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Greyfox wrote in to say that a chunk of gnew gnome stuff is up. Full set of 0.99.3 tar balls for those livin' on the edge. In a related bit, GVeloper wrote in to mention the new cross referenced gtk documentation at GTK Dev Central Several other folks have commented that yet another Linux Kernel 2.2 prerelease is out. Hit the mirrors if you want it. My favorite BSD Equal Time activist, Jesse Shrieve wrote in to tell us that you can get metal FreeBSD squares to attach to your cases. maphew sent us a link to milo which claims to be a telnetable TRS-80. "I remember when" yada yada. That was my first programming experience. Next, a few Slashdot bits: Epitaph sent us a interesting little piece of Evidence of the Slashdot Effect in Effect: The results of a Petition against Canadian CD-R Tax. rive submitted a simple perl script that converts Slashdot Headlines to Window Maker Menus. Clever. DGibson wrote in to tell us that Slashdot rated Coolest site at Planet Click. Last of all, insanity never stops:An anonymous joker sent us a link to The All Squirrels Must Die page. and William Tanksley sent us a link to the shrunken heads HOWTO. Be afraid.

Greyfox wrote in to say that a chunk of gnew gnome stuff is up. Full set of 0.99.3 tar balls for those livin' on the edge. In a related bit, GVeloper wrote in to mention the new cross referenced gtk documentation at GTK Dev Central Several other folks have commented that yet another Linux Kernel 2.2 prerelease is out. Hit the mirrors if you want it. My favorite BSD Equal Time activist, Jesse Shrieve wrote in to tell us that you can get metal FreeBSD squares to attach to your cases. maphew sent us a link to milo which claims to be a telnetable TRS-80. "I remember when" yada yada. That was my first programming experience. Next, a few Slashdot bits: Epitaph sent us a interesting little piece of Evidence of the Slashdot Effect in Effect: The results of a Petition against Canadian CD-R Tax. rive submitted a simple perl script that converts Slashdot Headlines to Window Maker Menus. Clever. DGibson wrote in to tell us that Slashdot rated Coolest site at Planet Click. Last of all, insanity never stops:An anonymous joker sent us a link to The All Squirrels Must Die page. and William Tanksley sent us a link to the shrunken heads HOWTO. Be afraid.

rive writes "Fltk, a cross-platform object-oriented and generally wonderful LGPL'ed GUI toolkit is no longer public. This is a very sad day, as Fltk is a masterpiece of open-source software. Following is a quote from the official fltk site... "Due to a management change at Digital Domain, fltk is no longer public. Already-distributed versions remain under the LGPL." ". Here is an example of what FLTK can do, and some documentation. I suggest people mirror this stuff quickly... The official mirror is also still up.

Jeff Meininger writes "You can never have enough cool gizmos attached to your computer, and that's the honest truth. Here's a fine example of 'cool gizmo' designed for machines running the BeOS... a twin-tower status indicator for CPU/memory usage. You can read about it at the PulseBox website. It looks like something straight out of your "The Sharper Image" catalog. Here's the best part: It's internal hardware workings are open, and furthermore they even tell you how to make one of your own if you don't want to buy it from them. We really need to see a linux driver written for this gem of a gizmo. "

Gambit32 sent us This link to an excellent WindowMaker page. And I mean excellent. You need a browser that can handle it: it uses layers and JavaScript to simulate the popular WM within your browser. Complete with asclock. Very clever.