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[osdn developer] June 15, 2003
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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June 15, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
OpenEJB 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282705
The 0.9.2 release is one that the whole team is quite proud of. OpenEJB
0.9.0 marked are first release with special Tomcat embedded support.
Thanks to all the user feedback that support has just gotten better and
better. The 0.9.2 release contains a neat surprise for OpenEJB/Tomcat
users -- TOOLS! The new integration features a webapp with a setup
verifier, JNDI browser, EJB viewer, Class browser, and even an Object
invoker! You can browse the OpenEJB namespace and know right away
exactly where the ejb is and what it is called. When you find one you
like, just click it and it will open up into the EJB viewer. While
there you can check out it's home, remote and bean classes in the class
browser. The Object invoker allows you to actually create and invoke
your EJBs without writing a single line of code. OpenEJB 0.9.2 also
contains a new openejb.base variable to complement the openejb.home
variable. The openejb.base variable allows you to have several
configurations of OpenEJB all running against the same OpenEJB install.
This makes using OpenEJB in IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans even easier.
Move the openejb_loader-0.9.2.jar into your project's lib directory,
set the openejb.base, and you'll be debugging your EJB apps
front-to-back without the need for remote debugging support or special
editor plug-ins. Thanks to all the OpenEJB users for all the great
ideas! You speak, we listen.
http://openejb.sourceforge.net/download.html
LTI-Lib Version Beta 1.9.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282700
LTI-Lib is an object oriented computer vision library written in C++ for Windows/MS-VC++ and Linux/gcc. It provides lots of functionality to solve mathematical problems, many image processing algorithms, some classification tools and much more. This release provides new functors and features, many bug fixes and more documentation. Download -------- You can get this and previous releases from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45767 Homepage
- For more information please visit our homepage: http://ltilib.sourceforge.net ChangeLog --------- For more details about the changes in this release please visit the ChangeLog page at: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=163728 Acknowledgments --------------- Thanks to all developers at the Chair of Computer Science: Suat Akyol, Pablo Alvarado, Daniel Beier, Axel Berner, Ulrich Canzler, Peter Doerfler, Thomas Erger, Holger Fillbrandt, Peter Gerber, Claudia, Goenner, Xin Gu, Michael Haehnel, Christian Harte, Bastian Ibach, Torsten Kaemper, Thomas Krueger, Frederik Lange, Henning Luepschen, Peter Mathes, Alexandros Matsikis, Bernd Mussman, Jens Paustenbach, Norman Pfeil, Jens Rietzschel, Daniel Ruijters, Thomas Rusert, Stefan Syberichs, Guy Wafo Moudhe, Ruediger Weiler, Jochen Wickel , Benni Winkler, Xinghan Yu, Marius Wolf, Joerg Zieren
Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282686
Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 - This is the second (and, we fully
expect, final) *release candidate* for Gallery v.1.3.4. Changes from
RC1 essentially amount to small fixes for errors discovered since the
first release candidate in the backup_albums.php script and the new
"custom fields" code. Gallery is slick, intuitive web based photo
gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to
install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great
for communities. Download it:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more about this
release candidate: http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=75
phpwsBB 0.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282990
phpwsBB is a native bulletin board module for the phpWebSite content management system, version 0.9.2 or later. Today we release version 0.1.0 of phpwsBB. Features include anonymous posting, message editing and deletion for registered users, thread locking and message forking for admins, and ... well that's probably it. Be sure you have the latest version of phpWebSite installed: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu and then download phpwsbb from: http://phpwsbb.sourceforge.net.
Aleph One 2003-05-30 Mac OS X Carbon and Windows releases http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282073
Aleph One plays Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and third-party content on a wide array of platforms with numerous enhancements. The new Mac OS X Carbon and Windows SDL 2003-05-30 releases add significantly improved Internet play, Lua scripting, Speex compression for realtime network audio (making it much more practical in Internet games), an anisotropic filtering option on video cards that support it, and more.
Slashdot
Down and Out in White-Collar America
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2243218
XorNand writes "Fortune has a [0]pretty sobering article on the
employment situation for white-collar workers. By many accounts, we've
never had it harder--the slump in the 80's primarily hit blue-collar
workers. While bleak, things might be inching towards the light; as my
econ professor says, jobs are the last thing to recover after a
recession."
