[osdn developer] June 16, 2003

Interests: Tempt me.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5c37/

Interests: I'm blogging this.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5eb7/

Gadgets: USB Memory Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/

Cube Goodies: R/C Hovercraft
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ef3/

Caffeine: Octane Energy Gel
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/5f0b/

Gadgets: Yes Solstice
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/6004/

Computing: TouchStream LP ZeroForce Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fff/

Cube Goodies: Duct Tape Wallet
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5f21/

Computing: Ideazon Zboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fed/

Gadgets: Inova X5 LED Flashlights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5fd3/

Tshirts: fork agent smith
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5f84/

Caffeine: Jo Mints w/Guarana
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f3c/

Tshirts: Follow the white rabbit.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5f79/

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

Can't find what you're looking for?

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
University of Wisconsin Wins FutureTruck Competition http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/2352241

[0]carambola5 writes "No, this isn't a dupe from [1]a year ago. The
[2]University of Wisconsin-Madison [0]team has taken the [3]FutureTruck
title for the second year in a row. The overall goals of the competition are to modify an existing Ford Explorer (make and model dependant on year) to improve fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining or exceeding customer expectations. The [4]University of California-Davis team took 2nd, with [5]Michigan Tech, [6]Georgia Tech, and [7]Penn State following close behind. Speaking as a member of the winning team, I am quite sure that all of the students and advisors from the participating teams are well-deserving of appreciation after those many, many hours of preparation." Too bad Ford isn't actually using any of this hard work.
Links

    0. 
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~vehicle/
    1. 
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/26/131217&tid=126
    2. 
http://www.wisc.edu/
    3. 
http://www.futuretruck.org/
    4. 
http://www.team-fate.net/
    5. 
http://www.me.mtu.edu/~fcc/
    6. 
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/futuretruck
    7. 
http://www2.mne.psu.edu/futuretruck/

Black Box in Speeder's Car Helped Conviction http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/2122240

[0]sessamoid writes "This article in Newhouse News tells the story of a
man who was recently convicted of two counts of manslaughter and vehicular homicide each, [1]partially on evidence obtained from the Electronic Data Recorder (EDR) in the car. EDR's are found in all cars with airbags to measure the performance and effectiveness of the airbags and the conditions in which they are used. In this case, the EDR revealed that the driver was not travelling at 60 mph, as he claimed, but actually peaked at 114 mph (in a residential neighborhood) just seconds before the collision. Could this be the forerunner of many such cases in the future, where our cars tell the unadulterated facts, rather than subjective personal accounts?" Links

0. http://8zwgw2czpdw001 AT sneakemail DOT com

http://www.newhouse.com/archive/jensen061203.html

Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/2119249

Dee Arsmith writes "Peter Jackson's special-effects company Weta Digital has just [0]taken delivery of 588 IBM blade servers, each with two 2.8 gigahertz Intel Xeon processors. Seven racks of IBM blade servers have been added to Weta's existing 15-rack server cluster to make up the largest Intel-based high- performance computer site in the world with more than 2000 linked processors. The cluster will be used to render the frames drawn by the animators to complete the final installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King." Links

0. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3507549&thesection=business&thesubsection=technology

QNX: When an OS Really, Really Has to Work http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1730232

Don't know where to look next?

An anonymous reader writes "Fortune has this article about how [0]QNX's OS has found a niche and is doing well. Especially after 1996 when Microsoft executives said they would crush them in 2 years. When your software absolutely positively needs to work!" Links

0. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/imt/0,15704,427288-2,00.html

Settling SCOres
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1741253

Israel Pattison writes "[0]The Inquirer is [1]reporting that someone in Germany is claiming to have viewed the SCO-alleged infringing Linux source code without having to sign a NDA. The person gives details about the code that was presented, but the translation-by-software is difficult to follow." The story also includes a link to a human translation; maybe some Slashdot reader can do better. Also in the news is a story about a [2]kernel developer getting uppity with SCO, as well he might.
Links

    0. 
http://www.theinquirer.net/
    1. 
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10013
    2. 
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10018

12/7 and Overtime on a Salary?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1952240

over-timeout! asks: A company I work for (in the U.S.A.) had submitted a statement of work to a client, who waited for a month before signing the work order. The work order explicitly stated a timeline which would start from the time the order is signed. However, the client is insisting on the project being completed by a fixed date, as discussed with our company's management, instead of the deadline that starts from the signing of the work order. Although our company representatives tried to push back on the date, the client refused. Because the client is among our company's biggest customers, our company's management caved in and agreed to their deadlines. Management has told us meeting deadlines means that for the next month to six weeks all of the developers involved will have to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. The contractors involved are going to get compensated by being paid by the hour. But us salaried employees are going to get nothing in return for trading in what's left of our life so someone else in the company above us can make money. Obviously this isn't fair, but what are the alternatives in this down economy, where jobs are hard to find?" A related articles on this subject discusses [0]suing for overtime, and
[1]California residents should find this companion article pertinent,
as well. What can you do when management agrees to a timeline and a workload that may make your job, as a programmer, difficult-to-impossible?
Links

0. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2342259&tid=123

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/0223211&tid=124

NASA's Cool Robot of the Week
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1718235

Confused? Frustrated?

