Newsletter for Saturday, February 02nd 2008

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

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2008/02/02/
freshmeat.net newsgroup: news://news.freshmeat.net/fm.announce

-------.   ----- ----------..-----.- .-. .- ----- -- --  -- -- .-

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

Who leads the Linux market while offering countless sponsorships,
contributions,

HP, of course -- the advisor you can trust today for proven solutions you
can value over the long run. Check out our latest FOSS governance focus
involving FOSSBazaar and FOSSology – the talk of the town.

http://www.linux.com/sponsor_solutions/hpos/

---.--. --- ----- -.-.---.-- - .- .-. ---. .-..---- ---.------ . 

::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (43) :::

[001] - 3Delight  7.0.0
[002] - AgileWiki 1.1 (CowDb)
[003] - Arachnida 1.3.00 
[004] - Asymptote 1.41 
[005] - Bongo Project 0.3.1 
[006] - Bugzilla 3.1.3 (Development (3.2))
[007] - C++ ResourcePool 0.99.16 
[008] - CDemu for Linux 1.0.0 
[009] - Endian Firewall 2.2 Beta 3 (Development)
[010] - EsteidUtil 0.9.12 
[011] - FederatedX Pluggable Storage Engine 0.01 
[012] - gbxgol 0.3 
[013] - GNUmed 0.2.8.3 (Stable)
[014] - gnuPod 0.99.6 
[015] - Gringotts 1.2.10pre1 
[016] - gscan2pdf 0.9.21 
[017] - H2 Database Engine 1.0.66 (2008-02-02) 
[018] - Ingres 9.3.0 build 111 
[019] - Java Email Server 1.6.1 (1.x)
[020] - klick 0.6.1 
[021] - LambdaCan 2.0 
[022] - Linux Bluetooth Remote Control 0.6 
[023] - littleutils 1.0.19 
[024] - mapmvideo 4.64 
[025] - nload 0.7.0 
[026] - peppy 0.7.2.1 
[027] - PHAML 1.3.1 
[028] - PHP/Erlang 0.0.2 
[029] - Pondus 0.1.0 
[030] - ROBOC 7.0 
[031] - Roman Numeral Conversion API 0.0.4 
[032] - Schoorbs 1.0 Alpha 4 
[033] - seek-h262 4.84 
[034] - Serial Console 0.94 
[035] - SHOGUN 0.5.0 
[036] - Source Navigator NG NG3 
[037] - tinyap 1.2 
[038] - TinyMUX 2.7.1.18 (Beta)
[039] - Tunguska alpha-1 
[040] - Vector Signal Imaging Processing Library 1.3 (Sourcery VSIPL++)
[041] - Webtap 1.1 
[042] - wxRemind 62 
[043] - xlike Kernel Patchset 0.22a 


  ----..----.-.----------.------ -. .--. .-- .-.- -.-- --.-. . --

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

[001] - 3Delight  7.0.0
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:56

Multimedia :: Graphics

About: 3Delight is a very fast RenderMan-compliant renderer designed to
produce photorealistic images for serious production environments. Some of
its features include ray tracing, global illumination, motion blur, depth
of field, subdivision surfaces, programmable shaders, quality
antialiasing, and antialiased multi-depth shadow maps. The API and the
shading language are very similar to what is described in the RenderMan
interface documentation. 

Changes: Numerous enhancements and bugfixes.

License: Free for non-commercial use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/3d/

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[002] - AgileWiki 1.1 (CowDb)
  by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:56

Database
Documentation
Information Management

About: AgileWiki is a program that explores new knowledge representation.
It is an attempt to implement, at least in part, Norm Kashdan's Rolonic
Theory, a profoundly different approach to time and knowledge
representation. CowDb is a high-speed object store over which the next
generation of AgileWiki will be written. COODBMS is a Copy-on-write OODBMS
based on Rolonics.

Changes: Handles have been refactored for clarity and to reduce disk
footprint. Role names are now encoded on disk to reduce their footprint
and when possible are not written at all. Symbolic references now use
direct pathnames, speeding resolution for complex structures. An issue
where non-root nodes were using the wrong type of handle was fixed.

