[osdn developer] March 31, 2003

Computing: IQeye3 Network Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/netcams/5e3b/

Electronics: FM Transmitter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5dab/

Computing: UV-Treated Rounded Cables
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e1f/

Computing: 4-D Optical Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e45/

Books: Revolution OS DVD/VHS
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5dd5/

Gadgets: Wireless PenCam
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d8a/

Gadgets: WristLinx Communicator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5db8/

Gadgets: Laser-Sighted MiniTemp
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d95/

Computing: Labtec Axis 712 Digital USB Headset http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/headsets/5de1/

Computing: Fly Fan USB Fan
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5dee/

Computing: Antec LanBoy Aluminum PC case http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5de9/

Computing: UV-Treated 80mm Cooling Fans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e01/

Computing: Viewsonic Airpanel Wireless 15" LCD http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5df4/

Sourceforge
ECB 1.93 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264120

ECB is a file/code browser for Emacs. It can be used to browse any type of file and supports parsing of Java, C, C++, Elisp and other types of source code. This release (1.93) includes bug fixes, layout enhancements and enhancements to tree-buffers.

Colander Internet Agent 0.2.2 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264197

Can't find what you're looking for?

Colander is a Java application which acts as a scripted personal Internet agent (performance of arbitrary scripted tasks through the provided framework.) Access is possible through a standard web browser. Announcing release 0.2.2: This is a bugfix release that contains numerous backported fixes and updates. Please see the release notes on the file release page for details. Note that this version does not include the proper handling of binary data that the unstable branch does. Colander is in a useable state. It is listed as alpha software due to changes that may yet occur in the interface and API.

BitMagic library version 3.1.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264239

BitMagic is a C++ library implementing dynamic bitvectors with several types of on-the-fly, adaptive compression. Designed for use in databases, search systems, scientific projects. Version 3.1.2 primarily focuses on memory consumption issues. Additional parameters added to save memory in situations when thousands of bitsets are used. (see http://bmagic.sourceforge.net/memsave.html); several build environment problems were fixed; added support file for AIX; improved performance of logical operations.

hl7d added to HL7 Toolkit
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264258

This project aims at providing a Perl Toolkit for using the HL7 protocol (a data interchange protocol used in healthcare). The toolkit will consist of a number of Perl libraries and scripts for developing HL7 capable applications in Perl. An early version of the hl7 server has been added to the project. This is a forking server that uses the Net::HL7 module, and dispatches incoming HL7 messages to user defined plugins.

Anjuta 1.0.2 (Tagore) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=264261

The Anjuta team is pleased to announce the release of Anjuta 1.0.2. Anjuta is an IDE (Integrated Developmetn Environment) for C and C++ targetting the GNOME platform. The main highlight of this release is the advanced search/replace functionality. There have also been numerous smaller feature additions, updates and bug fixes. The Anjuta 1.0.x series should now be considered dormant. New development will be taking place on HEAD which targets the GNOME2 platform. The current stable branch will only get critical bugfixes. Learn more about anjuta at http://www.anjuta.org/

SnipSnap 0.4.1a and Radeox 0.6.1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263487

Released a bugfix release for SnipSnap and Radeox. The major change is the improved performance of the Macro rendering mechanism that is now a 100 times faster. SnipSnap is a personal content management system based on weblog and wiki technologies. It's intended for desktop use, but can be deployed on servers. SnipSnap differs from other weblog and wiki tools as it's focused on easy installation.

POP/SMTP e-mail jConduit now available via CVS. http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263690

Users who build the project from sourcecode will be interested to note that the latest sources now include the new Email jConduit, that allows you to synchronize the Palm Mail database with the POP and SMTP servers of your choice. Work on this jConduit is continuing (adding features and such), but it is a good example of how to code a network-enabled jConduit. Interested developers are encouraged to update their source trees. This jConduit will be a part of our first beta binary release, planned for sometime within the next few weeks.

FreeMarker 2.2 final available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263999

The first release of FreeMarker 2.2 labelled production/stable is available. FreeMarker 2.2 incorporates some revolutionary new features: names-spaces, support for 3rd party JSP taglibs, fine control over whitespace, macros with default arguments. FreeMarker is a template engine. It provides an easy way to generate textual (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc) output from your data and helps you separate design issues from application logic. Integrates with servlets, XML, Python and more.

bogofilter-0.11.1.4 - new current release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263675

bogofilter 0.11.1.4 fixes several minor defects in 0.11.1.3 and updates the help messages and FAQ. 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.

