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[osdn developer] September 07, 2003
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 01:15:51 EDT
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September 07, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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GanttProject 1.9.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=308031
After two release candidate, ganttproject 1.9.8 has been released. Ganttproject is a pure Java application thats lets you plan project using Gantt charts. It uses a file format based on XML and can export into HTML Web pages or PNG images.
Azureus 2.0.2.2 has been released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=307255
Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent Client. This update is strongly recommended as versions 2.0.2.0 and 2.0.2.1 had poor performance. This version includes stability, performance and several bug fixes. The following languages are supported now: Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Both .jar and .exe are available. The setup.exe is bundled with an SWT update.
DWPL 2.4.0 is out
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=308060
DWPL stands for Delphi WDOSX Project Library. This library is for creating native 32-bit protected mode DOS programs with Delphi 5-7 using the WDOSX DOS extender as the core. The goal of the library project is to make the usage of the Delphi/Kylix OpenCLX library easier and to provide support for things which are missing when using Delphi with pure WDOSX. DWPL is a open source library and (like OpenCLX from Borland) released by the GPL licence. DWPL 2.4.0 consists of following parts BaseCLX - Basic runtime library with SysUtils.pas, Classes.pas and more. VisualCLX - GUI user interface currently based on a Turbo Vision like outfit. Units are e.g. QForms.pas and QControls.pas. Most standard GUI elements are implemented. This means that forms designed with the Delphi Form Designer will be displayed in a textmode environment. NetCLX - Currently only Sockets.pas. More units from Delphi internet, xml and soap folders will follow in the future. Memory and Interrupts - Units for doing low level stuff, like direct memory and ports access, DPMI support etc. Changes since DWPL 2.2.0 - cooperative Threads implementation, - TCP/IP stack for native DOS dual target unit Sockets.pas for easy program testing (only available with D6 Professional up) - full support for the new WDOSX 32-bit DOS extender version 0.97b2 (WDOSX extender is included) - exceptions support for handling unresolved DLL function calls - demo projects for TCP/IP with PING, SMB server, FTP server, TCP client socket, Modbus/TCP server and HTTP server included - improved and extended documentation (many thanks to Laszlo who cared about it) Supported Delphi versions - D5 Professional/Enterprise, - all editions of D6 including Personal Open Edition, - D7 Professional/Enterprise/Architect. Pre-compiled binaries for D5 and D7 Standard will be available later. But some features (eg. Sockets.pas unit) are only available with D6 or D7 Professional/Enterprise/Architect. DWP links Homepage of DWPL
http://www.dwp42.org DWPL at SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dwpl/ DWP Mail list
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post your questions, comments and bug reports or mail to
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Gallery v1.4 Release Candidate 3 available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=308054
The third (and, we sincerely hope, last) *release candidate* for Gallery v.1.4, as well as the first release candidate for Gallery Remote v.1.1 are now available. Since RC2, we discovered a small number of critical issues which needed to be resolved before the 1.4 final release, including fixing a conflict with the Config. Wizard and default Red Hat 7.3 installs, as well as an obscure but serious issue relating to a PHP bug in the data serialization in some of the foreign languages. We're putting out one more release candidate in order to be absolutely sure that 1.4 is rock solid in its final release. Gallery is a slick, intuitive web based photo gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great for communities. Version 1.4 premieres some major new features: Gallery is now multilingual, and can be displayed in 18 different languages, with more on the way! In addition, we've completely overhauled the documentation and made it more accessible and more informative. Other changes include ownership of individual album items, not just of albums, and a slew of minor improvements and bugfixes. Other changes for Gallery 1.4 include: * Support for lossless JPEG rotation, and new "flip photo" options * Image size and JPEG EXIF data can be displayed below photos * Data loss prevented if disk space is exceeded * Image dimensions and file size can be restricted * Support for "*" wildcards in search field * Add items to front or back of album * Tons of other feature enhancements and bugfixes In addition, Gallery Remote v.1.1-RC1 is also now available. This new version now sports a preferences dialogue. Also: Proxy and HTTPS support, ability to rotate pictures before uploading them, a more efficient protocol for getting the list of albums, and support for the "Extra Fields" functionality introduced in Gallery 1.3.4. Download: http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more: http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=87
Net-SNMP 5.0.9 released. Security fix!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=308015
Available for immediate download is the Net-SNMP 5.0.9 release. This does contain a security fix so all users are encouraged to update their software immediately. net-snmp provides tools and libraries relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including: An extensible agent, An SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP traps, etc. *5.0.9* SECURITY: - An existing user/community could get access to data in MIB objects that were explicitly excluded from their view. Fixes: - Perl build
environment should better under Windows - Misc kerberos support fixes.
