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[osdn developer] March 16, 2003
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 04:15:50 EST
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March 16, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
FreeCraft stable 1.18 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259595
The FreeCraft team is proud to announce the release of FreeCraft 1.18.
Thanks to everyone who contributed code, reported bugs, and suggested
ideas. FreeCraft is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game
engine. Here are the main new features: o Save and Load (Single Player)
o Shared Vision and Diplomacy o Replays o Auto Spell Cast o Much
Improved Multiplayer Support o FcMP and WC2 can be played against each
other o Many bug fixes For a complete list of changes, please see the
ChangeLog:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/freecraft/fre
ecraft/doc/ChangeLog.html?rev=1.449 You can find a game on
irc.freenode.net, channel #freecraft. Enjoy!
phpESP 1.6 Final
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259801
phpESP provides scripts to let non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online after database initialization. MySQL database backend. Version 1.6 incorporates several large changes since version 1.5. New features include: save/resume feature on surveys, self-sign-up for respondents, viewing of individual responses, a graphical interface for cross analysis, and a system test script. Additionally, the install procedure has been streamlined, and the documentation has been updated. Non-English translations should be available out of the box for many more platforms that have GNU Gettext support. Several new translations are available in 1.6 including: Japanese, Swedish, and Greek. There have been some minor database changes since 1.5, so please read the INSTALL guide.
PCGen 4.3.5 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259786
PCGen is a Java-based RPG character generator and maintenance program
that works on all platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc). All
datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available
through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. We'll soon
be releasing another production release of PCGen - version 5.0.0. We'd
appreciate feedback on the editors, the Companions section of the
Resources tab (especially for Paladins and Blackguards) and the
Equipping tab. We're also considering using that release to migrate
PCGen to using java 1.4.1 now that Apple has released it. This decision
is not final yet, pending our testing efforts. For users who have
trouble getting the 3 zip files to unzip properly, we have some
OS-specific installs that should help minimize the chance of install
related errors. Links to these installs can be found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/files/Alternate%20PCGen%20Releases/
These are the same PCGen everyone else uses, just packaged with
installers which target Windows and Mac OS X users specifically.
Typically there is a lag between when the official release is done and
when these special installers are ready. We always recommend that users
install new versions of PCGen in a 'new' directory. Below is a list of
everything that has been addressed in this release. If you reported one
of these, please verify that it is was addressed properly. PCGen is
available at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net , and the main discussion
group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen . If you wish to
discuss making your own custom lst files for use with PCGen, the data
monkeys have made their home at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgenlistfilehelp and they pride
themselves in being able to field all questions about the data - from
very basic to very advanced. All three zips are required to run PCGen:
pcgen435_part1of3.zip, pcgen435_part2of3.zip and pcgen435_part3of3.zip.
Bugs 588777 LEVEL:X:SA:Something tag misbehaving 700446 4.3.4 - Cannot
reopen some character files 699891 Container behavior 584972 New party
file format breaks mutiuser 698832 Equipping Tab - Keyboard Issue #2
698828 Equipping Tab - Keybard Issue #1 698826 Equipping Tab - Location
Popup autosized wrong 698702 Duplicate loading of familiar 698670 4.3.4
won't load phb.pcc Features 698824 Equipping Tab - Add All Equipment
698840 Equipping Tab - Put plus/minus on Item column 606205 Add Buy%
and Sell% on Right Click menu for items PCGen:DM Bugs 682005
melee+thrown weapons need .Thrown 699141 "thundering" magical attribute
PCGen:DM List File Fixes 686265 added type:humanoid to
slayershobgobraces.lst 686263 added type:humanoid to
slayersgnollraces.lst PCGen:DM Tag Modification Requests 677326
