[osdn developer] August 23, 2003

Computing: Multimedia Access Panels
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/628f/

Computing: Kensington WiFi Finder
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/6247/

Computing: Zip-Linq Retractable Network/Modem Cables http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62a1/

Computing: Zip-Linq Zip-Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/629b/

Computing: Zip-Linq Cell Phone Charger Kits http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62aa/

Cube Goodies: Smart Mug
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/6235/

Cube Goodies: Moving Gear Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/601e/

Computing: BenQ FP2081 20" LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/6259/

Gadgets: Microscope Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6222/

Gadgets: Candeloo Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5efd/

Computing: ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/623c/

PC Mods: Cigarette Lighter Mod
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cables/61fd/

PC Mods: Bubble Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/lighting/620c/

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
Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/2142211

Don't know where to look next?

[0]steman writes "BBC News Online says that [1]16 people have been
killed and a Brazillian space rocket was destroyed in an explosion in Brazil. It seems that the space race is heating up again, with many countries getting involved such as [2]China, [3]Europe and [4]Japan to name just three. Will the future of space exploration be dominated by names other than Russia and the USA?" Links

    0. mailto:net-ste@widearea.org
    1. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3175131.stm
    2. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3090875.stm
    3. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3159797.stm
    4. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3003584.stm

Perl Modules as RPM Packages
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/218255

[0]libertynews writes "[1]KPLUG President Kevin Pedigo has just
announced his latest project -- [2]RPMPAN, an archive of CPAN Perl modules in RPM format, generated nightly." Links

    0. 
http://www.brianlane.com
    1. 
http://www.kplug.org/
    2. 
http://rpmpan.sourceforge.net/

Carmack on New id Game, Game Theory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/217218

An anonymous reader writes "CNN/Money interviewed [0]id Software wizard John Carmack at the recently completed QuakeCon. Among the [1]topics discussed is Nintendo's recent announcement that today's games are too complicated and hard for players. Carmack, surprisingly, agrees, saying 'I agree strongly with that point of view, but I'm in the minority in the PC space. I want a game you can sit down with, pick up and play.
[Role playing games], for example, got to where they had to have a book
ship with the game.'"
Links

0. http://www.idsoftware.com/

http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/21/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm

Flaming Cellphones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/2053258

[0]phorm writes "Many of us have heard the urban legend of cellphones
[1]causing fires at the gas pump, but how about the hazards of
replacement batteries? Reuters is carrying a story about a woman whose cellphone [2]burst into flame, causing her superficial burn injuries. According to Nokia, the problem has occured before, and is related to non-brand replacement batteries. For various reasons, these batteries may overheat and catch fire, or even explode! So far I haven't found much info on whether this has happened with other brands of phone, though I do know that my little flip-phone gets very hot when running in analog mode. Perhaps some slashdot readers have had a similar experience?"
Links

    0. mailto:slashdot@phormix.com
    1. 
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/wirelessandmobiletips/story/0,24330,3399097,00.html
    2. 
http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/349004%7Coddlyenough%7C08-21-2003::08:46%7Creuters.html

WIPO Pressured to Kill Meeting on Open Source http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/2014231

panthan writes "The Washington Post has has an article about a proposed meeting of the WIPO concerning open source having been [0]removed from consideration, apparently due to pressure from the US State Department and the USPTO. 'In short order, lobbyists from Microsoft-funded trade groups were pushing officials at the State Department and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to squelch the meeting. One lobbyist, Emery Simon with the Business Software Alliance, said his group objected to the suggestion in the proposal that overly broad or restrictive intellectual-property rights might in some cases stunt technological innovation and economic growth.'" Lawrence Lessig has [1]some comments. Links

0. http://www.detnews.com/2003/technology/0308/22/technology-250851.htm

http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001436.shtml

Red Hat Enterprise 3 Beta Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1921259

viewstyle writes "eWEEK has got a [0]review of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Beta, code named Taroon. It now has the new Red Hat Bluecurve interface. New important stuff includes: logical volume management and access control lists in the file system. The access control list feature is something that has been in Windows and Solaris for some time. If you're interested, you can [1]download it here." Links

0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1228480,00.asp

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/taroon/en/

Open Source at TiVo
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1848248

[0]CowboyRobot writes "[1]ACM Queue has an [2]article by TiVo
co-founder Jim Barton, in which he explains how the company relies on open source technologies to create a closed-source product. A good lesson in how other companies can do the same. From the article: Careful management of our sources to abide by the terms of the GNU General Public License while protecting our proprietary developments is a small price to pay for this benefit." Links

    0. 
http://www.matchstick.com
    1. 
http://www.acmqueue.org/
    2. 
http://acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=53

Confused? Frustrated?