License: Common Public License

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[003] - Arachnida 1.3.00 
  by Ronald Landheer-Cieslak (http://freshmeat.net/users/blytkerchan/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 18:52

Communications
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Software Development

About: Arachnida is an embeddable Web server. It uses the OpenSSL library
and consists of a small framework for networking that allows you to
asynchronously accept and handle connections using a "new connection
handler" to handle new connections and a "data handler" to handle incoming
data. This makes it possible to add support for any TCP/IP based protocol
by just adding a handler. A test suite is included.

Changes: This release fixes a few minor bugs and adds a UDPSocket class to
Spin. Though HTTP doesn't use UDP, it was the only thing missing from
Arachnida to allow it to be used for any IP-based protocol, whether it is
TCP/IP or UDP/IP. This class was added at a user's request. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[004] - Asymptote 1.41 
  by John Bowman (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcbowman/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:56

Education
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
Scientific/Engineering

About: Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for
technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like
syntax. It provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting
that LaTeX does for scientific text. Asymptote is a programming language as
opposed to just a graphics program. It can exploit the best features of
script (command-driven) and graphical user interface (GUI) methods.
High-level graphics commands are implemented in the language itself,
allowing them to be easily tailored to specific applications.

Changes: Python-style array slices were added. The array virtual field
A.keys returns the indices of initialized entries. The concat routine can
take an arbitrary number of arguments. A bounding path is stored in the
object structure to allow connections to noncardinal boundary points. The
buildcycle algorithm was improved. The visibility of unsplit solid slices
is resolved. HSV colorspace support was added. The dependence of non-PDF
animations on the animate.sty package was removed by renaming animate.asy
to animation.asy. Transparency groups are respected by xasy. TeX
diagnostics were improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[005] - Bongo Project 0.3.1 
  by Alex Hudson (http://freshmeat.net/users/alexhudson/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 15:18

Communications
Communications :: Email

About: Bongo is an easy-to-use mail and calendar system, offering a simple
yet powerful user interface. The goal is to make sharing, organisation, and
communication simpler, quicker, and more useful.

Changes: Mail was being held up in common configurations due to some small
bugs in 0.3.0. This release fixes those minor bugs and adds a new
administration UI for mail aliasing configuration. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[006] - Bugzilla 3.1.3 (Development (3.2))
  by Max Kanat-Alexander (http://freshmeat.net/users/avatraxiom/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 13:49

Database :: Front-Ends
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Office/Business

About: Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking
system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat,
and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields,
attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of
changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email, and
console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based UI. The
user UI is customizable using templates. 

Changes: This version has experimental support for Oracle databases, an
improved user interface, support for date/time custom fields, and many
more major new features. 

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[007] - C++ ResourcePool 0.99.16 
  by mws (http://freshmeat.net/users/mws/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 13:33

Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries

About: C++ ResourcePool is a library which can be used to pool resources
of every kind. It can also be used as an abstraction layer by providing a
unique API for different resources of similar resource types; the most
prominent examples are SQL databases. It includes a convenient way to
access MySQL and Oracle databases in the same way, so that changing from
MySQL to Oracle or vice-versa does not need big code changes. 

Changes: A bug in the bindout() method of the oracle resource type was
fixed. The bug caused an inappropriate exception if a numeric value was
fetched into a string variable. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cplusplus-resourcepool/

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[008] - CDemu for Linux 1.0.0 
  by Henrik Stokseth (http://freshmeat.net/users/hensto/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 16:11

System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

About: CDemu for Linux is a software suite consisting of a kernel module,
a library, a daemon, and clients. It allows for mounting CD-images in
Linux and emulating a CD/DVD drive and disc. 

Changes: This is the first big release after a complete rewrite from
scratch. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cd-emu/

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[009] - Endian Firewall 2.2 Beta 3 (Development)
  by endian (http://freshmeat.net/users/endian/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 13:30

Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: Endian Firewall is an all-in-on Linux security distribution that
turns any system into a full-featured security appliance. It features a
stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various
protocols (HTTP, POP3, SMTP), anti-virus support, virus and spam filtering
for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic, and a
"hassle free" VPN system based on OpenVPN. 

