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SourceForge.net Update: 31 March 2010

April 1st, 2010 · Collection

Hi, everyone, and welcome to our monthly SourceForge.net update. If you’re
keeping a collection of these messages, don’t worry that you missed last
month’s – we didn’t have one, because we just didn’t have anything to tell
you.

Planned Geeknet network maintenance

We have planned maintenance in our data center that will require downtime
in April for all Geeknet sites: ThinkGeek, Slashdot, freshmeat, Ohloh, and
SourceForge.net. Unless otherwise noted in our Site Status
(https://sourceforge.net/sitestatus), this work is planned to occur as
follows:

Start: Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 05:00:00 UTC  / Fri 10:00 PM PDT
End: Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 13:00:00 UTC  / Sat 6:00 AM PDT

This work may be cause for sporadic outages on all of the aforementioned
sites. We have a backup window, in case any follow-up work is needed on the
next day, Sunday April 18, during the same time window. Please monitor our
Site Status for updates.

SourceForge.net IRC community

The SourceForge.net support team can be found live online in IRC
(https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Support%20by%20IRC)
during the work week from about 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM Pacific time. In this
channel we provide direct support, review site issues, and a group of
regulars often discuss coding, project organization, tool usage, and other
topics of general interest to the OSS community.

Drop by sometime. We’re on the Freenode.net IRC channel #sourceforge. The
easiest way to connect is to use the Freenode webchat client,
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sourceforge.

Hosted Apps changes

On 26 April 2010 SourceForge.net plans to make a change to the way Hosted
Apps are integrated on the site. We are implementing infrastructure changes
that will allow more user flexibility with Hosted Apps. We’ll be sending
out an email to project members with the specifics in the next two weeks.

Lee Schlesinger
leeschlesinger at users.sourceforge.net

You should follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/sourceforge
You can friend us on Facebook: http://p.sf.net/sf-community/facebook

== March Project of the Month: Arianne ==

Arianne comprises a multiplayer online games framework and engine to
develop turn-based and real-time games, and the various games which use it.

More info: https://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201003/

== April Project of the Month: Mantis Bug Tracker ==

Mantis is an easily deployable, web-based bug tracker.

More info: https://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201004/

With these projects, and for the rest of 2010, we’re highlighting some of
our most venerable projects. Each of these Projects of the Month is one of
about 1,000 that began hosting on SourceForge.net in the site’s first year
of existence, beginning in November 1999.

== Statistics ==

Daily SourceForge.net Stats for 29-Mar-2010:

13,554,123 pages served
2,817,863 files downloaded
224 new projects approved

== Top 25 Projects ==

1. PostBooks ERP, accounting, CRM by xTuple
https://sourceforge.net/projects/postbooks
Free open source ERP, accounting, CRM package for small to midsized
businesses. Runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows (built with open source Qt
framework). Business logic resides in PostgreSQL database. Rich API for
connecting to third-party apps.

2. phpMyAdmin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration
of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases,
create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL
statement, manage keys on fields.

3. 7-Zip
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip
7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program
supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO,
MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.

4. Notepad++
https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus
Notepad++, a source code editor and MS Windows Notepad replacement, has the
mission to offer a greener environment. By optimizing its routines, it
results in reducing CPU power consumption then reducing the world carbon
dioxide emissions.

5. KeePass Password Safe
https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use
password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords in a
highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password or key
file.

6. Arianne RPG
https://sourceforge.net/projects/arianne
Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time
games providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients
like Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds
of players on a solo host.

7. IXThemes
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ixthemes
IXThemes is an implementation of innovative methods in the development of
qualitative universality themes and templates for content management
systems based on the XOOPS Web application platform such as pure XOOPS,
ImpressCMS, EXM System, and others.

8. Openbravo ERP
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openbravo
Openbravo ERP is the professional web-based open source ERP solution
providing unique high-impact benefits: 1) Comprehensive 2) Innovative 3)
Cost effective. | IMPORTANT NOTICE. Openbravo ERP project community is now
active at http://forge.openbravo.com

9. OrangeHRM – Human Resource Management
https://sourceforge.net/projects/orangehrm
OrangeHRM is an Open Source Human Resource Management System that covers
Personnel Information Management, Employee Self Service, Leave, Time and
Attendance, Benefits, and Recruitment. Tags: HRM, HRMS, HCM, HRIS, EHRMS,
Human Capital Management

10. ADempiere ERP Business Suite
https://sourceforge.net/projects/adempiere
ADempiere Business Suite ERP/CRM/MFG/SCM/POS done the Bazaar way in an open
and unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community that includes Subject
Matter Specialists, Implementors and End-Users. We are a community fork of
Compiere.

11. MinGW – Minimalist GNU for Windows
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw
MinGW: A native Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with
freely distributable import libraries and header files for building native
Windows applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to support
C99 functionality.

