[osdn developer] July 20, 2003

Cube Goodies: Futurama Tin Signs
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/60e2/

Gadgets: FM Radio Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60bf/

Gadgets: USB Memory Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60a3/

Interests: Ph34r t3h Cute Ones Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6193/

Interests: Broken Miho Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6188/

Caffeine: Shock Triple Mocha
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6122/

Caffeine: Brute Force Energy Drink
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6184/

Caffeine: Chargers Caffeinated Espresso Beans http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f75/

PC Mods: ThermalTake SubZero CPU Coolers http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cooling/603e/

Computing: Archos AV120 w/ DVR Attachment http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fe2/

Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fd7/

Cube Goodies: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 bumper sticker http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5fa6/

Cube Goodies: hacker. bumper sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5f9e/

Sourceforge
Tkfp Windows 14 July 2003
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293277

Tk_familypractice is a clinical Medical Records system, written mostly in Tcl/Tk. Some C, C++, PYTHON, PERL. For Family Physicians, Pediatricians, Internists or Primary Care. Used in a 4 doctor group for 5 years. Network enabled. Tk GUI and web browser based interfaces. HCFA1500 claim form. Another new Windows version. Using the file notebook_start2.tcl, you can run all the windows now inside a tabbed notebook. The look and feel is now exactly the same as the Linux version.

pmd-jbuilder-1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293271

Can't find what you're looking for?

PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. This release supports PMD 1.1.

QmailAdmin 1.0.24 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293583

QmailAdmin is a web interface for managing email addresses in virtual domains created by Vpopmail. This release includes more cleanup as we get closer to a stable release. Functional changes: works with non-idx version of ezmlm again, updated Japanese translation.

wlandscape 1.0 build 0461 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293588

wlandscape 1.0 build 0461 is out with quite a few important bugs fixed and a lot of improvements added. Build 0461 introduces many new features. We have added the support of MapBlast again and integrated an offline browsing tool. From the developers point of view it is believed to be fairly stable. Wlandscape is a tool for collecting and visualizing access point data of public wireless networks in order to share it with anyone. The collected data is shown in really good maps and of course all for free. Wlandscape is free because it is released under the GNU General Public License.

phpWebSite 0.9.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293742

Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. All client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. phpWebSite version 0.9.3 addresses stability problems from 0.9.2. There have also been many updates to resolve usability issues. Included with this release is a docbook user manual for end-users and a skeleton module for developers. Enjoy! The phpWebSite Development Team

Slashdot
Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0152245

ksheff writes "According to this story, IBM is planning on introducing low-end [0]SMP servers and deskside machines based on the PPC970. The machines would be able to run Linux and AIX. A 4-way machine is expected to cost less than $3500! IBM expects a 20x increase in the number of PPC Linux servers by 2006." Links

0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1197450,00.asp

How To Make Dual Booting A (Bigger) Pain http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0148207

[0]the_phenom writes "Thinking of dual-booting your Windoze XP 17"
Toshiba P25 laptop? Think again - this one '[1]uses a DVD with an already setup version of Windows XP Home and then transfers it to the notebook's hard drive,' preventing the normal setup procedure and thus, dual-booting." This reminds me of the unfriendly practice on some PC builders' parts of including an OS "backup" only on a hard-drive partition.
Links

0. http://<moc.oohay> <ta> <dren_evad>

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=10552

A Detailed Review Of A 3G Phone And Network http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0035236

An anonymous reader writes "The [0]NEC e606 and 3's recently launched 3G network has been reviewed at [1]Mobileburn. They seem to be happy with the network, but the phone is buggy and unfinished. One cool thing is that you can download sample videos to see what 3G is really like." Links

0. http://mobile.burn.com/review.jsp?Id=353

http://mobile.burn.com/

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Overture To A Patent War?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0018245

Shackleford writes "CNET has an article discussing [0]Yahoo's proposed $1.63 billion buyout of commercial search specialist Overture Services on Monday. Yahoo would acquire 60-plus patents related to technology and processes for indexing the Web, as well as for pay-per-click and bidding systems to grant sites higher placement in search results. The search market is expected to be reap $4 billion in revenue by 2005, according to researchers. As the industry matures, the competition for a piece of that large pie could lead companies to bulk up their IP legal teams, much like in other industries such as online advertising sales during the dot-com bust. And Overture sued FindWhat.com in February 2002 after FindWhat filed a summary judgment request in a New York federal court in an attempt to fend off any potential infringement charge from Overture. Two months later Overture filed a second lawsuit, charging Google with patent infringement in its pay-for-performance ad system. So is this the way the search engine competition will be won? Through patents and lawsuits?"
Links