Privoxy 3.0.2 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263687

Don't know where to look next?

This is the first maintenance release of Privoxy. There are no significant new features in this release. Many bugs are fixed, and some existing features have been enhanced. See ChangeLog for details. Upgrading from 3.0.0 is recommended. Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious junk. It is based on the Internet Junkbuster.

Slashdot
Debian's Own SourceForge
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/0321243

rescdsk writes "Raphael Hertzog recently [0]announced [1]Alioth, a
[2]SourceForge installation dedicated for Debian use. All developers
automatically have accounts, though anyone may get an account. Quoting the front page, the purpose of Alioth is multiple: to provide facilities to free software projects supported by Debian developers, to make it easier for non-Debian developers to contribute to projects initiated by Debian, and to support projects whose goal is to promote Debian or one of its derivatives. Go peer with great wonder!" Links

    0. 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200303/msg00024.html
    1. 
http://alioth.debian.org/
    2. 
http://sf.net/

Flash Memory And Its future
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/013226

[0]NETHED writes "[1]C|NET News is running an article about [2]Flash
Memory's future. Here is a [3]How Stuff Works link about Flash memory. An interesting read especially considering how small these things are currently. Does the slashdot crowd have a new size benchmark for small sizes?"
Links

    0. mailto:wwitkowski@NOsPAM.myrealbox.com
    1. 
http://news.com/
    2. 
http://news.com.com/2009-1040-994240.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed
    3. 
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/flash-memory.htm

Last-Mile Fiber Optic
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/232218

[0]Johnny Mnemonic writes "The newsletter [1]"The Town Paper" tracks
the development of "traditional" new developments--developments with integrated shopping, parks, and that are pedestrian friendly. Their recent issue has an [2]article that describes a [3]new community in Issaquah WA that has, among it's interesting features: a wired LAN in every home, free community Intranet, and a choice for a fiber optic connection. It is probably no coincidence that Microsoft is planning on building 3 million square feet of office space there. How much is a pre-wired house worth to you? What will this do for community building?"
Links

    0. mailto:mdinsmoreNO@SPAMmac.com
    1. 
http://www.tndtownpaper.com/
    2. 
http://www.tndtownpaper.com/Volume5/issaquah_highlands.htm
    3. 
http://www.issaquahhighlands.com/

Build Your Own PCB Milling Machine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/2355211

Confused? Frustrated?

[0]mwandel writes "It used to be that one off amateur printed circuit
boards were all etched in acid. A lot of companies nowadays use a special form of milling machine to mill them out of solid copper clad circuit boards. This guy Jonathan Westhues built his own [1] PCB milling machine out of various parts, with a laminate trimmer as the milling head. Lots of other neat hacks on his [2]Webpage as well." Links

    0. 
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel
    1. 
http://cryolite.ath.cx/i/pcb-router
    2. 
http://cryolite.ath.cx/i/index

U.S. Forces In Iraq Ban GPS Phones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/2334242

[0]Brian Enigma writes "According to a report last night on NPR and
[1]these [2]two articles, Central Command has banned a particular
satellite phone from reporters. It seems that it not only has a GPS--to help locate which satellite to use--but also (if activated) transmits the users location back to the phone company. Eavesdropping this signal is nontrivial, but still possible." Links

    0. 
http://netninja.com
    1. 
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/5451652.htm
    2. 
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B360131.htm

Japanese Makers To Forge An Internet TV Standard http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/2213259

An anonymous reader writes "Five Japanese TV manufacturers will form a working group to hammer out technical specifications by October for
[0]digital TVs with Internet access. They will develop a consumer
electronics version of Linux to provide functions and performance required for digital products. The resulting source code will be made available through the General Public License procedure." Links

0. http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030327S0043

Why ICANN Needs Fresh Blood
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/1958218

[0]scubacuda writes "[1]Akash Kapur of [2]CircleID has written an
editorial, [3] Why ICANN Needs Fresh Blood: A Deeper View . Kapur writes, "[4]ICANN was born amid the heady days of Internet euphoria. Its early promise to be the world's first global democracy (not to mention an entirely new form of governance) was a product of that euphoria. But like so many dot-coms, ICANN quickly succumbed to the hubris of its own vision. If ICANN has been a troubled organization from the start, then that is in no small measure because it over-promised at the start....What's needed is fresh blood -- new personalities, and new ideas to break the ideological impasse." Kapur lists cancelled at-large elections, the authoritarianism and secrecy of ICANN discussion, and the narrowing possibility that ICANN could represent a new model of governance as indicators that global democracy has failed."
Links

