Newsletter for Saturday, March 22nd 2008

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::: A R T I C L E S (1) :::

Need to have maps on your Web page? It's simple!
by Alex Shpurov (http://shpuroff.com/)
Section: Tutorials
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 00:00

This article will show you how easy it is to set up interactive maps for
your Web page, including multiple layers and interactivity between your
view of your Web page and your backend business logic.

URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/3104/

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (51) :::

[001] - Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture 2.6.x.y-gs-2.3.1
(Kernel-patches)
[002] - AgileWiki 0.11.6 (COODBMS)
[003] - aurora framework 20080322
[004] - CharEntry 1.6
[005] - Conky 1.5.0
[006] - CPPSERV 0.1.106
[007] - csvdiff 1.6
[008] - dvbyell 0.99.5
[009] - Floola 2.9
[010] - gloox 0.9.9.5
[011] - GPM 1.20.3pre5
[012] - Gtk VNC Viewer 0.2.1
[013] - GWintree 0.9.9-1
[014] - haserl 0.9.23 (Development)
[015] - Hermes VFS browser 0.7
[016] - Hierarchical Data Format 1.9.0 (Pre-release)
[017] - Indywiki 0.9.8
[018] - JLanguageLearn 0.7.2
[019] - jobqueue 0.03
[020] - Jtvmaker 3.26
[021] - libmicrohttpd 0.2.2
[022] - LinuxBIOS 2-3186
[023] - MeshLab 1.1.1
[024] - Minirok 0.9
[025] - Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.46
[026] - NetSurf 1.2
[027] - Odot 1.3.0
[028] - otl 0.53
[029] - Paludis 0.26.0_alpha13
[030] - PeerStream Audio Video Streaming Server 4.72 (A/V Streaming
Server)
[031] - plptools 1.0.1
[032] - PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5-rc1
[033] - Prime Mover 0.1.4
[034] - Security Management And Risk Tracking 3.0 Beta
[035] - Sitellite Content Management System 4.3.3 (Beta)
[036] - Spindown 0.1.1
[037] - Stormbaan Coureur 2.1.3
[038] - Subversion Labels 1.2beta
[039] - trading-shim 080319
[040] - urlwatch 1.1
[041] - vlock 2.2 (Stable)
[042] - WANPIPE 3.3.2 (Development)
[043] - Wings 3D 0.99.02 (Development)
[044] - wview 3.7.3
[045] - X11 Audio Extension 0.6.1
[046] - Xenomai 2.4.2
[047] - xjobs 20080322
[048] - XML-RPC Client/Server C Library 0.9.92
[049] - xmltoman 0.4
[050] - xylib 0.2
[051] - Xyria:DNSd 0.8.0pre1 (Development)

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[001] - Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture 2.6.x.y-gs-2.3.1
(Kernel-patches)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:09

Multimedia
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

About: AQuoSA is an open architecture for the provisioning of adaptive
Quality of Service functionality into the Linux kernel. The project
features a flexible, portable, and lightweight software architecture for
supporting QoS-related services on top of a general-purpose operating
system as Linux. The architecture is well founded on formal scheduling
analysis and control theoretical results. At the core of the software is
an adaptive Resource Reservation layer that is capable of dynamically
adapting the CPU allocation for QoS-aware applications based on their
run-time requirements.

Changes: Added GENSCHED capability to x86_64 architectures.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[002] - AgileWiki 0.11.6 (COODBMS)
by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 23:22

Database
Documentation
Information Management

About: AgileWiki is meant to create software systems which are fluid,
easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing
requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming
paradigm, and semantic inferencing.

Changes: A new utility, PurgeHistory, can be used to limit the amount of
history retained in a branch. Timestamps are now in the format
yyyy.MM.dd-HH:mm:ss-SSS. This allows transaction history to be queried for
any time period. Browse now supports three more commands. Web pages have
been updated to reflect these changes. A new Web page on journals was
added.

License: Common Public License

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

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[003] - aurora framework 20080322
by Oktay Acikalin (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheBlackLion/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:36

Database :: API
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: aurora framework is a slim modular MVC framework written in PHP
5.2+ for rapid development of Web or console applications featuring an
integrated database API, template logic, pretty URLs,
internationalization, caching, data models, and a multi-layered file tree.

