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[osdn developer] June 30, 2003
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 01:15:50 EDT
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June 30, 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
Contract Case Could Hurt Reverse Engineering
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/0123240
An anonymous reader writes "InfoWorld has an article about how a 'U.S.
Supreme Court decision could [0]call into question a common practice
among software companies: studying competitors' products to improve
their own offerings.'"
Links
0. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/26/HNreverseengineering_1.html
Technology Buying Slump
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/013204
mgcsinc writes "According to this Yahoo article from Reuters, IT buyers are continuing a [0]trend of cutting costs, favoring utility over cutting-edge effect. Market researchers are estimating continuing doldrums in the industry and enterprise businesses see more 'bang for the buck' from making improvements in software as opposed to investing in new infrastructure. This is not necessarily awful, however, for those who hope businesses will start looking toward open source options as the cost effective alternatives..." Links
0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=4&u=/nm/20030628/tc_nm/tech_cio_dc
EU Parliament to Vote on New Patent Rules http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/002211
peter_sd writes "[0]The Register has an article discussing the
[1]implications to the open source community and small software
businesses of the new software patent law to be voted on tomorrow by
the EU parliament. According to the article, it is very likely the new
patent law will be accepted despite its grave consequences."
Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Most Powerful Amateur Rocket in Canada
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/29/2121211
[0]Alex Schmidt writes "A group of Canadian 'amateur' rocketeers
successfully [1]launched a 16 1/2 foot rocket to a height of about 5500
feet. The rocket is based on the 'Dauphine' a meteorological rocket
from the 1960's. The rocket weighed 300 pounds, stood 16.5 feet high
and 21 inches in diameter. The motors generated 2400lbs of thrust. It
successfully landed after 3 of 4 parachutes properly deployed."
Links
0. mailto:alex.schmidt@shaw.ca
GF FX 5900 Ultra vs. ATi Radeon 9800 Pro http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/29/202218
[0]Mack writes "[1]OCAddiction.com has their [2]GF FX 5900 Ultra vs.
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro article online detailing which card is more
powerful. Running a plethora of benchmarks we were anxious to see which
card outperformed the other. Quite simple really. We take nVidia's top
offering and pair it up against the current top offering from ATi and
let them duke it out till the bitter end. Who will come out on top?
Let's take a look."
Links
0. mailto:mack@ocaddiction.com
1.
http://www.ocaddiction.com/
2.
http://www.ocaddiction.com/articles/video/fx_5900ultra_vs_radeon_9800pro/
PHP 5 Beta 1
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/29/1957253
[0]Sterling Hughes writes "The PHP development community is proud to
announce the release of PHP 5 Beta 1. [1]Downloads are available in
both source and binary form (for Windows users). A full list of changes
is available in the [2]ChangeLog. Some of the new features include much
[3]improved OO support, completely revamped XML support, and the
default inclusion of SQLite."
Links
0.
http://www.edwardbear.org/blog/
1.
http://www.php.net/downloads.php
2.
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
3.
http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php
Engaging with the OSS Community
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/29/1913235
[0]s390 writes "[1]Olliance has the second of its Open Source articles
up at the Inquirer. It's called [2]"Engaging with the Open Source
Community (Part Two)", and it explains the different levels of
involvement that companies can have with Open Source. More education
for managers, and an outline of a corporate process for approaching
adoption and deployment of Linux and other Open Source software."
Links
0. mailto:ramunro1@ix.netcom.com
1.
http://www.olliancegroup.com/
2.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10222
Pure Math, Pure Joy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/29/183258
e271828 writes "The New York Times is carrying a nice little piece
entitled [0]Pure Math, Pure Joy about the beauty and applicability of
pure math as carried out at the [1]Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute. There is an [2]accompanying slideshow of pictures of
mathematicians in action; I particularly loved the picture titled
[3]Waging Mental Battle with a Proof."
