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[osdn developer] July 06, 2003
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 01:15:50 EDT
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July 06, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
EVMS 2.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289226
The EVMS team is announcing the next major release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. Package 2.1.0 is now available for download. This release is for the new EVMS design, which is based on user-space volume discovery and communication with existing kernel drivers, such as MD/Software-RAID and Device-Mapper. Downloads at the project page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evms/ Please see the INSTALL file in the 2.1.0 package for information about installing and getting started with the new EVMS. Since this new design is based on user-space discovery, there will no longer be boot-time volume activation. Please see the INSTALL file for information about how to activate your volumes using the EVMS user-interfaces and utilities. The INSTALL file also contains instructions for how users may easily "upgrade" an existing 2.4 kernel with Device-Mapper and EVMS 2.0.1 patches. Please see the README file in the 2.1.0 package for more detailed notes concerning this release and it's new features. EVMS 2.1.0 is supported on 2.4.21, 2.4.20, 2.4.19, and 2.5.73 kernels. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evms-devel@lists.sf.net) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). Please see the notes and changelog at: http://www.sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=168707
NDoc version 1.2 beta released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289572
A beta of the latest version of NDoc, the .NET Code Documentation Generator, has been released. The new features include: - new HTML Help 2 documenter (beta version), - new HTML Linear documenter (alpha version), - the MSDN documenter can now generate CHM or Online documentation, - option to link to the .NET Framework SDK v1.0, v1.1 or MSDN Online - support for Visual Studio 2003 and the .NET Framework 1.1, - plus many improvements and bug fixes... The NDoc v1.2 beta source code is available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36057&release_id= 168934
Columba 0.11.0 (unstable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289631
A new unstable version of Columba is now available. Columba is an email client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface with wizards and internalionalization support. Its a powerful email management tool with features to enhance your productivity and communication. So, take control of your email before it takes control of you! This version contains numerous new features we want you to testdrive. http://columba.sourceforge.net/downloads_unstable.php For more information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/news.php
Python 2.3b2
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=288768
Python 2.3b2 has been released (29-Jun-2003). We encourage you to test your applications with this release, as we plan on a final Python 2.3 release by early August.
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-06-20 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289543
0. Intro. 1. Improved Search. 2. Project of the month: Megamek. 3. Updated Project Registration System. 4. New RSS Feeds. 5. Stats and Top Projects.
Dear SourceForge.net, One of our biggest challenges in managing SourceForge.net has been handling our growth. With approximately 70 new Open Source Projects and 700 new registered users being added to the site each day, it can be quite a trick trying to stay ahead of the curve. This month I want to mention two improvements that are noteworthy. The first is project search. You can read about it below, but essentially the average time for searching for projects (using the left navbar) been reduced from 30 seconds to 1 second. The second is the beginning of the process of weeding out "dead" projects. These are projects that haven't had any real activity in the past 6 months and have never released any files. This is a big change for us. When SourceForge.net was started over 3 1/2 years ago, the vision was that it would be the permanent record of Open Source Software - Nothing would be deleted. We held on to the mission so strongly that we never developed internal tools to delete projects. Now with over 63,000+ projects and 70 new ones being added daily, we do realize that not -every- project has taken root. The real crusty/vacant ones (haven't released files and have zero activity) will be put in a queue for removal. This process will be done very carefully; we will give the registered admins of the project ample warning and the ability to 'opt-out' of the removal. The upside for the SourceForge.net community is that soon things will be a bit cleaner around here. Search results will list less dead projects and the software map will be easier to traverse. We still have some growing pains, but I hope you enjoy these latest improvements. I want to thank you for supporting SourceForge.net and the Open Source community. As always if you have some feedback or issues related to the site, please feel free to email me directly at pat@sf.net. Patrick McGovern Director, SF.NET Pat@sf.net Improved
Project Search --------------------------------------------- As
SourceForge.net continues to have significant growth in the size of its
user base, count of hosted projects, and daily activity, a significant
amount of work is done by the SourceForge.net team to ensure suitable
site performance and to work to resolve existing performance problems.
The SourceForge.net team is happy to announce that the "Software/group
search" facility is now operating in a more proper and functional
manner. Searches are now performed in real time and last only seconds.
