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[osdn developer] April 27, 2003
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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April 27, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
YAM Amiga 2.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271956
The YAM (Yet-Another-Mailer) open source team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4 of the well-known AmigaOS Email client (MUA). After 18 months hard work this new version features tremendous bugfixes and enhancements to once more stable it's leadership on the AmigaOS based MUA clients. YAM (short for 'Yet Another Mailer') is a MIME-compliant Internet mailer written for AmigaOS computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, configurable GUI, ARexx interface. NEW FEATURES * Hierarchical folder list - folders can now be arranged into groups, and nested at the user's discretion * SMTP & POP3 TLS1/SSL3 support for stunnel servers, using AmiSSL.library * Email address cache, making it possible to "remember" the last N used recipients if they don't appear in the address book * More powerful recipient string gadgets, resolving aliases, real names and email addresses "on the fly" as they are found in the address book or the email cache * Optional pop-up menus in the folder & message lists * Automatic codepage detection and translation, specially meant for cyrillic users. * Reworked status bar * Automatically finds the suitable mailing list support settings * Extended support for mailto: links * Search function in the Write window * Customizable size format and localized unit display * Individual appicon stats for folders, with an user-definable label * New hidden option "JumpToIncoming" * Deleting a block of text with RAmiga-Del automatically inserts a "[...]" marker
- Built-in mouse wheel support * New "marked" status * "application/pdf" is now in the built-in list of MIME types * Extended documentation Yeah, Amiga is still alive and will be forever !!
Furthur 1.7.2 has been released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271442
Furthur is a peer-to-peer music sharing tool that allows fully
enforcable legal sharing, instant downloads with no waiting lists,
in-depth cataloging functionality, and detailed attribute searches.
Upgrading to this version is recommended for all existing users. Read
on for details about the vast number of improvements in this new
version. The Furthurnet team is proud to announce the release of:
Furthurnet 1.7.2
(https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39429&release_i
d=154090) As usual, a great deal of hard work has gone into this
release. Due to the nature of some of the bugs that are fixed here, we
highly recommend that everybody upgrade. Major issues addressed since
version 1.7.1: 1. Implemented a naming convention to eliminate improper
file types in audio and video shares, and to ensure complete and
quality filesets. 2. Implemented additional security features to
prevent sharing of official releases and other filsesets containing
copyrighted material. 3. Implemented compression of network messages
that can reduce network overhead by as much as 50% or more. 4. Added
support for users behind proxy servers. 5. Improved accuracy and
transfer speed calcuations and display. 6. Added "last activity" column
to shares and partials lists 7. Allowed selection of multiple files for
searching and downloading. 8. Fixed bugs that prevented columns from
sorting correctly. 9. Combined Settings into a single menu and
reorganized them. 10. Began implementation of support for FLAC. 11.
Restored Phish to the network and updated trading policies for many
artists. Best regards, The Furthurnet team
moregroupware 0.6.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271912
We have released version 0.6.7 of moregroupware. It is available in the files section as a tar.gz and a zip package. The files contains the available manual, thus they are bigger than the last release. moregroupware is a web-based groupware package, written in PHP4. moregroupware includes modules like webmail, notes, todo, contacts, project management, calendar and others. The most important improvements to the 0.6.7 release are those made to the files module and the new setup, logging and messaging code. More details are available in the release notes. Have fun!
bogofilter 0.12.1 - new current release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271906
Release 0.12.1 contains information on bogofilter-tuning and scripts to help in tuning. See NEWS-0.12 for more info. 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.
Python 2.3b1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271948
Python 2.3b1 was released today (April 25th). Download it from python.org/2.3/. Final release expected in two months!
py-xmlrpc 0.8.8.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270940
Py-xmlrpc is a fast and stable implementation of the xmlrpc spec for Python (written in C). It supports both blocking and non-blocking clients and servers on Windows and POSIX (Linux, Sun) platforms. Speed improvements are often an order of magnitude over Python's standard xmlrpclib library. This release includes several new features, including a drop-in compatibility wrapper for xmlrpclib.