Links
0.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/weekinreview/29OVER.html
1.
http://www.msri.org/
2.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2003/06/28/weekinreview/20030629_OVER_slideshow_1.html
3.
http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/06/28/weekinreview/29over.slide02.jpg
Windows Tech Writer Looks at Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/29/1554201
An anonymous reader writes "Three days ago I accepted Linux [0]into my life and while I'm not yet a convert, the experience has shaken my faith in Windows. It's hard to reconcile because for nearly 20 years I've mostly stayed on the one true Windows path." Links
US Cell Phone Users Discover SMS Spam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/29/1542249
[0]The Llama King writes "It's a bigger problem in Europe and
Japan/Asia, but as SMS text messaging or "texting" becomes more popular
in the United States, its users are discovering that spammers like it
too, according to [1]this Houston Chronicle story. Cell phone companies
are trying to stem the spam flood before it starts, worried that users
will turn off their phones, thus denying providers revenue."
Links
0. mailto:leveau1@hotmail.com
Freshmeat
Apt-Mirror 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127672/
Apt-Mirror is a small tool that provides the ability to mirror any parts (or even all) of a Debian GNU/Linux distribution or any other apt source.
Artefaktur Component Development Kit 4.02.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127664/
ACDK is a development framework with a similar target of Microsoft's
.NET or Sun's ONE platform, but it uses C++ as a core implementation
language. It implements the standard library packages, including
acdk::lang, acdk::lang::reflect, acdk::util, acdk::io, acdk::text
(including regexpr), acdk::net, acdk::sql, acdk::xml, and more.
Flexible allocator/garbage collection, threading, and Unicode are
implemented in the core of ACDK. Extensions make C++ objects available
for reflection, serialization, aspect-oriented class attributes, and
[D]ynamic [M] ethod [I]nvocation. This DMI acts as an universal object
oriented call interface to connect C++ with scripting languages (Java,
Perl, Tcl, Python, Lisp, Visual Basic, and VBScript) and standard
component technologies (CORBA and COM).
BBStatus 2.0RC14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127670/
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.
Chaos2 XMMS 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127654/
Chaos2 is a skin based on Omar Hussain's Chaos skin. The colors have been changed to match the WMaker-simple themes. A Window Maker logo has been pasted into "main.bmp".
checkaliases 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127694/
Checkaliases reads a sendmail alias file, then fully expands all files, included files, program calls, etc., and validates that they are all deliverable addresses. The included newaliases.el makes editing and checking an aliases file with GNU Emacs easier.
convmv 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127675/
convmv converts filenames (not file content), directories, and even whole filesystems to a different encoding. This comes in very handy if, for example, one switches from an 8-bit locale to an UTF-8 locale. It has some smart features: it automagically recognises if a file is already UTF-8 encoded (thus partly converted filesystems can be fully moved to UTF-8) and it also takes care of symlinks. Additionally, it is able to convert from normalization form C (UTF-8 NFC) to NFD and vice-versa. This is important for interoperability with Mac OS X, for example, which uses NFD, while Linux and most other Unixes use NFC. Though it's primary written to convert from/to UTF-8 it can also be used with almost any other charset encoding. Note that this is a command line tool which requires at least Perl version 5.8.0.
CVSPermissions 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127690/
CVSPermissions is a toolkit that will allow CVS administrators to set up directory level access control in CVS for multiple CVS users. This toolkit is a collection of shell scripts and CVS configuration to achieve the access control functionality.
Devhelp 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127657/
DevHelp is a developer's help program for GNOME.
dvd::rip 0.50.14 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127653/
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools.
Epiphany-browser 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127669/
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine.
Its goals are simplicity, standards compliance, and integration with
GNOME.
FluffyCache 20030605
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127417/
FluffyCache is a simple system for synchronizing a random selection of files between two systems. For example, if you have 15GB of audio files on a workstation and 3GB of space for them on a laptop which occasionally goes somewhere with a lot more bandwidth available, the FluffyCache system makes it simple to synchronize your laptop's downloads to the workstation while randomly rotating the selection of audio files on the laptop within the available space. It can work with any file type, as well, such as movies, images, and so on. There are no proprietary protocols; it is written in Bourne shell with a small C utility, and the only external tools required are wget (for the client) and a Web server which can run CGI programs (for the server).
FreeMind 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127649/
FreeMind a Mindmapping tool and an intuitive editor for tree-structured data. The design is modular, so FreeMind can be used to edit any kind of data, dependent on the current mode. The data is represented to the user as a Mind map, while data, behavior, node style, edge style, color, etc. are determined by the mode.
