Newsletter for Sunday, September 30th 2007

::: L I N K S   F O R   T H E   D A Y :::

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2007/09/30/
freshmeat.net newsgroup: news://news.freshmeat.net/fm.announce

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::: A D V E R T I S I N G :::

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

[001] - Arkanoid: Space Ball 1.1.9 (Linux)
[002] - ASCIIMathML 2.0.2 
[003] - BlockHosts 2.1.0 
[004] - cdialog 1.1-20070930 
[005] - Cone 0.72 
[006] - Courier 0.57 
[007] - Courier-IMAP 4.2.0 
[008] - CryptoCD 1.4.3 
[009] - Easy Hosting Control Panel 0.22 
[010] - eric4 4.0.2 
[011] - Faith 2007-09-30 
[012] - feresPost 2.9.11 
[013] - ftwin 0.5.0 
[014] - Gaupol 0.12 
[015] - gElemental 1.2.0 
[016] - GLPI 0.7-RC1 
[017] - GNS-3 0.3 
[018] - GNUnet 0.7.2c 
[019] - Gplib++ 0.1 
[020] - Gpredict 0.9.0 (Stable)
[021] - GradeL 0.8.12 
[022] - jodviewer 0.3 
[023] - JoyWM 0.2.2 
[024] - LBackup 0.9.8p 
[025] - Lekuba 0.1.1 
[026] - libcaca 0.99.beta12 (Development)
[027] - Logapp 0.8 
[028] - Logger 07273.1650 
[029] - Mantissa 7.1 
[030] - OGMRip 0.11.0 
[031] - pam_chroot 0.9.2 
[032] - Pango 1.18.2 
[033] - planetGenesis 1.8 
[034] - PyPE 2.8.8 
[035] - pyrad 1.1 
[036] - QSF Portal 1.4.2 
[037] - QtDMM 0.8.10 
[038] - QTScrobbler 0.6 
[039] - Quicksilver Forums 1.4.1 
[040] - Rhythmweb 0.2 
[041] - Sandbox 1.4.1 
[042] - sifbuilder 1.13.16 
[043] - SoundBridge Commander 0.6 
[044] - SRESI 0.19.13 (Development)
[045] - sysstat 8.0.1 
[046] - Tcl/Tk 8.4.16 
[047] - Tux Math Scrabble 0.4.3 
[048] - ucommon 0.8.1 
[049] - wxCam 0.9.4 
[050] - xd3d 8.3.0 
[051] - Yamon 0.91 
[052] - Yoxel SW 1.17beta 
[053] - Zim 0.21 
[054] - ZRTP Protocol Library 0.9.2 


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::: R E L E A S E   D E T A I L S :::

[001] - Arkanoid: Space Ball 1.1.9 (Linux)
  by Andrey Ugolnik (http://freshmeat.net/users/andreyu/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:53

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Arkanoid: Space Ball is an unusual and picturesque game with a
futuristic atmosphere, modern techno-style graphics, dynamic gameplay, and
an excellent soundtrack. The goal of the game is to clear a lot of
platforms soaring in space while meteorites, spacecraft, and enemy guns
constantly threaten your life. Numerous bonuses drop out from the broken
blocks to help you to pass obstacles such as lasers, rocket launchers, and
force fields. Its special features include horizontally oriented break
block formation, moving and shooting bricks, and gravitational anomalies. 

License: Freeware

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

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[002] - ASCIIMathML 2.0.2 
  by Peter Jipsen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jipsen/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:13

Education
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based

About: ASCIIMathML is a script that converts calculator-style ASCII math
notation (and many LaTeX formulas) to Presentation MathML while your Web
page loads. It works with HTML and XHTML files in Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape
7+ browsers, as well as in Internet Explorer 6 with MathPlayer. For
example, the solutions for the equation 'ax^2+bx+c=0' are expressed in the
HTML file as '(-b +- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac))/(2a)', and display as nicely
formatted MathML. The script can be easily used in wikiservers and blogs,
as a rudimentary MathML editor (with instant preview), and to preview math
formulas as they are typed into a Web page input area.

Changes: The ASCIIMathML.js script enables users to easily include
mathematical formulas and graphs in Web pages (simplified LaTeX and
graphics commands are converted to MathML+SVG while the Web page loads).
The license is now GNU LGPL. The script produces interactive graphs that
readers of the Web page can change locally. It now easily integrates in
course management systems like Moodle. A new auto-math-recognize mode has
been added. MathML text labels can be included on SVG graphs, and the SVG
cursor tracking in Firefox has improved. A scientific calculator with
MathML preview is included. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[003] - BlockHosts 2.1.0 
  by Avinash Chopde (http://freshmeat.net/users/avinash1/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:25

System :: Networking

About: BlockHosts is a script to record how many times a local system is
attacked, based on configurable scanning of system logs for sshd or other
services. When a particular IP address exceeds a configured number of
failed login attempts, that IP address is blocked using hosts.allow files,
or by using null-routing, or by using packet filtering. An email
notification facility is also available. 

