Newsletter for Thursday, March 29th 2007

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (46) :::

[001] - Absolute OS 11.0.92
[002] - AIOCP 1.3.015
[003] - Auto Project Planner 1.0
[004] - bug 1.1
[005] - CSS4J 0.6
[006] - cxxtools 1.4.3.4 (Development)
[007] - Desktop Drapes 0.5.1
[008] - EJOE 0.3.9.2
[009] - FlowFlowMania 0.4
[010] - GENPO 0.9.1
[011] - GNU Virtual Private Ethernet 2.01
[012] - GrokEVT 0.4.0
[013] - gwt-hibernate 2007-03-30
[014] - HoneyLattice 0.1
[015] - IDAutomation Universal Barcode Font 7.2
[016] - IzPack 3.10.1 (Stable)
[017] - libuninum 2.3
[018] - Linux LiveCD Router 2.0.23 (VoIP Router)
[019] - Logback 0.9.4
[020] - MESSyFront 17.00
[021] - metaf2xml 1.23
[022] - Mille 0.1
[023] - MOSIX Cluster and Grid Management 2.19.0.4 for Linux 2.6.20.4
(Linux 2.6)
[024] - OpenDBX 1.3.1 (Development)
[025] - OpenVZ kernel 2.6.20-ovz002.1 (2.6.20)
[026] - Parallel BZIP2 1.0.1
[027] - pyxiph 0.5
[028] - rdiffWeb 0.3.5.1
[029] - recordMyDesktop 0.3.4
[030] - seccheck 0.7.4
[031] - Siege 2.66b3 (Beta)
[032] - Simple XML Framework 1.1.3
[033] - SMPlayer 0.3.0
[034] - System Configuration Collector Server 1.5.11
[035] - Talend Open Studio 2.0.0M3 (Development)
[036] - TBarCode/X 7.0.4
[037] - The Frink Language 2007-03-29
[038] - The Life of a Geek 2.0stable (Stable)
[039] - Tiger Envelopes 0.8.4
[040] - TimeTrex Time and Attendance 1.6.0-beta2
[041] - Tntnet 1.5.3.3 (Development)
[042] - WeeChat 0.2.4
[043] - winpdb 1.1.2
[044] - WorldForge::Ember 0.4.3
[045] - xBaK 0.1.1
[046] - Xload 1.2_14

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[001] - Absolute OS 11.0.92
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 12:13

About: Absolute is a lightweight Slackware Linux derivative distribution
that uses an Icewm, ROX-Filer window/file manager combination. It comes
with Firefox, The GIMP, MPlayer, K3B, kTorrent, Gaim, Frostwire, Gftp,
StarDict, Skype, and many other titles all set up and ready to run.
Several utilities are included to ease configuration and management. It is
compatible with all Slackware 11 packages and can be installed just like a
Slackware disk, except that you cannot choose which packages to install or
remove, as it just installs everything.

Changes: Icewm has been recompiled for proper features and memory usage.
This keeps Absolute (with just Firefox) memory usage under 32 MB. This is
the final release in the 11.0.x series. 11.1 will be based on what will be
Slackware 11.1 with the 2.6 kernel.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/absolute-os/

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[002] - AIOCP 1.3.015
by Nicola Asuni (http://freshmeat.net/users/nicolaasuni/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 23:01

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: AIOCP (All In One Control Panel) is a Content Management System
(CMS), a professional all-inclusive solution to completely manage a Web
site or portal through a user-friendly Web-interface. AIOCP is also a
framework for Web application developement and includes e-commerce and
e-business modules. It includes all basic and extra modules: CMS, WYSIWYG
editor, languages, users, menus, forums, news, newsletter, links,
downloads, reviews, awards, chat, polls, calendar, banners, search engine,
statistics, online help, system tools, shell, backup, MIME, whois, ping,
traceroute, MySQL database management, transcoding, custom modules, code
libraries, images, and sounds.

