[osdn developer] August 04, 2003

PC Mods: Meteor Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/lighting/6208/

Cube Goodies: Levitating Desktop Globes
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61da/

Tshirts: No, I will not fix your computer http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/388b/

Interests: ph34r t3h Cute Ones T-Shirt
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/leetware/6155/

Tshirts: anti-RIAA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/61e7/

Tshirts: Safe Hex
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/61be/

Computing: USB Sharing Hub
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5f2a/

Computing: Logitech Cordless MX Keyboard & Mouse http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/61af/

PC Mods: Lian-Li Side Panel Aquarium Kit http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/

Cube Goodies: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/

Gadgets: Ambient Orb Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5da2/

Cube Goodies: Desktop Retro Wind-ups
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6028/

Cube Goodies: The Red Swingline Stapler
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61b7/

Sourceforge
POPSurgeon v1.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=298173

POPSurgeon goal is to use an ISP server as backup for emails (or to remove sensitive email from said server). It achieves this goal by allowing one to remove unwanted email from the server. The third release of POPSurgeon is now available. This release allows the inspection of message by looking at the header, the body or both. POPSurgeon is a program to perform discrete deletion on a POP3 server.

Posadis 0.60.0 is out
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=298148

Can't find what you're looking for?

Finally, after nine months of hard work, Posadis 0.60.0 is ready! Posadis 0.60.0, which is a complete re-write of Posadis, now supports caching and resolving, it has a plug-in system, and it can monitor your files for activity. Also, I hope the 100% CPU usage problems of Posadis 0.50.x now finally belong to the past. Also, the website has been completely revamped, so go to http://www.posadis.org/ quickly and get your Posadis 0.60.x build while it's hot!

Open POSIX Test Suite version 1.2.0 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=298163

POSIX Test Suite 1.2.0 is a significant release because of its complete threads core conformance tests, timers core conformance tests, complete signals, message queues, and semaphores conformance tests! Also there are added important POSIX functions such as the ones associated with sys/mman.h (thanks to Jerome M.). Bug fixes from previous release as well.

OSDL Database Test 2 Support for PostgreSQL http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=298151

Database Test 2 (DBT-2) v0.8 now includes C stored functions for PostgresSQL. The OSDL Database Test Suite aims to create database workload test kits used to simulate heavy user loads for OLTP, Decision Support, and e-commerce database transactions. These test kits can also be used to gather performance results for Linux.

jfox release 1.0 DR version
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=298168

jfox 1.0 Development Release with a fast scaleable ejb container and a lot of excited features, but DR version is not the final version, only a preview for java developers interested in jfox, the final version is in developing... please download the package and look the docs for more infomation. The JFox is an Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java, It comes from China.

Slashdot
X-Prize Overview: To The Edge Of Space, Cheap http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/028203

_randy_64 writes "The [0]X-Prize competition has gotten a lot of coverage on Slashdot - either because it's cool and geeky or because
[1]John Carmack is involved. The Baltimore Sun has a decent
[2]background/overview article on the contest in Sunday's edition."
Links

    0. 
http://www.xprize.org/
    1. 
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
    2. 
http://www.sunspot.net/news/health/bal-te.xprize03aug03,0,6305320.story?coll=bal-health-headlines

Sluggish WiFi Connections Hurt Everyone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/2259232

[0]MindNumbingOblivion writes "Wireless technology has revolutionized
access to local area networks when one can't always be close to an ethernet jack. But a recent research paper from the French Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique tells how one slow user accessing a hot point can hurt the whole group. Apparently the very nature of CSMA/CD guarantees such anomalies. [1]Here's the story, and here's the [2]release from CNRS (in French)." Links

    0. mailto:anderld@auburn.edu
    1. 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1293&e=5&u=/cmp/20030802/tc_cmp/12807964&sid=95573432
    2. 
http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/237.htm?theme=3

How To 'Sell' Open Source Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/210219

