Newsletter for Sunday, February 17th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (51) :::
[001] - ahcpd 0.4
[002] - Anyterm 1.1.20 (Development)
[003] - AsciiDoc Website Builder 0.1
[004] - avidemux 2.4.1
[005] - BeeDiff 0.10
[006] - Code Browser 3.0
[007] - Das Schaefchen 0.4.3
[008] - DBAHelper 0.2.5
[009] - DBLog Amateur Radio Logging Program 0.7.8
[010] - Emdros 3.0.1
[011] - Furia-chan 1
[012] - GGZ Gaming Zone 0.0.14.1
[013] - GLCaml 20080215
[014] - glTail.rb 0.1.0
[015] - gpgdir 1.6
[016] - gpsd 2.37
[017] - GvTags 0.3.1
[018] - hdparm 8.1
[019] - IMAPFilter 2.0.10
[020] - InspIRCd 1.1.17
[021] - Jtvmaker 3.0.21
[022] - KAlarm 1.9.11 beta (Development)
[023] - KDing 0.4.2
[024] - LimeSurvey Unstable 1.70 Release Candidate 2
[025] - lisp-cgi-utils 0.11
[026] - mrtg 2.16.1
[027] - Nanoki 1.02
[028] - nd 1.0
[029] - NTFS-3G 1.2216
[030] - OBSearch 0.9.1b
[031] - pdfTeX 1.40.7
[032] - peppy 0.7.2.5
[033] - PHP Mini SQL Admin 1.4.080217
[034] - phpns 2.1.2
[035] - Project Dune 1.4.0
[036] - RoasterBase 0.1-RC1
[037] - RRDtool 1.2.27
[038] - Schoorbs 1.0 Alpha 5
[039] - Seed7 2008-02-17
[040] - SmokePing 2.3.1 (Stable)
[041] - Snownews 1.5.9
[042] - Strangle 0.3.0
[043] - STUBS and Franki/Earlgrey Linux 0.8.0pre1/0.9.5pre1 (STUBS
Configurations)
[044] - The Squirrel programming language 2.2 stable
[045] - Tiny Blogr 1.0.0beta1
[046] - TrueCrypt 5.0a
[047] - uSTL 1.2
[048] - Wcalc 2.3.1
[049] - wxRemind 73
[050] - XMLTV 0.5.51
[051] - [ini4j] 0.3.2
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[001] - ahcpd 0.4
by Juliusz Chroboczek (http://freshmeat.net/users/jech/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:23
Internet
System :: Networking
About: Ahcpd is an implementation of the Ad-Hoc Configuration Protocol
(AHCP), an IPv6 stateless configuration protocol for cases where standard
auto-configuration and DHCPv6 don't work, such as mesh networks.
Changes: This version adds the ability to distribute IPv4 address leases
in a style similar to DHCP.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ahcpd/
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[002] - Anyterm 1.1.20 (Development)
by Phil Endecott (http://freshmeat.net/users/endecotp/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 17:09
Communications :: WAP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals
About: Anyterm provides a terminal emulator on a Web page using Javascript
and an Apache module. The module forks a shell and communicates with the
script using XMLHTTP on port 80, or securely using SSL. This provides you
with shell access to your machine from almost any Web browser, even when
firewalls are in the way. Experimental features include support for
standalone operation without Apache, and the my.anyterm.org service
provides access without the need to install anything on your servers.
Changes: This release fixes a Makefile bug in 1.1.19. Upgrade only if you
were unable to build the last version.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/anyterm/
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[003] - AsciiDoc Website Builder 0.1
by Jared Henley (http://freshmeat.net/users/multixrulz/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 19:25
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Text Processing :: Markup
About: awb combines simple but powerful AsciiDoc markup with templates,
blog and image gallery generation, and sitemap.xml generation to allow you
to easily maintain and update a Web site.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/awb/
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[004] - avidemux 2.4.1
by mean99 (http://freshmeat.net/users/mean99/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 03:05
Multimedia :: Video :: Non-Linear Editor
About: Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit videos. It can open AVI,
openDML, MPEG, Nuppelvideo, and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported
(M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec and
libmpeg2. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered
(resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (MPEG4/MJPEG) or MPEG
1/2. The Spidermonkey Javascript engine is used to give powerful scripting
capabilities.
