Newsletter for Tuesday, March 27th 2007

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (54) :::

[001] - Advanced Website Creator 1.9.0
[002] - Aubit 4GL compiler 1.00-25
[003] - Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.6.1 (Mac OS X)
[004] - BlogBridge 5.0
[005] - Blokkal 0.0.2
[006] - BusyBox 1.5.0
[007] - cciss_vol_status 1.02
[008] - checksysreport 0.1-8
[009] - Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver 1.0
[010] - Elixir 0.3.0
[011] - Enter 0.0.9
[012] - fetchExc 2.0
[013] - File Ripper 1.0.1
[014] - Gallery 2.2.1 (2.0)
[015] - Gdado 2.1
[016] - Gnome Subtitles 0.3
[017] - hellanzb 0.13
[018] - irrKlang 0.6
[019] - Jaikoz 1.6.1
[020] - jperfmeter 1.4
[021] - Kiwi 1.9.14
[022] - krickscore 0.1
[023] - Laffer 0.3.4
[024] - metacafe-dl 2007.03.27
[025] - Metasploit Framework 3.0 (3.x)
[026] - msort 8.40
[027] - Nagios 3.0a2
[028] - Noble Ape Simulation 0.684 (Carbon Mac OS and Source Code)
[029] - nut 12.4
[030] - octaviz 0.4.6
[031] - Octopussy 0.9.0.6
[032] - PDFreactor 2.0.1544.3
[033] - PHP EMS Tools 2
[034] - PHP Mini SQL Admin 1.4.070327
[035] - pornotube-dl 2007.03.27
[036] - Project Dune 1.2.2
[037] - pytags Beta
[038] - python-gastables 0.1
[039] - Raptor RDF Parser and Serializer Library 1.4.15
[040] - Remuco 0.4.3 (Server)
[041] - Remuco 0.5.0 (Client)
[042] - RestfulBeans 0.2.0
[043] - SafeSQL 2.2
[044] - SkatOS 2.0
[045] - Source Mage GNU/Linux 0.9.6.3 (x86)
[046] - Stoq 0.8.10 (2.x)
[047] - strongSwan 4.1.0
[048] - svninfo 0.7
[049] - The Million Musician Challenge 0.90
[050] - Tulip 3.0.0 Beta 4
[051] - TYPOlight webCMS 2.2.6
[052] - wfCart 1.6
[053] - youtube-dl 2007.03.27
[054] - ZABBIX 1.3.4 (Development)

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[001] - Advanced Website Creator 1.9.0
by Vesselin Atanasov (http://freshmeat.net/users/vesselin/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 12:40

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Software Development

About: Advanced Website Creator is a Web development environment. Created
websites use an MVC framework written in PHP 5 and a simple database
abstraction layer. At present the database layer supports MySQL,
PostgreSQL, and SQLite as backends. All PHP classes are auto-loaded, so
there is no need to include() or require() files manually. Search engine
friendly URLs are supported via mod_rewrite.

Changes: Support for SQLite database back-ends has been added. Possible
SQL injection vulnerabilities in the MySQL back-end have been fixed by
using mysql_real_escape_string() instead of mysql_escape_string(). A
description of the MVC framework has been added to the manual. There are
various small bugfixes.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/awc/

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[002] - Aubit 4GL compiler 1.00-25
by Mike Aubury (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikeaubury/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:23

Database :: Front-Ends
Office/Business
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: Aubit 4GL compiler is a project to make a free Informix-4GL
compatible compiler. It translates 4GL source into executable programs,
enabling fast creation of screen/form-based applications. With support for
SQL statements forming an intrinsic part of the language, it's especially
suitable for developing database-oriented applications. Database
connectivity is provided for PostgreSQL, Informix, and ODBC. It supports
both ncurses (console mode) and GTK+ (GUI mode) output.

Changes: Major and numerous bugs were fixed. New features include
DISPLAY/INPUT ARRAY slicing, a POSTGRES8 direct SQL connection driver (via
libpq), and the CALL aclfgl_call_in_shared(..) built-in function.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aubit4gl/

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[003] - Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.6.1 (Mac OS X)
by napi (http://freshmeat.net/users/napi/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 02:20

Software Development :: Compilers

About: Axiomatic Multi-Platform C (AMPC) is a C to Java class file
compiler suite for the development of platform independent applications.
AMPC can also be used to integrate C and Java programs since AMPC's C
functions can directly call numerous Java methods and vice versa. AMPC
supports ANSI C 1989 (except for the library functions setjmp(),
longjmp(), signal(), and raise()). It can be used to develop new
applications using C as well as port existing applications written in C to
run on JVM enabled devices. A JNI (JVM Native Interface) feature is
available for calling native C or C++ functions. The asm() directive can
be used to embed Jasmin assembly code within C source code. Support for
the SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) based graphics API is available. J2ME
CDC 1.1 for mobile devices is also supported.

