements in an album causes those elements to get permanently detached from the album (making it inconvenient to recover them). - Fixed minor bugs regarding supporting Nuke 6's user database - Fixed minor bugs in the slideshow code. Feature additions/changes: - The config wizard now allows you to select an option to print via Shutterfly without making a (very small) donation to the Gallery project. - Convenience function allows you to access a sub-album's permission dialog without opening the album. For more detailed information, you can read the Gallery changelog: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gallery/gallery/ChangeLo g?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup regards, The Gallery Dev Team
gwc 0.18-0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238621
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
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238383
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
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39429&release_id
=129955) A great deal of hard work has gone into this release. Due to
the nature of some of the bugs that are fixed here, we highly recommend
that everybody upgrade. Version Notes - Notable changes include: a)
Fixed the rest of the major memory leaks and high CPU usage bugs b)
Fixes free disk space display for Mac OS X c) Improved search d)
Improved connectivity Thanks again for your patience and ongoing
support. - The FurthurNet Team -
sylpheed-0.8.8claws released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238415
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
- signature in the message view can be coloured * built-in gdb crash handler * Customisable toolbars * quick search function * Folder color setting * 'Dynamic' signatures * Font configuration * Icon theming * Spell checking (with aspell) * filtering/processing mechanism * automatic account selection * 'smart' wrapping * message scoring * hide read messages * mbox support * IMAP over SSH Tunnel * addressbook: import Mutt addressbook * addressbook: import Pine addressbook * addressbook copy and paste * harvest addresses for addressbook * Request Return-Receipt * extra Folder Properties: Return-Receipt, save messages, default To:, default address for replies, subject simplification, folder CHMOD, default account * revised compose window
- manual selection of MIME type and encoding for attachments * 'ignore thread' * improved clickable URL support * new mail notification * selective download * 7bit and 8bit encoding of attachments * NNTP: auto-mark cross-posted messages * configurable (non-)display of images
- online/offline modes * User-definable quotation characters * export addressbook to html file * display url in statusbar on single-click * message priority setting * new message cache system * new sort function
- controllable size of log text in log window * ability to select part
of a text mime-part to reply * reply flag gets set on sending of a
reply * sylpheed man page * allow user to 'Save all' attachments in a
mail with multi-attachments * GnuPG signatures can now be verified by
double-clicking [application/pgp-signature] in the text view * GnuPG
users are informed of expired signatures and keys. * save 2 or more
selected files to a single file * MH folder drag 'n' drop support * Cc
and Bcc Template definitions * --online and --offline command-line
switches * Automatic message drafting and cache saving on kill * SSL
certificate management * 'on-the-fly' changing of the type of GnuPG
encryption and/or signing used (MIME/ascii) * Logging can be stopped *
user-definable newsgroup names abbreviation length * Manual and FAQ
remote and local links * Powerful Extended Search * Indication of
unread answers to marked mails: '(!)' is appended to the folder name
when a marked message has a response * Customisable message view
toolbar * Actions: trailing ">" syntax to insert command's output
without replacing old text (in contrast to trailing "|"). * Address
book: 'Edit Group Details' dialog allows multiple selection in either
pane * Warning dialog is displayed when the user attempts to save
incomplete rules in scoring, filtering and processing. * .mh_sequences
file is created in new MH folders * 'tools' directory that contains
various scripts: calypso_convert.pl import mbox files exported by
calypso eud2gc.py convert a Eudora (v.3?) addressbook to vCard
(GnomeCard) format filter_conv.pl convert sylpheed main's filter rules
into claws' filtering format gif2xface.pl convert a gif file to an xface google_msgid.pl Actions script to lookup selected message-id in google using mozilla. gpg-sign-syl GnuPG cleartext-signing script for use with Actions kmail2sylpheed.pl convert a Kmail addressbook to a Sylpheed addressbook kmail2sylpheed_v2.pl new version of the address book conversion script for newer versions of Kmail/Kaddressbook newscache_clean clean up old files and directories in the newscache directory OOo2sylpheed.pl enable OpenOffice to send documents through sylpheed outlook2sylpheed.pl convert an Outlook contacts list to a Sylpheed addressbook sylpheed-switcher enable quick-switching between claws and main in a non-destructive way sylprint.pl process a Sylpheed mail and print it using enscript if available or lpr if not tb2sylpheed convert an addressbook exported from The Bat! into a Sylpheed addressbook update-po translators' tool that eases the creation of *.po files uudec decode UUencoded mails, for use with Actions ...and more.- See ChangeLog.claws and README.claws for full information regarding changes in this release. Also see ChangeLog[.jp] for changes synchronised from sylpheed main. Sylpheed-Claws GnuPG key: Sylpheed-Claws <twb@users.sourceforge.net> KeyID:D04C2EEF Fingerprint: 830D 8455 329F DD31 7ADA 71D7 7D22 7E77 D04C 2EEF