Changes: Loss of audio when saving large OpenDML AVI files was fixed.
Various color conversion issues with RGB codecs, including BMP, Huffyuv,
JPEG, PNG, and much more, were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/avidemux/
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[005] - BeeDiff 0.10
by Piotr Pszczolkowski (http://freshmeat.net/users/PiotrPsz/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 19:22
Software Development
About: BeeDiff is a graphical file comparator. It compares two text files
and highlights differences in colors.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/beediff/
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[006] - Code Browser 3.0
by Marc Kerbiquet (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkerbiquet/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 06:21
Text Editors
About: Code Browser is a folding and outlining editor. It is a
lightweight but powerful tool for structuring and browsing source code
using folders and links. It is especially designed to keep a good
overview of the code of a large project.
Changes: The look and feel were changed to make the editor look more
similar to a traditional text editor and less like a literate programming
tool.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/code-browser/
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[007] - Das Schaefchen 0.4.3
by Guido (http://freshmeat.net/users/guidoreina/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 03:00
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
About: Das Schaefchen is a lightweight HTTP server and proxy for Unix
platforms. It supports the minimum requirements of the HTTP/1.1 protocol
and virtual hosts, basic authentication (which can be used to protect
either files or directories), directory listing, byte ranges, and reverse
proxy. It is an event-driven server that runs as a single process with a
single thread using non-blocking I/O. It uses epoll as the event
notification mechanism to multiplex control between active connections.
Changes: The program crashed when the authentication was enabled and it
received a request like: CONNECT <IP>:<port> or OPTIONS *. This has been
fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/schaefchenws/
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[008] - DBAHelper 0.2.5
by Izzy (http://freshmeat.net/users/izzysoft/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 17:17
Database
About: DBAHelper is a collection of scripts to ease the daily maintenance
work of Oracle database administrators. Examples are moving objects
between tablespaces, analyzing schemata, and rebuilding invalid indices.
Also included is a little framework to simplify the use of RMAN (this
framework depends on the use of Oracle 10g with the Recovery Area enabled
and properly sized, so all backups go there).
Changes: The RMAN Framework has a complete interactive mode (including
menus). create_standby now also handles SPFile and updates the primary
instance (i.e. completely processes all required steps). There is a new
command "switchover" to do a switchover between the primary and standby
database.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbahelper/
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[009] - DBLog Amateur Radio Logging Program 0.7.8
by Pino Zollo (http://freshmeat.net/users/pinoz/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:22
About: DBLog is a logging program for radio amateurs based on a relational
database. It allows the user to log QSOs and export a range of them in ADIF
format. It can read the radio frequency via CAT interface. It includes a CW
Keyer based on cwdaemon.
Changes: Ported to Gambas2. ADIF import has been added. Limited editing of
saved QSOs has been added. There are many improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dblog-/
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[010] - Emdros 3.0.1
by Ulrik Petersen (http://freshmeat.net/users/ulrikp/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 07:17
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Education
Information Management
About: Emdros is a corpus query system for storing and searching
linguistically annotated text. It is very generic, supporting almost any
kind of annotation from almost any linguistic theory. All linguistic
levels of analysis are supported, including phonology, morphology, the
lexical level, syntax, and discourse. The core libraries act as a
middleware layer between a client and an underlying SQL database. MySQL,
PostgreSQL, and SQLite are supported.
Changes: Support for Solaris was reinstated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/emdros/
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[011] - Furia-chan 1
by zetile (http://freshmeat.net/users/zetile/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 19:22
About: Furia-chan is an open source/libre software license violation
detector (a "Google" for binary programs). If given as input a binary
program p, its output is a list of the top n closest programs to p. It
works even if p is control-flow obfuscated. It can also find embedded
(stolen) components within p in a database of FLOSS programs.