12. MediaInfo
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo
Get technical information and tags of a lot of multimedia files. Supported
formats : – Video : AVI/OGM/MKV/MPG/VOB/MP4/3GP/… – Audio :
MP3/OGG/MKA/MP4/AAC/…

13. Clonezilla
https://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla
Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone tool similar to Norton Ghost. It
saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla
are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).

14. TCPDF – PHP class for PDF
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf
TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring
external extensions. TCPDF Supports UTF-8, Unicode, RTL languages and HTML.

15. ZK – Simply Ajax and Mobile
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zk1
ZK is Ajax Java framework. With direct RIA, 200+ Ajax components and a
markup language, developing Ajax/RIA as simple as desktop apps and HTML/XUL
pages. Support JSF/JSP/JavaEE/Spring.., Ajax Push, and Ajax script in
Java/Ruby/Groovy/Python/JavScript..

16. Zenoss Core – Enterprise IT Monitoring
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss
Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management application
written in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides an integrated product for
monitoring availability, performance, events and configuration across
layers and across platforms. Zenoss can monito

17. GIMP on OS X
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx
This project provides pre-build GIMP application bundles for Intel and PPC
Macs and tools for building GIMP on Mac OS X easily.

18. FreeCol
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecol
FreeCol is an open version of Colonization. It is a Civilization-like game
in which the player has to conquer the new world.

19. Webmin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/webadmin
A web-based system administration tool for Unix servers and services.

20. TinyMCE
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinymce
TinyMCE is a platform independent webbased Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor
control, developed in JavaScript/ECMAScript, higly customizable. Works in
Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, IE, Safari and Chrome.

21. Task Coach
https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach
Task Coach – Your friendly task manager. Task Coach is a simple open source
todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. Often, tasks and
other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to
deal with composite tasks.

22. Sweet Home 3D
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d
Sweet Home 3D is an interior design Java application for quickly choosing
and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a 3D
preview.

23. DVDStyler
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdstyler
DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the
creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video
files on DVD that can be played on standalone DVD player, but also creation
of individually designed DVD menus.

24. CMU Sphinx
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx
Sphinx is a speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech
recognizer released under a BSD style license. It is also a collection of
open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to
build speech recognition systems.

25. OpenXava
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxava
Framework to develop AJAX JavaEE/J2EE applications rapidly and easily.
Allows to define applications just with POJOs, JPA and Java 5 annotations.
Feature rich and flexible. Generates JSR-168 portlet applications (Liferay,
WebSphere Portal, Jetspeed).

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HostGator.com Newsletter – March 2010

April 1st, 2010 · Collection

Gator Happenings

Hi Qi,

HostGator is proud to announce that we have been recognized by About.com’s web design community as the Best in Reseller Hosting, Cheap or Free Web Hosting, and Best Linux/UNIX web hosting provider for their 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards. We appreciate all of you as our customers coming forward to nominate us during the initial rounds of voting and then to again take the time and effort to select us from our competition. Without you we couldn’t have managed to take such prestigious awards from About.com.

HostGator Windows Beta

Did you know we are beta testing a Windows shared program? Any active HostGator client is eligible to participate at no cost. Windows beta accounts provide the following:

  • Domains: 5
  • Subdomains: Unlimited
  • Disk Space: Unlimited
  • Bandwidth: Unlimited
  • MySQL Db: 5
  • MySQL Db Quota: 5000MB
  • MSSQL Db: 5
  • MSSQL Db Quota: 5000MB
  • Mail Accounts: Unlimited
  • IPs: 1 shared
  • ASP .NET 2 , 3 , 3.5
  • ASP 7.5
  • PHP 5.2.12 CGI / FastCGI / Isapi

If you’ve ever wanted to test out Windows based hosting or just play around with ASP .NET this is the perfect opportunity. We require that you have a domain or sub-domain resolving to your beta account and the account needs to be actually doing something such as displaying a page or using resources in order to remain active. Please understand that this is a beta program and should be used for testing only. This program is subject to end at any time. You can apply by e-mailing windows@hostgator.comwith the subject line “Requesting Windows Beta Account.” Please be sure to include the primary domain on your existing HostGator account in the body of the message. We are only accepting a limited number of applicants, so apply quickly before open spots run out. – The Team at HostGator
HostGator Around the Web
 Did you know that HostGator has an active presence on both Twitter and Facebook? Consider following us on Twitter and/or becoming a fan of HostGator on Facebookto get the latest HostGator news and updates. Rate Your Tickets and Save
 If you have ever submitted a ticket to HostGator’s ticket system, then you have almost certainly seen the line on the bottom of each email that asks you to rate the response you received. To encourage more ratings, we’re going to be entering everyone who rates a ticket into a drawing for a $25 $50 service credit. Rating a ticket takes less than a minute and can save you some money on your next hosting bill. Details can be found here.
3 for 1 VOIPo Special

For a limited time, VOIPo is offering HostGator customers a package of 3 services for the price of 1.   Just order a VOIPo phone service package (unlimited calling to US/Canada starting at $8.25 per month) and get these services free:

1.) FREE Toll-Free Number (Just Pay for Minutes Used)
2.) FREE Fax Account

This is a great way to save some money and have all your communications needs covered.  Statistics show that having toll-free and fax numbers can drastically increase your sales.