Changes: Upon detecting an error the compiler exited without removing the
temporary files. This problem has been fixed. Some scaffolding code in the
compiler was taken out.

License: Other/Proprietary License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ampc/

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[004] - BlogBridge 5.0
by BlogBridge Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/bbteam/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 00:42

Communications
Internet

About: BlogBridge is a new kind of Blog reader. It is designed to allow
non-technical users to discover, follow, and enjoy literally hundreds of
RSS feeds without losing their minds.

Changes: Improved speed and stability, integration with Firefox and
Safari, no polling of hidden feeds, a pin in the search results window,
pinning of status among SmartFeed queries, and a post to blog command with
Wordpress, MovableType, Drupal, and JRoller support. The command features a
rich HTML editor, smart de-duplication, posting to multiple blogs and
categories, and custom publication date.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blogbridge/

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[005] - Blokkal 0.0.2
by Martin Mueller (http://freshmeat.net/users/orvio/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:32

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Blokkal is a KDE blogging client designed to support multiple
protocols and blogging sites. The goal is to provide a uniform way to
access the most-commonly-used blogging systems. Bokkal ships with one
protocol plugin, providing access to blog sites employing the software
from http://www.livejournal.org/, like http://www.livejournal.com/ or
http://www.deadjournal.com/. Support for other protocols can be added
through plugins.

Changes: This release fixes some bugs and adds suport for working offline.
Entries are stored on disk and will be posted to the server the next time
the account goes online. Additionally, entries can be saved to a local
file. The LiveJournal plugin is now capable of editing the friendslist.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blokkal/

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[006] - BusyBox 1.5.0
by Michael Opdenacker (http://freshmeat.net/users/michaelo/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:36

Software Development :: Embedded Systems
System :: Boot :: Init

About: BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a
single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of
the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The
utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured
GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected
functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox
provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded
system.

Changes: This releases brings new features, improvements, and bugfixes for
many applets.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/

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[007] - cciss_vol_status 1.02
by Stephen Cameron (http://freshmeat.net/users/StephenCameron/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 12:44

System :: Diagnostics
System :: Hardware
System :: Monitoring

About: cciss_vol_status is a lightweight program which reports the status
of logical drives on HP Smart Array controllers.

Changes: This release uses SG_IO instead of the deprecated
SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND (only affects MSA1000 users). An error message
typo has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ccissvolstatus/

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[008] - checksysreport 0.1-8
by Pierre Amadio (http://freshmeat.net/users/pamadio/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:13

About: checksysreport performs some automatic tests against a directory
containing an untarred Red Hat Enterprise Linux sysreport. You will need a
valid Red Hat Network login in order to use it, as it fetches information
from RHN using the RHN API (see https://rhn.redhat.com/rpc/api/). A
graphical tool, yadarh, is also included: it uses the cache generated by
checksysreport to display RPMs in a given channel and lets you browse them
to have a list of errata and new entries in changelogs that come with other
versions of the same package.

Changes: RHEL5 is supported. The password is not shown anymore when the
user is prompted by checksysreport. All changelog text is now encoded in
UTF-8 before printing it.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/checksysreport/

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[009] - Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver 1.0
by Wez Dance (http://freshmeat.net/users/JohnKos/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:15

About: The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver provides ODBC access to SQL
Server for ODBC-enabled applications running on Linux and major Unix
platforms. It supports SQL Server 7, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server 2005,
and is fully compatible with the unixODBC Driver Manager, which is included
in the standard product distribution.

Changes: This is the first full release.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/easysoftsqlserverodbc/

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[010] - Elixir 0.3.0
by Gaetan de Menten (http://freshmeat.net/users/gedeon/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 09:04

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: Elixir is a declarative layer on top of SQLAlchemy. It is a fairly
thin wrapper that provides the ability to define model objects following
the Active Record design pattern, and using a DSL syntax similar to that
of the Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord system. It does not intend to replace
SQLAlchemy's core features, but instead focuses on providing a simpler
syntax for defining model objects when you do not need the full
expressiveness of SQLAlchemy's manual mapper definitions.

Changes: This release adds support for reflecting databases with
has_and_belongs_to_many relationships, for a mechanism to prevent
concurrent modifications on a table's rows, and several other minor
features. It also contains miscellaneous fixes.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/elixir/

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[011] - Enter 0.0.9
by Robert Knutsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/rob_dobbs/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 01:49

Desktop Environment

About: Enter is a lightweight, highly customizable login manager for X,
written with Xlib and with minimal dependencies. It is an appropriate
match for lightweight desktop or window managers, when you want all the
features without all the bloat.