Changes: This is the initial release. It currently supports Java byte-code
only.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/furia-chan/
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[012] - GGZ Gaming Zone 0.0.14.1
by Josef Spillner (http://freshmeat.net/users/josef80/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 07:13
Games/Entertainment
About: The GGZ Gaming Zone (GGZ) is an Internet gaming center. Players
login and sit at tables where they can play their favorite games and chat
with other players. GGZ can support multiple rooms with varying skill
levels.
Changes: About twenty bugs which have been found for over a year are now
fixed. Several translations in ggz-client-libs and ggz-gtk-client were
taken from the GNOME games project and integrated. Toolchain support, in
particular on Solaris, has been improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ggz/
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[013] - GLCaml 20080215
by elliott (http://freshmeat.net/users/euoti/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:03
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Software Development :: Libraries
About: GLCaml is an Objective Caml interface for OpenGL versions 1.1, 1.2,
1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.0, and 2.1, plus extensions. It is intended as a compact
drop-in binding. It is a direct, dynamic binding to OpenGL. An OCaml SDL
binding is provided as well, along with texture-map scaling functions,
texture mip-map generators, and a bitmapped font library. Extensive
documentation and more than 20 examples are provided.
Changes: This release contains significant API changes. Bigarrays are no
longer necessary to use OpenGL functions. Standard Ocaml types (ints,
floats, bools, strings, and corresponding arrays) are sufficient. Glenums
have been replaced by integer constants, and as a result, GL_ALL_CAPS
notation becomes gl_small_letters. Silent error handling has been removed.
Extra examples have been added, including an OpenGL shader demo. A new
module, Win, has been added to allow the use of OpenGL from standard Ocaml
Graphics module windows.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/glcaml/
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[014] - glTail.rb 0.1.0
by Erlend Simonsen (http://freshmeat.net/users/fudge/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 03:00
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: glTail.rb allows you to view real-time traffic, data, and
statistics from any log file on any server with SSH, in an intuitive and
entertaining way using Ruby, net-ssh, and OpenGL.
Changes: Huge speedups were accomplished due to better sorting, as well as
using texture polygons instead of bitmap-characters.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gltail/
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[015] - gpgdir 1.6
by Michael Rash (http://freshmeat.net/users/michaelrash/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 17:13
Security :: Cryptography
About: gpgdir is a Perl script that uses the CPAN GnuPG module to encrypt
and decrypt directories using a GPG key specified in ~/.gpgdirrc. It
supports recursively descending through a directory in order to make sure
it encrypts or decrypts every file in a directory and all of its
subdirectories. All file mtime and atime values are preserved across
encryption and decryption operations. In addition, gpgdir is careful not
to encrypt hidden files and directories.
Changes: A bugfix to not include previously encrypted files (i.e. those
with a .gpg extension) in the encryption/decryption file list. This bug
was introduced in 1.5 when a change was made to ignore ASCII-armored
files. The LC_ALL=C locale setting has been added for the install.pl
script (this should help to ensure that gpgdir is properly installed on
most systems). An --Exclude-mod-regex option has been added to the
install.pl script so that it is possible to force the exclusion of Perl
modules that gpgdir would normally install.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpgdir/
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[016] - gpsd 2.37
by ckuethe (http://freshmeat.net/users/ckuethe/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 22:27
Communications
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
About: gpsd is a daemon that listens to a GPS or Loran receiver and
translates the positional data into a simplified format that can be more
easily used by other programs, like chart plotters. The package comes with
a sample client that plots the location of the currently visible GPS
satellites (if available) and a speedometer. It can also use DGPS/ip.
Changes: The C++ bindings, Garmin USB support, and multiple instances of
ntp pps thread starting were fixed. Handling of odd PPS signals was
improved. The eye candy in the PHP visualizers was fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpsd/
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[017] - GvTags 0.3.1
by tof (http://freshmeat.net/users/cvollrath/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 17:11
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: GvTags is a lightweight yet powerful tag library and template
engine for the dynamic programming language Groovy. The tag library can be
used to generate Web pages with powerful tag support. It can be used with
the template servlet of GvTags (TagTemplateServlet) or with JavaServer
Pages (JSP). The template engine can be used to generate any kind of text
documents. Since it is written in Groovy and compiled to a Java class
file, it can be used from Groovy as well as from Java.