An anonymous reader writes "Have we missed the boat in terms of selling Linux to the average Joe? The writer of [0]this article at NewsForge certainly thinks so. He points out that most people don't yet get the idea of a free operating system, and that the best way to start winning them over is to provide free software for Windows, such as OpenOffice.org." This sentiment isn't new, but unlike a lot of commentators, the writer in this case is in a good place (as a retailer who's tried selling Linux-equipped systems) to observe the man-on-the-street reaction to Free operating systems as of 2003. Links

0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/08/02/2144241.shtml?tid=19

MPAA Opens Anti-filesharing Website
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/2044236

[0]PontifexPrimus writes "The MPAA's new advertising campaign against
movie piracy has a [1]home on the internet. Did you know that 'Network users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social security number, etc.'? [2] Learn about the dangers of filesharing!" Links

    0. mailto:Pontifexprimus@hotmail.com
    1. 
http://www.respectcopyrights.org/
    2. 
http://www.respectcopyrights.org/popup/why-3.html

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Florida Citizens' Anti-trust Payout Dwarfed By Lawyers' http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/2131256

According to Robin "Roblimo" Miller's article on NewsForge, Florida residents are receiving word by electronic and postal mail about the
[0]likely outcome of that state's class action suit against Microsoft
(last [1]mentioned on Slashdot last September): the upshot is that Florida residents who purchased a Microsoft operating system or Microsoft Office would be eligible for a settlement payment (in vouchers) of $5-12; the lawyers involved are seeking $48 million in fees. The settlement terms have several interesting clauses; for instance, by accepting, you would be agreeing to "settle and release all claims, demands, actions, suits, and causes of action against Microsoft and/or its directors, officers, employees, attorneys, insurers or agents, whether known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, that any member of the Florida Settlement Class ever had, could have had, now has or hereafter can, shall or may have, relating in any way to ... any conduct, act or omission that was or could have been alleged in this case as the basis for any antitrust or unfair competition claims."
Links

0. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/210209&mode=nested&tid=3

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/04/1755231&tid=123

Close Encounters Of The Mars Kind
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1942257

[0]Lab_rat0 writes "Never again in our lifetimes will the Red Planet be
so spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars, an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. This [1]article at EliteGeek has more details. According to Agg over at [2]OCAU, this is probably the reason for all the Mars probes launched over the last few months." Links

    0. mailto:labratNO@SPAMelitegeek.org
    1. 
http://www.elitegeek.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=258&mode=&order=0&thold=0
    2. 
http://www.overclockers.com.au/

Ricor PVRs To Hit Russia
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1938243

BlackShirt writes "[0]Mediacenter acts as a digital video recorder, i.e. it enables the viewer to plan his/her future television broadcast recordings. 'Live' broadcasts can also be recorded. Program recordings are stored in the video archive, and the user can playback, delete or unable deleting of recordings[1] (here are some screenshots). I personally like their advertisements more than their product. (Shopping-tv style, wife doesn't allow to watch football, so disapponted husband knocks on his neighbors' door, as they turn their fabulous Ricor TV box from pause to play.)" It looks like this is being marketed to Russian cable companies as an all-in-one portal, since they also include electronic ordering capabilities and "near video on demand"; I wish American PVRs had all these features by default (ethernet, USB, microphone, camera inputs ...) Links

0. http://www.ricoritv.com/icl/eng/rus/indexX.htm

http://www.ricoritv.com/icl/eng/rus/pristavA.htm

Confused? Frustrated?

Sun Microsystems, SuSE Link Up To Sell Linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1756249

ChilyWily writes "Reuters is reporting that [0]Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to resell and support closely held German software firm SuSE's version of the Linux operating system, the leading variant in Europe, the companies said on Friday. This agreement follows a similar one in May between Sun and Red Hat Inc. While I'm happy to see Sun's finally beginning to warm up to Linux (aka if you can't beat 'em, join 'em strategy) I wonder if this is too late for Sun?" Links

0. http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3206067

Jonathan Zittrain On The Spiderweb of Copyright Law http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1725203

Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, takes an unusual approach to critiquing copyright in this [0]Legal Affairs article. He explains with an analogy to the bizarre patchwork of United States tax codes a reason that (in the words of one of Zittrain's colleagues) "all the cyberprofs hate copyright." It goes beyond simple indignation that current copyright laws often grant seemingly unfair monopoly powers, and into the tangled minutia of the laws themselves.
Links