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
- The SourceForge.net team has recently completed a set of planning sessions for 2003 goals. We have incorporated much of the feedback received during the 2002 year in to these goals, and are quite excited about the upcoming enhancements to the SourceForge.net site and services. We welcome your continued feedback. The SourceForge.net team may be contacted by submitting a Support Request at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 All SourceForge.net-hosted projects which make use of our VHOST services must update their DNS configuration to reflect our new IP address range. A mailing was sent to all project administrators on VHOST-using projects on 2002-12-05. Instructions for proper VHOST configuration may be seen at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=777&group_id=1 A significant amount of effort has recently been directed to improvement of the SourceForge.net Site Documentation. Among the changes, we have completed a significant reorganization of the Site Docs (which are now separated by target audience and grouped by service). Second, significant formatting changes have been made to all existing document for cleaner appearance and more functional navigation (we have added a Table of Contents to most documents). Finally, plan has been established which will ensure documentation is written to cover all previously-identified gaps; in coming months, we will be working to complete the initial rewrite of older content and the generation of new documentation. The SourceForge.net Site Documentation collection may be seen at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=1 In conjunction with our work to improve the Site Documentation of the SourceForge.net site, a command-line tool has been developed to automate DocManager (the documentation management feature of the SourceForge.net site) operations. This tool, adocman, is available from the 'sitedocs' project on SourceForge.net. At this time, a tool to automate retrieval of data via our XML data export facility (which requires authentication by a project administrator) is also included. These tools can be used by any project team to establish a comprehensive backup and recovery plan, as described at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6840&group_id=1 adocman (and the xml_export script included in the adocman release) may be found at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sitedocs/ SourceForge.net now provides documentation regarding security and risk management as applied to the SourceForge.net site and services. We encourage all project administrators to review the documentation provided at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14267&group_id=1 Finally, as requested by many site users, the SourceForge.net team now provides a search facility for Site Documentation. Information about this search facility (and access to the Site Documentation search) is available at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14068&group_id=1 The SourceForge.net team is glad to respond to any issues you may encounter in using SourceForge.net, as a user, as a developer, or as a project administrator. To reach the SourceForge.net team, we ask that you submit a Support Request at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 I welcome feedback regarding our support process and your experiences in using SourceForge.net. I may be reached via email at: moorman@sourceforge.net Jacob Moorman Quality of Service Manager, SourceForge.net 2. OSDN's Newsite DevChannel
- OSDN is adding to its
resources for developers with a new website, DevChannel
(http://devchannel.org). DevChannel is the central news and reference
resource for developers interested in core technology topics. With original feature articles and interviews, daily news updates, access to SourceForge projects, Freshmeat downloads, and Slashdot discussions, DevChannel opens a channel of communication to developers, organized by topics that matter. We've begun rolling out DevChannel gradually, with four channels featured at present: High Performance Computing
(http://hpc.devchannel.org) Web Services
(http://webservices.devchannel.org) Development Tools
(http://tools.devchannel.org) Hardware (http://hardware.devchannel.org)
While SourceForge.net remains the preeminent gathering place for developers on OSDN, you'll find some great content on DevChannel (like Steve DuChene's IPMI article), and some familiar faces (Brian Finley from the Clustering Foundry, and Eugene Kim from the Distributed Computing Foundry). So be sure to add DevChannel to your list of OSDN destinations; we look forward to seeing you there. If you have questions/comments please email Mark Stone at mstone@osdn.com 3. SF.NET NNTP Beta Test Continues ---------------------------------------- In October we launched an early beta release of a new feature on SourceForge.net. We are continuing this beta test, and here again are the details in case you missed it the first time: Our NNTP server makes it possible to view and post data to forums using a simple newsreader
(exactly like using USENET newsgroups). Here's the information to login
and try it out. The hostname of the NNTP server is 'nntp.sourceforge.net' and the port NNTP is listening on is 563.