Changes: Two separate auth files are now used: one for the server and one
for the user, which provides much better security. It is now possible to
specify which security protocol to use at run-time.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/enter/

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[012] - fetchExc 2.0
by Juhani Rautiainen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jrauti/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 12:41

Communications :: Email

About: fetchExc is a Java utility for fetching mail with WebDAV from MS
Exchange 2000/2003 servers. It is modelled after fetchmail, which does
same for IMAP and POP3.

Changes: Java has been changed from 1.4 to 1.5. The Jakarta HHTTP client
has been upgraded from 2.0 to 3.0. Proxying also works with HTTPS. Code
cleanups. A small fix in mbox saving (in Mac OS X, messages were
coalesced).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fetchexc/

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[013] - File Ripper 1.0.1
by Kristofer Munsterhjelm (http://freshmeat.net/users/kmun/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 08:10

Other/Nonlisted Topic
Utilities

About: File Ripper is a file extractor based on header recognition. It can
be used to recover files from unfragmented disk images where filesystem
information has been lost or otherwise corrupted, or the files have been
inadvertently deleted. It detects and extracts PNG, HTML, GIF, ZIP, LBM,
PBM, ANM, BAT, BAS, RTF, HLP, WAV, WRI, JPG, ARJ, DOS EXE, ANS, ZZT, FRM,
text BAS, BMP, MZB, FLI, MSP, DOC, MZX, GDM, IT, S3M, SAV, BRD, LZH/LHA,
MOD, XM, VOC, SVX, ABM, Quetzal, and certain obscure bulletin board system
formats.

Changes: Support for Corel Draw .CDR was added. A minor compilation error
was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fripper/

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[014] - Gallery 2.2.1 (2.0)
by Chris Kelly (http://freshmeat.net/users/ckdake/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 00:48

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is
easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the
ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection
via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and
more. Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual
authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.

Changes: The plugin administration page was fixed for Italian and Danish
locales. Downloadable Plugins were fixed to prevent upgrading to
incompatible plugins. The authentication step of the installation and
upgrade wizards was made more resilient against interference from other
PHP scripts running on your site. A conflict between WebDAV and other
short URLs was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/the_gallery/

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[015] - Gdado 2.1
by Manolinux (http://freshmeat.net/users/manolinux/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 13:21

Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: Gdado is a very simple application for rolling dices. It is
intended for use in role playing games. It is written in C using GTK. The
Glade project is also provided with the source. Gdado relies on a simple
and clean user interface.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gdado/

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[016] - Gnome Subtitles 0.3
by Pedro Castro (http://freshmeat.net/users/noup/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 09:06

Multimedia :: Video
Text Editors

About: Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It
supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for
subtitle editing, conversion, and synchronization.

Changes: This release features a Character Codings dialog that allows you
to select encodings to be used in file open/save. A Preferences dialog was
also added, allowing you to set whether video files are automatically
chosen when selecting/opening subtitle files. Video times, rewind, and
forward now work correctly on locales that use a comma as a decimal
separator (e.g., French and Polish). A shadow that appeared around the
video image was removed. The window size is now remembered on exit. An
adequate error message is printed when an encoding cannot be used on File
Open. Support for FreeBSD was improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-subtitles/

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[017] - hellanzb 0.13
by Philip Jenvey (http://freshmeat.net/users/pjenvey/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 00:46

Communications :: Usenet News
Internet

About: hellanzb is an application that retrieves and processes NZB files
and makes obtaining files from Usenet as hands-free as possible. Once
fully installed, all that is required is moving an NZB file to the queue
directory. Downloading, par-checking, and un-raring is done automatically
by the program.

Changes: This release added support for NNTP over SSL. Windows related and
other important bugs were fixed.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hellanzb/

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[018] - irrKlang 0.6
by Nikolaus Gebhardt (http://freshmeat.net/users/irrlicht/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 01:44

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Mixers
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: irrKlang is a free high level 2D and 3D cross platform sound engine
and audio library tht plays WAV, MP3, OGG, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, and other file
formats. It can be used by C++ and all .NET languages (C#, Visual
Basic.NET, etc.). It has all of the features common to low-level audio
libraries as well as lots of useful features like a sophisticated
streaming engine, extendable audio reading, single and multi-threading
modes, 3D audio emulation for low-end hardware, a plugin system, multiple
rolloff models, and more. All of these can be accessed via an extremely
simple API using an object orientated design similar to that of the
Irrlicht Engine.

