27.01.01 – 02.02.01
I have brought this next topic up a few months ago and I’m
going to bring it up again, not giving credit where credit is due.
In the past this was happening with people taking modules or hacks
and not giving out credit, now its happening with news posts on web
sites.
Recently the trend seems to be nipping news from another site
and not even bothering to link or mention the site it came from. This
is a horrible practice as you are now ripping someone else’s work and
just taking the credit for your own. It is like a slap in the face
to the person who posted it first. They take the time and effort to
go out and find the news, post about it, just to have another site
come along, rip it, and give no credit.
Something needs to change here people. Everyone is always
going on about community, but it doesn’t seem to apply to the web
sites. Why is this? Are we all not apart of the community? Because
we are more visible than say the average user this makes us exempt
from basic courtesy? When I post in here, I always have a link to
the source, even if I goto a mod coders site and see a post there for
one of their mods, I put that in. The least the news sites could do
is give credit to the other news site that it was ripped from.
Some people seem to think I’m out of line here. That I’m not
thinking too much of myself or the site that I am affiliated with.
This is far from the truth. We all put a ton of effort into our sites
and whether its more prudent to have news on one site or another doesn’t
take away from the fact that someone did the leg work and should get
credit for it. Period.
- demigod
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[ Spotlight ]
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- Crank’s Site
This is a site that I see asked for at least 3 or 4 times a week.
Crank coded the now infamous transirc client. For those of you
who like eyecandy, this is a page for you.
url – http://members.nbci.com/lsthemes/
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[ Shell Of The Week ]
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- Graphite
Coded by mian, this is a totally script driven shell. JS,
VBS, just about any script can be used. Because of this, it
makes for a very powerful themeing engine. For regular end
users, it can be configured via a GUI interface for ease of
use.
url – http://www.graphite.sh
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[ Top News Stories ]
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- A New pLS Build ~ jugg/ender (12:50 29.01 pls)
Yes folks, after months of waiting, a new build of PureLS
has been released. Now, because neither jugg nor ender
decided that keeping a change log made sense, I can’t tell
you what has changed. Just go and download the thing already.
url – http://www.purels.org
(source: PureLS Mailing List ~ Its here! Go grab it.)
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- SharpE Public Beta Released ~ Lowspirit (9:24 31.01 oth)
After months of waiting, SharpE (formally ShareOS) has been
released to the public. While I have tested this shell out
in the past, it has since become much more mature. It is now
totally modular and incorporates everything you are looking
for in a shell. Test drive this baby today.
url – http://www.lowdimension.net
e-mail – lowspirit@mail.bip.net
(source: http://www.lowdimension.net
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- LiteStep.net Design Ripped (01.02 9:39 la)
cccp hoped on irc last night and threw up a url to the most
blatant rip I have ever seen. The really horrible part
about it is not only didn’t they even change the name of the
css file it calls to, but the logo is just a poor rip of
the LiteStep logo.
url – http://www.mmsystems.uk.com/
(source: cccp via irc)
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[ Modules ]
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- Kill Process 1.0 ~ Pavel (9:33 29.01 ls)
Kill process will allow you to kill an active thread or
close a window via bang command.
url – http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/
e-mail – pavel.vitis@seznam.cz
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/)
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- jKey 0.33 ~ jugg (9:47 29.01 ls)
“jKey.dll is Hotkey manager for Win32 Shells. jKey is based
off the idea of LiteStep’s Hotkey.dll, but offers more
features and configuration options with less overhead.”
url – http://jugg.logicpd.com/
e-mail – jugg@dylern.com
(source: http://www.litestep.net)
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- HotSpots 0.55 ~ Pavel (9:17 31.01 ls)
“With Hotspots you can define transparent rectangular areas
on the screen called “hotspots”. You will get ability to
trigger events (execute programs or !bangs) on mouse over, or
on mouse click. You can also attach different cursor shape
to each hotspot.”
New in this version:
- Hotspot can be attached to specified window(s)
idea by: xnowfall <xnowfall@xnowerks.org>
- Add ‘@’ before program name to run it hidden
- Added HotspotsWindowAnimation parameter
- Hotspots are disabled during mouse-dragging
- “Name” parameter in commands/bangs may include
wildcards (see Note below)
- Restoring of application window improved – when
application is already running and “O” (one instance)
flag was used
- Optimizations of window handling code
- Delay time now in 1/100 second ticks (it means, add
0 to all your current Delay parameters)
- Uses new kmhook.dll v1.1
- Adjusted to work on PureLS 28.01.01
url - http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/
e-mail – pavel.vitis@seznam.cz
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/)
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- Bypassload 1.0 ~ Pavel (01.02 9:09 ls)
“This module allows to bypass module loading at Litestep
startup / recycle by holding defined shift key.”
url - http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/
e-mail – pavel.vitis@seznam.cz
(source: http://www.ls2k.org)
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[ Web Sites ]
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- ShellON On The Move
delusional has uprooted and moved on over to a new host.
Along with the move comes a new site design and some info
on the next version of ShellOn, his shell boot manager.
url – http://delusional.psionstyle.co.uk
e-mail – delusional@psionstyle.co.uk
(source: delusional via e-mail)
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[ Latest Builds ]
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- LiteStep
o 24.6 build 010201
o http://builds.litestep.net/builds/ls-0246-dev-20010102.zip
- geOShell
o 4.6.5a
o http://news.geoshell.com/Plugins/Download/geoshellr465a.zip
- PureLS
o 012201
o http://www.purels.org/binaries/01-01-28r.zip
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[ Programs ]
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- Desktop 3.3 ~ Julien (11:16 29.01 sel)
Julien’s SEAL Desktop has now been updated, and this is
a critical update. Along with a bunch of important bug
fixes, he has also included a color changer.
url – http://www.seal.ht.st/
e-mail – julien@pmad.net
(source: http://www.seal.ht.st/)
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- usrutilities 0.1 ~ Jarret Raim (12:04 02.02 ath)
“userutilities are a collections of programs to add and
remove users as well as allow users to change their passwords
forthe AtheOS operating system.”
url – http://www.resnet.trinity.edu/jraim/
e-mail – jarito@gci-net.com
(source: AtheOS Mailing List ~ Release….)
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[ Latest Builds ]
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- SEAL
o 1.0E
o http://michalopoylos.tripod.com/seal/s1e-disk.zip
- V2_OS
o 0.70
o ftp://vp.dyn.dhs.org/0.70/v2_os.img
- AtheOS
o 0.3.0
o http://www.atheos.cx/download/list.php3?0.3.0
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