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Sourceforge
FLTK 1.1.3 now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252470

The FLTK Team is proud to announce the release of FLTK 1.1.3, a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX(r)/Linux(r) (X11), Microsoft(r) Windows(r), and MacOS(r) X. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL(r) and its built-in GLUT emulation. The FLTK 1.1.3 release is primarily a bug-fix release including several MacOS X drawing and OpenGL bugs. The new release also adds support for up to 2 additional qualifiers before a class name in FLUID. FLTK is provided under the GNU Library Public License with exceptions that allow for static linking.

openMosix Project Celebrates Its First Anniversary http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252488

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First year technical milestones include the addition of installation RPMs for Red Hat Linux, SuSE and Mandrake Linux(tm), node Auto Discovery, and the port of openMosix to the Intel(r) Itanium(tm) IA-64 Processor Family. Project plans for openMosix' second year include porting to the 64-bit AMD Opteron(tm) processor, better integration with OpenAFS, the release of a first version of DSM, continued support of the latest Linux versions, plus tighter integration with Debian GNU/Linux, Gentoo Linux(tm), and SuSE. More at: http://www.openMosix.org

Squid-3.x starting to shape up
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252490

During the last months the Squid developers (mostly Robert) have been busy creating a new breed of Squid which will be named Squid-3.X. Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. The major changes in Squid-3.0 compared to Squid-2.5 are related to the the internal design of Squid and not very visible externally. The big news is that Squid is now written in C++ while Squid-2.X and earlier were all written in C. In terms of functionality Squid-3.0 only have minor improvements, but the hope is that with the transition to C++ and a large scale cleanup of the code the Squid-3 code will be a lot easier to maintain and extend in the future. Gradually more and more components of the Squid internals will be transitioned and cleaned up from a tangled C mess with many not always apparent dependencies between different modules to a more structured and isolated C++ classes.

Ohioedge CRM 1.3.1 FinalRC1 is released... http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252764

Ohioedge CRM 1.3.1 Final RC1 contains a major update to the PDF reports module. Ohioedge CRM is a Web-based, Enterprise Java (J2EE) Customer Relationship Management application [JBoss Edition] specifically designed for $5-500M organizations requiring enterprise-wide co-ordination of sales generation and fulfillment (workflow) effort. The PDF reports are now incorporated into and managed through the InputFactory component and thus fall under the security structure of Ohioedge CRM. A user can now view a PDF report, only if the PDF report is attached to the user's activity types. This release also replaces the log4j Category class with the newer Logger class. This release is compatible with the latest releases of J2eeBuilder and J2eeCustomer component libraries.

Freevo version 1.3.2-pre1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252842

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote. There is a new binary pre-release (1.3.2-pre1) available on SourceForge.net's download page. It fixes a number of bugs in the 1.3.1 release, e.g. CD/DVD autodetection, new XMLTV format, MP3 time, etc. The binary release includes all external libraries (e.g. SDL) and applications (e.g. MPlayer). The current version is useful for watching/recording TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MP3/OGG, viewing images.

EVMS 1.9.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252875

Can't find what you're looking for?

The EVMS Project uses a layered, plug-in model to provide unparalleled flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. This allows for easy expansion or customization of various levels of volume management for Linux. This release is the first beta-level release of the new design, based on user-space volume discovery, and interaction with existing kernel device drivers, such as MD/Software-RAID and Device-Mapper. It is available for download at the project web site: http://www.sf.net/projects/evms/ Please see the notes and changelog at: http://www.sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=140151

wv2-0.0.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252902

wv2 is the new version of the wv library. Currently it's only used by the KWord importer (in the KDE CVS). wvWare is the continuation of Caolan McNamara's wv - the MSWord library. Efforts are underway to make this library more correct, robust, and turn it into a Word97 exporter.

