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[osdn developer] May 26, 2003
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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Sourceforge
OggCarton Home Jukebox goes beta
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=278737
OggCarton is a cross-platform CD ripper, database, and web server for Ogg and MP3 files. OggCarton needs no external database or web server. With this release, the OggCarton Home Jukebox software moves from the alpha to the beta stage. Accordingly, binaries and installers for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows are now available for those who prefer to not roll their own. Full source is still available for those who do. Enjoy!
Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=278739
Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and very portable interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and extensible, and has been widely used since its creation in 1988 by John Ousterhout. The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.3 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the third patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 Release Announcement May 20, 2003 The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.3 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the third patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. More details can be found below. We would like to express our gratitude to all those who submit bug reports and patches. This information is invaluable in enabling us to identify and eliminate problems in the core. Where to get the new releases:
- Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 sources are freely
available as open source from the Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html This web page also contains
additional information about the releases, including new features and
notes about installing and compiling the releases. Sources are always
available from the Tcl SourceForge project's file distribution area:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894 Windows,
Linux, Solaris and HP-UX binaries are available from:
http://www.activestate.com/Tcl For additional information:
- Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web
site: http://www.tcl.tk/ This site contains a variety of information
about Tcl/Tk in general, the core Tcl and Tk distributions, Tcl
development tools, and much more. Thank you for your contributions:
- As usual, this release includes
contributions from the Tcl community. We have a page honoring these
contributors at: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/contributors.html
Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.2:
- The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.3. A complete list can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree. The more complete ChangeLog is also included with each source release. This is a patch release, so it primarily included bug fixes and corrections to erratic behavior. Below are only the most notable changes. * Correct case-insensitive unicode string comparison in Tcl_UniCharNcasecmp * Corrected loading of tclpip8x.dll on Win9x * Correct Tcl_SubstObj handling of \x00 bytes * Correct wide int issues in 'format' * Remove assumption that file times and longs are the same size * Allow Tcl to differentiate between reparse points which are symlinks and mounted drives on Windows * Bad command count on TCL_OUT_LINE_COMPILE * Store pointers to notifier funcs in a struct to work around some platform linker issues * Load correct (non-)debug dll for dde or registry * Fixing ObjMakeUpvar's lookup algorithm for the created local variable * Make sure that tclWideIntType is defined and somewhat sensible everywhere * Corrected inconsistent results of [string is integer] observed on systems where sizeof(long) != sizeof(int) * Substantial changes to the Windows clock synch phase-locked loop in a quest for improved loop stability * Made changes so that the "wideInt" Tcl_ObjType is defined on all platforms, even those where TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG is defined. Also made the Tcl_Value struct have a wideValue field on all platforms. Potential incompatibility for TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG platforms because that struct changes size *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** * Catch any errors returned by the Windows functions handling TLS ASAP instead of waiting to get some mysterious crash later on due to bogus pointers * Correct 'glob -path {[tcl]} *', where leading special character instead lists files in '/'. Bug only occurs on Windows where '\' is also a directory separator. * Fixed memory leak in threaded allocator on Windows caused by treating cachePtr as a TLS index * Ensure cd is thread-safe * Correct mem leak on closing a Windows serial port * Prevent string repeat crash when overflow sizes were given * Worked around the issue of realpath() not being thread-safe on Mac OS X by defining NO_REALPATH for threaded builds on Mac OS X * Correct handling of the gb2312 encoding by making it an alias of the euc-cn encoding and creating a gb2312-raw encoding for the original. Most uses of gb2312 really mean euc-cn. * Corrected another putenv() copy behavior problem when compiling on Windows and using Microsoft's runtime * Stop buttons from being very wide when a tk_messageBox has a lot of content on Unix * Fixed crash in [winfo server] on Mac OS X * Correct compound button display in the disabled state * Correct crash when generating postscript for a single-line polygon (point) with no color * Updated French message catalog * Use gb2312-raw as the alias for gb2312* charset fonts on unix -- Tcl Core Team and Maintainers Jeff Hobbs, Tcl Core Release Manager