    0. mailto:scubacuda@NOSPaM.iname.com
    1. 
http://www.circleid.com/articles/2580.asp#bio
    2. 
http://www.circleid.com/
    3. 
http://www.circleid.com/articles/2580.asp
    4. 
http://www.icann.org/

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Are Programmers Engineers?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/1914239

[0]The Llama King writes "[1]The Houston Chronicle has an interesting
story about a debate in the [2]Texas Legislature over [3]whether programmers are really engineers. A quote: " 'It's one of the silliest issues we're having to deal with this session, but it's also one of the most important,' said Steven Kester, legislative director of the American Electronics Association, an organization of computer companies." Are you really an engineer? Or just a code-monkey?" Links

    0. mailto:leveau1@hotmail.com
    1. 
http://www.chron.com/
    2. 
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/
    3. 
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/1841652

Knoppix 3.2 Available
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/1830235

TheCrimsonUnbeliever writes "The latest version of Knoppix (bootable Linux distribution on CD) is out - New features include: KDE 3.1.1 - XFree86 4.3 - Evolution 1.2.1 - OpenOffice 1.0.2 - KOffice 1.2.1 - The ability to create a home directory on a memory stick or similar - More information is available at the [0]KNOPPIX English homepage." If you're getting started with Knoppix (and speak English), you should also check out [1]knoppix.net for the excellent forums hosted there. Links

0. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

http://www.knoppix.net

Another Breakthrough in Prime Number Theory http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/1714253

[0]Battal Boy writes "From [1]aimath.org: Dan Goldston and his Turkish
colleague Yalcin Cem Yildirim have smashed all previous records on the size of small gaps between prime numbers. This work is a major step toward the centuries-old problem of showing that there are infinitely many 'twin primes': prime numbers which differ by 2, such as 11 and 13, 17 and 19, 29 and 31,...I am especially proud of this achievement as Yalcin is a close friend of mine from way back! You may also want to check out the [2]Mercury News Article and Dan Goldston's [3]home page where you can see a photo of Dan's back being slowly but surely broken by two of his children ..." Finding patterns in primes [4]seems to be all the rage.
Links

    0. 
http://giray.uzmen.com
    1. 
http://aimath.org/
    2. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5483833.htm
    3. 
http://www.math.sjsu.edu/~goldston/
    4. 
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0053238&tid=134

Freshmeat
A touch of gold 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117958/

A touch of gold is a theme with orange/gray colors and a background drawn by the scene artist Critikill.

ALE 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118017/

ALE aligns and merges several similar images from a digitizing device (such as a digital camera or scanner) into a single image. This may have the effect of producing a relatively alias-free image (sometimes called "anti-aliasing").

AqMoney 0.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118019/

AqMoney is a console tool for home banking using OpenHBCI and Libchipcard. It supports all of the features offered by OpenHBCI.

AS Macroassembler 1.42 Build 27 (Current) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117986/

AS is a portable macro cross-assembler for a variety of microprocessors and controllers. Though it is mainly targeted at embedded processors and single-board computers, you also find CPU families in the target list that are used in workstations and PCs.

AutoDia 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118004/

AutoDia is a Perl application designed to allow the easy creation of XML diagrams from various data sources. The output is meant for use with Dia (or any XML parser). AutoDia supports any language through the use of handlers, and a good handler for Perl as well as a simple handler for C++ are included.

AVInfo 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118006/

AVInfo is a utility for displaying AVI information. It returns the length of a clip, FPS, resolution, codec, audio and video bit rate, number of key frames, sound parametrs, and the number and type of streams, including detailed information for each.

ccrypt 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117969/

ccrypt is a commandline utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard Unix crypt utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm. ccrypt is based on the Rijndael cipher, which is the U.S. government's chosen candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). This cipher is believed to provide very strong security. A compatibility mode is included for decrypting legacy "unix crypt" files.

Class::XPath 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118023/

Class::XPath is a Perl module which adds XPath-style matching to your object trees. This means that you can find nodes using an XPath-esque query with match() from anywhere in the tree. Also, the xpath() method returns a unique path to a given node which can be used as an identifier.

Collink 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117991/

Can't find what you're looking for?

Collink is a link extractor/collector based on Qt library. It saves lists of links as plain text or better as a Downloader for X list providing different names for files to save. You can filter links by filename extension and via regular expression.

