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[osdn developer] February 03, 2003
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 03:15:50 EST
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February 03, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Computing: iGesture Pad
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5cca/
Electronics: SOCOM Navy Seals for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5ceb/
Electronics: PowerPad Pro XBOX Controller http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxhard/5bec/
Electronics: SI-5 Gen2 Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5c86/
Electronics: Panzer Dragoon ORTA for Xbox http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5ce8/
Computing: PowerPad Extended Life Notebook Batteries http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cec/
Computing: Glow Wire PC Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5b85/
Gadgets: ER1 Personal Robot System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ce0/
Gadgets: Securikey Authentication System http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5cd6/
Electronics: Infoglobe Caller ID Display http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5c83/
Computing: Dual RW DVD/CD Internal Drive http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5c94/
Computing: ADS Firewire Drive Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5cd1/
Electronics: PS2 Network Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2hard/5bd7/
Computing: Asylum GeForce Ti4600 AGP 4x
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/5ce3/
Computing: D-Link USB/FM Radio Adapter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cc7/
Computing: Linksys USB 2.0/Ethernet Adapter http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5c97/
Computing: Logitech Cordless Freedom Joystick http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/gaming/5cc8/
Computing: IoGear Bluetooth to USB Adapter http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ce5/
Computing: NEC-Mitsubishi 18" LCD
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5cc3/
Interests: QuickKill
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Sourceforge
GPGrelay 0.91has been released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249447
GPGrelay is a small email-relaying server that uses GnuPG (the GNU
Privacy Guard) to sign/encrypt (SMTP-Relay) or verifies/decrypts
(POP3-Relay) emails. This enables many email-clients to send and
receive emails that are PGP-MIME conforming. This release includes
bugfixes and minor feature enhancements.
MPlayer OS X v1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249048
MPlayer OSX is multimedia player with playlist, supporting playback of all widely used media types (MPEG 1-4, DivX, AVI, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, RealMedia, QuickTime Movie, MPEG layer 1-3, AC3, WindowsMediaAudio and more) and movie subtitles of various formats (MicroDVD Player, Subrip and more). It is based on Mac OS X port of MPlayer - Movie Player for Linux. This new version includes latest build of MPlayer binary and few features distributed as standalone application without need of additional installation of binaries, libraries and other stuff.
leafnode 1.9.33 (stable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249049
This release comes with roughly a dozen fixes and one feature, "noread", to complement the "nopost" feature. Leafnode is a caching Usenet news proxy that enables online newsreaders to read news off-line. It is designed for zero (full-automatic) maintenance. Please see https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=137713 for details.
Fire 0.32.b.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248956
Fire 0.32.b is now available with three new localizations (Spanish, Russian, and Danish) and many bug fixes. We have an all new smiley parser built for speed and better consistency with official clients, and improved MSN reliability. Fire is a multi-protocol instant messenger client for Mac OS X based on freely available libraries for each service. Currently Fire handles AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Jabber, limited IRC, and Yahoo! Pager communications. Thanks to Graham, Alan, Paul, Lasse, Matt, Alessandro, Stephane, and Martin for their help on this release. Fire 0.32.b.2 corrects a nib corruption problem that prevented Fire from launching in French. Download is here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.b.2.dmg?download
ReactOS 0.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249012
ReactOS 0.1.0 has been released. Among the new features and fixes,
especially worth mentioning are booting from CD and self-hosting
(ReactOS compiles ReactOS). ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop
a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT
applications and drivers.
