30.12.00 – 05.01.01
Well, it looks as if c0mrade has had enough. He has taken
himself out of the top position at litestep.net and handed the
reigns over to his brother. He states on his web site that it is
because of RL and other reasons.
Right now, I don’t know how to feel about this. As just
about everyone knows, I was a very vocal opponent against the joining
of the sites. I was also very vocal against a lot of what c0mrade was
doing. In the last moments before he left, he and I had a bit of a
blow out in #litestep. I am just hoping that this was not the
driving point of his leaving. c0mrade, no matter what his faults,
helped to move LiteStep to a new level. That feat alone deserves
respect.
Now that he is gone, what is to happen to litestep.net? I
don’t think that it will be the focal point of the LiteStep community
as it has in the past. Alot of people visited the site because of
c0mrade. He seemed to bring a certain something to the site that
it will now be lacking. I am not saying that the site will just
up and die, but it will not be the same.
Thanks for everything c0mrade. No matter what has transversed
between us, at least we kept it interesting. Here is to hoping that
RL treats you better than LS did.
- demigod
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[ Mail Bag ]
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This weeks mailbag question is:
Do you think there should be an official LiteStep site?
e-mail – mailbag@xsweely.com
url – http://www.xsweekly.com/mail.html
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[ Spotlight ]
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- LSD4P
Yup, I have done this one already, but I’m going to do it again.
This site just keeps getting better and better. Now _why has
some really interesting updating tools, a new distro out, some
odd comics and a nice History of Disto’s piece up. Stop on over
and enjoy.
http://lsd4p.dx0.org
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[ Shell Of The Week ]
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- Cloud:9ine
“Briefly, Cloud:9ine is a very powerful and highly versatile shell
replacement system. It works on any version from Windows95 or
NT4.0, through to Windows Millennium and 2000.
“The shell uses three main interface sections; a desktop that
allows you access to the system’s menus; a launch menu that
replaces the Windows Start Menu; and host bars that allow you to
add plugins that can do any variety of tasks.”
url – http://www.cloud9ine.com/
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[ Top News Stories ]
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- c0mrade Leaves LiteStep (5.01 16:54 ls)
It seems that c0mrade, the webmaster of litestep.net, has
decided that it is time to move on. From his site:
“Well everybody, the time has come for me to depart due to a
thing called “Real Life” (and some other undisclosed reasons).
This is my last post on this site, so here I come.
“First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who came, comes, and
will come to this site. I’d like to thank everyone for their
support and participation in LiteStep project. I’ve been
here for a long time, and saw a lot of people come and go,
but LiteStep is like mafia, once you are in, you can never be
out. So once again, my humble appreciation to those who has
been here, who’s gone, and who will come to what we call
Community.
“Second of all, I’d like to thank and bow before the DevTeam.
DevTeam includes everyone who has ever been in it, from
Lonerunnr to current group of guys. It’s you people who made
LiteStep what it is now, and we all owe it to you one way or
another. Your efforts appreciated or not have kept this
shell the best of all times at all times :). And of course,
special thanks to Lonerunnr for starting such a wonderful
project.
“And last but not least, I’d like to apologize to everyone
who I might have offended, or have done something that wasn’t
proper or necessary to do. I won’t mention names, but those
people know who they are. Some points I still stand by, but
some of them I wish I could take back, but life’s life,
luckily we don’t yet have time machine, cuz if we did, who
knows what chaos might have been caused :).
“And finally, the new webmaster from this day forth is going
to be my younger (by 25 minutes) twin brother CCCP. He’s
going to take over the project from here, he’s your new
person to give ideas to, to flame, to give your inputs and
opinions to, and the thing is, I don’t know for sure, but
knowing him for 24 years, I’d say you are up for major
changes in everything around here, and I’m sure they are
going to be great ones. One thing I guarantee is that he’ll
take good care of everyone, that’s for sure. I’m no longer
involved in ANYTHING related to this project, for as much as
I’d like to, it’s impossible. I asked my brother to change
all the passwords to all the sites, so I don’t even have
access to that anymore. CCCP is much better than I in PHP,
and he’s just as knowledgable about LiteStep as I am, since
he’s been using it since the day I found out about it. He’s
got all the files to the new rewrite, and is going to
complete the work. He decided not to release current site’s
source due to too much unnecessary work to clean up code
and make it readable. Instead you will see the source for the
new site as soon as it comes out, since it looks more like
the source of something that actually might be shown to the
public without being embarrassed.
“The bottom line is, I truly love LiteStep, I truly loved
to be involved and actually do something useful for the
common cause, and I surely (even with all the bumps on the
road) still love our Community (with capital “C”). Without
the Community LiteStep wouldn’t be what it is now, that’s for
sure.