- Improvements on various manual pages. - A annoying bug with SETs
being passed to pass scripts was fixed. - The often talked about VACM
optimization improvement was fixed again. - mib2c handles augmentation
tables better now. - Various 64 bit issues have been addressed.
Slashdot
Using GPS To Prevent Train Crashes In India
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/2147228
dave420 writes "The BBC has an [0]article outlining plans in India to
use GPS technology to alert train drivers of obstructions on the
tracks, automatically stopping the train if the driver fails to take
action. This sounds like a good use of cheaply-available technology to
provide a safer train network."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3080236.stm
Essay Grading Software For Teachers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/0139225
asjk writes "Software to help teachers with grading has been around for
sometime. This is true even with respect to grading essays. A new tool,
called [0]Criteria, will look at grammar, usage, and even style and
organization. It works by being trained by at least 450 essays scored
by two professionals. The difference this time? Here is a snip from the
article: '"There's a lot of skepticism," Dr. Spatola said. "The people
opposed see it dehumanizing the student's papers, putting them through
some sort of mechanical, computerized system like the multiple choice
tests. That's really not the case, because we're not talking about
eliminating the human element. We're making the process more
efficient."'"
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/technology/circuits/04grad.html
More Criticism of SCO's Claims To UNIX
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/2351216
inc_x writes "[0]GROKLAW has a [1]compelling analysis that shows that
SCO's claims that it owns the UNIX operating system are not very
truthful. [2]The Open Group [3]confirms this position: "Statements that
SCO "owns the UNIX operating system" or has "licensed UNIX to XYZ", are
clearly inaccurate and misleading." It seems that SCO finds it
increasingly difficult to distinguish facts from fiction. Last week SCO
claimed 'This IP battle is only one part of SCO's business and is an
add-on component. The core of SCO's business is profitable,' not
bothered by the fact that they had [4]claimed the opposite in their SEC
filing: 'If we do not receive SCOsource licensing revenue in future
quarters and our revenue from the sale of our operating system platform
products and services continues to decline, we will need to further
reduce operating expenses in order to maintain profitability or
generate positive cash flow.'"
Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/
1.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/09/06.html
2.
http://www.opengroup.org/
3.
http://www.opengroup.org/comm/press/unix-backgrounder.htm
4.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/000104746903023599/a2114384zs-3.htmGoogle Removes Kazaa Links, Keeps Sponsored Links http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/224210
[0]SanityInAnarchy writes "Everyone should remember when Google
[1]removed several links that Sharman (owner of [2]Kazaa) claimed were
infringing their copyrights. At first, only real results were touched
and sponsored links [3]left alone. Well, that sponsored link was
removed, but there are quite a few left on a [4]search for 'Kazaa Lite'
that, if they aren't infringing Kazaa copyrights, [5]openly [6]advocate
[7]piracy. Well, maybe not quite, but I still can't believe they expect
that phrases like 'complete albums,' 'full-length movies,' and 'Napster
lives' are to be interpreted as '100% legal.'"
Links
0. mailto:masover@physemp.com
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/1349214&tid=153
2.
http://www.kazaa.com/
3.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=76759&tid=153#6838449
4.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=kazaa+lite&btnG=Google+Search
5.
http://www.mp3downloadhq.com/
6.
http://www.mp3dynamo.com/
7.
http://kazaa.ishareit.com/
Pentium-M In Mini-ITX Format
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/2118254
Hektor_Troy writes "A German outfit is going to [0]introduce a
Pentium-M based mini-ITX board. Finally good performance in a small
size. The manufacturer claims it can be cooled pasively, but I'd like
to see it first." "[1]Good performance in a small size" is relative, of
course -- I like the quiet little EPIA system in front of me pretty
well ;)
Links
0. http://www.epiacenter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50&mode=&order=0&thold=0
AMD64 Preview
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1931238
Araxen writes "Over at [0]Anandtech.com they have an interesting
[1]preview of AMD's 64 bit processor on a Nforce3 mobo. The results are
very impressive with the Anthlon64 beating out Intel's P4 best
processor soundly in their gaming benchmarks. This was only in 32-bit
mode no less! I can't wait for 64-bit benchmarks come out!"