Changes: This release is based on Groovy 1.5, and the embedded Web server
has been upgraded to Jetty 6.1. A new tag has been implemented: the page
tag to define character encoding and content type. Logging has switched to
Apache commons logging with log4j instead of JDK logging.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gvtags/
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[018] - hdparm 8.1
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:24
System :: Hardware
Utilities
About: hdparm is a Linux shell utility for viewing and manipulating
various IDE drive and driver parameters. Most drives can benefit from
improved performance using a command similar to "hdparm -qm8 -qu1 -qc1
-qd1 /dev/hda".
Changes: A major code overhaul was made. Support for libata SATA/PATA
drives was significantly expanded. Much better compliance with the
SCSI-ATA-Translation specification was achieved. The -A, -W, and -M flags
can now be used without a parameter to query the current setting. Several
enhancements to the -I information were made. New flags
"--make-bad-sector", "--repair-sector", and "--read-sector" were added.
The "-N" flag was added to get/set max address/HPA. Many other fixes and
enhancements were made.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hdparm/
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[019] - IMAPFilter 2.0.10
by Lefteris Chatzimparmpas (http://freshmeat.net/users/lefcha/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 03:08
Communications :: Email :: Filters
About: IMAPFilter is a mail filtering utility. It connects to remote mail
servers using the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), sends searching
queries to the server, and processes mailboxes based on the results.
Changes: A bug which was triggered after thousands of command exchanges
with a server was fixed. Another bug which was causing a failure while
trying to fetch some messages in some very rare occasions was fixed. The
documentation was clarified in regards with searching in message headers.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapfilter/
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[020] - InspIRCd 1.1.17
by Brain (http://freshmeat.net/users/braindigitalis/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 08:38
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
About: InspIRCd is a fully modular IRC daemon with modular SSL (gnutls or
OpenSSL), ziplinks (through zlib) support, advanced spam filters, flood
controls, settable operator levels, and SQL login using PostgreSQL, MySQL,
or SQLite.
Changes: Users will now quit faster. Windows should no longer have weird
problems with "ghost" users and high CPU use. K|G|Z|E:Line can now also be
used on a nickname, e.g. /zline w00t 1d :foo would place an IP ban on w00t.
A low risk crash with m_invisible and m_watch was fixed. Other
miscellaneous fixes are also included.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/inspircd/
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[021] - Jtvmaker 3.0.21
by stevpan (http://freshmeat.net/users/new1999/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 02:58
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
About: jtvmaker is a Web slideshow generator and album generator. It can
turn a group of selected photos, an MP3 (optional), and a lyric file
(optional) into a JavaScript Web slideshow, an applet slideshow, a gallery
page, or a stand-alone slideshow application. A Windows screensaver and
video can be generated with the help of the jsmooth exe wrapper and
mencoder. The slideshow plays background MP3s through Quicktime/WMP in
JavaScript or jlayer in an applet. Lyric displaying, fading, wiping, and
Ken Burns transitions are available in the applet and standalone
application.
Changes: A standalone MP3 slideshow player was added in this release. The
XML configuration was simplified. Messy code and unstable features were
removed. Multiple MP3s are supported in the standalone slideshow player.
Handling of multiple-byte characters was improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jtvmaker/
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[022] - KAlarm 1.9.11 beta (Development)
by David Jarvie (http://freshmeat.net/users/djar/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 17:08
Utilities
About: KAlarm lets you configure personal messages to be displayed,
commands to be executed, or emails to be sent at scheduled times. Among
its options, it allows you to choose the message font and color, how often
to repeat, whether to display an advance reminder, whether to speak the
message or play a sound when it is displayed, and whether to cancel the
alarm if it can't be triggered on time (e.g. if you are logged out at the
time). As well as using the graphical interface to configure alarms, you
can use the command line, and there is a DCOP interface for other
applications.
Changes: Errors in setting up sub-repetitions are fixed. The alarm edit
dialog layout is improved. The alarm list now shows correct times for
working-hours-only alarms, and their calculation has been sped up.
