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[osdn developer] August 22, 2003
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 01:15:50 EDT
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Sourceforge
BIE 5.5.0 (beta) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303642
New features in BIE 5.5 include a new plug-in architecture allowing the addition and removal of features without restarting; support for EDIFACT and HL7 document formats; HTTP Post and Run Command actions; enhancements to the transaction log viewer and message schema generator; and a number of new macros for unit conversions were also added to the Map Builder tool. The Business Integration Engine (BIE) is a full Java-based application to application integration server. Changes: SERVER: * Plugin Manager Chain action types may now be loaded and unloaded into BIE without needing to restart the system. This system will provide, over the next few releases, the ability to plug in most other units of the BIE server. * Code Reorganization (Developers Only) A reorganization of the codebase for BIE has begun, in anticipation of broad architectural changes and refactoring planned to begin in BIE 6.0. Source code, which previously lived exclucively under the src/ directory, may now also be found under the commons-bie/, commons-tools/, installer/, plugins/, and src/ directories. * Added Feature - Added HTTP Post action (contributed by Hugh Brien). * Added HL7 support. * Added EDIFACT support. * RFE 734256 - Allow transaction log to be cleaned. * RFE 765461 - save option for XSD Added Save option for the generated schema. * RFE 734242 - paste boxes. Added Paste box for allowing the user to paste content to a textarea for the schema generating. * Added Run Command action * Enhanced HTTP Basic authentication support for web services. MAP BUILDER: * Fixed a bug that allowed macro parameters to be displayed after macro was deleted.
- Added new macros: Convert Inches To Centimeters, Convert Centimeters to Inches, Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, Convert Celsius to Fahrenheit. BUG FIXES: * Fixed bug 774447 - Mail Configuration: smtp authentication. * Fixed bug 784960 - Schema Generator fully expands all elements. * Fixed bug 764738 Delimited data source does not understand empty fields * Fixed bug 790579 - On upgrade if database connection not available it will fail.
Chiba 0.9.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303472
This is mainly a maintainance release which fixes some issues with the installation. Namely the xerces + xml-apis have been added again to the war-files. Other modifications are limited to smaller corrections to Schema2XForms builder, import statements and javadoc. Chiba provides an implementation of the W3C XForms standard, thereby delivering generic, xml-based form-processing for the web.
phpWebSite 0.9.3-1 Stable Released!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303663
The phpWebSite development team has released version 0.9.3-1 of its popular content management system. The main purpose of this release is to address the recently discovered security vulnerability issues that were posted across many security forums. Fixes for the XSS, DOS, and SQL injection problems are all included. Many other updates have been made to the core, providing the ability to run phpWebSite in SSL mode. Over 40 bugs have been closed and 4 user submitted patches applied to phpWebSite since the release of 0.9.3. All in all we feel this is one of our most stable releases to date.
TclXML v3.0rc1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=302894
Release candidate 1 of version 3.0 of the TclXML package is now available. This release candidate introduces a binding for libxml2 to the TclXML package. This allows an application to use the libxml2 parser class to parse an XML document, setting callbacks in the usual fashion. No significant changes have been made to the pure-Tcl or expat parser classes. It is planned to perform some bug fixes to the pure-Tcl parser class for release candidate 2.
Turck MMCache for PHP version 2.3.23 is released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303184
This is should be the last version prior to the stable 2.4.0 release. Please test this release as much as possible. Turck MMCache is a PHP Accelerator, Optimizer, Encoder and Dynamic Content Cache. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. Also it uses some optimizations for speed up of PHP scripts execution. Turck MMCache typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times. It has been tested with PHP 4.1.0 - 4.3.2 under Linux and Windows with Apache 1.3 and 2.0. HTTP caching of mmcache.php was disabled. Usage of POSIX semaphors on Mac OS X was disabled. Handling of scripts with PHP syntax errors was fixed. ZE2 support was improved (tested with php5-200308140730).
Slashdot
Gillette Pulls RFID Tags In UK Amid Protests
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/0327247
[0]akb writes "[1]Indymedia UK is [2]reporting that after [3]protests
against the trial of RFID tags by Gillette at a [4]Tesco store in
Cambridge, increasing [5]press coverage, a [6]boycott, and the growing
mobilisation of campaigners against the intrusive use of the
technology, Gillette have [7]withdrawn their trial. RFID (Radio
Frequency ID) tags are small tags containing a microchip which can be
'read' by radio sensors over short distances (for background see
[8]SchNEWS Feature / 2 part [9]Guardian Article)."