Links
0. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/careers/articles/0,15114,457284,00.html
Remember The Wizard?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2235212
trotski writes "I remember when I saw The Wizard as a kid, I thought it
was the perfect movie. X-entertainment has released a [0]review through
the eyes of geek of this classic. Few movies have ever dwelled in pits
of infamy quite so deep as The Wizard, Nintendo's 100-minute video game
commercial that vaguely masqueraded as a real movie. The Wizard
should've been able to keep kids well into their late teens interested,
but the entire thing goes down the tubes once you hear the villainous
cool kid's pickup line: "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad." The site
includes video clips of this and other great moments in the movie."
There's also a [1]just-the-facts plot review of this timeless classic,
at the Onion.
Links
0. http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0795/index.html
Cable TV Ruins Bhutan
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2226227
Christ-on-a-bike writes "This article in The Guardian discusses the
[0]negative impact of TV on the population of [1]Bhutan. It has only
been legal there for four years. Violence, crime and drug use are on
the up. Was this inevitable, and what does it say about the influence
of TV on Western cultures?" Our [2]previous story about Bhutan talks
about the radical impact of television, but without as much emphasis on
the darker side.
Links
0.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,975769,00.html
1.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bt.html
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/08/0235220&tid=129
Roswell Declassified
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2038251
[0]John3 writes "Scotland may be the [1]most popular UFO destination on
the planet, but Roswell, New Mexico is the old favorite for government
conspiracy buffs who believe the US government has been hiding proof of
an [2]alien spacecraft crash in 1947. [3]Popular Mechanics has recently
gained access to [4]de-classified documents from the Roswell military
base, and they contain no entries of unusual events or activity. I
wonder if the release of these documents will deter the [5]conspiracy
theorists?"
Links
0. mailto:john3@ c o r n e l l s . c om
1.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/24/157210&tid=133
2.
http://www.alienresistance.org/roswell1947ufocrash.htm
3.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/
4.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/military/2003/6/roswell_declassified//index.phtml
5.
http://www.worldofthestrange.com/topics/roswell_1947_incident.htm
The Buttocks Have It
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2027209
An anonymous reader writes "From this ZDNET article: Future hijackers
may find that their [0]buttocks betray them, if UK defense firm Qinetiq
has its way. The company has developed a smart chair stashed with a
thicket of seat sensors, according to [1]New Scientist magazine this
week. The same seats could also be used to warn cabin staff of illness
among the passengers, potentially alleviating the risk of deep vein
thrombosis or DVT."
Links
0. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-1017119.html
Maintaining Large Linux Clusters
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2013208
pompousjerk writes "A paper landed on [0]arXiv.org on Friday titled
[1]Installing, Running and Maintaining Large Linux Clusters at CERN
[[2]PDF]. The paper discusses the management of the 1000+ Linux nodes,
upgrading from Red Hat 6.1 to 7.3, securely installing over the
network, and more. They're doing this in preparation for [3]Large
Hadron Collider-class computation."
Links
0.
http://arxiv.org/
1.
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DC/0306058
2.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0306/0306058.pdf
3.
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/general/gen_info.htm
The Bug by Ellen Ullman
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/198241
[0]Never Rock Fila writes "On the front page of tomorrow's [1]New York
Times Book Review, a slightly breathless but overdue enthusiastic
[1]review of Ellen Ullman's new novel, [2]The Bug. The review
acknowledges that 'Ullman has already established herself as an
indispensable voice out of the world of technology' -- if you haven't
read her first book, a memoir, [3]Close to the Machine, read that too
- and it's nice to see a mainstream publication like the Times, the
gold standard of book reviews as I understand it, giving such prominent
and positive attention to a novel by a former 'software engineer'
that's all about getting inside the mind of a programmer, even
concluding 'If more contemporary novels delivered news this relevant
and wise they'd have to stop declaring the death of the novel.' The
reviewer, one Benjamin Anastas, has the chops to develop a sustained
comparison to Mary Shelley, to legitimately place the 1984 computer
programmers at the center of the novel among 'all the best characters
in fiction,' and to declare the book 'thrilling and intellectually
fearless.'"
