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[osdn developer] January 03, 2003
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 03:15:49 EST
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Sourceforge
oo2c-2.0.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240158
Release 2.0.3 introduces experimental support for exceptions. OOC is an Oberon-2 development platform. It consists of an optimizing compiler, a number of related tools, a set of standard library modules, and a reference manual.
jmove 0.3 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240181
jmove eases the understanding and valuation of the design and architecture of complex software written in java. It provides dependency analysis, metrics, design rule checking and impact analysis. The release 0.3 is available now. It contains a complete redesign and vital functional extensions like source code analysis metrics etc..
WinTV PVR 250/350 Capture Only App 1.3 release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240184
This release is a stable release level that appears to work for people in numerous countries and TV standards(NTSC and PAL). As the reports seem positive from the 1.2.3 Release that corrected the Path issue in this release the trace log file can now be disabled via a ini setting. Command line capture only application for the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250/350 Capture Cards. This application supports a subset of the Hauppauge WinTV2000 application's command line options for capturing directly to disk with minimal CPU utilization.
DataVision 0.6.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240161
DataVision is an Open Source reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports. Reports can be designed using a drag-and-drop GUI. They may be run, viewed, and printed from the application or exported as HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX2e, DocBook, or tab- or comma-delimited text files. The output files produced by LaTeX2e and DocBook can in turn be used to produce PDF, text, HTML, PostScript, and more. Changes: * All table and column names are now case-sensitive. When necessary, database table and column names are quoted in SQL queries which allows for use of mixed-case names. Warning: this new behavior may break some existing reports, especially if you generated your report XML files manually and used all upper-case for your table and column names. Use the new -q command line flag to disable the quoting behavior and case sensitivity. See the discussion in "Database Name Case Sensitivity" in the User's Manual. * A new designer GUI infrastructure. It's an application! It's an applet! It's two GUIs in one! * Image fields' values are now URL strings instead of file path strings. For the next few releases, image fields will also accept absolute file paths and convert them to ``file:'' URLs. * The PDF layout engine now outputs the basic 14 PDF type 1 fonts. * The code editor pane in various windows (selection criteria, formulas, etc.) now have a scroll bar and improved layout. Bug fixes: * Under Windows, the field popup menus wouldn't. They do, now. * Under certain conditions, the FieldPicker window would not open. * The PDF layout engine now places text correctly on the page. * When creating a new image field, if there is an error the error messages will be displayed correctly. * The LaTeX layout engine now sets the page width and height properly, instead of always using 8.5 x 11 inches (USA Letter). It also sets the paper size when using A4, A5, B5, US letter, US legal, or executive. * The report description text edit box now has scroll bars when necessary, and won't go bonkers with long description text. * Escape many XML attributes values so that ampersands and other characters are output correctly.
Sync4j version 0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239822
The Sync4j team is proud to announce the availability of the first release of Sync4j. Sync4j is an Open Source SyncML server implementation, written in Java. Relase notes: Sync4j 0.1 - Culhwch
- Welcome to the first release of Sync4j! Main
features: * SyncML 1.1 * Slow synchronization * Two-way synchronization
- One-way synchronization client to server and server to client * Sync with and without separate initialization * Synchronization engine * Implemented as a statefull session EJB * Open and extensible architecture: o Pluggable synchronization engine o Pluggable protocol support o Pluggable synchronization data sources * HTTP binding * JAAS compliant security architecture The CVS tag for source code of this release is culhwch_20021231
decopter-0.2.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239800
A new release of decopter, an unrealistic helicopter simulator, has been made available. Please enjoy the new look of the landscape, helicopter model and not-so-realistic physics. Written in C++ with SDL.