Changes: The main libraries (TCPDF, FCKeditor, phpMyAdmin) were updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - Auto Project Planner 1.0
by don.didi (http://freshmeat.net/users/dondidi/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 22:48

Office/Business
Office/Business :: CRM
Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: Auto Project Planner automatically calculates a proper project plan
based on your effort estimations and the due dates you have in mind. A list
of tasks and a list of employees can be defined. Tasks can be assigned to
one or more employees. It is also possible to define a maximum percentage
value an employee can/should work on a task. Public holidays, leaves,
weekly working hours, and more parameters can be specified and are
considered in the calculation. According to this input, the software
computes time plans by minimizing the MSE (mean squared error) between
expected and computed end dates.

Changes: All remaining known bugs and stability issues have been fixed.
The GUI, the example projects, and the documentation has been reworked.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/project-planner/

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[004] - bug 1.1
by viric (http://freshmeat.net/users/viric/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 08:50

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

About: bug is a simple tracking system for console users. It only depends
on common Unix commands. Its database format is a text file containing
simple tabbed columns which can be even hand-edited. It uses $EDITOR for
submitting or editing the issues and for changing states or priorities. It
relies on four fixed fields: ID, Priority, State, and Subject. There is
also a fifth free-text field for any other information you may want to
store about the issue. There is no database locking or notifications, so
it's mostly for tracking the user's own issues.

Changes: All bashisms have been changed so that the program works with
POSIX sh.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - CSS4J 0.6
by Genus Consulting (http://freshmeat.net/users/genus/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 08:59

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML

About: CSS4J is a Java library that implements the Document Object Model
CSS API and integrates it with the DOM4J package. Helper classes to format
iText PDF objects according to CSS are also provided.

Changes: An early access release of a CSS visual formatting package is
included, among many other changes.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/css4j/

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[006] - cxxtools 1.4.3.4 (Development)
by Tommi Mäkitalo (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmaek/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 23:03

Software Development :: Libraries

About: cxxtools is a library of unrelated but useful C++ classes. It
contains an argument parser, a base-64 encoder/decoder, a C++ interface to
iconv, md5-stream for easy MD5 calculation, threading classes, socket
classes, a dynamic exception-safe buffer, a wrapper for dlopen/dlsym, a
pool template (e.g. for a connection pool in a multi-threaded
application), query_params, and a class for easy parsing of CGI parameters
(GET and POST) in a CGI program.

Changes: This release adds missing error-check in cxxtools::multifstream.
Maximum pool-sizes (cxxtools::Pool) can be changed even after creation.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[007] - Desktop Drapes 0.5.1
by Milosz Tanski (http://freshmeat.net/users/Demie/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 08:52

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Multimedia :: Graphics

About: Desktop Drapes is a wallpaper management application for the GNOME
desktop. It can randomly change your wallpaper every once in a while, or
whenever you feel like it, and can automatically detect new wallpapers
added to a directory by using inotify.

Changes: Numerous bugs were fixed. The way settings are handled is much
more robust now. drapes will no longer magically pick the root for
watching for wallpapers. The translations, documentation, and Debian
package were updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - EJOE 0.3.9.2
by netseeker (http://freshmeat.net/users/netseeker/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 12:14

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Software Development :: Object Brokering

About: EJOE is a lightweight Java client/server component built to send
and receive objects through pluggable (de)serialization mechanisms. It
offers a high-performance, simple, and clean object request broker
(whereby ORB is meant in its natural manner and not in its relation with
CORBA), with server and client components for your client/server
applications. It's a highly scalable implementation of the common
request-process-response pattern based on Java NIO. It does support
optional remote class loading to avoid redundant classpath entries, but
doesn't require stubs and/or proxy objects.

Changes: Some minor bugs and the broken gzip compression were fixed. New
adapters for XMLBeans and JSON Tools were added. This release contains a
factory for dynamic proxy classes and a caching mechanism for native
ByteBuffer objects.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[009] - FlowFlowMania 0.4
by bigbob (http://freshmeat.net/users/bigbob/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 05:15

Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: FlowFlowMania is a remake of the classical puzzle game Pipe Mania
on Linux with GP2X compliance.