New KDE-cygwin 3.1.1 Beta 1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269806
We are proud to present the first KDE 3.1.1 release of the KDE desktop environment for cygwin/xfree. See project web site for further information. The KDE on Cygwin project is started to enable the kde desktop on Windows OS based on cygwin, the posix emulation layer for Windows, the xfree86 server and the qt library (qtlib).
Etherboot 5.0.10 (production) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270843
Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86 platforms. It is also a coordination point for information about free software related to network booting. eepro100 users should give this release a try, hopefully it deals with the issues that caused the driver to be broken after 5.0.7.
OSCAR 2.2.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270846
The OSCAR working group is pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.1 of the Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) toolkit. This release offers full IA-64 support with the inclusion of updated SIS and Kernel_Picker packages. OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resource) is a snapshot of the best known methods for building, programming, and using clusters. It consists of a fully integrated and easy to install software bundle designed for high performance cluster computing. The supported distributions include RedHat 7.2 & 7.3 as well as Mandrake 8.2. There is experimental support for RedHat 7.1 and Mandrake 9.0. Feature list of 2.2+ are: * RedHat 7.2, 7.3 and Mandrake 8.2 supported * RedHat 7.1 and Mandrake 9.0 experimentally supported * IA-64 Support * SIS update, including SystemImager 3.0 * Kernel_Picker updated (tool to assist with alt kernel usage) * Import/export MAC addresses from/to a file * MAC address auto-assign and auto-dhcpd restart * OSCAR Database (ODA) enhancements * OSCAR Package Downloader (OPD) updated * C3 updated * LAM/MPI updated This release is available for download at the OSCAR project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscar/ (note that SourceForge marks the download file as "i386", but the file will work on ia64 platforms as well) Please use the oscar-devel mailing list for help and discussions and report any bugs in the bug tracker. Both of these are also available at the OSCAR project page. ANNOUNCEMENT: The OSCAR group would like to invite all interested users to attend the first annual OSCAR Symposium this May 11-14, 2003 in Sherbrooke, Canada. http://oscar2003.ccs.usherbrooke.ca/
NTFS 2.1.3a available for Linux kernel 2.4.20 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270897
This release fixes all known issues with the NTFS driver. If you still experience problems with this new release please let us know. The goals of this project are: create a new Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (v1.2 and later 3.0), user space utilities (e.g. format, ntfs check, etc.) and a library to avoid code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPLed programs.
Slashdot
Star Wars Extras Needed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/0239215
lyonsden writes "Ever want to be in a [0]Star Wars movie? Live in Australia? Check out [1]this page at the [2]Maura Fay Group Casting web site. Especially the Star Wars part towards the bottom. Any takers?" Links
0.
http://www.starwars.com/
1.
http://www.maurafay.com.au/casting/casting_frameset.html
2.
http://www.maurafay.com.au/A New Meaning For Geotargeting At Monster.com http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/0121231
Duke submits a link to this [0]New York Times story, according to which
"it seems that Monster.com has taken the U.S. government's policy of
sanctions against certain countries and run with it where no man has
gone before. Monster 'has deleted resumes that list current addresses
in those countries.' and more fun stuff. If you haven't had the
opportunity for a really self-rightous post in a while, Monster.com has
made it simple for you."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Restricted-Resumes.html
Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/2354245
[0]prostoalex writes "The [1]Unix-Haters Handbook, publication year
1994, is now available online for free as a [2]single PDF file.
Apparently some suburban Seattle company has agreed to host this 3.5MB
file on its servers. The anti-foreword is written by no other but
Dennis Ritchie, who proclaims: 'Here is my metaphor: your book is a
pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like
excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to
sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of
contempt and of envy.'" This is what should happen to more out-of-print
books.
Links
0.
http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
1.
http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/unix-haters.html
2.
http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh.pdf
Jeff Bezos' Shot At Space
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/238219
[0]Brad Stone points out his story (due out in Monday's issue of
Newsweek) on [1]Jeff Bezos' secret space-oriented company, called Blue
Origin -- which aims to launch tourists in a reusable vehicle. The
article also touches on some of the other private space ventures you've
been reading about lately. (One cool note about Blue Origin is that
Neal Stephenson is an employee; I hope he's not allowed anywhere
dangerous.)