PCGen 4.2.5 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239808
PCGen is a Java-based RPG 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. !!!We're proud to announce the addition of three Creative Mountain Games supplements!!! Lexus Group Combat, Trundlefolk Culture Class and County Clergy all make their debut this week in PCGen! On the outputsheets you'll notice a new block for melee and ranged weapons. We think you'll like it! For those of you who have created your own outputsheets, the old tokens should all still work, we've simply added new functionality and made use of that in the outputsheets included in the official releases. We always recommend that users install new versions of PCGen in a 'new' directory. Below is a list of everything that has been addressed in this release. If you reported one of these, please verify that it is was addressed properly. PCGen is available at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net , and the main discussion group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen . All three zips are required to run PCGen: pcgen425_part1of3.zip, pcgen425_part2of3.zip and pcgen425_part3of3.zip. We've got some OS-specific installs of PCGen to help those who have trouble installing the generic version available in our yahoo group files page. Bugs 575438 unarmed proficiency/focus problem +fix 659292 SA:<text>|<variable> zero value 656981 Error loading pcg "Invalid PCGen Ver" Features 660927 add DESCISPI: tag globally 556803 make ADD: tag global 659568 Remove the (#) for repeated SA tags 657335 SHORTRANGE:x in GameMode 542495 New way to IGNORE 651725 Add COUNT[FEATNAME=something%] 612244 Allow for sub-game modes 524166 Favored Enemy / Special Abilities 635341 New House Rule: no max HD 572405 Vfeat in item customization PCGen:DM Bugs 657947 psionicshandbook pwr lvl wrong: sudden m PCGen:DM New Source Materials 660941 Creative Mountain G - Group Combat 660942 Creative Mountain G - Trundlefolk Culture Class 660943 Creative Mountain G - County Clergy PCGen:DM Tag Modification Requests 660922 PHB spells TARGETAREA to new standard 659282 Evasion and Improved Evasion are now FEATs 660041 Standard abbreviations for DMG Classes PCGenDocs: Output Sheet Bugs 660913 Four attacks don't fit in weapon block 660912 Attack totals incorrect on new weapon blocks 658271 If CON score ="*" formatting is off 659924 OpenRPG sheet fails for clerics PCGenDocs: Output Sheet Feature Requests 660915 Exotic weapons do not fit well in new block 647131 Ranged to hit at < 30 ft 657342 Ranged Weapon Tokens 656350 Prepared spell lists with names on HTML 656348 Turning table on HTML sheets 645469 All notes exported 634147 Output Familiars To Masters Char Sheet 657885 Filtering for Rage & Turning 653470 Tokens for Melee Weapon Block 655962 SPYCRAFT Character Sheet (HTML) 656856 COUNT tokens The PCGen Development Team
E-Gantt 0.4.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239789
Brand new support for treetables, our implementation is based on w3c.org's XML Document model. ColumnRenderers and editors have been changed to take the properties for the Swing look and feel where it is apropriate. E-Gantt is an enterprise graph and chart drawing component, which supports basic charting types (most specifically the gantt chart). a demonstration is available here: http://www.egantt.com/demo/webapplet.html
IDLEfork 0.9a1 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239788
Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes an extended debugger. The output of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to inspect the environment after the run has finished. Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog. Adapted to the Mac platform. Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements. IDLEfork is an official experimental branch of Python's Integrated DeveLopment Environment, IDLE. The biggest change in IDLEfork is to execute Python code in a separate process, which is /restarted/ for each Run (F5) initiated from an editor window. This enhancement of IDLE has often been requested, and is now finally available. The magic "reload/import *" incantations are no longer required when editing/testing a module two or three steps down the import chain. The IDLE Debugger has been extended to support the new design, and its operation will be familiar to those who have used it previously. The breakpoint feature has been enhanced, and breakpoints are now persistent across IDLE sessions. When a module is open in an Edit window, its breakpoints are active. There is also a new GUI configuration manager which makes it easy to select fonts, colors, keybindings, and startup options. IDLEfork will be merged back into the Python distribution in the near future (probably at 2.3), replacing the current version of IDLE. For this reason we are interested in getting as much testing time as possible before the merge.
