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[osdn developer] April 20, 2003
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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April 20, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Thinkgeek
Computing: Bay-Mounted 6-in-1 Card Reader
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5ee4/
Electronics: PRISMIQ MediaPlayer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5e77/
Computing: USB 2.0 Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5eda/
Cube Goodies: Nerf Air Tech 2000
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5e15/
Gadgets: Powerball Gyroscope
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ea1/
Gadgets: 3D Green Laser Show
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5e80/
Electronics: Casio Exilim EX-M2 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5e6f/
Electronics: Panasonic DVD Player - DVDS35 http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5eaf/
Tshirts: Mostly IP Creeper & Toddler Tee http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/kids/5e09/
Interests: Megatokyo Endgames - Pirogoeth Poster http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5e98/
Books: The Matrix & Philosophy: Welcome To The Desert Of The Real http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d52/
Books: The Book Of Overclocking
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d46/
Books: Pattern Recognition
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/scifi/5d4a/
Computing: Zalman CNPS7000-Cu CPU Cooler http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e55/
Computing: Multi-Fan Speed Controller
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e51/
Computing: Zalman Silent 400W Power Supply http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e4c/
Computing: Half Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e2b/
Computing: Zalman VGA Heatsink w/ HeatPipe http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e5e/
Cube Goodies: Portable Mini Fridge
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d57/
Gadgets: LightWedge Reading Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf2/
Sourceforge
Fire 0.32.d released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=268397
Fire 0.32.d is now available for download! Fire is a multi-protocol
instant messenger client for Mac OS X based on freely available
libraries for each service. Currently Fire handles AOL Instant
Messenger™, ICQ®, MSN® Messenger, Jabber, limited IRC, and Yahoo!®
Pager communications. Many thanks to Alan for helping out with this
release. Also thanks to Ken for two new localizations (Simplified and
Traditional Chinese). This brings our total to 11 languages. Fire
0.32.d is a bug fix release. All users of 0.32.c and earlier are
encouraged to update. With all 11 languages:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.d.dmg?download
English only:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.d.english.dmg?down
load 0.32.d ------ Application ----------- - Updated Spanish, French,
and German localizations - Added localizations for Traditional Chinese
and Simplified Chinese thanks to Ken Tsang for this - Fixed
inconsistency between the conversation browser and buddy list which
could occur in some cases (bug 683777) (jt) - Fixed the chat window
toolbar icon sizes for when the size is set to small (gb) - Fixed issue
with names of preference panes in German localiation (ah) Services
- MSN® - Fixed extra typing notifications that were sent when using return or enter to send messages. This would result in the other side thinking you were typing when you weren't. Thanks to Mark Rowe for the pointer on what was going wrong (bug 688412) (mr/jt) - Properly notices when you are disconnected (bug 682382) (jt) - When receiving files, properly notifies the sender of success (bug 689088) (jt) Yahoo!® - Fixed problem with crash when Yahoo was first connecting. (ah) (bugs 709812, 710998, 705309, 700575, 699107, 683174, 657744)
phpMyAdmin 2.5.0-rc1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=268421
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. Here is the first release candidate for version 2.5.0. There are lots of new features, see http://phpmyadmin.net or the ChangeLog for details.
Fink 0.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269018
Fink is proud to announce that the Fink binary distribution 0.5.2 is
available from the download page at
http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/. With over 190 new binary
packages, KDE, KOffice and KDevelop binaries amongst other various
improvements this is a recommended download for any new and all
existing Fink users. The full announcement can be read at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1971738&forum_id
=2022
Firebird 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is available for download http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269045
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. Release Notes: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=152919
Crystal Space 0.96r004 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269309
Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL or software and features curved surfaces, volumetric fog, dynamic colored lighting, terrain engine, LOD, procedural textures, portals, etc. This is a maintenance release to Crystal Space 0.96. In the mean time a lot more exciting things are happening with the CVS version of CS :-) - Lots of fixes to configure for better project configuration on various flavors of operating systems. - Bug fix in milk2spr. - Some fixes in OpenGL renderer and canvas. - Fixed a huge amounts of bugs and problems in the ensockete driver. - Fixed some bugs in the socket driver too.