TARGETAREA - sovereignspells.lst 677325 TARGETAREA -
deadlandswebspells.lst 677323 TARGETAREA - wayhucksterspells.lst 677316
TARGETAREA - slayersamazonsspells.lst 677315 TARGETAREA -
necromancyspells.lst 677314 TARGETAREA - montecookwebspells.lst 677313
TARGETAREA - thouhtskillpowers.lst 677312 TARGETAREA -
eldritch2spells.lst 677311 TARGETAREA - eldritchspells.lst 677310
TARGETAREA - kalamarspells.lst 677309 TARGETAREA - arcanaspells.lst
677320 TARGETAREA - deadlandsspells.lst 677319 TARGETAREA -
seabloodspells.lst 677318 TARGETAREA - slayerstroglodytesspells.lst
677317 TARGETAREA - slayershobgobspells.lst 677307 TARGETAREA -
traptreachspells.lst 677306 TARGETAREA - spellsspellcraftspe
spellsspellcraftspells.lst 677304 TARGETAREA - mythicracesspells.lst
677303 TARGETAREA - starfarershbspells.lst 677302 TARGETAREA -
melnibonespells.lst 677301 TARGETAREA - guardianspells.lst 677300
TARGETAREA - touchedgodsspells.lst 677298 TARGETAREA -
beyondtheveilspells.lst 677297 TARGETAREA - warspells.lst 677294
TARGETAREA - dragonsspells.lst 657059 Verify pipe is the only
delimiter:VISION 677295 TARGETAREA - dungeonsspells.lst PCGenDocs:
Output Sheet Bugs 702203 Greatsword outputs with N/A for To Hit & Dmg
699956 SAs missing from _combined 686797 Two-handed weapons: 1-H lines?
697216 TO-HIT under PB Range incorrect PCGenDocs: Output Sheet Feature
Requests 634092 TAG for ONLY Domain Spells 700057 Remove the race name
from the innate spell header The PCGen Development Team
AviSynth 2.0.8 and 2.5.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259821
Two new versions of AviSynth has been released today. The 2.0.8 version contains critical bugfixes, and is supplied for those who enjoy the stability of the non-beta versions. Avisynth is a scripting language and a collection of filters for simple (and not so simple!) non-linear video editing tasks. It frameserves video to (most) applications. AviSynth 2.5.1 beta is an update to the first 2.5.0 beta and contains many fixes and additions, as well as some considerable speedups. Mainly interlaced processing has been improved vastly, but also general stability should be better.
Quartz 1.0.6 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258718
This release of Quartz, contains several small corrections and bug fixes, as well as a few new features (see change log). Quartz is an enterprise-class Job Scheduler for use in stand-alone and full-blown J2EE Applications. Quartz is very light-weight, highy scalable, and extremely easy to use within your own applications. Changes: Changes in
version 1.0.6 ========================== 1- Added DB2v6Delegate for
usage with JDBC-JobStore and older versions of DB2. 2- Added
HSQLDBDelegate for usage with HSQLDB 1.7.X - previously, MSSQLDelegate
was used by HSQLDB users, but that was confusing. 3- Updated JavaDOC
and table-creation docs for all db types / delegates. 4- Implemented
JobStoreTX.getTriggersForJob(name, group) - it used to throw an
UnsupportedOperationException. 5- Misc small JavaDOC corrections. 6-
Additions to the Quartz tutorial. 7- Introduced
"org.quartz.spi.SchedulerPlugin" interface. 8- Introduced
"org.quartz.plugins.history" package - with plugins for recording
historical data. 9- Fixed bug in CronTrigger related to expressions
using "#" in the day-of-week field. 10- Fixed bug using non-global
JobListeners with the JDBC-Jobstore using OracleDelegate.
LameFE 2.2 Final released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258899
The LameFE project proudly announces the release of LameFE 2.2 Final.
After nearly one year of beta testing we have reached the goal: LameFE
2.2 LameFE is more than a powerfull frontend for LAME. It reads CDDA,
Wave, APE, supports Winamp plugins. Besides MP3 it encodes to
Ogg/Vorbis, Monkeys Audio and Wave. Other Features: Cue-Sheets, FreeDB,
CD-Text, Batchprocessing mode for CD-Ripping, and many more. Download
English or German Version at:
http://lamefe.sf.net/index.php?showpage=download Thees Winkler. ---
Project Admin
Bossogg 0.9.3.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=259518
Bossogg is a server based music (ogg/mp3) player. Completed clients include: PHP and SDL (developed for TV out). Uses SQLite/PostgreSQL for data storage and SDL_sound for playback. Bossogg 0.9.3.1 is a bugfix release. The configuration file was unusable without modification, and definatly not ready for end users. This fixes that, plus the link in README to the home page location.
wv2-0.0.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258862
wv2 is a portable C++ implemenation of a MS Word import library. Right now it supports importing of Word 97, 2000, and XP documents; support for Word 6 and Word 95 is planned. The 0.0.8 release contains bugfixes.
