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[osdn developer] June 29, 2003
Date: Sun Jun 29 2003 - 01:15:50 EDT
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June 29, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
Gallery v1.3.4 and Gallery Remote v1.0.1 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=285885
Three years to the day since Gallery became a SourceForge project, we're pleased to announce the release of Gallery v1.3.4 as well as Gallery Remote v1.0.1. Gallery v1.3.4 is both a new feature and bugfix release, and is recommended for all Gallery users. New features for v1.3.4 include: the ability to download your gallery to burn to CD or browse offline, additional photo print services, auto-rotation of JPEGs when possible, and the ability to add new customized description fields to photos. In addition, v.1.3.4 fixes numerous minor bugs, and extends support for PHP-Nuke to versions 6.5 and newer, and improves the Windows XP Publishing Wizard interface. Alongside the new Gallery release comes the release of Gallery Remote v1.0.1, which fixes many bugs, implements HTTP basic authentication, and allows you to save and load Gallery Remote projects. Gallery v1.3.4 and Gallery Remote v1.0.1 are available from the Gallery Download Page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130
Zsh 4.0.7 and 4.1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=286040
Finally, a development version of zsh is available again. 4.1.1 introduces many new features both in the main shell and as library add-ons. It has been in development for some time and is believed to be fairly stable. 4.0.7 is a bug-fix release for the stable branch of zsh. zsh is a shell probably most similar to ksh, but with countless enhancements and differences.
BZFlag 1.7g2 "steely eyed banana" released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=285923
Now with twice as mojo! New features include a nifty server administration system, autoconf, cheating protection, expanded platform support and much more. BZFlag is an OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag game. Get it today at http://bzflag.org/
FreeDOS kernel 2030 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=285969
FreeDOS kernel build 2030 is out with quite a few important bugs fixed. FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system. FreeDOS is free because it is released under the GNU General Public License.
Netatalk 1.6.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=285971
The Netatalk development team is proud to announce version 1.6.3 of the Netatalk File Sharing suite. Netatalk is a collection of server programs and utilities for handling various protocols employed by Apple Macintosh computers on Unix compatible systems. This allows Unix hosts to act as file, print, and time servers for Apple Macintosh (classic MacOS as well as MacOS X) computers. The suite contains: * afpd - a file server that implements the Apple Filing Protocol, allowing clients running MacOS to access Unix file servers * atalkd - an implementation of the AppleTalk protocol * papd - a print server that enables Macintosh computers to access printers connected to Unix servers * timelord - a time server for synchronizing time over the network * megatron - a tool to convert files in Macintosh specific formats like BinHex, AppleSingle, or MacBinary into files readable by Unix computers
- various other utilities Netatalk is a Free/Open Source Software project and is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Please see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html for the full license text. News in Netatalk 1.6.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Netatalk 1.6.3 is a maintenance release for the 1.6 series that fixes various small bugs and glitches in Netatalk. Please see the NEWS file contained in the distribution for more detailed information.
Slashdot
Europe's Largest Linux Event Draws Nigh
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/1815232
steman writes "On the 10th of July 2003 [0]LinuxTag begins, the largest Linux event in Europe. It will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany. Four days will be packed with up to 20,000 visitors, over 120 [1]exhibitors (including more than 30 Free Software orientated projects such as FFII, BSD, KDE and Debian), [2]coding marathon and many [3]conferences (including specialist business and government conferences). Best of all, in the spirit of the Free Software Movement, it will be largely free (entrance, and many conferences are free)." Links
0.
http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html
1.
http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/expo/exhibitors.xsp
2.
http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/expo/marathon.html
3.
http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/conferences/conferences.htmlThe Real Reason for Sending Astronauts into Space http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/2043233
Puneet writes "An article on [0]New York Times discussing the [1]need for astronauts for carrying out experiments in space. Too many of the planned experiments depend on crew operations when they could more effectively be done without them. In many cases, the crew is needed only to deploy an autonomous experiment." Links
Isn't It Ironic?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/2038247
[0]gessel writes "Have you ever used the word "[1]ironic?" Do you know
what it really means? If not, is that ironic? Was [2]Seinfeld's "irony"
really the [3]cause of the utter collapse of civil society as we knew
it? How ironic was it for the CEO of [4]MTV to declare [5]irony a
victim of 9/11? The [6]Guardian is running a [7] brilliant article that
clears the confusion around a culturally critical and chronically
misused word."