Changes: Whitelisting and blacklisting are now supported through
configuration of lists of IP addresses and IP address regular expressions.
This forces specific IP addresses to never be blocked, or to be immediately
blocked. Some more patterns have been added to catch Postfix/smtpd
authentication failures.

License: Public Domain

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

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[004] - cdialog 1.1-20070930 
  by T.E.Dickey (http://freshmeat.net/users/tedickey/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 17:36

System :: Software Distribution Tools

About: Dialog allows you to present a variety of questions or display
messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. Several types of dialog
boxes are implemented including: calendar, checklist, file-selection,
gauge, info, input, menu, message, radiolist, tailbox, text, time, yes/no.
	 

Changes: This release fixes a minor bug in the editbox widget. It adds a
few new features (a "--no-ok" option and the ability to read the "--file"
via a pipe).

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[005] - Cone 0.72 
  by Sam Varshavchik (http://freshmeat.net/users/mrsam/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:04

Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)

About: Cone (COnsole Newsreader And Emailer) is a text-based email client.
It seamlessly handles multiple POP3 and IMAP accounts and local mail
folders. It is also a simple newsreader. It is designed to be foolproof
enough to be used by inexperienced users, but also offers advanced
features for power users.

Changes: This release adds support for LDAP directories that require
authentication, and updates the license to GPL 3. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[006] - Courier 0.57 
  by Sam Varshavchik (http://freshmeat.net/users/mrsam/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:10

Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office

About: The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated
mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols such as ESMTP,
IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3,
Webmail, and mailing list services within a single consistent framework.
Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. Courier
implements basic Web-based calendaring and scheduling services integrated
in the Webmail module. 

Changes: This release fixes many problems with displaying and composing
HTML mail using the webmail server. New commands were added to manage
backscatter suppresion lists. Large code sections were cleaned up to use
modern C++ STL, with improved portability and maintenance. Courier's
license is now GPL 3. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[007] - Courier-IMAP 4.2.0 
  by Sam Varshavchik (http://freshmeat.net/users/mrsam/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:06

Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP

About: Courier-IMAP is a lightweight server that provides IMAP access to
maildir mailboxes. It supports folders, custom authentication modules, and
virtual mailboxes. A compatible POP3 server is also provided. The source
code is based on the IMAP module in the Courier Mail Server, but this
build is independently repackaged to work with any other MTA that delivers
to maildir format mailboxes.

Changes: This release adds optimizations that can bring significant
performance improvements on NFS with some usage patterns. Additionally,
the server attempts to detect and report server clock skew when using NFS.
The license has been updated to GPL 3. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/courier-imap/

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[008] - CryptoCD 1.4.3 
  by Steffen (http://freshmeat.net/users/unit22/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:48

Communications
Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Email

About: CryptoCD is a collection of software that provides secure
communication through the Internet. The programs cover tasks like email
encryption, secure chat, and anonymous Web browsing. CryptoCD comes with
comprehensive documentation explaining step by step installation and use
of the software for unexperienced users. At the moment, the documentation
comes only in the German language. 

Changes: This is the first version that permits commercial use due to a
license change. Additionally, it features the latest software: Firefox
2.0.0.7, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, Enigmail 0.95.3, Pidgin 2.2.1, and Vidalia
0.0.14.

License: Freely Distributable

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

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[009] - Easy Hosting Control Panel 0.22 
  by bvidinli (http://freshmeat.net/users/bvidinli/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:00

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
System :: Systems Administration

About: Easy Hosting Control Panel is designed for hosting multiple domains
on a single machine. It uses LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP). It aims to be
easy to install and use, simple, and functional. It currently supports
Apache, DNS, MySQL, FTP, and email configuration.

Changes: Many improvements were made. Sixty percent of the code was
rewritten. A language module was added. A PHP-based simple installer was
added. Automatic installation was improved. DNS, Apache HTTPD, MySQL, FTP,
email, and domain servers are automatically installed and work. A very easy
installation method allows you to copy and paste a command in the console
and watch. Known bugs were fixed. This release was tested on Debian. A
reseller feature was implemented. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - eric4 4.0.2 
  by Detlev Offenbach (http://freshmeat.net/users/detlev/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:50

Software Development

About: Eric4 is a Python IDE written using PyQt4 and QScintilla2. It has
integrated project management capabilities with class browsing functions,
gives developers an unlimited number of editors with syntax highlighting
and code folding, an integrated Python shell, an integrated Python
debugger, a file system browser with class browsing capabilities for
Python files, and more. Eric4 is the successor of the well known eric3
development environment. 