Changes: Signals (active and passive events), an integrated test framework
for unit testing, and a much nicer command line interface for ama were
introduced. Two new alternative template syntaxes were added for commands
and translation-vars. ama has been improved and raised to 0.4. Speed was
improved, and some bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[004] - CharEntry 1.6
by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:04

Text Processing
Text Processing :: General
Text Processing :: Linguistic

About: CharEntry is a tool for inserting non-ASCII characters into text,
with particular emphasis on linguistic notation. It provides charts of the
consonants, vowels, and diacritics of the International Phonetic Alphabet
as well as a chart of precomposed accented characters. Clicking on a
character inserts it into a text region, the contents of which may be
saved to a file or copied and pasted elsewhere. A widget for inserting
characters by Unicode codepoint is also provided. Furthermore, it is
possible to read the definition of a custom character chart from a file.

Changes: The widget for inserting characters by code has been modified to
work with Tcl/Tk version 8.5. A workaround has been introduced for a bug
in the MS Windows implementation of some versions of Tcl/Tk. The use of
the Iwidgets library is now optional. Its presence is tested and custom
character charts are made available only if it is detected. Upper case A
with caron is now represented by the single codepoint rather than the
sequence previously used. A single-file executable for MS Windows is now
provided.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Conky 1.5.0
by asdf1234 (http://freshmeat.net/users/asdf123456/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 23:11

System :: Monitoring

About: Conky is an advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X.

Changes: This release contains a number of bugfixes and improvements since
1.4.9, as well as the introduction of many new features.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[006] - CPPSERV 0.1.106
by Ilya VE (http://freshmeat.net/users/iluxa/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:08

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: CPPSERV is a Web application server / servlet container that
provides a Servlet-like API to C++. It also contains CSP (C++ Server
Pages) functionality, similar to pre-compiled JSP. It consists of
stand-alone application server and Web server front-ends. Modules for
Apache and lighttpd are available.

Changes: The CSP parser was fixed. Includes are now handled by creating
different lexers in order to avoid buffering fun. White space and new
lines after directives are all eaten now.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - csvdiff 1.6
by roli (http://freshmeat.net/users/schmitzr/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:01

Utilities

About: csvdiff is a simple script for comparing two files of
comma-separated values with each other. In contrast to standard diff, it
will show the number of the record where the difference occurs, the column
number, and (if provided) the fieldname which is different. The separator
can be set to any value you want, not just a comma. It also provides
support for multiple column keys, the ability to ignore case and trim
leading/tailing spaces, and the ability to ignore selected columns such as
timestamps.

Changes: Numeric comparison for selected columns is now possible using the
-n option. For example, -n "2;5" will compare columns 2 and 5. It is also
possible to numerically compare all columns except the selected ones using
-n "-2;5". The decimal and 1000's separator can now be chosen. Checks are
included for whether a key column is empty or null and for duplicate keys.
A verbose mode in which all selected options are displayed in the output
was implemented. Column names can now be the first line in both files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - dvbyell 0.99.5
by Jonny (http://freshmeat.net/users/jonnyh/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:29

Multimedia :: Video

About: dvbyell is a streaming solution for DVB(-S/-S2/-C/-T). It will read
streams from Linux DVB devices (/dev/dvb/*) and send them to the network
using UDP multicast. This kind of software is often referred to as "DVB
to IP gateway" or "IPTV server".

Changes: Support for playlist groups in SAP announcements has been added.
Support for different LNB types has been added. The EPG handling has been
improved.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[009] - Floola 2.9
by floola (http://freshmeat.net/users/floola/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 22:38

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video

About: Floola is an application to efficiently manage your iPod or your
Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X,
and Windows. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no
installation. It supports all commonly used iPod features including
artwork, podcasts, and smart playlists. It is also able to convert audio
or video incompatible with the iPod so that you can copy almost any file
to it. It even allows adding YouTube and Myspace videos by entering the
page URL.

Changes: An artwork mixup was fixed. Problems with certain versions of
robocopy.exe were fixed. Semi-automatic iPod generation detection is done.