JML 3.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=267409
This release of JML has many improvements over the earlier (3.6) release. The Java Modeling Language (JML) is a behavioral interface specification language that can be used to specify the behavior of Java modules. It combines the approaches of Eiffel and Larch, with some elements of the refinement calculus. Highlights include: - Much better support for refinement (although refinement does not yet work with jmlc), - Three new specification expressions have been added to permit specification of time and space. - A new tool, jmlspec, which is a specification skeleton generator. It takes a Java source file and can produce a file that one could use to add specifications to in a way that would refine the original. - The syntax of the refine clause has been simplified to refine "A.java"; where only a file and no classes are mentioned. Thanks to Clyde Ruby for this and to David Cok for the suggestion. - The jmldoc tool is now compatible with JDK 1.4. Note that J2SDK 1.3 is no longer supported by the tools. See the release change log (or the NEWS.txt file in the release) for more details.
PHP Surveyor release 0.95 beta
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=267374
Project aims to develop a fully functional Survey development & dataentry system. Including dataentry screen, public dataentry script, method for issuing tokens, emailing invitations & recording responses, basic statistical analysis and export facility. This release includes some incremental improvements - a changelog covering most of these is available from the project homepage. The biggest enhancement is the addition of 'mandatory' questions. This allows you, on a question by question basis, to set a question as mandatory, and require the participant to answer it before they can move away from the question. In the data-entry screen, the question is marked as being 'mandatory', however the survey can be submitted without an answer. This is to deal with dataentry of hardcopy surveys where the mandatory question has not been answered. The other major enhancement of this release is the capacity to track surveys. When a new survey is created, you are given the option of making it Anonymous, or not. If the survey is not anonymous, each response keeps a copy of the participants unique token. Using this you can track the response of each individual participant. From the 'tokens' screen, you can view the participants response, and from the 'browse' screen you can view the participants token information. As was the case for release 0.94, this is another "on the way" release. There are a few features still to be addd prior to the release of Version 1, and some continued tidying and bug-checking of the script still to be done. I would appreciate it if you could let me know about any bugs you find, or even just 'difficulties' you come across in using the script. Planned developments underway but not yet finished include a "all-in-one" public survey screen - so you can choose to present the survey on one single screen, rather than question by question.
dom4j 1.4. released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=267091
Finally after a much longer delay than we expected the 1.4 release of dom4j is out. dom4j is a simple and flexible open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java platform using the Java Collections Framework with full integration with DOM, SAX and JAXP.
YaBB SE 1.5.1 is out
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266399
YaBB SE is a PHP/MySQL port of the popular forum software YaBB (yet another bulletin board). Incorporating the same intuitive user interface, and several of the most popular modifications from YaBB's Boardmod program. After an extensive period of public beta testing, YaBB SE 1.5.1 final is out! Thanks go out to everyone who helped making this release possible.
TUTOS makes it to 1.1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266318
About 9 month after the last major release and 2 month beta testing, the OpenSource Grupware and Projectmanagement system TUTOS was released in a new 1.1. The new releasae features a lot of enhancments new tools and useful stuff. TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things.
Slashdot
Nuke-Lobbing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2259256
SlideGuitar writes "The following is a fascinating article about how
the Navy in the 1950s, wanting to assure that it had a carrier based
nuclear force, used A1 Skyraider (single engine propellor driven
aircraft) to [0]lob nuclear bombs using a manuever called the "goofy
loop" (read the article.) The goofy loop put about seven miles between
them and a Mark 7 nuclear device at detonation. The pilots knew that
(1) they couldn't get far enough away to survive, and (2) if they did
survive there probably wouldn't be a carrier to go back to anyway.