Changes: Bugfixes. Compatibility fixes for Debian. '-z' has been added to
the installer to inhibit compilation of the Python files. The code has
been changed to not look for the Qt4 tools in a subdirectory of the Qt
installation directory (it is now required that the Qt bin directory is in
the PATH). The code of the Python debug client has been changed to better
intercept output on non-Win32 systems.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eric4/

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[011] - Faith 2007-09-30 
  by Charles Samuels (http://freshmeat.net/users/njordfet/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 17:34

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: User Interfaces
Software Development :: Widget Sets

About: Faith is a cross-platform C++ graphical application toolkit. It
runs natively on Linux/Unix (Xlib) and Windows. It has an API strongly
inspired by Qt's and has many features that are expected from a modern
toolkit, including a variety of common "widgets", an aesthetically
pleasing appearance, and the many critical non-portable components such as
anti-aliasing and sockets.

Changes: This version, the first released under the LGPLv3, adds a few new
major features. The socket classes now support IPv6. There is now a URL
parsing class, support for drawing translucent pictures, affine
transformations, and numerous bugfixes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[012] - feresPost 2.9.11 
  by feresPost (http://freshmeat.net/users/feresPost/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:39

Scientific/Engineering

About: feresPost is a Ruby extension that provides the definition of
classes and modules devoted to the development of automated
post-processing for Nastran or Samcef finite element results. The library
allows easy manipulation of finite element models, groups, and results.
Efficient post-processing is possible because the time-consuming
operations are written in C/C++. 

Changes: The addition of methods in CLA classes. New Samcef Results and
elements are now supported. A few bugs have been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - ftwin 0.5.0 
  by Francois Pesce (http://freshmeat.net/users/JokyAtRtWrld/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:01

System :: Archiving
System :: Filesystems
System :: Systems Administration

About: ftwin is a tool useful to find duplicate files or pictures
according to their content on your file system. 

Changes: An option was added that switches ftwin into a duplicate image
finding mode. In this mode, ftwin searches for images that are copies of
each other, even if they are resized, recompressed, recolored, or sligthly
modified using libpuzzle. 

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[014] - Gaupol 0.12 
  by Osmo Salomaa (http://freshmeat.net/users/osmo/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:01

Multimedia :: Video

About: Gaupol is a subtitle editor for text-based subtitles. It supports
multiple subtitle file formats and provides means for text corrections and
time manipulations. Its user interface is designed with attention to batch
processing of multiple documents and convenient translating. 

Changes: A capitalization task has been added to the text correction
assistant. Several bugs have been fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - gElemental 1.2.0 
  by Kevin Daughtridge (http://freshmeat.net/users/kdau/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:30

Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry

About: gElemental is a periodic table viewer that provides detailed
information on the chemical elements. It offers a broad, up-to-date data
set, thematic coloring, a sortable list view, and a shared library and
Python binding. It was originally based on GPeriodic. 

Changes: This release is licensed under the GPLv3. It supports colouring
by more properties, and various interface issues have been fixed. An API
break has allowed for several library improvements.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[016] - GLPI 0.7-RC1 
  by moyo (http://freshmeat.net/users/moyo/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:29

Information Management :: Issue Tracking
System :: Systems Administration

About: GLPI (Gestion Libre de Parc Informatique) is an information
resource manager with an administration interface. You can use it to build
a database with an inventory for your company (computers, software,
printers, etc.). It has functions to make the daily life of the
administrators easier, including a job/request tracking system with mail
notification and methods to build a database with basic information about
your network topology. It provides a precise inventory of all the
technical resources (all their characteristics are stored in a database)
and management and history of the maintenance actions and the bound
procedures. It is dynamic and is directly connected to the users, who can
post requests to the technicians.  

Changes: A new navigation system. Opening tickets by email. Management
multi-entities. A system of transfer. Management of multiple sources of
authentication. Management of multiple OCS servers. Improvements in the
system of importing OCS. Management of business rules. A cache system to
improve performance. Improvements in UTF-8 support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - GNS-3 0.3 
  by GNS-3 Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/gns3dev/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 17:06

System :: Emulators
System :: Networking
System :: Systems Administration

About: GNS-3 is a graphical network simulator that allows you to design
complex network topologies. You may run simulations or configure devices
ranging from simple workstations to powerful Cisco routers. It is based on
NS-3, a discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, and
Dynamips, an IOS emulator which allows users to run IOS binary images from
Cisco Systems.