Changes: irrKlang now supports all .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic.NET,
etc.) as well as playback of module file formats like MOD, S3M, IT, and XM
in 2D and 3D. This version is also now compatible with the latest Irrlicht
release (1.3) and includes several bugfixes.

License: Other/Proprietary License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/irrklang/

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[019] - Jaikoz 1.6.1
by paul taylor (http://freshmeat.net/users/paultaylor1/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 01:47

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors

About: Jaikoz is a powerful tag editor that allows you to organize, edit,
and correct thousands of audio tags with ease. Jaikoz has powerful
automation features. Jaikoz uses MusicBrainz and MusicIP, online databases
of over 5 million songs, which can match your songs automtically based on
the actual music as well as the metadata. Jaikoz uses a convenient
spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information very quickly and
provides many autoformatting tasks which do most of the work for you.

Changes: Various bugs were fixed. Additional information is provided to
the console when you open, add, and close files. The button to stop
progress on the progress bar is now labeled Cancel rather than Finish.
Performance when saving many files was improved.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jaikoz/

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[020] - jperfmeter 1.4
by ztony (http://freshmeat.net/users/ztony/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:17

System :: Monitoring

About: JPerfmeter is a simple performance statistics monitor designed in
the style of perfmeter. It requires that the rpc.rstatd daemon be
installed on the monitored system.

Changes: The data may be output to a file (in CSV format). Refactoring was
done. The source is now included in the distribution.

License: BSD License (original)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jperfmeter/

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[021] - Kiwi 1.9.14
by Johan Dahlin (http://freshmeat.net/users/zilche/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:53

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Software Development :: Widget Sets

About: Kiwi is an object-oriented framework for developing graphical
applications using Python. It has a set of classes that provide a solid
application architecture, and a set of high level graphical components
that can be used as drop-in replacements for some of the widgets in PyGTK,
including CList, CTree, Label, OptionMenu, and more. It includes a complete
developer's manual, with examples and screenshots, and full API
documentation.

Changes: A glade-3 plugin, ListDialog and ListContainer, and an RPM .spec
file were added. Right-aligned entry validation was fixed. The ObjectList
search was made case insensitive by default. The gazpacho plugin was
improved. ObjectList cache fixes were made for index/__contains__.
Assertion support was added for UI tests.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kiwi/

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[022] - krickscore 0.1
by Varun Hiremath (http://freshmeat.net/users/varunhiremath/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 13:20

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)

About: krickscore is a simple score ticker for KDE that displays the
latest cricket scores on the taskbar.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/krickscore/

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[023] - Laffer 0.3.4
by slaff (http://freshmeat.net/users/slaff/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 12:45

Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Chat :: AOL Instant Messenger
Communications :: Chat :: ICQ

About: Laffer is a Web-based instant messenger client. It supports ICQ,
MSN, AOL, Yahoo, Jabber, and other messenger networks. Laffer is written
in HTML and JavaScript, and it uses DOM 1.2 and PHP. Laffer is capable of
exchanging text messages, contact list visualization, presence status
visualization, and getting information about the user. No file, audio, or
video exchange is supported at the moment.

Changes: This release adds a Portuguese (Brazilian) translation. The ICQ
protocol handler has been improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/laffer/

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[024] - metacafe-dl 2007.03.27
by rg3 (http://freshmeat.net/users/rg3/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 09:04

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Video

About: metacafe-dl is a small command line program for downloading videos
from metacafe.com.

Changes: This release backports most recent changes from youtube-dl.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/metacafe-dl/

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[025] - Metasploit Framework 3.0 (3.x)
by Metasploit Project (http://freshmeat.net/users/metasploit/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 08:15

Security
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: Perl Modules

About: The Metasploit Framework is a platform for developing, testing, and
using exploit code.

Changes: This version contains 177 exploits, 104 payloads, 17 encoders,
and 3 nop modules. Additionally, 30 auxiliary modules that perform a wide
range of tasks, including host discovery, protocol fuzzing, and denial of
service testing are included. The platform was rewritten from scratch
using the Ruby scripting language.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msf/

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[026] - msort 8.40
by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 01:48

Text Processing
Text Processing :: Linguistic
Utilities

About: Msort sorts files in sophisticated ways. Records may be fixed size,
newline-separated blocks, or terminated by any specified character. Key
fields may be selected by position, tag, or character range. For each key,
distinct exclusions, multigraphs, substitutions, and a sort order may be
defined or locale collation rules used. Comparisons may be lexicographic,
numeric, numeric string, hybrid, random, by string length, angle, domain
name, date, time, month name, or ISO8601 timestamp. Keys may be reversed
so as to generate reverse dictionaries. Optional keys are supported.
Unicode is supported, including full case-folding. Msort itself has a
somewhat complex command line interface, but may be driven by an optional
GUI.