xawdecode version 1.6.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249027
xawdecode 1.6.7, containing bug fixes, has been released. X11 TV application based on xawtv 2.x series which adds many enhancements like Xvideo rendering support, deinterlacing, real time divx recording, integrated alevt teletext browser and provides a plugin API to add any functionnality one might think of. here are the modifications: xawdecode-1.6.7 (02/02/03) - AC_PREREQ(2.5) added in configure.in to nsure autoconf greater than 2.5 is used and therefore prevents earlier autoconf version to generate buggy shell code - removal of acconfig.h et DEFINE templates added in configure.in - killing of "header not found" errors while compiling alevt with particular configurations - various warning killing in alevt with gcc-3.2 - detection of systems using the devfs file system and therefore /dev/v4l/video0 as video device - patch #644358: add of ffmpeg mpeg1 video codec - patch #651746: new debian packaging (fonts are now in an independant package)
- better handling of NET_WM compliant window managers (fullscreen and
stay on top features) - aligned to new ffmpeg libavcodec API
(LIBAVCODEC_BUILD >= 4641). Previous version of libavcodec are not any
more supported. Builds fine with official ffmpeg 0.4.6 - now really find and use first available YUY2 Xvideo port in case one is already used by another application you can "apt-get" deb packages with: http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/debian/ bye Pingus ;-)
Native win32 port of the qt library started http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248232
In December 2002 a native win32 port of the qt library has been started. The port is completly based on the gpl'ed qt/x11 sources in the kde-cygwin cvs. See http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt2-win32 for further details, screenshots and other project relating things. Ralf Habacker Project Leader KDE-CYGWIN
bogofilter-0.10.1.4 - a bugfix/beta release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248266
The 0.10.1.4 release includes bugfixes for MIME and HTML processing, code clean-ups, and additional spam scoring algorithms. The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam". bogofilter is written in C and is supported on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.
spamprobe-0.8b released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248262
This release fixes a problem with crashes in the regex routines on RedHat 8 systems. SpamProbe is a fast, intelligent, automatic spam detector using Paul Graham-style Bayesian analysis of word counts in spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes automatically. No manual rule creation required.
openMosix 2.4.20-2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247894
openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image
clustering. Taking n PC boxes, openMosix gives users and applications
the illusion of one single computer with n CPUs. openMosix is perfectly
scalable and adaptive. This release fixes a bug, which affected
SMP-kernels and caused the machine to hang when unmounting filesystems
at reboot. RPMs are compiled with gcc-3.2 under RedHat 8.0. Also: This
release features a new RPM: openmosix-kernel-source, which holds the
kernel tree with the openMosix-patch applied, installed under /usr/src.
Users compiling their own modules have requested this for a while.
(You've got it :) Martin Downloads available from
http://www.openMosix.org
Slashdot
Major Step Forward For SVG in the Desktop
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/129215
[0]Ur@eus writes "SVG the w3c format for Scalable Vector Graphics is seen as many as the future of desktop icons as it allows for scaling icons etc. without loss of quality. Dominic Lachowicz has been working hard on fixing bugs in [1]librsvg over the last few days. The result is that librsvg now renders all available SVG icons perfectly. Not only do it render them, but it renders them faster than libpng renders the same images in png format. Together with the gdkpixbuf plugin librsvg offer it means GNOME 2.2 will be able to use SVG images not only for icons or desktop backgrounds, but also for the GUI widgets themselves and the graphics of the window manager. Dom's announcement can be found [2]on the librsvg mailinglist. The librsvg site also offer a [3]GNOME 2.2 metatheme using mostly SVG icons including a nice screenshot." Links
0. mailto:uraeus@gnome.org
1.
http://librsvg.sf.net/
2.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1603055&forum_id=12476
3.
http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/theme.phpBuilding A High End Quadro FX Workstation http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1224221
An anonymous reader writes "FiringSquad has an article detailing some
of the differences between [0]building a high-end workstation and a
high-end gaming system. They go into things like ECC memory, and the
difference between professional and gaming 3D cards. The Quadro FX 2000
coverage is particularly interesting -- the system with the Quadro FX
2000 was never louder than 55 dB!"