Links
0.
http://www.dis.org/gessel
1.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=irony
2.
http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/seinfeld/
3.
http://www.prospect.org/print/V9/39/purdy-j.html
4.
http://www.mtv.com/
5.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/632693.asp?cp1=1
6.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
7.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,985375,00.htmlEMI and Sony Lose Lawsuit Over Crippled Music Disks http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/2014236
[0]neves writes "A brazilian consumer has sued EMI and Sony, and won!
The reason was a copy protection technology in the best seller album
"Tribalistas" that didn't play in his car. You can read about it in
[1]Folha de São Paulo (babelfish [2] translation here), brazilian
biggest newspaper. They must be very afraid, since EMI vice-president
defended the company himself in a lawsuit involving less than US$
350,00. A more detailed report is in my music site [3]Agenda do Samba &
Choro (babelfish [4]here), where we release some of the lawsuit files
to make it easier for others to sue them. Since last year, we are
calling for a [5]boycott ([6]babelfish) of copy protected albums. The
companies appealed, and said that they will take the case to the
Supreme Court, because it is a 'question of principles'. The consumer
is sueing them again, because all new EMI albums in Brazil are being
released with copy protection and won't work in his car."
Links
0.
http://www.samba-choro.com.br/contacta?pid=dRzXVw
1.
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u34467.shtml
2.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=pt_en&url=http%3A//www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u34467.shtml
3.
http://www.samba-choro.com.br/print/noticias/6539
4.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=pt_en&url=http%3A//www.samba-choro.com.br/noticias/6539
5.
http://www.samba-choro.com.br/debates/1037142061
6.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=pt_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.samba-choro.com.br%2Fprint%2Fdebates%2F1037142061%2Findex_html
Linux Usage in the UK
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/1956206
[0]pdajames writes "Techies don't seem to understand that businesses
want to have a support contract with their usual supplier before they
will buy Linux, even though the likelihood is that they may never need
support. A survey in the UK showed that [1]support concerns were the
No. 1 factor keeping companies from investing in open source software."
Links
0. mailto:pdajames@yahoo.com
$180 Million for Piracy Conspiracy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/181227
theCoder writes "According to an AP [0]story printed in the [1]Orlando Sentinel, Steven R. Frazier has been ordered to pay $180 million restitution for attempting to sell a device that would decrypt the satellite signals sent into everyone's homes. In addition to spending the next 5 years in Federal prison, Frazier will have to pay $500 a month for the next 30,000 years, though no one really expects him to live long enough to make all the payments. That value is based on estimated loses DirectTV and Echostar may have incurred had Frazier been able to sell his devices. Being ordered to pay restitution for actual damages is one thing, but paying for some made up number of future damages? Maybe if I catch someone trying to break into my car, I can sue him for the damage he would have caused if he succeeded..." Links
Two Views On a China-US Space Race
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/1759245
An anonmous submitter writes "While there has been [0]recent discussion
about China and India engaging in a space race, most people are still
focused on a potential race between China and the US in near future.
[1]The Space Review recently published a pair of essays on this topic:
[2]the first argues that China-US space race is both unlikely and
undesirable, given the aftermath of the US-USSR space race thirty years
ago. [3]A followup article suggests that a China-US space race is
vital, so long as it takes a more commercial, long-term approach than
the US-USSR one. Food for thought..."
Links
0.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/22/1754249&tid=160
1.
http://www.thespacereview.com/index.html
2.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/25/1
3.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/28/1
MillionManLAN Party: The Doors Are Open
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/1740254
[0]socram writes "[1]Tom's Hardware has an overview about one of the
biggest Lan Parties. This event is sponsored by AMD, ATI, ASUS, ABIT,
Cisco, NVIDIA, and the Hitachi storage division. Check this article
out, [2]more than 1000 people killing their brain cells! Presentation
by ASUS, ATI's Q&A Session and more."