There are lots of emails from pilots who did the manuever and what they
thought about the whole business."
Links
0. http://www.danford.net/spadguy.htm
T-Shirt Cannon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2249250
[0]SnakeStu writes "If you thought the T-shirts at ThinkGeek were cool,
imagine them [1]flying 160 feet through the air (courtesy of
[2]Crawford International Theatrical Corporation [CITC])."
Links
0.
http://www.openmusicregistry.org/
1.
http://www.citcfx.com/prod_teelauncher.htm
2.
http://www.citcfx.com/
Building a Bigger Search Engine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1916209
[0]skreuzer writes "Wired is running a [1]story about a distributed web
crawler called [2]Grub. People who choose to download and run the
client will assist in building the Web's largest, most accurate
database of URLs. This database will be used to improve existing search
engines' results by increasing the frequency at which sites are crawled
and indexed. Conceivably, Grub's distributed network could enable state
information to be gathered on every document on the Internet, each and
every day."
Links
0. mailto:skreuzer@f2o.org
1.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58497,00.html
2.
http://www.grub.org/Open Source Experiment Management Software? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2352232
Alea asks: "I do a lot of empirical computer science, running new algorithms on hundreds of datasets, trying many combinations of parameters, and with several versions of many pieces of software. Keeping track of these experiments is turning into a nightmare and I spend an unreasonable amount of time writing code to smooth the way. Rather than investing this effort over and over again, I have been toying with writing a framework to manage everything, but don't want to reinvent the wheel. I can find commercial solutions (often specific to a particular domain) but does anyone know of an open source effort? Failing that, does anyone have any thoughts on such a beast?"
AMD Athlon 64 Performance Preview
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/199242
[0]k-hell writes "It seems like [1]X-bit Labs have [2]gotten their
hands on an 'engineering sample of the AMD Athlon 64 2800+ processor'.
Damage at Tech Report is [3]writing that 'This is really fun, but I am
a little concerned about their memory latency numbers.'"
Links
0.
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kjetihel/
1.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/
2.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64.html
3.
http://tech-report.com/onearticle.x/5026
The Science of the Matrix
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1825217
KamehamehaWarrior writes "Peter B. Lloyd, author of [0]Taking The Red Pill: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in The Matrix, believes that many of the plot developments in "The Matrix" that seem to contradict the laws of physics, biology, etc. can actually [1]be explained with a closer look at the science. He addresses issues such as "Can humans really be an energy source? How does the Matrix know what fried chicken taste like? Why do the rebels have to enter and exit the Matrix via a telephone system (that doesn't actually exist)?"" Links
Time to Face the Music
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1749200
Mortimer.CA writes "[0]The Toronto Star has an article up about the
[1]ailing recording industry with some possible scenarios for solving
the problem(s). Choice quotation: 'We must ask ourselves what Elvis
would do to stop the theft of music via the Internet, now so widespread
and so brazen that it makes the Baghdad looters look like
trick-or-treaters.'"
Links
Belgium Rolls Out Java ID Cards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1741259
An anonymous submitter points us to this page describing [0]Belgium's rollout of Java-based smart cards as a national ID card. Links
0. http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-04/sunflash.20030410.2.html
UPS to Deploy Ultra-Connected Wireless Handhelds http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1658211
[0]Lyle E. Dodge writes "According to this article at Yahoo.com Symbol
Technologies announced (on Tax Day of all days) that in 2004 UPS would
deploy 70,000 [1]handheld delivery computers based on Symbol's Fourth
Generation hardware. Color screens, 128 megs of RAM, and uber-connected
(GPS, GPRS, CDMA, WiFi, Bluetooth, Infrared, Analog modem), and, of
course, the familiar barcode scanner. The obvious /. question is: Can
we run Linux on Brown? Maybe UPS can fund an OSS startup, "BrownHat"?