Archived alarms are no longer displayed after an alarm refresh when they
are supposed to be hidden. An error sending email with sendmail is fixed.
Debian package dependencies now allow it to replace the official 'kalarm'
package. There are other bugfixes and improved translations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kalarm/
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[023] - KDing 0.4.2
by Michael Rex (http://freshmeat.net/users/rexi/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:20
About: KDing is a KDE frontend for Ding, a dictionary lookup program. It
sits in KDE's system tray and can translate the current clipboard content.
Users can also enter single words or phrases for translation. It is
intended to be used for translating between German and English, but can be
used with every language for which a word list is available for Ding.
Changes: This release fixes an encoding issue with non-UTF-8 locales.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kding/
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[024] - LimeSurvey Unstable 1.70 Release Candidate 2
by Carsten Schmitz (http://freshmeat.net/users/cronostitan/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 07:16
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a Web application that
interacts with MySQL or MSSQL to develop surveys, publish surveys, and
collect responses to surveys. Once a survey has been created, data can be
inserted into the survey either by a "pretty" public screen which presents
each question one at a time, or by a quick and nasty data entry screen. It
includes the capacity to generate individualized "tokens", so that
invitations can be issued to participants. It also has the capacity to set
conditions on whether questions will display (branching), numerous question
types, and a basic statistics function.
Changes: This release adds numerous bugfixes, especially to Postgres
support and the new dual scale matrix question type.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/limesurvey/
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[025] - lisp-cgi-utils 0.11
by Alexander Schreiber (http://freshmeat.net/users/yauz/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 08:38
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
About: The lisp-cgi-utils is a software package for developing CGI
scripts with Common Lisp. It implements a very basic HTTP/CGI interface
(sending headers, getting GET/POST and environment variables) and offers
tools for easier HTML generation with special support for handling HTML
forms.
Changes: This release adds support for ACL 8.1.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lisp-cgi-utils/
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[026] - mrtg 2.16.1
by Tobias Oetiker (http://freshmeat.net/users/oetiker/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 06:17
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the
traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing
GIF/PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic.
Changes: Support was added for RRDtool based Holt-Winters aberrant
behavior detection. Threshold based alerts have been enhanced to be able
to fire based on the FAILURES RRA. Note that Holt-Winters aberrant
behavior detection can only be enabled on newly created RRDs. Improvments
were made to MIB parsing, threshold alerts, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/
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[027] - Nanoki 1.02
by Zoe (http://freshmeat.net/users/ZoeInfo/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 17:06
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki
About: Nanoki is a simple, elegant wiki engine implemented in Lua.
Changes: This release updates file upload handling and the Markdown
library.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nanoki/
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[028] - nd 1.0
by Andrew Madigan (http://freshmeat.net/users/andymadigan/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 22:28
Internet
System :: Networking
Utilities
About: nd is a program for listening on a network socket and executing a
command for each incoming connection. The incoming connection becomes the
stdin and stdout for the executed command.
Changes: Many features were implemented. IPv6 support is missing.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nd/
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[029] - NTFS-3G 1.2216
by Southen (http://freshmeat.net/users/southen/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:01
System :: Filesystems
System :: Operating System Kernels
About: NTFS-3G is a read/write NTFS driver. NTFS-3G is available for over
60 Linux distributions, including most major ones. Moreover, it has been
ported to other operating systems like FreeBSD, BeOS, Haiku, and Mac OS X,
to big-endian and 64-bit computer architectures, and to CPUs like AMD64,
ARM, and MIPS.
Changes: This release fixes file and directory removal; rename and move
may have been denied with an "Operation not supported" error message.
setuid-root ntfs-3g had a local root exploit and other security problems.
>From now on, unprivileged mounts of block devices are possible only by
using the integrated FUSE library (default), which has no known security
problem. Unprivileged unmount didn't always work. This release always
creates the mount.ntfs-3g symlink in /sbin where mount(8) needs it.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ntfs-3g/
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[030] - OBSearch 0.9.1b
by zetile (http://freshmeat.net/users/zetile/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 02:59
Database
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
Multimedia :: Video
About: OBSearch is a distributed similarity search index. It can (for
example) match programs and help to detect Open Source/Libre license
violations, find music that sounds like Sisters of Mercy, or match huge
vectors of randomly generated integers just for fun.