Revival/2k 1.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252151

Revival/2k has released a new version of the Extended Web-Interface. v1.0.1 is now available. Revival/2k is a modular network interface system that allows multiple web applications (forums, mail, login, etc), internet servers (NNTP, POP3, etc) and a Telegard/Renegade styled

    telnet server all using the same DBs, and shareing information. The
    initial release of the WIGUEST module has also been made. v0.1.0 is
    also available, and requires the The extended web-interface v1.0.1 or
    later to operate. WIGUEST is a guestbook system for Revival/2k. V1.0.1

adds support for GuestBook type modules. If you're seeing this outside of the Revival/2k project, you can visit Revival2k at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/revival2k

DVArchive V2.0 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252110

DVArchive allows you to turn your PC into a "Virtual ReplayTV" that can download shows and serve them back up to your ReplayTVs as well as automated schedules and the like. DVArchive V2.0 is a major update with lots of bug fixes, lots of new features and a drastically rewritten infrastructure/plumbing. DVArchive V2.0 is now available You can read more about DVArchive at it's home page http://dvarchive.sourceforge.net DVArchive V2.0 makes some serious changes in your DVArchive.xml and Local.guide files. Please read the CHANGELOG.txt before running it and if you are upgrading, be sure to backup your Local.guide and DVArchive.xml files first. If this will be your first use of DVArchive, please review the README.txt before running it. -- Gerrys Plea :-) *** PLEASE READ THE CHANGELOG.txt and README.txt *** Most questions folks have asked are answered in the CHANGELOG.txt or the README.txt or TROUBLESHOOTING.txt. Please check them over before you report a problem

it's good for you (quick resolution) and the community in general (saves resources for the new issues). Thanks in advance! -- A brief summary of new features: * Support for Replay 4xxx and 5xxx units * New, efficiant/clean/single window interface - Combined single window DVR Explorer - Context sensitive menus (regular and popup) - Full Drag and Drop support * Ability to store show files using the shows title (vs numbers) in your local guide * New XML based guides (no more guide corruption) * Fixes to eliminate lockups * Ability to remotely turn ReplayTV off (to free up time and speed up downloads) * Ability to edit ALL information about a show (including date/time, ratings, etc) * Periodic renegotiation of time offset (so that DVA keeps working even if your computers clock drifts over time - useful when DVA is left running all the time) There is really a lot more - the item about a new User interface is deceptive as this has literally dozens of changes/enhancements contained in it.

FreeGuide TV Guide 0.5.2-1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252113

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This include channel sets and movie highlighting as well as a fixed NA grabber. (The files uploaded when this release was named 0.5.2 contained some minor Windows bugs which have now been fixed.) FreeGuide is a TV guide. Download TV listings from the Internet, view them offline, create a personalised TV guide and choose favourites. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings for the UK, USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Germany and New Zealand.

Slashdot
Hacking the Streamium
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/0328240

[0]UVwarning writes "I submitted a [1] review to Slashdot about a month
ago complaining about various problems with Philips' [2]streamium MCi-200 (an Internet micro hi-fi system). The main gripes being that Philips controls which Internet radio stations you can listen to and that the PC-link software (which is used to serve MP3s from your PC to your Streamium) only runs on Windows. I managed to fix both of these problems by reverse engineering the PC-link protocol and writing my own pc-link server in perl, which can be run on practically any OS, *and* can trick the Streamium into playing any Internet MP3 stream that you want! This is a must-have for any Streamium user. Here is a more
[3]detailed article along with the [4]perl script and an outline of the
[5] PC-link protocol."

Links

    0. 
http://www.siteswap.org
    1. 
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/0337254&tid=137
    2. 
http://www.audio.philips.com/news_press/PR_MC-i200_080102.asp
    3. 
http://www.siteswap.org/streamium/
    4. 
http://www.siteswap.org/streamium/pclink.pl.txt
    5. 
http://www.siteswap.org/streamium/protocol.html

Buying a Small, Light Linux Notebook Computer? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/0213201