Search users should no longer encounter the dreaded "search server is
overloaded" messages previously offered during peak traffic hours. The
SourceForge.net team expects to further expand the search facility in
the near future, and to increase the frequency of search updates
(currently twice-weekly) to better meet the needs of our hosted
projects. Your patience has been appreciated; we hope you enjoy your
search results... http://sourceforge.net/search/ Project of the Month:
MegaMek --------------------------------------------- The
SourceForge.net team loves games. Our favorites are online, net-based
games that offer the ability to battle friends and foes from all over
from world. SourceForge.net's June 2003 project of the month, MegaMek,
is a Java based networkable game for 2 or more players. It's a
strategic game that features brains over fast reflexes. The Software,
licensed under the GPL, has enjoyed a position in the top 25 SF.net
most active projects since it's founding in February 2002. With new
features being added daily, MegaMek is a project to keep an eye on.
http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-06.php Updated Project
Registration System ---------------------------------------------
SourceForge.net provides hosting for Open Source software development
projects. Each day, SourceForge.net evaluates more than 100 new
projects for hosting. Historically, there have been a number of
pitfalls in this process. In particular, ensuring that each new project
registration contains enough information to be properly considered by
the SourceForge.net team without the added delay of asking the
submitter for more information. Delays due to lack of information
previously impacted roughly 15% of our new project registrations,
causing these registrations to take more than our ideal two business
days to be processed fully. The project registration system on
SourceForge.net has recently been completely rewritten, integrating
fixes for all previously-reported issues (in the past couple of years)
and generally making the process more seamless for the submitter. Based
on information collected during the early stages of the project
registration process, the project registration system automatically
advises you as to what should be included in your project description,
and helps to bring potential pitfalls to your attention before the
registration request is submitted. Users of our past project
registration pages will note a larger amount of integrated
documentation, the ability to easily return to earlier stages in the
process without losing entered data, and the capability to review the
information you have provided (and make necessary changes) before
submitting it to the SourceForge.net team for consideration. We hope
these changes will help make the process of registering a project on
SourceForge.net easier to understand, and help us to further improve
the turnaround time on hosting requests. New RSS Feeds.
- This is information from
the last sitewide email, but we think it's worth repeating. A
convenient way to keep up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site,
project news, activity information, and new projects is now available.
SourceForge.net provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed
using an RSS reader or aggregator (some content management systems also
allow you include data from an RSS feed on your website, much as
Slashdot and Freshmeat do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using
these RSS feeds, you can keep up-to-date with the latest project news
and file releases, Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics
(such as top projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed
using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on
the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of
the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including
information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete
list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1
Stats and Top Projects. ---------------------------------------------
Number of Projects: 63,569 Number of Registered Users: 642,495 Daily
Stats for June 11th, 2003 SF.NET : 1,762,941 pages served SF.NET
project web space : 4,037,233 pages served Total Pages: 5,800,174 CVS
updates: 15,017 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 310,666
Outgoing Mailing list emails: 124712 Top 25 Projects: 1. GAIM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is a GTK2-based instant
messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules,
including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and
Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as
many unique feature. 2. phpMyAdmin
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a tool
written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the
WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter
tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys
on fields. 3. JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The
JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE
based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java 4. AWStats
http://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats/ Advanced Web Statistics
(AWStats) is a free powerful and featureful web server logfile analyzer
that shows you all your Web (but also FTP or Mail) statistics including
visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords,
robots, etc. 5. Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/
Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set.
6. guliverkli http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ Home of
VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 7. BZFlag
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/ OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer
Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag. 8. Tiki CMS/Groupware
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is a powerful
CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image
gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ,
chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on
or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) 9. ScummVM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform
interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like:
Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It
also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 10.
Freecraft http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecraft/ This is a free
cross-platform real-time strategy game engine. It is possible to play
over LAN, internet or against the computer and to build C&C, W*rCr*ft,
St*rCr*ft or AOE like RTS games with it. Currently only a W*rCr*ft 2
compatible theme is available. 11. XboxMediaPlayer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/ The XboxMediaPlayer for the
Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2,
MP3, JPG & other supported video/audio/picture formats via your TV so
it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports streaming media
over a network. 12. wxWindows
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/ wxWindows is a free C++
framework that facilitates cross platform software development,
including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc.