Links
0. http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/workstation/default.asp
Paper Mounted CPUs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/126234
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "Rafe Needleman discovered an interesting young Swedish company which is printing really cheap chips. "The company, [1]Cypak, has technology to mount a very small microprocessor, which it created, on paper (or inside a credit card), as well as a technique to print sensors, switches, and very short-range antennae on the same paper, using special conductive inks." Here is one possible application designed for drug trials. "Drug trials need data about how and when subjects consume the drugs being tested. In this application, a pill pack registers when individual pills are popped out of their plastic bubbles; it then can beep and ask the user a question like, 'Are you feeling better today? Press Yes or No.' (The answer buttons are on the pack itself.) When the patient visits the doctor, the package is placed on a Cypak reader and the data is downloaded to the physician's computer." Visit [2]this page for more information about Cypak or read the full [3]Business 2.0 article." Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://www.cypak.com/
2.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/02/03.html
3.
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,46893,00.html
Digital Media Consumer Rights Act
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/0140215
[0]irabinovitch writes "Representatives Rick Boucher and John Doolittle
introduced the DMCRA which would to quote the EFF would "require
labelling requirements for usage-impaired "copy-protected" compact
discs, as well as several amendments to 1998's infamous Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)." We always seem to complain about the
DMCA around here now is our chance to change it! [0] Check out this
"Action Alert" at the EFF."
Links
0. http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2421
Card Makers Say UK Citizens Want Biometric ID Cards http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/0031237
ArsonPanda writes "[0]ZDnet is running a story on a recent survey in the UK showing overwhelming 80% public support of universal, biometricly enhanced citizen ID cards. Everybody here's fine with supplying the gubmit w/ your retinal scans and fingerprints, right?" Links
0. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129590,00.html
Don't Sever A High-Tech Lifeline for Musicians http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/0134243
Licensed2Hack writes "[0]Janis Ian, who provided [1]this slashdot
interview last September, has written [2]this editorial in the [3]Los
Angeles Times. Janis says, "After I first posted downloadable music, my
merchandise sales went up 300%. They're still double what they were
before the MP3s went online." And the RIAA's stated goal in preventing
this type of activity with their lawsuit against Verizon is to increase
sales..."
Links
0.
http://janisian.com/
1.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/133228&tid=141
2.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-oe-ian2feb02,0,2630989.story?coll=la-headlines-suncomment
3.
http://www.latimes.com/The Battle in 64-bit Land, 2003 and Beyond http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/2325236
An anonymous reader writes "Paul DeMone has an excellent [0]article up at Real World Technologies on the future of 64bit computing. Find out where MIPS, HP, Intel, AMD, Sun, Fujitsu, and IBM are headed." Links
0. http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?AID=RWT012603224711
Power Companies Offering Cable (TV, Net) Service http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/2239230
[0]MankyD writes "CNN is running an interesting story about a power company [1]offering cheap cable and broadband internet to its customers. What's even better is that they aren't looking to make a profit, just break even on the venture. They estimate that they've saved their customers $32 million. Furthermore, it's available in a rural area where the telecomms don't offer service anyways." Links
Nickel Sensors Could Raise Hard Disk Capacity http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/2113237
[0]Makarand writes "Tiny filaments of nickel, thinner than a wavelength of visible light, acting as magnetic sensors may expand the storage capacity of hard disks many times. Although, technologies exist to increase hard disk capacity, reading data bits reliably from such disks has proven difficult because as data bits become smaller their magnetic fields are weaker and difficult to pick up. [1]Nickel filaments are capable of picking up of these weak magnetic fields using a phenomenon called "ballistic magnetoresistance" which is not completely understood. As the sensors are only a few atoms wide the electrons travel along a straight line in the conductor greatly enhancing the binary signal picked up from the data bits. These sensors could also be used to detect biomolecules in low concentrations." Links
0. mailto:{theJunta{@}Hotmail.}
ReactOS 0.1.0 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/2031252
[0]JasonFilby writes "[1]ReactOS 0.1.0 has been released! ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers. In this release, among other new features and fixes, especially worth mentioning are the ability to boot from CD and self-hosting capabilities (ReactOS can be compiled on ReactOS)." ReactOS has been [2]in progress for a while, often tied to other projects with the aim of seamlessly replacing Windows: you can download an image of Bochs 2.0 with ReactOS 0.1.0 preloaded from the [3]download and changelog page. Links
0.