Links
0.
http://demandmedia.net/
1.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
2.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275818.html
3.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2003/08/275596.html
4.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275490.html
5.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275633.html
6.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275606.html
7.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1143026
8.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/07/274466.html
9.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,999866,00.html
Gaim Speaks Out on MSN Ban
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/0318223
[0]joejg writes "As [1]FootNotes is reporting, the developers at
[2]Gaim have [3]responded to the [4]ban Microsoft is placing upon users
of third-party clients accessing the MSN protocol. It appears that
starting October 15th I will not be able to talk to my MSN friend in
South Korea." Gaim's site is more optimistic, saying they may still be
able to connect, only without a license to do so.
Links
0. mailto:gasiorek@yakko.cs.wmich.edu
1.
http://www.gnomedesktop.com/article.php?sid=1288&mode=&order=0&thold=0
2.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
3.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/msn.php
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/221226&tid=109Control the Camera on Mars Global Surveyor http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/035255
Angry Toad writes "According to [0]Spaceflight Now, NASA is getting
ready to [1]take suggestions for what parts of the surface of Mars the
[2]Mars Global Surveyor should take pictures of next. Currently there
are high-resolution images for around 3% of the surface of Mars, and
they are willing to consider [3]any reasonable suggestions for new
imaging locations. Of course this is a publicity stunt, but all the
same it would be rather cool to have a bit of 'virtual control' of the
MGS camera."
Links
0.
http://spaceflightnow.com/
1.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0308/20marssuggest/
2.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/
3.
http://www.msss.com/plan/introLinux Corporate Influence: Boon or Bane? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/2352237
[0]Mark Tobenkin writes "Are corporations exploiting the Open Source
community? [1]The Linux Public Broadcasting Network has [2]video
interviews with Ian Murdock (of [3]Progeny and [4]Debian fame), Martin
Roesch (author of [5]Snort), Jeremey White (CEO of [6]CodeWeavers),
Bradley Kuhn ([7]FSF), Mike Balma (Linux Business Strategist for [8]HP)
and others on the evolving OSS business models. The interviews center
around whether integration with proprietary products endangers the Open
Source effort or increases consumers' freedom to choose."
Links
0.
http://www.lpbn.org
1.
http://www.lpbn.org/
2.
http://www.lpbn.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=416&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
3.
http://www.progeny.com/
4.
http://www.debian.org/
5.
http://www.snort.org/
6.
http://www.codeweavers.org/
7.
http://www.gnu.org/
8.
http://www.hp.com/
ATi FireGL X1 Vs. NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/2340203
[0]SpinnerBait writes "The professional graphics card arena has been
heating up as of late, with new products from ATi and NVIDIA hitting
the streets on the heels of SIGGRAPH unveilings. In a first of two
article series, [1]HotHardware has a [2]showcase with benchmarks on the
ATi FireGL X1 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000. It seems as though NVIDIA
still has a stronghold in this market, as their card seems to dominate
many of the benchmark runs shown here."
Links
0.
http://www.hothardware.com
1.
http://www,hothardware.com/
2.
http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/qfx2k_fireglx1.shtml
Using Spyware to Report Pirates?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/2116210
An anonymous reader asks: "I have visibility to AUP complaints we receive at work, and we receive messages from a software vendor that make it obvious that their product is phoning home when it discovers it is running a cracked copy of itself." Apparently the software phones home, and then the publisher's legal department sends the administrator a e-mail. "The message goes on to detail the users IP, a timestamp, the product in question, the users PC name, username, and MAC address. This falls under -my- definition of 'spyware.' What are your thoughts?" Software has been making surreptitious checks for "piracy" for over a decade, yet these checks are usually limited to the software itself, and not data on the user's machine. Do you feel software publishers should have the right to peer into users data, if their software suspects foul play on the machine, or should it do the easy and intelligent thing and just stop working?
SuSE CEO's Two-Distro World
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/2218239
[0]FrankoBoy writes "[1]CRN has an [2]interview with SuSE CEO Richard
Seibt in which he claims such things as 'Linux means two companies: Red
Hat and SuSE, and nobody else.' Another example of this kind of
corporatespeak can be found in [3]another interview he did with ZDNet
last week. DistroWatch has an article about all this in [4]its current
weekly newsletter."