- POPFile http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients. 14. moregroupware http://sourceforge.net/projects/moregroupware/ Web-based groupware written in PHP4. Including modules like webmail, notes, todo, contacts, project management, calendar and others. 15. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 16. TUTOS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/ calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things. 17. filezilla http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. 18. Armagetron http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetron/ Armagetron is a simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron. The main focus lies on the multiplayer mode, which has already made Armagetron a popular warmup game on LAN parties. 19. ffdshow http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ ffdshow is DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX and XVID movies using libavcodec or xvid with rich set of video postprocessing filters. ffdshow can also be used as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders. 20. TV-Browser http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvbrowser/ TV-Browser is a java-based TV guide which is easily extensible using plugins. It is designed to look like a paper based tv guide. 21. Mobicq http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobicq/ Mobicq is a native ICQ client for mobile devices, such as celluar phones. It is written using Java 2 Micro Edition (MIDP 1.0) and uses ICQ protocol version 8. 22. Alvaro's Messenger http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn/ Alvaro\'s Messenger is a MSN messenger clone for linux/unix/windows/mac. It features multilanguage support, file transfers, new graphical interface, emoticons, multiple profiles support, dock icon, sound events, email notification, url processing... 23. MAMEoX http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameox/ MAMEoX is a port of the popular MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) system to the XBOX. The main goals of the project are to provide a well documented port with a consistent coding style. 24. WebCalendar http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar/ WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for a single user or an intranet group of users. 25. TortoiseCVS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/ TortoiseCVS is an extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer that makes using CVS fun and easy. Features include: colored icons, tight integration with SSH, and context-menu interactivity.
Slashdot
Science Faction
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1935229
[0]tqft sent in this article about [1]science fiction devices and
concepts making it to the real world.
Links
0. http://[moc.oohay] [ta] [ua_sworrubnai]
Screensaver Bug in Mac OS X
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/187203
[0]dave1212 writes "Still too early to tell, but there seems to be a
screen saver password [1]exploit in Mac OS X. It was discovered and
[2]postedon the Full Disclosure list earlier today. Theories, personal
tests, and rumours abound, with some success stories, and the
[3]possibility that it could affect all Cocoa programs. Speculation
points toward a 2048 character buffer, with people using the emacs
shortcuts Ctrl-K and Ctrl-Y to fill the text field in under half a
minute."
Links
0. mailto:webmaster@paulprobert. c o m
1.
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1330224&mode=thread
2.
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/010910.html
3.
http://macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=3493&cid=42899
VoIP Booming in Africa
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1737221
[0]securitas writes "The NY Times reports on the [1]rapid growth of
voice-over-IP telephony (VoIP) in sub-Saharan Africa and the battles it
is waging with the government monopolies/ILECs. VoIP upstarts are
taking market share from the government telcos, making it vastly more
affordable to make a phone call since they don't charge the usual
exorbitant tariffs and excessive user fees. Governments have responded
by shutting down these operations, seizing equipment and cutting off
service to lines they suspect of using Internet telephony. Part of the
boom is related to the wait times for getting a phone line (Ghana
Telecom has a backlog of 300,000 line requests), poor quality of
service (50% of time you get a busy signal instead of a dial-tone) plus
the willingness to trade voice quality for basic service. Foreign
companies are now setting up VoIP call centers and multinationals like
[2]gold giant Newmont Mining plan to use VoIP for communications in and
out of Africa. Some observers call Accra the next Bangalore, predicting
a boom for the region that may make sub-Saharan Africa a major
technology hub. This fits nicely with [3]Kofi Annan's drive to use the
Internet and [4]wireless networks to change the lives of the poor."
Links
0.
http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/05/business/worldbusiness/05VOIC.html?pagewanted=all
2.
http://www.newmont.com/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/0438236&tid=95
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/2151237&tid=193
Sports Technology?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1733251
An anonymous reader writes "With the 90th [0]Tour de France starting today, it is fun to marvel at the improvement of road bike technology over the years. Like others, I have traded up from heavy steel to aluminum, and now carbon fiber, ending up with a bike far better than its rider. How have advances in sports technology enhanced your own performance and enjoyment of sport?" Links
Linus Torvalds about SCO, IP, MS and Transmeta http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1728201
strmcrw writes "[0] San Jose Mercury News has an [1]interview with
Linus. He talks about about SCO vs IBM and gives his opinion on
Microsoft. He also shed light on his decision to leave chip maker
Transmeta for a Linux corporate software consortium, the Open Source
Development Lab."