TclXML version 2.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258863
Version 2.6 of the TclXML, TclDOM and TclXSLT packages are now available. The TclXML family of packages provide XML support for the Tcl scripting language.
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.
Slashdot
Chemical Haiku: Elements' Qualities in a Few Syllables
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/0041245
Frr pointed out this [0]interesting approach to the periodic table: Haiku. This might even help you remember the elements. Links
0. http://www.iscifistory.com/scifaku/elements/periodichaiku.asp
Live Vorbis Streams Over 802.11b From SXSW.com http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/0414225
[0]chupacabra writes "SXSW.com in Austin, Texas has a group of
computers in various music venues around town. The ices/icecast stream
is sent over 802.11 to a main server at SXSW. There are 6 venues
running as of this moment. Thanks to the folks at Vorbis and their CVS
we are rocking. See [1]sxsw.com/music/livestreams."
Links
Music Companies Bemoan New High-Cap Portables http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/0131253
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist reports: 'The music industry
this week condemned the [0]launch of two recording systems that will
let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single disc.'"
The Sony system is supposed to use "ultra-efficient data compression
system used in MiniDiscs" to fit "30 hours of MP3 music" on a CD-R. (I
thought MD used ATRAC rather than MP3, and that ATRAC's standard
bitrate was 285.3 Kbps -- can some MD gurus bring us up to speed?)
Philips' system skips CDs, and instead uses a DVD burner, with the
resulting disks playable in a to-be-released portable player. I wonder
what kind of DRM features the companies will use to cripple each
system.
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993490
Texas Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/0030247
[0]Skapare writes "The Texas Legislature now has before it a [1]bill (
[2]ASCII text here, [3]PDF here), submitted by State Senator [4]John
Carona, to require the state to consider open source and open standards
as part of the acquisition of software. Texas, like many other states,
has a [5]budget crisis going on. If this passes, I believe it could
help the state save a lot of money. Texans need to make sure their
state [6]representatives and [7]senators know they want this to pass."
Links
0.
http://linuxlobby.org/
1.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/db2www/tlo/billhist/billhist.d2w/report?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=01579
2.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/viewtext.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=01579&VERSION=1&TYPE=B
3.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/data/docmodel/78r/billtext/pdf/SB01579I.PDF
4.
http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist16/dist16.htm
5.
http://www.cpa.state.tx.us/news/newrel.html
6.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/db2www/tlo/members/house.d2w/report?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&CTYPE=House
7.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/db2www/tlo/members/senate.d2w/report?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&CTYPE=SenateNew Social-Network Mapping Tools Compared http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2233217
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "There are many new visualization tools
around us which try to map our social networks. In [1]this column, I
examined [2]Inflow, a datamining tool digging through your email
repository to discover and find trends to know more about your
networks. Here is a quote: "Assuming you have a significant amount of
e-mail traffic, the software will create a remarkably sophisticated
assessment of your various social groups, showing you not only their
relative size but also the interactions between different groups." I
also peeked at [3]TouchGraph GoogleBrowser, which uses Amazon or Google
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to visually describe how
books and Web sites connect with one another. Finally, I took a look at
a brand new way of visualizing Google search results, from [4]anacubis.
If you know about other similar new tools, please tell me and I'll
gather your comments in a future story."
Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/stories/2003/03/15/newSocialnetworkMappingToolsAreEmerging.html
2.
http://www.orgnet.com/
3.