Changes: A new uplink control was made with JavaScript and JSON, which
enhances responsiveness on uplink status change, so the user can now
decide if uplink should be "managed" automatically or manually. The kernel
was updated to version 2.6.22.16, and was rebuilt with GCC 4.1.2 to solve
some compiler related issues and to add drivers that were missing in Beta
2. The packages were rebuilt for i586 instead of i686 to support embedded
and older systems. Over 60 bugfixes and other enhancements were made. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[010] - EsteidUtil 0.9.12 
  by kaidokert (http://freshmeat.net/users/kaidokert/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 18:43

Other/Nonlisted Topic
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Diagnostics

About: EsteidUtil is a wxWidgets GUI tool for managing the Estonian ID
smartcard. It allows the user to see the data on th card, change PINs, and
perform some basic diagnostics both on card and necessary opsys
configuration. The code has useful low-dependency C++ classes for other
kinds of smartcard handling. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[011] - FederatedX Pluggable Storage Engine 0.01 
  by CaptTofu (http://freshmeat.net/users/capttofu/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:52

Database :: Database Engines/Servers

About: FederatedX Pluggable Storage Engine is a storage engine for MySQL
that allows you to create a table that uses a network connection to a
remote database table as its data source, as opposed to most storage
engines that use a table file or tablespace file as a data source. It is a
fork of the MySQL Federated Storage Engine. Enhancements include being able
to pass pushdown conditions (such as LIMIT and non-indexed fields in where
clauses) to avoid huge data sets, improvements to transactional
functionality, and support for other connection schemes (ODBC, JDBC, etc).

Changes: Functionality in this release mirrors the working version of the
Federated Storage Engine.

License: BSD License (original)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[012] - gbxgol 0.3 
  by rospolosco (http://freshmeat.net/users/rospolosco/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:57

Games/Entertainment

About: gbxgol is a small program for the Italian betting game, Totogol.

Changes: Multiple instances of the program, which in rare cases could
cause some data corruption, are no longer allowed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[013] - GNUmed 0.2.8.3 (Stable)
  by Sebastian Hilbert (http://freshmeat.net/users/shilbert/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 18:49

Information Management
Office/Business
Scientific/Engineering :: Medical Science Apps.

About: GNUmed is a comprehensive scalable software solution for electronic
medical practices with an emphasis on privacy protection, secure patient
centric record sharing, decision support, and ease of use. It is intended
to become a sophisticated decision support system that will elevate the
quality of medical care that can be delivered.

Changes: A crash which occurred when the korganizer2gnumed.csv file could
not be opened was fixed. A crash which occurred when saving a progress
note from a single editor for a new episode was fixed. A crash which
occurred on Mac OS X when Move*InTabOrder() was invoked across sizers in
allergy manager was fixed. A crash which occurred when trying to edit a
workplace without plugins already configured was fixed. A crash which
occurred when there was a faulty profile name in preferences was fixed.
The ~/.gnumed/ directory is now created on startup if necessary. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[014] - gnuPod 0.99.6 
  by broccoli (http://freshmeat.net/users/broccoli/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 13:19



About: gnuPod is a collection of tools which allow you  to use your iPod
under Linux and other UNIX- like operating systems. HFS+ and FAT32 
formatted iPods are supported.

Changes: This release fixes "genre" support for .m4a files and improves
compatibility with Windows and the iPhone. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[015] - Gringotts 1.2.10pre1 
  by Shlomi Fish (http://freshmeat.net/users/shlomif/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 13:32

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Security
Security :: Cryptography

About: Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive
data (passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read,
easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. It lets the user choose
from among eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256,
SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms
(SHA1, RIPEMD 160), and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with
four compression ratios. It allows the user to use any file or an entire
floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string. 

Changes: Patches were integrated to make the buttons' order more HIG
compliant and to supply other fixes. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[016] - gscan2pdf 0.9.21 
  by Jeff (http://freshmeat.net/users/3ra28145/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 02:05

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Scanners
Office/Business

About: gscan2pdf is a GUI to ease the process of producing PDFs from
scanned documents. You scan in one or several pages and create a PDF of
selected pages. Scanning is handled with SANE via scanimage. PDF
conversion is done by PDF::API2. Perl is used for portability and ease of
programming, with gtk2-perl for the GUI.