0. http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/July-August-2003/feature_zittrain_julaug03.html

Fast Native Eclipse with GTK+ Looks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1555206

[0]Mark Wielaard writes "The [1]gcj team created a natively compiled
build of the [2]Eclipse IDE. The resulting binary starts up faster then with any traditional JVM since there is no virtual machine to initialize or slow byte code interpreter or just in time compiler involved. This means that gcj got a lot better since the last
[3]Slashdot story in December about gcj and Eclipse. [4]Red Hat
provides [5]RPMs for easy installation. [6]Footnotes has [7]screenshots by Havoc Pennington of the Eclipse IDE with GTK+ widgets." Links

    0. 
http://www.klomp.org/mark/
    1. 
http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
    2. 
http://www.eclipse.org/
    3. 
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2239203&tid=117
    4. 
http://www.redhat.com/
    5. 
http://sources.redhat.com/eclipse/
    6. 
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/
    7. 
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=724

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Freshmeat
A Debian Space 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131455/

A Debian Space is a theme made with Xaos and The GIMP, featuring the Debian logo in deep space.

a place to go 0.5.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131407/

aptg(2) (a place to go) is a Web-based email client written in PHP, using localhost connections to a running IMAP4 server. It is designed to work with Postfix. Authentication is against a MySQL database as used by pam_mysql (username + password) or by using one of the virtual email addresses (also stored in the MySQL database) and that password. A powerful addressbook is also included. It uses its own session handling system with one-time session ids. The development version has experimental GnuPG support.

Aurora Sky 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131445/

A CG image depicting the "Northern Lights".

Automated Password Generator 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131439/

Automated Password Generator is a set of tools for random password generation including a standalone password generator, an RFC972 password generation server, and a Perl client for the password generation server. These feature a built-in X9.17 random number generator, and 35 modes of password generation, including pronounceable password generation.

avidemux 2.0.12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131451/

Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.

bash programmable completion 20030803 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131423/

Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.

BBStatus 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131488/

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 (allows you to design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data making SNMP requests), ICMP monitoring (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 visualize various data (depending on access rights). It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool.

bitchxmms 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131427/

bitchxmms is a script for BitchX users that like to let everybody know what MP3 they are playing.

bMotion 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131457/

bMotion is an AI script for eggdrop bots that gives them a bit of life and makes them better channel members on IRC. It exposes a plugin interface, allowing its functionality and behavior to be easily adjusted and extended with simple (yet powerful) TCL scripts.

BookmarkManager 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131414/

BookmarkManager is an online bookmark manager and is meant as a replacement for a browser's bookmark system. It runs on a servlet container, and needs no database. It uses the Prevayler system for storing its data.

CG_spam_filter.pl 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131462/

CG_spam_filter.pl provides a content filter program for the Stalker CommuniGate Pro mail server that seeks to limit the number of outgoing spam your local users can send and incoming spam your system can receive. In essence, it is a throttling script that starts rejecting mail once a certain threshold is reached, such as X messages or recipients per minute. It is difficult to catch spammers until after the fact (when they have already done lots of damage and spammed many users); this is simply an effort to stop them in their tracks in real-time so you can deal with them later.

checkpassword-pam 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131483/

    checkpassword-pam is an implementation of a PAM- based
    checkpassword-compatible authentication program, but is more modern and
    administrator- friendly.

cmdftp 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131438/

Can't find what you're looking for?

cmdftp is a command line FTP client for Linux with shell-like functions which uses passive mode only, works in local and remote mode transparently, tries to keep the connection alive, and supports multiple and recursive file transfers. It is aimed at being simple yet powerful.

Coherent Mail Gateway 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131447/

Coherent Mail Gateway is intended to be a very easy to set up MTA using SMTP and POP3. Greylisting is used on the SMTP daemon to reduce spam. In addition, quite a lot of checks on the validity of information from the SMTP client (such as claimed server name and sender) are carried out, and anyone caught telling lies is disconnected. As well as greylisting, black and white listing is also supported. The system is only for gateways, and will only relay for hosts on an internal IP (e.g. 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0, etc.) and only accept for users specifically listed in the configuration files. The target market is small offices and home users with static IPs. Others can use the system but its value will be limited. Dial-up is not yet supported.