FileZilla Server 0.8.0 has been released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239676
Another version of this powerful FTP Server has been released. From now on, FileZilla Server can run as service under WinNT based operating systems (NT4, 2K and XP). Also, the server interface now runs in a different process, so that I'll be able to implement remote administration in the next version. Of course, FileZilla Server still works well under Win9x (i.e. 95, 98(SE) and ME). Happy new year, Tim PS: Still reading? OK, here's a list of all changes: new features: - Separated server from the user interface, interface now runs in its own process - Sever now runs as service under Windows NT4, 2000 and XP fixed bugs: - fixed problems with non relative paths and drive letters. This should also fix the compatibility to some versions of the IE and other browsers (fixed by TJ Drennan) - fixed crash if a directory did contain files with a year larger than 2038 - server no longer sometimes stops responding after issuing shutdown PPS: Don't drink too much ;-)
Slashdot
Science Fact From Fiction
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/0522211
[0]Embedded Geek writes "The European Space Agency maintains an ongoing
project called [1]Innovative Technologies from Science Fiction for
Space Applications (ITSF) ([2]Cliquetez ici pour la version
française). Its goal is "to review past and present SF literature,
artwork and films in order to identify and assess innovative
technologies and concepts described which could be possibly developed
further for space applications." While I had known about Clarke first
envisioning the geostationary satellite, the site also lists some other
interesting ideas first pitched in SF: planetary landers, rocket fins,
and space stations assembled in orbit. Visitors to the site are
encouraged to [3]submit technologies from SF works, although they
should [4]look at the master keyword list to avoid duplication first.
Also of interest is a [5]spiffy little brochure and a [6]writing
contest. Even if it never results in any new technology actually being
developed, the site is a nice resource for science educators and
science fiction fans."
Links
0.
http://www.thehaws.org
1.
http://www.itsf.org/index.php?PAGE=project%2Findex.html
2.
http://www.itsf.org/project/french.html
3.
http://www.itsf.org/index.php?PAGE=resources%2Findex.html
4.
http://www.itsf.org/resources/keywords.php
5.
http://www.itsf.org/index.php?PAGE=brochure%2Findex.html
6.
http://www.itsf.org/index.php?PAGE=contest%2Findex.html
Wahoo P4 Stratagem System Review
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/050254
Ian Bell writes "[0]Buddhacon reviews the P4 stratagem system from
Wahoo Computers. Could this be the most powerful home system on the
market? With just about every option available including an overclocked
Intel 2.9GHz CPU, Radeon 9700PRO, 1GB of memory and all the cooling
features you can think of you would think a system like this would blow
the competition away. Just goes to show that sometimes a fine tuned V6
can beat an over the top V8."
Links
0. http://www.buddhacon.com/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=37
Cell Phones and Broadband 'Net Win in S. Korea http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/0016254
[0]McLuhanesque writes "The [1]Globe and Mail has an [2]interesting
column on how text messaging and the use of effective broadband
internet content helped propel an obscure lawyer, Mr. Roh Moo-hyun,
from a perpetual also-ran to become South Korea's new president. 'With
the world's highest penetration of high-speed and mobile Internet
services, South Korea is at the cutting edge of technology that is
transforming the political system, making it more open and democratic.
It could be a preview of the shape of Western democracy,' the article
says."
Links
0.
http://federman (at) sympatico (dot) ca
1.
http://www.globeandmail.com/
2.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021230/UNETTN/Headlines/headdex/headdexInternational_temp/4/4/20/
Wired News: 2002's Greatest Vaporware
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/02/2211205
[0]Quill writes "[1]Wired News has once again compiled a list of last
year's greatest (worst?) pieces of [2]vaporware. The winner (I won't
spoil the surprise) has been on the list three times now! The
nomination process was mentioned [3]a few weeks ago on Slashdot."