http://reactos.com
1.
http://reactos.com/
2.
https://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=reactos
3.
http://www.reactos.com/index.php?tab=software§ion=reactos
Freshmeat
Abe's Amazing Adventure!! 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111481/
Abe's Amazing Adventure!! is a scrolling, platform-jumping, key-collecting, ancient pyramid exploring game, written vaguely in the style of similar games for the Commodore Plus/4.
Advanced Strategic Command 1.12.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111503/
ASC is a turn-based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle 2/3.
It can be played against the computer or against other human players
(either hotseat or by mail).
AirStrike 1.0pre6a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111498/
Airstrike is a 2D dogfight game in the tradition of the Intellivision and Amiga games 'Biplanes' and 'BIP'. It features a robust physics engine and several other extensions of the original games.
archmbox 4.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111504/
Archmbox is a simple email archiver written in Perl which can extract email messages from one or more mbox-formatted mailboxes.
audio_burn 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111482/
audio_burn is a commandline audio cd burning application written in C. It uses libaudioburn (also written in C) for all of the real work, which in turn uses several other Free Software packages. It accepts WAV, Ogg, and MP3 input files, decodes them, and (optionally) normalizes them before writing them to CD.
AVInfo 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111528/
AVInfo is a utility for displaying AVI header information. It returns the length of a clip, FPS, resolution, codec, sound parametrs, and the number and type of streams, including detailed information for each.
Blue theme 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111486/
Blue theme uses a Rurouni Kenshin blue wallpaper, and together with the AquaFusion icon theme or Marbles (Translucent) icon set creates a unique desktop look. Blue theme alone does not offer translucent menus or fancy window decorations. It is recommended that you install either Keramik (usually comes with KDE 3.1) or Mosfet's High Performance Liquid KDE style engine.
ccIRCRelay 1.5c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111522/
ccIRCRelay is a fast, small IRC relay tool that uses curses, Python, and sockets. It is designed to facilitate conversations spanning multiple IRC servers, and relays all messages (including modes, kicks, parts, joins, bans, quits, notices, and actions) from one channel to another on a different server (and vice- versa).
cdialog 0.9b-20030130
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111536/
Dialog allows you to present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. Several types of dialog boxes are implemented including: calendar, checklist, file-selection, gauge, info, input, menu, message, radiolist, tailbox, text, time, yes/no.
Checky 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111518/
The Checky plugin is a simple interface for Web content and resource developers to free and commercial online Validator and Checker services. With Checky, you can easily setup, combine, and use 18 online Validator and Checker services. Simply choose your services with Checky-Agent, then browse to a Web resource and press F10 to display the results of the selected services in a new browser tab or window. Service interfaces are available for HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, SGML, WAI, 508, and various viewers, valets, and purifiers.
Chump 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111494/
Chump is a table-driven assembler and dissembler with a very fast new architecture input format. Both the assembler and disassembler are created using a single description. It comes with descriptions for ARM, MIPS, Stump, and 6809. It is intended for use as a library compiled with other programs to allow line assembly and disassembly.
CVSHistory 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111485/
CVSHistory is a Web-based tool for browsing CVS activity which integrates with ViewCVS or CVSweb. It supports sorting, range selection, and regular expession-based searching. It works with any CGI-capable Web server.
Damascus 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111531/
Damascus is a GTK+ 2.x client for the Gale communication protocol. It
is somewhat modelled after IM/ICQ-style interfaces. If you don't know
what Gale is, this client probably won't be very useful; you need a
valid Gale key to send anything, and Damascus can't generate them
(yet). Gale is also scary and confusing.