Links
0.
http://www.er.uqam.ca/merlin/dk491478
1.
http://www.suse.com/
2.
http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=43781
3.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5063628.html
4.
http://www.distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20030818
Skulls Gain Virtual Faces
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1910201
[0]rw2 writes "Totally cool, The guys at Max Planck Institute for
Computer Science have developed a way to [1]reconstruct a persons
appearence when a skull is found. When police find a skull and want to
know what its owner looked like, they generally use artists who
reconstruct the face by building up layers of clay over the skull."
Links
SoBig: Worst is Yet to Come
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1847254
bl8n8r writes "Experts say when vacationers get back to work Monday,
Inboxes will unleash [0]the worms worst attacks. Sunner said that most
of the problems caused by SoBig involve the time and cost of cleaning
the worm from computer systems. "
Links
0. http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/21/technology/sobig/index.htm?cnn=yes
New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1816225
[0]Badgerguy writes "The Supersite for Windows has some [1]shiney-blue
looking leaked screenshots of LongHorn. The new screenshots of the
'Aero' interface mainly seem to be concerned with Digital Media
integration - which has become deeper still. A new 'SyncManager'
screenshot is up there (copying of iSync?) as well as some pictures of
LongHorn prototype hardware, which looks like a cross between a desktop
PC / Notebook / Tablet PC. "
Links
0. mailto:Badgerguy@badgersett.org.uk
Freshmeat
Abeni 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133428/
Abeni is a Gentoo Linux ebuild GUI editor written in Python/wxPython. It helps users create syntactically correct ebuilds efficiently. It incorporates the Scintilla editor for syntax highlighting and Lintool for syntax checking.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.21 PRE 1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133356/
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more.
Autogg 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133421/
Autogg is an Ogg player that categorizes music independently of the catalog structure. It exclusively uses tags to sort by album and artist. Music can then be inserted into a playlist from the sorted treelist.
ayttm 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133351/
Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is a fork of Everybuddy, and initially aims to address its problems. It should not segfault when you use it, and should be almost instantly usable by your mother. Almost useless prefs should be hidden, reserved for "advanced" users, and things have to work without wondering what this or that will produce.
bash programmable completion 20030821 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133359/
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.
BIE 5.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133381/
BIE (Business Integration Engine) is an open source integration system that makes it easy for organizations to exchange data with external trading partners regardless of their native applications. It competes in the same space as applications like Microsoft BizTalk except that it is truly cross-platform since it written in Java.
bnews 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133372/
bnews is a eggdrop-tcl news service made to support customized plugins and subscriptions. It is capable of fetching news from the current loaded plugins and is capable of subscribing to news. Every 30 minutes, on a timed event, the script will fetch all the subscribed services and send the latest headlines as private messages. It's really easy to customize your own news service just by following the example of the current plugins.
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133387/
Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer adds visual impact and interactivity to the documentation of your parsers. It supports a wide variety of parser generation formats, including Yacc, Bison, JavaCC, BNF, EBNF, ISO EBNF (ISO/IEC 14977), and ANTLR. It is a self-contained Java-based visualization application that dynamically creates visual representation of your syntax and grammar, saving it as images for inclusion in your documentation. It supports all common image formats, easy integration with your existing build environment, full customization of the look of your railroad diagrams, and multiplatform support.
CaLStats 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133425/
CaLStats is a small set of scripts for monitoring computer availability. It creates images of the network structure and marks active or inactive computers.
Caraxy 2.0pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133435/
Caraxy is a proxy that allows the Caramail chat system to be accessible from IRC clients.
CK-Ledger 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133357/
CK-Ledger is an accounting and back office system for SMEs that includes ledger, ledger admin, bank reconciliation, inventory, service, AP, AR, PO, SO, quotation, POS for cashiers, POS for managers, HR, staff self service, and payroll modules. It runs on top of phpGroupWare and can use LAMP or LAPP.
cmdftp 0.621 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133363/
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.
Discloser 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133413/
Discloser is (another) PHP/MySQL blog. It has a clean, effective interface. It differs from other weblog/journal/news/content management software in that "post types" are defined by plugins, allowing more intense customization capabilities. It is multi-user by nature, but only one user is required.
