[osdn developer] March 10, 2003

Computing: Griffin PowerMate
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ca2/

Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ac8/

Books: GPF 2 - Gone With The Windows
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cad/

Books: BOFH 2 - Son Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca5/

Books: GPF 3 - And The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb0/

Books: BOFH 3 - Bride Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca8/

Books: BOFH 1 - Bastard Operator From Hell http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5c9b/

Books: User Friendly - Version 1.0
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb2/

Gadgets: Candela Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf5/

Electronics: Mustek MDC-3500 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5ca0/

Computing: iGesture Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5ccd/

Computing: Roll-Up Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5a7f/

Gadgets: InkLink Handwriting System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d08/

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

Can't find what you're looking for?

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

Don't know where to look next?

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
Defining "Planet"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/2249257

[0]beardoc writes "[1]The Sydney Morning Herald is running a [2]story
today about a controversial proposal to define what size a planet might be - depending on what the final definition of how big a planet is, we could end up losing Pluto (at 2300 kilometres) to the status of "asteroid" or gaining three more planets - Quaoar, Varuna and Ceres." Links

    0. 
http://www.hyslop.org
    1. 
http://www.smh.com.au/
    2. 
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/09/1047144868646.html

New Zealand Looks at Internet Censorship http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/199243

David writes "The New Zealand Government 'Select Committee', upon reviewing censorship law, has issued a [0]report which among other things, recommends that ISPs face [1]compulsory licensing "in order to control their behaviour", the [2]forcing of a code of conduct upon ISPs, and recommends the implementation of an internet filtration programme not dissimilar from that of [3]Australia's (although it is hazy on the details of what this would mean). They're starting to become really worried about the [4]dangers of the internet." Links

    0. 
http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/Content/SelectCommitteeReports/i5a.pdf
    1. 
http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/DF3A054F76F9698ECC256CE10008E9D4!opendocument
    2. 
http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/81476e1c0cf66ad0cc256896007c00e7/2467ab08fccd3656cc256ce1000d4075!OpenDocument
    3. 
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/0116227&tid=153
    4. 
http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/A7760BE0575EC33DCC256CCF00746B3C!opendocument

Yet Another Perl Conference: North America http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/0216234

[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Registration for [0]YAPC::NA is in process.
It will be held in Boca Raton, FL June 16-18. YAPC is a low-cost ($85USD) conference, but still has high quality speakers and topics. Although submissions for talks is still going on (ends March 15), many terrific ones are already in the queue. [1]Register today!" Links

0. http://yapc.org/America/

http://yapc.org/America/register.shtml

Confused? Frustrated?

Kernel 2.2 - It Lives!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1915203

Build6 writes "For those of us still using 2.2 (how's that for "conservatism" eh?) -- 2.2.24 is out (and has been since last week) - see [0]kernel.org for downloads. I see networking code tweaks, but no changelog. Time to give our old RH 6.2 machines one last kernel-recompile before Red Hat's end-of-life date arrives for 6.2? :-) What I'd like to know is - who else (besides me) out there still has machines running 2.2 and intends to keep it that way?" Links

0. http://kernel.org

Geek Roadtrips Through the Heartland
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/2144210

While researching a roadtrip which I'll be taking from St. Paul, Minnesota to Placerville, Ca I did what any geek would do, I checked out the [0]t-mobile hotspots along the route (some), did various searching on [1]wi-finder (some) and other sites and have been doing some googling around on the topic. I know that there must be some 802.11b access points along and inside the towns along I-80, but for the life of me I'm finding it difficult for me to find any of them. I of course have various wireless sniffing apps, but that is hardly an efficient way to find access. I don't mind paying a small fee, so....with that in mind, if you were to take a trip across the country, where would you stop for access? For specifics, Read More... Links

0. http://www.t-mobile.com/hotspot/

http://www.wifinder.com

Serial SCSI Standard Coming Soon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/190212

rchatterjee writes "SCSI is very close to joining ATA in leaving a parallel interface design behind in favor of serial one. [0]Serial attached SCSI, as the standard will be known, is expected to be ratified sometime in the second quarter of this year according to this
[1]article at Computerworld. Hard drive manufacturers [2]Seagate and
[3]Maxtor have already said that they will have drives conforming to
the new standard shipping by the end of the year. The new standard will shatter the current SCSI throughput limit of 320 megabit/sec with a starting maximum throughput of 3 gigabit/sec. But before this thread turns into a SCSI fanboy vs. ATA fanboy flame war this other [4]article states that Serial Attached SCSI will be compatible with SATA drives so you can have the best of both worlds." Links

    0. 
http://www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/sas/definition.html
    1. 
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,78947,00.html
    2. 
http://www.seagate.com/
    3. 
http://www.maxtor.com/
    4. 
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,78946,00.html