DAME 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111491/
DAME (Database Access Made Easy) is a tool that generates C++ and Java code from SQL statements. When used with Java, it supports any database that can be accessed through JDBC. C++ libraries for Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL are also included.
DConnect Daemon 0.1.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111521/
DConnect Daemon is a daemon which acts as a Direct Connect hub. It is written in pure C and utilizes threads. It aims to be very fast, with a very good protocol implementation.
DirectVNC 0.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111511/
DirectVNC is a client implementing the remote framebuffer protocol
(rfb) which is used by VNC servers. What makes DirectVNC different from
other Unix VNC clients is that it uses the Linux framebuffer device
through the hardware accelerated DirectFB library, which enables it to
run on anything that has a framebuffer without the need for an X
server.
EFEU 2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111488/
EFEU is suitable for handling data cubes, which are especially useful for building data warehouses. It consists of a building system including mkmf (a xmkmf like Makefile generator), esh (a powerful C/C++ interpreter), efeudoc (a document generator with different output formats (LaTeX, HTML, roff, etc.)). EFEU has a huge set of C library core features, including robust memory allocation tools, functions to concatenate and copy strings with memory allocation, buffers for dynamically-growing strings and fields, data structures with reference counters and garbage collection, and file tools that allow you to specify pipes wherever a filename is expected and support automatic implementation of (de)compression filters (gzip) depending on filename extensions. It also includes a high-level interface to files, strings, and anything else you can read from or write to.
Face2 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111424/
Face2 provides a one-to-one chat system very similar to that found on many ecommerce sites these days. It facilitates quick creation of the system and is several levels of magnitude more efficient than its HTML/Javascript/CGI-based equivalents. It requires no software to be installed on the target website but a simple Perl script. All the communication is done between the server running on the operator's machine and the client's applet.
Gedcom Parser Library 0.90.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111524/
The Gedcom parser library provides an API to applications to parse, process, and write arbitrary genealogy files in the standard GEDCOM format. It provides a callback interface (like the SAX interface in XML) and an object model interface (like the DOM interface in XML).
GQmpeg 0.20.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111500/
GQmpeg is a frontend to various audio players, featuring themes
(skins), playlists, and many configuration options. Supported backends
are mpg123, ogg123, xmp, and video4linux radio tuners.
GridFlow 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111483/
GridFlow is a plugin for Ruby, jMax, and PureData. It adds the ability
to process images and video as N-dimensional arrays
("Grids"). It consists of a framework for grid transmissions,
elementary grid processing objects, picture-oriented processing
objects, and input/output objects.
Grutatxt 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111489/
Grutatxt is a plain text to HTML converter. It successfully converts subtle text markup to lists, bold, italics, tables, and headings to their corresponding HTML tags without having to write unreadable source text files.
gtkpod 0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111515/
gtkpod is a platform-independent GUI for Apple's iPod, using GTK2. It supports playlists (simply drag your songs), ID3 tag editing, multiple character sets for ID3 tags, duplicate song detection, offline modification of the database with later synchronization, comfortable sorting options for easier browsing of your songs, and more.
HD44780 LCD Daemon 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111520/
HD44780 LCD Daemon is a small program to control an LCD display based on the HD44780 chip. It must be run as root, and does not have many features. The main purpose is to illustrate how to control an LCD via the parallel port.
hdup 1.6.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111508/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
IceWM Control center 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111517/
The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.
Jaffm 0.6.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111499/
Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a simple but elegant user interface.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111512/
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 is able start and shut down the firewall
without deleting your other iptables rules (optional).