Changes: Better font display, a background, and a fix for a segfault that
occurred when two simultaneous streams create a stream leak. Packaging was
improved and a pre-compiled 640x480 i386 version is now available.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - GENPO 0.9.1
by Steve M (http://freshmeat.net/users/merronys/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 12:21

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI

About: GENPO (GENeral Purpose Organ) is a program which replicates the
essential features of any pipe, theatre, or reed organ. It reads a
description of an organ (a .org XML file) and presents a suitable user
interface for operating that organ. There are a number of high quality
organ "SoundFonts" freely available and the .org file maps the stop sounds
to organ manuals and stops. Other facilities such and couplers and presets
are available. You may connect one or more MIDI keyboards to GENPO to
provide the organ manuals, and you can even assign one to be the
'pedalboard' if so desired.

Changes: This release is aimed at improving usability a little, and one
requested feature has been added. The main changes are the addition of
--singlestop mode, and an --outport= option that directs output to a
specified ALSA device. There are also minor performance and build
improvements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - GNU Virtual Private Ethernet 2.01
by Marc A. Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcg1/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 12:18

Communications
Internet
System

About: GNU VPE creates a virtual ethernet by creating host-to-host tunnels
between multiple endpoints. Unlike other virtual private "network"
solutions which merely create a single tunnel, it creates a real network
with multiple endpoints. It is designed to be conceptually simple and
straightforward to setup (assuming prior IP routing knowledge) without
sacrificing flexibility. It is designed to sit on the gateway machines of
company branches to connect them, but it can also be used to tunnel into a
VPN with a variety of protocols (RAW IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, HTTPS-Proxy, DNS).

Changes: The I/O multiplexer was updated to fix some long-standing bugs
surfacing on some architectures. The DNS tunneling protocol has been
stabilised, and experimental support for SHA256 and SHA512 has been added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - GrokEVT 0.4.0
by Tim Morgan (http://freshmeat.net/users/gobbles/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 08:49

Security
System :: Logging
Utilities

About: GrokEVT is a collection of scripts for reading Windows event log
files on Unix. The scripts work together on one or more mounted Windows
partitions to extract all information needed (registry entries, message
templates, and log files) to convert the logs to a human-readable format.

Changes: This is a major release, including several new features. The
grokevt-findlogs script was added, which can accurately detect individual
log entries in raw binary files (such as memory dumps or disk partitions).
The grokevt-dumpmsgs script was added, which can be used to display the log
message templates stored in GrokEVT's databases. The man pages were
converted to docbook templates.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - gwt-hibernate 2007-03-30
by Arnold deVos (http://freshmeat.net/users/andv/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 23:24

Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: gwt-hibernate provides the basics to create a web application that
uses GWT on the front end and Hibernate on the back end. It provides code
generation templates and support classes that allow introspection, data
binding, and validation of POJOs in the browser. Data-bound Form and Grid
widgets are included.

License: Freely Distributable

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gwt-hibernate/

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[014] - HoneyLattice 0.1
by n4n0bit (http://freshmeat.net/users/n4n0bit/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 04:47

System :: Systems Administration

About: HoneyLattice is a simple honeypot system.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - IDAutomation Universal Barcode Font 7.2
by IDAutomation (http://freshmeat.net/users/IDAutomation/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 05:33

Desktop Environment :: Fonts

About: The IDAutomation Universal Barcode Font is a font for creating
multiple linear barcodes. It supports AIM USS Code 128, GS1-128, EAN-128,
Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, MSI, Codabar, USPS OneCode, Postnet, and
Planet.

Changes: A new Universal Java Encoder was included as well as support for
the USPS OneCode barcode and compatibility with Vista.