(nntps, SSL-protected NNTP) We allow only SSL connections. You need to
use your SourceForge user name and password to login. The currently supported clients are Mozilla and Outlook, however we've followed the NNTP RFC; any client that does NNTP over SSL /should/ work. Please let us know if you have problems with a specific client. (Please see below) Posting works, with one caveat: to limit SPAM we limit the amount of posts to 10 in a 5 minute period, after which we deny posting for some time for that user account. NOTE: This is real data. Posts will show up in your forums! Please keep this in mind. Here is an example of the NNTP naming we've chosen, it is much like the project web tree. "sf.a.al.alexandria.open_discussion" will get you the "Open Discussion" forum for project "alexandria". Mailing lists are currently _not_ available but will be available in the near future. If you would like to report bugs, ideas, or anything else please subscribe to the beta mailing list at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mcgoo-nttpbeta Please keep in mind that the server is beta and will more than likely crash. Please don't send 1000 emails to list saying the server is offline; we'll fix it as soon as we get a chance. Please send any bug reports, odd behavior, or problems to this list. Thank you. Issue reports regarding this new beta feature should not be submitted as Support Requests; please direct all inquiries to the list. 4. IBM WebSphere on Compile Farm ---------------------------------------- The SourceForge.net Compile Farm now features four systems running IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 5. These systems let you freely deploy J2EE applications for testing and validation on the WebSphere platform. The SourceForge.net Compile Farm is available for use (on an opt-in basis) by developers on any active projects hosted on SourceForge.net. To access these systems, please see the Compile Farm Guide at: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1 5. Statistics ---------------------------------------- Where do SF.NET users come from? The SF.NET team recently ran log files through an application that can translate countries by IP numbers, oppose to domain name extensions. IP numbers provide more accurate statistics. Below are the results. SourceForge.net truly is an International site. Percent / Country 34.0450% United States 09.2114% Germany 04.5754% Canada 04.1249% United Kingdom 04.0632% Sweden 04.0632% Poland 03.4010% France 03.1006% Japan 02.3787% Netherlands 02.2872% Italy 01.9262% Belgium 01.9262% Australia 01.6557% Brazil 01.6259% Spain 01.5951% Russian Federation 01.4449% Norway 01.3842% Switzerland 01.2341% Denmark 01.2341% Austria 01.2341% Argentina 01.0233% India 00.8428% Korea, Republic of 00.7529% Mexico 00.7225% Hong Kong 00.6922% New Zealand 00.6922% Finland 00.6629% Taiwan, Province of China 00.6023% Portugal 00.5718% Singapore 00.5113% Israel On Thursday December 12th, 2002, SourceForge.net served: 4,424,135 Million Page views [SF.NET and Sub-domains] 467,693 Open Source Applications [downloaded] 1,245,123 Emails [SF Mailing Lists] 10,234 CVS checkouts 7,753 CVS Checkins Top 20 projects: 1 POPFile - Automatic Email Classification http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email classification system that has a Naive Bayes text classifier and a POP3 proxy. It works with any mail client using POP3. 2 Gaim http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is an all-in-one IM client that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu, all at once. Gaim is NOT endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, MSN or Napster. 3 PCGen -- A Character Generator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen/ PCGen is a java character generator and maintenance program. All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. 4 BZFlag http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/ OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag 5 phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. 6 Tiki http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is a CMS system based on a Wiki, it has all the features a regular Wiki application has and a lot more. Tiki uses PHP and templates via Smarty. Many features added or planned 7 ScummVM http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes an non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 8 Hibernate http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/ Hibernate - Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java 9 SquirrelMail http://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrelmail/ SquirrelMail is a PHP4-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It also has MIME support, folder manipulation, etc. 10 eMule http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/ eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client 11 Fink http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/ Fink is an attempt to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. Packages are downloaded and built automatically and installed into a tree managed by dpkg. 12 Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for small-medium enterprises (SME) in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 13 Gimp-Print - Top Quality Printer Drivers http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/ A very high quality package of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS. This project also maintains the Print plug-in for the Gimp from the same code base. 14 XNap - java filesharing client http://sourceforge.net/projects/xnap/ XNap is a plugin-based filesharing client. Currently it includes an OpenNap plugin, with multiple server support, automatic downloading, resuming of incomplete files, chat, hotlist and an advanced media library. Features a Swing GUI and a terminal mode. 15 Bochs x86 PC emulator http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/ Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other OS's, all on your workstation. 16 AWStats http://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats/ Advanced Web Statistics
(AWStats) is a free powerfull web server logfile analyzer (Perl script)
that shows you all your Web statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, robots, etc... 17 Fluxbox http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluxbox/ Fluxbox is a X11 windowmanager build for speed and flexibility. 18 Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 19 MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ MinGW is a set of include files and import libraries that allow one to use GCC to build native Windows applications that use vendor-supplied runtime. 20 JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java.