Changes: A wide character crash caused by translations containing UTF-8
was fixed. The quit question is now only displayed once, rather than once
per unsaved page. The selected/current/all heuristic was updated. The
start page in the scan dialog is now reset after File/New is selected. The
page range is now requested when importing a PDF with more than one page. A
bug with remembering settings where that setting is the first in a list was
fixed along with a bug where thumbs become unselected after saving. A
Turkish translation was added and the Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Greek,
and Polish translations were updated.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gscan2pdf/

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[017] - H2 Database Engine 1.0.66 (2008-02-02) 
  by ThomasM (http://freshmeat.net/users/ThomasMueller/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 02:06

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: H2 is an SQL database engine written in Java that implements the
JDBC API. Embedded, server, and clustering modes are available. A browser
based console application is included. The database has strong security
features. Disk based and in-memory databases and tables are supported. 

Changes: An online error analyzer is now included. IKVM is now better
supported. Statements that contain very large subqueries are now faster.
The 'Value too long for column' exception now includes the data. Full-text
search is now supported in named in-memory databases. Primary keys can now
have a constraint name. The meta data compatibility with other databases
has been improved. A few compatibility bugs have been fixed, including one
where EXTRACT(HOUR FROM ...) returned the wrong values.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/h2/

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[018] - Ingres 9.3.0 build 111 
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:55



About: Ingres® is a mature, high-performance relational database 
solution. It offers scalability, integration and flexibility to  leverage
information resources across a wide range of  platforms, including Linux,
Unix, Windows, and OpenVMS.  Reliable and cost effective, it supports
mission-critical  applications in small to medium-size businesses and
high- volume deployments in large scale enterprises. 

Changes: Numerous enhancements and bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[019] - Java Email Server 1.6.1 (1.x)
  by Eric Daugherty (http://freshmeat.net/users/edaugherty/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 16:11

Communications
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents

About: Java Email Server is a SMTP and POP3 email server written in Java. 


Changes: An issue introduced in version 1.5 that caused issues with DNS
lookups when using a non-default SMTP server was resolved. Additional
cleanup changes were also made to script and configuration files. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[020] - klick 0.6.1 
  by Dominic Sacré (http://freshmeat.net/users/sacred/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 16:08

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording

About: klick is an advanced JACK-based metronome, supporting tempo
changes, meter changes, and more. It allows you to define complex tempo
maps for entire songs or performances. 

Changes: A bug that prevented the use of patterns on the command line was
fixed. Tempo map entries with tempo == tempo2 are ensured to be handled
correctly. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[021] - LambdaCan 2.0 
  by Tim Fraser (http://freshmeat.net/users/timfraser/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:50

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: LambdaCan is a small Lambda Calculus reducer (interpreter) designed
to run both on UNIX systems and on microcontrollers with only 1KB of RAM.

Changes: UNIX systems are now supported.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[022] - Linux Bluetooth Remote Control 0.6 
  by Matthias Bläsing (http://freshmeat.net/users/matthiasblaesing/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 16:16



About: Linux Bluetooth Remote Control (LBRC) is a remote control program
that allows a Linux computer to be controlled by a J2ME device via
Bluetooth. It is divided into a server part that runs on the computer and
reacts to input events and a client part that runs on the J2ME device. The
J2ME client sends the device's keycodes, which are translated to
keystrokes, mouse movements, mouse clicks, or other input events on the
controlled computer. 

Changes: The compatibility of the J2ME part was improved (for example,
Nokia 6085 now works). The logging system was improved and the size limit
of 2kb for the client-server connection was removed. The mplayer module
gained fifo support. One bug that caused crashes (regarding usage of a
deprecated bluez API), one bug that ate configuration files, and a
configuration file reader bug were fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[023] - littleutils 1.0.19 
  by Brian Lindholm (http://freshmeat.net/users/brian_lindholm/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 15:44

Utilities

About: The littleutils are a collection of small but useful programs.
These programs include a duplicate file finder (repeats), image optimizers
(opt-jpg, opt-png, opt-gif, and recomp-jpg), file renaming utilities
(lowercase and uppercase), archive recompressors (to-bzip, to-7zip, and
to-lzma), a tempfile utility (tempname), text file cleanup utilities
(notabs, notrails, and lreplace), some low-level file query utilities
(filesize, filedate, filemode, and filenode), plus others. Web site
administrators will find the image optimizers particularly useful, while
script writers will find some of the lower-level utilities more useful. 