Top University Rankings for 2004 Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1755259

jemecki writes "[0]US News and World Report has posted their annual
[1]rankings for the [2]top colleges and universities in America. Of
particular interest to Slashdotters are the top [3]Computer Engineering and [4]Electrical Engineering universities and the top [5]overall engineering schools. For those that don't want to RTFA, Harvard and Princeton are the best in the country, and MIT, Stanford and Berkeley are the best in Engineering."
Links

    0. 
http://www.usnews.com/
    1. 
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php
    2. 
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/ranknatudoc_brief.php
    3. 
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/engineering/phd/enps05_brief.php
    4. 
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/engineering/phd/enps06_brief.php
    5. 
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/engineering/phd/topprogs_withphd_brief.php

The Trilogy as One
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1723222

[0]jmays writes "New Line is re-releasing 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
and 'The Two Towers' except this time, [1]in their respective extended versions. When? Once each week for the two weeks prior to the opening of 'The Return of the King.'"
Links

0. mailto:jmays@voyager.net

http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1061560805

On Videogame Journalism
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1657245

[0]Michael_Blessed writes "The most [1]incisive critique of games
journalism currently out there. I would say that as I participated, but there's some real illuminating stuff in there. And it's all true - I should know, being a games 'journalist' myself." It's a whole long series - read all 11 parts.
Links

0. http://www.blessedmagazine.com

http://www.insertcredit.com/features/journalism/index1.html

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Freshmeat
2-Disk X window embedded Linux 1.2.0 (Source code) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133436/

2-Disk X window embedded Linux is a tiny net-centric Linux that aims at portable secure remote system usage. It contains many utilities including: X Windows, vncviewer, rdesktop, a Web browser, a file manager, a text editor, a terminal, a window manager, a menu system, a dialog system, X scripting facilities, and many others. It aims to work from 1 or 2 floppy disks in any remote location.

Alpaca 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133512/

Alpaca is a multitasking operating system for Z-80 based arcade hardware. It has been designed to run on both Pac-Man and Pengo based arcade machines, but can easily be ported to other machines with similar architectures. It supports four concurrently running processes, task switching, simple inter-process messaging, semaphores, and a basic window-based graphical interface.

Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module 1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133516/

The Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module is a module for Apache 1.3 that provides functionality for detecting and fighting off DoS attacks and brute force attacks. It does this by adding addresses to a 10-second '403 List' and rejecting rapidly repeated requests for the same URL from the same addresses, using an internal hash table, on a per-child basis. This module can be configured to talk to ipchains, ipfilter, or any other tool designed to push the attack out to the network layer, and provides email notification in the event of an attack.

Atom'o'run 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133510/

In Atom'o'run, the character "Atomio" has to escape from an exploding nuclear bomb. It uses 3D OpenGL for the graphics, while the gameplay is 2D (just jump and run as fast as you can, left to right).

BFilter 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133493/

BFilter is a smart filtering HTTP proxy. It removes ads, webbugs, and popups. Unlike the majority of similar tools, it doesn't rely on a list of blocked URLs, but instead parses HTML on the fly, and detects ads using a set of heuristic rules. BFilter has a built-in JavaScript engine which detects popups and js-generated ads.

Blassic 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133507/

Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language.

CheckRDF 38.7143
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133459/

CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program, for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and in an HTML file. It is highly configurable.

CILib 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133461/

CILib is a framework for developing Computational Intelligence algorithms such as particle swarms, evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, etc.

ColorDesigner 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133456/

ColorDesigner is a small app which lets the user design a color set.

CSVC4XML 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133472/

CSVC4XML (CSV Compaction for XML) leaves intact only the elements required for processing and compacts the other elements to reduce the CPU load and the amount of memory used for XML documents of record forms, such as a checklist and a list of names.

cuckooo 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133469/

cuckooo is a KDE KPart which allows OpenOffice.org to be run inside a Konqueror window or as a standalone application with the KDE look and feel.

cx_Oracle 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133500/

cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle, and conforms to the Python database API specifications. This module is currently built against Oracle 8.1.7 and Oracle 9.2.

dc_qt 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133499/

dc_qt is a Qt GUI for the dctc Direct Connect client. Direct Connect is a peer-to-peer file sharing program similar to IRC.

DHCP-locator 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133460/

DHCP-Locator is a pair of programs/scripts that log the switch IP address, port in switch, MAC address, and IP address when a host is getting an IP address from a DHCP server. It uses ISC DHCP server logs as input. It's excellent for abuse issues in large networks.

Digital Tester 0.3 ALPHA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133480/

Digital Tester can be used by testers as a cost-effective test management solution. By using the built-in reports and third-party tools like Crystal Reports, it will help you analyze your test results, allowing you to quickly identify areas of your application that have bugs.