Changes: Support for ethernet, ATM, and frame relay switches. Included hub
(Bridge of Dynamips) and cloud (external connections) devices. The Dynagen
console has been added (nearly all commands are supported). There are new
GUI settings, an improved node configurator, support for the Dynagen
INI-like configuration file, and multi-language support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gns3/

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[018] - GNUnet 0.7.2c 
  by Christian Grothoff (http://freshmeat.net/users/grothoff/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:11

Communications :: File Sharing
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework with focus on providing
security. All peer-to-peer messages in the network are confidential and
authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and
can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP (IPv4 and IPv6), TCP
(IPv4 and IPv6), HTTP, or SMTP messages. GNUnet supports accounting to
provide contributing nodes with better service. The primary service build
on top of the framework is anonymous file sharing.

Changes: This release features an improved GTK user interface for
gnunet-setup, better performance for the MySQL-based datastore and better
adjustments to high CPU load. The HTTP-based transport using libmicrohttpd
and libcurl is finally ready for general use. The release also fixes
various minor bugs, including gnunetd crashes and memory leaks in
gnunet-gtk. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - Gplib++ 0.1 
  by Max.Moorkamp (http://freshmeat.net/users/mmoorkamp/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:45

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Physics
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Gplib++ is a library of programs and C++ classes to analyze and
model geophysical data. At this point, it mainly supports magnetotelluric
and seismic data, but also contains some general signal processing
routines. 

Changes: Most things should work, but documentation is still poor. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - Gpredict 0.9.0 (Stable)
  by Alexandru Csete (http://freshmeat.net/users/vp7alex/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:44

Communications :: Ham Radio
Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy

About: Gpredict is a real time satellite tracking and orbit prediction
program. Besides the general orbital data for satellites, gpredict can
also calculate the footprint, visibility, doppler shift, signal loss, and
signal delay for each satellite relative to one or more ground stations.
The calculated data can be viewed in tables, on maps, or on polar graphs.

Changes: This release includes many bugfixes, and new functionality to
save satellite pass predictions.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - GradeL 0.8.12 
  by Allen Murphy (http://freshmeat.net/users/msumurph/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:31

Education

About: GradeL is a gradebook program for teachers. It features an
easy-to-use GUI, and produces multiple reports. 

Changes: This release fixes a crash that locked up the program when users
tried adding more than one student while creating a new class file.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - jodviewer 0.3 
  by Thomas Butter (http://freshmeat.net/users/blubb/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:14



About: jodviewer is a viewer component and a standalone viewer for
OpenDocument presentations written in Java.

Changes: ODP compatibility was improved with lines, ellipses, connectors,
and bitmap textures. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[023] - JoyWM 0.2.2 
  by weirdmf (http://freshmeat.net/users/weirdmf/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:40

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
Games/Entertainment
Multimedia

About: JoyWM (formerly known as Linux Multimedia System or LMMS) is a
multimedia GUI written in Python/Pygame. It provides an easy-to-use GUI
for tasks such as listening to music, watching movies, viewing pictures,
and playing some games. It is appropriate for use on a TV and can be
controlled with a joystick (or a keyboard if no joystick is present).  

Changes: A Movie Player bug has been fixed (when finished playing a movie,
nothing happened until you press 'B'). A new widget has been added called
vkeyboard. It's a virtual on-screen keyboard. Pressing 'A+B+X+Y'
simultaneously will quit playing ROMs with DGen and ZSNES. There are
several minor changes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - LBackup 0.9.8p 
  by lucidsystems (http://freshmeat.net/users/lucidsystems/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:02

Security
System
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: LBackup is a simple backup system aimed at systems  administrators
who require reliable backups with minimum fuss. It is configured with
configuration files, and the backup is started from the command line. It
has been tested for over 2 years. Backups can be to local media, or to
remote media via one or more networks. The networks may be private LANs,
WANs, or sets of untrusted public networks such as the Internet.

Changes: SSH test support was improved. The bundled example LBackup SSH
wrapper script was improved. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - Lekuba 0.1.1 
  by Tomas Dubec (http://freshmeat.net/users/tombstone_cz/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 18:04

Communications :: Chat

About: Lekuba is a small text-based Jabber client. The user interface is
built using ncurses, and is kind of similar to Centericq with some
benefits. Lekuba is capable of basic IM actions like loading rosters,
sending/receiving messages, changing status, managing subscriptions, etc.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[026] - libcaca 0.99.beta12 (Development)
  by Sam Hocevar (http://freshmeat.net/users/sammy/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:48

Software Development :: Libraries

About: The libcaca library is a graphics library that outputs text 
instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards  or text
terminals. It is not unlike the famous AAlib library  except it supports
colour output. 