Changes: A frenum (short for "file renumber") utility was added, which can
be used to rename or renumber large numbers of files very easily and
quickly. The filehash utility was expanded to provide any one of multiple
hashes, and the repeats utility was updated to better utilize the expanded
filehash utility as an underlying engine. lzma utility detection was made
more robust for the purposes of the to-lzma conversion utility. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[024] - mapmvideo 4.64 
  by Ciprian Niculescu (http://freshmeat.net/users/x1f42/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 18:38

Multimedia :: Video

About: mapmvideo is a 1f42 MPEG video stream mapper. The written MPEG
video stream maps contain information such as stream frame rate, stream
duration and number of frames, file position of video stream frames, and
so forth. The output conforms to the 1f42 H262 map file format and can be
used by programs (such as the linuxlogo MPEG video player) to perform fast
and accurate random access. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[025] - nload 0.7.0 
  by Roland Riegel (http://freshmeat.net/users/rolandriegel/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 15:51

System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and
bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic
using two graphs. It also provides additional information, such as the
total amount of transfered data and the min/max network usage. 

Changes: This release is capable of reading and writing configuration
files to disk. The devices which are monitored can now be changed during
runtime. Keyboard shortcuts have changed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[026] - peppy 0.7.2.1 
  by Rob McMullen (http://freshmeat.net/users/robm351/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 13:35

Text Editors

About: peppy ((ap)Proximated (X)Emacs Powered by Python) is a
wxPython/Scintilla-based editor written in and extensible through Python.
It attempts to provide an XEmacs-like multi-window, multi-tabbed framework
with low coupling, so it's easy to add support for new types of files.

Changes: A problem that caused application failure at startup on a machine
that never had installed peppy before was fixed. This would only start if
preferences existed from an earlier version. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[027] - PHAML 1.3.1 
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:55

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Libraries

About: PHAML is a parallel program for the solution of 2D elliptic partial
differential equations using low or high order finite elements, adaptive
mesh refinement based on newest node bisection of triangles, and
multigrid. All aspects of the method are based on the hierarchical basis
functions. 

Changes: This release added new features including quadrature rules of
order 21 to 45 for triangles, a new parallel implementation of conjugate
gradients, the option for printing relative error instead of absolute
error, and a MUMPS non-symmetric solver. Vertical scaling in graphics was
improved. Double-precision floats are now used for graphics. Roundoff
error was reduced in computing barycentric coordinates. Quad order for
elemental matrices was increased to be exact for the mass matrix. There
were various bugfixes, code cleanups, and speedups.

License: Public Domain

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[028] - PHP/Erlang 0.0.2 
  by Itai Zukerman (http://freshmeat.net/users/izuker/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 18:49

Software Development :: Libraries

About: PHP/Erlang is a PHP extension with a simple set of functions for
turning a PHP thread into an Erlang C-node. With this extension, you can
shift backend tasks to Erlang. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[029] - Pondus 0.1.0 
  by stufam (http://freshmeat.net/users/stufam/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:50

Utilities

About: Pondus is a personal weight manager that keeps track of your body
weight. It aims to be simple to use, lightweight, and fast. The data is
stored in XML files for easy access and modification with other programs.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[030] - ROBOC 7.0 
  by David Ingram (http://freshmeat.net/users/dmi1000/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 13:47

Education
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Interpreters

About: Roboc is a teaching language suitable for children. It includes an
IDE and various modes for turtle graphics (like LOGO), mathematical
programs, artistic graphics, and robot programming. It art mode you can
create animations, physics simulations, and interactive games; in robot
mode you must program a robot to collect objectives within mazes. The
language is designed to be very easy and fast to learn but well structured
and with good visual feedback. Some exercises for use in class teaching are
included. 

Changes: This release adds a 3D graphics mode, with built-in functions to
construct various 3D solids and to perform geometric transformations. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[031] - Roman Numeral Conversion API 0.0.4 
  by David Syzdek (http://freshmeat.net/users/syzdek/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 02:06

Education
Games/Entertainment
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Roman Numeral Conversion API performs Roman numeral conversions and
formats date data using Roman numerals and Latin. The romandate command is
similar to the standard Unix date command. The romannum command provides
command line conversion to and from Roman numerals. Libroman contains the
functions roman_ctime(), roman_asctime(), and roman_strftime(). These
functions provide the same functionality as ctime(), asctime(), and
strftime() using Roman numerals to generate the strings.