Changes: This release provides a choice between the International
Components for Unicode and utf8proc libraries. utf8proc is a smaller
library with fewer dependencies that is most likely easier to install.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msort/

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[027] - Nagios 3.0a2
by Ethan Galstad (http://freshmeat.net/users/nagios/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 12:42

System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: Nagios (formerly Netsaint) is a daemon written in C that is
designed to monitor networked hosts and services. It has the ability to
notify contacts (via email, pager or other methods) when problems arise
and are resolved. Host and service checks are performed by external
"plugins", making it easy to write custom checks in your language of
choice. Several CGIs are included in order to allow you to view the
current and historical status via a Web browser, and a WAP interface is
also provided to allow you to acknowlege problems and disable
notifications from an internet-ready cellphone.

Changes: This release adds enhanced regular expression matching for
configuration files, and a new option for writing performance data to
named pipes. There are documentation updates and bugfixes for the status
map layout, logging of segfaults, and invalid temp directories.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nagios/

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[028] - Noble Ape Simulation 0.684 (Carbon Mac OS and Source Code)
by Tom Barbalet (http://freshmeat.net/users/barbalet/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 00:47

Games/Entertainment :: Simulation
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence

About: The Noble Ape Simulation creates a random environment and simulates
the ape inhabitants' cognitive processes. It features the Ocelot landscape
rendering engine.

Changes: Intel code additions for SSE, a documentation update, source code
reduction, stability optimizations, and minor bugfixes.

License: OSI Approved

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nobleape/

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[029] - nut 12.4
by Jim Jozwiak (http://freshmeat.net/users/jozwiak/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 12:44

Scientific/Engineering :: Medical Science Apps.

About: nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your
meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference, Release 19, which contains 7,293 foods and
140 nutrients. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats,
calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential
polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed
as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling
in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added
from recipes or food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The
program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.

Changes: This release revises the polyunsaturated fatty acid reference
values.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nut/

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[030] - octaviz 0.4.6
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 01:46

Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: Octaviz is a visualization system for Octave. It is a wrapper that
makes all VTK classes accessible from within Octave using the same
object-oriented syntax as in C++ or Python. It also provides high-level
functions for 2D and 3D visualization. Using those functions, most common
visualization tasks (3D surface plots, contour plots, meshes, etc.) can be
accomplished without any knowledge about VTK.

Changes: 64-bit support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/octaviz/

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[031] - Octopussy 0.9.0.6
by sebthebert (http://freshmeat.net/users/sebthebert/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:13

Internet :: Log Analysis

About: Octopussy is a Perl/XML syslog analyzer, alerter, and reporter.

Changes: An RRDTool graph is used for reports. Basic reports are now
available. An online update for basic reports was added. Minor bugs were
fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/octopussy/

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[032] - PDFreactor 2.0.1544.3
by RealObjects (http://freshmeat.net/users/RealObjects/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:53

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Printing
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: PDFreactor is a formatting processor for converting XML and
XHTML/HTML documents into PDF. It uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to
define page layout and styles. It allows you to dynamically generate PDF
documents such as invoices, delivery notes, and shipping documents
on-the-fly. Vector graphics (SVG), barcodes, and XSLT are supported. All
common J2EE application servers are supported. Direct integration into
automatic build processes using Apache Ant is also possible.

Changes: This maintenance release fixes two issues. First, there was too
much spacing between words in the last line of a paragraph with
"text-align: justify;". Second, it is now possible to center tables using
"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto". The new feature is initial
support for CMYK images (TIFF, JPG, PNG) in PDF files.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdfreactor/

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[033] - PHP EMS Tools 2
by Jason Antman (http://freshmeat.net/users/jantman/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 00:47

Information Management :: Records Management
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: PHP EMS Tools is a package for volunteer and small paid emergency
medical services (EMS) organizations that provides crew scheduling, roster
maintenance and printing, rig checks, maintenance reports, and other
facilities in an easy-to-use Web-based package.

Changes: Many major bugfixes and new features.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/php-ems-tools/

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[034] - PHP Mini SQL Admin 1.4.070327
by osa (http://freshmeat.net/users/osa_ua/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:09

Database
Database :: Front-Ends
Internet

About: PHP Mini SQL Admin is a light, standalone script for accessing
MySQL databases. It is intended for Web developers and requires knowledge
of SQL commands.