License: Freeware

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

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[010] - gloox 0.9.9.5
by Jakob Schroeter (http://freshmeat.net/users/kolp/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:05

Communications :: Chat
Software Development :: Libraries

About: gloox is a portable high-level Jabber/XMPP library for C++. It is
fully compliant with the XMPP RFCs, supports all of the XMPP features
(including SRV lookups, TLS, SASL, roster management, and privacy lists),
and implements several XEPs that make it ideal for writing any kind of
Jabber/XMPP client or component.

Changes: Minor bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - GPM 1.20.3pre5
by Nico Schottelius (http://freshmeat.net/users/telmich/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:09

System
Utilities

About: GPM (General Purpose Mouse) is a mouse server for the console and
xterm, with sample clients included (emacs, etc).

Changes: This release fixed the default handler in liblow.c.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - Gtk VNC Viewer 0.2.1
by NothernLights (http://freshmeat.net/users/NorthernLights/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:48

Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Networking

About: GTK VNC Viewer is a script that provides a GUI for connecting to
VNC servers. It remembers the credentials of known servers, so connecting
to a VNC server is just one double-click away. Servers are shown in an
icon view.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[013] - GWintree 0.9.9-1
by David J. Cooke (http://freshmeat.net/users/djcooke/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:08

About: GWintree is a GEDCOM-based genealogy program. It provides
facilities to view, edit, and merge data, and to produce charts, family
trees, and reports in a range of formats, including HTML. Charts can show
all relatives, ancestors only, or descendants only. HTML charts allow you
to click on a person in your HTML report to see where they are on the
chart. Automatic matching and merging of data between files is supported.

Changes: Matching and merging of data between files has been greatly
improved. Matching is now more accurate and merging much faster. The
changes made during merging can be viewed in the treeview controls, which
are now much faster to display for large files. All known bugs have been
fixed.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[014] - haserl 0.9.23 (Development)
by Nathan Angelacos (http://freshmeat.net/users/nangel/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:10

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

About: Haserl is a small CGI program that parses POST and GET data from
Web clients and provides a PHP-like syntax for writing dynamic Web
content. A Unix shell is used for the scripting language. Lua is also
supported as an embedded scripting language. It is intended for
environments where something like PHP is too big, and compiles to around
20KB.

Changes: This version now supports treating multiple form variables that
end in brackets (e.g. foo[]) as a newline-delimited array (similar to the
PHP style for multi-select form fields).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - Hermes VFS browser 0.7
by JCU HPRC (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcuhprc/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:28

Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Internet

About: Hermes is a common VFS browser for browsing SRB, GridFTP and other
file stores. Its architecture supports the addition of custom metadata
interfaces specific to institutional metadata repositories.

Changes: Connection hanging that caused NullPointerExceptions on
underlying UI updates was fixed. GSIFTP connections default to passive
mode rather than active.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[016] - Hierarchical Data Format 1.9.0 (Pre-release)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:08

Database
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries

About: HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) is a general purpose library and
file format for storing scientific data. It arranges data into datasets
(multidimensional arrays) and groups (a structure for organizing objects).

Changes: Assorted minor bugfixes.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[017] - Indywiki 0.9.8
by Markos Gogoulos (http://freshmeat.net/users/mgogoulos/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:31

Education

About: Indywiki is an application that offers different ways of visually
browsing the collection of data contained by Wikipedia.

Changes: New features include a combobox that enables easy Wikipedia site
selection, a toolbar with a browser, and translation buttons that enable a
more pleasant and intuitive navigation. Bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - JLanguageLearn 0.7.2
by Sebastian Parkitny (http://freshmeat.net/users/sparkitny/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:27

Education
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: JLanguageLearn is a generic language course. It is based on Java
and XML. You can define your own lessons in an easy way, and lessons are
displayed in a graphical user interface. An editor is included for
creating lessons.

Changes: Several minor improvements were made in the Learning part and in
the JLL Editor. Some lessons were added for Spanish for German learners.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[019] - jobqueue 0.03
by Heikki Orsila (http://freshmeat.net/users/shaihulud/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:32

System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: jobqueue is a fault tolerant program for executing jobs in parallel
to complete all jobs as quickly as possible. It can be used to distribute a
set of jobs to a specific number of processors and/or machines. New jobs
are started as older jobs finish. Failed jobs can be automatically
restarted. Jobs can be automatically migrated away from failed nodes.

Changes: Fault tolerance was added to automatically restart failed jobs
and migrate jobs away from failed nodes. Support was added for
multiprocessor/core machines that may keep more than one job running
simultaneously.