DNS Flood Detector 1.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133187/
DNS Flood Detector was developed to detect abusive usage levels on high traffic nameservers and to enable quick response in halting (among other things) the use of one's nameserver to facilitate spam. DNS Flood Detector uses libpcap (in non-promiscuous mode) to monitor incoming dns queries to a nameserver. The tool may be run in one of two modes, either daemon mode or "bindsnap" mode. In daemon mode, the tool will alarm via syslog. In bindsnap mode, the user is able to get near-real-time stats on usage to aid in more detailed troubleshooting.
DSPAM 2.6.5-alpha-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133403/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
epsutil 0.2-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133411/
epsutil is a PyQt3-based graphical Epson inkjet printer toolbox frontend for the command line utility escputil (available from the gimp-print package). It is able to perform basic maintainance steps: check ink level, test nozzles, and clean heads.
eZ publish 3.2 beta 1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133353/
eZ publish is an open source content management system and development framework. As a content management system (CMS) it's most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customizable, and extendable content model. This is also what makes it suitable as a platform for general Web development. Its stand-alone libraries can be used for cross-platform, database independent PHP projects. eZ publish is also well suited for news publishing, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), portals, and corporate Web sites, intranets, and extranets. eZ publish is dual licenced between GPL and the eZ publish professional licence.
file2divx3pass 1.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133429/
file2divx3pass is a simple frontend to mencoder for converting any
media-file to Divx, with features such as an automatic video bitrate
calculator, an automatic bits per pixel calculator, and 1-pass, 2-pass,
and 3-pass Divx encoding. It can encode any media file supported by
mencoder, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, ASF, WMV--even RM (buggy) and
CUE/BIN.
FireMake 1.9.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133396/
FireMake is a shell script designed to be packaged with a piece of software and run on each computer building that software. It creates a Makefile based on the architecture, the build environment, and the files in the directory from which it is run.
FireRPC 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133404/
FireRPC is a library that provides an easy interface for C programs to make remote function queries via the XML RPC protocol. It supports SSL/TLS, HTTP authentication, HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, and pipelining. It also supports POST data compression via bzip2 and response compression via bzip2, gzip, deflate, and compress.
FontPack 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133420/
FontPack is a utility for packing and rendering TTF fonts into texture maps for use in OpenGL. It also includes a library to load and use the fonts in your game/app.
gFTP 2.0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133424/
gFTP is a multithreaded FTP client. It features simultaneous downloads, resuming of interrupted file transfers, support for the FTP, HTTP, and SSH protocols, file transfer queues, downloading of entire directories, FTP and HTTP proxy support, remote directory caching, passive and non-passive file transfers, drag-n-drop support, a very nice connection manager, and more.
GKrellM 2.1.16 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133382/
GKrellM is a GTK-based stacked monitor program that charts SMP CPUs, disks, load, active net interfaces, and internet connections. There are also builtin monitors for memory and swap, file systems with mount/umount feature, mailbox checking including POP3 and IMAP, clock/calendar, laptop battery, sensors (temperatures, voltages, and fans), and uptime. It has LEDs for the net monitors and an on/off button and online timer for PPP. There is a GUI popup for configuration, plugin extensions can be installed, and many themes are available. It also features a client/server monitoring capability.
GKrellM giFT 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133383/
GKrellM giFT is a GKrellM plugin which monitors active giFT transfers by showing their progress.
gtkmm 2.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133371/
gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++ programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework. Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly create complex user interfaces.
IceWM 1.2.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133410/
IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and Windows, and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps.
Java Desktop Rolemaster Character Generator .9u http://freshmeat.net/releases/133433/
Java Desktop Rolemaster Character Generator is a gradually-developing cross-platform character generator for the Rolemaster FRP roleplaying game from Iron Crown Enterprises. It can create and develop Rolemaster characters quickly. It contains information from the Rolemaster FRP book and the current Character Law.
Jinzora 0.3pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133419/
Jinzora is a Web-based MP3 library and media streamer. It was originally a fork of the Zina project, adding many more end-user features to extend its functionality, but has been rewritten from the ground up. The main goal is to build a very easy-to-use/highly functional Web interface to an MP3 collection.
JNumeric 0.1a3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133414/
JNumeric is a port of Numerical Python to Jython (Java Python) to support all mathematical operations (linear algebra, matrices, DSP, wavelets, FFT, arrays), and thus compete with commercial packages such as Matlab. It can be easily embedded in Java programs.