[0]metamatic asks: "I'm planning to buy a notebook computer in the near
future. Currently I'm looking at an iBook; however, they're a bit larger and heavier than I'd like. PC users are always telling me that PCs are faster and cheaper, and I'd be happy enough running Linux for what I want the notebook for. So: I'm looking for PC notebook computers that outperform the iBook. Must have USB and Firewire, built-in ethernet, and 802.11b support somehow (via a PC card slot is OK). Small is important, lightweight is important, long battery life is important. I don't care about screen size so long as it can do 800x600. Performance isn't a major concern, as I'm not going to be playing 3D games on it. Sounds easy? Here's the catch: I will not purchase Windows!" After all that this industry has gone through in recent years? Does one still have to pay the Microsoft tax when purchasing a laptop?
Links

0. http://www.pobox.com/~meta/

Film Gimp Chalks Up Another Studio
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/024206

Robin Rowe of the [0]Film Gimp project has a [1]piece running on NewsForge (also part of OSDN) that says "Film Gimp has recently been adopted by ComputerCafe, the fourth motion picture studio to use it in making feature films." Check out this [2]recent post about Film Gimp to see some great screenshots of behind-the-scenes use. (And Rowe is also hoping you can get to the Linux Movies Track at [3]Creative Cow West 2003, starting Tuesday in Los Angeles.) Update: 02/17 04:04 GMT by
[4]T: Brain rebooted, so I added the missing link.
Links

    0. 
http://filmgimp.sourceforge.net/
    1. 
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/02/16/1355224.shtml?tid=6
    2. 
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/050214&tid=97
    3. 
http://www.creativecow.net/cow_conference/index.html
    4. 
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/

Confused? Frustrated?

Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/0045205

[0]Kris_J writes "[1]Highlift Systems may have found [2]a second
location for the anchor of their space elevator -- Perth, Western Australia. Apparently we have the calm waters and international airport that it needs, amongst other things. Slashdot has covered this company's efforts before: [3]Oct 9, 2002 and, earlier, [4]August 13, 2002, but it's worth discussing again since '[recent funding] has been given momentum by the Columbia shuttle disaster.'" Links

    0. mailto:hnvacm502@sneakemail.com
    1. 
http://www.highliftsystems.com/
    2. 
http://www.thewest.com.au/20030213/news/perth/tw-news-perth-home-sto87820.html
    3. 
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/08/1732216&tid=160
    4. 
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/13/1234253&tid=99

Saving Digital History
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/2322243

[0]Gavinsblog writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the Library
of Congress in the U.S. plans to initiate the $100 million [1]National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). It is hoped that the project will lead to the preservation of data that is constantly changing on the Internet. But I wonder who will choose what is worth saving?" This may remind you of the LOC's [2]effort to preserve and digitize the audio collection in the National Recording Registry.
Links

    0. 
http://www.gavinsblog.com
    1. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10278-2003Feb14.html
    2. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/0030228&tid=103

Joltage Powers Down
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/2146259

jbyter writes "Wi-Fi service provider [0]Joltage sent a e-mail to subscribers that read "It is with regret that I am writing to inform you that Joltage will be discontinuing its Wi-Fi subscriber and provider services effective at the end of this month." This could have been very cool, but due to economy and lack of subscriber participation they are no longer able to finance their operations." Too bad -- this
[0]sounded like a good idea. The [1]Joltage homepage isn't much help --
it's in place, but content-free. Any other Joltage customers who can comment on this?
Links

0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/30/1440204&tid=95

http://www.joltage.com

The 25th Anniversary of the BBS
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/2028220

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[0]Jason Scott writes "[1]25 years ago today, Ward Christensen and
Randy Suess officially announced the creation of a little project they threw together with a 300 baud Hayes modem, a Z-80 based S-100 computer, and a phone line. They called it "[2]Chicago Bulletin Board System" (CBBS) and it was the first dial-up BBS. From this beginning, BBSes grew into the many thousands and became an entire industry, and when the Internet started to mature with the World Wide Web, the users who had cut their teeth on BBSes moved over to it. So raise a toast to these two fellows for a [3]quarter century of great online times." Links

    0. mailto:jason@textfiles.com
    1. 
http://timeline.textfiles.com/1978/
    2. 
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/photos/cbbs.jpg
    3. 
http://www.chinet.com/html/cbbs.html