License: Public Domain

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

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[020] - Jtvmaker 3.26
by stevpan (http://freshmeat.net/users/new1999/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:15

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 JPEG, MP3 (optional), and lyric (optional) files
into a JavaScript slideshow page, an applet slideshow page, a gallery
page, or a stand-alone slideshow application. 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. A video can be
generated with the help of mencoder.

Changes: The user can now add annotation text and URL links on each photo
from the GUI. Thumbnails of images were added in the GUI. A slideshow can
be previewed from the GUI now. All configuration can now be loaded and
saved in a slideshow project file. Several minor bugs were fixed and messy
code was removed. All planned features were implemented.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - libmicrohttpd 0.2.2
by Christian Grothoff (http://freshmeat.net/users/grothoff/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:04

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

About: libmicrohttpd is a small C library for embedding HTTP server
functionality into other applications. It is reentrant, fast, supports
HTTP 1.1, and permits listening on multiple ports. The API is simple and
still powerful enough to allow programmers to use the entire HTTP feature
set.

Changes: This release fixes a bug that could result in busy waiting for
applications using libmicrohttpd in external select mode after a client
terminated an upload prematurely.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[022] - LinuxBIOS 2-3186
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 22:45

System :: Boot

About: Coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a project that aims to
replace the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a
payload. Payloads can include a compressed Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2,
OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for
booting Windows and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86.

Changes: Support was added for the following hardware: the Intel 3100 (PCI
IDs, integrated SuperIO, UART, northbridge, RAM controller, and the "Mt.
Arvon" mainboard), the MSI MS-6119 mainboard, the Winbond W39V080FA series
of chips, and the K8M890. Initial support was added for the Intel 82830
northbridge and RCA RM4100 board. A GPIO dumping utility for Intel ICH
series southbridges was added. Support was added for flashing on the
Kontron 986LCD-M board. ICH9 detection was added to flashrom. Speedstep
support was added for VIA C7 based CPUs. Major bugfixes, code cleanups,
table cleanups, and documentation fixes were done.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[023] - MeshLab 1.1.1
by Paolo Cignoni (http://freshmeat.net/users/cignoni/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 23:13

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

About: MeshLab is an open, portable, extensible system for the
user-assisted processing of unstructured 3D meshes. The system is aimed to
help the processing of 3D models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of
tools for cleaning and healing this kind of meshes. The system is heavily
based on the VCG library developed at the Visual Computing Lab of ISTI -
CNR, for all the core mesh processing tasks.

Changes: This version features a large number of bugfixes. Notably, the
alignment system has vastly improved performance and robustness, and many
I/O formats are much more accurate and robust in accepting malformed
input.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - Minirok 0.9
by Adeodato Simó (http://freshmeat.net/users/adeodato/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:17

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: Minirok is a small music player for the K Desktop Environment. As
its name hints, it's modelled after Amarok, but with a reduced set of
features. In particular, it is designed to cover all the needs and wishes
of the author, leaving everything else out. The look and feel is almost
identical to Amarok's, though. The main interface is a tree view of the
filesystem, with a playlist that can only be populated via drag and drop.
There is no collection built from tags, so it's targeted at people whose
collections are already structured in a tree at the filesystem level.
Searches can be performed both in the tree view and the playlist.

Changes: The slider in the statusbar can now be used to seek within a
track.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[025] - Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.46
by Mjrz (http://freshmeat.net/users/mjrz/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:05

Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting

About: Personal Finance Manager is a finance and expense tracking tool for
those with limited or no accounting experience. You can use it to manage
expenses and track account balances, generate reports, create and save
complex filters to search the transaction history, create charts and
graphs for assets, liabilities, and daily net worth tracking, view stock
prices/quotes, store contacts, email, and phone numbers, and import OFX
data for banks and credit cards. It supports the latest Quicken format,
and also supports downloading current statement for bank and credit card
accounts.

Changes: A logout/switch profile feature was added for faster switching
between profiles. Cut/copy/paste functionality was fixed in all JTextArea
boxes.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[026] - NetSurf 1.2
by nunfestishist (http://freshmeat.net/users/nunfetishist/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 23:17

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: NetSurf is a lightweight cross-platform Web browser. It supports
the HTML 4 and CSS standards and provides a small, fast, and comprehensive
Web browsing solution.

