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[osdn developer] March 09, 2003
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 04:15:50 EST
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March 09, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
bogofilter-0.11.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257794
The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam" . It is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X. Version 0.11.1 is available, including a number of enhancements and bugfixes. See the NEWS-0.11 file for details.
drjava-20030304-2327 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257786
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. This development release of DrJava provides a significant number of bug fixes, in preparation for an upcoming beta release. The changes include improvements to saved Interactions histories, improved undo support, key binding fixes, and various user interface bug fixes. Please test this release by following the "more download options" link on our home page.
Tcl/Tk 8.4.2 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257762
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.2 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the second patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. See http://www.tcl.tk/ for details.
Axualize 1.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257007
After successful beta testing, version 1.1.0 is now official. Axualize is a language for building application from objects using an XML dialect. Axualize is schema driven and infinitely extendable. Axualize is currently implemented in Java but the Axualize schema does not dictate a specific platform. The 1.1.0 release adds support for Ruby, JavaScript and BeanShell scripting, as well as other enhancements. 1.1.0 Added: - Built in "Ruby" scripting support through BSF and JRuby
- Built in "JavaScript" scripting support through BSF and Rhino - Built in "BeanShell" scripting support both through BSF and as the natively supported scripting environment. - MrRoboto class which aids in creating Axualize documents which implement simple java.awt.Robot actions. The MrRoboto class implements KeyListener, and MouseListener and is simply registered as such for each component which will be recorded. - new BSF schema so to aid creating documents which utilize both standard and BSF namespaces. changed: - ProcessHandler has been refactored to behave more like HttpHandler.
IlohaMail 0.7.10 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257047
IlohaMail 0.7.10 has been released. This version includes security fixes (also released in 0.7.9-2), three new languages (Korean, Standard Portuguese, Catalan), APOP support, improved handling of RFC822 attachments as well as minor fixes to the IMAP and SMTP libraries. This is the most recent update to the stable branch. IlohaMail is a PHP based lightweight full featured multilingual webmail program with IMAP and POP3 support.
gchch-1.9.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257203
This is a full port of the game to Gnome 2.0, along with numerous bug fixes and enhancements. It's a prelease before the actualy 2.0.0 release. Gnome Chinese Checkers is an networked implementation of the Chinese Checkers board game, supporting upto 6 players. The game includes added goodies like an integrated chat window, player rotation, etc. This has been updated for Gnome 2.0.
libmng 1.0.5 (final) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256928
This is the long-awaited major update of the MNG library. The MNG specification is now covered to near 100% and as an added bonus this release includes the new 'dynamic MNG' feature, that allows for easy roll-over (hover/click; w or w/o mask) effects with a minimum of fuss. libmng is the reference library for reading, displaying, writing and examining Multiple-Image Network Graphics. MNG is the animation extension to the popular PNG image-format.
pureIRCd release 2.7.1304
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257000
pureIRCd is a Win32 IRCd written in Visual Basic, that operates Fast
and efficiently in networks as well as standalone. This release
features better Server to Server linking, some statistics additions and
Server - Server autoconnecting. Autoconnecting is new to pureIRCd and
may have some glitches, so dont trust on it, it's alpha, really. You
dont have to upgrade to this version of pureIRCd if you mostly use it
standalone as most changes only affect server links. To download the
new version, please go here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71720&release_id=
143841
Qixite 0.0.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256961
Qixite allows easy template based generation of web sites. It organizes the web site into a tree of nodes representing Pages, Text Sections, Images, and Links. It provides quick and easy way to publish your thoughts and information on Internet. The program generates links, style sheets and other things, the only thing user has to warry about is information. Changes in 0.0.8: - Possibility to use external editor (eg. Mozilla) for editing articles in WYSIWYG mode was added - French, Spanish and Lithuanian translations were updated - Several non-critical bugs were fixed To download, please go here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40222&release_id= 83910
Burn To The Brim v2.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256875
Burn To The Brim is a utility for grouping files and folders together in the most efficient way to fill up an entire CD, DVD or other medium. Burn to the Brim version 2.5 now allows the user to directly create ISO 9660 files of the filled CD's, using mkisofs by Joerg Schilling. These files can then be burned by an arbritary burn-program that supports the ISO 9660 format. You can find the new version at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49999
Slashdot
Playing with Google
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1430241
Chromatic sent over the links to Tara Calishain's [0]Happy Google Hacks
page. It's basically a collection of interesting ways to do searching -
something fun for the weekend. I'm thinking of preparing dinner Sunday
based on the recipe tool.