Links
RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1911237
watchful.babbler writes "Having largely failed to galvanize public and political action against P2P systems, the RIAA has [0]mounted a campaign to link P2P systems with child pornography (NYT, reg. required). The result is H. R. 2885 ([1]available via Thomas), which has the remarkably clear and honest intent 'To prohibit the distribution of peer-to-peer file trading software in interstate commerce.' Amongst other things, the proposed law will require the creation of 'do-not-install beacon products' (do-not-ask, you really don't want to know), force P2P apps to include warning labels that users may be exposed to pornography, and require P2P developers and distributors to obtain and store users' personal information -- ostensibly for age verification, but one can think of other reasons that the RIAA might be interested in that info. Worse yet, even given the 'operation exemption' (Sec. (4)(b)(1)(C) in the bill), applications such as AIM and iChat appear to fall under these provisions." Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/technology/07PORN.html?hp=&pagewanted=all&position=
Goodbye, Galileo
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1650249
[0]deglr6328 writes "On the 21st of this month the [1]Galileo Space
Probe, which has been orbiting Jupiter for nearly eight years, will
[2]plummet fatefully into the crushing pressures and searing heat of
that planet's interior. The spacecraft's 14 year journey has brought
the discovery of, among other things, the first [3]moon orbiting an
asteroid, the first remote detection of life on earth when Carl Sagan
used data from an onboard infrared spectrometer to observe the spectral
signature of Oxygen in our atmosphere, it has [4]caught snowflakes of
Sulfur Dioxide as it flew through the [5]plume of an erupting volcano
on Io, [6]snapped pictures of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 as it smashed into
Jupiter's atmosphere and most importantly, provided proof a >60 Km deep
[7]ocean on [8]Europa with hints of oceans on Callisto and
Ganymede([9]listen to Ganymede's eerie sounding plasma wind). And all
this with scarcely more [10]computing power than a late '70s video game
and a maximum data transfer rate of ~120 bits/s over a distance of more
than 600 million Km. In a mission spanning three decades, the Galileo
space probe has answered many of humanity's questions about space and
presented us with the knowledge to ask many more which will be answered
by the [11]next generation of Jovian explorer. Goodnight Galileo."
Links
0. mailto:deglr6328@hotmail_nospam.com
1.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/
2.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030908fa_fact
3.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/images/idacolor.html
4.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast16oct_1.htm
5.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA00703.jpg
6.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/cruise/sl9/wfrag3.html
7.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA01669_modest.jpg
8.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA00502.jpg
9.
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~wsk/galileo/planetfest/gll_g1.wav
10.
http://www.cs.utc.edu/jdumas/cs460/papersfa02/rca1802/
11.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jimo/
New Hampshire to Follow Maine's Lead
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1413244
[0]Timex writes "According to an article from the [1]Portland [Maine]
Press Herald, some seventh-graders in New Hampshire will be [2]issued
laptops in January. 19 school districts have been invited to submit
proposals, and up to five of them will be chosen to lead the way in New
Hampshire. Cabletron Systems co-founder and NH Governor Craig Benson is
getting funding for the four-year project from corporate donations. So
far, he's gathered about half of the estimated $1.2 million estimated
cost."
Links
0.
http://.moc.htimszehc. .ta. .htimsw.
1.
http://www.pressherald.com/
2.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/030903nhlaptops.shtmlFCC Ponders Removing Morse Code Reqs for Amateur Radio Licenses http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1348258
[0]Nalez writes "This story on the ARRL website [1]outlines six
petitions currently in front of the FCC to drop the Morse code
requirement for the amateur radio license exams. Currently the ability
to do Morse code at 5 words per minute is required to operate on the
high frequency bands (below 30Mhz), which are the bands that propagate
best around the world." While this may or may not attract more people
to ham radio, it will make it easier for the novice to use packet radio
devices.