License: Shareware

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

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[016] - IzPack 3.10.1 (Stable)
by Julien Ponge (http://freshmeat.net/users/JPz/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 09:47

Software Development
System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Software Distribution

About: IzPack is a powerful Java installer builder. It is able to create
lightweight and modular installers. You have the choice of the installer
panels you want to use (some can do the same job, so that you can select
the one you prefer), and you even have the choice of the kind of installer
that you want to use. IzPack doesn't use any portion of native code, it is
designed to be fully independent from the operating system that runs it.
It is very easy for the end user with a properly installed JVM to use an
installer made with IzPack, since a single "java -jar installer.jar" will
launch it.

Changes: This maintenance release brings many fixes and translation
updates. Users are strongly encouraged to migrate installers to this
release.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[017] - libuninum 2.3
by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 04:52

Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Localization
Text Processing

About: libuninum is a library for converting Unicode strings to integers
and integers to Unicode strings. Internal computation is done using
arbitrary precision arithmetic, so there is no limit on the size of the
integer that can be converted. Values are passed and returned as ASCII
decimal strings, GNU MP mpz_t objects, or unsigned long integers.
Auto-detection of the number system is provided. Very many number systems
are supported. Group delimitation for output strings is fully
controllable.

Changes: This release fixes numerous bugs, adds a number of checks for
invalid arguments, and eliminates a number of memory leaks. It also adds
support for Verdurian and for the duodecimal form of Tengwar.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[018] - Linux LiveCD Router 2.0.23 (VoIP Router)
by jaimeghirelli (http://freshmeat.net/users/jaimeghirelli/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 23:53

About: Linux LiveCD Router allows you to share and firewall your broadband
connection and use WiFi. It works with DSL, cable modem, T1, and dial-up
connections and supports inexpensive hardware such as USB and PCMCIA WiFi
and ethernet cards. It does not require a hard disk. It is ideal for high
speed (5 Mbps+) ADSL lines, since most WAN ports on integrated routers do
not support speeds higher than 5 Mbps.

Changes: Linux kernel 2.4.34.1 is now used. Minor changes were made for
saving configuration to hard disks and flash disks. Minor bugs were fixed.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[019] - Logback 0.9.4
by Sebastien Pennec (http://freshmeat.net/users/sebastienpennec/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 12:12

Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
System :: Logging

About: Logback is intended as a successor to the popular log4j project,
and was designed by log4j's founder, Ceki Gulcu. The basic architecture is
sufficiently generic so as to apply under different circumstances. It is
divided into three modules. The Core module lays the groundwork for the
other two modules, whereas the Classic module can be assimilated to an
improved version of log4j. It natively implements the SLF4J API so that
you can readily switch back and forth between logback and other logging
systems, such as log4j or JDK14 Logging. The Access module integrates with
Servlet containers to provide HTTP access log functionality. You can easily
build your own modules on top of the Core module.

Changes: Significant bugfixes have been made to c.q.l.access.TeeFilter.
Images and other binary files are now intercepted and replayed correctly.
As for "x-www-form-urlencoded" post requests, their input buffer is left
untouched. The first version of a plugin for Eclipse that allows
developers to see the logs generated by a running application has been
released.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[020] - MESSyFront 17.00
by Mannequin (http://freshmeat.net/users/mannequin/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 09:48

System :: Emulators

About: MESSyFront is a frontend for the MESS emulator. The main goal of
the project is to get the user into the emulation environment as quickly
as possible. The secondary goal is targeting Tandy Color Computer users
that run Linux (or *nix environments). As interest grows, other target
environments may be added.

Changes: All error or informational messages are now prefixed with
"MESSYFRONT:". The Python script was optimized a bit. Several bugs in the
Python script were fixed. Minor modifications were made to the version
numbering system.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - metaf2xml 1.23
by metaf2xml (http://freshmeat.net/users/metaf2xml/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 12:13

Games/Entertainment :: Simulation
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
Text Processing :: Markup :: XSL/XSLT

About: metaf2xml parses and decodes aviation routine weather reports and
aerodrome forecasts (i.e. METAR and TAF messages) and stores the
components in XML. They can then be converted to text, HTML, or other
formats.