JRxToolkit 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111505/
JRxToolkit is a GUI written in Java to test and write regular POSIX expressions.
lazyread 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111509/
Lazyread is a C program that auto-scrolls files or command output to the screen. It features different scroll modes, configurable scroll speed and colors, the ability to pause, the ability to search, and more. It can render text, HTML, PDF, gzip, tar, zip, ar, bzip2, MS-Word, nroff (man pages), binary executables, directories, .deb, .so, .rpm, piped output from other programs, and more. Lazyread is an auto-scroller, pager, and e-book reader all in one.
ldapdiff 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111530/
ldapdiff compares ldif files with a running LDAP server and does an appropriate add/delete/update for every different entry/attribute.
MaraDNS 1.0.13 (Recursive/Caching)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111493/
MaraDNS is a DNS server that strives to be secure and fully open-sourced.
Mr Commander 0.1a-preview4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111535/
Mr Commander is a file manager based on GTK+ 2.0. It behaves like the Total Commander program, which is available on MS Windows. It features SMB and FTP support.
MVideo 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111514/
MVideo manages a collection of movies in DVD, DivX, VCD, or other format. It uses a MySQL database to store all the information needed to manage all genres of film archives.
NeoStats 2.5.0 RC3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111510/
NeoStats provides unique services to IRC via loadable modules. It does not provide the traditional NickServ/ChanServ services, but instead provides services like "HostServ", which can automatically set a user's virtual host upon logging onto a IRC network, or "StatServ", which can provide detailed statistics about the network, individual servers, or channels, and produce an HTML page. It also includes a number of "Fun" services, like "LoveServ" and "MoraleServ". Additional modules are available via the NeoStats Web site or through third party developers. Currently, NeoStats supports UnrealIRCd, UltimateIRCD, Hybrid7, and NeoIRCd, with more IRCD support being developed.
patchutils 0.2.20 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111539/
Patchutils contains a collection of tools for manipulating patch files: interdiff, combinediff, filterdiff, fixcvsdiff, rediff, lsdiff, grepdiff, splitdiff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff. You can use interdiff to create an incremental patch between two patches that are against a common source tree, and combinediff for creating a cumulative diff from two incremental patches. Filterdiff is for extracting or excluding patches from a patch set based on modified files matching shell wildcards. Lsdiff lists modified files in a patch. Rediff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff correct hand-edited (or otherwise broken) patches.
PHP Documentation Generator 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111529/
PHP Documentation Generator is a Perl script similar to javadoc. It helps you generate a set of HTML pages from comments in PHP source files. Currently, this script parses the PHP source code to detect the objects attached to the comments.
pyblosxom 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111506/
pyblosxom is a CGI-based Weblog program written in Python. It uses ordinary text files as your entries, and in addition to the features of blosxom, on which it is based, it can be easily extended with preformatters and plugins.
Quake2Forge 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111497/
Quake2Forge is The QuakeForge Project's version of id Software's game, Quake II. It aims to be a stable, portable codebase focusing on improving the quality of the game whilst maintaining backwards compatibility with the original.
ResearchGuide 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111513/
ResearchGuide is a PHP/MySQL application that helps librarians create, maintain, and deliver subject guides and specialist information pages using Web forms. Its benefits include HTML-free maintenance of Web pages and a standard look and feel across all guides.
RubyMail 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111484/
RubyMail is an email handling library for the Ruby programming language. It supports the parsing, modification, and generation of simple and MIME email messages.
SouRCe PacKaGer 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111534/
SouRCe PacKaGer (srcpkg) is a program for managing separate software packages under the same directory hierarchy. It is especially useful for packages distributed as source. It is similar to GNU Stow, Depot, etc., but works by creating packages from new files found in the directory tree, allowing it to manage large, complex, interdependent packages such as those of KDE and GNOME.
SSHTerm 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111501/
SSHTerm is a Java SSH client that provides a whole range of features, including port forwarding, password authentication, public-key authentication, ANSI/VT100/VT220/VT320 terminal, full clipboard support, and the ability to load/save connection settings to file.