Links
Freshmeat
Asymptopia Flashcard System 1.0j
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135034/
Asymptopia Flashcard System is a C++/Motif flashcard application which replaces paper flashcards. New flashcard contents are entered in LaTeX via interface and converted to .png format via GS. The high-level interface makes it painless. A timer controls frequency of flashcard popups. Enables you to study while surfing the web and otherwise get more out of your time. Supports color, images and anything that's legal LaTeX. Ideal for students.
audio_burn 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135062/
audio_burn is a commandline audio cd burning application written in C. It uses libaudioburn (also written in C) for all of the real work, which in turn uses several other Free Software packages. It accepts WAV, Ogg, and MP3 input files, decodes them, and (optionally) normalizes them before writing them to CD.
aww 0.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135042/
aww (administer wml websites) is a frontend for WML, the Website META Language. It does much more than the wmk tool that comes with WML, and easily be extended with modules.
BATTS 20030906 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135026/
BATTS (Barnhard Associates Trouble Ticketing System) is a lean, elegant trouble ticket system with both command line and Web interfaces, written in Perl. It uses MySQL for its backend, and has a ticket-via-email interface for submission and informational logging. Features include support for tickets pending on or resolved when other tickets are disposed of, an ability to assign tickets to a person, an ability to categorize and prioritize tickets, and associating billing codes with various logging events.
Burgner 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135023/
The Burgner project aims to be a complete free burning suite that is written totally from scratch - it does not include any code from cdrtools (cdrecord and mkisofs) or cdrdao, and is not a front-end for these tools. It can generate ISO images with RockRidge and Eltorito extensions, and burn audio, data, and extra CDs.
Coccinella 0.94.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135015/
Coccinella is a Jabber client with a whiteboard. The whiteboard is a shared desktop which supports text, drawings, images, and multimedia in a number of formats, such as MP3 and video. It runs in two main modes, a peer-to-peer configuration and a mode compatible with the Jabber Instant Messaging system. A flexible plugin architecture may be used to support additional formats. It should run on any machine that runs Tcl/Tk.
CRM Call Tracking 1.8.2-06092003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135030/
CRM allows you to create entities to which you can attach files, place alerts, prioritize, etc. It is multi-lingual and customizable. Installation is done using a simple script.
dnspython 1.2.0b1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135020/
dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports almost all of the record types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0. dnspython provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records.
Elm ME+ PL107 (25)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135019/
Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It can also view digests as a mailbox and reassemble fragmented (message/partial) messages. It includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
emelFM2 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135055/
emelFM2 is the GTK+2 port of emelFM. emelFM2 is a file manager that implements the popular two-pane design. It features a simple GTK+2 interface, a flexible file typing scheme, and a built-in command line for executing commands without opening an xterm.
FreeMind 0.6.0 (Freemind Browser)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135040/
FreeMind is Mind-Mapping tool and an intuitive editor for tree-structured data. It features a modular design, and can be used to edit any kind of data, dependent on the current mode. The data is represented as a Mind-Map, while data, behavior, node style, edge style, color, etc. are determined by the mode. It features one-click fold, unfold, and "follow link" operations.
ganttproject 1.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135033/
Ganttproject is a pure Java application thats lets you plan project using Gantt charts. It lets you easily breaks down a project into tasks, show dependencies, and manage resources. It uses a file format based on XML and can export into HTML Web pages or PNG images.
GBonds 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135032/
GBonds is a savings bond inventory program for GNOME. It allows you to track the current redemption value and performance of your U.S. Savings Bonds and keep a valuable record of the bonds you own. Gbonds is similar in functionality to "Savings Bond Wizard" for Windows distributed by the U.S. Treasury.
GtkTerm 0.99.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135022/
GtkTerm is a serial port terminal written in GTK+ . It is a clone of the famous Hyperterminal. The port can be set up, and the control signal can be toggled. It also supports file transfers and an hexadecimal view of the data.
iftop 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135038/
iftop provides real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified interface, listed by host pairs.
imgtops 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135044/
imgtops contains a pair of commandline utilities for translating between bitmap images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, Targa, BMP, etc.) and Postscript files. It uses Postscript Level 2 and 3 features in order to minimize the size of the output files without reducing image quality.
kcd 7.5.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135049/
kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you.