Mailman 2.1 rc 1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238352
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
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238235
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.
Slashdot
New Amazon Patents on Content Personalization
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2147252
[0]theodp writes "Defending its decision to [1]concoct recommendations
to steer customers to buy items at Amazon's new Apparel Store, a
spokeswoman said Amazon "felt it would be evident to people that since
the store was so new, we wouldn't have the transaction history to
create database similarities." But in this [2]just-published patent
applicaton, Amazon earlier told the USPTO it's able to use product
viewing histories to determine the similarity or relatedness between
products for which little or no purchase history data exists. So which
claim should you believe?"
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20021204S0009
2.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20020198882.PGNR.&OS=dn/20020198882&RS=DN/20020198882
U.S. Pushing Conservative Science
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2132223
mozumder writes "Does abortion lead to breast cancer? Does condom use
lead to increased sexual activity? According to the government, the
answer is now inconclusive. The New York Times has a [0]story on how
the government is altering low-level scientific conclusions to satisfy
conservatives. Will this lead to a mistrust of the government? Or is
the government now correct?"
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/27/politics/27ABOR.html
New Phrack
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2046258
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "A new issue of the Phrack Magazine, #60 has
been released today. It details some decent technique about kernel
exploitation (OpenBSD), Cisco remote exploit, how to backdoor a core
bzimage kernel and other stuff. The ascii based magazine is available
at [1]phrack.org."
Links
0. mailto:rm@ingsoc.org
Forty-two Inch Plasma Monitor
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2011217
An anonymous reader writes "PCstats has a review of what should have been under my Christmas tree - a [0]42" plasma display from Samsung Since Santa couldn't have possibly brought this monster down the chimney, we'll just have to be satisfied with the review. They even hooked it up to a computer and played games on it...." Links
0. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1309
What's Your Earliest Memory?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1924216
spazoid12 writes "I've been curious lately about memory. For example, why is it that my earliest memory is from about 7 years of age? (I'm mid-30's now) Most people I know remember much further back. How far back can a person remember? Is there a theoretical limit? What are the requirements for acquiring memories? I've read that oxygen is one; as in actual breathed-in stuff. This is supposed to explain why you can't remember anything from within the womb. That seems silly to me. My own theory (with nothing to back it up) is that language is required. We spoke mostly Brasilian Portuguese and some Russian in the home up until I was about 5 or 6. We moved to Brasil for a year when I was 8 and I barely remember anything from that trip. I really don't know either language today-- could this explain why I have no memories of those years? What if I re-learned those languages now, 30 years later? Would memories flood back?"