Changes: The libcucul backend now supports 90-degree rotations of ASCII
and Unicode art. The internal font has support for more Unicode blocks
(Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, Geometric Shapes, and Miscellaneous
Symbols). The libcaca frontend has preliminary .NET bindings, a new Cocoa
output driver for Mac OS X, and improved support for fallback output of
Unicode art on an ASCII terminal.

License: WTFPL

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

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[027] - Logapp 0.8 
  by Michael Brunner (http://freshmeat.net/users/mibrunner/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:47

Software Development
Software Development :: Build Tools
System

About: Logapp is a wrapper utility that helps supervise the execution of
applications that produce heavy console output (e.g. make, CVS, and
Subversion). It does this by logging, trimming, and coloring each line of
the output before displaying it. It can be called instead of the
executable that should be monitored; it then starts the application and
logs all of its console output to a file. The output shown in the terminal
is preprocessed, e.g. to limit the length of printed lines and to show the
stderr output in a different color. It is also possible to automatically
highlight lines that match a certain regular expression. The output is
therefore reduced to the necessary amount, and all important lines are
easy to identify.

Changes: Escape sequence detection and the ability to manually activate
configuration file sections have been added. There have been a few small
updates and fixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - Logger 07273.1650 
  by BpMatthias (http://freshmeat.net/users/BpMatthias/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 17:07

System :: Logging
System :: Systems Administration
Utilities

About: Logger is a log queueing and optimization utility. It can handle
logs larger than 2GB and perform automatic nightly log rotation without
affecting services. Any application that writes a log can be maintained be
Logger, including syslogd. It is light, small, and fast, emphasizes
security, and reduces drive usage through memory queueing.

Changes: Memory allocations have been cleaned up. Memory is now allocated
much more effeciently. Code has been added to make every attempt at
preventing Logger from crashing on insanely large memory queues. This has
been tested with tcpdump. Maximum used memory at 500,000 queued lines was
68 MB. Predefined memory settings have been added to the COMPILE script.
Logger will not exceed a total of 16 MB for its memory queues by default
now.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[029] - Mantissa 7.1 
  by luc (http://freshmeat.net/users/maisonobe/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:21

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: Mantissa is a collection of various mathematical algorithms in Java
aimed towards simulation. It features a small set of linear algebra
classes, a least squares estimator, some curve fitting classes, several
ordinary differential equation integrators (all supporting multiple
switching functions and dense output), vectors and rotations in a three
dimensional space, algebra-related classes like rational and double
polynomials, various orthogonal polynomials, some optimization algorithms
using direct search methods, and more. 

Changes: This version adds the two methods getCurrentStepStart and
getCurrentStepsize to interface FirstOrderIntegrator, allowing ODE
problems to retrieve the current step start and size during integration
for each step trial (i.e. even before the step is accepted).

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[030] - OGMRip 0.11.0 
  by billl (http://freshmeat.net/users/bi3l/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:27

Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion

About: OGMRip is an application and a set of libraries for ripping and
encoding DVDs into AVI/OGM files using a wide variety of codecs. It relies
on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, oggenc, and lame to perform its tasks. The
GUI features a clean HIG-compliant GNOME 2 interface and tries to minimize
(as much as possible) esoteric settings.

Changes: This major release features some major enhancements. It provides
a complete plugin system for containers and codecs, and supports
per-stream options. It gives the ability to embed external audio and
subtitle files, can import and export chapter information, and supports
multichannel audio codecs. It can also suspend and resume encodings. It
improves A/V synchronisation, and contains UI improvements and bugfixes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[031] - pam_chroot 0.9.2 
  by Ed Schmollinger (http://freshmeat.net/users/schmolli/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 17:05

System :: Systems Administration

About: pam_chroot is a Linux PAM module that allows  a user to be chrooted
in auth, account, or  session. Its configuration employs a flexible  syntax
that allows users to be selectively  chrooted based upon usernames or group
 membership.

Changes: This change includes minor bugfixes in the source, a revamp of
the code formatting, and adjustments to the Makefile that make it respect
externally-set environment variables.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - Pango 1.18.2 
  by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:32

Desktop Environment :: Fonts

About: The goal of the Pango project is to provide an Open Source
framework for the layout and rendering of internationalized text. It uses
Unicode for all of its encoding, and will eventually support output in all
the world's major languages.

Changes: All enhancements and bugfixes from the 1.17 development branch
were integrated, such as improved text justification, environment variable
support for determining Pango's languages, support for new OpenType APIs,
and various optimizations and fixes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[033] - planetGenesis 1.8 
  by David Burnett (http://freshmeat.net/users/Vargol/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:19

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling

About: PlanetGenesis is a tool that generates 16-bit  PNG height fields,
Wavefront OBJ files, and  POV-RAY mesh2 files for use as landscapes  and
planets.