0. http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-1027084.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed

California Microsoft Settlement
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/2311231

[0]Lord Prox writes "From news.com.com: A California judge on Friday
gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which
[1]Microsoft will pay $1.1 billion to settle a class-action suit that
claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows. More Townsend and Townsend and Crew is [2]info from the law firm here. Also note... you get vouchers in settlement good for buying computer related items, not just Microsoft products and/or can be traded and converted to cash!" Links

    0. mailto:lordprox@western-alliance.net
    1. 
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1027598.html?tag=fd_top
    2. 
http://www.townsend.com/media/microsoft.html

Sony Switches To Its Own Processor For Handhelds http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/216235

Pointing to this [0]Associated Press story carried by the Miami Herald,
[1]Jorkapp writes "Sony has announced that they will be using
Processors manufactured by themselves in their next generation of CLIE handhelds, which are due to ship this Semptember. This is only the first step though, as Sony is planning to use its own line of processors for the next generation of Playstation systems. This new processor will give users 16 hours of battery life (impressive!) and the ability to play video at a smooth 30fps." And [2]jake writes with a link to a story at mobilemag.com which also describes the new handhelds (the UX50 was [3]mentioned the other day), and says "both the CLIE UX50 and UX40 handhelds will be available through American retailers [4]in September for about $700 and $600, respectively, but can be pre-ordered now through Sony's website."
Links

    0. 
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/6334589.htm
    1. mailto:jorkapp2@netzero.net
    2. mailto:jake_313@hotmail.com
    3. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/182209&tid=100
    4. 
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/333/C1843/

Prior Art to Pinpoint vs. Amazon, from 1980's? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1841238

Confused? Frustrated?

[0]Gary Robinson writes "I'm in a fairly unique position with regard to
the [1]Pinpoint vs. Amazon case since I built a system in the mid-1980's which is commonly regarded as the first active service based on collaborative filtering. It was a voice-mail-based dating service called 212-ROMANCE. I still have the 8-inch CP/M source code disks as insurance against CF-related patent lawsuits. Today I've posted a
[2]discussion of the Pinpoint vs. Amazon case in the context of that
prior art as well other prior art from the 1980's." Links

    0. 
http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/
    1. 
http://news.com.com/2100-1019-1027343.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
    2. 
http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/stories/2003/07/19/aDiscussionOfThePinpointVs.html

Red Hat To Drop Boxed Retail Distribution http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1756215

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat, the leading American distributor of Linux, is abandoning the retail channel, the company is expected to announce Monday, says [0]this story in Linux and Main. Non-Red Hat developers will be given a greater role in deciding what's in upcoming Red Hat distributions, too."
Links

0. http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364

RMS Calls On Linux Developers To Replace BitKeeper http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1728240

JakusMinimus writes "The developer of BitKeeper has [0]issued fighting words to RMS and he has responded on the LKML,. I remember the flap about this way back when Linus decided on BitKeeper, now it seems many of the non-free concerns were warranted." Links

0. http://lkml.org/archive/2003/7/18/260/index.html

dSVG - A New Kind of Programming?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/2229256

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[0]Gord Bowman writes "For anyone familiar with XML and, specifically,
with [1]SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), you may be aware that SVG is increasingly being used for the creation of data-driven Web applications. But everyone has been doing so by handcoding script and/or [2]XSLT, without the benefit of an IDE to help. Seeing such a need for a tool, my company (Corel) set about creating one." and 'lo, dSVG was born. Gord Bowman is the lead developer of dSVG and would like you to take a look at the dSVG specs (you can find the link, in the full article) and offer your comments. Links

    0. 
http://www.corel.com/smartgraphics
    1. 
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
    2. 
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/

Freshmeat
acarsdclient 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129742/

acarsdclient is an X client for the acarsd server. It can simultaneously connect with up to 8 acarsd servers. You'll see live ACARS data from all over the world, and for every contact you'll see a thumbnail (if available on the server). You can see the aircrafts on a map, and you can create your own map if you want.

AIOCP 1.0.017
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129799/

AIOCP (All In One Control Panel) is a professional platform-independent all-in-one solution to completely manage a Website through a user-friendly Web interface. It includes by default all needed modules for Website management and a long list of extra modules, including a CMS, WYSIWYG editor, languages, users, menus, languages, forums, news, newsletter, links, downloads, reviews, awards, chat, polls, calendar, banners, search engine, e-commerce, e-business, statistics, online help, system tools, shell, backup, MIME, whois, ping, traceroute, MySQL database management, transcoding, custom modules, code libraries, images, and sounds. Each module is perfectly integrated into the system and has adequate management and control tools.