Changes: This release corrects the unit used for QBB and QBJ values. The
Russian translation was improved, and the description for the weather
phenomenon TSGR was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/metaf2xml/

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[022] - Mille 0.1
by n4n0bit (http://freshmeat.net/users/n4n0bit/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 04:47

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Mille is a simple Web-based photo album. It creates HTML pages that
weakly resemble Picasa from Google.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[023] - MOSIX Cluster and Grid Management 2.19.0.4 for Linux 2.6.20.4
(Linux 2.6)
by A. Barak (http://freshmeat.net/users/amnon/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 04:53

System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

About: MOSIX is a management system for Linux clusters and organizational
grids that provides a Single-System Image. In a MOSIX based system, there
is no need to modify or link applications with any library, copy files,
login to remote nodes, or even assign processes to different nodes; it is
all done automatically. Just "fork and forget", like in an SMP.

Changes: This release uses version 2.6.20.4 of the Linux kernel.

License: Free For Educational Use

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

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[024] - OpenDBX 1.3.1 (Development)
by Norbert Sendetzky (http://freshmeat.net/users/nsendetzky/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 04:49

Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries

About: The OpenDBX library provides a unified and consistent API for
software developers to different database management systems. The function
library is written in the C programming language and aims at implementing
access to the native database interfaces efficiently via a thin
abstraction layer. It consists of a basic set of functions that are part
of all vendor database libraries and can be extended by additional
function blocks. Currently, Firebird/Interbase, MS SQL Server, MySQL,
Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite 2 and 3, and Sybase ASE are supported.

Changes: This version enhances the library with a read-only large object
interface, which enables access to blob and clob data stored within a
database. The Firebird backend is the first one that implements this
interface and is now able to fetch data objects up to several GB in size
is smaller chunks. Along with the new interface, the code for the backends
was split into several files, so it is more clearly arranged when
extensions like the large object part will be added. Also, replacing
stdint.h by the inttypes.h include removes an undesired dependency on
automake from the header file.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[025] - OpenVZ kernel 2.6.20-ovz002.1 (2.6.20)
by Kir Kolyshkin (http://freshmeat.net/users/k001/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 05:40

System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

About: OpenVZ is a modified Linux kernel with additional support for
OpenVZ Virtual Environments (VE, also known as VPS). VEs are isolated,
secure environments on a single physical server, enabling better server
utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each VE
performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; VEs can be
rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory,
processes, files, applications, system libraries, and configuration files.
Due to a single kernel model, OpenVZ has native performance and very high
density. It is the core of Virtuozzo.

Changes: This release is an initial port to the 2.6.20 kernel.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - Parallel BZIP2 1.0.1
by Jeff Gilchrist (http://freshmeat.net/users/Jeff_Gilchrist/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 05:03

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Compression

About: PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file
compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP
machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 1.0.2
or newer (ie: anything compressed with PBZIP2 can be decompressed with
bzip2).

Changes: The ability to remove load average support for UNIX systems that
do not support it such as HP-UX and OSF1 was added, making it possible to
compile the program on these systems.

License: BSD License (original)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pbzip2/

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[027] - pyxiph 0.5
by abingham (http://freshmeat.net/users/abingham/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 08:54

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: pyxiph is a collection of Python extensions for Xiph libraries
(such as ogg, vorbis, and ao). The bindings use boost.python and use scons
for the build system.

Changes: An initial version of the FLAC module was added.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[028] - rdiffWeb 0.3.5.1
by JoshN (http://freshmeat.net/users/highjinx53/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 23:10

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: rdiffWeb is a Web interface for browsing and restoring from
rdiff-backup repositories. Restoring folders is supported, as is restoring
older revisions of files. An RSS feed is available for backup status.

Changes: A vulnerability that allowed arbitrary filesystem access to any
authenticated user was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - recordMyDesktop 0.3.4
by iovar (http://freshmeat.net/users/biocrasher/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 05:02

Multimedia :: Video :: Capture

About: recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio and video data
from a Linux desktop session, producing an Ogg-encapsulated Theora-Vorbis
file. The main goal is to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing
only regions of the screen that have changed.