Links
0. http://www.buzztoolbox.com/google/
Yet Another Perl Conference - Canada
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/2313249
[0]minaguib writes "For anyone interested in Perl, [1]Yet Another Perl
Conference is coming to Ottawa, Canada May 15th and 16th.
Pre-Registration is now open and the calendar is not completely
finalized, as they are still accepting presenter entries. This is a
great way to get involved either as a presenter or an attendee."
Links
LA Times Examines Silicon Valley
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/2127235
[0]Richard Finney writes "The Los Angeles Times has a [1]special
section on Silicon Valley. Most of the stories focus on the 'survivors
struggling through the toughest stretch in tech industry history.'
There's also a story on [2] Five Reasons to Hope - New technologies
that may help Silicon Valley rise again: Biotech, microsensors,
nanotechnology, flexible electronics and data mining. We'll see."
Links
0.
http://rfinney.com
1.
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-svintro9mar09.story
2.
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-svnewthings9mar09.htmlstoryCan Science Journalism Be Entertaining and Responsible? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/190232
[0]GRW writes "This past week, I attended a [1]panel discussion
sponsored by the [2]Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in
Waterloo, Ontario, entitled "Can science journalism be entertaining and
responsible?". This was a discussion regarding the role the media could
and should play in the dissemination of scientific issues to the
general public. Panelists included newspaper, TV and radio journalists.
I thought that this might be a good subject for a Slashdot discussion.
What do you think about science journalism? How can it better
communicate to the general public about science and the scientific
method? Can science journalism do a better job of helping people
distinguish science from pseudoscience?"
Links
0. http://
1.
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/activities/public_lectures/
2.
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/
Intuit Sued Over Product Activation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1848232
An anonymous reader writes "PCWorld is [0]reporting: [Scott] Leviant's firm of Stanbury & Fishelman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Intuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of all U.S. purchasers of TurboTax software for the 2002 tax year. The suit alleges that Intuit engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices by failing to fully disclose the mechanisms and consequences of its product-activation technology before consumers pay for the software." Links
0. http://www.idg.net/ic_1196714_9677_1-5042.html
Back to the Trees
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1840252
circletimessquare writes "This story should excite the nerd in anyone.
Build a [0]luxury treehouse! The [1]New York Times reports on an
[2]entire subculture devoted to an idea which sounds funny at first...
but really, why not? Much serious discussion in the article about the
technical considerations involved in treehouse construction. Also
mention of 'treesorts' at the bottom of the article (one being called
'Lothlorien Woods Hide-a-way' lol). I hunted down some links to two of
the big players mentioned in the article, [3]TreeHouse Workshop Inc.
and the [4]World Treehouse Conference. No mention as to whether or not
they support [5]Banyan VINES (sorry, I couldn't resist)."
Links
0.
http://www.treehouses.com/treehouse/construction/home.html
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/
2.
http://nytimes.com/2003/03/07/realestate/luxury/07TREE.html
3.
http://www.treehouseworkshop.com/
4.
http://www.treehouses.com/treehouse/treesort/conv0.html
5.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/vines.htmCell Phones Changing Social Group Communication http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1738254
Mortimer.CA writes "An interesting article on how cell phones are
[0]changing the way people interact and get together in Japan. Some
interesting quotations: 'To not have a keitai (cell phone) is to be
walking blind, disconnected from just-in-time information on where and
when you are in the social networks of time and place.' And the new
social faux pas: 'One college student I spoke to described leaving
one's phone at home or letting the battery die as "the new taboo."' The
article mentions the book Smart Mobs which was [1]mentioned on Slashdot
before. I keep thinking how Marshal McLuhan said that our new
inventions change the way we view the world. This is 'obvious' now, but
was quite a new idea when he thought of it. In the 40s and 50s you
"needed" to get a (land line) phone, then it was cars, email, and now
cell phones. What's next? Is it simply a matter of keeping up with the
Joneses?"
Links
0. http://www.ojr.org/japan/wireless/1043770650.php
Australian Overturns 15 Years of Nano-Science Doctrine http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1631221
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "Dr John Sader, from the University of
Melbourne, discovered a design flaw in a key component of the Atomic
Force Microscope (AFM). He 'used established mechanical principles to
prove that the popular V-shaped cantilever inadvertently degrades the
performance of the instrument, and delivers none of its intended
benefits.' This finding may reshape the industry by proposing a single
new standard and because the AFM 'has been the instrument of choice for
three dimensional measurements at the atomic scale, since its invention
in 1986.' Check [1]this column for more details and an AFM diagram or
read the original [2]University of Melbourne's article. You also can
visit the '[3]How AFM works' page."
Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/03/08.html
2.
http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/0006_1_1.php?article=414
3.
http://stm2.nrl.navy.mil/how-afm/how-afm.htmlSignificant Interactivity Boost in Linux Kernel http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/162218
An anonymous reader writes "The Linux kernel team is [0]at it again.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds recently proposed a patch to offer
interactive processes a boost, greatly benefiting the X desktop, as
well as music and movie players. O(1) scheduler author [1]Ingo Molnar
merged Linus' patch into his own interactivity efforts, the end result
nothing short of amazing... The upcoming 2.6 kernel is looking to be a
desktop user's dream come true."
Links
0. http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=603
Grand Theft Auto Released For Free
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1331203
[0]Snover writes "It's already incredibly difficult to actually get to
the site due to its extreme popularity, and can only get worse after
the inevitable slashdotting, but [1]Rockstar Games has [2]updated their
original hit, Grand Theft Auto, to run on 'modern' computers and
released it for free to the public. It'd be nice if more gaming
companies did this! Unfortunately, it (of course) is Windows-only and
utilises the propietary DirectX API, but hey, [2]free game for anyone
that's paid the Microsoft tax! (The download speed, once you actually
manage to connect to the site, is quite excellent -- it's maxing out my
2Mbps connection.)" Ah, what a classic game.
Links
0.
http://zetafleet.com
1.
http://www.rockstargames.com/
2.
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/
Freshmeat
Fine-tuning MPlayer
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/747
MPlayer is a movie player. It's written mainly for Linux, but it works on most Unices and even on other architectures like OSX, QNX, and (somehow) even Windows. Although it's a desktop/end-user application, it is not as user-friendly as it should be. Some time ago, I even told newbies (coming from Windows) to try xine instead of using the commandline MPlayer.
avidemux 0.9rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115583/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit AVI. It allows you to multiplex and demultiplex audio to/from video. It is able to cut video, import BMP, MJPEG, and MPEG video, and encode them. You can also process video with included filters. It requires divx4linux and GTK/GDK.
bogofilter 0.11.1.2 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115558/
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
DBMonster 0.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115598/
DBMonster is a tool which helps database application developers with tuning the structure of the database, tuning the usage of indexes, and testing the application performance under heavy database load. DBMonster generates as much random data as you wish and puts it into an SQL database. It provides a very pluggable interface and is trivial to use.
devaki-nextobjects 0.3-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115570/
Nextobjects is an integrated development tool for Entreprise Applications. It use Turbine Torque for code generation, and is based on the Merise method.
Dungeon Crawl 4.0.0beta25 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115559/
Dungeon Crawl is a fun game in the grand tradition of Rogue, Hack, and Moria. Your objective is to travel deep into a subterranean cave complex and retrieve the Orb of Zot, which is guarded by many horrible and hideous creatures.
Ensemblist rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115567/
Ensemblist is a 3D puzzle game in which you have to model a given shape with geometric primitives that you must assemble with boolean operations (using constructive solid geometry).
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.12.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115589/
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.
Fireflies Screensaver 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115599/
Fireflies is an OpenGL screensaver for Linux (using xscreensaver) and Windows. It also works as a standalone program, which allows you to move and rotate the camera. Swarms of bugs fly around the screen leaving colorful translucent trails that get blown around by the wind.
gperiodic 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115560/
gperiodic is a program for browsing the periodic table and looking up data for different elements. It also features a non-graphical interface.
HTTrack Website Copier 3.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115564/
HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the mirrored Web site in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads.
IceWM 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115602/
IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and Windows, and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps.
Ikaros Simulation Framework 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115566/
Ikaros is a framework for writing and running component-based simulators. It is presently used for simulations of brain areas and learning models, but is general enough to be easily used for any discrete-time simulations. A simulation consists of modules written in C or C++ that are connected in the simulator, with connections specified in an XML file. At this time it is a console-based application, but there are socket-based hooks for adding a GUI. The package contains a number of modules and complete documentation for working with the framework.
Kodo JDO 2.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115578/
Kodo JDO allows you to write database calls using Java statements instead of SQL statements, by supporting the Java Data Objects standard for transparent persistence. It is the most complete implementation of the JDO specification for relational data stores, and comes with tools for producing a schema from an object model, producing class files from an existing schema, and a performance pack (distributed caching and statement batching) that improves performance by 15 - 30 times. It supports most relational databases, application servers, and IDEs, and reduces the total coding effort by 20-40%.