Ajaqs 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129832/

Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information related to products and services.

Babeldoc 1.1.3-dev
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129825/

Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications. It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.

borZoi 0.8 (Java)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129858/

borZoi is an elliptic curve cryptography library for developers who want a simple means of adding privacy protection to their applications. Ease of use and a minimum risk of security problems due to incorrect use are its strong points.

bScribbles 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129843/

B-Scribbles strives to improve any PHP Web page. The transparent integration is painless to configure and install. Once in place, any visitor will be able to 'scribble' (post) to a board using a simple, non-obtrusive interface. It is designed to be extremely fast & scalable.

CacheMate 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129847/

CacheMate is a database for tracking GPS cache hunts. You can store information about caches or benchmarks, decode hints, and transfer data between CacheMate and the MemoPad application. Registered users can also import EasyGPS LOC and GPX files, available from Geocaching.com.

CBQ.Init GUI 0.05b rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129813/

CBQ.Init GUI is a frontend to the CBQ.INIT script. It allows users to easily limit their bandwidth at the IP/port level.

Commandline Histogramming 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129833/

Commandline Histogramming provides commandline utilities to create histograms and calculate the moments of a distribution. They are easy-to-use and functional.

cpptools 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129820/

Cpptools is a set of C/C++ development tools. This package contains a C++ scanning class coded both in C++ and Python. CppFSMDoc.py is the Finite State Machine diagrammer which uses @FSM comment tags inside sourcefiles. CppClassHierarchy.py parses C/C++ sourcefiles and generates a graphical dependency tree using Graphviz, and CppColorize.py scans sourcefiles and generates a highlighted HTML version.

CWirc 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129838/

CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the soundcard.

dnspython 1.1.0b1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129802/

Can't find what you're looking for?

dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports almost all of the record types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0. dnspython provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records.

dSVG markup test suite 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129849/

dSVG is an XML markup language, implemented with a script (so as to work in any SVG viewer), which describes UI controls and behaviours to facilitate the creation of SVG-based Web applications.

EarlyBlue 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129808/

EarlyBlue reflects the early days of Mozilla (M4 to M8) and tries to restore the blue-styled look of like those early milestones in current builds without cutting any functionality.

epd2svg 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129842/

epd2svg is a program to convert from the EPD vector graphics format to SVG. File Service Protocol 2.8.1 beta 9 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129829/

FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years).

GCompris 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129857/

GCompris is a complete educational suite for children 2 to 10 years old. It includes more than 40 activities. It offers activities dedicated to little kids like learning the mouse and keybord. It teaches letters, numbers, words, basic algebra training, reading time on an analog clock, vector drawing, and much more.

Greenwich 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129826/

Greenwich is a graphical whois client for GNOME. It is written in Perl and makes use of the GNOME bindings for Perl.

High Level Assembly Language 1.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129856/

The High Level Assembly Language (HLA) was designed to allow advanced assembly language programmers to write more readable and powerful assembly language code. It makes it possible to write code by leveraging knowledge of high level languages like C, C++, Pascal, and Delphi. HLA compiles into 80x86 assembly language, which is assembled by MASM, TASM, or Gas.

Issue Handler 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129837/

The Issue Handler is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.

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jack 2.99.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129853/

Jack is a console based cd-ripper. It supports cdparanoia and cdda2wav (amongst others) for extraction and various MP3 and OGG/Vorbis encoders; you can even rip from a cdrdao-generated CD image. Emphasis is on failure-safeness and ease of use. Jack can encode multiple tracks at once, good on SMP systems. It can resume its work if interrupted and keeps an eye on available HD space. Freedb query is also supported, any time you like, even after encoding. Jack can try to query freedb for MP3s of which you do not know the CD anymore, provided you have a complete rip and know the track sequence.

Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.74
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129852/

JACK is a low-latency audio server. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (i.e., as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (as a "plugin"). JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work. This means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation.

Krusader 1.21-beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129831/

Krusader is an "old-school" file manager. Its twin-panel look follows in the footsteps of the great file managers of old such as GNU's Midnight Commander© and the Norton Commander© for DOS. Krusader features an intuitive GUI, complete drag n' drop capability, transparent handling of archives, mimetype support, and more.

LCARStrek 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129810/

LCARStrek is a Star Trek skin, using the LCARS interface from the Federation Star Ships (heavily used in The Next Generation and Voyager series). It has rounded borders and hover (mouse-over) effects, be aware that it may look and feel quite unusual or strange, but keep in mind that this is an interface design which was not originally designed for the 21st but the 24th century.