Links
0. http://neverrockfila at hotmail.com
- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/books/review/15ANASTAT.html
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385508603/qid=1055598805/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-4969003-2894300?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872863328/ref=pd_sim_books_1/104-4969003-2894300?v=glance&s=books
Mars and the History of Antacids
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/185245
An anonymous reader writes "NASA's [0]retrospective today on the 1976 Mars Viking mission describes the first probe to orbit another planet, and the first biology experiments based on soil sampling. Program managers maintained a dynamic 'worry list', which included a 1970's computer that opened like a wireframe book. The all-important biology experiments could not be tested prior to launch, then lightning struck the probe components (at Kennedy's Explosive Safe Area Building)." Links
0. http://www.astrobio.net/news/article495.html
CD Price-Fixing Suit Ruling
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1724243
[0]Jay Langhurst writes "As the [1]AP reported Friday, if you filed a
claim before March 3, 2003 [2]online or otherwise you'll be getting a
gift in the mail from those monopolistic music companies in the form of
a check for about $13!"
Links
0.
http://www.creighton.edu/~jaypl
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&e=6&u=/ap/cd_settlement
2.
http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm
Brazil Mandates Shift to Free Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1422212
[0]truthsearch writes "[1]LinuxToday is [2]reporting news and a
response about Brazil making Open Source mandatory for 80% of all
computers in state institutions and businesses, setting up a 'Chamber
for the Implementation of Software Libre.'" This is a big win for
Linux, but is making it mandatory going too far? It would seem wiser to
support a solution that favors the best tool for the job, which may not
always be an open source product.
Links
0.
http://msversus.webhop.net
1.
http://linuxtoday.com/
2.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-06-13-009-26-OS-LL-PB
Freshmeat
absence 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126082/
absence is a calendar tool for keeping track of people (but could be adapted for any other object) on a daily basis. It is meant to replace that ubiquitous whiteboard in the office of the boss. You know the one, where someone has used a permanent magic marker to mark a matrix, and vacations/training/etc. are marked with non-permanent markers as blocks. absence is a CGI system, and has a resolution of one day. It is not intended to be used for keeping appointments or any other activity that requires a finer resolution. It generates an image for each month to be displayed using the GD library, and it can be configured to produce PNG or GIF (or even JPEG).
Ajaqs 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126071/
Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information related to products and services.
Amrita VPN 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126063/
Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runs on the GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully in userspace and requires no kernel patches or enhancements. It uses SSL for strong encryption and authentication.
Artima SuiteRunner 1.0 Beta 6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126042/
Artima SuiteRunner is a testing toolkit for Java that can be used with JUnit to run existing JUnit test suites, or standalone to create unit and conformance tests for Java APIs. The advantages it offers to JUnit users include reporters, run paths, and recipe files.
Bauk 1.77 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126092/
Bauk is a high-performance HTTP server for Unix-like operating systems. It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic method, directory browsing, server hostname aliases, network traffic per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format and location, a multiprocess architecture, flexibility, and much more.
bes-cms 0.3-cvs
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125725/
bes-cms is a multiuser Content Management System. It is also an application server; you can embed bes-cms in bes-cms just by creating a user. It comes with four default themes.
Bontmia 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125995/
Bontmia is a network-based backup tool that saves configurable numbers of last month, week, day, hour, and minute backups. Each backup is a complete snapshot of the original directories, and only new and changed files take up space when generating snapshots because of the use of hard links. Remote access is secure by using SSH. Only changes are transferred, which makes for a fast backup.
buildpkg 0.0.2r28d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126090/
Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def) which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be also used to track installations and create packages of the installed files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable) list of programs and the installation will be done here. Besides Linux, Solaris/SunOS, and FreeBSD packages are also supported.
Date::Manip 5.40.epa1 (Unofficial)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126080/
Date::Manip is a Perl module for handling Gregorian dates. Operations such as comparing two times, calculating a time a given amount of time from another, or parsing international times are all easily done. The library is oriented towards the type of operations people tend to think of rather than those operations used routinely by computers.
deadline A
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126060/
deadline shows you the time remaining until the deadline of your most important project.