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
4.
http://www.anacubis.com/
Resolving Beachballs in the Crab Nebula
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2122211
[0]Stranger4U writes "Researchers at [1]New Mexico Tech and the [2]NRAO
have used the Aricebo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and some
specilized equipment to more closely examine the pulses from the Crab
Nebula pulsar. Some of the signals lasted less than two nanoseconds,
meaning the originated from a volume no bigger than beach ball. Stories
are [3]here(1) and [4]here(2)."
Links
0.
http://www.nmt.edu/~cmiller/
1.
http://www.nmt.edu/
2.
http://www.nrao.edu/
3.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030312-120549-8282r
4.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pulsar_beachball_030312.html
AMD Opteron Due In April
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2059226
[0]updog writes "Here's an article from Infoworld claiming that the new
64-bit AMD [1]Opteron is ready to launch on April 22. Some of the
notable features of the new chip are an address space capable of
addressing up to 1 Terabyte of memory, the ability to link up to 8
processors without any external chips, and backwards compatibility with
existing 32-bit applications ..." PapaFSmurf, meanwhile, links to a
disclaimer-heavy [2]article posted at amdboard.com which says that
64-bit Athlons may arrive in June rather than [3]September as
previously expected.
Links
0. mailto:mikeNO@SPAMbustermail.com
1.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11opteron_1.html?s=tc
2.
http://www.amdboard.com/hn03130301.html
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1651207&tid=142
Clear Case Roundup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/1734207
The Cheat writes "Interested in making your computer the envy of all
the other computers on the block? What visitors to oooh and ahhh when
they enter your room? The latest trend in computer case solutions can
do just that. AnandTech took a look at three clear cases in a [0]recent
roundup, each certain to make you more popular, right? Maybe not, but
at least they look cool."
Links
0. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1803
Forbes on Lessig and Eldred
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/1711213
[0]scubacuda writes "In the [1]Forbes editorial, [2] Fact and Comment ,
[3]Steve Forbes voices his support for [4]Lessig and the [5]Eldred
case: 'Maybe Congress should just be done with it and declare that a
copyright is forever....Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig
has proposed a sensible compromise..."[I]f Congress is listening to the
frustration that the court's decision has created, [paying to maintain
copyright extensions] would be a simple and effective way for the First
Branch to respond." He's absolutely right.'"
Links
0. mailto:scubacuda@i n a m e.com
1.
http://www.forbes.com/
2.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0331/027.html
3.
http://www.forbes.com/columnists/col_archive.jhtml?aname=Steve+Forbes&author=steve+and+forbes
4.
http://www.lessig.org/
5.
http://eldred.cc/
Modular Home Network PVR at CeBIT
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/162202
Mackus Daddius writes "This ought to give the MPAA a conniption: '[0]The Lancaster system is modular, consisting of a TV tuner (analogue or digital), a hard disk module and an interface module that ties the system together and connects to your TV. The modules are connected using standard Ethernet connections, giving you flexibility over where the modules are placed and used. Multiple storage and interface modules can be used, increasing the capacity of the system and allowing multiple TVs to be used for watching programmes.' From the [1]ZDNet UK article and here's an [2]article with pics." Links
0.
http://www.terratec.net/products/lancaster.htm
1.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2131891,00.html?tag=nl
2.
http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=169
Freshmeat
AsyncResolv 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116378/
AsyncResolv is an asynchronous DNS query library written in C++. It is easy to use and is quite fast. It is designed for incorporating in high-concurrency network servers.
AutoGen 5.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116401/
AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. Its goal is to simplify the maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized. Output is specified with a Scheme-enhanced output template. Input, if required by your template, may come from AutoGen definitions, CGI data, or XML files.
AutoOpts 19.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116403/
AutoOpts is an integrated part of AutoGen. Based on a very simple option description file, it will process configuration files, environment variables, command line options, text strings passed by client programs, and will make the results easily accessible to the client program. It will also produce a man page and the info-doc invoking section automatically.
Bakery 1.3.10 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116384/
Bakery is a C++ Framework for creating GNOME applications using gnomemm and gtkmm. It provides a Document/View architecture, but it doesn't force you to use the whole architecture. It makes it easy to start developing GNOME applications by inheriting and overriding.