LBreakout 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115594/
LBreakout is a breakout game with nice effects, graphics, and sounds. It's got a menu to configure a lot of things and a high score chart. It can be played either by mouse or keyboard. New levels can also be created, and most other aspects of the game can be customized.
LinPacker 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115573/
Linpacker is a tool to optimize the placement of rectangles in a band of semi-infinite size (2D bin packing problem) with a genetic algorithm. It can be useful for cutting stocks in trucks and factories.
LJChk 0.0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115587/
LJChk is a script for working with livejournal servers via the XMLRPC over HTTP protocol. Functions include continous checking for friends' updates, monitoring changes in a friends list, posting both in your own journal and in community journals, with the ability to use all the options available through the livejournal Web interface, and auto-posting quote lists with references to other users' posts.
makeself 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115552/
makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable compressed TAR archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an arbitrary command will be executed (for example, an installation script). This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows world.
Metadot Portal Server 4.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115562/
Metadot Portal Server is point-and-click Web site building software. It features content management, collaboration, and a dashboard like My Yahoo!'s.
microZique 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115607/
microZique is yet another MP3/Ogg jukebox that was started as an effort to provide a very convenient interface for playing albums. It can be run on a dedicated jukebox machine or a simple computer, and is controlled via a nice Web interface.
Mindless 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115557/
Mindless is an SDL-based puzzle game similar to the classic boardgame Mastermind. The goal of the game is to crack a secret code selected by your opponent before he has cracked yours. You can play human vs. human, human vs. computer, or computer vs. computer.
Mock Objects for C++ 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115582/
mockpp is a platform independent generic unit testing framework for C++. Its goal is to facilitate developing unit tests in the spirit of Mock Objects and EasyMock. Mockpp does not have its own testing framework; CppUnit is recommended.
Motiontrack 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115609/
Motiontrack is a set of tools that detect motion between two PNG or JPG images.
nut 7.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115548/
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 15, which contains 6,220 foods. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Recipes can be added. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
PassGuard Figaro's Password Manager plugin 0.01alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/115549/
The PassGuard suite is a set of software that manages passwords encrypted in a file. Users just have to remember one password, and different encrypted file formats are supported via plugins. The PassGuard FPM plugin is a plugin that manages Figaro's Password Manager files encrypted with the Blowfish algorithm.
patchutils 0.2.22 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115606/
Patchutils contains a collection of tools for manipulating patch files: interdiff, combinediff, flipdiff, 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, combinediff for creating a cumulative diff from two incremental patches, and flipdiff to transpose 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.
PG-SMSTerm 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115571/
PG-SMSTerm is a basic TCP/IP server implementation in PHP for sending SMS thru a machine which is configured with SMSTerm.
pharao portal system 0.60.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115553/
pharao is a complete Internet/intranet portal system with many features.
PhotoPnMTools 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115601/
PhotoPnMTools is a simple toolkit for processing photographic images using improved algorithms. It is based on Poskanzer's PPM toolkit. It contains resizing, sharpening, and contrast / saturation / color balance filters. It can be used for cropping, color editing, and making Web albums.
prokyon3 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115575/
prokyon3 is a multithreaded MP3/Ogg Vorbis manager and tag editor. It was written in C++ using the Qt3 widget set and the MySQL database. prokyon3 can access MP3 files on harddisk, CDROM, SMB, and NFS. MP3 files can be played using XMMS, and can even be played when the files are on CD as prokyon3 identifies CDs by content. The files view is customizable and favorite artists are supported. prokyon3 also offers an editor for ID3 tags and has been designed to support tagging for multiple files en masse.
reciteword 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115572/
reciteword is education software developed using GTK 2 to help people study English and recite English words. It has a very beautiful interface to make reciting words an interesing thing. It can change skins, and comes with many sound events, including over 400 books for you to choose. It also includes a dictionary, which can also run separately.
Remote Arpwatch 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115588/
Remote Arpwatch collects ARP tables from remote devices usin g SNMP and checks them for changes. It is very useful for det ecting problems and malicious users in networks with routers th at don't support static ARP tables.
SingIt Lyric Displayer 0.1.25 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115574/
The SingIt Lyric Displayer is an XMMS plugin which displays formatted lyrics, including id3v2xx lyrics. It consists of the displayer and an integrated editor which allows one to easily insert time stamps, edit the text, and export & strip HTML.