CPP Socket library 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117967/

CPPSocket is a small Classlibrary for C++ that supports a easy usage of socket-programming for networking-software. It provides a simple object-oriented interface to the classic C library calls.

Darius Tools 1.3 (Admin)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117989/

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

Desktop ROCK Linux 2.0.0-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117972/

Desktop ROCK Linux is a source distribution based upon the distribution build kit ROCK Linux. It is released with an automatic build system as well as prebuilt ISO images. It inherits the state-of-the-art tool chain from ROCK Linux and also includes the latest KDE and GNOME releases and many other packages. The build system allows optimized rebuilds of single packages or the whole ISO.

DotGNU Execution Environment 0.1.4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117999/

The DotGNU Execution Environment is the core architectural component of DotGNU that provides the functionality of accepting, validating and satisfying Web service requests. The DGEE integrates the components on the Web service execution path, including network servers, protocols, virtual machines, and security mechanisms into a unified application. In its basic form the DGEE allows the installation and removal of Web services within the repository, accepts XML-RPC requests for these Web services, and generates browsable documentation for these Web services in HTML and XML form.

Efisto 0.1.2 (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118020/

Efisto (Easy File Send To) enables users to send files to anyone who has email and Web access. When the sender uploads files with the efisto client, the recipient gets an email with an URL that can be used to download the files. It features automatic creation of compressed archives, download notification, expiration of files, and expiration notification.

Enterprise Gantt 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118024/

Enterprise Gantt is a Gantt chart library, and is becoming a generic charting library to support a variety of charts. The library strongly conforms to the Model View Controller architecture recommended by Sun. A lot of effort has been put into this library, from the design perspective rather than the feature perspective, to make this the most flexible library of its kind.

Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118027/

Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE (fou4s) is a bash script that provides the functionality of YOU (YaST OnlineUpdate), but can also work in background and check for updates every night. It supports resumed downloads and proxies by using wget. GPG signatures are also checked.

Gambas 0.52 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117998/

Don't know where to look next?

Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.

GNOME Cherokee 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117985/

GNOME Cherokee is a Web server applet for the GNOME 2 panel. It's configurable on-the-fly and very easy to use. It's also integrated with the rest of your GNOME desktop.

GNOME Debian Package Manager 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118012/

GDPM is GNOME-based graphical manager for Debian packages. It aims to fully replace the command-line tools apt-get, apt-cache, and dpkg by offering an easy way to install, remove, upgrade, and browse Debian packages.

Goben 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118033/

Goben is a GTK+ 1.2 GUI for playing Go. It allows any combination of human vs computer, computer vs computer, or human vs human play, and supports any board size from 5x5 to the full 19x19. Computer players are controlled via GTP for compatibility with GNUGo and other GTP talking Go programs.

GOBLIN Graph Library 2.6 Build5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117987/

Confused? Frustrated?

The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large series of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but provides only basic graph layout methods.

Highlight 2.0b-6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118032/

Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.

HTTrack Website Copier 3.30-alpha (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117983/

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.

iConquer 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117977/

iConquer is an addictive game of world conquest, played by 1 to 6 players. The object of the game is to conquer the world by occupying all 42 countries on the map. It features artificial intelligence algorithms to set the player up against formidable computer opponents with six AI "personalities" to choose from. It also supports network play, a powerful help system with detailed information on each stage of the game along with tips and strategies, customizable strategy play, and gorgeous graphics.

IFG 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118005/

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IFG is a tool to generate iptables rules. This program can work with the INPUT and OUTPUT chains of the filter table. It can create rules for diferents protocols (TCP, UDP, ICMP), IP addresses, and ports. You can choose different interfaces (lo, eth0, ppp0), choose the state of a connection, and LOG all the rules. It also has an option to save all the rules that you made into a file. The program was written in GTK+ 2, and the interface was made with glade-2.

Inventory 0.65
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117992/

Inventory is a inventory program written in GTK2. It uses MySQL and is simple, fast, and easy to use.

Jabberwocky 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117997/

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.

jRSVP 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118001/

jRSVP is a Java 1.4 tool for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, a technique for extremely fast reading. It uses the Multivalent library for parsing input documents, and is able to read PDF, PS, HTML, man pages, and other documents. It displays texts on a word-by-word or sentence-by-sentence basis and features a file history and bookmarks.

Jump n Bump 1.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117976/

Jump n Bump is a funny multiplayer game about cute little fluffy bunnies, which is both fun and addictive for the whole family. It features network play.

KySMS 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117993/

KySMS is yet another graphical frontend for smssend. This one has a phonebook with groups.