Links
0. mailto:socram@vox.com.py
1.
http://www.tomshardware.com/
2.
http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20030628/index.html
FSF Statement on SCO vs. IBM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/27/2150234
tomdp writes "Eben Moglen, Law professor and general counsel for the
Free Software Foundation, has written a [0]statement about SCO's
lawsuit against IBM."
Links
0. http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/sco-statement.html
Analysis of SuSE Linux Desktop
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/1414237
[0]pdajames writes "[1]ZDNet UK has a [2]look at the new SuSE Linux
Desktop, running Microsoft Office. They seem to think Linux is just
about there when it comes to desktop users, although their words about
StarOffice are not so kind. It seems like some of the reality of
desktop Linux is starting to match the hype." Not being an Office power
user myself, I felt that way a long time ago, but it's cool to see
projects like Evolution get some more street cred.
Links
0. mailto:pdajames@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/
2.
http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2136603,00.html
Freshmeat
abook 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127623/
Abook is small and powerful ncurses based addressbook program designed to use with mutt mail client. Abook runs on Linux and FreeBSD operating systems.
Active Spam Killer 2.5.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127609/
Active Spam Killer (ASK) protects your email account against spam by confirming the sender's email address before actual delivery takes place. The confirmation happens by means of a "confirmation message" that is automatically sent to all "unknown" users. Once the sender replies to that message (a simple reply will do), future emails from that person will be delivered immediately. You can also specify (regexp) addresses to be immediately accepted, rejected (with a nastygram) or ignored. The package also includes a utility to scan your old mailboxes and generate a list of emails to be accepted automatically.
AnnotateIt! 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127630/
AnnotateIt! is an open source electronic response system targeted at composition instructors and students. It allows annotation of HTML and provides facilities for group interaction. Annotations may be either hyperlinked or inline, depending on the user's preference. It also features reporting of meta information (annotation types and counts), predefined annotations, community annotations, conversion of documents to HTML for annotation, easy document management, and an assignments calendar.
avidemux 2.0.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127568/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
Babelize 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127501/
Babelize is a collection of localizations for Linux games. It currently features a German translation for "Heroes of Might and Magic III", as well as instructions for applying the localizations provided by Loki for "Civilization: Call to Power". The goal of the project is to provide localizations for as many native Linux games as possible.
beboCD 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127634/
BeboCD is a libcdaudio-based CD player with an easy-to-use GUI.
BlogPluck 0.9.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127595/
BlogPluck is a Java Web Start application that converts blogs in RSS/RDF format to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
botproof email 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127613/
botproof email hides the contact email address on a Web site from spambots. Users trying to contact you have to enter a code from a displayed image or click a randomly-generated square in a larger image. Upon correct input and submission they are forwarded to your email address. Email and challenge information is stored in a server session. Noise is added to images to prevent OCR, and the number of permitted attempts per client is limited.
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127610/
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer adds visual impact and interactivity to the documentation of your parsers. It supports a wide variety of parser generation formats, including yacc, bison, JavaCC, BNF, EBNF and ISO EBNF (ISO/IEC 14977). It is a self-contained Java-based visualization application that dynamically creates visual representation of your syntax and grammar, saving it as images for inclusion in your documentation. It supports all common image formats, easy integration with your existing build environment, full customization of the look of your railroad diagrams, and multi- platform support.
ciclogin 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127632/
ciclogin logs into and keeps the connection to the Telia Comhem Internet Cable service alive.
CtrlGGB 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127603/
CtrlGdb is a curses frontend to the GNU Debugger in the style of the old DOS Turbo C debugger. It can be used to set breakpoints and watches, watch the stack, and do step over, step into, and attaching to processes. Commands to the "real" commandline gdb can be given, as well.
DBG 2.11.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127638/
DBG is a PHP debugger and profiler. It makes it much easier to discover the origins of problems and bugs in PHP scripts. It's equipped with the ability to backtrace errors. It shows local and global variables as well as parameters which have been passed to all nested function calls at any point of execution. Among other things, it allows you to execute scripts in a step-by-step manner, set breakpoints (including conditional ones), evaluate expressions, and watch variables. The profiler allows you to find bottlenecks in PHP code at the functions level as well as the modules level and even the source lines level.
dominigue 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127585/
dominigue is a DOM engine which implements W3C DOM Level 2 in GObject and other facilities of GLib.