The Fish 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111541/
The Fish provides a GTK-based graphical tool to manage and edit FreeBSD system variables stored in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. For testing purposes, or, for users that need to have different configurations, the program honours two environment variables: FISH_RC_DEFAULTS and FISH_RC.
TkPhone 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111527/
TkPhone is an application that allows you to record telephone numbers in books, select the book you want to browse, select the name of a person you want to call, and call that person's number, assuming you are connected to a modem and you have the right permissions.
VideoDB 2003-02-02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111516/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.
Slashcode
Problems with Journal/Messages
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2253200
I've just installed a slash site at the URL http://gytha.anu.edu.au/ which will be used for an internal website for our Hall of Residence, Bruce Hall, at the ANU. The initial install seems to be working fine, except for two things. The Journal and Messages links in the first box don't work - they return internal server configuration errors. I don't even know where to begin to look at why this might be the case, so I'm just after a bit of advice as to where to look for reasons for these errors. I'm running it on a box with a full install of RH8, and had no problems at all during the installation process (which came as a shock to me considering my previous attempts at installing slash). I know I haven't configured other things on the site yet, but I'll get around to that once everything else is working. Any help anyone out there can offer would be appreciated.
Does anyone write design documents?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1732240
Not wanting to duplicate any work or step on toes, I'm hoping for some insight on current work taking place WRT sharing themes and plugins. Some documentation and specifications that goes further than the material in the O'Rielly book would be helpful, and I'm even willing to write something up after grokking the code and templates more fully. Also, has anyone started trying to put together a repository of plugins and themes? The 'plugin' box on the slashcode home page would seem to be the right place for this to show up, but I didn't find any pages that didn't just say "we're working on this, and could use more help".
Why does "reply" block appear 2 miles sout http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/0018216
Thanks to a grant from the Markle Foundation, and the good offices of Openflows, we've converted ICANNWatch.org to Slash from PHP-Nuke version 4.2... preserving our archives, and also forwarding from links to our old content. (We'll be open sourcing the conversion script in due course.) Mostly everything is great, but we have a few problems. The most immediate problem, which is producing lots of complaints, is that for some reason the "reply" button is appearing several screens below the end of the story text. You can see an example of the problem here and here and here. This happens in both Mozilla and Explorer, so I don't think it's a simple browser issue... [We also can't get meta-moderation to wake up despite having many comments in the system and several high-karma users, but that's a less immediate worry...]
Commentcount field in stories table always zero http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/1924237
I just installed Slash onto my box and I'm doing some testing and poking around. One thing I can't figure out is how I enable the comments counter next to the 'Read More...' link. I'm adding comments, but my index page refuses to show the number of comments for each article. I first thought it's one of the vars or maybe it's part of the template. Now, looking at the 'stories' table in my slash database, I notice that the 'commentcount' field in each row is zero, although I added a few comments from various accounts. How can that be? Otherwise, Slash is working just fine and I have experienced no trouble, but I really want that comment counter for my articles. Help would be greatly appreciated.
Can't locate object method - install-slashsite http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/186232
I'm getting the following error trying to move our slashsite from my
devel box over to production. I decided the easist way to do this would
be to do a clean slashcode install on the production box, then dump the
DB and assorted config files over. I've gotten the slashcode,
Bundle::Slash installed (MySQL, Perl, Apache w/ mod_perl were already
there), and then ran install-slashsite: $ sudo ./install-slashsite What
is hostname of your Slash site (e.g., www.slashdot.org)? []
my.hiddenservername.com What user would you like to run your Slash site
as? [nobody] slash What group would you like to run your Slash site
under? [slash] OK, I am planning on user my.hiddenservername.com as the
unique name for the Slash site. If this is not ok, you need to fill in
something else here. [my.hiddenservername.com] Which theme do you want
to use? (*)1. slashcode "Slashcode.com theme" Skipping theme select
since you only have one theme! Theme selected: slashcode Please select
which plugins you would like ('*' marks default). (*) 1. Admin - "Admin
Interface" ( ) 2. BunchaBlocks - This is a bunch of portald blocks you
can add ( ) 3. CheesyPortal - CheesyPortal is a script to get an
overall look at portal boxes ( ) 4. ForumZilla - "ForumZilla support"
(*) 5. Hof - "High score stuff" (*) 6. Journal - "Journal system for
users" (*) 7. Messages - "Messaging system" (*) 8. PubKey - "Just
allows a user's pubkey to be displayed" (*) 9. Search - Slash Search is
the default search engine for Slash. Hit 'a' to select all, otherwise
select comma separated numbers or 'q' to quit a Plugins selected: Admin
BunchaBlocks CheesyPortal ForumZilla Hof Journal Messages PubKey Search
Would you like to install all the files as symlinks to the original?