Science Editors Urge Nondisclosure Of Bioterror Info http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/1931237

Jeraph Mason writes "According to [0]this story on ABC news, science editors want to censor their publications because terrorists may use them. It's the same argument used to prevent [1]security disclosures from being published." There's also coverage [2] on the BBC and [3]at The Washington Post.
Links

    0. 
http://abc.net.au/news/scitech/2003/02/item20030216103135_1.htm
    1. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/21/0559238&tid=172
    2. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/denver_2003/2767453.stm
    3. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14222-2003Feb15.html

Intel, Red Hat Agree To BSD License For Intel Patches http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/1816200

stock points to this [0]story on CNET, excerpting "Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community." By adding a BSD-variant license to certain kernel contributions from Intel, the two companies have bridged an impasse between the GPL and Intel's "component architecture" license. Links

0. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984769.html

TurboTax DRM Writes to Your Boot Sector?! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/1549232

[0]ltwally writes "As [1]reported on Slashdot (amongst other sites)
recently, the latest version of [2]TurboTax is laden with DRM software. Even worse, however, is that it apparently writes to your hard drive's boot-sector , as reported at [3]Extreme Tech [4]here. As I'm sure most Slashdotters already know, the boot-sector is often times used for silly things like boot-loaders and such. " Links

    0. 
http://ltwally&softhome,net
    1. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/1838240&tid=98
    2. 
http://www.turbotax.com/
    3. 
http://www.extremetech.com/
    4. 
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,881243,00.asp

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Freshmeat
Ace Operator 1.1.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113235/

Ace Operator is an instant messaging call-center solution that can be accessed from Web pages. Using this product, online service providers can easily add a "live help" button to any or all of their Web pages, which gives online customers access to company representatives and allows them to exchange information in real-time.

AdaSockets 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113222/

AdaSockets is a library that lets you use sockets in Ada 95. It supports unicast and multicast sockets, and uses object oriented structures to ease sockets manipulation.

Averist 1.7.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113177/

Averist is a module that adds an authentication layer to any CGI application written in Perl. It supports initial authentication through CGI (form), and it can use CGI (hidden form fields) or cookies for reauthentication after a configurable timeout. It can also use an SQL database or DBM file for storing session tickets for increased security. The username and password check at the initial authentication can be done via a DBM file, an LDAP directory, NIS, an SQL database, or a passwd-style file. Averist is written in Perl for easy customization and expansion.

BlaXXtarZ 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113175/

BlaXXtarZ is a theme with rounded tiles.

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BookmarkBridge 0.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113227/

BookmarkBridge is a small, easy to use, multi-platform, GUI-based utility that allows the user to share bookmarks between all their browsers. The user runs it periodically to synchronize between the browsers.

cvsd 0.9.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113239/

cvsd is a wrapper program for CVS in pserver mode. It will run 'cvs pserver' under a special uid/gid in a chroot jail. cvsd is run as a daemon and is controlled through a configuration file. It is easy to configure and provides tools for setting up a rootjail and managing repositories.

Damascus 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113182/

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.

Darius Tools 1.1 (Sound)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113165/

Darius Tools is a collection of miscellaneous scripts which are useful for a variety of purposes. They are all designed to be faster and easier to use than the command line that would normally be required to accomplish the same task. For example, there are scripts for mass conversion of WAV files to Ogg files and Ogg files to WAV files, for converting LaTeX to PostScript and viewing the output in ggv, for creating image thumbnails, for converting from the Euro to another currency, for automated updating via FTP and for removing backups recursively. The Darius Tools are split among several packages according to different categories.

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Enemies of Carlotta 0.18 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113233/

Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman.

EzSDK 4.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113218/

EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.

fbdump 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113179/

fbdump is a simple tool to capture snapshots from the Linux kernel framebuffer device and write them out as a PPM file. Currently, most packed-pixel framebuffer formats and the vga16 framebuffer are supported.

FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113197/

FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic shaping, and more.

Can't find what you're looking for?