[0]S.Bartfarst writes "[1]NASA's Cool Robot of the Week (which
apparently is about a month long) has produced a huge spike of activity on our [2]web page from .gov and .mil domains. Most interesting are a long series of hits from [3] uspto.gov. Maybe looking for "prior art?" I wonder how much of this Dean Kamen already has tied up?" Links

    0. 
http://www.geology.smu.edu
    1. 
http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/coolrobots.html
    2. 
http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/robo/nbot
    3. 
http://www.uspto.gov/

A Mighty Wind
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/0521234

DoraLives writes "Fascinating New York Times piece regarding a
[0]proposed wind farm for Nantucket Sound. Suddenly, all the
environmentally friendly locals are going ballistic over the prospects of seeing an 'industrial energy complex' in their backyard. Walter Cronkite decries it, as do many other local checkbook environmentalists. Greenpeace says 'Jim Gordon (the developer) is the real thing, there aren't many entrepreneurs out there willing to take risks to clean up the environment.' Who's right?" Links

0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/magazine/15WIND.html

42-Volt Autos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1717242

brianlmoon writes "[0]Car Audio Electronics Magazine has a [1]story about the auto industry switching to 36/42-Volt systems starting in 2004 and being completely switched by 2020. The demand for luxuries in cars has grown to where 12/14-Volts is just simply not enough. The automotive sound enthusiasts are going to benefit greatly as amplification will be much easier and cleaner with 3 times the voltage availble. Mobile computing will also benefit: "One of the real benefits of jumping to 42-volt systems, especially for hybrid vehicles, is the ability of the vehicle to offer regular 110-volt electrical outlets". It seems cars will have dual systems for a while for legacy equipment." Links

0. http://www.caraudiomag.com/

http://www.caraudiomag.com/specialfeatures/0307cae_42volt/

Ximian Desktop 2 Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1439213

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[0]Bruha writes "Lewt over at Warcry News Network has written his
[1]review for Ximian Desktop 2 targeted at the home users that are
looking for a good desktop solution. He mentions this is a good product that could be bundled with Redhat or Mandrake to provide a one stop solution for the desktop user where they dont have to install any extra software to fully surf the web. Which you do with KDE/Gnome installs of most distro's."
Links

0. http://lewt at warcry dot com

http://www.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_section.phtml?site=15&id=67

Freshmeat
Agar 06152003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126120/

Agar is a graphical game engine aimed primarily at applications ranging from SDL 2D games to multithreaded 3D simulations. The engine currently implements tile-based levels, a level editor, a GUI, as well as various other thread-safe interfaces for use in game programming.

AquaLess 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126149/

AquaLess is a text pager for Mac OS X that is intended to replace the less command. It allows you to browse lengthy text output from Unix command line tools in a separate window, so you can keep working in the terminal while you read.

Armagetron 0.2.pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126122/

In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are trying to do the same to you. If you are fast enough, you may be able to trap them, but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic preparations followed by action-packed close combat!

BBStatus 2.0RC13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126169/

BBStatus is an IP accounting package, and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its database. It can be used for IP accounting (using iptables, you can design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data making SNMP requests), IP monitoring (using ping, it stores and summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based access so that every user can log in and check the traffic from/through his/her IP addresses. It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool.

cdmp3 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126151/

cdmp3 uses cdparanoia or cdda2wav to extract single tracks or even a whole CD, and converts them on-the-fly into MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files. Using the CDDB database, it is possible to include information like the artist's name or the track's title into the file name or as meta tags in the file content.

CheckRDF 36.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126164/

CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program, for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and in an HTML file. It is highly configurable.

Code 6 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126137/

Code 6 is a very powerful assortment of error-correcting algorithms. It includes "code6" for making Gallager codes, "mncN" and "gallager" for sum-product decoding, and "fe" for decoding using variational free energy minimization.

crosstool 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126152/

crosstool is a set of scripts that make it easy to build cross-development toolchains based on gcc, glibc, and Linux. The goal is to make it easy to build and test cross-toolchains for all architectures supported by glibc.

diradm 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126135/

diradm is a simple bash script for managing POSIX users and groups stored in a LDAP directory, offering the same features as the traditional passwd file utilities useradd/usermod/userdel and groupadd/groupmod/groupdel. It uses the ldapsearch, ldapadd, ldapmodify, and ldapdelete utilities from the OpenLDAP project to perform the needed queries against the LDAP database.

disktype 6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126136/

The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.

docbook2X 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126175/

docbook2X converts DocBook documents to man pages and Texinfo.