Links
0.
http://www.bluexsoftware.com/
1.
http://www.wired.com/
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57023,00.html
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/22/0228217&tid=126
Turing Tests to Stop Spam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/0013212
[0]cexy writes "The Register has a [1]story about how Hotmail and
Yahoo! are using Carnegie Mellon developed captcha technology
(completely automated public Turing tests to tell computers and humans
apart) to stop spammers from automating signups for accounts from which
they can send spam. [2]These guys are using captcha too, but to stop
incoming spam."
Links
0. mailto:info@me.cx
1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28694.html
2.
http://spamarrest.com/Should We Change the Weather Even If We Can? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/02/1930228
[0]jonerik writes "According to [1]this article in today's [2]Christian
Science Monitor, science will be able to make significant changes in
weather systems in the next few decades. More than simply [3]seeding
clouds to produce rain, the technology will be available to nudge
hurricanes out of the path of population centers, for instance. The big
question is 'Should we?' 'Even if we can do this, is this something we
really want to do?,' says [4]Dr. Ross Hoffman, a vice president with
[5]Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., who adds, 'Before we
can really control weather, we have to be able to observe the weather
and forecast the weather much better than we do now.' On the other
hand, according to the article the genie may already be out of the
bottle: 'According to the United Nations' [6]World Meteorological
Organization (WMO), at least 25 countries are engaged in weather
modification projects to enhance rain and snowfall, or suppress hail.
In the United States, 12 states have had weather modification programs.
Texas runs a program at the county level for rain enhancement, while
North Dakota is focusing on hail suppression.'"
Links
0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
1.
http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2003/0102/p10s02-sten.html
2.
http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/
3.
http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2003/0102/csmimg/p11a.gif
4.
http://www.aer.com/scienceResearch/dap/manager.html
5.
http://www.aer.com/home/home.html
6.
http://www.wmo.ch/index-en.html
European Copyrights Expire; RIAA Nervous http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/02/1956248
[0]colmore writes "This article in today's New York Times (free reg.
req.) discusses the [1]expiration of European copyrights for recordings
made in the 1950s. Now "bootleg" labels can legitimately print a lot of
still-popular early rock, country, jazz, and classical albums. The good
folks at the RIAA are trying to establish stricter customs controls. So
does this mean cheap Elvis or a diluted pool of products?"
Links
0. mailto:colmore@colmore.com
Russian Student Arrested For Revealing DirecTV Secrets http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/02/2028251
An anonymous reader writes "The Associated Press is [0]reporting the
arrest of Igor Serebryany, 19, of Los Angeles for industrial espionage
under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. Serebryany is accused of
providing details of DirecTVs 'P4' card technology to a number of
websites."
Links
0. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAE8B02HAD.html
Help Wire Remote Laos Villages
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/02/1912258
[0]rODbegbie writes "Lee Felsenstein is [1]appealing for donations to
help provide [2]Internet access to remote Laos villages. The New York
Times considered the idea [3]one of the best in 2002, but they need to
raise $25,000 to get this in place before monsoon season. Donations can
be made [4]using Paypal (mention that it's for "Remote IT")."
Links
0.
http://www.groovymother.com/
1.
http://www.oblomovka.com/mirrors/lee/
2.
http://www.jhai.org/jhai_remoteIT.html
3.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/15PEDA.html
4.
http://www.jhai.org/donations.htmFan-Made Star Trek Episode Available for Download http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/02/0337216
[0]Minnesota trekker writes "Two Minnesota fans of the original "Star
Trek" series spent seven years, off and on, creating an all-new episode
in the 1960s style using their own actors, sets and props. Behold, the
U.S.S. Exeter ([1]www.starshipexeter.com). The episode's look and feel
is amazingly authentic. The story is inventive and the acting
surprisingly good. The damn thing, dubbed "The Savage Empire," is
actually watchable. The site gives lots of details on how the episode
was created, and even more background is available on the [2]Pioneer
Press site."