Techies Working for Peanuts
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1922212
The San Francisco Chronicle has a story about laid-off techies getting [0]desperate and going to work for, well, nothing. No offense to these people, if you're up against the wall you do whatever you can, but I hope they're aware that most of them are not going to get even the slightest compensation for their time. Links
0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/22/BU63139.DTL&type=tech
The Year in Technology
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1824239
[0]bedessen writes "It's that time again, when we look back on the year in summary. New Scientist has an article [1]"2002, The Year in Technology", as well as [2]"The Year in Medicine and Biology." Popular Science brings us [3]"The 15th Annual Best of What's New."" Links
0.
http://www.dessent.net
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993215
2.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993212
3.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/
To the Moon and Beyond
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1752254
[0]isorox writes "The BBC is [1]reporting that 'Europe is considering
sending humans to the Moon, Mars and beyond within the next few
decades', although the UK government 'does not support human space
flight and will not fund UK citizens to go through the official
European astronaut training programme'. However while plans are made
for the next 30 years, [2]Rosetta is due to launch in 2 weeks time,
ready to rendevous and land on a comet in 2011. Assuming it doesn't
[3]blow up on launch."
Links
0. mailto:slashspam@isorox.co.uk
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2580817.stm
2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2558107.stm
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/233233&tid=160
Hardware Bytes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1751258
Zygo writes "Hey everyone Merry Christmas! (Yes I'm a bit too late) Here's some Hardware & Modding news! : At [0]WinHQ the Xoxide X450 Case, Some pretty Cold Cathode lights [1]over here, nice MX mouses at [2]LANParty, At [3]ClubOC the Swiftech MCX462+T, Some shocking Shockwave Fangrills over at [4]ExtensionTech, Playing Mp3 with the iRock 530 [5]here, a Big cooler [6]here, [7]OCIA brings you the Solarism LM-1711 17" LCD screen, Vantecs Fan Controller at [8]ExtremeMHz, and a 8x GF4 Ti4200 at [9]Viper's Lair" Links
0.
http://www.winhq.net/showdoc.php?dtype=reviews&id=25&page=1
1.
http://www.dvhardware.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=11
2.
http://www.lanparty.com/articles/mx500_mx700/
3.
http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/heatsinks/swiftech/mcx462t/index.htm
4.
http://www.extensiontech.net/reviews/cooling/accessories/shockwave.shtml
5.
http://www.inside-hardware.com/reviews/irock530/
6.
http://www.myworld.com.my/v2/reviews/HSF/zalman/cnps3100/
7.
http://www.ocia.net/reviews/solarism17/solarism17.shtml
8.
http://www.extrememhz.com/nexusfc-p1.shtml
9.
http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/video_graph/msi/geforce4/ti42008x/ti42008x_1.shtml
Build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1741222
[0]FridayBob writes "For those of you tired of waiting around for
someone else to achieve the holy grail of physics, now's your chance to
beat 'em all to it. All you need is some basic engineering skills, [1]
this site and the inspiration necessary to make your very own 'fusor'
produce more energy than it consumes. Hopefully, you'll have more luck
than its inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth, who first built it in the
1950's after inventing the television some 30 years earlier. If you run
into problems you'll be able to count on a enthusiastic support group,
as the contraption seems to have developed a cult following over the
past few years. Okay, so I'm skeptical that this approach will ever
really work, but at the very least it sounds like a really cool science
project!"
Links
0. mailto:jwinius@umrk.to
Freshmeat
Making Presentations with LaTeX and Prosper
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/667
A number of dedicated presentation programs have been written for Unix systems, but they may not serve your needs if you have special requirements, especially the need to display mathematical formulas. The Prosper package can help you create attractive presentations while letting you use the full power of LaTeX.
avidemux 0.9pre26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107761/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit AVI. It allows you to multiplex and demultiplex audio to/from video. It is able to cut video, import BMP, MJPEG, and MPEG video, and encode them. You can also process video with included filters. It requires divx4linux and GTK/GDK.
BoPHP 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107772/
BoPHP is a quick and dirty Web interface for bossogg. It uses PHP with the built-in XML parser.
Boss Ogg 0.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107770/
Boss Ogg is a Postgres-based client/server ogg player, targeted at entertainment centers, and people that want to use their spare computer for full-time music. The idea is to have other people develop all sorts of different clients for it, but the author is also developing an SDL client simultaneously, which is perfect for a TV-out card.