Since both of the free services offered normally sell for $4.95 per month each, this is a VERY limited promotion and will end soon.  To take advantage of this, you must use coupon code GATORPACK when ordering VOIPo phone service.  Visit the VOIPo forum post for complete details.

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[OpenDNS] April 2010 Newsletter – Home Edition

April 1st, 2010 · Collection

 What does 1% of the world’s Internet users look like?

Globe

Well, for starters, it looks like you guys. :) That’s right. A full 1 percent of all Internet users in the world are now using OpenDNS.

This is an awesome milestone for the ever-growing OpenDNS community of 18 million smart, technology-conscious and Internet safety-aware people around the world.

OpenDNS provides an array of features that make your Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. But these benefits are only afforded to OpenDNS users. Know someone who isn’t yet using OpenDNS? Tell them about it.

We’re pretty excited that the OpenDNS community accounts for 1 percent of the world’s Internet users and hope you are, too.

 Get to know CacheCheck

Have you met CacheCheck? Oh, you haven’t? Wow. We’re so rude for not making an introduction sooner.

CacheCheck is a first-of-its-kind tool that allows you to manually refresh the OpenDNS caches. Often times when you can’t get to a Web site — but you know it exists — it’s because the site has made some changes and the IP addresses haven’t yet updated. The site is there, but the DNS doesn’t know how to find it.

If this is, in fact, the reason a site isn’t loading for you, all you need to do is visit CacheCheck, enter the domain you’re trying to visit, and voila!

Yes another example of an OpenDNS innovation that gives you more control of your Internet experience.

Check it out.

 Take OpenDNS to Work in April

Take OpenDNS to work

April is Take OpenDNS to Work month!

Here’s the gist: You use OpenDNS at home for a safer, faster, smarter and more reliable Internet. But have you ever thought about how much your company could benefit from OpenDNS, too?

If you’re the IT guy or Systems Administrator, it’s a slam dunk. Enable OpenDNS to boost network performance, and perhaps try some of of our security functionality as well. Our Web content filtering meets the needs of Fortune 500 companies around the world, and we’re confident it can meet yours. If you haven’t yet taken us to work, give it a try.

If you’re not the IT guy, we’d love your help. Send him or her this email. It’s got all of the important details about why OpenDNS is the perfect service for your organization. Then let us know what happens so we can thank you.

The more organizations around the world using OpenDNS, the better a place the Internet will be. Thanks in advance!

 What’s new in OpenDNS Parental Controls

Parental Controls

For parents looking to secure their Internet, it doesn’t get much better than OpenDNS Parental Controls. All you need to do to turn it on is log into your account and choose the categories of content, or individual Web sites, you want to block. If you want to make changes you just log into your account, over the Internet, from anywhere. You can remotely manage the computers at home anywhere you have Internet access.

We’re always working to make OpenDNS Parental Controls better. Recently we’ve added:

  • A new category: Academic Fraud. Excellent for parents looking to keep their kids on the up and up, this category blocks Web sites that promote all types of academic fraud. Term paper buying and selling, cheats and the like.
  • Thousands of new proxy and anonymizer sites that are often used to bypass filtering settings.

If you’re a Parental Controls user and haven’t yet enabled these categories, give ‘em a try.

 

 Have ideas for how OpenDNS can be better? Tell us.

Everything we build is designed with you in mind. We have ideas for cool new features, but we’d also love to hear yours.

The best place to share your great ideas is IdeaBank in the OpenDNS Community. As an account holder you have free reign there and we encourage you to speak up and speak up often. Some of the most loved OpenDNS features were born in IdeaBank and the entire team pays close attention.

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End of life for Tor 0.2.0.x

March 31st, 2010 · Software

We have declared end-of-life for Tor 0.2.0.x. Those Tor versions have
several known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade.

Specifically, the big flaw in Tor <= 0.2.0.35 is that its list of
directory authorities is out of date, so you’ll find it hard to learn
about the network. We’re signing the network status consensus with the
old signatures for now, but we’re going to stop doing that in a few weeks,
which means your Tor 0.2.0.x will fail to find the current network.

The only exception is people using Debian Lenny — our nice Debian
packager is trying to keep that package maintained for you.

As a bonus, if you move to a newer Tor you’ll get significant performance
boosts as a client, and you’ll improve the performance for others as
a relay.

Thanks,
–Roger

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Tor 0.2.1.25 is released

March 31st, 2010 · Software

Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes several minor potential security bugs. People running Tor as a relay should upgrade: https://www.torproject.org/download Changes in version 0.2.1.25 – 2010-03-16 o Major bugfixes: – Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn’t set Address in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269. – When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254. o Minor bugfixes: – Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1255. – Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256. – Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly. Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.

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