Can't find what you're looking for?

doxygen 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126162/

Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like documentation system for C++, C, C#, Java, IDL, and PHP. Doxygen can be used to generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX or RTF) from a set of source files. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code-structure from undocumented source files. This includes dependency graphs, class diagrams and hyperlinked source code. This type of information can be very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions.

Easy Funktion 5.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126118/

Easy Funktion is 2D function plotter software with an equation solver. It has an office-like GUI frontend and features a built-in pocket calculator, calculating with complex numbers (with special extensions for electronics, e.g. capacitor/inductor impedance), a function to export to spreadsheet software, and an advanced formula editor with automatic formatting.

efarm-project 0.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125930/

eFarm is a peer-to-peer server based on eDonkey protocol which will offer optimized functionnalities for eMule clients. eFarm is based on module system which offers to developers the ability to write a specified module for other peer-to-peer networks.

Flat Assembler 1.46.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126129/

The Flat Assembler is a fast and efficient self-assembling 80x86 assembler for Linux, DOS, and Windows. It supports all 8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! extensions. It can produce output in binary, MZ, PE, or COFF formats. It has advanced but easy-to-use macroinstruction support, and it does multiple quick passes to optimize the code for size. It is totally written in assembly language.

FW1-Loggrabber 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126146/

FW1-Loggrabber is a simple LEA (Log Export API) client for Checkpoint Firewall-1. It was developed to access Firewall-1 Logfiles from commandline from any host in the network. Without an LEA client you can only access logs with graphical Checkpoint Tools or via commandline directly on the Firewall-1 machine. The primary goal was to automate reports of FW-1 logs with LIRE.

Green Understatement 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126128/

Green Understand is a minimalist green and khaki theme. The background is by liquachu (James Wignall).

gtk-gnutella 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126121/

Gtk-Gnutella is a Unix Gnutella client using GTK+.

HardInfo 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126141/

HardInfo displays informations about the system's hardware in a GTK window. Linux 2.4 is officially required, but it might work with 2.2.

Don't know where to look next?

Hardware lister A.01.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126163/

lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.

Hocus Pocus 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126109/

Hocus Pocus is a theme with bright colours on black. The background is by d-b-c.

Impact 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126165/

Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.

Jawa Open Eyes 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126131/

Jawa Open Eyes is a visual network monitoring tool developed in Java using SNMPv1/2/2c for collecting MIB-II information. The main features include visual monitoring, an enhanced network topology designer, email alert, trap receiver, trap agent, and real time logging to DB and Web.

Confused? Frustrated?

Jin client for chess servers 2.07rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126127/

Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. While it currently only supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org), it is written to be flexible enough to support any chess server. It is based on the Swing UI toolkit and runs on any Java 1.1 compatible JVM.

JPluck 2.0 pre3 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126150/

JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.

JPluck 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126148/

JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.

JSyntaxColor 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126154/

JSyntaxColor is a Java library for coloring in real time user text input. Main features include a standard editor kit, a simple property file for each syntax description, real time switch between syntax descriptions, inner cache for limiting parsing scope, tokens libraries customizable by the user, color, underline, and border attributes support, samples for Java, SQL, and Formula syntax, and many samples for interesting API parts.

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Large File Btree 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126157/

Large File Btree is a btree routine to store/retrieve keys using files larger than 2GB.

m0n0wall pb12r418
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126133/

m0n0wall is an all-in-one firewall software package that is based on FreeBSD. It is geared towards embedded PCs, but the CD-ROM version also works on standard PCs. It includes an easy-to-use Web interface like commercial firewall boxes do. PHP is used instead of shell scripts, and the entire system configuration is stored in a single XML-formatted file. There is support for wireless LAN, VPN, traffic shaping, and more.

mkvtoolnix 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126144/

mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska Direct Show filter under Windows.

mod_psldap 0.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126138/

mod_psldap is an Apache module that performs authentication authorization against an LDAP server using several different means of managing the authentication and authorization processes. The distinguishing features of this implementation include the ability to authenticate against an LDAP server that restricts the user from reading the password and the implementation of Kerberos-based authentication to connect to the LDAP server itself.

MozPlugger 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126116/

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.

myStats 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126173/

myStats is a full statistics system for Web sites, giving a lot of information about people who visit your site, about search engines, keywords, etc.

NewsBro 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126180/

NewsBro is a web-based application providing a Usenet newsreader service. It supports multiple users, accessing multiple news groups on multiple news servers. User profiles are maintained in order to allow for individual news preferences. It is implemented as a Java program, and requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) to be installed on the server system. Users only require a standard web browser.