Changes: Improvements to cookie handling and form widgets. Many CSS fixes
were made. HTTP redirection handling was rewritten. The code builds on
NetBSD. The GIF decoder works on big-endian machines. Many other fixes
were made.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[027] - Odot 1.3.0
by Torsten Schoenfeld (http://freshmeat.net/users/kaffeemaschine/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:11

Information Management

About: Odot is a task list manager that organizes your tasks
hierarchically and emphasizes ones which are due.

Changes: A problem in which cell editing entries were very thin on some
versions of GTK+ was worked around.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - otl 0.53
by david a thompson (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomp/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 22:34

Text Processing :: General

About: otl is a text processor for generating custom markup from plain
text. Much of both the input and output formats can be customized. LaTeX
and HTML support are included in the distribution. One can specify other
output formats, if desired. The user can also specify another input format
if the default input format (roughly similar to that of asciidoc) does not
meet his/her needs. otl supports complex structures such as nested ordered
lists, headers and footers, and tables.

Changes: A number of new features have been added. Conversion to LaTeX is
now supported. Installation is simplified. A number of other minor
enhancements include an --assume-yes option (to facilitate automated
document processing), support for tables of contents, better handling of
special characters (in TeX and HTML), and improvement of the default CSS
style appearance. Several minor bugfixes include improvements in list
processing, increased care with substitutions, and better handling of
blank lines in the source file.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - Paludis 0.26.0_alpha13
by Ciaran McCreesh (http://freshmeat.net/users/ciaranm/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:22

System :: Software Distribution
System :: Software Distribution Tools

About: Paludis is a package management library that works with Gentoo
style ebuilds, together with a simple console client. It is entirely
independent of Portage.

Changes: World is now handled by the environment, not individual
repositories. The FAQ "Upgrades" section has migration instructions. All
ruby demos are now installed with the executable bit set, and a symlink
for playman is installed in $(bindir). importare now has an
--install-under option. Two new hook phases were added,
install_task_execute_pre and install_task_execute_post, to avoid issues
with continue-on-failure. Hooks in the auto/ directory can now specify in
which phase or phases they are to be run.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - PeerStream Audio Video Streaming Server 4.72 (A/V Streaming
Server)
by Oxygenic (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxygenic/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:01

Internet
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: PeerStream Audio Video Streaming server is a lightweight, scalable
and multi-purpose streaming server for broadcasting nearly every known
audio and video format. It supports all major formats and can be
configured to use other, not directly supported media types. Encoding of
live data is also possible. Streaming via unicast, multicast, podcast,
UPnP shares and bandwidth-saving via a peer-to-peer-network is supported.

Changes: This version contains extended stream grabber blocking
functionality and fixes a bug that could have lead to a license retrieval
failure under some specific conditions.

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[031] - plptools 1.0.1
by Reuben Thomas (http://freshmeat.net/users/rrt/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:14

Software Development :: Libraries
Utilities

About: plptools lets Unix (mainly Linux) systems communicate with EPOC
PDAs (such as the Psion Revo, Psion Series 5, and Geofox 1) via a serial
or (on Linux) infra-red connection. The following tools are part of the
package: plpftp, an FTP-like frontend with some extensions; plpfuse, a
FUSE-based file system that mounts the EPOC device's file systems on the
PC; sisinstall, a SIS package installer; and plpprintd, a print server for
printing via a PC.

Changes: This release fixes a bug which prevented plptools from building
if plpfuse could not be built. The installation instructions were
improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.5-rc1
by ahu (http://freshmeat.net/users/ahu2/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:50

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)

About: With a small codebase, the PowerDNS Recursor is an advanced
resolver currently serving the DNS resolving needs of over 40 million
Internet connections. Besides high performance (using kqueue or epoll,
over 50 thousand qps on commodity hardware), it provides advanced
anti-spoofing measures. In addition, the program caches server performance
and timeouts, making it both network and user friendly. It also has
built-in hooks for making graphs with rrdtool, providing insight into
nameserver performance.