Links
0. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews
OWASP's VulnXML Database
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1712226
Ingo Struck writes "The [0]Open Web Application Security Project released the [1]VulnXML db for early access to the public. VulnXML is a description of static known vulnerabilities. It provides all necessary information to let an execution engine automatically craft and launch appropriate HTTP, SOAP or WebDAV requests and analyse the response whether the attack had success. Besides it provides some human readable classification of the described vulnerability. A tool to execute VulnXML records is currently being developed and will help developers to check their web applications against a suite of well-known vulnerabilities described in a portable format." Links
Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/171223
[0]Mauro Tortonesi writes "The [1]Deep Space 6 initiative publishes the
first of the new IPv6 Status Pages: [2]Current Status of IPv6 Support
for Networking Applications. The IPv6 Status Pages are a survey of the
current status of IPv6 support for the Linux networking stack, system
libraries and networking applications. At the moment there is only one
page concerning the IPv6 support of Linux networking applications, but
we are planning to publish more pages soon and to extend our target to
other important UNIX-derived OSes (e.g. *BSD) too."
Links
0. mailto:mauro@deepspace6.net
1.
http://www.deepspace6.net/
2.
http://www.deepspace6.net/docs/ipv6_status_page_apps.html
Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1551237
MFS! writes "Mount Shasta, California has become the latest city where
the USA PATRIOT act is creating a controversy. [0]This story at the
Record-Searchlight describes petitioning by a local citizens' rights
committee to order police to defy the PATRIOT act. To date, 3 states
and 130 cities have passed legislation forbidding local authorities
from cooperating with federal PATRIOT requests, not to mention the
numerous [1]businesses who are taking pains to hamper the Act's
coverage."
Links
0. http://www.redding.com/top_stories/local/20030705toplo043.shtml
Can Open Source Save Hardware?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1441256
Culexus writes "[0]Tom's Hardware has a interesting story about [1]Open Source saving the hardware industry. Pretty good read all in all. Hopefully chip makers and vendors won't have to bend to the iron might of Microsoft any longer." Some good comments on how early-adopters and enthusiasts are being marginalized by the industry, too. Links
0. http://www.tomshardware.com/
Study: Wi-Fi users Still Don't Encrypt
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1344226
Shackleford writes "[0]SecurityFocus has an article saying that two days of electronic eavesdropping at the 802.11 Planet Expo in Boston last week [1]sniffed out more evidence that most Wi-Fi users still aren't securing their networks. Security vendor [2]AirDefense set up two of its commercial 'AirDefense Guard' sensors at opposite corners of the exhibit hall at the Boston World Trade Center, the site of the conference, and for two days analyzed the traffic flowing between conference-goers and 141 unencrypted access points set up by the conference for public use, and by vendors on the floor. What they found was that users checking their e-mail through unencrypted POP connections vastly outnumbered those using a VPN or another encrypted tunnel. Only three percent of e-mail downloads were encrypted on the first day of the conference, 12 percent on the second day." Links
0.
http://www.securityfocus.com/
1.
http://securityfocus.com/news/6290
2.
http://www.airdefense.net/
Freshmeat
2Pong 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128370/
2Pong is a pong clone that is played with two balls instead of one. The game features two modes of play - the regular pong game, and a time-based mode against an unbeatable AI opponent. Network support for 1-vs-1 games is planned.
4est's Weblog 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128368/
4est's Weblog has pseudo code, emoticons, a censored word list, and time zone offset support with an option for a multi-user interface. Security is provided through a password protected post screen. You can enable or disable commenting.
AnnotateIt! 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128354/
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.
Apt-Mirror 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128334/
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.
AWStats 5.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128347/
Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful Web server logfile analyzer (Perl script) that shows you all your Web statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, robots, broken links, and more. It works with both IIS 5.0+ and Apache Web server log files as a CGI and/or from the command line. It also supports multiple languages including English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and Greek.