Nova Gaming System 0.57 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126112/

The Nova Gaming System is a framework for building online, Web-based, turn-driven gaming systems. Using templates and language files, it is able to power multiple types of games, whether fast-paced space trading or slowly developing post-apocolyptic. The first game hosted on the platform is "The Kabal Invasion", which is in active development.

Orpheus 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126178/

Orpheus is a text-mode menu- and window- driven audio player application for CDs, Ogg, and MP3. It can retrieve CDDB information for compact discs with HTTP (even through a proxy), read ID tags from MP3 and Ogg files, and save and load playlists. The color schemes are configurable.

OZradio 0.9.6.1 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126123/

OZradio is a Linux FM radio player and CD 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.

p(y)layer 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126166/

p(y)layer is a jukebox style front end for mpg321 (or mpg123). Its main feature is the ability to search for songs and queue them up for play. If there are no songs queued, it will play a random song.

Perl CD Burning Script 0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126143/

Perl CD Burning Script is a Perl frontend for cdrtools and mkisofs. It provides a simple and easy-to-use script for creating ISO-files and burning them onto a CD.

Can't find what you're looking for?

pork 0.99.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126174/

pork is an ncurses-based AOL instant messenger client. It uses the OSCAR protocol (the one the Windows client uses) to access AIM. Pork features Perl scripting, an online help system, the ability to configure nearly all aspects of the program's look and feel, an alias system, and a powerful, fully configurable key binding system. It supports being logged in with more than one screen name at the same time. The default look and feel of the client is modeled after the ircII IRC client. Anyone comfortable using ircII (or any clients derived from it, e.g. epic, BitchX, etc.) will feel comfortable using pork.

Recovery Is Possible! 53 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126139/

Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery. It also has Ethernet/DSL/cable network support.

Scribus 0.9.11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126117/

Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as professional as possible.

SendYmail 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126177/

SendYmail allows you to send email through Yahoo! Mail, using your favorite mail client. It works as a gateway between the Yahoo! Mail Web interface and your email program, and can be used in conjunction with FetchYahoo or YoSucker to emulate a POP3/SMTP-like interface.

SiteBar 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126130/

SiteBar is a multi-user bookmark server that lets users view, add, and maintain bookmarks from anywhere. It's intended as a Mozilla/Netscape sidebar, but can also be used in a main browser window. SiteBar provides infinite depth of folders, the ability to move anything to anywhere else, and complete sharing of public items between users. It's cross-browser compatible, features a tree-menu and context menus common to file explorers, and supports FavIcons.

Sylpheed LCDProc Plugin 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126168/

Sylpheed LCDProc Plugin shows the number of new and unread messages in an LCD display controlled by lcdproc. It requires Sylpheed Claws with plugin support (0.8.11 or higher).

UDP Ping Logger 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126156/

Uplog is an UDP-based ping program that gives an ASCII graphical log of packet loss. Once per second, it sends a UDP packet to the echo port of the target host and waits for a reply. If it gets a reply an X is written, otherwise a dot is written to the log file. If a packet with an incorrect sequence number arrives, a colon is written to the log file. By examining the log file, one can easily see when and how the packet losses occur.

UnrealIRCd 3.2-beta17 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126160/

UnrealIRCd is an IRC daemon whose key features include full SSL support, Trojan protection, and WebTV compatibility. It is a highly stable and feature-packed IRC server daemon.

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VDRadmin 0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126125/

VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via HTTP. A small HTTP server is included.

WebCollab 1.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126119/

WebCollab is a collaborative Web site for project workgroups. It aims to be easy and intuitive to use without being complicated or graphically intensive.

XMMS Remote 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126172/

XMMS Remote is a two-part software solution that uses Web services to remotely control and display the status of the XMMS media player. Its two parts are a Cocoa application for OS X and a Perl script for Unix.

yudit 2.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126113/

Yudit is a Unicode text editor for the X Window System. It can do True Type font rendering, printing, transliterated keyboard input, and handwriting recognition with no dependencies on on external engines. Its conversion utilities can convert text between various encodings. Keyboard input maps can also act like text converters. There is no need for a pre-installed multi-lingual environment. The menus are available in many languages.

Confused? Frustrated?

Zero Install 0.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126158/

The Zero Install system removes the need to install software or libraries by running all programs from a network filesystem. The filesystem in question is the Internet as a whole, with an aggressive caching system to make it as fast as (or faster than) traditional systems such as Debian's APT repository, and to allow for offline use. It doesn't require any central authority to maintain it, and allows users to run software without needing a root password.

Zope Group Calendar 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126142/

The Zope Group Calendar is an effort to create a standards-compliant group calendar in zope.

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?

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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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