Links
0. http://www.gearheadsthebook.com
The Art, Music And Computer Science Of DNA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/2131256
Build6 writes "As part of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of
DNA's double-helix structure, many news publications are writing about
what has been done with the discovery so far; [0]The Economist has a
very interesting one about DNA's use in art and music. ... You can
[1]read all about it either by picking up a copy of The Economist (it's
well worth the money, I've subscribed for over a decade), or online."
And [2]Clint Harris writes "As part of its series commemorating the
50th anniversary of 'the first scientific description of DNA' NPR
recently aired [3]a story comparing DNA to software (RealAudio or
Windows Media). 'For many, the best analogy for the way DNA works is
that it's like a computer program at the heart of every cell. Some of
its programming tricks bear an uncanny resemblance to ones the human
brain has dreamed up...DNA is [like] spaghetti code because nature has
been tinkering with the system for billions of years like a bad
programmer.'"
Links
0.
http://www.economist.com/
1.
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1730781
2. mailto:clharris@du.edu
3.
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1244325
Webby Awards Downsized To Virtual Event
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/217201
minesweeper writes "In another sign of the times, [0]this article in
the SF Chronicle says that the seventh annual [1]Webby Awards,
typically a flamboyant affair held in San Francisco, has been reduced
to a virtual event this year. Many of the nominees couldn't make it to
the event scheduled for June 5 due to the downturn in the economy and
fears of traveling."
Links
0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/26/MN229365.DTL&type=tech
Around The World In 1 Year (On A Website) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1942256
[0]chrischoo writes "From the guys who brought you a [1]crushing
experience, [2]Tsunamii.Net and [3]Fragnetics are working on taking the
Tsunamii.Net website around the world by obtaining webhosting services
in 44 countries. Known as [4]alpha 3.8 Translocation, it is
commissioned by the [5]Walker Arts Center. The website is now on it's
second stop in Malaysia. Our teams need the help of the Slashdot
community to [6]plot a traceroute for each server we visit. Traceroutes
are plotted onto a world map which is refreshed every time the website
stops at a new server in a different geographical location. Our next
stops include Thailand and Myanmar. It'll be great if we have more
people willing to sponsor a webserver from your country to host one of
the Tsunamii stopovers!"
Links
0.
http://www.fragnetics.com
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/08/1944257&tid=99
2.
http://www.tsunamii.net/
3.
http://www.fragnetics.com/
4.
http://www.fragnetics.com/articles/alpha38
5.
http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9
6.
http://www.tsunamii.net/disclaimer/disclaim.htm
Will Bounties Cure The Spam Problem?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1842215
An anonymous reader writes with a pointer to a [0]piece in today's
Mercury News about Lawrence [1]Lessig's proposed spam-bounty
legislation, excerpting: "If the law passes, citizens could be eligible
for rewards of thousands of dollars or more if they're the first to
provide the government with proof and the identity of offending
spammers."
Links
0. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/5722718.htm
Innovation on the Edge?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/2346202
MCassatt asks: "It's a truism in many fields that breakthroughs come from the edge: the scandalous Impressionists become pretty pictures for posters and umbrellas; the world of science fiction becomes the world of [0]science. The [1] wonderful, the [2] fantastic, and the [3]mad of today are tomorrow’s mainstream. Are there examples of this in computer science? Not extreme programming, but extreme programs?" Links
0.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/238217&tid=160
1.
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/797.html
2.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/tansey/tansey_bricoleurs_daughterjpg.html
3.
http://www.radiantprimes.com/
The Return of Chewbacca
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1644241
[0]BrunoC writes "It's official! Peter Mayhew is going to play
everyone's favorite wookie once again: Chewbacca is returning in
Episode III, currently in pre-production phase. Peter says (quoted from
[1]StarWars.com) "I'm delighted to return as Chewbacca, I think his
re-appearance in this film is a fitting way to tie the whole saga
together, especially for Wookiee fans." Woa! Just for the records:
Artoo and C-3PO will be there too! You can read the [2]official
annoucement here, at StarWars.com."
