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SLASH: The Slashdot Code The source code for the site is called "Slash". The Slashdot Like Automated Story-telling Homepage. You can download an ancient version of it below. Someday I'll post a new version, but honestly its a lower priority to me than it ought to be. I'm to busy ironing out kinks and adding features to take a couple days and create a distributable tar ball. It'll happen, but not tomorrow. I'm already working pretty much every waking second of the day. There is a preball of v0.3 sitting in the Code Directory which will probably be the only release at v0.3. It includes user accounts, moderation, and other assorted odds and ends. I'm probably going to ditch 0.3 and start work on 0.4 which adds user customization, better moderation controls, and configurable Slashboxes. It'll be out someday. Maybe. I hope. Anyway, you're welcome to use the code, but it is provided with no warranty and no support. You're on your own here, and I can't help you if you have problems (and you will have problems! This is fairly alpha code) you are on your own. The only restriction is that you must put a Slashdot Logo and a link back to Slashdot on any site that uses our code. Beyond that, have a ball. The code is available here: Slash pre0.3 Slash v0.2 (gz | bz2) userdo (gz | bz2) Matthew Sachs has released a beta news daemon that allows a Slash site to serve NNTP. It is very likely that Slashdot will do this soon. Sites that use Slash There are a dozen or so, but I've only recently started keeping track. Send me urls if you have one. Anime Station NetGAMES OnTopofIT Web Crush HairyPALM.com: The PDA InfoQuarters. Myworkflow.com Techdirt.com Be Route (french) Yourtown CLN DNS Policy BarraPunto (spanish) isrec.org Importing of Slashdot Headlines For those who don't know, you can get ultramode.txt to receive a list of headlines for Slashdot. The document is fairly self explanatory, and the rules are simple:Do whatever you want, but don't access the file more than once every 30 minutes. The server is plenty bogged down without adding a hundred stock tickers refreshing themselves every 60 seconds. If this bogs the server down to much, I'll have to take it down, so play fair! I consider this file to be obsolete and its only staying for backwards compatibility. Instead of ultramode.txt, I would instead suggest using either slashdot.xml (which isn't quite valid XML yet) or slashdot.rdf (which is a valid My.Netscape style template). Again, please don't load these more than once every 30 minutes, and don't link directly to my images. Programs that use the Ultramode These programs are provided as-is. They aren't mine, so don't ask questions about them! Contact the authors of the programs instead... Ian Kluft has written WebFetch, a collection of perl scripts used to put the headlines on the SVLUG's homepage. Albert Strasheim has written WWW::Slashdot::Headlines, a perl module that snags headlines for easy usage in perl. Eric Andreychek has a Java Applet on his page. sdweb-0.1 was written by FnordBoy, and it allows you to display headlines on your own web pages pretty easily (assuming you can run perl and finger). Another Headline Grabber by Srijith.K A Perl Headline Grabber from Fred Fahnert Gunnar Hellekson has a java news ticker as well. Gautam Guliani has an Avantgo slashdot Headline channel for Pilots. This Script by Don Rude snags headlines, and when combined with hacked root-tail, displays them to your desktop. Lee Kindness sent us a CSH alias that uses finger/awk to display headlines. Quite spiffy. Bernhard van Staveren has written This Perl Script which snags headlines, and formats them for SSI inclusion. You can witness it in action Over Here Here is Another Slashdot web page scripts by Dave Jacoby. You can get the source code Here. Here is a Headline Grabber written by Evan Felix Steve Kinzler wrote daily email shell script to send you yesterdays headlines. Here is another headline ripper written by Michael Samuel wxSlash is a nice little headline snarfer for desktop usage. It is by Caolan McNamara Samuel Wood modified Gunnar's Java headline ticker to create a Active Desktop Component for *cough* IE4 and IE5 users. Here is another headline ticker. this one by Alex Shnitman. Darxus has hacked in Speech Synthesis to Alex's code. Another Java Ticker was sent in by Ed Watkeys If you're interested in a headline grabber Written in PHP then say thanks to Veigar Freyr for writing it. Here is a ticker that plugs into AOLs tcl/tk IM client. KWebSlashdot is a perl script that sticks Slashdot headlines into your KDE root menu. By Carmelo PIccione defsquad sent us a A mIRC Script for headline slurping. SlashDotView is an XML viewer by Carmen Slasher is nice little windows app for viewing headlines, with a GNOME version coming soon. It comes from the great folks at ClearLogic, Inc. Here is yet another Headline Viewer, this one written by J-P. There are others, but I don't have URLs handy. If you know of 'em, send 'em in.

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