Enca 0.99.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126069/
Enca detects the encoding of text files, on the basis of knowledge of their language. It can also convert them to other encodings, allowing you to recode files without knowing their current encoding. It supports most of Central and East European languages, and a few Unicode variants, independently on language.
Gambas 0.58 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126089/
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.
GBuffy 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126053/
GBuffy will poll multiple mailboxes for new mail. It will list the number of new messages in each mailbox you configure. It will also highlight the mailboxes that have new mail, and you can display the message headers by pressing mouse button one on a mailbox. GBuffy is currently capable of watching MBOX, MMDF, Maildir and MH Folders. This version also supports IMAP4rev1 and NNTP with XOVER mailboxes, as well as displaying X-Face headers.
Gnu Aqua Special Edition 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126048/
Gnu Aqua Special Edition is a theme based on gnububble and bluebubble, with ideas from AquaGraphite and AquaLightBlue. It is meant to replace all of them by concentrating on the strength of some and eliminating the weakness of others.
IceWM 1.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126084/
IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and Windows, and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps.
JXPath 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126077/
JXPath is a fast Java XPath 1.0-compliant API. It features a SAX-like
event system, an inner expression tree for fast multiple document
evaluation, syntax error location and cause, DOM support, FastParser
lightweight node support, a customizable API with navigator, function
libraries, a plugin for each node type system, and full samples with
DOM.
Kanatest 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126093/
Kanatest is a simple, GTK 2-based kana drill tool. It offers three drill modes: hiragana, katakana, and mixed mode. The tester shows random kana characters and waits until you enter the romaji equivalent in an entry field. At the end, statistics are provided.
Libvc 003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126044/
Libvc is a vCard library which was written using 'flex' and 'bison'. It handles scanning a vCard file, parsing the vCard file into a data storage structure, manipulating the data storage structure, and writing the structure back to a file. It was originally written for 'rolo', but has been split off for general use.
mailgraph 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126068/
Mailgraph is a very simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix that produces daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of received/sent and bounced/rejected mail.
MOSIX Kernel Patch 1.10.0 for Linux 2.4.21 (Linux 2.4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126087/
MOSIX is a unique clustering package that can make any size Linux cluster of x86 nodes (workstations and servers) run almost like a single system with multiple processors. The core of MOSIX contains adaptive management algorithms that monitor and respond to uneven resource distribution among the nodes by preemptive process migration. In addition to automatic load-balancing, MOSIX supports massive parallel I/O by partitioning the data of a file to several nodes so that parallel processes will migrate to the node which has their portion of the data. The algorithms of MOSIX are geared toward maximal performance, overhead-free scalability, and ease-of-use.
NetBeans IDE 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126046/
NetBeans is a cross-platform IDE written in Java. It supports development in Java, and support for other languages can be added. The whole IDE is built around a core framework with APIs, and features are implemented in the form of plugin modules. This clean, modular architecture makes NetBeans a good platform for building development tools and custom IDEs.
OBit 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126062/
OBit is an orbit-like theme.
Partition Image 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126043/
Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility similar to Symantec's Ghost. This uility saves partitions in the EXT2, Reiserfs, NTFS, HPFS, FAT16, and FAT32 file system formats to an image file. The image file can be compressed with gzip or bzip2 in order to save disk space, and it can be split in order to fit onto a series of floppy disks. This program can be useful for backup purposes. A boot/root disk is also provided, allowing you to run Partition Image without Linux installed on the hard disk.
peksystray 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126029/
peksystray is a notification area (system tray) dockapp. It uses the freedesktop.org protocol, is similar to GNOME's Notification Area applet, and works with the pekwm harbour, the Window Maker dock, and the AfterStep wharf.
PhonoRipper 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126061/
PhonoRipper aims to be an easy-to-handle all-in-one GUI tool for creating audio CDs from analog sources like vinyl records. The main parts are just graphical frontends to well-known commandline programs, so some dependencies must be fulfilled to run PhonoRipper. English and German versions are available.
Projet free-EOS 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125812/
free-EOS (Espace Ouvert de Services) is a project which aims to distribute and document a free and open technical solution for Multi-media Space. It is implemented with a Linux-based server and workstations that run either Windows, Linux, or MacOS. It is meant to be like the French software, Espaces Publics Numériques. It targets environments that are managed by organizers that do not have significant technical competency. It acts like an adaptation of the SME Server solution that is specifically dedicated to French-speaking environments.