Changes: Modest performance improvements of around 20% were made. A number
of smaller and larger issues were fixed. Importantly, compatibility with
recent gcc versions was restored. The new IPv6 root-servers are now picked
up automatically. Finally, domains can now be forwarded to multiple IP
addresses and ports.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdns-recursor/

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[033] - Prime Mover 0.1.4
by David Given (http://freshmeat.net/users/dgtaocouk/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:34

Software Development :: Build Tools

About: Prime Mover is a small and flexible build tool intended to be used
instead of make. It is intended to be deployed with the projects that use
it, and does not requires installation to use. It is modular and can be
extended using the Lua scripting language.

Changes: This an enhancement release, adding support for Cygwin. A new C
crunching technology was introduced, which reduces the size of the pm
executables to about 50%. Support for producing literal % signs in output
strings was added.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[034] - Security Management And Risk Tracking 3.0 Beta
by Conformix Technologies (http://freshmeat.net/users/conformix/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:48

Information Management
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Security

About: Security Management and Risk Tracking (SMART) is a Web-based
application to manage an information security program. This is a
comprehensive solution that enables a corporation to manage an information
security policy, security policy exception handling, security certification
and accreditation, third party connection management, asset and vendor
management, and issue tracking for security audit, pen testing, SOX, and
so on.

Changes: This is a major update release. The biggest update is the
inclusion of the PDF version of SC&A reports. The Security Certification
And Accreditation (SC&A) process needs frequent reporting of risk issues
in the form of documented risks. There are many other items which are
simplified in this version from a usability perspective. Some changes to
database schema were also made.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conformix-smart/

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[035] - Sitellite Content Management System 4.3.3 (Beta)
by Lux (http://freshmeat.net/users/lux55/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 22:49

Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: Sitellite is an advanced Web content management system (CMS) and
content publishing tool, featuring multilingual support, advanced document
versioning, workflow, privileges, and an easy-to-use visual editing
interface for non-technical users. Sitellite is also a powerful framework
for Web application development, including integrated support for AJAX and
modern Web development concepts.

Changes: This is the second beta of the upcoming Sitellite 5. Several
minor issues were fixed, including a "max key length" issue on MySQL 5
with UTF-8 tables, minor date calculation rounding errors, Safari WYSIWYG
editing issues, and several PHP warning messages. This release also
improves the loading time of the Xed WYSIWYG editor via CSS sprites, and
adds more user interface polish to Xed and to the Sitellite installer.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - Spindown 0.1.1
by Dimitri (http://freshmeat.net/users/neonecro/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 22:29

System
System :: Hardware

About: Spindown is a daemon to spin down idle disks and thus save energy
and give the disks a longer lifetime. It also works with USB disks and
hot-swappable disks because it uses the device ID to identify the disk
instead of the device name (such as hda or sdb). This means that it
doesn't matter if the disk is swapped while the daemon is running.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[037] - Stormbaan Coureur 2.1.3
by Bram Stolk (http://freshmeat.net/users/bramstolk/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 22:39

Games/Entertainment :: Simulation

About: Stormbaan Coureur is a simulated obstacle course for automobiles.

Changes: The selected menu option is not changed if the menu is not
visible. The program detects when the car is stuck, and the car is
recovered with a bump. Blocking writes to the ALSA device are avoided. You
can now force a respawn.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[038] - Subversion Labels 1.2beta
by RemyHorton (http://freshmeat.net/users/remyhorton/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:28

Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion

About: Subversion Labels is a set of scripts and server-side hook programs
that allow people to give Subversion revision numbers more meaningful
aliases (such as release-1.1.2beta), and use them instead of remembering
revision numbers. It does not require modification/recompilation of the
Subversion server/client code, and is aimed at people who dislike
Subversion's tags-are-branches approach.

Changes: The server-side component was rewritten to use BerkeleyDB so that
a separate database server is no longer required.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[039] - trading-shim 080319
by R P Herrold (http://freshmeat.net/users/rpherrold/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:26

Database :: API
Office/Business :: Financial :: Investment

About: The trading-shim is a database driven connector API that provides a
persistent store SQL backend database, translates operations to and from
the Interactive Brokers Java TWS API. It can act as an interpreter for
commands, and permits downstream clients to access several worldwide
securities markets and exchanges (stocks, options, futures, bonds, Forex)
for "tick" data and history (intraday, and EoD). It also allows clients to
supervise trades of securities and more.