Links
0. mailto:ojezap@mac.com
1.
http://www.starshipexeter.com
2.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/4837583.htm
Freshmeat
Alien Dawn 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108165/
Alien Dawn is a theme with blue and green hues.
Anthill Bug Manager 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108138/
The Anthill Bug Manager is a tool that aids code development by keeping track of bugs in a medium-sized coding environment. It accomplishes this with a clean, simple, and fast interface that contains the essential features, but avoids the complexity associated with similar tools. It is written in Perl, requires an SQL database as a backend, and is Web server independent.
Atlantik 0.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108173/
Atlantik is a KDE client for playing the Atlantic and Monopoly boardgames with a monopd/atlanticd server.
AutoDia 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108149/
AutoDia is a Perl application designed to allow the easy creation of XML diagrams from various data sources. The output is meant for use with Dia (or any XML parser). AutoDia supports any language through the use of handlers, and a good handler for Perl as well as a simple handler for C++ are included.
AutoUpdate 4.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108181/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
BitTorrent 3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108160/
BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing.
cgipaf 1.3.0pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108169/
cgipaf is a combination of three CGI programs. passwd.cgi, which allow users to update their password, viewmailcfg.cgi, which allows users to view their current mail configuration, and mailcfg.cgi, which updates the mail configuration. All programs use PAM for user authentication. It is possible to run a script to update SAMBA passwords or NIS configuration when a password is changed. mailcfg.cgi creates a .procmailrc in the user's home directory. A user with too many invalid logins can be locked. The minimum and maximum UID can be set in the configuration file, so you can specify a range of UIDs that are allowed to use cgipaf.
CUPS mailto backend 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108179/
The project provides a mailto backend for the Common Unix Printing System. The mailto backend emails the filtered output to the user who requested the print job. The print job's output will be MIME attached to the email. cups-mailto depends on /usr/bin/file -i to generate the MIME type for this attachment.
Dovecot 0.99.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108175/
Dovecot is an IMAP server whose major goals are security and extreme reliability. It tries very hard to handle all error conditions and verify that all data is valid, making it nearly impossible to crash. It should also be pretty fast, extensible, and portable. It currently supports Maildir and mbox formats.
Epiar 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108140/
Epiar is a space adventure/combat game where you begin as a shuttle pilot in a galaxy generally ruled by anarchy, with few stable governments and numerous rebel factions. You start your adventure off doing whatever you want, but generally trying to save up money for a new starship, your adventure taking off from there.
Fire.app 0.32.a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108166/
Fire is a multi-protocol instant messenger client that can handle simultaneous connections to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo IM, IRC, MSN, and Jabber.
g3data 1.2.0 (GTK-2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108150/
g3data is a program for extracting data from graphs (i.e., scanned graphs from scientific publications). It can read many different image formats and outputs the extracted data through stdout or to a file.
gdpc 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108151/
gdpc is a tool for visualising the output files of a molecular dynamic simulation. It can be customized to read almost any input file format and animate it. It can also be configured to output images of each frame.
Gfilemanager 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108187/
Gfilemanager is a GTK+ 2 filemanager with Samba support.
glTron 0.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108183/
glTron is a tron-like lightcycle game with a nice 3D perspective. 3D acceleration is recommended.
GtkAtlantic 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108147/
GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd servers.
idlebeep 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108190/
idlebeep monitors the activity of your CPU and/or network device and starts an "alarm action" if your system goes idle. These "alarm actions" may be a beep signal or a call of an external program.
ifmonitor 0.30 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108161/
ifmonitor is a simple network interface traffic logger and grapher for Linux. The collector daemon logs network traffic totals to MySQL every minute. It doesn't use SNMP. You can see the consumed bandwidth graph (drawn in real time) in a PHP Web frontend. It's very light and simple to install.