BSDftpd-ssl 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116376/
BSDftpd-ssl is a TLS/SSL-enhanced FTP server. It is based on FreeBSD's ftpd, and the TLS/SSL enhancement allows RFC 2228 "FTP Security Extensions"-compliant TLS/SSL support for both control and data connections. This feature requires special clients; with standard clients, this software operates as a standard FTP server.
CK-Ledger 0.6.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116356/
CK-Ledger is a double-entry ledger accounting system which runs on top of PHPGroupWare. It provides accounting and backoffice functionality to SMEs, and utilizes PHPGroupWare to administer user accounts and groups. It comprises 15 modules: Ledger Admin, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation, Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for Manager, Human Resources, Staff Self Service, and Payroll.
disktype 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116375/
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.
DOTCONF++ library 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116379/
dotconf++ is a dotconf like configuration file parser written in C++. It supports macro substitution from the environment or from the file itself, config file inclusion, easy handling of XML like tags, checking for required tags, and more. The whole document (with all inclusions) is parsed into a useful tree structure that is easy to use in your program.
DrawSWF 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116374/
DrawSWF is a simple drawing application written in Java. The drawing can be exported as an animated SWF (Macromedia Flash) file. It has been tested to run with Java2 1.4 under Linux.
Eric3 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116373/
Eric3 is a Python IDE written using PyQt and QScintilla. It has integrated project management capabilities with class browsing functions, gives developers an unlimited number of editors with syntax highlighting and code folding, an integrated Python shell, an integrated Python debugger, a file system browser with class browsing capabilities for Python files, and more.
ESSE 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116414/
ESSE (Efficient Site Search Engine) is a search engine for Web sites which is based on the PostgreSQL database engine. You can choose extensions for searchable documents, and you can fully customize the output of queries. It is configurable, and allows you to speed up the search by using statistic keywords instead of searching through the full document.
Falsoyd 0.8-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116415/
Falsoyd is a little shoot-em-up for your desktop. It is an entirely plotless game intended for hours of frivolous and violent entertainment while you should be working.
Giram 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116388/
Giram Is Really A Modeller. It is a multi-purpose 3D modeller written with GTK+ 2.0. It supports many 3D formats.
GNU C library 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116360/
GNU C library (glibc) is one of the most important components of GNU Hurd and most modern Linux distributions. It is used by almost all C programs and provides the most essential program interface. Version 2.1 is a companion to Kernel 2.2.x.
GNU Smalltalk 2.0l (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116369/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
GNU Transport Layer Security Library 0.9.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116410/
GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It implements the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols. GnuTLS is available for beta testing.
Gtk-IPTables 0.3.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116389/
Gtk-IPTables is a GTK-based frontend for iptables written in C. You can create rules for all chains for Filter, NAT, and Mangle tables.
gtkmm 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116382/
gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++ programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework. Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly create complex user interfaces.
Hash Database Manager 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116417/
Hash Database Manager provides a commandline interface and an interactive terminal interface to GDBM (and other) hash DBs.
HTML::Merge 3.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116390/
HTML::Merge is an embedded HTML/Perl/SQL tool used to create dynamic Web content. It uses TAG-based embedded Perl and SQL integration in templates that are used to automatically generate Perl code, which is run in the deployment mode.
imgv 2.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116358/
imgv is free image viewer that runs on everything from MS-Windows to Linux to BSD and more. It includes standard features (file/directory browser, slideshows, zoom in/out, flip/rotate, etc.) and special features (multi-view, adjustable thumbnail sizes, image playlists, remote image loading, MPEG movie support, a customizable interface, and much more).
JXTA Instant Messenger 0.1c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116387/
JXTA Instant Messenger (JIM) aims to establish a server-free instant messaging system with various options. It features encrypted messaging, presence awareness, and sophisticated search for users.
KBudget 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116411/
KBudget is a budgeting and money management program for KDE. It allows you to manage accounts and transactions.
libxml++ 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116383/
libxml++ is a C++ interface for working with XML files, using libxml (gnome-xml) to parse and write the actual XML files. It has a simple but complete API.
licq-osd 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116381/
The licq-osd plugin that enables licq to display new messages as an On Screen Display message.
