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There are a number of ways in which non-programmers can contribute to software projects; documentation and testing are among the most frequently-requested services, but testing that results in useless bug reports accomplishes nothing but frustrating the programmer. Today, Simon Tatham shares what it's like to be on the receiving end of bug reports, and offers suggestions for how you can help resolve problems as quickly as possible. [Comments are disabled]
About: Whowatch is an interactive utility that displays information about the users currently on the machine in real time. Besides standard information (login name, tty, host, user's process) you can see the connection type (ie. telnet or ssh). You can also watch the process tree, navigate it, and send INT and KILL signals. Changes: small bug fix, man page correction and RPM package
About: SMArT is a webconfig tool for MARS_NWE (a Novell NetWare 3.x emulator) Changes: This version fixes a major security bug
About: SDL is a library that allows you portable low-level access to a video framebuffer, audio output, mouse, and keyboard. With SDL, it is easy to write portable games which run on many different platforms. Changes: This will hopefully be the last in the SDL 1.0 series. Changes include: Relative mouse motion works automatically in X11 fullscreen mode; DGA mouse support is now selectable via environment variable; SDL now opens /dev/dsp by default instead of ESD, unless you set the ESPEAKER environment variable; SDL now detects audio cards which are misconfigured on Linux and disables audio at runtime if it detects that audio isn't playing; Alt-Enter functionality has been disabled by default. It is still available programmatically - see the WhatsNew file for details; I now consider the MacOS support to be stable (tested with MacOS 9)
About: Q-LAMP is a statistical tool for Quakeworld which outputs a dynamically generated HTML page.
About: LEGO::RCX.pm is a Perl module to communicate with your Lego MindStorms RCX. It has methods for various things like setting variables, reading sensors, and turning on motors. It has been developed and tested under Linux. Changes: Fixed wrong named method in NQC translation; added getVersion and clearSensor routines; started sensor config code; changed package name from RCX to Lego::RCX and turned it into a proper Perl module with Makefile.pl; added various other new routines.
About: RamFloppy is a single 1.44M floppy Linux boot/rescue system. Read ramf-117.lsm at the site for more info. Changes: Update of some system software. Renamed from zdisk.
About: NeoMail is a web-based email client written in Perl. It provides access to a machine's local mail spools without requiring a POP3 server to be running, and without giving users shell access. It supports sending and receiving attachments, multiple folders, user themes and preferences, templates for interface generation, quotas, language translations, etc. Changes: Split neomail into two scripts, one for mbox-format mail spools, the other for Maildir-format mail spools (the latter is not included in this release, as it needs major code cleanup; see the homepage for details), sorts can now be toggled ascending/descending, new messages are indicated by an icon display (as are attachments), next/previous messages are accessible from the Read Mail screen, and much more.
About: LoopLinux (a.k.a. loopslak) is a way to install and run Slackware Linux from a DOS/Win9x system without repartitioning. It can also be installed to its own Linux partition. Changes: Update of some system software.
About: Cog is a themeable and modularized intranet homepage written in Perl. The aim is to make almost every aspect configurable via the Web interface to give the user the freedom of choice. It includes modules to search various search engines, add links, and display news items, and a simple todo list. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement; several bugfixes, a fixed Search module, and an improved configuration interface.
About: PingoS Tipptrainer is a touch typing trainer that supports German and English keyboard layouts. Changes: A choice between the English and German versions, inclusiuon of the first 5 lessons for the English keyboard-layout, and the splash-screen for each lesson shows a keyboard-picture with all keys you learned before and new keys for the following lesson.
About: Powertweak-Linux is a tool to tune your system to its optimal performance settings. It started life as the replacement for the now obsolete kernel option 'tune PCI bridges', and has been extended to provide more features and support more chipsets. It can also tune network/filesystem performance using /proc/sys entries, disk elevator settings, and x86 CPU registers (needs 2.2.18 or 2.4.0test kernel), CDROM speeds, hdparm type features, and Sony VAIO backlight. It has both a GTK GUI and a text-based lister. Changes: Support for /proc/sys based network & filesystem tuning, major GUI enhancements including pages to support new /proc/sys entries, and a restructuring of the PCI tweaking pages, enhanced Matrox information now works on all Matrox cards and has been rewritten to use mmap(), and some other small bugfixes.