Itnas 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108159/
ITNAS is business management software for IT corporations that writes missions and bills, as well as managing Internet provider data. It offers both automatic data evaluation and detailed overviews of booking entries in the financial area. It works with all popular Web browsers.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.8.1.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108182/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple (external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading, synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, upload limits (experimental), VPNs, ToS, denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list IP, log options and more. It doesn't flush all your existing iptables rules.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.54_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108172/
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.
Kwirk 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108176/
Kwirk is an RPG in development that uses ClanLib.
Lame Node System 0.5-4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108186/
Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input.
Linux 2.5.54 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108139/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
MAC Changer 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108162/
MAC Changer is a GNU/Linux utility for viewing/manipulating the MAC addresses of network interfaces. It can set specific, random, vendor-based (with a 6000+ vendor list), and device-type-based MACs.
memgrep 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108141/
memgrep is a tool to search, replace, or dump arbitrary memory from running applications and core files. Currently only Linux is supported. Potential applications for memgrep include reverse engineering, debugging, and vulnerability assessment.
MicroBSD 0.6RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108191/
MicroBSD is a hardened, secure, and small OS for x86/Alpha/Sun/PPC (or other) platforms. It uses as little hard disk space as possible, while providing a fully-functional system. It includes services for firewalling, intrusion detection, VPN, SMTP, WWW, DNS, FTP, and others, and features POSIX 1e Audit Controls and logging, mandatory access controls, filesystem level ACLs, application stack hardening and protection, modular design, easy installation via FTP, CD-ROM, or floppy disk, and much more.
moodss 16.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108145/
Moodss (the Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) displays data described and updated in one or more modules loaded at startup time or dynamically. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers, summary tables, free text viewers, and threshold entries can be created from any number of table cells. Moodss has full drag'n'drop support in the UI, and comes with numerous modules for system, database, network, and other types of monitoring. New modules can be developed in Tcl, Perl, Python, or C. A monitoring daemon (moomps) for UNIX is included. It can react to thresholds and record data history in any database for later analysis or for presentation using common software.
Multicast DNS Service Discovery for Python 0.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/108135/
This project is a full implementation of the Zeroconf Multicast DNS Service Discovery protocols for Python 2.2.
MyProxy 20030102
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108171/
MyProxy is a privacy-enhancing personal HTTP 1.1 proxy. Arbitrary URLs can be blocked by regular expression patterns and optionally replaced by transparent GIFs. Cookies can be controlled based on server/domain name. The "Referer", "User-Agent", and "From" HTTP headers can be dealt with in various ways. All user settings are configured through an HTML user interface.
Net::Z3950::SimpleServer 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108153/
Net::Z3950::SimpleServer is a Perl module which implements the server side of the Z39.50 (information retrieval) protocol. It hides the complexity of network exchanges, packet serialization, and session handling. You are required only to implement simple callbacks to support searching and record retrieval. It is the basis of the "Zoogle" project, which is a Z39.50 gateway to the Google web index.
newdocms 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108157/
newdocms is a document management system that allows users to define any number of document attributes, and then run queries on the database where these are registered.
P65 Assembler 0.7 (Ophis)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108137/
The P65 assembler is a full-featured cross-assembler for the 6502 microprocessor (which is used in the Commodore 64, Apple II, and Nintendo Entertainment System) written entirely in portable scripting languages. Earlier versions use Perl, but recent updates are in Python.
phpCodeCabinet 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108163/
phpCodeCabinet allows developers to store code snippets from any language. Features include user-defined categories, syntax highlighting, an extensive search engine, a theme-based interface, user authentication, and code/category ownership privileges.
phpSerials 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108180/
phpSerials is a Web-based PHP application for keeping track of your serial numbers and registration information. It features a template design, multiple levels of authorization, and CSS. It is easy to install and customized this program.
qnxbrown 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108096/
qnxbrown is a brown theme inspired by the QNX GUI.