Changes: The behavior of the program when using both the MIT-Shm and
Xdamage extensions was fixed. As a result, less memory is now required and
all options related to conditional usage of shared memory are gone. There
were also some other minor bugifxes, improvements, and changes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - seccheck 0.7.4
by Zazzy Bob (http://freshmeat.net/users/ZazzyBob/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 23:53

Security
System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Operating System

About: Seccheck is a feature rich, modular, host-level security checker
for Solaris 10. Easily expandable with customised modules, Seccheck
produces highly detailed reports based around known and published security
best-practices and guidelines. It also produces recommendations on how to
fix flagged security issues.

Changes: Minor problems were fixed regarding crontab group ownership,
syslog checks, the default module directory, and cron allow/deny files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[031] - Siege 2.66b3 (Beta)
by Jeffrey Fulmer (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdfulmer/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 08:53

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
System :: Benchmark

About: Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress
test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can
read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program
reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response
time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1
protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and
basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.

Changes: This release includes code cleanups and a few minor bugfixes.
Functionally, it's the same as 2.66b2.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - Simple XML Framework 1.1.3
by Niall Gallagher (http://freshmeat.net/users/niallg/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 23:09

Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: Simple is an XML serialization framework for Java. Its goal is to
provide an XML framework that enables rapid development of XML
configuration and communication systems. This framework aids the
development of XML systems with minimal effort and reduced errors. The
framework borrows ideas and concepts from existing XML tools such as C#
XML serialization and other proprietary frameworks, and combines those
ideas resulting in a simple yet extremely powerful tool for using and
manipulating XML.

Changes: Serialization and deserialization of arrays can now be done using
a new array element annotation. The templating system has been enhanced to
support arbitrarty objects within the template map.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[033] - SMPlayer 0.3.0
by rvmsoft (http://freshmeat.net/users/rvmsoft/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 23:58

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Video

About: SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for Mplayer, from basic
features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like
support for Mplayer filters and more. One of the main features is the
ability to remember the state of a played file, so when you play it later
it will resume at the same point and with the same settings. SMPlayer is
developed with the Qt toolkit, so it's multi-platform. An executable for
Windows is also available.

Changes: Drag & drop was improved, so now you can even drag directories or
URLs. Now it's possible to play DVDs disc-images from the hard disc. A new
fullscreen mode was added, and now when the mouse is moved to the bottom
of the screen, the control widget will appear. If the mouse is moved to
the top of the screen, the menu will be shown. A compact mode was added.
Fixes were made for Qt 4. Some new translations have been added for
Slovak, Italian, French, Simplified-Chinese, Russian, and Hungarian.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[034] - System Configuration Collector Server 1.5.11
by Siem Korteweg (http://freshmeat.net/users/siem/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 12:19

System :: Monitoring

About: System Configuration Collector Server generates summaries of
scc-data sent by clients. It offers a Web interface that supports
searching the snapshots and the logbooks of the systems. It also supports
comparing (parts of) the snapshots of systems.

Changes: HTML for tables has been extended to allow formatting with CSS. A
default style.css has been added. A missing main index.html on fresh
installations has been fixed. File transfer is allowed by scc-pull for
non-root users.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/scc-srv/

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[035] - Talend Open Studio 2.0.0M3 (Development)
by Pierrick LE GALL (http://freshmeat.net/users/z0rglub_pierrick/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 09:53

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: Talend Open Studio is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool.
Talend Open Studio can perform jobs that range from datawarehouse feeding
to database synchronization, as well as file format transformations. Its
graphical interface is made with Eclipse RCP, and data related scripts are
generated in Perl. The application was designed to be extended with
components written by users.

