If you would like to unsubscribe from XSWeekly at any time, simply send an e-mail to xsweekly-unsubscribe@wuzzle.org and you will be removed. You can e-mail me at demigod@xsweekly.com with any questions, suggestions, etc. XSWEEKLY Shell Related News 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 ---------- [ Mail Bag ] ---------- This weeks mailbag question is: What would you like to see in XSWeekly? e-mail - mailbag@xsweely.com url - http://www.xsweekly.com/mail.html ----------- [ Spotlight ] ----------- - 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/ ------------------- [ Shell Of The Week ] ------------------- - 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 ................................................. -= Shell Specific =- ................................................. ------------------ [ Top News Stories ] ------------------ - 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.) +-------<*>-------+ - 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 +-------<*>-------+ - 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) --------- [ Modules ] --------- - 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/) +-------<*>-------+ - 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) +-------<*>-------+ - 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 - 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/) +-------<*>-------+ - 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) ----------- [ Web Sites ] ----------- - 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) --------------- [ Latest Builds ] --------------- - 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 ................................................. -= Alt OS Specific =- ................................................. ---------- [ Programs ] ---------- - 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/) +-------<*>-------+ - 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....) --------------- [ Latest Builds ] --------------- - 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 .................................... All contents Copyright (c) 1999-2001 XSWeekly. All rights reserved.