Makin' Bakon Typing Tutor 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118035/

Makin' Bakon Typing Tutor is a terminal-based typing tutor game written in C++ (with STL) and Curses. It contains both structured and fortune-based lessons. Learn to type to a professional standard while you're saving Pig's bacon! Warning: Includes material that may offend.

MCal PHP Calendar 1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118018/

MCal is a blatant, and well noted, hack/rewrite of JCal. It is a Web-based PHP package providing calendar and appointment functionality. The main changes from JCal include better PHP/HTML coding style/formatting, and portability enhancements, mainly in the configuration.

Mock Objects for C++ 1.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117994/

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. It does not include its own framework for flow control and analysis, but works with CppUnit.

netcount 0.7a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117984/

netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly basis. Also part of the package is nstat, an X utility to display connection status, to hang up, and to start and terminate pppd.

nut 7.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117996/

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.

openHBCI 0.9.9 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118016/

openHBCI is a C++ library for the German HomeBanking Computer Interface. It includes some tutorials for testing the library. Its current capabilities include complete key management on disc (RDH) and/or chip-card (DDV), the ability to perform single customer credit transfers, and the ability to get balance reports.

OProfile 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118011/

Can't find what you're looking for?

OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent profiler for Linux. It is capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes, shared libraries, the kernel, and device drivers, via the hardware performance counters.

PBS 0.87
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117979/

PBS is a user-support call management system and call tracing system. It is based on intranet technologies, and it allows you to manage and account calls, inventory, projects, and performance. It features a knowledge base and reports for the manager.

PHP Documentation Generator 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118031/

PHP Documentation Generator is a Perl script similar to javadoc. It helps you generate a set of HTML pages from comments in PHP source files. Currently, this script parses the PHP source code to detect the objects attached to the comments.

phpCodeViewer 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118007/

phpCodeViewer is a highly-customizable, general purpose file viewer tool for the Web. It produces directory listings similar to apache's, and lets you click on (source code) files inside those directories to view them online with line numbering and syntax highlighting.

phpDVDprofiler 20030330
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118003/

phpDVDprofiler is a simple Web frontend to your DVDprofiler collection based on PHP and MySQL.

pylcd 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117978/

PyLCD is a Python module that provides access to the LCDproc daemon.

QuickRip DVD 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118021/

QuickRip is a basic DVD ripper for GNU/Linux written in Python and PyQt. It lacks options to fine-tune how you want to rip your DVD, but it makes ripping quick and easy, and so is ideal for those who aren't bothered about framerates, clipping, and other unecessary options. It uses mplayer and transcode to retrieve DVD info and rip the tracks.

ReactOS 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118010/

ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.

ROX-Filer 1.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117982/

Don't know where to look next?

ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background.

rrd-snort 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117970/

rrd-snort is a script that creates a graph from alerts/events stored in a Snort database in order to see distribution of "top n" attack methods. The user can customize data gathering/graphing options.

Schroedinger 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117817/

Schroedinger is the combination of Apache Tomcat with a nice, clean Swing GUI. It provides an easy way to create and test JSP and Servlet Web applications. It records every JSP/HTTP activity so that every possible bug can be corrected immediately. Schroedinger can be used in personal mode, which prevents others from using its JSP Server while you develop the application. Alternatively, Schroedinger's working directory can be opened via file-sharing, so that a JSP can be copied to any computer of the JSP development team.

Security Filter 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117981/

SecurityFilter is intended for use by Java Web application developers. It provides robust security and automatic authentication services for Web applications. It mimics the behavior and configuration format of container-managed security, but has several important advantages that make it an ideal solution for single-context, public Web sites, or when it is necessary or simply desirable to avoid the server configuration hassles and portability issues associated with container-managed security.

SiteBar 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117968/

Confused? Frustrated?

SiteBar is a multi-user bookmark database that lets users view, add, and maintain links from anywhere. It's intended as a Mozilla/Netscape sidebar, but can also be used in a main browser window.

Themus 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117988/

Themus is a collection of theme utilities for GNOME. You can manage your themes by going to themes:/// in Nautilus, where they are displayed and can be applied, installed, or deleted.

TopicEngine 1.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118025/

The TopicEngine is an advanced TCL script for eggdrop bots for managing the topic in one or more channels. It allows users to change or lock the channel topic through the use of public commands in the channel, with fine-grain permission controls available. Users do not have to be opped to change the topic (but the bot must be if the channel is +t). It can automatically refresh the topic after a netjoin, and allows command caching to avoid flooding the channel with topic changes. The topic can also be locked by appropriate people. TopicEngine will attempt to communicate with other TopicEngine bots in the channel to avoid a topic live-lock flood.