DaveDAP 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131418/

DaveDAP is a PHP LDAP administration tool which allows you to browse your LDAP tree, create, delete, edit, and copy objects, and perform searches. You can even copy objects between two LDAP servers and recursively delete/copy entire containers.

Debt Minder 1.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131413/

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

EOS Image Manager 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131424/

EOS Image Manager is a pure Cocoa application that enables users to quickly view, thumbnail, rename (add and remove chars, change case), and manage (move, copy, and rename) all of their images from a single, uncluttered interface. With this application users can organize thousands of downloaded images and digital photos in minutes.

Fast RC 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131189/

frc is a replacement for the script (/etc/init.d/rc) which starts and stops services in different runlevels. frc can run several services in parallel, provides different modes of verbosity and interactive control. Individual service scripts run by frc do not need to perform layout or colorisation.

fix-mime-charset 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131415/

Fix-mime-charset automatically detects character sets of email message and modifies the Content-Type header appropriately. It can be used as mail filter in mailing lists where users often set the charset of their messages incorrectly. It processes messages fast and accurately, ignoring attachments, and correctly interprets transfer-encodings. None but the Content- Type header is changed.

ggcov 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131442/

Ggcov is a GTK+ GUI for exploring test coverage data produced by C programs compiled with gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage. It's basically a GUI replacement for the gcov program that comes with gcc.

gmorgan 0.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131433/

Don't know where to look next?

gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time.

Irrlicht Engine 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131430/

The Irrlicht Engine is a high performance cross platform 3D engine for creating realtime 3D applications. Its main aims are to be easy to use, extremely fast, extensible, and crash safe.

JavaLayer 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131478/

JavaLayer is a 100% Java library that decodes, converts, and plays MP3 files in real time. It does not require JMF. It supports MPEG 1/2 layer 1/2/3 formats.

jBNC 1.1 (WEKA)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131402/

jBNC is a Java toolkit for training, testing, and applying Bayesian Network Classifiers. Implemented classifiers have been shown to perform well in a variety of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining applications.

jBNC 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131404/

Confused? Frustrated?

JGAP 1.0-RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131479/

JGAP (pronounced "jay-gap") is a genetic algorithms package written in Java. It is designed to require minimum effort to use "out of the box", but is highly modular and allows custom components to be easily plugged in by the more adventurous.

Kidwai Clinical Laboratory Management System 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131456/

Kidwai is a system to automate a critical component of a cancer hospital's existing (non-computerized) management system. It automates the entire process of managing Individual Patients Laboratory Requisition details, from the registration of a patient for a specific test (on site), to a doctor viewing the patient's tests results from a terminal.

KnokiiSync 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131472/

KnokiiSync is a KDE 3.1.x program that transfers entries from a Gnokii-compatible phone to KDE's Address Book and vice-versa. It can transfer all the entries as well as the entry types (home, work, mobile, URL, email, etc).

LibTomMath 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131461/

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

Liferea 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131469/

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse through their items, and show their contents using GtkHTML.

Light Speed! 1.2-222
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131482/

Light Speed! is an OpenGL-based program which illustrates the effects of special relativity on the appearance of moving objects. When an object accelerates past a few million meters per second, these effects begin to grow noticeable, becoming more and more pronounced as the speed of light is approached. These relativistic effects are viewpoint-dependent, and include shifts in length, object hue, brightness and shape.

LightWeightPoll 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131420/

LightWeightPoll is an easy to configure and use voting system. It provides a customizable frontend with graphical and text-based statistics.

Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131474/

Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and content blocking.

LiquidIRCd 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131443/

LiquidIRCd is the irc daemon used on LiquidIRC. It is based on Bahamut with many powerful features including CRC or MD5 hostmasking, SSL, channel owners, protect, halfop, etc.