Changes: The script now works correctly if short_open_tag=Off in php.ini.
A DB export now contains extended information, such as version, database
name, and date/time. Length tuning of extended inserts in DB export was
improved. The ability to export data from one table to a CSV format was
added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpminiadmin/

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[035] - pornotube-dl 2007.03.27
by rg3 (http://freshmeat.net/users/rg3/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 09:03

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Video

About: pornotube-dl is a small command line program for downloading
videos from pornotube.com, based on the code of youtube-dl. Hence, it has
the same requirements and features, and its syntax is very similar.

Changes: This release backports most recent changes from youtube-dl.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pornotube-dl/

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[036] - Project Dune 1.2.2
by Gerard Toonstra (http://freshmeat.net/users/Chiraz/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 02:29

Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: Project Dune is a Web-based issue tracker that is fully integrated
with source code control systems, which enables code inspections in the
browser. The project aims to automate the full cycle of development, from
estimation to release.

Changes: This release adds connection pooling, reconnecting after broken
connections, a null pointer fix, updates to documentation, better scrum
report, and internally, a separation of business logic and
protocol-specific input handling.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdune/

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[037] - pytags Beta
by KYAAngel (http://freshmeat.net/users/KYAAngel/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 02:44

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: pytags is an easy to use unified API for reading and writing MP3
(ID3v2), FLAC, and Ogg media tags. The unified interface makes editing
tags as simple as three lines of code with no concern for the format
actually being modified. The library attempts to take care of any
differences in the tag formats by sane defaults.

Changes: The ID3 library was switched from eyeD3 to pyid3lib. Many bugs
were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pytags/

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[038] - python-gastables 0.1
by Varun Hiremath (http://freshmeat.net/users/varunhiremath/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 13:20

Scientific/Engineering

About: python-gastables includes Python modules for compressible gas flow
calculations. It includes Python modules for isentropic relations, normal
shock relations, oblique shock relations, Fanno flow, isothermal flow,
Rayleigh flow, and Prandtl Meyer functions.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/python-gastables/

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[039] - Raptor RDF Parser and Serializer Library 1.4.15
by Dave Beckett (http://freshmeat.net/users/dajobe/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 00:47

Software Development :: Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: Raptor is a C library providing a set of parsers and serializers
for Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples by parsing syntaxes into
RDF triples and serializing triples into a syntax. The parsers support
RDF/XML, N-Triples, GRDDDL, and Turtle, and via RSS tag soup: XML RSS,
Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0. The serializers support RDF/XML (3 flavours),
Turtle, DOT, N-Triples, RSS 1.0, and Atom 1.0. Raptor handles RDF/XML as
used by RDF applications such as RSS 1.0, FOAF, DOAP, Dublin Core, and
OWL. It can use either expat or libxml2 for XML parsing, libcurl when
available for URI retrieval, and is portable to many POSIX systems.

Changes: The GRDDL parser was substantially updated to support the GRDDL
W3C Working Draft of 2 March 2007. Error reporting from XML and URIs was
much improved. Several issues were fixed and many other fixes and
improvements were made.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/raptor/

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[040] - Remuco 0.4.3 (Server)
by mondai (http://freshmeat.net/users/mondai/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 00:46

Communications :: Telephony
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: Remuco is a system to remotely control music player software with
Bluetooth enabled mobile devices. It allows you to control various music
players and read music player state information (playing song, current
playlist) on your mobile device. You can use Remuco simultaneously with
two or more mobile devices. Remuco can be used with all mobile devices
with a Bluetooth adapter and Java Micro Editon (JavaME) support.

Changes: Minor enhancements and bugfixes were made. The minimum client
version is now 0.5.0.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/remuco/

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[041] - Remuco 0.5.0 (Client)
by mondai (http://freshmeat.net/users/mondai/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 02:46

Communications :: Telephony
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

Changes: This release introduces a new user interface based on Canvas,
which makes use of a mobile's joystick and number pad and offers a
prettier, themeable UI. The client package now contains three variants of
the client: the new Canvas based one, the traditional one with a more
basic UI, and another new variant for older mobiles supporting only CLDC
1.0 and/or MIDP 1.0. This client version needs Remuco server 0.4.3 or
later.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/remuco/

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[042] - RestfulBeans 0.2.0
by Alexander Tereshkin (http://freshmeat.net/users/alexter/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 00:40

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search

About: RestfulBeans is a high level API for sharing objects between a
server and a Java-based client. The underlying protocol is designed to
expose the data consumed by a rich client to the search engines. The key
properties of the protocol are compliance with the HTTP spec and REST
principles, and XML representation for Java Beans with object references
represented as XLink (to allow search engines to walk through the object
tree). The key API property is the ability to work with remote objects as
if they were local. An application using RestfulBeans is automatically
capable of supplying users with URLs for any content item it deals with.