Proxy-applet 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126040/
Proxy-applet is a GNOME tray applet for changing your network proxy configuration with a single click, in a manner similar to Galeon 1.x.
pygame 1.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126081/
Pygame is a set of Python extension modules designed for writing games. The core of pygame is wrapped on top of the SDL library.
Python SAP RFC module 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126054/
The Python SAP RFC module enables programming remote function calls from SAP ERP systems. It enables SAP-compatible data definitions in Python (both simple and complex datatypes like structures and internal tables can be defined from within Python and manipulated like normal Python datatypes) and features transparent value conversion from SAP to Python and vice versa. It needs the SAP librfc shared library.
Quark 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126056/
Quark is a daemon-like player that uses Gstreamer to play music. It features a front-end that sits in your system tray.
sa-exim-stats 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126073/
sa-exim-stats generates spam/mail statistics from an sa-exim logfile. sa-exim is a patch for Exim which integrates SpamAssassin into Exim. The script's output includes: total spam messages, total clean messages, spam percentage, top n spam/clean/overal recipients. The script is designed so that it doesn't have to scan the entire logfile everytime it is run (status can be saved to a file or in a MySQL database). It can create and update a RRD database, and some basic PHP pages to display the graphs are included.
SiEd 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126078/
SiEd is a simple text editor for Palm OS 3.5+. It is designed to allow editing of large documents on any Palm. It is targeted more at users with add-on keyboards for their Palm, as what existing editors there are do not take full advantage of the keyboard.
Skaringa r2p1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126058/
Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting a wide range of types, and speed.
The Gimp 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126091/
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.
The HTML Inclusion Tool 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125984/
The HTML Inclusion Tool is a simple but powerful preprocessor for HTML pages that can run as a CGI application or a standalone tool. It is intended to be used with HTML, but can be used to process any kind of textual data. It features access to environment variables, file inclusion, string mainpulation functions, and a Berkley DB interface.
TopLight 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126051/
TopLight is designed to aid lighting designers and electricians in the theatre. It facilitates the quick setup of pipes and whole theatres, auto-numbering of circuits, auto-patching, and other things you don't want do but have to.
Tutorial Environment for Cryptographic Protocols 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126057/
Tutorial Environment for Cryptographic Protocols (TECP) is a tutorial and visualization environment for public key cryptography. It is intended for students of cryptography courses and can be used to improve understanding of modular arithmetic-based public key algorithms, and for lecturers who want to add some life to boring blackboard-and-chalk presentations about the topic.
viPlugin 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126076/
viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.).
Walker 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126075/
Walker is a Python script that updates entire Web sites. It matches the remote site to your local copy using FTP. Once you set it up, it will upload any files that have changed in size, delete any remote files you have deleted locally, and create any remote dirs you have added locally. It will never delete a remote directory. Walker allows you to update your entire site by going online and then running one command in a terminal. It can be run silently, or with minimal messages to indicate progress, or in a verbose mode that reports all actions taken.
WebUserPrefs 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126065/
WebUserPrefs is a Web-based editor for SpamAssassin user preferences. It is written in PHP and supports whitelist and blacklist directives, as well as others through a simple plugin architecture.
WordNet-Similarity 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126047/
WordNet-Similarity is a collection of Perl modules for the WordNet system. They are designed as object classes with methods that take two word senses as input and return the semantic relatedness of these word senses.
wxBase 2.4.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126096/
wxBase contains most of the non-GUI classes from the wxWindows cross-platform C++ framework. There are 2 categories: generally useful portable code (date/time handling, command line parsing, regular expression support) and wrappers for the OS objects (files, directories, sockets, threads, etc.) allowing you to write portable programs easily.
YASP 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126095/
YASP is a simple and open protocol for building networks with small microcontrollers. It is designed to have a small footprint for easy implementation with minimal hardware resources, but without sacrifice advanced features and future growth. The protocol scalability is implemented using variable length fields. The physical layer use the NRZ encoding as in RS-232, but using dominant and recessive bus states to provide a reliable way to detect collisions.
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
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.
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