Links
0. mailto:brunoc@nOspAm.easynet.com.br
1.
http://www.starwars.com/
2.
http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/news/2003/04/news20030423.html
Freshmeat
Fractal Software
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/827
Ever since I first stayed up late watching an 8-bit computer painstakingly draw a Mandelbrot set, I've been fascinated by fractals. Of course, I had to write a fractal-generating program of my own straight away; the combination of the amazingly simple math required to produce the Mandelbrot set and the amazing graphics that came out was irresistible. Clearly, I'm not alone; every programmer with even the slightest interest in math writes a fractal program at some point, and a good number of these are now available as Open Source. Here's a brief, opinionated, and decidedly non-exhaustive survey of some of the programs I've found.
Alleyoop 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120918/
Alleyoop is a GNOME frontend to the Valgrind memory checker. Its features include a right-click context menu to intelligently suppress errors or launch an editor on the source file, jumping to the exact line of the error condition. A searchbar at the top of the viewer can be used to limit the viewable errors to those that match the regex criteria entered. A fully functional Suppressions editor is also included.
Another NBD System 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120915/
Another NBD System is a redesigned, rewritten, multi-threaded Linux Network Block Device (NBD) server daemon and monitoring tool. It is compatible with the Linux kernel NBD driver. Written to use glibc's large file support, this implementation also features multi-home configurability, TCP wrapper support, port services lookup, restartable copy-on-write mode, accounting, memory mapped I/O support, and runtime monitoring.
Autoconf Macro Archive 0.5.51 (SF-NET)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120876/
The Autoconf Macro Archive provides documented and tested macros that are useful to many software writers using the autoconf tool, but too specific to be included into autoconf itself.
Bilbo 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120890/
Bilbo is a PHP frontend to run scans using the security scanner Nessus.
cutmp3 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120901/
cutmp3 is a small commandline MP3 editor. It lets you select sections of an MP3 and save them to separate files without quality loss. It uses mpg123 for playback. It mostly works with VBR files, but they are treated as CBR files.
darcs 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120873/
Darcs is an advanced revision control system along the lines of CVS or arch. It has two particularly distinctive features which differ from other revision control systems: each copy of the source is a fully functional branch, and underlying it is a consistent and powerful theory of patches (the latter being darcs' most important feature).
DBMonster 0.3.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120891/
DBMonster is a tool which helps database application developers with tuning the structure of the database, tuning the usage of indexes, and testing the application performance under heavy database load. DBMonster generates as much random data as you wish and puts it into an SQL database. It provides a very pluggable interface and is trivial to use.
durep 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120887/
durep is a perl script used for disk usage reports. It can generate text output with bar graphs to allow easy comparisons of disk usage between directories. It can also generate web pages which can be navigated through the directory structure. This allows easy visual monitoring of disk usage.
dvd::rip 0.50.11 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120886/
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools.
dynAdmin 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120908/
dynAdmin is a content management system (CMS) that is unlike any other. Most CMSes out there create dynamic Web sites that are based on news entries. dynAdmin creates dynamic Web sites based on individual sites, templates, and most important of all, pages. Besides allowing for dynamic Web sites in this way, it has many other features such as news generation automatic FAQs, completely customizable templates (both site-based and global), multiple users, printable pages, templates, and more.
GBonds 1.90.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120888/
GBonds is a savings bond inventory program for GNOME. It allows you to track the current redemption value and performance of your U.S. Savings Bonds and keep a valuable record of the bonds you own. Gbonds is similar in functionality to "Savings Bond Wizard" for Windows distributed by the U.S. Treasury.
gGo 0.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120917/
gGo is a Go board and SGF editor and client for the Internet Go Server. Go is an ancient board game, very common in Japan, China, and Korea. gGo was formerly named qGo for Java.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120862/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
Group-Office 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120904/
Group-office is Web-based office suite written in PHP that is extensible with modules. It features user management (optionally synchronized with system and Samba), module management, an e-mail client, a file manager, a scheduler, and project management.