Flat Assembler 1.47
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127576/
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.
Gammu 0.79 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127621/
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.
GNU Transport Layer Security Library 0.9.6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/127624/
GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It implements the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols. GnuTLS is available for beta testing.
hackerlab 1.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127580/
libhackerlab is a general purpose C library that offers a pleasantly refreshing alternative to libc.
HarvestMan 1.1 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127588/
HarvestMan is a multithreaded off-line browser (web-crawler). It has many features for customizing offline browsing through filters, depth-fetching, assigning fetch levels, and limiting by number of servers. It has support for the robot exclusion protocol. HarvestMan is a console application, and it works by reading settings from a configuration file.
hdup 1.6.17 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127606/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (with mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host or restoring from a remote host (with ssh), the ability to split up archives, and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
IceWM Control center 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127561/
The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 2.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127589/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland).
Jena 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127578/
Jena is Java toolkit for developing semantic Web applications. It includes an RDF API, ARP, an RDF parser used for the W3C semantics Web sandbox, RDQL (an RDF query language and processor), and a DAML API.
Kydpdict 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127628/
Kydpdict is a graphical frontend to Collins' English/German-Polish and Polish-English/German dictionaries.
LBreakout 2.5beta-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127575/
LBreakout is a breakout game with nice effects, graphics, and sounds. It's got a menu to configure a lot of things and a high score chart. It can be played either by mouse or keyboard. New levels can also be created, and most other aspects of the game can be customized.
lib++ 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127564/
lib++ is an easy to use C++ library for writing networking servers and clients. Configuration files and databases (currently only MySQL) are also fully supported.
lt 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127615/
lt is a simple, fast command-line perl script interface to a MySQL database for logging time spent on consulting projects for multiple clients. It produces plain-text invoices and can keep track of when they're issued and paid.
lwm 1.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127582/
lwm (Lightweight Window Manager) is a window manager for X that tries to keep out of your face. There are no icons, no button bars, no icon docks, no root menus, no nothing. If you want all that, other programs can provide it.
Mod_Survey 3.0.16-pre1 (3.0.x-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127592/
Mod_survey is an Apache mod_perl module which allows users to create their own Web questionnaires using an XML-based tag notation. It supports exporting of data into several file formats, including SPSS syntax, semi-colon delimited fields, and SQL script. It also provides limited support for descriptive statistics of the submitted data, and stylesheet customizations of layout.
monopd 0.8.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127607/
monopd is a dedicated game server daemon for Monopoly-like board games. Clients such as Atlantik can connect and allow users to play various games with other users of the network.
MyOrgBook 2.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127565/
MyOrgBook is an Open Source online organizer programmed with PHP and MySQL. Some features include mult-user login, lost password emailer, contacts, todo/ scheduler, calendar, profile changer. It allows you to edit, delete update contacts, and much more.
MysticIRCd 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127636/
MysticIRCd is a powerful IRCd with several essential features. It is based on UltimateIRCd 2.8.x, and adds several more features, such as an extended help system with the HelpOp Notifications and an IRC based help system. It also features BadWord Censors.
netcat 2.0-alpha2 (IPv6)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127587/
Netcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable backend tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.
noffle 1.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127604/
noffle is a news (nntp) server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections to the Internet. It adds offline reading capabilities to existing news readers.
NWN-PHPAdmin 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127608/
NWN-PHPAdmin is a Web-based administration page for the Linux Neverwinter Nights server. Its features include starting and stopping the server, loading new modules, loading and saving games, sending server messages, and monitoring the status. Before shutting down, it gives the option to send a countdown message to all players.
Open Babel 1.100.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127605/
Open Babel is a project designed to pick up where Babel left off, as a cross-platform program and library designed to interconvert between many file formats used in molecular modeling and computational chemistry.
OpenClinic 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127627/
OpenClinic is an easy to use, open source medical records system. It has been mainly developed for private clinics, surgeries, and private doctors. It is platform independent and has a multi-language architecture.
OSSP sio 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127586/
OSSP sio is an I/O abstraction library for layered stream communication. It was built to deal efficiently with complex I/O protocols and includes capabilities to filter and multiplex data streams. Its modular structure is fully supported by the underlying OSSP al data buffer library.
package-framework 1.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127567/
package-framework is a configure/build system aiming at providing an alternative to autoconf and related tools. It is easy to understand, use, and extend.