- As usual, this release includes
contributions from the Tcl community. We have a page honoring these
contributors at: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/contributors.html
Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.2:
- Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web
site: http://www.tcl.tk/ This site contains a variety of information
about Tcl/Tk in general, the core Tcl and Tk distributions, Tcl
development tools, and much more. Thank you for your contributions:
SCons 0.14 adds Java support, Autoconf-like functionality http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279029
SCons alpha release 0.14 is now available for download. SCons is a
software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make)
implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software
Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build
tool). This release most notably adds support for Java builds (javac,
javah, rmic and jar), and adds integrated Autoconf-like functionality
for finding #include files and libraries. This release also contains
significant performance improvements from previous releases. IMPORTANT:
Release 0.14 contains the following interface changes: - Tool
specifications no longer take a "platform" argument. - Emitter
functions in Builders are now passed Node objects, not strings, for all
targets and sources. - New TargetSignatures() and SourceSignatures()
functions have been added to replace SetBuildSignatureType() and
SetContentSignatureType(). - The Export() function and the exported
variables argument of SConscript() now search for variables using the
same rules as Python: local first, then global. - The SetJobs() and
GetJobs() functions have been deprecated in favor of using
SetOption('num_jobs', num) and GetOption('num_jobs'). - Callable
expansions of construction variables in a command line now take a
fourth "for_signature" argument that is set when the expansion is being
called to generate a build signature. - Construction variables for
building a target are now frozen when the Builder is called; later
changes to the Environment do not necessarily affect how the target is
build. See the release notes for more information about these changes.
This release adds the following features: - Support for the Java tools
javac, javah, rmic and jar has been added. - A Configure() function has
been added that supports a lot of functionality similar to Autoconf. -
A new PLATFORM construction variable stores a string representing the
platform on which SCons is being run. - Dependencies may now be
specified on in-core Python values. - Help text can now be sorted
arbitrarily. - New $TARGET and $SOURCE attributes: ".posix" expands to
a path name with forward slashes as separators, even on Win32 systems;
".srcpath" expands to a path to the source of a file in a BuildDir;
".srcdir" expands to a path to the BuildDir itself. - A new clear()
method resets a Node's state for re-use by continuous integration build
interfaces. - Support for using Ghostscript to convert Postscript to
PDF files has been added. - A stand-alone "Alias" function has been
added. - Import('*') will now import everything that's been Export()ed.
- New SetOption() and GetOption() functions support setting and fetching various command-line options within an SConscript file. - The Tool() function now adds tool names to a $TOOLS variable, which may be used to examine what tools are available. - The C preprocessor "#import" statement is now supported. - Newly-built .dll files can now be registered with the Windows registry using regsvr32. - An IDL scanner has been added. - A builder for Windows type library (.tlb) files from IDL files. The following fixes have been added: - Cygwin fixes: Use the .dll extension for shared libraries; don't use -fPIC when compiling shared libraries; use 'rm' to remove files; use MSVC '@' syntax for linking long command-lines. - The SYSTEMROOT environment variable on Win32 systems is now automatically propagated to the execution ENV environment. - Remote CVS file names are now checked out using Posix-style path names. - Trying to expand an out-of-range subscript for a construction variable like $TARGETS or $SOURCES now interpolates the null string. - SCons now correctly links or duplicates files in subsidiary BuildDir() directories. - SCons now reports "Cleaning targets ..." when the -c option is used. - The "Entering directory" message now quotes the directory name exactly like Make does. - Export() now works correctly for local Python variables, and can accept a dictionary as an argument. - PDB files now get put in a BuildDir() correctly. Performance has been improved as follows: - Unnecessary redundant signature calculations for command lines and Nodes have been eliminated. Development tests suggest this may speed up builds up to 30% or more.
Python 2.2.3 rc 1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279300
The first and hopefully only release candidate for Python 2.2.3 is now out. See http://www.python.org/2.2.3 for details. We expect Python 2.2.3 final to be released within a week of this announcement.
DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279457
Major bug fix for 1.61.1 and accumulated enhancements and fixes from previous releases.