Changes: This release includes GUI productivity enhancements, new noises
including a faster Worley noise, and a new function called Range. It also
includes a new component type called PostProcessing, and the ability to
output in SGI 16 greyscale format.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[034] - PyPE 2.8.8 
  by josiahcarlson (http://freshmeat.net/users/josiahcarlson/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 18:05

Software Development
Text Editors

About: PyPE (Python Programmers Editor) is a lightweight but powerful
editor. Tools for the new and seasoned user alike are included out of the
box, including syntax coloring, multiple open documents with tabs,
per-document browsable source trees, and many others.

Changes: This release fixes real-time parsing when Python source contains
Unicode characters.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - pyrad 1.1 
  by Wichert Akkerman (http://freshmeat.net/users/wichert/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:39

Internet
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
System :: Networking

About: pyrad is an implementation of a RADIUS client and server as
described in RFC2865, 2866, and others. It takes care of all the details
like building RADIUS packets, sending and receiving them, and en-/decoding
responses. 

Changes: The Packet class has been improved to behave fully like a
standard Python dictionary. This release no longer assumes that unknown
attribute types do not need any decoding or encoding, which could cause
invalid packets to be generated. Support has been added for the 'octets'
data type as used by FreeRADIUS.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[036] - QSF Portal 1.4.2 
  by Samson (http://freshmeat.net/users/RLibiez/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:33

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards

About: QSF Portal is a fast, secure, easily maintained Web community
portal. It comes with powerful forum and download modules, as well as
lightweight CMS capability. New modules and skins can be added easily. It
supports 18 languages.

Changes: The error reporting library would reveal database security
information when an error connecting to the database was displayed. The
RSS reader needs to define a user agent due to restrictions in place at
qsfportal.com. These issues have been fixed. Other significant changes
were also made with version 1.4.1.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[037] - QtDMM 0.8.10 
  by mt (http://freshmeat.net/users/matthiastoussaint/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:21

Scientific/Engineering
Utilities

About: QtDMM is a simple DMM readout program which includes a configurable
recorder. The recorder features manual start, scheduled start (at a given
time), and triggered automatic start and starting of external applications
when given thresholds are reached. It was written for the Metex multimeter,
and compatible multimeters like VOLTCRAFT. It has been tested with the
following Multimeters: Metex M-3660D, M-3830D, M-3850D, ME-11, ME-22,
ME-32, Universal system 9160, PeakTech 4010 and 451, Radioshack 22-805,
and Voltcraft M-4660, ME-11, and ME-32, but it should work with other DMMs
that support the same protocol.

Changes: This release adds support for the Sinometer MAS-343, PeakTech
3330, Voltrcaft VC940, Digitech QM1537, Uni-Trend UT30A and UT30E, Digitek
DT-9062, and PeakTech 4360. It has confirmation for Voltcraft M-3860 and a
bugfix for the VC820 family.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[038] - QTScrobbler 0.6 
  by Tomasz Moń (http://freshmeat.net/users/desowin/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:46



About: QTScrobbler is tool for submitting .scrobbler.log files from
portable players to Last.fm. It currently supports players that write
scrobbler.log and iPods. 

Changes: All parsing and networking code has been separated into a backend
library, libscrobble. A new command line frontend, scrobble-cli, that
doesn't depend on Qt has been added. A basic help system has been added.
Icons from the Tango project have been added.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[039] - Quicksilver Forums 1.4.1 
  by Samson (http://freshmeat.net/users/RLibiez/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 15:41

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards

About: Quicksilver Forums is a fast, feature rich bulletin board system.
It is fully object oriented and optimized for speed, ease of use, and easy
modification. It checks all inputs though a common interface, which
drastically reduces the chances of exploitable bugs. A powerful and
flexible skinning engine makes giving your board a new look very simple.
An advanced permissions system allows for fine-grained group and user
permissions. It is based on the popular MercuryBoard software.

Changes: The error library would reveal database information when showing
a connection error. This has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - Rhythmweb 0.2 
  by Mike Gratton (http://freshmeat.net/users/xmjg/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:18

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: Rhythmweb lets you control Rhythmbox remotely from your Web
browser. It is not an Internet radio server: it does not play music in
your Web browser. Rather, it lets you control Rhythmbox on a machine other
than the one it is running on.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[041] - Sandbox 1.4.1 
  by Samson (http://freshmeat.net/users/RLibiez/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:30

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary

About: Sandbox is a personal Web site package that offers a blog, image
gallery, file downloads, and custom free-style Web pages. 