About: Cooledit is a text editor for the X Window System. It contains a built-in Python interpreter for macro programming, and it includes a rich set of utilities and features. It has multiple edit windows and a beautiful, intuitive user interface that requires no tutoring to learn to use. It can be used as a programmer's IDE and has syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It contains an interactive graphical debugger for C/C++ programs. Changes: A built-in rxvt terminal emulator, a print dialog box to print in PostScript, multiple font support in widget library, separation of editor and widget fonts, NeXT look and feel, a smooth scrolling option, a new 'coolproject' shell command, icons for icewm, Fortran syntax highlighting rules, new Zope and sh utilities, gzip/bzip2/compress file support, and bug and memory leak fixes.
About: xremote is a simple tool that lets you grab the mouse and keyboard of another machine and control them with your local mouse and keyboard. It creates a form of remote control of other machines. All mouse- and keyboard-actions on the local machine are forwarded to the remote display. Changes: Some new commandline switches to set a scale factor and delay, a first version of a man-page, improved handling of keycodes, and an improved configure.in to check for C streams header.
About: mpg123-mysql consists of some patches to mpg123 which make it support MySQL. This adds some bells and whistles, including rating support and playlist support. Changes: Closure of the audio device when it gets a SIGTSTP and use of ps(1) to display the song that it is playing.
About: djbdns is a collection of Domain Name System tools. Security is one of the primary motivations for the development of djbdns. Every step of the design and implementation has been carefully evaluated from a security perspective. The djbdns package has been structured to minimize the complexity of security-critical code. dnscache is immune to cache poisoning. It is advisable to use the package as a secure alternative to BIND. Changes: dnscache, tinydns, etc. now accept bogus Ultrix BIND queries and many other violations of RFC 1035. The logs for tinydns et al. now say which queries were answered and which ones were ignored.
About: Compound Interest Calculator is a console calculator program written in C. It accepts both commandline arguments and also will prompt interactively. Changes: Addition of help function checking on the commandline.
About: Analog is a WWW logfile analysis program. It is fast, easy to install and run, very flexible, features multi-language support, produces attractive output, can be run directly or from a form interface, understands any logfile format, and works on any operating system. Changes: Several small bugfixes, a new RUNTIME command, new Brazilian Portuguese language files and Swedish domains files, and corrections to Dutch.
About: BladeEnc is a free, cross-platform, console-based MP3 encoder, based on the ISO reference code. It is mostly intended for high quality encoding in high bitrates.
About: PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available. Changes: Fixes for a couple of issues and security concerns. If you are using PHP's safe mode feature, you are urged to upgrade to the latest release.
About: The Cloak and Dagger Messenger System consists of a series of Perl scripts designed to secure and lock down the reading, composition and sending of E-Mail messages. It does this using three levels of encryption, namely, SSL, encryption of parameters (DES) and OpenPGP. Changes: Initial release before a planned complete rewrite (and possible name change).
About: gsysinfo is a GNOME panel applet, modeled after the "xsysinfo" monitor. It displays system load, CPU usage (broken down by system/user/nice/idle), memory usage (normal/kernel cache/available), and swap space usage. Each of the gauges can be turned on or off, and the colours can be configured as desired. Changes: A bug was fixed which caused the swap usage indicator to behave strangely, and a few other cosmetic changes were made.
About: GTKML (GTK Markup Language) is an XML format for defining GTK user interfaces, including dynamically-bound events. Advantages include easier development, incorporating UI changes without recompiling, interoperability between GTKML-compliant language bindings/frameworks and editors, and end-user customizations/internationalizations. GTKML provides a cleaner organization than GLADE, and is much better suited for use with object-oriented languages. For a C++ binding to GTKML, see the SDPGTK library. Changes: Support for 7 more GTK widgets added.
About: SDPGTK wraps GTK using simple, clean C++ classes and a straightforward hierarchy. It integrates well with existing GTK code, and, unlike existing wrappers for GTK, does not force the developer into a UI "framework". Of particular interest is the sdpGtkObjectContainer class, which implements the proposed GTKML standard, for loading a GTK hierarchy and events from an XML document. Changes: Adds support for 7 more GTK widgets: sdpGtkEventBox, sdpGtkHandleBox, sdpGtkViewport, sdpGtkSeparator, sdpGtkHSeparator, sdpGtkVSeparator, and sdpGtkAspectFrame. The sample application has been cleaned-up significantly and demonstrates the new widgets.
About: PACT is a software package to do complete port accounting for SNMP-manageable devices like routers, hubs, and switches. Administration is done using an HTML interface with dynamic data fed through PHP and MySQL database backend. Changes: Support for SNMP-servers without unique port descriptions added; these could not be accounted on the older versions
About: RRDtool (Round Robin Database Tool) is time-series data storage and graphing utility created by the author of MRTG. Using RRDtool, you can write your own MRTG-like tools in a matter minutes with only a few lines of Perl or shell code.
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