JPluck 2.0 pre16 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133417/
JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133405/
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser is a feature-poor but very fast mbox parser. It uses the best of three strategies for parsing a mailbox: either using cached folder information, GNU grep, or highly-optimized Perl.
Monster Masher 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133427/
Monster Masher is a mash'em-up action game for GNOME. Each level contains a number of blocks and monsters. You're a little gnome running around. By pushing the blocks you can mash the monsters one at a time. There are various power-ups and different kinds of monsters.
mrtg-rrd 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133376/
mrtg-rrd is a CGI/FastCGI script for displaying MRTG graphs from data in the RRDtool format. It can make your monitoring system faster, because MRTG does not have to generate all the PNG files with graphs every 5 minutes or so. Instead, the graphs are generated on demand when a user wants to see them. The main goal of this project is to generate output similar to the MRTG native graphs as much as possible, providing a drop-in replacement. It reads the same configuration file that MRTG does, and it can understand most of the directive types in this file. It can display single graph pages as well as directory indexes referring to more graphs or subdirectories.
Newts 0.12.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133423/
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.
oMail-Webmail 0.98.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133354/
oMail-webmail is a Webmail solution for mail servers based on qmail and optionally vmailmgr or vpopmail. The mail is read directly from maildirs on the hard disk, which is much quicker than using protocols like POP3 or IMAP. Other features includes multiple language support (English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and many more), HTML and pictures inline display, folders, and address book support.
OracleEditor.php 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133348/
OracleEditor.php is a standalone PHP script which allows you to browse your Oracle database tables and insert, update, and delete rows in any table. It requires no installation and no configuration.
PCRE 4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133365/
The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5, with just a few differences. The current implementation corresponds to Perl 5.005. PCRE is used by many programs, including Exim, Postfix, and PHP.
Pen 0.10.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133384/
Pen is a load balancer for "simple" TCP-based protocols such as HTTP or SMTP. It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside. It automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance.
phpWebSite 0.9.3-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133408/
phpWebSite provides a complete Web site content management solution. All client output is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Features include articles, page creation, menu management, an event scheduler, a form generator, and much more.
PMK 0.5.5 (Snapshot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133402/
PMK aims to be an alternative to GNU autoconf configure scripts. It attempts to avoid the use of scripts in packages that can hide trojans, to minimize the number of dependencies, and to be easy to use for users and developers.
PureFTPd Manager 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133377/
PureFTPd Manager is a small Cocoa frontend to PureFTPd for Mac OS X. It includes a wizard to easily set up your server, Rendezvous support to publish your server efficiently, and groovy interfaces for virtual users and hosts management.
pxlib 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133368/
pxlib is a simple and small C library to read Paradox DB files. It supports all versions starting from 3.0. It currently has a very limited set of functions, like opening a DB file, reading its header, and reading every single record. It can also extract blob data and write it to a file.
PXSL 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133412/
PXSL ("pixel") is a convenient shorthand for writing markup-heavy XML documents. It provides XML authors and programmers with a simple, concise syntax that they can use to create XML documents. For more advanced users, it offers customizable shortcuts and sophisticated refactoring tools like functional macros that can markedly reduce the size and complexity of markup-dense XML documents.
Quick Spam Filter 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133352/
Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email as being possible spam.
RPL/2 4.00pre7d (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133416/
RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL made by Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions (preprocessor, compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can draw graphics.
SCons 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133398/
SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make) implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically and maintain a global view of all dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through user-defined builder and scanner objects.
Sgraph 0.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133431/
Sgraph is a utility to create graphs from data supplied by the user. It creates standard stock charts, using open/min/max/close and volume data. Another goal is to create a set of functions that can serve as a static library, to interface with your stock data manipulation routines.
SiEd 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133364/
SiEd is a simple text editor for Palm OS 3.5+. It is designed to allow editing of large documents on any Palm. It is targeted more at users with add-on keyboards for their Palm, as existing editors do not take full advantage of the keyboard.
SlackPkg 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133418/
Slackpkg is an automated package-management tool for Slackware Linux. It can do tasks such as automatic downloading and installing or upgrading, browse the MANIFEST.gz (Slackware package-contents guide), and more. Dependencies are not automatically handled. It is not a replacement for pkgtool, but a valuable add-on.