LiVES 0.7.1-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131437/

LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is intended to be a simple yet powerful video effects, editing, and playback system. It uses commonly available tools (mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it should work on most Linux systems.

Luola 1.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131470/

Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game is simply to destroy all other players.

Modeling Framework 0.9pre12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131452/

Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create, retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported databases are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

Mod_Survey 3.2.0-pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131459/

Mod_survey is an Apache mod_perl module which allows users to create their own Web questionnaires using an XML-based tag notation. It supports exporting of data into several file formats, including SPSS syntax, semi-colon delimited fields, and SQL script. It also provides limited support for descriptive statistics of the submitted data, and stylesheet customizations of layout.

Musicextras 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131448/

Musicextras is a program for automatically retrieving extra information for songs. Currently it only retrieves lyrics and album covers, but it was designed to make it easy to add other functionality. Information is obtained using plugins that parse Web page data. An example for having XMMS automatically load lyrics for the current MP3 is included.

Orbital (pekwm port) 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131428/

Orbital (pekwm port) is a port of hermik's excellent "orbital" shellwm theme to pekwm for Linux. The original theme and matching skins for other applications are available at sticboy.com.

phpMyFAQ 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131425/

Can't find what you're looking for?

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.

Pipe Viewer 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131487/

pv (Pipe Viewer) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

PTlink Services 2.23.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131436/

PTlink Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC daemon, it includes features like channel logging, oper management, helper management, AJOIN user list, memo read acknowledgement, rotated logs, autoidentify on ghost, and ChanServ PROTECTED level. It also integrates NewServ for real time news delivering.

pY! Voice Chat 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131432/

pY! Voice Chat is a voice chat program for Yahoo. It supports both sending sound to and receiving sound from Yahoo's voice chat servers. The program can be run in either English or Spanish.

PyPE 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131484/

PyPE (Python Programmers Editor) was written in order to offer a lightweight but powerful editor for those of you who think emacs is too much and idle is too little. Syntax highlighting is included out of the box, as is multiple open documents via tabs. Being written in Python and wxPython allows PyPE to be used on basically every platform available.

Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.7.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131429/

The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.

RoadMap 1.0rc8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131417/

RoadMap is a GIS program for Linux that displays street maps. The maps are provided by the US Census Bureau, and thus only cover the US. Specific areas are displayed by selecting a street address (street number, street name, city, and state). It interfaces with gpsd to track a GPS position, and has been designed to be usable on both a desktop or laptop computer, or on a PDA.

RPMAutoUpdate 1.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131435/

RPMAutoUpdate is an RPM update management and reporting tool that can tell you exactly which RPMs provide updates relevant to your system. It is intended for systems administrators and power-users.

Simple Browser Proxy 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131307/

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Simple Browser Proxy is a Web client proxy that is written entirely in PHP and runs on a stock build of PHP on any OS. SBP provides users with added privacy without requiring any additional installation or configuration.

storebackup 1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131468/

storebackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks. It includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space needed and improve performance, and unifies the advantages of traditional full and incremental backups. Depending on its contents, every file is stored only once on disk. It includes tools for analyzing backup data and restoring. Once archived, files are accessible by mounting filesystems (locally, or via Samba or NFS). It is easy to install and configure.

SuperVESA FrameBuffer Driver 0.9 beta 4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131450/

SuperVESAfb is a framebuffer driver for VESA 2.0-compliant graphic cards. It allows you to change the resolution and color depth on-the-fly.

System Garden Habitat 0.17.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131465/

Habitat is a performance management system which captures, stores, and visualises table-based time series data. Monitor probes exist for Linux and Solaris with Windows coming soon. It has a command line interface, a fast GUI client for graphical visualisation, and a simple format for extending data capture in the agent. It is written in C with Gtk and can access data from its peers directly, by file sharing, or with the use of a separate central archiving repository (harvest) to scale to installations of significant size.

testmail 3.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131486/

Confused? Frustrated?

testmail is a Perl script that checks email availability at the POP3 server, filters it according to defined rules, and--depending on the selected method--gets the messages to the local mailbox and/or removes it from the server. It uses Perl libnet module and helps you escape from spam.