Gwenview 0.17.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120897/
Gwenview is a simple image viewer for KDE. Image loading is done by the Qt library (so it supports all image formats your Qt installation supports). It features a folder tree window and a file list and thumbnail window to provide easy navigation in your file hierarchy and uses docked windows, allowing you to alter the layout in any way you want.
Hackedbox 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120872/
Hackedbox is a stripped down version of Blackbox, the X11 window manager. The tool bar and slit have been removed, as the goal of Hackedbox is to be a small "feature-set" window manager with no bloat. There are no plans to add any functionality, only bugfixes and speed enhancements whenever possible.
hdup 1.6.12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120883/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (with mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host or restoring from a remote host (with ssh), the ability to split up archives, and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
ifGraph 0.4.9rc1 (Release Candidate)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120902/
ifGraph is a set of Perl scripts created to help network administrators to visualize network flow on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. The graphics are created with RRDTool, and it shows bytes (in/out) and errors for each interface. It also shows the current/average/max use and the respective link/interface usage in percentages. The program also outputs HTML files to make the visualization of the PNG/GIF/GD images more friendly and easy.
Io programming language 2003-04-26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120913/
Io is small prototype-based programming language. It is a pure object language, and it features an incremental garbage collector, exceptions, light weight threads, and embeddability.
IOzone 3.169
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120916/
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems.
Ismo 0.0.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120903/
Ismo is a Web application framework written in PHP.
Issue Manager 0.8.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120874/
The Issue Manager is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.
IzPack 3.0.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120869/
IzPack is a powerful Java installer builder. It is able to create lightweight and modular installers. You have the choice of the installer panels you want to use (some can do the same job, so that you can select the one you prefer), and you even have the choice of the kind of installer that you want to use. IzPack doesn't use any portion of native code, it is designed to be fully independent from the operating system that runs it. It is very easy for the end user with a properly installed JVM to use an installer made with IzPack, since a single "java -jar installer.jar" will launch it.
jpegrdf 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120905/
Jpegrdf reads and manipulates RDF metadata stored in the comment section of JPEG images. It can extract, query, and augment the data. Manipulating JPEG images with jpegrdf does not modify the actual image data or any other sections of the file.
jRevProxy 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120909/
jRevProxy is a lightweight reverse proxy server fully written in Java. It accepts HTTP and HTTPS external requests and translates these into new internal requests based on a set of rules. HTTPS with client side authentication (X509 certificates) is supported.
Magic-Dic 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120854/
Magic-Dic is a multilingual dictionary program for the console. It supports searching coevally in global and user dictionaries, with either exact or inexact matching, and simultaneous searching in more than in one dictionary language (to study similarities between languages). New dictionary entries can also be created in multi-lingual insert mode, allowing you to automatically create all dictionary language pairs at once by translating a word to many different languages. New entries into user dictionaries are emailed to a central location, where they are all merged into the central source for Magic-Dic's global dictionaries. This system is designed to allow many people to build free wordlists in any language combination. A subscription system allows users to receive and filter updates and to respond to these updates in several different ways.
MaildirSync 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120889/
Maildirsync is a utility for Maildir synchronization. It is designed to be used in online (live) Maildir folders, be fail-safe, and is optimized for minimal bandwidth.
MMAEclipse 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120896/
MMAEclipse is a Mathematica plugin for the Eclipse IDE platform. The plugin uses the J/Link toolkit to evaluate expressions inside the Eclipse IDE. Its features include syntax highlighting for *.m and *.nb files, the ability to define special input templates, the ability to evaluate a selected Mathematica expression inside a text editor, and predefined menus for MathMLForm, TeXForm, and CForm. The results can be shown in a console window or copied to the clipboard.
MMS Diary 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120865/
MMS Diary is a mobile phone weblog/diary for use when you are on holiday. It uses MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) as transport to upload texts and photos to your homepage. This is done with a PHP script that pretends to be an MMS proxy relay (the server that receives MMS:es).