Changes: Automatic representation/proxy generation for Java Beans (except
those containing indexed properties), HTTP GET and PUT method utilization,
"Redirect to application" support (a features that allows automatic
launching of the rich client when a resource is accessed via a browser),
an initial version of an event framework, and API improvements and
bugfixes.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/restfulbeans/

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[043] - SafeSQL 2.2
by Monte Ohrt (http://freshmeat.net/users/mohrt/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 12:43

Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: SafeSQL is an SQL query processer to automate the tedious tasks of
syntax testing, injection attack-proofing, dropping parts of queries, and
other miscellaneous features. It has only been tested with MySQL syntax,
but any ANSI SQL-92-compliant DB library should work.

Changes: This release adds %n and %N for handling quoted and (non-quoted)
NULL values.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/safesql/

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[044] - SkatOS 2.0
by Bodo Giannone (http://freshmeat.net/users/bgiannone/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 12:42

Games/Entertainment
System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: SkatOS is a bootable, stand-alone distribution which plays the
popular German card game Skat. It fits on a single floppy or CD and uses
VESA 1.1 or higher, a PS/2 or serial mouse, and generic keyboard. It
features full client/server network support for LANs.

Changes: This version adds DHCP client support and allows much easier
configuration of the network device. sWM has been replaced with SkatOSWM.
The menu has been updated to automagically display the current IP address.
Support has been added for many network cards: 3c509/3c579, 3c590/3c900,
AMD LANCE and PCnet, DECchip Tulip, DM9102, EtherExpress 16,
EtherExpressPro/EtherExpress 10, Generic DECchip and DIGITAL EtherWORKS,
RealTek 8129/8139, SiS 900/7016, SMC EtherPower II, and TI ThunderLAN.

License: Freely Distributable

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/skatos/

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[045] - Source Mage GNU/Linux 0.9.6.3 (x86)
by Source Mage ISO Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/sourcemage/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:36

System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: Source Mage GNU/Linux is a source-based Linux distribution based on
a magical metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" programs, which are
referred to as "spells". In multi-tasking style, it downloads the sources
in the background while compiling in the foreground. Source Mage's
"sorcery" offers advanced package management, but retains the choices,
options, and control not offered by many other distributions.

Changes: This is an updated release based on the 0.9.6 version of the
ISOs. While it does not contain any changes in the actual installer
scripts, it does have an updated set of packages/spells based on the 0.7
Stable Grimoire, including an updated version of the Linux kernel.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sourcemage/

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[046] - Stoq 0.8.10 (2.x)
by Johan Dahlin (http://freshmeat.net/users/zilche/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:33

Office/Business :: Financial :: Point-Of-Sale

About: Stoq is a software project aimed at creating a complete suite of
applications for retail business management. It currently includes: a
store front application to register sales; a manager with product,
customers, system users, and suppliers catalogs, and reports of sales and
stock; and an interface for client applications to print sales coupons. In
the future, it will include all the tools needed for a complete retail
business management suite, such as accounting and financial programs.

Changes: The Payable application was added. It is now possible to receive
partial orders. Tax codes used by fiscal printers can now be defined. Many
fiscal printer improvements were made. The Receivable application was
improved, making it possible to receive payments. Support was added for
switching applications and users. Support was added for canceling an item
in a sale order. Keyboard shortcuts were improved. Stock is now shown
properly when using multiple branches. Sevices taxes on fiscal printers
are supported. The ABICOMP codec was implemented for Daruma FS345. Adding
and removing cash to and from Perto Pay2023 is supported.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/stoq/

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[047] - strongSwan 4.1.0
by Andreas Steffen (http://freshmeat.net/users/asteffen/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 00:48

Security
Security :: Cryptography
System :: Networking

About: strongSwan is a complete IPsec and IKEv1 implementation for Linux
2.4 and 2.6 kernels. It also fully supports the new IKEv2 protocol with
Linux 2.6 kernels. It interoperates in both IKEv1 and IKEv2 mode with most
other IPsec-based VPN products. The focus of the strongSwan project is on
strong authentication mechanisms using X.509 public key certificates and
optional secure storage of private keys on smartcards through a
standardized PKCS#11 interface. A unique feature is the use of X.509
attribute certificates to implement advanced access control schemes based
on group memberships.