KernCob Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135012/
KernCob is a project that aims to create a stable Linux 2.4 kernel for the Sun Cobalt (formally Cobalt Networks) Generation III and Generation V Intel-based server appliances.
kShowmail 3.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135031/
kShowmail is a KDE tool for watching for email on POP3 servers. Headers and complete email messages can be displayed, and email can be deleted without downloading. The information can be refreshed via timers, and a sound can be played when new email arrives. External programs like fetchmail/sendmail can be called via configurable menu entries or if new mail arrives. Spam complaints can also be sent via configurable menus.
LargoRecipes 0.9.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135014/
LargoRecipes is an application for managing recipes. It does sophisticated ingredient parsing, handles RecipeML and MealMaster file formats, and generates recipe Web pages. Future plans include integration with an XML database.
leads4web 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135036/
leads4web is a very customizable, multilingual, Web-based Customer Relationship Management solution. It supports different users and roles, comes with email support, customer/companies management, todos, calendar, CR, and Projects Management.
Levenshtein 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135039/
Levenshtein is a Python C extension and C libray to compute Levenshtein string distance, string similarity, normal and generalized string set medians, and other related quantities.
Linux DiskTool 1.2.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135016/
DiskTool is a small, full-featured file manager for the Linux console or an xterm-style terminal. It features file copying, moving, and renaming, file marking for performing the same action on all marked files (such as copy or delete), full directory support such as moving, renaming, and deleting directories, permission and owner support (like chmod and chown), file editing and creation, an RPM manager for installing and inspecting .rpm files, an archive center supporting .tar, .gz, .tar.gz, and .zip files, and fully configurable colors and editor choices. All features are available with single keystroke commands and require very little understanding of Linux. DiskTool is written in Pascal and not in C. The source code is available upon email request, but you will need to install the FPC compiler to compile the modules.
linxvideos 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135059/
linxvideos is software for managing your personal film collection (video files, DivX, DVDs, etc.). It can track who has borrowed your films and can generate HTML forms to send your list to friends.
MacXM 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135051/
MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection.
Menu2WM 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134969/
Menu2WM is an utility that converts an XML document describing the structure of a menu to the format expected by the most common window managers.
neon 0.24.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135041/
neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library for Unix systems, with a C language API. It provides high-level interfaces to HTTP/1.1 and WebDAV methods, and a low-level interface to HTTP request/response handling, allowing new methods to be easily implemented.
Netpbm 10.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135060/
NetPBM (formerly PBMplus) is a package of over 220 programs that convert from one graphics format to another and do simple editing and analysis of images. There are no interactive tools in this package, and nothing that displays graphics of any kind. It is like a non-GUI equivalent of ImageMagick, GIMP, and Adobe Photoshop, etc. Over 100 graphics formats are handled, including JPEG, MPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, XWD, XBM, G3 fax, and special formats used by digital cameras and handheld computers. Over 40 editing functions include scaling,
cropping, quantization and dithering, colorizing and uncolorizing,
blurring, and dimming. Netpbm programs are often invoked by other
programs, for example in CGI scripts that manage web site graphics. It
also includes a C function library which helps you write programs to
process graphics at a lower level than the Netpbm utilities.
Newts 0.12.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135053/
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.
noeGNUd 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135021/
noeGNUd is an alternate ASCII, 2D, and 3D user interface for nethack & slashem that uses SDL and OpenGL.
Nuclear Simulation Java Class Libraries 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135043/
The Nuclear Simulation Java Class Libraries provide infrastructure for creating simulations of low energy nuclear physics experiments, as well as some useful working programs that do simple simulations and analysis of experiments performed with magnetic spectrographs.
Pogo 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135050/
Pogo is a lightweight, elegant, programmable, and highly customizable application launcher for X11.
QMail Installation 1.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135017/
QMail Installation is a small and very practical script that makes it easy to install qmail and other related tools, such as vpopmail, qmailadmin, spamassassin, F-prot, and qmailmrtg.