Changes: The long2roman() and roman2long() were re-named to int2roman()
and roman2int(), which more closely match the actual data types used by
these functions. The old function names will still work. roman2int() is
more strict about the Roman numeral syntax. Invalid numerals such as VX,
VV, IIIII, IC, and IXI now produce an error. Romannum now auto-detects the
type of conversion to perform instead of depending on a command line
switch.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[032] - Schoorbs 1.0 Alpha 4 
  by xhochy (http://freshmeat.net/users/xhochy/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 15:50

Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: Schoorbs is a system to make room and resource bookings through a
Web 2.0 GUI. You can also interact with it through a REST API.

Changes: The Session/Omni and Session/NT modules were deactivated.
JavaScript files and CSS styles are deployed compressed. XHTML was fixed
in several places. A bug in language.php considering i18n in email
messages was fixed. Release packaging was rewritten. Debian/Ubuntu
packages for Schoorbs are available too. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[033] - seek-h262 4.84 
  by Ciprian Niculescu (http://freshmeat.net/users/x1f42/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 13:32

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video
Software Development :: Libraries

About: seek-h262 is a portable MPEG decoder.

Changes: An invalid packet length hazardous handling bug was fixed. Some
minor documentation updates were made. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/seek-h262/

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[034] - Serial Console 0.94 
  by doj (http://freshmeat.net/users/doj/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:51

Communications
System :: Hardware
System :: Systems Administration

About: Serial Console (sc) is a minimal terminal program that allows you
to use one machine to access the serial console of another from the
command line.

Changes: Fixes to the DTR setting/resetting code.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[035] - SHOGUN 0.5.0 
  by Soeren Sonnenburg (http://freshmeat.net/users/sonnenburg/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 16:06

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics

About: SHOGUN is a machine learning toolbox whose focus is on large scale
kernel methods and especially on Support Vector Machines (SVM). It
provides a generic SVM object interfacing to several different SVM
implementations, all making use of the same underlying, efficient kernel
implementations. Apart from SVMs and regression, SHOGUN also features a
number of linear methods like Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Linear
Programming Machine (LPM), (Kernel) Perceptrons, and algorithms to train
hidden Markov models. SHOGUN can be used from within C++, Matlab, R,
Octave, and Python. 

Changes: This release brings a more mature Python modular interface: it
now contains a full fledged test suite for all implemented methods,
interactive documentation, and toy examples describing everything, the use
of kernels, classifier, distributions, features, distances, regression, and
preprocessors. The code is now doxygen documented and many minor
improvements (e.g. reading strings directly from file) were added. Several
memory leaks and crashers have been fixed. The WDSVMOcas method was added.
SVMOCAS and liblinear were updated, fixing minor problems. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[036] - Source Navigator NG NG3 
  by Freek (http://freshmeat.net/users/thefreek/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 16:13

Text Editors
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)

About: Source Navigator NG is based upon Red Hat's Source Navigator.
Source Navigator is a source code analysis tool. With it, you can edit
your source code, display relationships between classes and functions and
members, and display call trees. Source Navigator NG tries to improve
usability and performance.

Changes: The old db-1.85 library was replaced by db-4.6.21 to improve
performance and reliability. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sourcenav-ng/

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[037] - tinyap 1.2 
  by Damien Leroux (http://freshmeat.net/users/beublo23/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 18:40

Software Development :: Compilers
Text Processing

About: tinyap is a recursive descent parser with backup that outputs an
abstract syntax tree (AST). Unlike in most parsers, the grammar is data.
Tinyap uses an AST that represents a grammar to parse its input text. The
factory default for the grammar is tinyap's grammar description language
itself, so one can parse a grammar description and directly use the parse
output to parse some other text written in the described language. Tinyap
also features a plugin mechanism for grammars, which allows for dynamic
modular grammars. Finally, it provides an interface to walk down the ASTs
and to write external plugins to visit the nodes. 