Mah-Jong 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116372/
Mah-Jong is a set of three programs comprising a networked Mah-Jong game, a graphical client for humans, and a basic computer player. The game can be played by four humans, by a human and three computer players, or any other combination. The version of Mah-Jong is that generally called Chinese Classical. It should not be confused with the solitaire games such as xmahjongg.
MiddleMan 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116393/
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for configuring the proxy.
mpg2ppm 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116366/
mpg2ppm is a MPEG-VStream decoder based on mpeg2decode. The difference with the original is that it has the ability to extract the desired frames, or GOPs, only.
NBASE 4.0 4.0 Prerelease 0.35 (Snapshot 20030315) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116418/
NBASE is a set of standard libraries for rapid development in C++. The libraries include string manipulation and parsing, file I/O, networking, threading, a wide array of data structures, and an object management system.
NetMap network scanner 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116412/
NetMap is a network scanner written in Perl/GTK. It is not just another nmap frontend. It is a modularized network prober/scanner that just happens to have an nmap module. Incidentally, NetMap has nothing to do with the network weather mapper.
omniORB 4.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116405/
omniORB is an Object Request Broker (ORB) which implements version 2.6 of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). It supports the C++ and Python language bindings, is fully multithreaded, uses IIOP as the native transport, and comes complete with a COS Naming Service. omniORB is possibly the fastest available C++ ORB.
omniORBpy 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116406/
omniORBpy is a high-performance CORBA 2.6 ORB for Python. It consists of an interface between Python and the omniORB C++ library. IDL is compiled into pure Python code, so new IDL interfaces can be used without involving the C++ compiler.
orbitcpp 1.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116385/
orbitcpp is a C++ mapping for ORBit2.
PhpDig 1.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116365/
PhpDig is a search engine written in PHP that uses a MySQL database backend. It features indexing of both static and dynamic pages, spidering of almost all links in HTML content, in hrefs, areamaps, and frames, and full text indexing. The search results appearence is skin-able, using a very simple templates system. It can index PDF and Office files using external tools.
Project Manager X 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116391/
PMX is a simple project management tool for OS X. It allows you to track, group, and manage project items and resource allocation. It displays the project in a nice Gantt Chart that can be printed.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116357/
QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. It is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
rdiff-backup 0.11.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116407/
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special directory so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup can also operate in a bandwidthefficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. It can also handle symlinks, device files, permissions, ownership, etc., so it can be used on the entire file system.
robotTracker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116420/
robotTracker is a PHP tool that allow you to record robot accesses in real time to your pages and display the results by months, days, URLs, and graphically.
Romeo xmame frontend 0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116368/
Romeo is a Java frontend for xmame with a lot of features. It uses a library by l2fprod to be skinnable and the Java Mail API for an enclosed mail module. Romeo can automatically download ROMs, screenshots, flyers etc. and can use a different config file for each game.
RubyPod 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116395/
rubyPod is a graphical frontend for managing an iPod on Linux, programmed in Ruby, and relying on the gnuPod project as its backend. It supports adding and deleting of songs, creation and modification of playlists, convenient id3v2 MP3 tag editing, and exporting to hard drive.
SaveMyModem 0.18 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116398/
SaveMyModem is an anti-spam, mail-shaping, and delete-on-server mail tool. It is designed for users with slow dialup connections, who are tired of downloading large amounts of spam and worm and virus attachments.
Siproxd 0.2.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116402/
Siproxd is a SIP proxy for SIP based softphones hidden behind an IP masquerading firewall. It includes an RTP data stream proxy for incoming audio data (outgoing RTP data should be handled by IP masquerading by the firewall). Multiple local users/hosts can be simultaneously masqueraded. All configuration is done via one simple ASCII text file.
SmallBoardPHP 0.43 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116380/
SmallBoardPHP is a small & quick messageboard. It uses a MySQL backend for speed.