We'll see..."
Links
0. mailto:slashdot.org@lyledodge.com
U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1647222
[0]Injektilo* writes "The [1]Washington Port is [2]reporting that the
U.S. government sided with the recording industry in its dispute with
Verizon Communications Inc. on Friday, saying a digital-copyright law
invoked by record labels to track down Internet song-swappers did not
violate the U.S. Constitution." We've been [3]following this case.
Links
0.
http://www.injektilo-ftp.com
1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53387-2003Apr18.html
3.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/2031250&tid=158
Freshmeat
bash programmable completion 20030419 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120109/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
CacheMate 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120131/
CacheMate is a database for tracking GPS cache hunts. You can store information about caches or benchmarks, decode hints, and transfer data between CacheMate and the MemoPad application. Registered users can also import EasyGPS LOC and GPX files, available from Geocaching.com.
chgrep 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120125/
chgrep searches the input files (or standard input if no files are named) for oldpattern and changes them to newpattern (grep doesn't support this). You can use .lock files (or another extend). It is useful in (but not limited to) mail servers.
chpox 0.4a (Single)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120133/
chpox provides transparent checkpointing and restarting of processes on Linux clusters. It was originally designed for recovering of tasks that takes long execution time (i.e. numerical simulations) in case of system crashes, power failures, etc. It works with MOSIX and openMosix , is SMP safe, works as a kernel module, does not require kernel patches or program recompiling/relinking, and supports virtual memory, regular open files, current directory, termios, and child processes.
Coriander 0.31 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120121/
Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394 digital video camera interactively. It features SDL display, FTP image posting, file saving, and Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for consumer grade DV cameras.
CYCAS 2.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120116/
CYCAS is a 2D+3D CAD package for drafting and design in high quality and for creating 3D presentations and technical illustrations easily. Some of its features include an easy-to-handle user interface, special architectural elements and functions, a WYSIWYG display, printing, plotting, import and export filters, photorealistic rendering with POV-Ray, documentation and tutorials, example drawings, and an extendable 2D/3D symbols library.
dchub 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120107/
dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with some extra features dedicated to file sharing.
DocBook Doclet 0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120117/
The DocBook Doclet creates DocBook SGML or XML from Java source documentation or HTML files. It is helpful if you want to print reference handbooks of your API. Normally it is used with the Javadoc tool but it can also be used as a standalone application to convert HTML to DocBook. Additionally it comes with a Swing application to manage documentation projects and to transform the resulting DocBook files to PDF.
dominigue 0.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120136/
dominigue is a DOM engine which implements W3C DOM Level 2 in GObject and other facilities of GLib.
GatorMail 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120110/
GatorMail is a Java Servlet-based Webmail application built on the Jakarta Struts framework. It was originally developed to meet the needs of the University of Florida. Efficient interaction with the mail store along with a low support overhead and simple, user-friendly interface are the primary goals of the project.
GGTL -- Generic Game-Tree Library 1.0pre2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120113/
GGTL is a C library to help people program computer games. It is targeted in particular at two-player zero-sum games with perfect information. Examples are Chess, Checkers, Go, Othello (Reversi), Tic-Tac-Toe, and Connect-4. For such games, GGTL can provide Alpha-Beta game-tree search (both fixed-depth and iterative deepening), unlimited undo, and saving to/resuming from files. Two example games, Othello and Tic-Tac-Toe, are included.
GStreamer 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120112/
GStreamer is a streaming media library and set of tools that enable applications to share a common set of plugins for things like video decoding and encoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio and video filters, audio visualisation, Web streaming and anything else that streams in real-time or otherwise. It is modelled after research software worked on at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
HASAS 1.5.1 (development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120142/
HASAS (HydroAcoustic Signal Analysis System) is a modular system for passive sonar signal analysis. It can be used for biological research or surveillance, for example. The soundcard is used as input device, and it currently includes all the very basic functionality; beamformed audio, direction finding, level histogram, LOFAR/DEMON (narrowband spectrogram), wideband spectrogram, and raw audio.