Turaco CL 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118028/

Turaco CL is a tool for extracting PNM image files out of arcade game ROMs. It also can regenerate arcade game ROMs from PNM image files. Once the image files have been extracted, you can edit them in your favorite paint program. They can then be encoded back into game ROMs to be played in an emulator or real arcade hardware.

Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118009/

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VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just chat: people can meet each other, build houses and worlds, and interact with each other.

Wingmaker 0.1-final
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117940/

Wingmaker is a theme based on wingmaker art with an edited image and bright red/yellow colors.

yChat++ 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117975/

yChat is a Web-based chat server daemon which is compatible with all browsers that support frames and Javascript.

Slashcode
Is mod_perl 2.0 baked yet?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/0841254

I have read the other posts regarding using slash with apache 2.0. They all seem to say mod_perl needs to work first. So its been awhile, is mod_perl 2.0 up to par and can we get slash to work with apache 2.0 yet?

Help with Site.
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/1824229

I am looking for some slash expert to make a site. Any body who has extensive expereince with slash scripts is wanted to do the site. A reasonable fee will be paid. Please look on usid.com for contact email. Thanks.

Can Slash handle long lived items
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2346257

I have a need for a site that will support both short time articles and documents that have a very long life (on the order of over 5 years). Before re-inventing this I wanted to ask if there was a plugin or something that allowed me to have a storage area for documents that have a very long life. For example policies and procedures. I would like to have a index page for these items generated automaticly and also be able to announce them in a regular story. For a real example one thing I would like to be able to do is to post scores from a weekly match (USPSA) and have an index page that will show each weeks history. In addition a story would be posted with a link to that weeks scores. Another use would be to have a series of "white papers" that are avaiable from an index page and are also announced in a story.

slashd not disconnecting from mysql
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/186236

I've just managed to get slash 2.2.6 installed with mySQL 4.0.12 and apache 1.3.27 on a Debian system (local network.) Things appear to be working except that slash doesn't seem to be disconnecting from mySQL after serving up a page - each page eats a new mySQL thread which remains sleeping until enough threads are created such that I run out of memeory (128M.) Is this normal for slash, unique to mySQL 4.0 or debian, or am I just lucky?

RDF generation frequency?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1743219

I'm still running Slash 1, but currently converting to Slash 2, albeit slowly. For some reason RSS/RDF feeds are generated only onec a hour. My question is: Is it possible to force slash1 generate RDF more frequently and if it's configurable in slash2? For some reason I haven't found RDF generation interval in configuration files.

How active is your community?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/0222223

I'm managing the technical aspects of a growing private community. I have noticed that the vast majority of my users are not very participatory. We have a core group of about 80-150 active users (posters/commenters/journals/etc), and 400-900 lurkers on any given day. Due to various email invites, our user base is now over 10k users. My site is invitation only, and there are no anonymous users. Thus, I can definitely identify all of my users. My questions for the slashcode community are these: How many unique users does your slashsite get in a day as compared with the total number of users that you have? Is it typical to have only 6% of your user base active and less than 1% of them regularly interactive? FYI, my calculations for these figures come from the accesslog as: select count(distinct uid), dayofyear(ts) as day from accesslog group by day; For sites that allow anonymous users, the following would return (kinda) similar results: select count(distinct host_addr), dayofyear(ts) as day from accesslog group by day;

ricecooker.org, Asian and Asian American topics http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/181242

Hi everyone - We've just launched a slash site on Asian and Asian American topics called ricecooker.org. Thanks so much for the software and the inspiration. We're pretty nervous about whether this can take off or will just linger in some obscure corner of the web, so if you are interested in the community we're trying to create, please help us by telling other people who might also be interested in our site! We acknowledge our direct inspiration from slash in our mission statement. Cheers everyone from the people at ricecooker.org!

Current Slash Tags
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1633257

Keep in mind that the type="op" is the syntax that is saved. Most have multiple forms. Also keep in mind that to use links you need to have Slash::Relocate installed and Slash::Blob. For image and file uploads all you need is Slash::Blob. Read one for the entire list:

SLASH tags
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/0315249

Thanks for all the help with the upgrade, but I have another question. What's the syntax for the new SLASH tags? I've tried looking through the code, but alas, I'm not much of a perl programmer, and expirementing hasn't given me much help.

Cluster Rant
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/234230