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Cow Manure --> Electricity
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1823206

[0]jmtpi writes "ABCNews has [1]a story about a dairy farm in Minnesota
that uses its cow manure to generate enough electricity to power the farm plus 80 homes and create fertilizer. There's also a [2]more detailed story."
Links

    0. 
http://www.stanford.edu/~joshmt
    1. 
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/SciTech/cow_power030308.html
    2. 
http://www.auri.org/news/ainjul01/05page.htm

Review of Nokia 7250 - Triband GSM w/camera http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1815229

An anonymous reader writes "The new [0]Nokia 7250 is out. Small, very cool looking phone that even has a built-in camera. [1]3 page review with 6 pages of photos, including a photo gallery of images taken by the 7250 itself - with some human help, of course." Links

0. http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,5184,4541,00.html

http://mobile.burn.com/review.jsp?Id=252

Salvaging Defective DRAM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/046206

An anonymous reader writes "Ever wonder [0]what happens to DRAM that fails quality assurance testing during manufacturing? Turns out a lot of it ends up as 'downgrade' memory and ends up in OEM memory modules. Last resort: use it in an answering machine, where the sampled audio can be very tolerant of bit errors." Links

0. http://www.evaluationengineering.com/archive/articles/0303ate.htm

More on 64-bit Gaming
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1653205

waytoomuchcoffee writes "Valve has [0]announced "immediate availability" of a linux 64-bit dedicated Counterstrike server, designed to run on AMD's upcoming Opteron. This follows on the heels of Unreal Tournament 2003, [1]previously reported on Slashdot. Gamespy has a [2]related story up on a presentation of the future of 64-bit gaming (sponsored by AMD) at last week's Game Developers Conference. As Intel is in [3]no hurry to make the jump to 64-bit desktops, this leaves AMD to court the gaming market."
Links

    0. 
http://www.amdzone.com/releaseview.cfm?ReleaseID=1050
    1. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/0047225&tid=137
    2. 
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/64bit/
    3. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2050237&tid=118

Freshmeat
BitTorrent++ 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115666/

BitTorrent++ is a client for the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing solution. Based on the original BitTorrent software, it is also written in Python using wxPython for the GUI, thus allowing it to run on Win32 as well as Linux-like platforms. It improves (or will improve) many parts of the original software, like downloading of multiple files at once, configuration of upload and download speeds, as well as other behaviours. The GUI and usability is also to be improved greatly.

Catch the Furball 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115701/

Catch the Furball is an icebreaker board game intended for friends to play around a computer. It features a freshly-generated board for each game, an eclectic collection of cards, and beautiful pictures of Cambridge University. The distribution is intended both to allow Web masters to quickly set up their own copy of the game, and to allow tinkerers to use the game engine to make their own games. It includes the editor used to create game data.

cDonkey 0.8.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115716/

cDonkey is an open source core client for eDonkey without a GUI. It works together with eMule and ed2k_gui. It uses Berkley DB-4.1 for fast List management. The eMule Packet data and source2source exchange was implemented. It currently only works with Linux.

Checky 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115682/

The Checky Plugin for Mozilla, Phoenix, and Netscape is a simple interface for Web content and resource developers to free and commercial online validation and analysis services. With Checky, you can easily set up, combine, and use 19 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, P3P, and various viewers, valets, and purifiers.

Cherokee 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115699/

Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.

CIL 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115647/

CIL (C Intermediate Language) is a high-level representation along with a set of tools that permit easy analysis and source-to-source transformation of C programs. In essence, CIL is a highly-structured, 'clean' subset of C.

dchub 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115656/

dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with some extra features dedicated to file sharing.

Can't find what you're looking for?

DCTC 0.85.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115650/

DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.

Debt Minder 1.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115688/

Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files

disktype 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115665/

The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.

Documancer 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115709/

Documancer is a programmer's documentation reader for Unix which has very fast fulltext searching. It has several advantages over using a Web browser or specialized format-specific viewers (such as info), namely unified access to all documentation formats and a GUI that is better-suited for documentation reading than a generic Web browser. It can display HTML manuals and both info and man pages.

Domain Technologie Control 0.10.7-8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115680/

Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is a set of PHP scripts that manage a MySQL database that handles all the host information. It generates backup scripts, statistic calculation scripts, and config files for bind, Apache, qmail, and proftpd, using a single system UID/GID. With DTC, you can delegate the task of creating subdomains, email, and FTP accounts to users for the domain names they own.

Dragon Blade 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115655/

Dragon Blade is a theme based on a background made by Larry Elmore.

Elmo III 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115600/

Elmo III is a KDE 3.x theme package (pixmap theme, IceWM window decoration, and color scheme) based on the "Elmo III" concept art by Andreas Söllner. It attempts to be as close as possible to the original idea without genuine low level coding efforts.