(If not, each file will be copied to your Slash directories). [Y] N
Create a name for the site's admin account (8 characters or less).
[slash] Create a password for the site's admin account. ('QUIT'
exits):hiddenpasswd What is the email address of the account?
[slash@my.hiddenservername.com] Can't locate object method "prepare"
via package "BunchaBlocks" (perhaps you forgot to load "BunchaBlocks"?)
at /path/to/perl/modules/Utility.pm line 334. $ Does anybody have any
insight into that "Can't locate object method "prepare" via package
"BunchaBlocks" (perhaps you forgot to load "BunchaBlocks"?) at
/path/to/perl/modules/Utility.pm line 334." error??? Thanks!
Background Image
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/184247
Is it possible to get a background image into the site rather than the dull grey?
Universal Slash Login
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/1140217
I've been posting to a number of slash sites for a rather long time, and I've had a thought (although it will probably be proven to be crazy). Would it be at all possible to some how create a universal login for a group of Slash sites? I'm looking at this from the point of convenience, as one log in to rule them all would be great. YASS could pop up and existing members of the (perhaps distributed) slash members DB could start posting right away, taking their Karma and preferences with them. Or perhaps not trying to be as fancy, even a centralised user database from which user details could be imported - for example, when signing up for a new site, you could have an option saying "import my user deatils from site x", at which time you enter your username and password for site x. I realise that this may require quite a bit of planning in terms of compatibility across different versions of Slash, but just how tricky would it be to do such a thing? What draw backs would there be to such a scheme, and would anyone actually want something like this?
Slash site dies, slashd running, apache running http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/0549234
I have a regular web site running at port 81 and slash running at port 82. I have a default page at port 81 that lets people know that something is wrong (since the only reason they should ever see it is if they go to the wrong port OR slash has died). About once a week the slash site disappears and apache displays the default page for port 81. Checking the logs, the last traffic was at 4:48 this morning (it gets an hourly check for news). Given the 5 hour offset from GMT (since slash wants GMT), it probably died at midnight. Slashd and httpd are still running, and giving apachectl a restart returns the site to working. I've checked the system logs in /var/log (mainly messages), the apache logs in /usr/local/apache/logs, and the slash logs in /var/local/slash/site/SITENAME/logs and nothing complains about a problem at that time. Crontab doesn't appear to do anything special at that time. Any ideas what could cause this? I'm on using redhat 7.1 and nothing else strange happens at that time.
How to "remove" authors?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/1753256
In our website, we have a long list of users marked as authors for historical reasons (we imported tons of articles from a legacy system). Most of them are not active anymore and we downgraded seclev to 1, but still they are flagged as authors, show up in the author listing and, most important, have unlimited moderation power. I don't want to remove the username, but is it possible to remove the author flag without messing up the display of older stories?
Installing Slash on OSX (make install)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/0025233
I get the following error trying install slash on Mac OS X Server 10.2: cp -rv plugins/* /usr/local/slash/plugins/ cp: illegal option -- v usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i] [-p] src target cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i] [-p] src1 ... srcN directory make: *** [install] Error 1 what is the v option? --Jeffrey Kunzelman
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