Freeoxyd 0.70
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113217/

Enigma is a reimplementation of Oxyd, a puzzle game that was very popular on the Atari ST and later on the PC. Equipped with a little black marble, your objective is to locate and uncover matching pairs of Oxyd stones.

GOPchop 0.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113183/

GOPchop is an MPEG2-PS editor that cuts on GOP boundries so that the resulting MPEG2-PS file does not need to be re-encoded when saving the resulting desired frames. It is useful for editing commercials out of MPEG2 TV capture files.

GRAMPS 0.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113173/

Gramps is a GTK/GNOME-based genealogy program written in Python.

Greenwich 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113229/

Greenwich is a graphical whois client for GNOME. It is written in Perl and makes use of the GNOME bindings for Perl.

Don't know where to look next?

GtkTerm 0.99.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113237/

GtkTerm is a serial port terminal written in GTK+ . It is a clone of the famous Hyperterminal. The port can be set up, and the control signal can be toggled. It also supports file transfers and an hexadecimal view of the data.

IceCrack 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113201/

IceCrack is a simple theme based on the TigertCrack theme for Metacity. It was designed to match the colors of the PrettyOkayish GTK theme.

im-stats 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113164/

im-stats produces HTML statistics from Trillian logs.

Impact 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113247/

Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.

Confused? Frustrated?

Jacksum 1.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113246/

Jacksum is a free checksum utility written entirely in Java. It supports most common checksum algorithms (Adler32, BSD sum, POSIX cksum, CRC-16, CRC-32, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1, Unix System V sum, and Whirlpool). Recursive file processing is supported.

Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113206/

Jay's Iptables Firewall is a bash script that allows one to easily install and configure a firewall on a Linux system. It was initially written for use on a home LAN, but can be extend to any type of network. It features support for multiple (external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP header control, masquerading, synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, (experimental) upload limits, VPNs (like vtun), ToS (bandwith managment), denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list IP, log options, and more. The firewall is able to launch custom iptables rules, and the configuration of the firewall is assisted by an optional, interactive, curses-based Perl script.

jGal D1 [2003-02-15]
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113174/

jGal is a Perl script that generates static XHTML image galleries, along with thumbnails and slides, from image files. It's derived from iGal.

kbilliards 0.4b (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113226/

Kbilliards is a pool game entirely written using Qt/KDE. It supports a neat and customizable physics system.

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leads4web 3.0.1.2 (beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113215/

leads4web is a very customizable, multilingual, Web-based Customer Relationship Management solution. It supports different users and roles, comes with email support, customer/companies management, todos, calendar, CR, and Projects Management.

Less 381
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113187/

Less is a program similar to more, i.e. a terminal based program for viewing text files and the output from other programs. Less offers many features beyond those that more does. For instance, it allows backward movement in the files as well as forward.

Looper Event / Alert System 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113250/

Looper is a highly modularized application designed to simplify the event / alert model. Primarily used for Network Management, this application can be used to accomplish a variety of tasks related to logging and alerting such as listening for SNMP traps and logging to a file or sending notification to Netcool (a la "trapd probe"), reading a log file for alerts and sending notification via e-mail, parsing syslogs and sending notifications to Netcool (a la "syslog probe"), etc. Looper can also be used as an ad-hoc Netcool probe or Gateway.

Lyrictracker X 4.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113205/

Lyrictracker X is a Mac OS X application which allows you to find and download song lyrics. It also features functionality to download lyrics to your iPod, submit lyrics to the database, and chat with other users.

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man-pages-ja 20030215
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113180/

man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU tools, and ones for various opensource applications.

MonAlbum 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113200/

MonAlbum is a PHP and MySQL based photo album.

Mosfet replacement image loader for Konqueror 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113213/

This is a replacement for the Konqueror Web browser's image loader. It is aimed at dialup and/or PixiePlus users and adds incremental image loading for JPEG, GIF, PNG, and some BMPs. It features checking if the image being downloaded is a duplicate, canceling if so, and the ability to save directly to your hard disk without the file dialog.

nMicrocoder 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113242/

nMicrocoder is an ncurses EDA tool to write microcode. Basically it is a stripped-down spreadsheet program which lets you fill a tabular layout with "0", "1", and "-", and gives you compile-ready verilog-code in return.