Changes: New PastFilter convenience records were added to improve bulk
history query processing. A new example Ruby script was added. The new
"bind" operator was provided to give symbolic names to "order template"
records. A latency bug in reader was found and fixed as part of adding the
Reader_Fsm class. Parse state was split between the Reader_Fsm (top level)
and existing Cursor (recursive descent) classes.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/trading-shim/

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[040] - urlwatch 1.1
by Thomas Perl (http://freshmeat.net/users/thp/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:07

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

About: urlwatch is a script intended to help you watch URLs and get
notified (via email) of any changes. The change notification will include
the URL that has changed and a unified diff of what has changed. The
script works out of a single directory, so there is no need to install
anything. State files are kept in the same folder. The script supports
stripping parts of a page that are always changing through the use of a
filter hook function. It is typically run as a cronjob.

Changes: This release added error handling for missing/currently offline
URLs, notifies users when "NEW" pages appear (if they were watching 404
URLs), and made the display of errors configurable.

License: Freeware

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

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[041] - vlock 2.2 (Stable)
by Frank Benkstein (http://freshmeat.net/users/toidinamai/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:17

Desktop Environment :: Tools
Security
Terminals

About: vlock is a program to lock one or more sessions on the Linux
console. This is especially useful for Linux machines which have multiple
users with access to the console. One user may lock his or her session(s)
while still allowing other users to use the system on other virtual
consoles. If desired, the entire console may be locked and virtual console
switching disabled.

Changes: Vlock's architecture was again changed from using multiple
executables to a single one with plugin support. The main helpers
"vlock-all", "vlock-new", and "vlock-nosysrq" were all converted to
plugins to keep filesystem based permission checking. Plugins may be
scripts or shared objects and can add functions like muting the sound,
pausing music or movie playback, and even eye candy screen savers.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[042] - WANPIPE 3.3.2 (Development)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:20

Communications
System :: Networking
System :: Operating System

About: WANPIPE S-series is a family of intelligent multi-protocol WAN and
ADSL adapters that support data transfer rates up to 8Mbps. All WAN
protocols supported by WANPIPE are implemented in firmware and run on the
card. An advantage of an intelligent adapter is that it offloads the
system CPU and improves stability. By adding a Sangoma WAN/ADSL component
to the Linux kernel, one can create a powerful multi-T1/ADSL
router/firewall with proven reliability of Linux. Sangoma S-series cards
support an optional on board T1/E1 CSU/DSU that eliminates all external
components of a traditional routing solution: i.e. T1/E1 line can be
directly connected to the card. WANPIPE supports the following protocols,
ATM, ADSL, Frame Relay, PPP, MULTILINK PPP, CHDLC, X25(API), BitStreaming
(API), BiSync(API), and SDLC(API). Furthermore, WANPIPE supports custom
API development such as: Credit card verification, Voice-over IP,
Satellite Comm. All device drivers are part of the standard Linux Kernel
distribution.

Changes: This release added A500 hardware support with the NetBricks BRI
Stack. There were also major A500 driver updates and fixes. Support for
serial A142/A144 hardware, AFT A056 56K, hardware and HW DTMF was added.
Legacy protocols were updated for the new front end architecture. PMC
framers were modified for lowered LOS sensitivity. Fake up/down state
changes on started inactive lines were fixed. MAXIM framers have been
updated for lowered sensitivity. Cable cross talk on 8 port cards has been
fixed. Support for Unframed E1 and Tri-State Mode has been enabled.
Loopback commands have been fixed. There were numerous bugfixes and minor
enhancements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[043] - Wings 3D 0.99.02 (Development)
by optigon (http://freshmeat.net/users/optigon/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:04

Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling

About: Wings 3D is a powerful and easy to use 3D subdivision modeler
inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.

Changes: A shear plugin and an inflate cylindrical feature were added. Set
constraints were expanded. Many bugs were fixed.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wings3d/

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[044] - wview 3.7.3
by Mark Teel (http://freshmeat.net/users/mteel/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:21

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Scientific/Engineering

About: wview is an application that controls a supported weather station
to retrieve archive records and current conditions. Archive records may
optionally be stored in a relational database (MySQL or PostgreSQL). At a
user-defined interval, wview will use the archive history and current
conditions to generate weather images (buckets and graphs) and Web pages
based on configurable HTML templates. It supports serial and USB data
loggers, as well as connectivity with a terminal server or serial server
via TCP sockets.