GNU MP3 Daemon 2.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127684/
GNUMP3d is a small, portable, and robust server for streaming MP3s, OGGs, and other audio files. It presents a simple and attractive interface to Web browsers, which allows you to navigate through your music collection. Individual files may be streamed, as can whole directory trees. Other features include the ability to see your most popular tracks, and to search your collection for songs.
Gris 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127612/
Gris is an ethereal, pleasant looking, minimalist, very light style.
ImageViewer 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127692/
ImageViewer is a small application which displays images based on the GNUstep API. It handles all image types known to GNUstep (i.e., TIFF, PNG, JPEG, GIF, etc.).
Ion 20030627 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127689/
Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows. These features help keeping windows organized and quickly switching between them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive window manager for users who prefer the keyboard.
Issue Handler 0.8.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127671/
The Issue Handler is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.
istrice 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127652/
istrice allows a client to assign the compilation of a C/C++ source file to a remote server throughout the mediation of a Master Server. It is an implementation of a distribuited compilation environment under Unix systems. Using the ISTRICE environment you can distribuite the compilation across a set of 'friend' computer around the network, reducing the compilation time and system load of a slow or busy computer.
iVideo 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127681/
iVideo is multitrack video editing software, created in Cocoa (Objective-C) and using QuickTime. It was developed for all general video purposes, and to include all of the features of QuickTime Pro and iMovie. It is almost complete; you can import video from digital cameras (using FireWire) or from any QuickTime format supported file, then edit, modify, and mix them, and apply any video effect on or between them. You can then export them to any QuickTime supported format.
IzPack 3.0.9 (build 2003.06.29) (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/127673/
IzPack is a powerful Java installer builder. It is able to create lightweight and modular installers. You have the choice of the installer panels you want to use (some can do the same job, so that you can select the one you prefer), and you even have the choice of the kind of installer that you want to use. IzPack doesn't use any portion of native code, it is designed to be fully independent from the operating system that runs it. It is very easy for the end user with a properly installed JVM to use an installer made with IzPack, since a single "java -jar installer.jar" will launch it.
Jaxor 3.2 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127680/
Jaxor is a simple but powerful tool for creating an object to relational mapping layer. It allows developers to painlessly insert, update, and delete rows from tables, but can be expanded on to create an extensible mapping layer that creates a full domain model, transparently mapping to database tables.
Jin client for chess servers 2.07rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127665/
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.
KAON 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127650/
KAON is an ontology management infrastructure targeted at business applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management. Persistence mechanisms of KAON are based on relational databases.
LibTomMath 0.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127646/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography).
Loudmouth 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127658/
Loudmouth is a lightweight Jabber client library written in C/Glib.
Lucid Fried Eggs 0.101
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127647/
Lucid Fried Eggs is a web-based notetaking and collaboration application. It is similar in nature to TheBrain, Wiki, Everything2, ZigZag, and Xanadu. Notes are associated to each other with relationships: parent, child, jump. One note can have many parents. This makes it quite different from strictly hierarchical applications. Additionally, references are reciprocal. This means if you make a jump to another note, you can always get back.
m0n0wall pb13r443
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127686/
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.
Mailbox Copy 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127697/
Mailbox Copy is a set of tools to copy/archive email accounts. It works with IMAP, mbox, and maildir mailboxes. You can use the copy tool to migrate from one IMAP server to another, to archive your IMAP email to a local mbox copy, to move some maildir email to an IMAP server, etc. This project was previously called IMAP Copy/imapcp because it worked only with IMAP. It has been renamed to reflect its more general purpose.
mailbox_reader 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127648/
mailbox_reader is a Python module providing two classes: Mailbox, a file-like object that iterates through the contents of a mailbox, and Email, an object which holds the individual emails returned by Mailbox. This module has been written with simplicity in mind, and low memory consumption.
MIB Smithy 2.3a3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127662/
MIB Smithy is an application for SNMP developers, MIB designers, and Internet-draft authors. It provides a GUI-based environment for designing, editing, and compiling MIB modules according to the SMIv1 and SMIv2 standards. It accelerates the development process by providing an easy-to-use GUI environment for designing, editing, and compiling SNMP MIB specifications without the syntax and formatting concerns of designing MIBs by hand. It includes a number of built-in basic SNMP management tools, XML support, and (with MIB Smithy Professional) support for custom compiler output formats.