TuxTyping 1.5.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=277737
After over a year of development with no releases, we are pleased to present Tux Typing 2 "Preview" release. Most of the internals have been rewritten with a focus on extensibility and internationalization. Creating a language pack is now as simple as creating a file for translations (lang.po file), maybe finding a font [1], setting up how the keyboard maps to the characters [2], and finally creating some word lists. TuxTyping is an educational typing tutorial game for children starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. It is graphical and requires SDL. It is free software copyrighted under the Gnu GPL. There is a new style of game "Comet Zap" and the start of tutor components with the new "Practice" mode. We really look forward to getting feedback about what parents/teachers/students/kids think about the new work. This release has a few rough edges, but we feel that it is time to let the world see what has been happening with Tux Typing. We have forums, mailing lists, and most importantly windows and linux builds are available at http://tuxtype.sf.net We are already hard at work at 1.5.1 and hope to have it released soon making it even easier for translators and users! Thanks, Jesse Andrews - jdandr2@uky.edu Calvin Arndt - calarndt@tux4kids.net Notes: [1] We are using a font that has support for many languages (Dansk, English, French, Spanish, ...) So if the included font works with your language, you don't need to find a new font. [2] for instance in the default (English) language pack, we set up the game so if the student presses 'A' or 'a' it both works for "A".
JGraph Geneva (v2.1.1) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=275839
JGraph is the most powerful, lightweight, feature-rich, and thoroughly documented open-source graph component available for Java. This release (Geneva) includes minor changes: bean property methods and empty constructor added to ConnectionSet for XMLEncoding, added Null-Check to isCellEditable, fixed shared points bug in DefaultEdge, disable autosize during in-place edit.
JGraphpad Salamance (v2.1.1 RC3) released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=276899
JGraphpad is the first free diagram editor for Java that offers XML, Drag and Drop and much more. This release (Salamance) offers full TikiWiki integration, remote diagrams and libraries, custom cell properties, overview with panner, right-button panning, accepts files, urls, images and text via clipboard/drag and drop, exports GXL to clipboard, new graph explorer tool with automatic layout, enhanced GXL import, image export, and major and minor bug fixes, such as incorrect cell order after grouping, slow painting and Mac OS X, and status bar not working.
AOLserver 4.0 beta 6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=276881
Sixth beta release for AOLserver 4.0. Detailed information about the bugs fixed in this release can be found in the release notes on the files download page. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic page scripting language.
ScummVM 0.4.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=276225
Five months after our last release, 0.3.0b, and over 2500 CVS
commits/adds later, the ScummVM team proudly presents ScummVM 0.4.0.
The source code, as well as binaries for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X,
PocketPC, Solaris and PalmOS are already available at our download page
. Other binaries for MorphOS, Dreamcast and others, will follow
shortly. ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games,
used by LucasArts in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of
The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes an non-SCUMM interpreter
for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. To get an overview of what is new in 0.4.0,
please consult our release notes:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=158604 We hope
you will enjoy the best ScummVM ever! The ScummVM Team
Slashdot
Delays and Problems for India's New CDMA Network
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/005203
[0]securitas writes "The [1]NY Times and [2]Bloomberg are reporting
that Qualcomm is touting an expected [1]6 million Indian subscribers
using CDMA by year end. But the [2]facts seem to fly in the face of
that with [3]Reliance experiencing technical problems and delays with
the [4]launch of India's first CDMA network, covered on Slashdot late
last year. Part of the problem is that the GSM operators won't allow
Reliance's traffic on their networks, not to mention a court challenge
and no approval by regulators. Is this just a hopeful diversion from
the [5]loss of the Iraq contract, where MCI chose GSM? How does a
country where the per capita annual income is $390-$420 (depending on
whose number you use) expect people other than the elite to afford
mobile phone service, even if the handsets and service charges are
heavily subsidized? Forbes discussed the [6]problem of affordable
mobile phone service in Africa where incomes are similar. Is this
another wireless/fibre optic bubble akin to the one we saw a few years
ago?"