MoneyDance Developers' Kit 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120856/
MoneyDance Developers' Kit includes the MoneyDance API documentation, sample code, and a tool for packaging and signing extensions.
MoviX 0.8.0pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120898/
MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly console menu will allow you to use MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play any DVD/VCD, video/audio files (most noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG/VORBIS), TV (provided you have a TV card), and radio stations on the Internet (if you are connected to a LAN). Since the entire operating system is loaded into RAM, you do not even need a hard disk to use MoviX.
MozPlugger 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120880/
MozPlugger is a modification of Plugger, a very small multimedia plugin for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera which uses external programs to show and play many file formats. This modification fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a player to stream a media file directly from the URL.
ncc 1.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120881/
ncc is a C source code analyzer which generates program flow and variable usage information. Using it should be as easy as changing CC=gcc to CC=ncc in makefiles, and effort has been made to support most common gcc extensions. ncc has been tested with the sources of the Linux kernel, gtk, gcc, gdb, bind, mpg123, ncftp, and many other famous projects.
nVidia XFree86 4.x Drivers 1.0-4363
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120860/
These are XFree86 4.x drivers for the TNT, TNT2, TNT2 Ultra, GeForce, and Quadro chipsets. The GLX component is also included. Currently, there are drivers for both Linux and FreeBSD.
Prelude Log Monitoring Lackey 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120900/
The Prelude Log Monitoring Lackey (LML) is the host-based sensor program part of the Prelude Hybrid IDS suite. It can act as a centralized log collector for local or remote systems, or as a simple log analyzer (such as swatch). It can run as a network server listening on a syslog port or analyze log files. It supports logfiles in the BSD syslog format and is able to analyze any logfile by using the PCRE library. It can apply logfile-specific analysis through plugins such as PAX. It can send an alert to the Prelude Manager when a suspicious log entry is detected.
PSIplus's Site System 4.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120871/
PSIplus's Site System is a content management system for small Web sites. It is very easy to use; formatting is mostly done with well-known bb-code. It is possible to integrate it very easily because of a very simple themes engine. The integrated functions are news, guestbook, statistics, contact forms, administration system, user management, common settings, meta tags, etc. It is possible to extend it very easily.
Q 4.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120866/
Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific programming and other advanced applications, and also as a sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode.
Q-Graph 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120867/
Q-Graph is a collection of Q scripts that provide a graph data structure and a full-featured graph editor (the latter requires Tcl/Tk). It can be used to implement and test graph algorithms using the Q language.
Rolo 009
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120861/
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.
SANE Frontends 1.0.11 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120885/
This package contains frontends to SANE ("Scanner Access Now Easy"), including xscanimage, xcam, and scanadf. Xscanimage is a GTK-based application for scanning images that can also be used as a GIMP-plugin. Xcam is used to get images from cameras supported by SANE. Scanadf is a command line frontend especially suited for scanners equipped with automatic document feeders (ADF).
SaveMyModem 0.98 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120875/
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.
SoulSeek for Linux 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120919/
Soulseek (http://www.slsk.org) is a communication and file-sharing system. It is quite similar to Napster: it lets you exchange files, search for files, chat with other users in public and in private, browse their files, and get recommendations for music. SoulSeek for Linux is a GUI client for the system written in Python/wxPython. It includes all the major functionality: chat, searches, and file transfers.
uCON64 1.9.8beta8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120864/
uCON64 is a tool to backup all kinds of video game media (Cartridges and CDs). It supports most available backup units for cartridge-based consoles and uses cdrdao as a burn engine for CD-based consoles like the Dreamcast or Playstation (but has a lot more options, like diverse ROM modification). It can operate as an intelligent frontend for every emulator available.