Changes: Graphical notes are supported in job designer. Sybase and Oracle
bulk loading was added for Perl generation. Sybase, PostgreSQL, and Oracle
were added for Java generation. PostgreSQL and MySQL bulk loading was added
for Java generation. LDIF support was added for Java generation.
Aggregation was added for Java generation. The ability to run other jobs
was added for Java generation.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - TBarCode/X 7.0.4
by Dominik Seichter (http://freshmeat.net/users/domseichter/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 04:52

About: TBarCode/X can be hooked into your spool system (LPR or CUPS) to
create bar codes during printing automatically. It can also generate and
save any desired bar code to EPS (Postscript), PCL (HPGL), JPEG, PNG, or
GIF files. The generated bar codes can be printed on any PostScript or PCL
printer. TBarCode/X provides automatic check digit calculation, printing
tolerance minimization (OptResolution), bar width reduction (for inkjet
printers), and many other features. It supports all common linear and 2D
bar codes (such as PDF417, MaxiCode, Data Matrix, and QR-Code), in
addition to all RSS Codes and EAN.UCC Composite Codes.

Changes: The ImageMagick dependency was removed. A example was added for
the custom drawing functions. Gray scale and CMYK color spaces are now
supported for PDF output. USPS-4CB and Plessey Code Bi-directional
barcodes were added. Chinese compaction is now supported for QR-Code. The
callback function interface was redesigned. A new modulo-36 check digit
method was added for DPD barcodes.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[037] - The Frink Language 2007-03-29
by Alan Eliasen (http://freshmeat.net/users/eliasen/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 04:59

Education
Internet
Scientific/Engineering

About: Frink is a calculating tool and programming language designed to
help you in the real world. It tracks units of measurement throughout all
calculations and ensures that answers are correct. It converts between
systems of measurement and has a huge library of physical data. It handles
conversions between time zones, currencies, and historical values of the
U.S. dollar and the British pound, translates between several languages,
does date/time math, and more.

Changes: This release adds functions for obtaining the numerator and
denominator of rational numbers, convenience functions for string
processing, and several functions to obtain the structure of expressions
in preparation for upcoming symbolic algebra capabilities.

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[038] - The Life of a Geek 2.0stable (Stable)
by danq (http://freshmeat.net/users/core_dump_0/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 05:00

Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: The Life of a Geek is very silly console game in which you (a geek)
must keep a computer running until you graduate college. Surf around on the
Internet, battling hackers to gain money and better security for your box.
Drink lots of caffeine to keep yourself awake, since if you go to sleep,
you risk an attack on your computer. Save up money to take a month-long
college course and improve your education, but remember that paying
attention to schoolwork also leaves your computer open to attack. Find a
quick job for a month at places like fast-food restaurants and grocery
stores, but remember again that time away from your computer leaves it
open to attack. Viruses may also appear on your computer, weakening your
computer's health points regularly until cleaned.

Changes: Improved randomness, a fix for a bug where more energy drinks
could be bought than the available money allowed, and support for
compiling using Visual C++.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[039] - Tiger Envelopes 0.8.4
by Tiger Privacy (http://freshmeat.net/users/tigerprivacy/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 09:03

Communications :: Email :: Filters
Security :: Cryptography

About: Tiger Envelopes makes encryption automatic with almost any email
program, allowing you to continue reading and writing mail the way you
always have. It installs with one click on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It
automatically configures Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Mac Mail,
and KMail. Tiger is a personal mail proxy server with automatic
encryption. It uses POP3, IMAP, and SMTP to work with almost any mail
client, crypto plugins to work with almost any type of cryptography, and
Java to run on almost any operating system. Plugins for Bouncy Castle,
GPG, and PGP are included.

Changes: If gpg or pgp on your system is not in the path, now you can tell
Envelopes where it is. There is better feedback. On OS X, the close box now
cleanly closes the Control panel.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - TimeTrex Time and Attendance 1.6.0-beta2
by IpSo (http://freshmeat.net/users/ipso2/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 04:50

Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: TimeTrex is a complete Web-based payroll and time management suite
that offers employee scheduling, time and attendance (timeclock,
timesheet/timecard), job costing, invoicing, and payroll in a single
package. Employees can use Web browsers or timeclocks to track their time
and attendance, check their own timesheet for missed punches, and respond
to flagged timesheet errors. Payroll administrators can quickly generate
paystubs and process payroll based off timesheet information or export
timesheet data to other applications.