Socks Server 5 2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133267/
Socks Server 5 is a socks server for the Linux and Solaris platforms. It supports the SOCKS protocol versions 4 and 5.
stresslinux 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133426/
stresslinux is a minimal Linux distribution that runs from a bootable CDROM or via PXE. It makes use of some utitlities such as stress, cpuburn, hddtemp, lm_sensors, etc. It is dedicated to users who want to test their system(s) entirely on high load and monitor the health of these systems.
Syntext Dtd2Xs 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133362/
Dtd2Xs allows you to convert complex, modularized XML DTDs and DTDs with namespaces to XML Schemas. As an example of Dtd2Xs conversion check out DocBook XML Schema generated from XML DocBook DTD 4.2, and XSL-FO Schema generated from XSL-FO DTD.
TCP Re-engineering Tool Stable 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133370/
TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol (as packet sniffers do).
Ultra-Performance UDPForwarder 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133392/
UDPForwarder forwards incoming UDP datagrams from a client to a specified server and forwards the server's response back to the client. This works 100% transparently, so clients think they are talking to the forwarder and the server does not notice the clients' real IP. It was initially designed to work as a transparent relay for online game traffic (static routing). It might be useful for hiding IPs or tricking firewalls. Its motivation and advantage over existing tools is its uncompromising focus on performance, which is crucial when dealing with hundreds and thousands of datagrams per second without allowing any rise in response time.
Ups shutdown script 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133337/
Ups shutdown script is a set of bash scripts that can be used to monitor a SNMP UPS and shut down servers if the power goes out. One of the scripts can run on a monitoring server and will report back when a UPS has gone offline.
Wcalc 1.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133432/
Wcalc is a very capable calculator. It has standard functions (sin, asin, and sinh for example), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, etc.), support for using variables, a command history, hex/octal/binary input and output, unit conversions, bit-shifting, embedded comments, and an expandable expression entry field. It evaluates expressions using the standard order of operations.
wmdf 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133395/
wmdf is a dockable app to monitor disk usage and IO. It is compatible with Windowmaker, Afterstep, and other window managers that accept dockable apps.
X-Itools 0.6.05 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133391/
The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of several modules, and this project has been under development for several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module.
xfpd 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133342/
xfpd is an OpenGL-based molecule viewer for Folding@Home data. It is based upon fpd but was rewritten to use GLUT. It supports stereoscopic displays, hardware acceleration, and better interactive rotation.
xik 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133349/
xik is a KDE front-end for Xmame. It scans the ROM path or another directory and creates a folder on the KDE desktop that allows you to edit properties. It is easy to install and use.
Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter 0.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133350/
Yap2lc (Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter) is an LDAP migration tool which extracts information from passwd, shadow/passwd, and master.passwd formatted files, combines them with a user specifiable template, and writes an LDIF file you can import into your LDAP server. It supports BSD-like and non-BSD-like systems, and performs sanity checks on user entries to detect invalid fields.
YourAmigo Spider Linker 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133375/
Spider Linker provides the ability to efficiently make all content on a Web site, particularly dynamic content, available to Internet search engines. It discovers content on one or more Web sites, and creates a table of contents (TOC) of all the content in a format that is friendly to search engine spiders. HTML, XML, sitelist.txt, and Harvest Control List formats are supported, and custom formats can be constructed. Since it provides FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, upload, and email publishing mechanisms, it can also support XML feeds and other URL submission strategies.
Slashcode
Slash on Mac OS X
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/158239
This is how I installed Slash on Mac OS X Server 10.2.6 on August 8, 2003. YMMV. This is not intended to be a tutorial, it is a log of what I did for my system. You may wish to use a release version of perl, to include different Apache modules, to compile with DSO, etc. Whatever. If someone wants to take some or all of this information and include it in a more comprehensive guide, be my guest.
How to Force Previewing?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1931216
An anonymous user writes: "I'd like to see an option added to enable a user to force themselves to preview a post before they actually post the comment. At the moment, a user is required to preview a story submission before they post it, but there is no way for this requirement to be there for standard posts. I often find myself hitting 'submit' when I wish I'd previewed first. I know that a 'force post preview' option could be added to the options section and implemented in SLASH *very* easily, which would simply remove the 'Submit' button from the initial post screen... so could someone do it? I'd do it myself if I was able to update the CVS source :-)" This is a one-liner change... details follow...
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 &