Minimalist 2.3(3.3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127685/
Minimalist is a mailing lists manager, written in Perl. It is small, fast, and easy to setup and maintain. Support is included for optional authentication subscribe/unsubscribe requests, global or per list administrators, message archiving, activity logging, lists permissions, and a subscribers thresold per list. Minimalist can be configured on per-list basis as well as globally.
Moron 0.5.0 (Experimental)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127677/
Moron (Method for Object Recognition of Obscure Nature) is a tool to classify given images based on their content. Technically, it combines feature extraction and machine learning. The classes recognized depend on the version. A typical Moron version tries at least to separate drawn content from photographs (pron) and thus could be adapted as a spam filter for cartoon newsgroups.
OpenH323 Gatekeeper 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127691/
The OpenH323 Gatekeeper is a free H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323 project. You can use it to manage a Voice-over-IP network and let endpoints (e.g., Netmeeting) communicate through symbolic names. It also has an external interface for billing and other applications. It runs on a number of Unix versions (including Linux and Solaris) and Windows.
PBS 0.90 beta (DBI)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127663/
PBS is a user-support call management system and call tracing system. It is based on intranet technologies, and it allows you to manage and account calls, inventory, projects, and performance. It features a knowledge base and reports for the manager.
phpSANE 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127666/
phpSANE is a Web-based frontend for SANE written in HTML/PHP. Now you can scan with your Web browser, too.
pkgrebuild 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127643/
pkrebuild is a tool for rebuild pkg packages. It can be used for re-creating lost packages or for quick building of modified packages.
Progs.pl 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127688/
Progs.pl is a CGI program which gives a more fancy and informative way of showing file lists than an HTTP or FTP server. It shows the size of the file, the author's name and e-mail, copying policy, etc. Also included is repack.pl, which allows repacking files on-the-fly. This program is good for handling software or other file archives without creating static HTML pages. To generate HTML pages, the administrator need only create 'filelists' with some information about the files.
Seed Spambots 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127679/
Seed Spambots generates HTML pages and email addresses for spambots, sending them to a honeypot SMTP server which reports checksum data to various clearinghouses and gathers other spam statistics. Most other spambot feeders simply invent fake domains and email addresses, which is of limited use since most spammers verify their lists prior to using them.
Sesame 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127645/
Sesame is an Open Source RDF Schema-based repository and querying facility. It is a scalable, modular architecture for persistent storage and querying of RDF and RDF Schema. It supports two query languages (RQL and RDQL), and can use main memory or PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle 9i databases for storage.
SQLite 2.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127699/
SQLite is a small, fast, embeddable SQL database engine that supports most of SQL92, including transactions with atomic commit and rollback, subqueries, compound queries, triggers, and views. A complete database is stored in a single cross-platform disk file. The native C/C++ API is simple and easy to use. Bindings for other languages are also available.
Sussen 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127674/
Sussen is a GNOME client for the Nessus Security Scanner. Sussen is incredibly easy to use, allowing you to perform a vulnerabiltiy assessment with just a few mouse clicks.
tresor 1.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127661/
tresor is an application for performing full backup and fast restores with bytepositioning tape drives. This option is available on some Tandberg and Wangtek streamers and some SCSI-2 tape drives. It features flexible configuration, a database for multiple volumes, fast restores (due to direct seeking), a graphical user interface, tape operations based on dd, afio, and mt, and tape identification using its own header. Language support for German and English is included.
Walker 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127668/
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.
WebMill 1.1.4 (mill-schema-support)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127521/
Webmill facilitates rapid Web site development by using portlets and XML/XSLT. It features transparent support of multilanguage sites and includes a Web page template, XSL templates, and news lines.
WebShop 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127676/
WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as well as a sample servlet/JSP implementation of a shop.
Xfprot 0.20beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127682/
XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Small Business Edition. It was based upon the XSTEP-3.5.1 library. Starting from version 0.20beta, it is based on the GTK+ 1.2 libraries.
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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