Changes: The error reporting module revealed database information when a
database connection error was displayed. Comment submissions to closed
posts were not blocked. This was usually only possible from bots. These
security issues have been fixed. Other significant improvements were made
with versions 1.3 and 1.4.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[042] - sifbuilder 1.13.16 
  by solgracia (http://freshmeat.net/users/ejuarros/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:26



About: sifbuilder is a program aiming to facilitate the declarative
definition and automatic generation of Web sites. It incorporates a
scriptable installation framework, an automatic installer, a package
management system, remote execution facilities, a declarative Web site
definition model based on XML, a module generator and a test environment.
The sif framework allows defining the core, modules, blocks and content of
a WCM site in an XML file. sifbuilder takes that file from a URI and
automatically downloads the packages and creates the site.

Changes: This release introduces support for the automatic generation of
Web sites running an XML URL. Thus, >> php sifcmd.php php sifcmd.php
http://www.sifbuilder.com/downloads/sibs/sib_drupal5_sif_sif.xml << builds
the http://www.sifbuilder.com/ drupal site. This release also supports in
the same way the automatic generation of XOOPS, PostNuke, and Joomla!
sites.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[043] - SoundBridge Commander 0.6 
  by Michael Heinz (http://freshmeat.net/users/porkchop_d_clown/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:44



About: SBC (a.k.a. "SoundBridge Commander") is a powerful tool for
controlling your Roku SoundBridge M1000, M2000, or SoundBridge Radio from
your computer. It has two parts. The first part emulates the IR remote
control that comes with your SoundBridge. The second part is a three-panel
search window that allows you to find songs on your Roku much more easily
than you can through the built-in search function. 

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[044] - SRESI 0.19.13 (Development)
  by Priscus (http://freshmeat.net/users/priscus/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:35

Information Management :: Metadata/Semantic Models
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search

About: SRESI is a smart bookmark manager. It currently sports both a
command-line and a PHP interface. It works with both the standard
hierarchical trees and the new and fashionable tagged bookmarks. It was
developed as a way to interface both representation systems. SRESI can use
Del.icio.us, Mozilla, Opera, and XBEL bookmarks, and handles a few more
exports besides. Directories and tags are used equivalently, and the final
hierarchies are inferred from actual tag use.

Changes: This release features all fixes and enhancements from the stable
series. The Tag API was cleaned up some more.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[045] - sysstat 8.0.1 
  by Sébastien Godard (http://freshmeat.net/users/godard/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:35

System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, iostat, mpstat, and
pidstat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system
activity information. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer
rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network
activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel
activities, and TTY statistics, among others. The sadf command may be used
to display data collected by sar in various formats. The iostat command
reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The
pidstat command reports statistics for Linux processes. The mpstat command
reports global and per-processor statistics. 

Changes: The option -t has been added to pistat: pidstat can now display
stats for every thread (TID) of a process. pidstat's option -T CHILD now
reports global statistics for selected tasks and all their children (and
not only for the children). A rare parallel make issue creating archive
libsyscom.a was fixed [GENTOO bug #193208].

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[046] - Tcl/Tk 8.4.16 
  by Andres Garcia (http://freshmeat.net/users/andresgarci/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:46

Software Development :: Embedded Systems
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Testing

About: Tcl provides a portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows,
and Macintosh that supports string processing and pattern matching, native
file system access, shell-like control over other programs, TCP/IP
networking, timers, and event-driven I/O. Tcl has traditional programming
constructs like variables, loops, procedures, namespaces, error handling,
script packages, and dynamic loading of DLLs. Tk provides portable GUIs on
UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh. A powerful widget set and the concise
scripting interface to Tk make it a breeze to develop sophisticated user
interfaces.

Changes: A DTrace provider, many Aqua/Tk bugfixes and improvements, and
several minor bugfixes.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[047] - Tux Math Scrabble 0.4.3 
  by Charles B. Cosse (http://freshmeat.net/users/asymptopia/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 17:38

Education
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy

About: TuxMathScrabble challenges young people to construct compound
equations and consider multiple abstract possibilities. There are four
skill levels for practice, from basic addition and subtraction through
multiplication and division. This software includes a data recorder
interface for student performance assessment.

Changes: The data recorder is now configurable through the administrator
GUI. A simulation module was added, the HighScore manager was fixed, a
character browser was added, and there are various other small repairs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[048] - ucommon 0.8.1 
  by David Sugar (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidsugar/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:42

Software Development :: Libraries

About: UCommon is a lightweight C++ library to facilitate using C++ design
patterns even for very deeply embedded applications, such as for systems
using uClibc along with POSIX threading support. For this reason, UCommon
disables language features that consume memory or introduce runtime
overhead. UCommon introduces some design patterns from Objective-C, such
as reference counted objects, memory pools, and smart pointers. UCommon
introduces some new concepts for handling of thread locking and
synchronization.  