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photom 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113231/

photom is a collection of programs designed to take raw, instrumental measurements of stellar brightness and convert them to calibrated magnitudes on some standard system. They were written as part of the TASS Mark IV pipeline, but may work on other datasets.

PHPReports 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113211/

PHPReports is a PHP report generator that uses XML report layout files to generate PHP code and show a report.

PHPX 2.2.4 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113243/

PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS), forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums, downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing, support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management, news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to fully customize the look of your site.

Plugger for Mozilla 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113169/

Plugger for Mozilla is a modification of Plugger, a very small multimedia plugin for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera which uses external programs to show and play many file formats. This modification fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a player to stream a media file directly from the URL.

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PowerDNS daemon 2.9.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113212/

PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases. Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.

PrettyBlueish 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113202/

PrettyBlueish is a theme based on the thinice engine. It is a modification of the PrettyOkayish theme to match the colors of Mozilla's modern theme. There is also a matching IceWM theme, IceCrack.

ProjectForum 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113240/

Easier to use and more interactive than conventional forum, collaboration, or intranet software, ProjectForum lets you build an intranet or project site where everyone can actively and directly contribute, without complex software or a full-time administrator getting in the way. It can be used for project planning, task assignments, meeting notes, team discussions, research, brainstorming, and more.

PTlink Services 2.22.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113198/

PTlink Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC daemon, it includes features like channel logging, oper management, helper management, AJOIN user list, memo read acknowledgement, rotated logs, autoidentify on ghost, and ChanServ PROTECTED level. It also integrates NewServ for real time news delivering.

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rb.log 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113216/

rb.log is a full-featured weblogger written in Ruby. It features file uploads, comments, blog- rolling, side-bar editing, bookmarklets, the Blogger API, searching, RSS syndication, and archives. It also performs well on slower machines by regenerating static pages after posts are made.

Renaissance 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113191/

GNUstep Renaissance allows you to describe your user interfaces (that is, the windows in your application and the buttons, boxes, text fields, etc. in the windows) in simple and intuitive XML files, using an open, standard format describing the logic of the interface.

Scintilla 1.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113195/

Scintilla is a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+. As well as features found in standard text editing components, Scintilla includes features especially useful when editing and debugging source code. These include support for syntax styling, error indicators, code completion and call tips. Styling choices are more open than with many editors, allowing the use of proportional fonts, bold and italics, multiple foreground and background colours and multiple fonts.

SciTE 1.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113196/

SciTE is a GUI-based single-document editor which uses the Scintilla editor component. It rapidly styles most common programming languages with good control over how syntactic elements are displayed, and features folding for C++, C, Java, JavaScript, and Python. Styling of HTML also styles embedded scripts written in VBScript, Javascript, or Python.

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Simple Python Blogger 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113223/

Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries, users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to edit, change, and set up. It creates pages based on one HTML template file, which can be edited to suit your personal taste.

skaMenu 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113186/

skaMenu is a menu browser. It's controlled with an LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) device, and it's very configurable through the use of an XML configuration file. It supports TrueType fonts and antialiasing, and the output is done with the pygame library.

SMATCH 0.39
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113184/

SMATCH is an experiment in finding Linux kernel errors. There are two main parts to Smatch. The first is a patch to the gcc sources to print out a lot of information. The second part is a collection of Perl scripts and libraries to analyze the information.

SouRCe PacKaGer 1.1-beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113249/

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.

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Spamcup 1.02 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113236/

Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web browser, but from the commandline.

Text::BarGraph 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113244/

Text::BarGraph is a simple Perl module for generating ASCII bar graphs based on data in a hash, where the keys are labels and the values are magnitudes. It automatically scales the graph to fit on your terminal screen. It is very useful in making data more meaningful. For example, it can be used with statistics gathered from a log file.