Changes: An "exec-prefix" bug in wview start script generation was fixed.
Support for generation of NOAA reports in metric units was added. Support
was added for a new "pre-generate.sh" script which, if it exists in
$prefix/etc/wview, will be executed after image generation but before
template generation.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[045] - X11 Audio Extension 0.6.1
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:06

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Software Development :: Libraries

About: The X11 Audio Extension aims to provide audio support for the X
Window System, in particular the X.Org reference implementation. Audio
data can be directly routed through the X protocol so that remote
applications can transparently play and capture audio across the network
in the same way they can do graphics and mouse/keyboard user interaction.
Applications with strict latency requirements can alternatively use shared
memory. The extension provides hooks for an "audio compositing manager"
that manages how multiple applications may simultaneously access the audio
hardware (mix streams, mute some streams); it is the counterpart to the
window manager.

Changes: Numerous enhancements and bugfixes.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/audio-ext-x11/

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[046] - Xenomai 2.4.2
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:06

System :: Emulators

About: Xenomai is a realtime development framework cooperating with the
Linux kernel in order to provide pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard
realtime support to userspace applications, seamlessly integrated into the
GNU/Linux environment. Xenomai is based on an abstract RTOS core, usable
for building any kind of realtime interface, over a nucleus which exports
a set of generic RTOS services. Any number of RTOS personalities called
"skins" can then be built over the nucleus, providing their own specific
interface to the applications by using the services of a single generic
core to implement it.

Changes: Updated x86 and PPC support for the 2.6.20, 2.6.23 and 2.6.24
kernels and assorted bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[047] - xjobs 20080322
by Thomas Maier-Komor (http://freshmeat.net/users/komor/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 14:08

System
Utilities

About: xjobs runs several jobs in parallel and limits the number of jobs
running at once so that every processor of the machine is busy, but not
overloaded. A batch of long-running processes invoked from the shell are
normally executed one after another, no matter how many processors are
available. xjobs allows batching those jobs while still keeping the
machine busy. The interface of xjobs is similar to that of xargs.

Changes: The environment is passed down to child processes to make shell
scripts work as expected.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[048] - XML-RPC Client/Server C Library 0.9.92
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 05:06

Software Development :: Code Generators

About: XML-RPC Client/Server C Library is a cross-platform library which
supports persistent HTTP/1.1 connections over SSL. It comes with an
XML-RPC interface description language and a client/server code compiler.

Changes: Numerous bugfixes, enhancements, and code cleanups.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[049] - xmltoman 0.4
by Jose Carlos (http://freshmeat.net/users/Psabs/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 22:34

Documentation
Software Development :: Documentation
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: xmltoman and xmlmantohtml are two small scripts to convert XML
documents to man pages in groff format or HTML. It features the usual man
page items such as "description", "options", "see also", etc.

Changes: HTML entities are now generated for &, , and ". An error message
is shown when no file is passed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[050] - xylib 0.2
by Marcin Wojdyr (http://freshmeat.net/users/wojdyr/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 22:31

Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry
Scientific/Engineering :: Physics

About: xylib is a portable C++ library for reading files that contain x-y
data from powder diffraction, spectroscopy, or other experimental methods.
Supported formats include plain text (CSV or TSV), Crystallographic
Information File for Powder Diffraction (pdCIF), Siemens/Bruker UXD,
Siemens/Bruker RAW v1/2/3, Philips UDF, Philips RD (raw scan) V3, Rigaku
DAT, Sietronics Sieray CPI, DBWS/DMPLOT data file, Canberra MCA,
XFIT/Koalariet XDD, RIET7/LHPM/CSRIET/ILL_D1A5/PSI_DMC DAT, Vamas
ISO14976, and Princeton Instruments WinSpec SPE.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[051] - Xyria:DNSd 0.8.0pre1 (Development)
by Steffen Wendzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/cdpxe/)
Sat, Mar 22nd 2008 22:30

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
Security
System :: Networking

About: Xyria:DNSd is an high performance DNS server that supports only
the most important features and resource records while being extremely
fast and secure. It also supports round-robin load balancing.

Changes: Lots of tiny changes were made, including code cleanups. The
whole caching/forwarding feature was removed and XyriaDNSd is now an
authoritative-only server again.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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