Links
0.
http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/business/worldbusiness/24QUAL.html
2.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=an5CNJmNrUu8
3.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/05/07/rtr963205.html
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/29/1710246&tid=100
5.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/2318237&tid=167
6.
http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0429/048_print.htmlNon-Competes Might Mean Loss Of Benefits http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/007253
[0]Skapare writes "WashTech is running a story about how having a
non-compete agreement could cause [1]loss of unemployment benefits.
While non-compete agreements are addressed in unemployment benefits
policies, it seems you still get shafted because it forces you to
accept any employment outside your field, making it much harder to find
work in your field. Personally, I think the employers with whom you
have a non-compete agreement should be the ones paying you unemployment
benefits."
Links
Counterfeiting With High Resolution Inkjets http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/2327219
Makarand writes "Thanks to the availability of low cost high quality
inkjet printers, crooks are now able to [0]produce currency
indistinguishable from the real banknotes, at least under dim lighting
conditions like that in a bar or a nightclub. The term "digifeiters" is
being coined for counterfeiters that use cheap high-resolution printers
to produce fake currency. Unlike costly color xerographic copiers that
come inbuilt with features to detect security details on banknotes and
stop currency copying, no cheap printers come with such feature. An
anti-digifeiting system for cheaper printers may consist of printer
driver software capable of recognizing data patterns indicating
currencies of several countries." I wonder what GimpPrint would think
of being forced to print or not print certain documents based on their
contents.
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993753
Microsoft Talks Handhelds, Xbox Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1811241
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Canada.com [0]interview
with Xbox head honcho Robbie Bach, which shoots him some wide-ranging
and perceptive questions about Microsoft's console strategy.
Interesting answers include whether Microsoft wants to get into the
handheld console market ("It’s like starting a new business..we will
focus on making the current Xbox successful."), and their views of
Linux for Xbox ("..the numbers are not really that big. It’s not a
commercial as much as it is an intellectual property issue and we
always pursue those.")
Links
0. http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=E64352A8-112C-4F35-824B-041C7936C375
Getting Started in Network Security?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/2212241
[0]pixelgeek asks: "Security has not only become an important topic but
also a critical issue for admins and even the average user in their
home. To someone new to the topic the wealth of material can be a bit
daunting and, you can imagine, a little confusing. Does anyone have any
suggestions on where to start getting a handle on the concept of
network/computer security and what are the most important and useful
applications (CLI primarily) that a person should examine and learn?"
We've touched on [1]these issues before, but it was a while ago. Taking
a [2]network security class, could help, but which classes are really
worth the money and might there be enough information on the web to
make such a choice, unnecessary?
Links
0. mailto:pixelgeek@mac.com
1.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/27/0240238&tid=95
2.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/05/2357235&tid=146U.S. Government To Get Cybersecurity Chief http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/219226
cmason32 writes "The Bush administration is going to create a new [0]Cybersecurity Chief position in the Homeland Security Department. The move is supposed to demonstrate the government's dedication to cracking down on hackers and 'cyberterror.' One of the responsibities of the position is to 'secure cyberspace.' However, critics are already noting the position is not likely to be effective." Links
0. http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/05/25/cybersecurity/index.html
When Bad Software Can Kill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1957205
bhoman writes "A wrist computer that tracks and calculates safe diving times and limits for SCUBA divers had a dangerous software bug that may have been covered up by company executives. This [0]SF Chronicle Article details the problem, product, company, and some of the lawsuits. According to the Chron article, company execs tried to cover up and deny the problem for years, but their [1] official website makes it look like they did a voluntary recall." Links
0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/25/MN309974.DTL
Do You Know UNIX Secrets?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1919228
[0]ESR writes "You can help stop the SCO attack on IBM and the Linux community. I'm looking for ways to prove that Unix trade secrets have been legally nullified. I want to know if you have ever had read access to proprietary Unix source code (not just binaries and documentation) under circumstances where either no non-disclosure agreement was required or whatever non-disclosure agreement you had was not enforced. To help out, see my [1]No Secrets page." Links
0. mailto:esr@thyrsus.com
Spring Cleaning For Your Hard Drive
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1611208
[0]Shutup Now writes "Spring cleaning for your hardrive. This article
talks about some[1] extremes for keeping your computer running well.