The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO 2003-02-15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113185/

The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO describes how to write parasitic file viruses which infect ELF executables on Linux/i386. Though it contains a lot of source code, no actual virus is included. Every mentioned infection method is accompanied with a practical guide to detection.

toolame 02k
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113204/

Toolame is an optimized MPEG-1/2 Layer II audio encoder based upon the ISO demonstration source code that borrows heavily from the LAME project, as well as introducing new optimizations and additional features such as VBR.

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TOra 1.3.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113210/

TOra is a Toolkit for Oracle which aims to help the DBA or developer of database application. It features an SQL worksheet with PL/SQL block parsing, a PL/SQL debugger and editor with syntax highlighting, a Schema browser, UNICODE support, printing, and a full suite of DBA management tools.

TOSVCD 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113192/

tosvcd is a small C++ utility that can take one or more recorded VDR files and transcode them to one or more SVCD image files ready to burn with cdrdao.

Video Disk Recorder 1.1.24 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113189/

Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more.

XFMail 1.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113232/

XFMail is X11 application for receiving electronic mail. It was created using XForms library toolkit by T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars. It's partially compatible with MH style mail- boxes but it does not require any mh tools to be installed on the system. You can read most of your MH folders and messages. It has a very friendly user interface and it's extremely easy in use. It implements most of the mail functionality in one program and it does not require any additional tools. It will run on most UNIX variants, as well as OS/2 (with the emx libraries and XFree86). It is also available in Gentoo Portage.

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Zorbstats 0.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113228/

ZorbStats is a simple Web statistics generator using PHP and MySQL. It is simple to install an features visitor logs, browser stats, OS stats, and number of visits. It also allows you to search all logs.

Slashcode
Lifetime karma
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/15/2021220

I just read this interview (flamebait/insightful, depending on your view of a certain GWB) with Kurt Vonnegut, now 80 years. Seems he's earned quite a bit of karma in his years. That's how I got this idea: Presuming succesful slashsites might last for decades, it would be a further motivation to keep writing good commentary and just generally interesting if, in addition to the active karma value (with the cap), there would also be a separate "total karma earned", or lifetime karma which would not have a cap and would be an integer value rather than a descriptive value.

External Authentication
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1733212

I have an existing registration system on a website that I would like to also deploy slash on. In order to do this, I need to be able to use my existing database for authentication. It is MySQL driven. In searching I have seen that some have been successful letting Apache authenticate and then passing the username to the program. I imagine if that is possible, it could also be done with cookies, but I am guessing. Has anyone else crossed this bridge already? If yes, would you mind sharing the patches? If no, does anyone have any advice on the best way I should proceed. Thank you, Mitchell

Slash on Mac OS X - Undefined Symbols again http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/1733208

Hi, I am fairly new to Mac OS X and Slash so please apologise any stupidities. I've been trying to install Slash on Mac OS X for 2 days now and after resolving any Fink and firewall and Perl 5.8.0 issues am nearly there. There's just this one tiny module that still has undefined Symbols: Apache::Slash::User: > perl -MSlash::Apache::User dyld: perl Undefined symbols: _ap_add_module _ap_find_linked_module

    _ap_null_cleanup _ap_palloc _ap_register_cleanup _ap_remove_module
    _perl_clear_symtab _perl_cmd_perl_FLAG _perl_cmd_perl_TAKE1
    _perl_cmd_perl_TAKE2 _perl_get_startup_pool _perl_perl_cmd_cleanup I've

tried deleting the directories in /Library/Perl and reinstalling Slash but to no avail. I installed Perl according to the HOWTO at Apple's and it seems to work fine, installing a slash site worked perfectly well, I just can't start neither apache nor slashd. Any ideas? Thanks, christian

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How Do You Change HTML Tag Case?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/061243

I was able to change the case of HTML tags used by Slash by editing Display.pm, Data.pm, and templates. However, there is one last tag which I cannot change the case for. The </A> tag. Where can I go to change this? I need to normalize my tags to lowercase to conform with XHTML.

Using the Features box
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/1732235

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