Confused? Frustrated?

libmspack 20030718
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129850/

libmspack is a library for compression and decompression of the Microsoft CAB, CHM, HLP, LIT, SZDD, and KWAJ file formats.

LibTomMath 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129855/

LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography).

LineControl Server 2.1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129807/

LineControl allows you to remotely control the Internet connection of a Linux masquerading server using multiple clients. It takes care with the number of clients using the connection and decides upon this number whether the connection should be up or down. The clients show the time the connection is up and throughput statistics. Different connection types are supported, such as analog modems, ISDN, or even cable modems and ADSL devices.

Linux 2.4.22-pre7 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129803/

Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.

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List of Mailing Lists Manager 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129731/

List of Mailing Lists Manager (LMLM) enables you to generate a site with detailed information about mailing lists of various kinds, including subscription, unsubscription, posting, archive, guidelines, description, and owner information. It supports Ezmlm, Listserv, Mailman, Majordomo, and Yahoo! Groups; other types can be added manually.

lm_sensors 2.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129841/

lm_sensors provides essential drivers for monitoring the temperatures, voltages, and fans of Linux systems containing devices such as the LM78 and LM75. It contains drivers for sensor chips and I2C and SMBus masters. It also contains text-based tools for sensor reporting, and a library for sensors access called 'libsensors'. It also contains tools for sensor hardware identification and I2C bus probing.

Mibble 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129818/

Mibble is an SNMP (Simple Network Managment Protocol) MIB (Manageable Information Base) parser library for Java. The library can be used to read SNMP MIB files as well as simple ASN.1 files. The library also contains classes for simple handling of the information contained in the MIB file, such as OID:s and types.

Mimir 2.0-alpha-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129827/

Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.

Mimir 2.0-alpha2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129815/

Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.

Native SVG from Mozilla Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129846/

SVG is similar in scope to Macromedia's proprietary Flash technology: among other things it offers anti-aliased rendering, pattern and gradient fills, sophisticated filter-effects, clipping to arbitrary paths, text, and animations. What distinguishes SVG from Flash is that it is a W3 recommendation (i.e., a standard for all intents and purposes) and that it is XML-based as opposed to a closed binary format. It is explicitly designed to work with other W3C standards such as CSS, DOM, and SMIL. The Mozilla SVG implementation is a native SVG implementation; it can handle documents that contain SVG, MathML, XHTML, XUL, etc. all mixed together in the same 'compound' document.

neo2squirrel.pl 1.002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129812/

neo2squirrel is a Perl script to convert Neomail addressbook and preferences to SquirrelMail. This is a "run once" script, to help you convert many users on your server from Neomail to SquirrelMail.

NetGrave 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129834/

NetGrave allows NetHack users to share their bones files and high scores over the Internet. The uploads must be GPG-signed, and the server will only accept a file if it is signed by a key it has in its keyring. There is a Web interface that can be used to check/update the stats or download/upload the bones manually. One of its goals is to provide an alternative to hearse, another Nethack bones files server. The client and the server are included.

OfysUtils 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129814/

OfysUtils is a collection of tools to monitor and manage a Sicon Ofys UPS connected to the computer through a serial cable.

PHP SETI@home web monitor 0.1.0b6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129805/

The PHP SETI@home web monitor is a very simple PHP script to monitor a single SETI@Home program running on a workstation or server via the local Web server. It displays general information of the user, the current work unit and the processing statistics. It also displays a skymap to show the source of the current data.

polyxmass 0.5.1 (polyxmassdata)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129793/

polyxmass is a mass spectrometry framework where users are able to define brand new polymer chemistries (with the polyxdef module), and use these definitions in order to make simple mass calculations (with the polyxcalc module) or perform complex simulations of polymer chemistry with related mass data computations (with the polyxedit module). The framework allows full customization of every aspect of the polymer chemistry being defined, and of the way the polymer sequences are graphically displayed. This program was formerly called "polyXmass".

pppusage 0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129844/

pppusage summarizes PPP transfer volumes, number of connections, and (on BSD systems) online time. The data is collected by reading the syslog files which contain the ppp[d] messages. A database file is used to store the relevant data. Certain time ranges (that is: a year, month, or day) may be specified on the commandline.

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QuickDownloader 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129804/

QuickDownloader is a download manager that accelerates downloads by between 200 and 300%. It provides a resume capability for resuming broken downloads. It supports both HTTP and FTP downloads.

rss2html 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129801/

rss2html will take RSS RDF files that any number of weblogs and other dynamic pages output and will turn them into HTML files. It is best suited for RSS versions pre-1.0.