Divx-like Skin 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133378/

Divx-like Skin is based on a Windows Divx player.

Don't know where to look next?

Ecdysis 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133467/

Ecdysis is a clean, techy LCD theme.

FurthurNET 1.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133481/

Furthur is a peer-to-peer cataloging and music sharing tool that allows a fully enforceable legal sharing model, instant downloads with no waiting lists, in-depth cataloging functionality, and detailed attribute searches.

GiNaC 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133485/

GiNaC (GiNaC is Not a CAS (Computer Algebra System)) is a C++ library for symbolic calculations. It is designed to allow the creation of integrated systems that embed symbolic manipulations together with more established areas of computer science (like computation-intense numeric applications, graphical interfaces, etc.). Contrary to other CASes it does not try to provide extensive algebraic capabilities and a simple programming language but instead accepts a given language (C++) and extends it by a set of algebraic capabilities.

GL-117 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133483/

GL-117 is an OpenGL- and SDL-based action flight simulator written in C++. It provides a random terrain generator, lighting effects, sounds, and joystick support.

GPLIGC 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133482/

GPLIGC is a program to analyze IGC flight data from GNSS flight data recorders used by glider pilots. It can be used to optimize flights for the online contest (2003 rules). It uses Perl/Tk and gnuplot. The openGLIGCexplorer (written in C++) allows one to view the data in 3D with OpenGL, and can also be used as a digital elevation model terrain viewer.

Gtk2-Perl 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133455/

Gtk2-Perl allows Perl developers to write GTK+ 2.x applications. The bindings use an object oriented syntax that attempts to remain close to the C API, but take a Perlish approach where appropriate.

IBGS 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133489/

IBGS is a game server for board games such as chess, go, checkers, and nine nens morris. Data about players and games are stored in an SQL database. The FICS protocol is supported. The IBGS Client is part of this project.

ImageSpace 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133486/

ImageSpace creates 2D images by mutating syntax trees according to user input. The user acts as the fitness function and selects images by aesthetic criteria. Selected images can be rendered and saved in resolutions up to 2048x2048.

Confused? Frustrated?

Issue Dealer 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133503/

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

IzPack 3.1.0b (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133515/

IzPack is a powerful Java installer builder. It is able to create lightweight and modular installers. You have the choice of the installer panels you want to use (some can do the same job, so that you can select the one you prefer), and you even have the choice of the kind of installer that you want to use. IzPack doesn't use any portion of native code, it is designed to be fully independent from the operating system that runs it. It is very easy for the end user with a properly installed JVM to use an installer made with IzPack, since a single "java -jar installer.jar" will launch it.

kavi2svcd 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133454/

kavi2svcd is a GUI for generating MPEG files from an AVI file using transcode and mplex. It then generates a Video CD image using vcdimager and burns to CD with cdrdao. It can generate m1v, m2v, and mpa files, multiplex the MPEG file, generate cue and bin files, and allows the generated command lines to be edited before executing them.

KisMAC 0.05d4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133497/

KisMAC is a stumbler application for Mac OS X that puts your card into monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X, it is completely invisible and sends no probe requests.

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Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 2003-08-22 (Pattern Definitions) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133505/

This project is a filter that classifies packets based on application (or layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, etc, regardless of what port the services are run on. It complements existing filters that classify based on route, port numbers, and so on in the existing Linux QoS infrastructure.

libmelf 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133508/

libmelf is a library interface for manipulating ELF object files. It is designed to be simplistic, powerful, portable, and require very few dependencies.

Liferea 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133519/

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.

LilyPond 1.8.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133463/

LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

linphone 0.12.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133462/

Linphone is a Web phone with a GNOME interface. It let you make two-party calls over IP networks such as the Internet. It uses the IETF protocols SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and RTP (Realtime Transport Protocol) to make calls, so it should be able to communicate with other SIP-based Web phones. With several codecs available, it can be used with high speed connections as well as 28k modems.

Loggerithim 6.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133509/

Loggerithim is an extensible monitoring and remote management package. It allows you to monitor your systems, proactively spot problems, remotely manage, perform post-mortems, throw alerts when bad things happen, predict future needs, and automate adminstration tasks.

mboxstats 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133470/

mboxstats creates top-10 lists of the messages in a mailbox (top writers/subjects/messages per day, etc.).