SNMP::Info 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115405/
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.
SpiralSynthModular 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115568/
SpiralSynth Modular (or SSM) is an object orientated modular softsynth / sequencer / sampler. Audio or control data can be freely passed between the plugins, and is all treated the same. Data can also be fed back on itself for chaotic effects. LADSPA plugins are supported, and you can use them in the same way as any of the native plugins. Not having MIDI won't restrict what you can do. It currently uses the standard OSS/Free sound input/output (/dev/dsp), and should work on ALSA too. You can also render WAV files directly to disk.
Steel Bank Common Lisp 0.7.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115563/
Steel Bank Common Lisp is a development environment for Common Lisp, with support for almost all of the ANSI standard: garbage collection, lexical closures, powerful macros, strong dynamic typing, incremental compilation, and the Common Lisp object system (multimethods and all). It also includes some extensions, such as an interface to call out to C. These are all available through an integrated native compiler, plus the usual Lispy integrated interpreter and high level debugging support.
storebackup 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115551/
storebackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks. It includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space needed and improve performance, and unifies the advantages of traditional full and incremental backups. It includes tools for analyzing backup data and restoring. Once archived, files are accessible by mounting filesystems (locally, or via Samba or NFS). It is easy to install and configure.
swaret 1.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115581/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
teTeX 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115590/
TeTex is by far, the best TeX distribution available for Linux, includes latest versions of web2c, pdfTeX, e-TeX, Omega, xdvi, ps2pk, makeinfo, texinfo, texconfig and lots of fonts and macros. It's easy to install and easy to customize.
TextMaker beta rev 377
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115556/
TextMaker is a word processor that launches quickly, needs little memory, does not require complicated setup, and has the full feature set of a modern high-end word processor. It reads and writes Microsoft Word 6/95/97/2000/XP files.
tkjmdict 0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115586/
Tkjmdict is a free multilingual dictionary program written in Tcl/Tk which utilises the Japanese multilingual JMdict dictionary. JMdict consists of more than 90000 Japanese entries translated to English with varying degree of support for German, French, and Russian.
TomPong 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115576/
TomPong is a very simple implementation of the classic Pong game, using Python and Pygame. It features realistic physics for motion using vectors, not-so-realistic but very fun spin dynamics, and scoring.
TSE3 0.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115597/
TSE3 (Trax Sequencer Engine v3) is a powerful open source sequencer engine written in C++. It is a sequencer engine because it provides the actual driving force elements of a sequencer but provides no form of user interface.
Wapmail 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115584/
Wapmail is a free, working wapmail client written in PHP.
WWW Forum 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115608/
WWW Forum is an extremely fast and reliable Web forum that is fully configurable and packed with features. It boasts an elegant user interface and powerful administrative tools.
X10-wish GUI 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115604/
This Java Client demonstrates the simplicity of creating a remote control client/server capability for an X10 automated home controlled by a Linux server with the X10-wish drivers installed. The socket server runs on the same machine as the X10-wish drivers and the Java client can be run on any machine with the Java runtime envrionment 1.3 (or higher) installed.
xbiso 0.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115595/
xbiso is an Xbox xdvdfs ISO extraction utility.
XiangQi Engine 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115605/
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.
xine xine-lib 1-beta8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115591/
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications.
yaws 1.01 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115392/
Yaws is a high performance, light-weight, threaded HTTP 1.1 Web server targeted for the generation of dynamic content. It is written in Erlang, and the server side dynamic content is generated by Erlang code embedded in the HTML code.
ZorbIPtraffic 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115611/
ZorbIPtraffic shows the IP traffic on a network interface in real time. It can display traffic statistics for each IP on your internal network, and it summarizes the total traffic for each IP per year, per month, and per day. All information is stored in a MySQL database, which makes it easy to search the traffic measurements for a specific day. ZorbIPtraffic only works if you use iptables.
Zorbstats 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115610/
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
File Management System?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/0559213
Krow added Blob support for stories. That is great, however, it stores all the info into a database. How hard would it be to design a plugin that works more like the gallery plugin for slash. IE: To be able to add PDF/Mp3s/Images, etc, into a story or comment, but have it stored in a directory or something rather than the database.