Changes: It is now possible to format a regex match with a replacement
string, like in the sed "s///" command, before adding it to the AST. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[038] - TinyMUX 2.7.1.18 (Beta)
  by Brazil (http://freshmeat.net/users/brazilofmux/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 16:25

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

About: TinyMUX is a text-based game server in the MUSH family. It is a
platform that allows several thousand players to connect to a single
text-driven environment, and interact with each other and with the
environment (which is maintained in a database). The rich programming
environment can be used to build almost anything, limited only by the
developer's imagination.

Changes: Unicode support, in-proc and out-of-proc Modules, SSL, and other
features were implemented. 

License: Artistic License

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[039] - Tunguska alpha-1 
  by Viktor Lofgren (http://freshmeat.net/users/eudial/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 18:38

System :: Emulators

About: Tunguska is a computer emulator and virtual machine that uses
numerical base three (ternary) number system for its lowest-level
operations instead of the commonly used base two (binary) number system.
Its goal is to provide a useful experimental platform, on par with early
personal computers. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[040] - Vector Signal Imaging Processing Library 1.3 (Sourcery VSIPL++)
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 01:53

Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries

About: The Vector Signal Image Processing Library is an  application
programming interface (API) defined by an  open standard. This package is
a reference  implementation of this specification.

Changes: Improved use of the Mercury Scientific Algorithm Library (SAL)
and the Parallel Accelleration System (PAS), support for using a VSIPL
library where SAL and PAS are not supported, and support for disabling
features outside the VSIPL++ standard.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[041] - Webtap 1.1 
  by Kevin Wood (http://freshmeat.net/users/n1xt3r/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 16:17

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals
Utilities

About: Webtap is a small command line tool inspired by Mozilla Firefox's
"Keyword Shortcuts" feature. Its purpose is to facilitate similar keyword
based Web browsing from the command line, as a CLI driven front end to
your Web browser. The distribution includes a Bash programmable completion
file with all of the program's common options as well as the ability to tab
through the available keywords. 

Changes: Several instances of external calls to sed were replaced with
bash's built-in and more efficient parameter expansion. A ChangeLog is
also included. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[042] - wxRemind 62 
  by Dan Graham (http://freshmeat.net/users/dgraham/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 15:46

Information Management
Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: wxRemind is a wxPython-based front/back-end for Remind, a powerful
calendar and alarm application. The display features a calendar and daily
event list suitable for visualizing your schedule at a glance. Dates and
associated events can be quickly selected either with the mouse or cursor
keys, and dates in the calendar are color coded to reflect the total
duration of scheduled events. wxRemind integrates with an external editor
of your choice to make editing of reminder files more efficient, provides
hotkeys to quickly access the most commonly used options, and allows
popup, sound, and/or spoken alarms. 

Changes: Foreign language support was added for alert messages, both
spoken and visual, and for wxremind main window labels. For example, if
you're German you can hear "Die Uhrzeit ist" instead of "The time is" and
see "Erinnerungen für ..." instead of "Reminders for ...". Many smallbug
fixes and configuration improvements were made. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

                        - %  - %  - % - % -

[043] - xlike Kernel Patchset 0.22a 
  by m0hs|n (http://freshmeat.net/users/inaam/)
  Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 02:18

System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Filesystems
System :: Networking

About: xlike is a patch collection for the Linux vanilla kernel. It
includes as many stable enhancements for the Linux kernel as possible.
These include code from Xen, Kernel Mode Linux, Rule Set Based Access
Control, Novell AppArmor, Openswan, grsecurity, Linux VServer, Linux-PHC,
web100, Nefilters, Suspend2, Speakup, SquashFS, UnionFS, Bootsplash,
BadRAM, and more. It also contains many drivers and fixes. 

Changes: This version was updated for Linux 2.6.22. Kernel Mode Linux,
Lguest, Realtime Linux Security Module (LSM), MultiAdmin, L7filters,
ipt_ACCOUNT, WRR, ttyrpld, AUFS, UnionFS, SquashFS 3.3, ReiserFS4, and CKO
are added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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



---  --. - --- .-- -.- . .------..-  . ----.-    -.-.-- -.-.-.---

_______________________________________________
The freshmeat daily newsletter
To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
or visit http://lists.freshmeat.net/mailman/listinfo/freshmeat-news