Cherokee 0.3.0 beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107764/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It provides only the most basic HTTP functionality, but is extremely fast and small.
dlman 0.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107767/
dlman is a download manager with a command-line interface, written in Python. It allows you to add to, remove from, and view the list URLs to download. It also sports a logging function.
eDonkey Monitor 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107780/
eDonkey-monitor collects data of some central aspects of an eDonkey server or client and presents this data in form of detailed time-graphs over a lean but visual appealing Web interface. It features detailed stats for donkey workload (upload /download) and active peer connections, totals for workload traffic, high resolution, multi-dimensional graphs, and the ability to show stats for the last 12 hours, two days, week, or month (other time windows are possible).
empxform 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107749/
empxform is a flexible EMP and RMP file processor that allows users of the emusic service to download entire albums, generate playlists in M3U and XML formats, play albums directly from the Web, download albums to an MP3 player, and easily add new actions.
Evolution 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107753/
Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager, and communications tool. Evolution represents the next step forward in GNOME applications. The tools which make up Evolution will be tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information-management tool.
flphoto 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107769/
flphoto is a basic image management and display program based on the FLTK toolkit. It can read, display, print, and export many image file formats, and supports EXIF information provided by digital cameras.
Freecell Solver 2.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107774/
Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use within third-party applications.
gjots 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107758/
gjots marshals and organizes text notes in a convenient, hierarchical way. It can be used for notes, jottings, bits and pieces, recipes, and even PINs and passwords (encrypted with ccrypt(1)). It can also be used to "mind-map" larger compositions like manuals, Web pages, articles, etc. It is a bit like the KDE program "kjots", but uses the GTK library and supports a hierarchy of folders. Files can be output to HTML with an automatic table of contents. Encryption is supported with ccrypt(1), so that musings can be kept private. It can also be used to write and organize DocBooks.
Gnusto 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107775/
Gnusto is a JavaScript-based interpreter for Z-machine adventure games, as produced in the 1980s by Infocom and in recent times by the Inform compiler.
grafist 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107768/
Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a summary for each file. Grafist provides localization support for 24 languages.
kbarcode 1.1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107766/
kbarcode is a KDE3-based program for creating, handling, managing, and printing barcodes for private or business purpose. kbarcode is able to handle all major types of barcodes, like UPC, EAN, CODE39, and ISBN. It comes with a label designer to create customized labels and a batch print function. It's designed to print several thousands barcodes in one pass, but also allows you to easily print a single label. kbarcode uses SQL to store all information about articles, barcodes, customers, etc.
KSocrat 3.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107757/
KSocrat is the simple English/Russian and Russian/English dictionary for the K Desktop Environment.
libchipcard 0.7beta3 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107754/
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.
libXMLConfig 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107762/
The library libXMLConfig provides a simple interface to process XML configuration files and some additional helper functions.
Linux-kernel security patch 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107741/
The Linux-kernel security patch includes security improvements that implement random PIDs, random port numbers for IPv4, NAT, and IPv6, and enhanced random numbers for networking.
Nag 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107747/
Nag is a Web-based application built upon the Horde application framework. It provides a simple, clean interface for managing an online task list (i.e. a TODO list). It also includes strong integration with the other Horde applications.
over5 20021117
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107750/
Over5 is a program for transferring between c64/vic20 machines and Amiga/PC/UNIX boxes. It supports serial transfer at 38400 bps using only a RS-232 level converter and a 3-line standard nullmodem cable. No special serialport chips are needed. Source code is included. It features read/write/execute memory, filecopy with wildcards, read/write raw disk, read/write ZIPCODE archive, the ability to use the Amiga/PC/UNIX box as a harddisk server ($0801-$f600), builtin diskturbo, and a fast basic bootstrap for most cbm 8-bitters.
Perl HTTPd 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107771/
Perl HTTPd is a very small and simple HTTPd written in Perl. It is by no means a replacement for Apache. It features request logging and multiple connections.
Perl webmail 3.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107748/
Perl webmail is a CGI script that interfaces with a POP mail server that you provide. It can check mail, read messages, reply, forward, delete, send and receive attachments, and it doesn't have to be a local mail server. This script talks strictly POP3 for receiving and SMTP for sending mail. It also supports storage for mail folders, contacts, and calendar notes.