Privatized user journals?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1824248
Is there any way to privatize user journals? I've noticed on the new slashdot site that the ability to privatize your journal is offered if you're a paid subscriber, is this a feature available in slashcode? If not, any ideas on how to implement this? --TorinEdge
Changing Boxes in a Template
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1758241
A similar question to my one about templates earlier, but I've created specific QuickLinks boxes and things I'd like to make part of my template. Is there any way these can be grabbed from the database as well, and used as my boxes? Actually, now that I think about it, would it be better to just delete any (perhaps all) of the boxes, and just create my own, putting them in appropriate locations myself. If I choose to do the latter, can I make specific boxes a part of my template? Or would I need to create a new Boxes plugin or something that can put them in my site for me? I know I keep firing questions off to you guys about what probably seems to be simple stuff, but if nothing else it's at least providing some info about what might be handy to have available in the future for simpler customisation.
Mandrake.Net
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1841236
It took 6 years to update my code after I handed rob the set of perl code I hacked out to run my site, but finally I changed mandrake.net over to running slash. I'm still working on bringing over the last of the content from the old site, and still tweaking everything (I still have the default slash color scheme) but it looks pretty good so far.
Email password problem
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1753230
Hi, My site does not seem to send out password emails to new users at all, and also leaves this message in dailystuff.log: Can't call method "bulkmail" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5 .8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Slash/Utility/System. pm line 168. I am still relatively a newbie to slash, and I attempted to search for this message - but have seen no ref to it yet. I have also listed the users in mysql to make sure there arent any wierd email addresses. --orionrobots
ERROR WHEN RUNNING: install-slashsite -u user http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/0710226
I am new to installing Slash so let me appologize now less I not anger
the Gods for my stupidity. So I have started out the right way by
searching the past posts on this site, reading the FAQ and "How to
install Slash for dummies." In all that reading I have only found
one post here where someone else has documented experiencing this
problem. However no one responded to the poster's issue in 2002 so I am
still at an impase and will ask the question here again. Thanks in
advance for any help you can give me. Here is an excerpt of what I see
after I type "instal-slashsite -u virtslash." FYI... I am
installing Slash on a RedHat 8.0 system and have been following the
install instructions for “How to install Slash for Dummies.”
[root@localhost bin]# ./install-slashsite -u virtslash Base class
package "Template::Provider" is empty. (Perhaps you need to
'use' the module which defines that package first.) at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-m
ulti/Slash/Display/Provider.pm line 34
Installing Slashcode without Root Privileges http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/1838201
I have a question, and I'm not exactly sure where to ask it. Is it possible for Slashcode to be installed without root privileges on a normal user account? Can the required Perl modules be installed in a subdirectory of Slashcode? Any information or responses in the form of comments to the above two questions is appreciated greatly. Thanks in advance!
Template Editing
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/1730250
So I've edited the default templates quite a bit in my site, and it displays fine. But, now I want to create my new set of templates as a theme (which seems like the logical thing to do for future installations). Problem: I can't seem to locate any template files anywhere that contain the edited templates. in /usr/local/slash the only set of templates I can locate are those from the slashcode theme, which are the default ones. And, when I search thru the appropriate site subfolder, there are no files in there that reflect any of the changes either. Does this mean it's a case of copy/paste from the template editor into new files to make the appropriate files for my theme? Or will the edited template files be somewhere convenient? PS. I hope this post makes sense...
Sectionindexd
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1722202
Hi, I'm running slash 2.2.5 on OS X 10.2. Everything has been running fine for two months and I was using only one main section for all my topics. Eventually, the need for multiple sections appeared. To keep my users abreast of what's happening in the new sections, I would need to replicate the nifty Section box as seen on Slashdot with a Story count per section. I can't find any way to have it generated automatically. I searched slashcode and google for answers and found nothing. Finally I noticed a template called sectionindexd but I can't figure it out. Any will be help appreciated...
Email Plugin not installed
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/28/1728229
I'm a relative slash newbie. I've just installed 2.3.0. During the
install, I chose "Email Plugin" (I think it was item #6 on the list),
but when I click on the email icon for a story, I get a page that says:
The plugin you have requested Slash::Email, was not
properly installed. I tried restarting both slash and apache, and I
tried using the install-plugin tool (again, I chose Email, and said yes
to using symlinks), but the page continues to state that it's not
installed properly. I do have an Email directory in the plugins
directory, and everything there looks good (to my untrained eye). I
also looked in the logs, but there was no mention of the Email plugin
in the slashd.log file. I seem to have the perl module installed
correctly. I find these three files:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread
-multi/auto/Slash/Email
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread
-multi/auto/Slash