You decide whether this stuff is necessary." More than once a year is a
good idea, too.
Links
0. mailto:Mekerryh6@hotmail.com
Philosophy, Reality and The Matrix
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/1446214
[0]securitas writes "The NYT discusses [1]The Matrix as a reflection of American society, the 'war on terror', political allegory and the impact of The Matrix on contemporary philosophy. [2]NPR provides streaming audio conversations with Matrix thinkers, including Jake Horsley, author of 'Matrix Warrior: Being the One'; Prof. Frances Flannery Dailey on violence in the Matrix; and Prof. Greg Garrett, co-author of 'The Gospels Reloaded' and why he doesn't like the kind of hero that Neo has become. Finally, the CSM follows up its [3]The Gospel According to Neo with an [4]online chat transcript with Josh Burek, the author of the essay." As if that's not enough Matrix Philosophy, [5]Here's more and [6]Still more. And just a warning, clicking on any of those links might spoil the movie for you. Links
0.
http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/arts/24MATR.html
2.
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1264976
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/13/1634257&tid=200
4.
http://www.csmonitor.com/monitortalk/events/transcripts/051303chat_burek.html
5.
http://www.corporatemofo.com/stories/051803matrix.htm
6.
http://www.jayroe.com/index.php?section=happenings&view=article&id=66
Freshmeat
ayttm 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123977/
Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is a fork of Everybuddy, and initially aims to address its problems. It should not segfault when you use it, and should be almost instantly usable by your mother. Almost useless prefs should be hidden, reserved for "advanced" users, and things have to work without wondering what this or that will produce.
BBclone 0.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123925/
BBclone is a PHP Web counter on steroids which displays individual logs as well as aggregated data. It is a clone of Big Brother webstats, except that it is written in PHP and it relies only on flat files (no database needed). BBclone enables any Web site administrator to have a very precise view of who visit the website: OS, browser, date, referring page etc. Main features include reload resistance, hostname resolution, proxy workaround, and blacklist.
BSDmsn 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123958/
BSDmsn is a BSD-themed skin for the MSN client amsn.
Columba 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123924/
Columba is a highly multithreaded Java email client. It supports multiple POP3/IMAP accounts, message filtering, the common basic features you would expect, and an address book.
di 3.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123943/
di is a disk information utility, displaying everything that df does and more. It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you desire/prefer/are used to. It is designed to be highly portable across many platforms.
DivX Calc 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123929/
DivX Calc is a simple DivX calculator for Linux. It uses a simple Qt interface which calculates which bitrate to use while encoding a movie using DivX ;-).
dov4l 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123922/
dov4l allows you to query the capabilities of a video4linux device. You can also set several parameters, like tuning frequency and such. It is a command-line program that is especially meant for setting up a video4linux-device before it is used with a webcam or a teletext-grabber.
e-dervish 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123858/
e-dervish is an Enlightenment port of fvwm-dervish by Bas Leerintveld.
EXACT 1.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123954/
EXACT is a program that implements POP Before SMTP Relay Authentication. EXACT supports the University of Washington IMAP server, the Courier POP and IMAP servers, the Cyrus IMAP server, the Perdition IMAP proxy, EXIM, and Sendmail. POP Before SMTP Relay Authentication is commonly used on systems that provide both IMAP or POP services and SMTP services, to authenticate users for mail sending based on their previous authentication against an IMAP or POP server.
Fast IRC Stats Generator 0.3.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/123906/
Fast IRC Stats Generator (FISG) creates HTML pages with statistics about IRC logs. It has less features than some alternatives, but is much faster and can be run on low-end systems. It supports Irssi and Eggdrop log files.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.15.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/123915/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic shaping, and more.
Gambas 0.57 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123936/
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.
Gammu 0.76 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123960/
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410, 35xx, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 6610, 6800, 71xx, 7210, 82xx, 83xx, 8910, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line version with many functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It works on various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32.
Genmake 2003_05_25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123907/
Genmake creates Makefiles for C/C++ projects from a simple project description. The project description file can contain any number of projects and dependencies between them. The description is organized into workspace, projectspace and filespace and supports any number of build modes (debug, release, etc.).