Changes: This release contains support for multiple currencies, multiple
calendar based accrual policies for calculating PTO/vacation, and the
ability to deposit premium time into accruals. Additional filter criteria
were added for reports along with an improved installer and several other
minor features and bugfixes. Finally, this release contains the ground
work for internationalization and localization support.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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

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[041] - Tntnet 1.5.3.3 (Development)
by Tommi Mäkitalo (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmaek/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 23:07

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries

About: Tntnet is a Web application server for generating Web applications
in C++. HTML pages with some additional tags for inclusion of C++ code are
compiled into shared libraries and served from tntnet. It resembles PHP,
JSP, or Mason, but the programming language used is C++, and the pages are
compiled into native code before serving. Tntnet is fully multithreaded and
supports HTTP keep-alive for best performance. Its dynamic pages are faster
than static pages with other Web servers, while creating Web applications
is simple.

Changes: The license was changed from GPL to LGPL, which allows creation
of closed source Web applications. Poll has been replaced with epoll on
platforms where it is available, which improves performance significantly
on boxes with high load. URLs are now decoded. Listener-threads are
removed, which removes a context-switch when new connections arrive. A
race-condition was fixed, which caused tntnet to segfault on MP-boxes
under high load.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[042] - WeeChat 0.2.4
by FlashCode (http://freshmeat.net/users/FlashCode/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 12:20

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light IRC
client for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard,
and it is customizable and extensible with scripts. Many GUIs are
available (Curses, GTK, and Qt). It is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810,
2811, 2812, and 2813.

Changes: A search function in the buffer history, a "call" option for the
/key command, and event handlers in the plugin API were added. Many bugs
were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[043] - winpdb 1.1.2
by Nir (http://freshmeat.net/users/nir1408/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 05:01

Software Development :: Debuggers

About: Winpdb is an advanced Python debugger. It supports smart
breakpoints, multiple threads, namespace modification, embedded
debugging, and encrypted communication, and is up to 20 times faster than
pdb.

Changes: This release includes many fixes that should make Winpdb more
stable and usable. Script names were changed from _winpdb.py and _rpdb2.py
to winpdb and rpdb. The session interface was modified, compatibility with
various versions of CPython was improved, and tons of bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[044] - WorldForge::Ember 0.4.3
by Erik Hjortsberg (http://freshmeat.net/users/erikhjortsberg/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 12:11

Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: Ember is a 3d client for the WorldForge project. It uses the Ogre
3d graphics library for presentation and CEGUI for its GUI system.

Changes: This release includes the new libwfut library for media updates,
removing the need for an external Java updater. It also has many bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[045] - xBaK 0.1.1
by Guido (http://freshmeat.net/users/guidoj/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 12:20

Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: xBaK is a fan-made remake of the classic Sierra computer RPG
"Betrayal at Krondor". It is a game engine that uses the data files that
came with the original game by Sierra Online. You must already have your
own copy, since the required data files are not distributed with xBaK. The
game is still under development. The intro, the option dialogs, and the
main game dialog are finished, but the game is not yet playable. Several
tools for examining the contents of the data files are also available.

Changes: The preferences dialog is now completed, although not every
individual setting is entirely effective. The preferences are loaded on
startup, and saved when changed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[046] - Xload 1.2_14
by Gubutech microsystems (http://freshmeat.net/users/andyfendleycom/)
Thu, Mar 29th 2007 09:49

Utilities

About: Xload gives Java/JSP developers a feature rich, highly flexible and
versatile file upload/management API component for use inside an
application server or standalone environment. It features JSP integration,
simple client side scripts, partial uploads, uploading to memory, creating
multiple files for a single upload, multiple uploads, file renaming, the
ability to create your own file renaming policy, fine grained failure
conditions for uploads, file management, and more.

Changes: An HTML/JavaScript upload timer (progress monitor) was
introduced. Other performance updates were made.

License: Shareware

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

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