EzSDK 4.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115700/

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.

Don't know where to look next?

FCKeditor 0.9.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115686/

FCKEditor is an HTML editor that brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It's really lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation in the client computer.

FlightGear Scenery Designer 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115649/

FlightGear Scenery Designer is an interactive scenery designer/builder for the FlightGear flight simulator project. The user will be able to import map data, draw hypsographic curves, specify land use area, edit taxiway path, and place 3D objects like buildings.

FVWM -- Crystal 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115651/

FVWM -- Crystal is a GUI and theme whose goals include finding better ways of using the window manager and providing it with an eye candy interface.

Galeon 1.3.3 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115677/

Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant.

Confused? Frustrated?

Hardware lister T.00.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115710/

lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.

Hspell 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115715/

Hspell is a Hebrew linguistic project. It features a Hebrew spell-checker, and aims to use the databases and algorithms developed as a morphology engine (for example, for search engines), and in the future for advanced things like Hebrew speech synthesis.

IaraJS 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115718/

IaraJS is a set of JavaScript templates for the construction of Web sites, using JavaScript components.

ispbs 2.3.b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115687/

ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts. Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail support, multiple customizable packages, and more.

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Jabberwocky 1.0.RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115685/

Jabberwocky is a Lisp IDE containing a Lisp-aware editor with syntax highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer. It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project.

Jessica Alba theme 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115633/

Jessica Alba is a theme based on the Maxum picture of Jessica Alba.

Mbrowser 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115679/

Mbrowse is an SNMP MIB browser based on GTK, and net-snmp. Its features include bookmarks, searching, and viewing MIB variable details.

miqser 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115668/

Miqser is yet another mixer device controller. It is written in C and is very small and simple.

MisterHouse 2.79
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115697/

MisterHouse is a Unix/Windows home automation program written in Perl. It can respond to voice commands, Web browsers, time of day, serial port and X10 data, external files, etc., and can speak via Text to Speech engines.

Movie Indekser 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115681/

MIndekser is a small utility that allows users to manage a movie collection, with the ability to export it to HTML.

newfile 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115696/

newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied with the package. It includes templates for making "empty" files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.

nmaFPS 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115673/

nmaFPS is a simple, portable 3D first person shooter. The aim is to shoot down as many drones as you can. You lose if the number of drones flying around goes above 10.

One-Wire Weather 0.68.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115690/

Oww (One-Wire Weather) is a client program for Dallas Semiconductor / AAG 1-wire weather station kits, providing a graphical (animated) display to monitor outside temperature, wind speed and direction, rainfall, and humidity. Extra temperature sensors may be added. A 1-wire "hub" may be used for improved reliability and range. Weather data may be logged to CSV files, parsed to command line programs, sent to the Henriksen Windows client, or uploaded to Web servers at Dallas, The Weather Underground, and HAMweather.

PassGuard Framework 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115705/

PassGuard Framework is a library for the PassGuard suite of programs that is used to manage numerous passwords in an encrypted file. Encryption is managed with a plugin system, which allows easy support for any kind of encrypted file.

Percival Network Monitoring System 1.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115689/

Percival is a network monitoring and capacity planning frontend to RRDtool. It features a themeable Web interface, and support for MIB2, Cisco, Linux, and Windows. Configuration is stored in a hierarchical database, which supports on-the-fly editing, links, and multiple users.

PHP Layers Menu 2.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115719/

PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose among the items. It works with both PHP3 and PHP4. It achieves a compact view and a reasonably small file size for the page with a very large number of entries. Its behaviour is analogous to the GNOME, KDE and MS Windows main menus. Menus are dynamically generated from the menu structures. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, 6.x, and 7.x, Konqueror, Opera 5 and 6, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It also provides solutions for browsers not supporting Javascript.

Can't find what you're looking for?

PHP Layers Menu 2.3.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115717/

Python/Tk Empire Interface 1.17.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115693/

The Python/Tk Empire Interface (PTkEI) enables you to connect to empire 4.x.x (Wolfpack) servers. Empire is a real-time war game with long tradition. You can find out about Empire and currently running servers and other clients at its homepage. This client is an example for a truly portable cross-platform GUI, known to run on Unix, X11, Win32 and Mac. Additionally you do not give up any command line power as a player, but you have to to learn the empire commands to make use of this GUI client.

ReMedial 0.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115670/

Remedial aims to be an easy-to-use player for Windows media files under Linux. It is a front-end to the excellent avifile library, and provides a look and feel similar to that of Realplayer.

Remote Internet Connect 2.0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115652/

Remote Internet Connect simplifies connecting a Linux box to the Internet from another machine running any operating system. A simple GUI allows the user to quickly connect, disconnect, or see who is online.