Mixmos 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133484/

Mixmos is yet another GTK-based OSS mixer program. It's attempt to create a nice and useful soundcard volume control program for Linux.

mudsbuilder 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133504/

Mudsbuilder is a set of tools for the creation of dungeon maps in MUDs. Once a map is created, the user has the ability to generate LPC code from that map for virtually any mudlib. It supports standard (south, north, east, etc.) exits, ups and downs, and miscellaneous exits, such as one-way exits.

noattach 1.1p1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133468/

noattach is a milter that parses the body of email messages from sendmail, checks if the filename of attachments matches one of the regular expressions in a given pattern file, and rejects those emails that match. Filenames are RFC 2047- or RFC 2231-decoded if needed.

photos 4.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133458/

photos is a Web-based photo database for storing metadata about digital photos so you can find them again later. It supports adding photos one at a time, or as a group by directory. It is intended to be run locally but can be run on a remote Web server if you've got the space and the bandwidth.

PHP 2 Do 0.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133488/

PHP 2 Do is a simple todo list with categories, date entered, and date due.

PHPlist 2.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133517/

PHPlist is a mailing list system that allows posting via a Web page. It works well when used for announcements, and can handle very large email address lists. Users can sign up to multiple lists, but will only receive a single copy of cross-posted messages. When signing up, users can identify their geographical location, and messages can be targetted to these. You can add place holders in your email that will be replaced with personal details (such as the person's name). Users can update their own information, and unlike many other mailing list systems, they can change their email address. HTML emails are supported.

phpMyFAQ 1.3.5-beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133476/

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.

pipemeter-shd 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133479/

pipemeter-shd is a commandline filter that displays the data bandwidth passing through a process.

PlanMyDay 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133471/

PlanMyDay helps you plan all the activities that have to be done today. It imports the following entries from your built-in or extra applications: todos, floating events (timed and untimed), and user-defined events. You can assign the duration each of them takes and reorder them as you wish. PlanMyDay calculates (from a given start time) when every item should be finished. After you mark what percent of each entry is finished, the complete timetable is recalculated.

Don't know where to look next?

PowerDNS daemon 2.9.11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133491/

PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases. Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.

PyX 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133495/

PyX is a Python package for the creation of encapsulated PostScript figures. It provides both an abstraction of PostScript and a TeX/LaTeX interface. Complex tasks like 2D and 3D plots in publication-ready quality are built out of these primitives.

RetroForth 6.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133474/

Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based development system. It currently runs under Linux and DOS, or as an operating system.

rubyzip 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133478/

rubyzip is a Ruby module for reading and writing zip files.

Slackware Live CD 2.9.0.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133457/

Slackware Live CD is a 200MB live Linux distribution on CD that is based on Slackware. It features many add-ons, including the scripts required to create your own live CD.

Slibo 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133513/

Slibo aims to be a comfortable replacement for the xboard chess interface, written for OpenGL and KDE. It uses the xboard protocol and can be used with common chess engines like crafty or gnuchess, but it provides its own chess engine too. Though its designed to be easy to use for the new chess player, it supports playing multiple games the same time, or anaylzing PGN files with multiple engines.

Smilehouse Workspace 1.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133464/

Smilehouse Workspace is a Java based e-commerce application for product, order, and customer information management. It can be used for building and managing product catalogs, online stores, Webshops, and b-to-b extranets. It currently runs on Tomcat and has two Web-based interfaces. The first is a themed interface visible to the public, and the second is a separate administration interface for managing both the appearance and content of the published service (users and customers, product information and related files, order information).

songanizer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133501/

songanizer is a script to organize a directory containing Ogg and MP3 files. The script accepts a list of directories in which the real Ogg and MP3 files reside. It then reads information like author, album, and genre from the files' ID3 tags and creates parallel directory structures which just contain symbolic links to the directories in which the real files live. The goal is to create virtual directory structures which give different views of the data without having redundant copies of the files themselves.

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Support Information Tracker 2.0.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133498/

Support Information Tracker is a knowledge base for organizations. Features include multiple document versions, group permissions, document submission reviews, and many more.

System Rescue CD 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133496/

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system available from a bootable CDROM that provides an easy way to perform administrative tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk or backing up data. It contains a lot of system utilities (such as parted, partimage, and fstools), and basic programs (such as editors, midnight commander, and network tools). It also includes QtParted, a Partition Magic clone that makes editing partitons easy with its Qt graphical user interface. This CDROM aims to be very easy to use and accessible to everybody.

terminatorX 3.81
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133494/

TerminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.mp3, etc.) the way hiphop-DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime effects (built-in as well as LADSPA plugin effects), a sequencer, and an easy-to-use GTK+ GUI.

WebForum 0.35.016
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133415/

Webforum is Java Web posting boards for forums. It makes a fast bulletin board with support for i18n, administration, and moderation. No relational database (JDBC) is needed.

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Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 4.7s-Final (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133475/

The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides stable and development kernels for either server or testing purposes. These kernels provide a server kernel and also a service for developers and end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request.

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 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!

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