C to JAVA converter 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128331/
The C to Java converter converts preprocessed C source code into Java. It works with C source code that is preprocessed, and does not contain any defines or includes files.
CinePaint 0.16-4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128325/
CinePaint is image retouching software with features similar to GIMP or Photoshop. However, two significant enhancements set CinePaint apart. It handles 16-bit per channel color (48-bit RGB) and has a sequence manager that facilitates moving through numbered images. That makes it very useful for manipulating scanned 35mm film. It was used in the production of Harry Potter, Scooby-Doo, Stuart Little, and other feature films. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry.
Crash Core Analysis Suite 3.4-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128330/
The Crash Core Analysis Suite utility is a self-contained tool, loosely based on the SVR4 crash command but completely merged with gdb, thereby combining the kernel-specific nature of crash with the source level debugging capabilities of gdb. The utility can be used to investigate live systems, kernel core dumps created from the Kernel Core Dump patch offered by Mission Critical Linux, and kernel core dumps created from the Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) patch offered by SGI.
Cxref 1.5e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128338/
Cxref is a program that will produce documentation (in LaTeX, HTML, RTF or SGML) including cross-references from C program source code. It works for ANSI C, including most gcc extensions. The documentation for the program is produced from comments in the code that are appropriately formatted. The cross referencing comes from the code itself and requires no extra work.
Dante 1.1.14-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128349/
Dante is a free implementation of the proxy protocols socks version 4, socks version 5 (rfc1928), and msproxy. It can be used as a firewall between networks. The package consists of two parts, a socks server and a proxy client which supports socks, msproxy, and HTTP proxies. Commercial support is available.
dcraw 4.87
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128300/
dcraw is an ANSI C program that decodes raw images from 66 different digital camera models. It can be used either as a command-line tool or as a GIMP plugin.
Debt Minder 1.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128316/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files
Eric3 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128332/
Eric3 is a Python IDE written using PyQt and QScintilla. It has integrated project management capabilities with class browsing functions, gives developers an unlimited number of editors with syntax highlighting and code folding, an integrated Python shell, an integrated Python debugger, a file system browser with class browsing capabilities for Python files, and more.
FreeMind 0.5 (Freemind Browser)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128323/
FreeMind is Mind-Mapping tool and an intuitive editor for tree-structured data. It features a modular design, and can be used to edit any kind of data, dependent on the current mode. The data is represented as a Mind-Map, while data, behavior, node style, edge style, color, etc. are determined by the mode. It features one-click fold, unfold, and "follow link" operations.
GPS Manager 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128358/
GPS Manager is a GUI for organizing GPS data such as waypoints, tracks, and routes. It is able to download data from many different GPS units, providing off-unit storage for as much data as your computer can hold and higher level organization and analysis tools than most GPS units provide.
gtkpod 0.52
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128350/
gtkpod is a platform-independent GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK 2. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, add/delete songs/playlists, edit ID3 tags, modify the iTunes database without having the iPod connected, and synchronize at a later time. It also features international charset support for ID3 tags, detects when adding already existing songs, and more.
IceWM Control center 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128367/
The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.
Jameleon 1_0-docs-HttpUnit-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128366/
Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into features and allows those features to be tied together independently, creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and executed against different environments. The goal is to create an automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that ties a series of features to a test-case, generating both the test script and the test-case documentation is in the works.
Jena 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128328/
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.
JFtp 1.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128341/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP using its own FTP API and various other protocols like SMB, SFTP, NFS, HTTP, and file I/O using third party APIs. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming and queueing, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin), but can also be started locally.
Linstall Wizard 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128364/
Linstall is a full featured Linux installation wizard for X11. It allows Linux developers to distribute their programs in a easy to install and use interface.
LinuXchangE 0.8.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128317/
LinuXchangE is a powerful integration system that offers corporate network services like email, DNS, WINS, PDC, and mass storage. It pretends to be a complete replacement for Windows servers by storing all its information using LDAP (like Active Directory does).
mailbox_reader 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128340/
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.
MumabAs 0.1.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128344/
MumabAs is a GUI for configuring which mailboxes mutt should watch for new mail.
Newts 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128320/
Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and additional clients.