SERanks 1-3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129836/

SERanks is a Java application that obtains the rankings of search expressions from search engines. It allows you to specify the search engines that are of relevance to you, offers lots of options for configuring the output and for governing the ranking process, and allows you to export the results to spreadsheet applications.

ShoutCastProxy 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129816/

ShoutCastProxy is a system for saving bandwidth when multiple users in different rooms are listening to the same ShoutCast audio stream. ShoutCastProxy runs on a central server, and connects to whatever ShoutCast server that a client requests. If multiple clients request the same stream, the stream will be downloaded from the original source only once, but will still be sent to all the clients. Multiple proxies can be chained together.

Software Suspend 1.0.3 (2.4 Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129797/

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.

SolarStats 1.0RC
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129848/

SolarStats is an advanced IRC statistics (StatServ) program for IRC networks. It offers features not available in other StatServ packages such as SQL output, SSL linking, multi-lingual support, and much more. It currently only functions with UnrealIRCd networks, but support for other IRCd software is planned.

The Nice programming language 0.9.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129779/

Nice is a new object-oriented programming language based on Java. It incorporates features from functional programming, and puts into practice state-of-the-art results from academic research. Among the advanced features: parametric types, anonymous functions, multi-methods, tuples, optional parameters to methods, design by contract, detection of many errors during compilation (in particular, concerning casts and null references). This results in more expressivity, modularity, and type safety.

Tiki 1.7 RC2 (Release candidates)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129824/

Tiki is a powerful content management system that features articles, forums, newsletters, blogs, a file/image gallery, a Wiki, drawing, a tracker, a directory, poll/surveys and quizzes, a FAQ, chat, a banner, Webmail, a calendar, and ACLs, etc.

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TuxSaver 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129806/

TuxSaver is a 3D OpenGL screensaver for KDE. It shows Tux on an iceberg on the South Pole. It is possible to develop your own stories and 3D objects and add them to TuxSaver.

VDRadmin 0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129622/

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

webcalng 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129822/

webcalng is a Web-based calendaring application for your Intranet or Internet site. You can use webcalng to publish calendars of events, manage group scheduling for your company, or just keep track of important dates in your personal life.

WeWiMo 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129817/

WeWiMo (Web WiFi Monitor) is a script for monitoring computers connected to access point running Linux and hostap WiFi card driver (ZCom XI-626).

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When 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129828/

When is an extremely simple personal calendar program, aimed at the Unix geek who wants something minimalistic. It can keep track of things you need to do on particular dates. It's a very short and simple program, so you can easily tinker with it yourself. It doesn't depend on any libraries, so it's easy to install. You should be able to install it on any system where Perl is available, even if you don't have privileges for installing libraries. Its file format is a simple text file, which you can edit in your favorite editor.

wmfuzzy 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129800/

wmfuzzy is a Window Maker dockapp clock that gives the time a textual approximation (instead of "21:17", the time is displayed as "Quarter Past Nine").

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

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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 heavily modified cvs version of slash. (Hacked together and hosted by openflows.) As they become more comfortable with the system, and people on staff there get the hang of how slash works, we hope to add in the more community/interactive features of slash. For now it is simply a content management system, in the future it will become much more. In just the first few days the traffic and audience response has been overwhelming. stats from the second day the site was live: IPIDs Pages 11193 55190

Advice on setting up a new site
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1512203

I am trying to use Slash to set up an events-based discussion forum. Ideally I'd like it to be hosted by a turn-key hosting company with fairly punctual customer support. My internet connections are either behind a firewall or 56k modem, so speedy shell access is out of the question. Ideally the host would be friendly towards freedom of information and healthily disrespectful of authority (the site will NOT contain anything illegal, links or insight to anything illegal, but will be acting against the policy of a well-funded British institution whose ground-floor members support and are behind it). I would rather the host didn't drop me just because 'someone' asked them to. Who would you recommend for this? I'd like to modify Slash slightly by arranging it around the date of the event, rather than the posting date. Would it be as simple as an extra data entry and changing a couple of lines of code, or would that go against everything Slash is designed to do? Thanks for your help.

Request for BLOB/Image Modifications
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2227225

I'm really happy with how the BLOB support in slash is working. I can now add images and files, and I move the select level up so registered users can only access files. It's great. I'd like to see how hard it would be to have Krow or someone add in placement tags for images. So you can "ALIGN=LEFT" or Right images and the like. Thanks!

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