Changes: Improvements were made in the Cache. The API was slightly
modified to make it easier to use spore files.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/obsearch/
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[031] - pdfTeX 1.40.7
by Martin Schröder (http://freshmeat.net/users/martinschrder/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:20
Printing
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX
About: pdfTeX is an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly
from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the
help of PDF. When PDF output is not selected, pdfTeX produces normal DVI
output, otherwise it produces PDF output that looks identical to the DVI
output. An important aspect of this project is to investigate alternative
justification algorithms, optionally making use of multiple master fonts.
Changes: This releases fixes problems with Large File Support on 32-bit
systems.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdftex/
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[032] - peppy 0.7.2.5
by Rob McMullen (http://freshmeat.net/users/robm351/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 17:17
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: This release adds i18n support with initial message catalogs in
Russian, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Japanese (additional translations
will be added using the launchpad.net collaboration features).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/peppy/
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[033] - PHP Mini SQL Admin 1.4.080217
by osa (http://freshmeat.net/users/osa_ua/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 19:24
Database
Database :: Front-Ends
Internet
About: PHP Mini SQL Admin is a light, standalone script for accessing
MySQL databases. It is intended for Web developers and requires knowledge
of SQL commands.
Changes: Now all contents of database fields are HTML-escaped to prevent
Javascript (and other XSS tricks) from running. NULL values in SQL dump
were replaced by ''. Support for "desc TABLE" queries has been added. A
repair function in "show tables" has been added. In the export file, final
comments have been added (so it's easy to see if the export was completed
fully, which is useful for slow servers or large databases when the PHP
script may timeout before the end of the export).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpminiadmin/
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[034] - phpns 2.1.2
by Alec Henriksen (http://freshmeat.net/users/alecwh/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 17:14
About: Phpns is a news system that will enable you to design your Web site
the way you want. You can include a dynamic CMS with one line of code.
Changes: Themecontrol.php modification. A small bug found on some servers
(not replacing {content}) has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpns/
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[035] - Project Dune 1.4.0
by Gerard Toonstra (http://freshmeat.net/users/Chiraz/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:08
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: Project Dune is a Web-based issue tracker that is fully integrated
with source code control systems, which enables code inspections in the
browser. The project aims to automate the full cycle of development, from
estimation to release.
Changes: Installing and upgrading is now possible through a Web installer.
Just deploy and go. Anonymous access to issue management was added (making
it suitable for open source project management too). Internet users can
log in and register with OpenID. There are some maintenance changes and
bugfixes. Atom feeds have been improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdune/
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[036] - RoasterBase 0.1-RC1
by NebuK (http://freshmeat.net/users/NebuK/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:21
About: RoasterBase is a database for storing coffee beans, blends, and
roasting profiles. Live data input (while roasting), reroasting
instructions of an existing profile, and stock management of beans is
supported. A plot of the profiles is drawn, and can be exported to be
printed or shown to other roasters on the Web. The UI of Roasterbase is
aimed at efficient live data input and use on a laptop next to the
roaster.
Changes: No changes that would require database dumping will be made
anymore. Every feature planned for the first release is included and
should be stable enough for use.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/roasterbase/
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[037] - RRDtool 1.2.27
by Tobias Oetiker (http://freshmeat.net/users/oetiker/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 07:00
Database
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries
About: RRDtool (Round Robin Database Tool) is time-series data storage and
graphing utility created by the author of MRTG. Using RRDtool, you can
write your own MRTG-like tools in a matter minutes with only a few lines
of Perl or shell code.