“So long everybody. It’s been a privilege and pleasure to be
here, but it’s time to move on.”
url – http://www.litestep.net
(source: http://www.litestep.net)
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[ Modules ]
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- geekamp 1.9c ~ azathoth (29.12 16:54 ls)
This is a frontend for winamp. You can control just about
all aspects of winamp via bang commands and use shortcuts
to make your own winamp control center.
New in this version:
- Bugfix: !amp_power works again, thanks to dolphinX or vega
or whoever the hell you are these days for pointing that
one out….
url – http://azathoth.ls2k.org/
e-mail – azathoth@ls2k.org
(source: http://www.ls2k.org)
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- WharfX 0.71 ~ TrOgI (8:59 04.01 ls)
WharfX is an alternative to the core wharf module that comes
with LiteStep. This mod offers any size wharf, multiple
wharfs, and a host of other features.
New in this version:
- Lots of recoding for a smaller dll size and cleaner code.
- Added ability to set each wharf as not topmost and hidden
on startup independently.
- Added wharf groups and changed bang commands to use groups.
- Fixed !WharfMoveTo to accept negative values.
- Fixed !WharfShow to work again (thanks to warren for the
bug report).
- Fixed WharfAutoClose and WharfCloseOnSwitch.
- Added ability to set default/default folder/folder images
for each wharf.
- Added ability to set a wharf cap image for each wharf.
- Added WharfNoMoveOnResChange setting.
- Added ability to set each wharf as vertical/horizontal.
- Added mouseover image to tiles.
- Removed the double click moving stuff (can be done with
bangs).
- Cleaned up sound playing code.
%%UPDATE%% (10:05 05.01)
- Fixed .extract not working for dll files.
- Changed syntax for use of mouseover images.
- Added support for mouseclick images.
url – http://desktopsource.mindjunction.com
e-mail – crouson@inreach.com
(source: LS Mailing List ~ WharfX b0.7!)
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[ Web Sites ]
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- PixolPod Moves ~ Pixol (12:56 04.01 na)
Because of the problems with dTop, Pixol has moved PixolPod
over to ls2k.org. PixolPod is the primary site for Pixol’s
shell swapping program Carapace. It also houses some nice
walls and other interesting items.
url – http://carapace.ls2k.org
e-mail – lcgreen@pixolpod.fsnet.co.uk
(source: http://www.ls2k.org)
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[ Programs ]
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- Pigeon 0.4 ~ _why (9:51 04.01 ls)
The :Pigeon module is designed to automate the install
of LiteStep modules and extensions. It includes some searching
capabilities and knows how to use WinSock to fetch the raw
data from the net.
New in this version:
- Added functionality for builds and themes to be downloaded
so that ppl can download them as soon as I store them in
the repository. Keep your eyes open!
- Some debugging of the sockets.
- Added to default LSD4P v1.2.
%%UPDATE%% (10:06 05.01)
- Socket error reporting. If sockets timeout or fail
or the connection goes down, a Retry/Cancel box should
come up.
url – http://lsd4p.dx0.org
e-mail – whytheluckystiff@mailcity.com
(source: http://lsd4p.dx0.org)
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[ Misc ]
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- lsDrinks 2.21.1 ~ nf0 (02.01 13:39 ls)
This module grabs the headlines from user-configured websites
and “…then creates an Htm link in its folder. Then you can
Look at your popup under the selected folder and see the news.
To follow the link just click on the one you want and it will
open it up in your browser…”. You need to have Perl
installed to use this mod.
New in this version:
- Fixed: Newsforge
- Fixed: Fullon 3D
- Fixed: Dilbert
- Fixed: Mind Junction News
- Fixed: Mind Junction Ideas
- Fixed: EQ Corner
- Fixed: Infoworld
- Fixed: MonkeyFist
- Fixed: LSD4P
- Fixed: Dekstop Engineer
- Fixed: EmuViews
- Removed: DemoNews
- Removed: The Ultimate OS
- Removed: DarkStep
url – http://www.10500bc.org/
e-mail – nf0@10500bc.org
(source: http://www.10500bc.org/
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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 052900
o http://209.46.69.134/purels/binaries/00-05-29r.zip
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[ Web Sites ]
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- Bad Seal Get’s A TLD ~ Bad Sector (12:22 04.01 sel)
Bad Seal can now be viewed via http://www.badseal.org.
Same great layout, same great taste, new url. Stop
by and check it out.
url – http://www.badseal.org
e-mail – michalopoylos@hotmail.com
(source: http://pub8.ezboard.com/bsealsystem)
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[ Misc ]
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- Bad Seal Mailing List ~ Bad Sector (12:37 04.01 sel)
Seems as if Bad Sector has set up a mailing list over at
source forge just for the Bad Seal distro of SEAL.
url – http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sealsystem-badseal
e-mail – michalopoylos@hotmail.com
(source: http://pub8.ezboard.com/bsealsystem)
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[ Latest Builds ]
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- SEAL
o 1D (042900)
o http://www.home.sk/public/seal/sealexe.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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