QVCDGear 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108152/
QVCDGear is a graphical frontend for the VCD conversion/extraction tool VCDGear.
rlwrap 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108154/
rlwrap is a readline wrapper, a small utility that uses the GNU readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any other command. It maintains a separate input history for each command, and can TAB-expand words using all previously seen words and/or a user-specified file.
SNMP::Info 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108144/
SNMP::Info gives an object oriented interface to information obtained through SNMP. This module is geared towards network devices. Speciality sub-classes exist for a number of network devices and MIBs.
socket_wrappers 7.6i (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108185/
socket_wrappers is an improved version of tcp_wrappers. The improvements include changing from K&R to ANSI C, removing unneeded compatibility libraries, separation of the public and private API, prepending tcpd_ to all private functions and data to prevent name collisions, updates to signal handlers so that the application's handlers aren't tampered with, dropping supplemental groups, and some build and man page improvements. Applications compiled with this library should be smaller, too.
SPOPS 0.73 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108167/
SPOPS (Simple Perl Object Persistence w/ Security) is a robust and powerful Perl module that allows you to serialize objects. It is unique in that it also allows you to apply security to these objects using a fairly simple but powerful scheme of users and groups. It's also unique in that for most objects, you will not need to write any code. All you need is a fairly simple configuration file, and you can have a class for your object ready to go, right out of thin air.
SRCH 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108178/
SRCH is a file search tool designed to 'join' or 'lookup' data in large files (up to 2GB). It allows for fully memory resident reference markers or a partial subset for quick access (if memory is restricted). It supports several handy features to sort and cut data.
SunAngle 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108142/
SunAngle displays data about the Sun's rise time, set time, and its current bearing. By pointing your Palm Pilot at the Sun, this program will tell you which way North is. In addition, it draws pie slices on the compass face showing where the Sun will rise and set that day, during the summer solstice and winter solstice. This could be useful for architects, real estate agents, home buyers (does this balcony get any sun in the winter?), and solar installers.
SURVIVOR 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108189/
SURVIVOR is yet another systems monitor. It consists of a POSIX-thread based scheduler written in C++ running arbitrary checks in a flexible, heterogeneous, bureaucratic, and convoluted environment. It maintains proper state, history, sanity, and attitude, and allows interaction via Web, command, and two-way messaging interfaces.
tclpython 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108146/
Tclpython allows the execution of Python code from within a TCL interpreter using embedded Python interpreters.
TCP Re-engineering Tool 1.1.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/108155/
TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol (as packet sniffers do).
TiVo Web Project 1.9.4 (TCL)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108170/
The Tivo Web Project is designed to give you a Web interface to your TiVo using Open Source software. The main reason for doing this is to create a more powerful and flexible interface. Since the TiVo UI is proprietary, there is no easy way to change or enhance it. With the relevant data in a local database, you can do anything you wish, or interact with a Web server on the TiVo for direct control.
TTY-Grin 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108136/
TTY-Grin is a screen-oriented interactive news and email client with MIME support, the ability to browse multiple news servers, and LISP scripting capabilities.
VGATron 0.4 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108158/
VGATron is yet another clone of the well-known game called "Tron". It uses svgalib and is a two-player game.
X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108174/
X-CD-Roast is a program-package dedicated to easy CD creation under most Unix-platforms. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", and "mkisofs" into a nice graphical user interface.
XiangQi Engine 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108143/
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.
Yattm 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108148/
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
Odd tag behavour
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/2020255
I've added the IMG and SRC to the list of allowed tags in the var for that at geekizoid - problem is, it still doesn't allow those in comments - did I miss something? Slashd and apache have been restarted. --Pinkerton Floyd
Best Practices for Secure Remote Admin?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1821256
What are best practices for securely administering a Slash site over the Web? I'm trying to use SSL for the purpose, which would be ideal, but I'm meeting with only limited success. There appears to be a bug in the user login code that keeps flipping the browser back to the non-SSL index. Is it just me, or am I barking up the wrong administrative tree?
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.