Phavon 0.0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107759/
Phavon is a 2D vertical scrolling progressive-weapon shoot 'em up, similar in style to the classic Amiga game, Xenon II. It will include map and level editors.
PHP LDBI 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107765/
PHP LDBI is a library to handle local databases. It supports tables, sequences, indices, and searches using wildcards. It's primary goal is to serve as backend for SQL interfaces to local databases. It includes an SQL parser to execute simple SQL statements.
PHP Weather 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107776/
PHP Weather makes it easy to show the current weather on your Web page. PHP Weather retrieves the latest METAR (weather) report and converts this format into both imperial and metric units, caches the data in a MySQL, PostgreSQL, or DBA database for fast retrieval, and makes it easily available in PHP scripts. You can display the data in several languages by using the included translations. You can also access the information with a WAP-enabled mobile phone.
Request Tracker 2.1.55 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107756/
RT is an industrial-grade trouble ticketing system. It lets a group of people intelligently and efficiently manage requests submitted by a community of users. RT is used by systems administrators, customer support staffs, NOCs, developers, and even marketing departments to track issues, outages, bugs, requests, and all kinds of other things at thousands of sites around the world.
ShadowJAAS 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107760/
ShadowJAAS is a JAAS-compliant authentication provider that uses shadow passwords. It allows Java applications to authenticate using Linux usernames and passwords.
SpamProbe 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107763/
SpamProbe is a spam detection program that uses a Bayesian analysis of the frequencies of terms used in the email. Because it filters email based on content rather than on general rules, it easily adapts itself to the types of email that each individual user normally receives.
The Gallery 1.3.3 (1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107751/
Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and more. Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.
TM4J 0.8.0 alpha 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107773/
TM4J is a topic map processing toolkit and a set of topic map processing tools. Topic maps are an ISO standard for the interchange of information structures which can be used to represent ontologies, business data and processes, individual knowledge and opinions, and more. The goal of the TM4J project is to develop high-quality, Open Source software for the creation, manipulation, and exchange of topic maps.
XiangQi Engine 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107755/
XiangQi Engine is a software Chinese chess opponent. It provides interfaces for connecting to chess servers, GUI clients, and a simple command line tool with or without board printing.
Slashcode
What happened to the headlines e-mails?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2239207
I've subscribed to the headlines e-mails from several slash sites, but most particularly to me, slashcode and use.perl. For some reason, despite my settings still seeming to be correct, slashcode has stopped sending them. I still get use.perl's headlines though. Any idea why?
Problems with runtask
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1754206
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
- at /home/usr1/app/slash/bin/runtask line 118. No task 'refresh_authors_cache.pl' found in /home/usr1/app/slash/site/emmaus.saic.com/tasks I've tried looking overthe code for runtask, but I'm a pretty novice perl programmer and have had little luck tracking the problem down. If anyone has ideas what might be causing this, please share. I don't want to have to wait a day for new users to have changes made to their accounts, since we're immediately going to make everyone authors (w/ seclev 100) because of the environment we're in.
Geekizoid.Com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/0239255
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
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/1915205
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?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/1742230
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
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/21/0045251
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
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/20/1825223
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)
(remote)configure crontab for running your task daily or hourly.
(remote) write a block who shows rand_mini_foto.jpg and links to
rand_foto.jpg do nothing and enjoy, or try to write a way for users
uploading photos "one day they will appear" The code:
- CREATE_MINIS.PL (remember to change directories and have imagemagick installed)
- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; #-------- config my $use_captions=1; my $background="#006699"; my $fore="#ffffff"; my $width="190x190"; #-------- config end my @files=`ls *.jpg`; my %captions=(); if ($use_captions) { open F_captions,"captions.txt" or die "ERROR, lack of \"captions.txt\"\n This file has the following sintaxis:\nfilename1::caption1\nfilename2::caption 2\n..."; while () { chomp; my ($filename,$text)=split (/::/,$_); $captions{$filename}=$text; } close F_captions; } foreach (@files) { print $_; chomp; if ($use_captions) { system("convert -resize $width_height $_ minis_with_captions/$_"); if($captions{$_}) { system("convert -box \"$background\" -font helvetica -fill \"$fore\" -draw \&q