Note Editor 2.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128348/
Note Editor is an editor for music notation that supports an unlimited number of staffs and up to 9 voices per staff. The import formats are MIDI files, recorded from MIDI keyboards and TSE3. The export formats are MIDI, MusiXTeX, LilyPond, PMX, MUP, and TSE3.
Nova Gaming System 0.571 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128319/
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.
Parsifal XML Parser 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128355/
Parsifal XML Parser is a minimal, non- validating XML parser written in ANSI C. It implements a subset of SAX2 with full XML name space support.
PfaEdit 030704
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128321/
PfaEdit is a PostScript font editor that lets you create your own PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, cid-keyed and Bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones. It also lets you convert one format to another.
PyIrc 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128346/
PyIrc is a Python module which tends to implement RFC 1459 and RFC 2812, also known as the IRC protocol. It is written to be as flexible and reusable as possible. It is a pure Python module, which means that it should run everywhere Python runs.
PyKota Print Quota System 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128345/
PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) and LPRng. It features per-printer user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP backends, and much more.
PyQt 3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128363/
PyQt is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit.
Python-SIP 3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128362/
SIP is a tool to generate C++ interface code for Python. It is similar to SWIG, but uses a different interface format. It was used to build PyQt and PyKDE, and has support for the Qt signal/slot mechanism.
Ravelution 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128326/
Ravelution is a theme with floating titles.
Sesame 1.1 (Remote Configuration Tool)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128327/
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.
Show 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128343/
Show is a fast, flexible, extensible, and bloat-free image viewer for X11 that can fade images in, display them, and fade them out according to user-specified values of fade speed, fade type, and delay. It features an extremely small executable footprint (about 36KB), support for well over a dozen image formats, variable scaling, magnification, window positioning, clockwise and counterclockwise image rotation, X/Y axis flipping, over 200 different color transition modes, wildcard support, and logging abilities. It can also be easilly incorporated into multimedia presentations, shell scripts, and other utilities.
simplemon 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128342/
simplemon is a Perl script for monitoring processes (and their UID/GID) and free disk space. It generates carefully formatted mail, which is suitable for sending via SMS. It currently supports Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux.
Siproxd 0.3.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128361/
Siproxd is a SIP proxy for SIP based softphones hidden behind an IP masquerading firewall. It includes an RTP data stream proxy for incoming audio data (outgoing RTP data should be handled by IP masquerading by the firewall). Multiple local users/hosts can be simultaneously masqueraded. All configuration is done via one simple ASCII text file.
slashem 0.0.7E2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128365/
Slash'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack -- Extended Magic) is a variant of the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack. It adds more monsters, more objects, more dungeon levels, more roles, and more races, shopkeeper services, and techniques for you to use, and invisible objects and gypsies for those who feel lucky. It also comes with a GTK windowing interface and higher resolution tile sets as options.
sql++ 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128324/
sql++ is an easily configurable, feature-rich, portable command-line SQL tool. It can be used with many different databases and in place of other commandline tools such as MySQL's mysql-client, PostgreSQL's psql, and Oracle's sqlplus. It has features such as multiple connections, multi-database interfacing, subselects for all databases, regardless of whether the database has native subselects or not, and much more.
SQLObject 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128318/
SQLObject is an object-relational mapper that acts as a database and SQL wrapper for Python 2.2 and MySQL or PostgreSQL. It allows you to translate RDBMS table rows into Python objects, and manipulate those objects to transparently manipulate the database.
Sword 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128356/
Sword is a general-purpose C++ library which gives you high-quality classes for some very common tasks such as "logging", "time/date", "commandline parsing", etc.
The HT Editor 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128351/
HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables. The goal is to combine the low-level functionality of a debugger and the usability of IDEs.
ThePacketMaster Linux Security Server 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128314/
ThePacketMaster Linux Security Server is a CD- based security auditing tool that boots and runs penetration testing and forensic analysis tools. It is handy for security auditors.
Tundra IRC 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128371/
Tundra IRC is an IRC client written entirely in Java, to ensure compatibility with any platform. It features a clean, tabbed interface, and supports multiple servers and channels. The primary reason it was written was to provide a suitable IRC client for Mac OS X.