Styx 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116396/
Styx is a scanner/parser generator designed to address some shortcomings of the traditional lex/yacc combination. It has unique features like automatic derivation of depth grammar, production of the derivation tree, including it's C interface, preservation of full source information, pretty printing to faciliate source-source translation, and persistence to aid rapid interpreter writing. It also supports reentrancy. Styx works well under several different OSes, including serveral Unixes, DOS, and Windows.
swaret 1.1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116371/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
TemplatePower 3.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116363/
TemplatePower is a fast, easy to use, and powerful PHP4 template class. It is about 6 times faster than FastTemplate. Its main features are nested dynamic block support, block/file include support, show/hide unassigned variables, save/use parsed template on/from disk, PHP-file include, and global variable assign.
TeXwrapper 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116386/
TeXwrapper has been implemented to facilitate the interfacing of (La)TeX with the quickfix mode of the VIM text editor. It allows you to run TeX and some tools like BibTeX or MakeIndex at once. If an error occurs, it scans the transcript files and sends a "compiler style" error message to stderr. This program may also be useful with other text editors (like SciTE) which are able to deal with compiler's error output.
Thy 0.4.141 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116377/
Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day.
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator 0.80-pre4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116404/
UADE (Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator) plays old Amiga music formats by UAE Amiga emulation. It supports at least 150 different formats.
VideoDB 2003-03-15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116397/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.
Vobcopy 0.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116408/
Vobcopy copies DVD .vob files to harddisk, decrypting them on the way (thanks to libdvdread) and merges them into 2 GB files (or larger) with the name extracted from the DVD. It checks for enough free space on the destination drive and compares the copied size to the size on DVD (in case something went wrong during the copying).
Vstr string library 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116409/
Vstr is a safe and fast string library for C. It is designed for network communication. Its design uses chunks of ptr+length data, so adding, substituting, and deleting data are all fast operations. This model also allows it to do automatic referencing for mmap() areas of memory. Shortcut APIs are included to mmap() a file into a Vstr string, and read()/write() data to/from a Vstr string. Another big feature of the library is a POSIX and ISO 9899:1999 compliant printf() like function, which can also be extended with user supplied formatters that are gcc warning compatible. The total API is over 140 functions, but laid out in a easy to remember manner, including data parsing functions, a non-destructive split() function, and conversion functions (among others).
windowmaker Binary Clock 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116425/
The windowmaker Binary Clock applet shows the actual system time as a binary clock. You have to add up the bits to get the time. The clock has a 24-hour format.
X10-wish GUI 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116392/
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.
Slashcode
Upgrading
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2012236
I just wanted to suggest that someone out there who's rather good with Slash write a How-To on Upgrading to the latest CVS, or upgrading to the latest release, or both! It'd sure help me out. (a simple how-to in the comments to this article would help a great deal as well!)
Misusing backSlash as Instant Messenger
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1712245
We just recently noticed, that backSlash is (in 1.x as well as 2.x) a very fine instant messenger between authors who just have web access or not liking IRC or ICQ. Just start a new story, put the message (up to 50 characters) in the title field, and hit preview. Immediately your message is shown to all logged in authors when they load the next Slash page. And if you then have the submission list open with it's refresh of 900 seconds (the default valalue), you always have the newest messages even without hitting the reload button. It also proofed to be useful to send replies or ACK messages to acknowledge, that the message has been read. But be careful not to submit those messages as stories. This can be awkward. (So there's even a little bit of thrill when using this type of IM... ;-)
What is the Mysterious future and why did it show http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1952234
Currently Slashdot has an article posted "in the Mysterious future" showing on the main page. What up with dat?
SSL and slashcode fulltime
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/11/0737249
Does anyone know if Slash works with SSL (not just for auth. but full time https)???? I need this and I'm not sure where to go from here. Current setup: Linux 8.0 / apache 1.3 / latest slash. (works very well). Some links and instructions would greatly be appreciated. thanks, -Kam.
Streetnoise.org - Your Daily Political Roller Coaster http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/1820238
Without further ado, here are the fruit of my last 12 weekends. The site runs on 2.6.6 and I probably won't touch it until there is a more decent upgrade strategy. Let me know if you like it and if you're interested in politics, please don't be shy and post a story when you run into something outrageous (which is easy these days).
New Features!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/0322236