Changes: Significant improvements to shared thread locking and thread
scheduling through conditional locks, particularly in regard to writer
starvation scenarios. Shared conditional locks are fully convertible for
fast modify methods while holding a shared lock. The Web site and home
page have been updated. Default compile mode has been inverted to stdcpp
support as preliminary step for a future merge with GNU Common C++.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[049] - wxCam 0.9.4 
  by Marco Lorrai (http://freshmeat.net/users/iking/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:44

Multimedia :: Video :: Capture

About: wxCam is a webcam application for Linux. It supports video
recording (in an uncompressed AVI format or Xvid format), snapshot taking,
and some special commands for Philips webcams, so you can also use the
program for astronomy purposes. It supports both video4linux 1 and 2
drivers.

Changes: This release adds experimental support for v4l2 device drivers.
There are some bugfixes in v4l1 core, and support for more video palette
formats.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[050] - xd3d 8.3.0 
  by Francois Jouve (http://freshmeat.net/users/fj/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 17:04

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: xd3d is a simple scientific visualization tool designed to be easy
to learn. It can plot 2D and 3D meshes, with shadowing, contour plots,
vector fields, iso-contour (3D), as well as 3D surfaces z=f(x,y) defined
by an algebraic expression or a cloud of points. It generates high-quality
vector PostScript files for scientific publications and still or animated
bitmap images. The distribution includes the graph plotter, xgraphic. 

Changes: Many minor bugfixes and feature enhancements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xd3d/

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[051] - Yamon 0.91 
  by Bjarni R. Einarsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/juggler/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 17:36

System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: Yamon is a very simple program designed to check whether a server
is up and running and to send an alert to a human when something appears
to be broken. It can also perform some basic troubleshooting to venture a
guess as to why things aren't working properly. 

Changes: Multiple improvements were made to the alerting subsystem.
Different monitors can now have different alert targets, email alerts can
be sent over direct SMTP instead of invoking 'mail', and it is now
possible to also send alerts to arbitrary external programs, including
syslog.

License: Perl License

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

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[052] - Yoxel SW 1.17beta 
  by Yoxel Systems (http://freshmeat.net/users/yoxel/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 00:09

Information Management
Office/Business
Software Development :: Bug Tracking

About: Yoxel SW is an agile product management solution allowing you to
maintain a continuous feedback loop with your customers while
collaboratively planning and implementing development iterations. It
includes a request/bug tracker, release manager, and knowledge/Q&A/FAQ
management system.

Changes: YOXEL SLS, a suite for sales teams, was added, providing sales
forecast tracking and product evaluations tracking. CVS and Subversion
were integrated though email comments support. Profile editing
capabilities were added for customer/contact logins. Mail can be sent with
SMTP, in addition to the standard PHP/sendmail based mechanism. The
"yoxel-config.inc" configuration file was added. The Retrospectiva
external bug-tracker is now supported. A number of bugs were fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[053] - Zim 0.21 
  by Jaap Karssenberg (http://freshmeat.net/users/pardus/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 14:20

Information Management
Text Editors

About: Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor written in Gtk2-Perl It aims to bring
the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Every page is saved as a text file
with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved
automatically. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a non-existing
page. Pages are ordered in a hierarchical structure that gives it the look
and feel of an outliner. This tool is intended to keep track of TODO lists
or to serve as a personal scratch book.

Changes: This release adds a LaTeX EquationEditor plugin and an
InsertScreenshot plugin. An "Edit in external editor" menu item has been
added. Two bugs have been fixed: a bug giving an incorrect file name for
the home page, and a bug with UTF-8 characters in the title of a new page.

License: Perl License

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

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[054] - ZRTP Protocol Library 0.9.2 
  by David Sugar (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidsugar/)
  Sun, Sep 30th 2007 07:43

Communications :: Internet Phone
Communications :: Telephony
Security

About: ZRTP Protocol Library is an implementation of Phil Zimmermann's
ZRTP protocol, created based on and interoperable with Zfone beta 2.
Combined with the GNU RTP Stack (ccrtp), this offers the ability to create
communication services that natively support the ZRTP protocol. 

Changes: The ZRTP implementation is now compliant with the latest ZRTP
draft. The new ZRTP packet layout and protocol is now a protocol on its
own, completely decoupled from RTP; it just happens to use then same
connection. These changes provided for an even better decoupled
implementation of ZRTP. The license has been updated to the GPLv3 or
later.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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



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