Texmaker 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131454/

Texmaker integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX in just one application.

Towel 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131446/

Towel is a fairly basic program to play audio files. It works as a front-end to GStreamer to play both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files. It runs on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, using gtkmm 2.2.x, the C++ bindings for GTK+ 2.2.x. It features a heirarchical tree-like playlist system.

Visual Information Broker Enterprise 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131485/

Visual Information Broker Enterprise (VIBE) is an IDE that enables developers to automate design and development of infrastructure components through Java code generation for Relational/XML-to-Object mapping. The RDBMS supported are Sybase, Oracle, and MS SQL Server. JMS-compliant messaging products like IBM MQ are supported. VIBE ships with a dynamic Business Rule Engine (VIBE BRE) which enables applications to decouple Business Logic.

WebUserPrefs 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131453/

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WebUserPrefs is a Web-based editor for SpamAssassin user preferences. It is written in PHP and supports whitelist and blacklist directives, as well as others through a simple plugin architecture.

XEphem 3.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131481/

XEphem is a complete astronomy program.

XPortScan 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131422/

XPortScan is a multi-threaded, cross-platform, GUI port scanner. It is modular so that new features are easy to integrate, and even completely changing the GUI is easy.

YASP 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131476/

YASP is a simple and open protocol for building networks with small microcontrollers. It is designed to have a small footprint for easy implementation with minimal hardware resources, but without sacrifice advanced features and future growth. The protocol scalability is implemented using variable length fields. The physical layer use the NRZ encoding as in RS-232, but using dominant and recessive bus states to provide a reliable way to detect collisions.

Slashcode
YogaCircle.net (New Yoga Slash Site)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0339211

Well this should be a first. A Yoga base Slash site. Check it out, if you have any questions or comments let me know. Thanks for the code.

csdaily.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0337226

Yet another Slash site, Computer Science Daily News. Aims to be a resource for Computer Science professionals, researchers, students and instructors. Hopefully this fills a niche, computer science developments seem to be very decentralized, and hard to find. Slash seems to be working out nicely, though I'm still learning the ropes... --csdaily

Slash on server running Livejournal?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0035257

Maybe this is the wrong venue to ask in, and I'm sorry if it is, but this question has been nagging me for about the past week or so. I have a personal server running Slackware 8 with a custom-compiled Apache 1.3.27 (with the appropriate mod_perl) and MySQL 4.0.13. This server is currently running the LiveJournal server code and works quite well at this. I'm interested in attempting to set up slash for personal use (the Livejournal code is running for personal use as well), and herein lies the question. Can slash be run on the same server in another VirtualHost without having a separate apache installation/process and doing some fancy trick with mod_rewrite? Or am I asking too much? I will be happy to provide any further info anyone needs through e-mail (the e-mail link above is NOT spam-armored at all).

QubitNews is finally launched!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0030227

QubitNews: News and Inforation from the Quantum Community. This is conceived as a meeting-point for the community working in the fast developing field of Quantum Information and Computation. This is an open and free project devoted to the exchange of information in this field.: news, stories, announcements, comments of scientific work, debates, polls, forums, etc... Many aspects of your work that cannot appear in scientific journals may find a place here. The main feature of QubitNews is that it is dynamical: you are wellcome to participate and modify the look and feel of this site. You may become an anonymous user, site user or an Author. Visit the homepage and consult the documents About, FAQ, How-To and GettingStarted. It may be useful, helpful and a lot of fun.

Tuxedo.org Now running Slashcode
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2014232

Tuxedo.org is now running Slashcode. I should have done this a couple of years ago... Most recent story is Linus Torvalds Comments on SCO Lawsuit and Linux. Hope you all enjoy the new site! --Chuck Peters

Best hosting service for Slash?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1449209

I'm going to be doing some "big things" with Slashcode but am interested in going through someone to set up Slashcode and the server, so that I can just right in and start building the site. What are the best hosting services out there? Will they set up Slash for me? What kinds of experiences have people had?

Dissociated Press goes Slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1442252

After a bit of poking and prodding, I've converted Dissociated Press to Slashcode (2.2.6). Works great!

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