MetalServe 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120141/
MetalServe is a standalone DCC file server that can be used to share files on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks such as EFNet and Undernet. Unlike the only available similar Unix program, iroffer, which offers "packs" of files, MetalServe offers single files similar to the way the SDFind, SPRJukebox, and OmenServe scripts for mIRC, a Windows IRC client, work.
Perl webmail 3.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120139/
Perl webmail is a CGI script that interfaces with a POP mail server that you provide. It can check mail, read messages, reply, forward, delete, send and receive attachments, and it doesn't have to be a local mail server. This script talks strictly POP3 for receiving and SMTP for sending mail. It also supports storage for mail folders, contacts, and calendar notes.
phpOpenTracker 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120108/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your visitors' click paths).
Python-LDAP 2.0.0pre09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120126/
python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose.
QTParted 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120115/
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.
QtRadio 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120127/
QtRadio (formerly KDERadio) lets you listen to the radio, add stations, etc.
R5 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120132/
r5 is a bot that runs as a client on IRC networks, and allows you to make it listen to commands. An easy way to add your own commands is available.
Rack 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120111/
Rack is a theme which makes windows look like audio racks. Just for fun, for the audio addicted people. Not very useful, not finished yet, but the idea is there.
ReMedial 0.2.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120118/
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 2.0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120119/
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.
Rolo 008
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120134/
Rolo keeps track of contacts and displays with a text-based menu. It strives to be a well-constructed tool for complementing text-based email programs. It utilizes the vCard version 3.0 format for storing its contacts and interfaces with the end-user through an NCurses front-end.
Run Time Access 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120105/
RTA (Run Time Access) gives you runtime access to the data in your program. It is a specialized, memory-resident database interface. It is not a stand-alone server but a library which attaches to your program and offers up your program's internal structures and arrays as database tables. It uses a subset of the Postgres protocol and is compatible with the Postgres bindings for C, PHP, and the Postgres commandline tool, psql.
Simkin for C++ 2.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120140/
Simkin is a simple scripting language that can be used to customize C++ applications such as games. Scripts can be embedded within files such as XML or in databases.
Simple Python Blogger 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120124/
Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries, users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to edit, change, and set up. Entries are stored in XML. The script also generates an RSS feed of the recent subjects and their authors.
Soapbox 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120106/
Soapbox is a (sandbox) library that allows to restrict processes to write only to those places you want. By preloading the Soapbox library (or using the provided soapbox-script), you can run programs and monitor which writes/changes are made, without them really happening. Typically do a safe succesful 'make install' that doesn't break halfway and doesn't pollute your system.
Socrates Questionnaire Engine 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120123/
Socrates is a Java based questionnaire and survey engine and wizard that enables fast delivery of questionnaires to the Web. It runs under Jakarta's Tomcat. The backend for defining questionnaires is XML (a database is in progress).
TrackStudio Enterprise 2.5 SP2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119940/
TrackStudio Enterprise is a powerful and scalable multi-platform defect tracking system based on Java. It includes a Web-based workflow manager and bug filter (AND, OR, and NOT). It supports custom fields, multi-level security, rule-based email notification, PDF reports with charts, locales, and timezones. It allows you to organize your database into projects and subprojects, and works with any database.
WindowLab 1.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120129/
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It is click-to-focus, shares its window depth policy with the Amiga, and has a window resizing/reshaping method similar to that of 8-1/2 from Plan 9. It maintains the illusion of direct manipulation by constraining the mouse pointer when appropriate (i.e., when a window cannot be dragged any further in one direction). The pointer is also constrained vertically (effectively making the target menu items infinitely tall according to Fitts's law) when it is in the menubar to reduce pointing time.