Changes: This release has been thoroughly tested at the third IKEv2
Interoperability Workshop and beside the traditional IKEv1 capabilities,
offers nearly complete support of IKEv2. New IKEv2 features are the
assignment of virtual IPs via the configuration payload, the basic EAP
authentication framework, as well as the implementation of the Online
Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/strongswan/

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[048] - svninfo 0.7
by Achim D. Brucker (http://freshmeat.net/users/brucker/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 00:39

Software Development :: Version Control
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX

About: svninfo is used to extract the revision and file information
provided by the Subversion revision control system. To present the version
information of a document, one needs to extract it from some kind of text
inserted by the revision control system. Subversion offers therefore the
Id keyword, which is expanded by the Subversion update command and
contains a lot of useful information. This information is made available
through this package.

Changes: This release adds specific support for the Id and Date keywords
generated by svk. The \svnMaxToday command allows the date information of
the most recent part of a multi-part document to be accessed. A bug in the
use of fancyhdr was fixed.

License: The Latex Project Public License (LPPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/svninfo/

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[049] - The Million Musician Challenge 0.90
by musicgame (http://freshmeat.net/users/musicgame/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 14:24

About: The Million Musician Challenge is a project to allow you to play
music by playing games. The first game is a 2D vertically scrolling
shoot-em-up game. The keyboard (qwerty or musical) controls an array of
sprites corresponding to the music notes. As you shoot the falling
sprites, you play notes corresponding to the music. It requires JRE 5.0.

Changes: The software now allows you to download new songs to learn in the
same game. Start with the song 'Good Morning to You' ('Happy Birthday to
You'), and advance up to Beethoven's 'Fur Elise'. This allows more
frequent distribution of new songs and new releases.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/themillionmusicianchallenge/

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[050] - Tulip 3.0.0 Beta 4
by Pat Mary (http://freshmeat.net/users/pmary/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 07:23

Education
Information Management
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Tulip is a software system dedicated to the visualization of huge
graphs. It manages graphs with up to 500,000 elements (node and edges) on
a personal computer (PIII 600, 256MB RAM). Its SuperGraph technology
architecture provides the following features: 3D visualizations, 3D
modifications, plugin support, support for clusters and navigation,
automatic graph drawing, automatic clustering of graphs, automatic
selection of elements, and automatic coloring of elements according to a
metric.

Changes: This release adds new APIs for Tulip libraries, new 2D glyphs,
OpenGL performance improvements and bugfixes, Qt 4.2.2 support, SVG format
support, a new mouse interactor mechanism, many bugfixes, code refactoring,
documentation, GUI improvements, mouse interaction improvements, a plugin
dependencies mechanism, plugin improvements, and a new tlp format.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tulip/

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[051] - TYPOlight webCMS 2.2.6
by Bernhard J. M. Grün (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjmg/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 01:51

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Text Processing :: Indexing

About: TYPOlight webCMS is a powerful Web content management system that
specializes in accessibility and uses XHTML and CSS to generate W3C/WAI
compliant pages. Its key features include a live update feature, multi-
language support, automatic CSS framework generation, a file manager, a
search engine and form generator, versioning and undo, and Web 2.0
support.

Changes: An RSS/Atom feed generator was added. It is now possible to
edit/delete all files at once. The quicklink and quicknav modules now have
custom labels. All elements, modules, and articles now have custom CSS
classes. Groups to content elements were added. Some small bugfixes were
made. Updating to this version is possible via the Live Update feature.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/typolight/

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[052] - wfCart 1.6
by Eadz (http://freshmeat.net/users/Eadz/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 01:49

Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: wfCart (Webforce Cart) is a shopping cart class that cuold be used
as a component of an online store. It is intended for developers who
would rather write their own store than use a complete solution.

Changes: The empty cart function was fixed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wfcart/

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[053] - youtube-dl 2007.03.27
by rg3 (http://freshmeat.net/users/rg3/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 09:03

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Video

About: youtube-dl is a small command-line program for downloading videos
from YouTube.com.

Changes: This release introduces two new options. The -l or --literal
option lets you use the literal video title in the output filename. The -g
or --get-url option makes the program print the final video URL to standard
output and do nothing more. The progress information text has been
redesigned, and there is a new check at the end of the program to verify
that the amount of downloaded data matches the one announced by the Web
server.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/youtube-dl/

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[054] - ZABBIX 1.3.4 (Development)
by Alexei Vladishev (http://freshmeat.net/users/hugetoad/)
Tue, Mar 27th 2007 02:21

System :: Logging
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: ZABBIX is an enterprise-class distributed monitoring solution for
networks and applications. Native high-performance ZABBIX agents allow
monitoring of performance and availability data of all operating systems.

Changes: This release introduces support for auto-discovery, more flexible
notification conditions, support for external checks, and other
functionality.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zabbix/

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