Veejay 0.3.3rc5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120899/
Veejay is a video tracker/editing tool for Linux, which is similar in concept to FastTracker and ProTracker but for video. You can make video samples and line them up on a pattern. You can set looptype, playback speed and do a number of effects or transitions on them while playing back from multiple video sources in realtime. The project emphasizes direct (user) interaction. It is possible to navigate through video samples, define various types of looping, increase and decrease playback speed, and navigate through the effect chain to apply a chain of effects using the keyboard while the interface keeps track of what you are doing.
Warm Noia 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120839/
Warm Noia is a pink-gold Noia icon theme for Gnome2.
WebTK 0.alpha2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120882/
WebTK is a Python framework, using Twisted as its underlying Web server, and allowing webmasters to develop websites like any classic GUI software. It is object-oriented, providing and handling event-based widgets. It also does not need any database to work, as it uses object persistence with the help of PyPerSyst.
Wolf Pacman 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120878/
Wolf Pacman is a Pacman clone which lets you edit your own maps in ASCII files.
Worm Warner 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120884/
WormWarner is a Perl script that is used to warn hosts that are probably infected by a worm. It decides wether a host is infected by analyzing the data from the Apache log files. It currently recognizes CodeRed, Nimda, the Linux.Slapper.Worm, and the FreeBSD.Scalper.worm. Warning is done by trying to contact the SMTP server on the infected host and sending an email to the postmaster.
xmlBlaster 0.846
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120863/
XmlBlaster is XML based MOM (Message oriented Middleware) with a lot of features. It is a publish/subscribe and point-to-point MOM server which exchanges XML-encoded messages. Communication with the server is based on CORBA (using JacORB), RMI, XML-RPC, native socket, or a persistent HTTP plugin. Subscribers can use XPath expressions to filter the messages they wish to receive and add their own MIME-based filter plugins. C/C++, Java, Perl and PHP client demos are included in the xmlBlaster test suite, and Tcl and Python demo clients are scheduled. XmlBlaster also provides a browser callback framework, allowing browsers (Netscape, Mozilla, MSIE) to receive instant callbacks over a persistent http connection. A security plugin framework allows authentication/authorization in many ways. Currently there are LDAPand passwd-based plugins available.
XMLTV 0.5.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120912/
XMLTV is a set of programs to process TV (tvguide) listings and manage your TV viewing. It stores the listings in an XML-based format and most of the programs are filters which read and/or write XML. There are backends to download TV listings for Canada, the USA, Britain, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands. It also includes some filter tools to sort, grep, print, and munge listings, and two end-user programs to plan a week's TV viewing.
yahoo2mbox 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120920/
yahoo2mbox retrieves the messages from Yahoo! Groups archive and stores them in a local file in mbox format.
Yaunc 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120906/
Yaunc (Yet Another Uptimes.Net Client) implements version 4 of the uptimes.net protocol on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Yaunc is written in C.
YAZ 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120857/
YAZ (yet another Z39.50 toolkit) is a portable C/C++ programmer's toolkit which supports the development of Z39.50v3 clients and servers. Sample clients and a server are included with the distribution.
yChat++ 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120870/
yChat is a Web-based chat server daemon programmed in C++ which is compatible with all browsers that support frames and Javascript. It runs on all servers which are POSIX.4a compatible and use GCC3 with pthreads enabled.
ZZIPlib 0.10.80 (Preview)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120877/
ZZIPlib provides read access on ZIP-archives. The library uses only the patent-free compression-algorithms supported by zlib. Functions are provided that transparently access files being either real files or zipped files, both with the same filepath. The zip-archive can be used in the place of a normal subdirectory. It is written in portable C.
Slashcode
Handling logging issues
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/0533218
I'm using cronolog for my apache logs, and I really, really like it. I'd like to be able to use it on the slash logs as well, which become large and cumbersome over time with many sites running on a server. How do you all handle your logs? What do you use for log rotation? How long do you keep logs? Is anyone using cronolog, or something like it with slash?
RSS to Story?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1727241
Hi, I'm looking for a way to grab remote RDF and post them as stories. portald seems only to handle blocks. I'm aware of the elixus.org, and the RSS2Story plugin in their patch of slashcode, but I can't get the plugin installed, and it seems to be left unfinished. So is there any other way to do this?
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