GNOME Crontab Editor 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123935/
The GNOME Crontab Editor is a graphical interface to the crontab program. You can use it to create, delete, and edit scheduled tasks using a simple point-and-click interface.
guinstaller 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123978/
guinstaller simplifies the process of installing Linux source code. All you need to do is to download the gzipped program that you wish to install and then run guinstaller and open the file. After some configuration (where to put the files, etc.) the program is compiled and installed.
HelpmeICT 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123930/
HelpmeICT provides support team help desk functions with support for multiple sites, site groups, and role security. It features full issue tracking, cross-server knowledge bases, and management reporting and statistics. The entire system is Web enabled, including management and administration roles. Apart from just ICT, the system can be used for administration and reprographics requests and is being adapted as a pupil behaviour tracker.
iLeech 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123962/
iLeech is a Mac OS X application that will connect to an iTunes 4.0 Share, list its database, and allow you to download copies of any desired music (as opposed to iTunes 4.0 builtin support, which only allows streaming of the music).
IMAPFilter 0.8.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123920/
IMAPFilter connects to remote IMAP mail servers and processes messages according to defined filters (rules). It is intended to be executed before a user accesses his/her mailboxes.
ishzilla 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123948/
ishzilla is a Web browser written in C using GTK+-2.0 (no GNOME) and Gecko, the rendering engine from Mozilla. It is designed to fill the niche that Skipstone once filled. It tries, as Skipstone did, "to be light and fast with few dependencies."
Issue Manager 0.8.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123926/
The Issue Manager is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.
Jabberwocky 2.0.04 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123940/
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.
JaxMe 1.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123934/
JaxMe is a Java/XML binding framework based on SAX2. It consists of a set of code generators that read an XML schema and generate code for parsing conformant XML documents into corresponding Java objects, saving those objects into a database or, vice versa, reading such Java objects from a database and converting them into XML. JaxMe supports namespaces, relational databases, and Tamino. JaxMe comes with an integrated application framework and a generator for EJB entity beans with BMP (bean managed persistence).
Linux-One-Stanza-Tips 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123911/
LOST is a project born to enable passive dissemination of Linux-related information through email signatures and other media. It is comprised of a set of hints and tips snippets collated from personal contributions, and a set of bash scripts to interface these snippets into email as signatures, and to manipulate the signature databases. Signature rotation scripts (rotator and gen-sig) presently support LOST sigs, sigs from an alternate signature set, PGP/GNUPG ASCII-armor sigs, a reserved sig, or nil sig placement.
linuxTheTools 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123949/
TheTools is a handy collection of bash commandline tools for administrators and power users. The scripts facilitate day-to-day management and system navigation. It is a companion package to slakbootIBS.
Luola 1.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123910/
Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game is simply to destroy all other players.
Mamory 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123918/
Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client.
modplug-xmms 2.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123971/
Modplug-XMMS is a fully featured, complete input plugin for XMMS which plays MOD-like music formats. It is based on the mod rendering code from ModPlug, a popular Windows MOD player.
Molecule Man 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123913/
Molecule Man is a port of a 3D isometric maze game for the ZX Spectrum that was released in 1986.
New Kinetics DB/Java Mapper 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123905/
The New Kinetics DB/Java Mapper is a GUI tool used to create Java source code files which map to a JDBC reachable database table. The tool not only produces Java bean pattern representations of database tables, it also inserts Javadoc comments automatically.
OZradio 0.9.5.2a beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123914/
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording.
PHProjekt Backup Addon 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123921/
PHProjekt Backup Addon is an addon for PHProjekt to backup the MySQL database of PHProjekt, including the upload directory. It also contains a backup management feature to restore, view, download, and do other things with backups. It's available in different languages.
Poco 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123937/
Poco is a very small content management system for small-scale websites. It allows you to manage a site for other people in the following way: you give trusted users password-protected write access to some parts of some pages (for example, for blocks of text or small chunks of HTML) but you still manage the main pages yourself.
Project: Anvil 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123972/
Project: Anvil is a C++ Library to provide access to Quicken QIF4 format text files. These files can be exported from Quicken and also downloaded from many banks online services. An Slang interface provides for scripting control.