SerialBridge 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115711/

SerialBridge bridges data across two serial ports across a Palm device. It's mainly aimed at bridging the Wireless Modem and a USB/Serial port on a Treo.

shn2make 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115675/

shn2make works with sets of shn audio files and the make program to automate the process of burning CD-Rs and encoding mp3 and ogg files. shn2make looks for the .nfo or .txt file, and attempts to interpret the song names, CD listing, and other things according to the most common .nfo file formats, it checks MD5 checksums, and, if everything makes sense, outputs the text of a Makefile. The output Makefile fully automates the processing of the set of shn files.

SlackCheck 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115713/

SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of non-standard packages for every machine.

t1lib 5.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115653/

t1lib is a library written in C which implements functions for generating bitmaps from Adobe Type 1 fonts. It uses most internal parts of the Type 1 rasterizer provided with X11R5 and newer but tries avoid the disadvantages known from that rasterizer.

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TAMS 1.10a1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115704/

TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic coding and data extraction-analysis system.

Ted 2.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115662/

Ted is a text processor running under X on Unix/Linux systems, with the ability to edit rich text documents on Unix/Linux in a WYSIWYG way. It also converts RTF to PostScript and PDF. RTF files from Ted are fully compatible with MS Word.

tower toppler 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115643/

Tower Toppler (aka Nebulous) is the reimplementation an old 'jump and run' game. In this game you have to climb to the top of a tower avoiding all kinds of creatures that want to push you down.

trickle 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115645/

trickle is a lightweight, portable, per-application bandwidth shaper. It works in collaboration, has peak detection, and does smoothing. trickle works entirely in userland and does not require root to run. It has been developed on OpenBSD and is known to run on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.

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VetTux 2.0-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115661/

VetTux is a modern animal clinic management and POS system. It aims to provide the veterinarian with a complete solution for running a clinic.

Workrave 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115702/

Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using GTK/Win32).

wv2 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115654/

wv2 is a portable MS Word .doc import filter. Currently, it supports Word 97, Word 2000, and Word 2002 (aka XP) documents; support for Word 95 and Word 6 is planned. Older versions like Word 2, 3, 4, and 5 aren't supported for now, but it's quite likely that they will be supported at some point.

X11::GUITest 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115708/

X11::GUITest is a Perl package intended to facilitate the testing of GUI applications by means of user emulation. It can be used to test and interact with GUI applications which have been built (Xlib, GTK, etc.) upon the X toolkit.

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XElf 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115714/

XElf is a set of modules dedicated to XML processing for Python. It currently features a Python XOM implementation.

xine gxine 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115659/

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.

xine xine-ui 0.9.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115658/

Yet Another Free RAYtracer cvs20030309
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115721/

yafray is yet another free raytracer, still in development. Some features like caustics, filters, depth of field, etc. are implemented.

Zeemo 1.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115683/

Zeemo is an application which combines free advertising, instant messaging, filesharing, chatting, dating, buying and selling, and a lot more. With Zeemo you no longer need to search through a lot of Web pages, you don't have to create different accounts, and no longer have to submit personal data.

Zina 0.9.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115706/

Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, and an MP3 streamer. It can run alone or as a Postnuke or PHPNuke module. It is similar to Andromeda, but is released under the GPL. Slashcode
New Features!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/0322236

So bunch of new features are in the latest CVS. Including image and file support int stories. Other hight lights include: Slash::Relocate, an href tool that changes all of your links on your site to relocateable links. Coming soon to this will be a task to track if the link is dead or not (and give you an alternate link to google if it is). Slash meta language. Now in stories (and soon in Journals) you can use custom slash links to do all sorts of nifty little things. If you notice the story before this one with the like to you will noticed the hyper link to their homepage. Plus if you are logged in it will show you your Zoo Relationships. Finally, we now have image and file support with stories. Here is with his cat. Multi page documents are now supported by using the SLASH tag language. Bunch more that I am probably forgetting....

Storing Variable Calues
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/0216217

Another questions about template editing, but more specifically about grabbing everything in an existing site that you've optimized and converting that information into something you can use in a theme. I've asked questions previously about templates and boxes (thanks to lottadot and ), but now I'd be interested to find out if I can grab things like site variables and menu alterations and stuff like that from the database, and put them in a form that is convenient to install in a new site. My guess is that it'll be in the form of some sql queries that need to be run on initial installation (in the sql_prep and _dump files in the theme)? Can anyone help me out? Is there an easy way to do it? If there isn't, why hasn't this been implemented?

Innodb and Slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/09/1952228

I'm wondering if people are using Innodb with Slash. The big issue seems to be converting tables that have FULLTEXT on them (like stories). Anyone know if there are any advantages to having Innodb tables?

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