PhonoRipper 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127591/
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.
Physics 3D 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127622/
Physics 3D is a simple physics simulation program in 3D. It simulates gravitational attraction, momentum, and collisions of rigid bodies. It is written using Java and the Java3D API.
pkgusage 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127620/
pkgusage lists all the packages you have installed on your system, along with a number telling you how many days ago you last accessed any of the files in the package. This could be useful for cleaning out your hard drive. Pkgusage works with RPMs and Debian packages, and is written to be easily portable to other package managers as well.
Project LRNJ: Slime Forest Adventure (Escalator) http://freshmeat.net/releases/127566/
The goal of Project LRNJ is to create an entertaining console-style RPG that teaches Japanese. Slime Forest is the prototype line: a simple NES-like CRPG using graphics from the upcoming katakana adventure and a training set of 1000 kanji. Its purposes are to attract interest and funding, and to gather data and feedback on compatibility and effectiveness.
Python Grimoire 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127571/
Python Grimoire is a collection of spells for the Sorcerer GNU/Linux distribution of Python apps. It is an additional grimoire that can be added on to the main official grimoire.
QuikKopy 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127581/
QuikKopy is a command-line utility which copies images from a source directory to a destination directory, creating a structured library of digital images. It can also perform batch resizing and manipulation of images using ImageMagick. It is designed for use with large collections of raw images, such as those downloaded from a digital camera.
Recovery Is Possible! 56 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127590/
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.
RxLinux 1.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127637/
Rxlinux is a modular system. The base system fits in 25M of RAMdisk. Extra packages (software) can be installed on demand in RAMdisk. The /var partition which contains the application data can reside either on a hard disk or in RAMdisk. Rxlinux can be configure as a Web server, an X11 terminal, a database server, an openmosix cluster node, etc. It is distributed as a 10M bootable ISO file. You can configure it to include more packages in the ISO if you don’t want to download extra software at boot time.
Save Trees Text Editor 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127600/
STED (Save Trees Text Editor) is an ncurses-based full screen text editor. It is fast, simple, and easy to use. Its primary aim is to expedite the development of a text editor. It is akin to MS-DOS's EDIT with regard to intelligence, features, and power. STED is meant to be useful for those who want to understand the design of a text editor, for those who want to understand the ncurses library, and for those who want a small, fast, full screen editor.
Software Suspend 1.0-pre15 (2.4 Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/127574/
swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM or BIOS support. It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. At the next system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
TAU 2.12.8-4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127577/
TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) is a set of tools for analyzing the performance of C, C++, Fortran and Java programs. It collects much more information than is available through prof or gprof, the standard Unix utilities, including per-process, per-thread, and per-host information, inclusive and exclusive function times, profiling groups that allow you to organize data collection, access to hardware counters on some systems, per-class and per-instance information, the ability to separate data for each template instantiation, start/stop timers for profiling arbitrary sections of code, and support for collection of statistics on user-defined events.
TclRSS 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127593/
TclRSS is a Tcl library for parsing/generating RSS files.
TeliaTalker 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127579/
TeliaTalker handles your login to Telia ADSL and prevents you from being disconnected.
Thuban 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127428/
Thuban is an interactive geographic data viewer (GIS viewer) which features methods to visualize, explore, and analyze geographic information.
TriviaShock 1.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127635/
TriviaShock is a Web-based trivia game and quiz system which uses PHP, MySQL, and Flash.
Voruta Beta4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127584/
Voruta reduces JDBC code in application, and makes code more readable and safe. SQL procedures and queries are mapped to Java methods using custom JavaDoc tags and dynamic code generation at runtime. It needs no custom build tools or external files to store metadata.
X11::GUITest 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127633/
X11::GUITest is a Perl package intended to facilitate the testing of GUI applications by means of user emulation. It can be used to test and interact with GUI applications which have been built (Xlib, GTK, etc.) upon the X toolkit.
XOSD 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127629/
XOSD is a simple library to display shaped text on your X display, like a TV On Screen Display. It also contains an XMMS plugin, and a simple example program that can display system logs overlayed on your desktop.
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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