Changes: Read-ahead patches backported from the 1.3 branch for massively
improved performance. Portability was improved for Solaris and AIX
targets. Many minor bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rrdtool/
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[038] - Schoorbs 1.0 Alpha 5
by xhochy (http://freshmeat.net/users/xhochy/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:02
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: * grab_globals.php, which extracted all _GET, _POST, and _COOKIE
variables as global variables, has been removed. edit_entry.php and
edit_entry_handler.php have been rewritten to work without
grab_globals.php. Automated email messages when booking a room have been
removed. A logging system has been added. At the moment, only syslog is
available as a backend. Smarty 2.6.19 is supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/schoorbs/
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[039] - Seed7 2008-02-17
by Thomas Mertes (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomas_mertes/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 17:07
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Seed7 is a general purpose programming language. It is a higher
level language compared to Ada, C++, and Java. In Seed7, new statements
and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type
parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object
orientation is used when it brings advantages and not in places when other
solutions are more obvious. Although Seed7 contains several concepts of
other programming languages, it is generally not considered as a direct
descendant of any other programming language.
Changes: A new chapter about object orientation was added to the manual.
The struct copy of the compiler (comp.sd7) was changed to leave the
dynamic type unchanged. Several primitive actions were added or improved
in the compiler. A bug in the primitive action CLS_CREATE2 was fixed. The
function match_subexpr_type was changed to allow normal (not DYNAMIC)
interface functions to be used for implementation values. The bas7.sd7
(basic interpreter) example program was improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/seed7/
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[040] - SmokePing 2.3.1 (Stable)
by Tobias Oetiker (http://freshmeat.net/users/oetiker/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 06:19
System :: Benchmark
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: SmokePing is a network latency monitor. It measures network latency
to a configurable set of destinations on the network, and displays its
findings in easy-to-read Web pages. SmokePing has support for distributed
monitoring as well as for dealing with dynamic IP addresses. SmokePing
uses RRDtool as its logging and graphing back-end, making the system very
efficient. The presentation of the data on the Web is done through a CGI
with some AJAX capabilities for interactive graph exploration.
Changes: Alerts are not sent for hosts disabled via nomasterpoll.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smokeping/
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[041] - Snownews 1.5.9
by Oliver Feiler (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiza/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 03:04
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary
About: Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports all
versions of RSS natively, and other feed formats via plugins. It depends
on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing.
Changes: The mark read and unread logic has been changed. Two patches from
the Debian bugtracker have been included. A Ukranian translation has been
added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/snownews/
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[042] - Strangle 0.3.0
by Jason Smith (http://freshmeat.net/users/jhs_bkk/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 19:27
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: Strangle is a Python package for parsing Domain Name System (DNS)
messages. It is a Python interface to the ISC BIND message parsing
routines. It is a fork of the unmaintained Constrict library by the same
author.
Changes: Imported from the old Constrict svn into bzr, with updates.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/strangle/
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[043] - STUBS and Franki/Earlgrey Linux 0.8.0pre1/0.9.5pre1 (STUBS
Configurations)
by William Towle (http://freshmeat.net/users/etwills/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 07:26
System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: CD-Based
About: The STUBS Toolchain and Utility Build Suite is a set of scripts
designed to build one or more software packages by means of a pre-written
set of configuration files. Each configuration file encapsulates the
necessary build and install commands for a given package, and URLs are
included so source and patches can be downloaded as necessary. STUBS is
designed to both bootstrap and work within the Franki/Earlgrey Linux
environment (an extensible busybox and uClibc-based Linux boot floppy
produced by one of several example STUBS configurations).
Changes: This build scripts release updates the toolchains' perl, and
ensures kernels are built by all 0.9.5 series toolchains (2.0.40 for
Earlgrey, 2.2.26 for Sencha, 2.4.36 for Bancha, and 2.6.23.12 for Lung
Ching). A small number of package build scripts were updated, including
conspy, curl, and isapnptools.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freglx/
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[044] - The Squirrel programming language 2.2 stable
by Alberto (http://freshmeat.net/users/fagiano/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 22:32
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Squirrel is a light-weight programming language (around 6000 lines
of code) that features higher-order functions, classes/inheritance,
delegation, tail recursion, generators, cooperative threads, exception
handling, reference counting and garbage collection on demand. It has a
C-like syntax.
Changes: The _newslot metamethod in classes was added. enums and constants
were added. sq_pushconsttable and sq_setconsttable were added to the API.
Function default parameters were added. Octal literals were added. The
debug hook was fixed, so "calls" and "returns" are properly notified in
the same number. A coroutine bug was fixed.