PyTraffic 1.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123944/
PyTraffic is a Python version of the board game Rush Hour created by Binary Arts Coporation. The goal is to remove the red car out of the grid through the slot on the right. To do this you have to slide the other cars out of the way. PyTraffic comes with about 19,000 puzzles ranging from intermediate to expert, and has an extremely smart hint facility which is able to find the best move in every position.
SlackCheck 2.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123942/
SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of non-standard packages for every machine.
Sound Juicer 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123908/
Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool that features a clean interface and automatic tagging of files.
stress 0.17 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123973/
stress is a tool to impose certain types of stress on a POSIX system, including CPU load, I/O subsystem load, RAM load, and HDD load. It runs on x86, PPC64, PPC32 GNU/Linux; Tru64; SPARC Solaris, and more.
Tclog 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123909/
Tclog is a desktop Weblog application written in Tcl/Tk. Unlike most Weblog tools, it does not require server-side scripts. Instead, it uploads entries via FTP. It features RSS 1.0, HTML templates, TrackBack, Wiki-like formatting rules, indexes for the Namazu search engine, and more.
ThizOffice 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123904/
The ThizOffice Suite is a full featured, all-in-one office suite that is based on the OpenOffice Suite. It is specially designed for users in the Greater China Region, supporting Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters.
Trusted Opensource Records for Care & Health 1.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/123928/
Trusted Opensource Records for Care & Health (TORCH) is an electronic health record application. It features a Web-based user interface and can scale from a laptop used by a single physician all the way up to geographically separated multi-site clinics.
Vamos Automotive Simulator 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123961/
Vamos is an automotive simulation framework with an emphasis on thorough physical modeling and good C++ design. A real-time, first-person, 3D driving application is included.
VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.7.15 (Plugin development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/123939/
The VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.
Veejay 0.3.3rc7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123969/
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.
Video Disk Recorder 1.1.33 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/123959/
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more.
Video server 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123953/
Video server is a streaming video server which feeds a Java applet/application for display. The updates are rather slow, somewhere in the 2 frames/second range on a PIII. The server is written in C and bigloo. The client is written in Java.
Visual Information Broker Enterprise 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/123927/
Visual Information Broker Enterprise (VIBE) is an IDE that enables application developers to automate the design and development of infrastructure components for complex distributed cross-platform, cross-language systems applications. You can define messages and generate infrastructure support code for the IBM MQ information bus, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and other JDBC compliant databases, XML with transformations that use tools like XSL, and J2EE. It also includes a fully functional Business Rules engine, along with a graphical programming environment.
Whamb 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123916/
Whamb is a light-weight digital audio player that uses native features of Mac OS X. It is designed to ensure quality and exceptional fidelity with minimal consumption of processor resources by using CoreAudio. It features skins and supports audio CDs, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Shoutcast/Icecast MP3 and Ogg streams.
WindowLab 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123966/
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.
Wordlog 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123946/
Wordlog is a Weblog written in PHP and backed by MySQL. Its interface is entirely ASCII-based and standards compliant. Features include on-the-fly page editing, multiple users, administration access, comment threading, URL parsing, and an easily customizable interface.
XLinden 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123938/
XLinden is an LSystem parser for Linux. It is able to work interactively with stochastic, parametric, parameter-sensitive 3D LSystems. It produces nice OpenGL and Povray images.
Xmud 0.0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123923/
Xmud is a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) client written. Xmud is one of the most advanced MUD clients for Mac OS X today. Xmud provides many useful features which are not yet supported by other MUD clients.
Zoinks 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123932/
Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring. Zoinks supports comparing/diffing files and directory hierarchies. It also supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and other Asian languages).
ZorbIPtraffic 0.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123919/
ZorbIPtraffic shows the IP traffic on a network interface in real time. It can display traffic statistics for each IP on your internal network, and it summarizes the total traffic for each IP per year, per month, and per day. All information is stored in a MySQL database, which makes it easy to search the traffic measurements for a specific day. ZorbIPtraffic only works if you use iptables.
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
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