Qt MySQL Budget 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135056/
Qt MySQL Budget is a GUI that allows the creation of a personal budget. The basic layout is a month selector, a tab for your allocations (budget), a tab for your expenses, and a tab showing the totals. It has a very simple design allowing the quick creation and updating of budgets to help individuals plot and track their monthly sending.
References for TeX and Friends 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135048/
References for TeX and Friends is an ongoing project which provides a help file for LaTeX (and its friends like ConTeXt, Metapost, Metafont, etc.) using a state-of-the-art source format, DocBook/XML. Various output formats can be generated from the source file. Anyone can write a converter for any desired output format. Because the source file is XML, the easiest way to do this might be to use XSLT.
rubrica 1.1.40 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135024/
rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows you to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used to store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export to HTML.
Seagull's Bane 0.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135045/
Seagull's Bane is an automounter daemon for Linux that is designed to work like autofs, but to be more robust in NFS environments.
Search Engine 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134991/
Search Engine is a basic search engine implementation that uses PHP and MySQL. It is based on the theory presented in 'Experiments with a Component Theory of Probabilistic Information Retrieval Based on Single Terms as Document Components' by K. L. Kwow of the City University of New York.
SledgeHammer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135067/
SledgeHammer is a template engine for PHP. It separates business logic and presentation layers into two distinct files. It provides variable replacement, conditional blocks, and loops.
SMS Server Tools 1.12.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135063/
The SMS Server Tools were made to send and receive SMS from one or many GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them. It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call any external program for incoming or outgoing notification.
Sonium Enterprise Addressbook 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135006/
The Sonium Enterprise Addressbook is a directory for addresses with sort functions. It was developed particularly for managing addresses in an enterprise, and it is possible to store additional information with records. The design can be altered using style sheets.
Team Announcement Calendar 0.9 (beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134986/
Team Announcement Calendar is a simple, light-weight event announcement calendar that was designed with ease of installation and simplicity of use in mind.
The Gallery 1.4-RC3 (1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135052/
Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and more. Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.
The Pycadia Project 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135047/
The Pycadia Project is home to vector gaming, python style. Current project members are SpaceWarpy (a clone of the classic "SpaceWar") and Vektoroids (an Asteroids clone). The games are fronted by a configurable, easy to use GUI.
The Squirrel programming language 0.1 pre-alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/134993/
Squirrel is a light-weight programming language (around 6000 lines of code) that features higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, and automatic memory management through reference counting or garbage collection. It has a C-like syntax.
TipiWiki 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135037/
TipiWiki is a small and simple Wiki which favors valid XHTML and provides only basic functions. It does not have extended functions like document versions or user registration. It features valid XHTML 1.0, image links, and basic Wiki functions (backlinks, WikiWords, bold, italic, etc.), and is highly customizable.
Virtual Sound 0.1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135054/
Virtual Sound provides unlimited effects and modulation for sophisticated audio generation, with unique instrument simulation capabilities to craft your own unique soundscapes. All effects are parametrized and their parameters may be controlled through the outputs of other effects, through samples, or through special modulators. Instrument simulation is based on recursively-linked filter networks. Actual instruments can also be simulated by learning the filter parameters using a hidden-control neural network.
wbmtrustees 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135018/
wbmtrustees is a Webmin module that can be used to manage Linux Trustees ACLs.
Web Calendar 2.8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135013/
Web Calendar is a powerful group calendaring and scheduling system. It is a Web based application that makes it easy to publish and manage calendar events on the internet. It includes an impressive set of features, including an easy to use interface, rich functionality, and sophisticated scheduling. It is a CGI application. It runs under your Web server, so to use it, all you need is a browser. There is no proprietary software that needs to be installed on the client side. Web Calendar runs under Unix and Windows.
xcplay 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135064/
xcplay is an ncurses interface to XMMS. The UI is a clone of cplay, but using XMMS as a backend instead of console players, running either as a GUI-stripped daemon or on a virtual X server (Xvfb). Advantages over cplay include seeking for many more formats, detachment, unlimited instances, and console player independence.
Slashcode
How to Allow Longer Subjects?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1923252
An anonymous reader asks: "By default there is a limit on how long a poster's subject can be. Is there a way to get beyond this limitation, so that the subject lines for comments and stories can be longer?" Sure, it's easy... this is a good introduction to using MySQL to customize Slash.
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!
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