License: zlib/libpng License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/squirrel_lang/
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[045] - Tiny Blogr 1.0.0beta1
by Anoochit Chalothorn (http://freshmeat.net/users/redlinesoft/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 03:08
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Tiny Blogr is a tiny personal journal blog system with beautiful
URL support. Tags are used to categorize entries. Members can upload files
and manage their files via a file manager.
Changes: Three new templates were added.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tinyblogr/
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[046] - TrueCrypt 5.0a
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 07:14
Office/Business
Security
Security :: Cryptography
About: TrueCrypt is on-the-fly disk encryption software that can create a
virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk. It can
also encrypt an entire hard disk partition, or a storage device such as
USB memory stick. It supports plausible deniability.
Changes: The memory requirement of the TrueCrypt Boot Loader, which
prevented some users from encrypting system partitions and drives, was
reduced. Many other minor bugs were fixed.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/truecrypt/
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[047] - uSTL 1.2
by Mike Sharov (http://freshmeat.net/users/msharov/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:23
Software Development :: Libraries
About: uSTL is a partial implementation of the Standard Template Library
which reduces code size by factoring memory management code into a
non-template base class and deriving containers from it.
Changes: This release contains minor bugfixes. Problems with non-blocking
file descriptors and streams have been corrected. There is some inline
assembly work to correct occasional compilation errors on i386.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ustl/
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[048] - Wcalc 2.3.1
by memoryhole (http://freshmeat.net/users/memoryhole/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 22:40
About: Wcalc is a very capable calculator. It has standard functions (sin,
asin, and sinh for example), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, etc.),
support for using variables, a command history, hex/octal/binary input and
output, unit conversions, bit-shifting, embedded comments, and an
expandable expression entry field. It evaluates expressions using the
standard order of operations.
Changes: Several display glitches with auto-resizing for large numbers
have been fixed, as has the simple-calc mode. Engineering notation and
non-number input (such as @NaN@ and @Inf@) have been made more reliable,
as have some multi-step operations. The licensing has also been updated to
be GPLv2+ compatible.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wcalc/
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[049] - wxRemind 73
by Dan Graham (http://freshmeat.net/users/dgraham/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:06
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: This release, by default, now starts remind in internal server
mode using the -z0 switch. When enabled, internal alerts are generated for
MSG reminders, including a graphical alert box together with an optional
audible alert. For early warnings prior to the event time, the graphical
alert offers an option to cancel further alerts for the reminder and, if
no further action is taken, automatically closes itself after a specified
time (15 seconds by default) without canceling further repetitions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxrem/
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[050] - XMLTV 0.5.51
by Robert Eden (http://freshmeat.net/users/rmeden/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 22:38
Games/Entertainment
Home Automation
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: XMLTV is a set of programs to obtain and process TV (tvguide)
listings and manage your TV viewing. It stores the listings in an
XML-based format and most of the programs are filters which read and/or
write XML. It includes tools to obtain, sort, grep, print, and munge
listings, and two end-user programs to plan a week's TV viewing.
Changes: tv_grab_eu_epgdata (commerical) and tv_grab_es_migulatv were
added. tv_grab_nl, tv_grab_nc, and tv_grab_no were removed. XMLTV.pm,
IMDB.pm, tv_grab_br_net, tv_grab_eu_epgdata, tv_grab_es_laguiatv,
tv_grab_fi, tv_grab_fr, tv_grab_it, tv_grab_na_dtv, tv_grab_re, and
tv_grab_uk_rt were updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmltv/
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[051] - [ini4j] 0.3.2
by Ivan Szkiba (http://freshmeat.net/users/szkiba/)
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 13:05
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: [ini4j] is a simple Java API for handling configuration files in
Windows .ini format. Additionally, the library includes a Java Preferences
API implementation based on the .ini file.
Changes: A file close problem has been fixed: in some cases, IniFile and
IniParser left files open. This caused file deletion problems on some
operating systems. A Unicode escape problem has been fixed: \u sequences
are now generated correctly (4 characters with leading zeros).
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ini4j/
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