Tunez 1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128336/
Tunez is an MP3/Ogg jukebox that works with a voting system. You can vote for your favorite tracks via the Web interface, and the Tunez daemon will take care of the rest. Tunez features a 'smart' songs database update system, a top 10 list of most played songs, support for multiple users, and support for streaming via Icecast v1 (with shout) or Icecast v2 (with ices-0.2.3).
WindowLab 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128352/
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It is click-to-focus, shares its window depth policy with the Amiga, and has a window resizing/reshaping method similar to that of 8-1/2 from Plan 9. It maintains the illusion of direct manipulation by constraining the mouse pointer when appropriate (i.e., when a window cannot be dragged any further in one direction). The pointer is also constrained vertically (effectively making the target menu items infinitely tall according to Fitts's law) when it is in the menubar to reduce pointing time.
Slashcode
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1816237
All things come to an end and its been a wonderful ride. Today is my last day at OSDN and this will be the last thing I will be posting on Slashcode. It has been fun working on Slash for the last few years and I have enjoyed working with the Slash community (tf32, ACS, vladinator, ericdano, and many more that I am forgetting). On Monday I start work for MySQL so I will be a bit busy for a while but I expect you will still see Slash stuff coming from me in the future. I will continue to be in #slash for a while, and you can still always reach me via email. The best of luck with you and your sites, it has been great!
Spottedrabbit.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1756251
After much kicking and screaming, yet another Slash Site! The Spotted Rabbit with news and events for Sussex County NJ, and Orange County, NY. It still looks a lot like basic slash, but I'm new to this, and we're working on it! --Ken Hall
Multiple Instances
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1543202
Please indulge a beginner. I currently have slashcode setup on a single domain with its own IP address (wwwntm.biz) for testing purposes. Here is my dilemma. I am setting up a community similar to yahoo/geocities. It will be www.newthoughtcommunity.net and the individual communities will be sub-domains of this domain ex; community1.newthoughtcommunity.net, community2.newthoughtcommunity.net etc Residents of the communities will be set up as users ex;
http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user1,
http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user2 etc. Directory is:
/home /newthoughtcommunity /community1 /community2 I know that slash
can be setup with virtual domains, but can sub domains have there own
instance. I need each community to have their own slash. Also. When I
set up a new instance of slash for a virtual domain, do I use the same
database and administrator with a new virtual user when I run
DBI::Password? Thank you for any help you can offer John --John Macuga
section as subdomain (2.2.5 based install) http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1444236
Hello, I have a slashcode version 2.2.5(*) based site under my command, for which an extension is planned, that would fit well in an isolated (isolate=1) section with a few modified templates put in the section-page (like header;etc;default). I managed to configure a second virtual host that uses the same SlashVitualUser directive as the main-server with the sectionname as subdomain (etc.myslash.company), overriding the rootdir-variable using SlashSetVar and enforcing the section using SlashSetForm: SlashSetVar rootdir //etc.myslash.company SlashSetForm section etc Everything works fine so far... I just wondered if it is safe to use the same slash-site (db and all) within two virtual-hosts. And I wondered the more if there isn't an easier way to accomplish this. As far as I understood mod_perl there shouldn't be any problem, but asking the masters seldom hurts but the professional pride... * I did fix the released security-holes!. tia,kind regards tomte
Barrapunto.com see the light with 2.2.6
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/150251
It has been hard, but after playing a little with all the configuration, we have reached a good balance in Barrapunto.com and now our users are very happy, the journals start to be filled with contents and the editors now are more active. We feel that the key was to serve the images from a differente machine, something that points to saturation in the connections for our main machine. Now the performance is very good with 70.000 pages/day and a PIII with 1 GB RAM with Slash and MySQL and a simple PC serving the images.
Translation Guide?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/198224
Is there any guide on how to translate slashcode (interface, at least the one seen by the users) to some other language? Is the slashcode written so that can be easily translated to some other languages (UTF-8 not required) ? Thanks!
Yet Another Security Site
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/174230
YASS should probably stand for "Yet another Security Site" LOL. I've been playing around with slash for about a week now, and finally have the beginnings of a site running. Feel free to pop in, drop some comments, break stuff and generally see what goes. The more participation I see, the more work I'll put into making it a nice site. A good name might help... now there's an idea for a poll.
Democracy Now!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/22/176211
Democracy Now! a U.S. based morning TV and radio news program launched it new site, based on a he