X-ChaMan 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120135/
X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display an easy-to-use GUI menu providing a choice of language (for BIVX) and chapter selection. X-ChaMan runs with mplayer or Xine.
Slashcode
launch of slash site "stupidsecurity.com"
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/2133212
Announcing the opening of StupidSecurity.com. The site is meant to be a chronicle of idiotic and deceptive "security" measures. From the "three questions" that the airlines finally stopped asking to the closing of Meigs Airport in Chicago supposedly for security reasons, we want YOUR gripes about security measures that are just plain dumb! I'd welcome submissions (the stupider the better!), comments, complaints, and praise!
MySQL 4.1+
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1639224
I want to start using MySQL 4.1 to take advantage of the new Spatial extensions in MySQL to further enhance my plugin. I saw the recent story referring to using MySQL 4, but no direct mention of experience with versions 4+. Any tips or recommendations? Should I make the upgrade only on my development box, or is using 4+ okay. Any experience with 4.1, which is alpha?
Section-specific Quick Links
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1540217
I'm in the process of setting up a intranet Slash 2 site for a company. With the aid of the Crow Book I've got everything installed and with the L'n'F that they want, and we are in the process of adding some initial content and getting the blocks running the way they want. However, we're having problems getting section-specific quick links blocks to work. Example: I have a section called legal, and a block called legal_qlinks which has different links to index_qlinks. index_qlinks shows up on the homepage as I expect, but nothing is displayed in the right "frame" if I click no the section title under an article. What am I doing wrong? The Crow Book (page 127) suggests that this should work.
Need help building Slash templates
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/1634251
I have comps for a site I want built in Slash. While I have worked with Movable Type, building Slash templates is a whole different beast. I need someone to help me convert my comps into a functioning Slash site. If you have these skills, please drop me a line with your rates and scheduling availability. You can see what the site will look like here. --Markos
Preventing duplicates from being posted
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/2021250
I'm getting sick of seeing duplicate posts all the time on Slashdot. I have a feature-request/enhancement that I would like to request for slashcode. It would be nice if before a moderator submits a story to check all of the URLS in that post and match it with the previous weeks/months stories for the same URL. If there is a match, throw up a warning saying that this story is a possible duplicate. This will help the moderator out too, since they wouldn't have to read every story on slashdot in the past two weeks. What do you think? Is this doable? --Min Idzelis
Vorlonspace Is Back
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0415234
Announced back in October last year, Vorlonspace was launched as a Babylon 5 discussions site. In late January, the site went down and was taken off the YASS list. It is now back up and the premise has changed from Babylon 5 to a general sci-fi discussion site which has generated more interest.
Adding ispell after slash is installed
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0414234
Hi, I read the (archived) thread at: http://ask.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/1 724238&mode=thread and I have "Running Weblogs with Slash", so I know that "... Slash 2.2 has added an ispell compatibility mode. If the ispell program exists and points to an ispell binary, the Edit Story page will include a list of potentially misspelled words.)" (thanks blagger), but I don't know how exactly what to add, and into what directory,. I installed freebsd 5.0, then built and installed the slashcode port, and now I've installed ispell. I then tried adding symlinks to ispell into various directories, including /usr/local/slash/bin, and restarting my browser and the freebsd box. Nothing obvious changes. Can someone tell me exactly which file to put where to enable spell-checking? I'm running slash-2.2.6 on Freebsd 5.0. Thanks... P.S. Sorry if I misspelled anything, but...
Shouldn't Slash Be Represented at OSCOM 3? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/171253
I found out that OSCOM 3, The Open Source Content Management Conference, is taking place in Cambridge, MA, from May 28-30. I was surprised to see that Slash does not appear to be represented in any way. I posted a story to CTDATA suggesting that our community try to represent itself in some fashion. If anyone wants to discuss how we can influence the organizers of this conference to include a Slash presentation, please email me at dave_aiello at ctdata.com.
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.
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