Newsletter for Saturday, March 29th 2008

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (42) :::

[001] - ACE 1.5a-pl7 (OCI)
[002] - Be The Wumpus 0.02
[003] - Duplicate Files Finder 0.43
[004] - Elastix 1.0 (User Manual)
[005] - Flashcam 1.0
[006] - Freeverb3 2.0.2 (VST plugin)
[007] - Geneious 3.6.2
[008] - GreenSQL 0.3.3 (Console)
[009] - H2 Database Engine 1.0.69 (2008-03-29)
[010] - Javascript VirtualKeyboard 3.3.4
[011] - Kit108 PHP Library 1.0
[012] - LilyKDE 0.4.11
[013] - Limited Shell 2008-03-29
[014] - LinuxBIOS 2-3194
[015] - LTris 1.0.12
[016] - mactorii 0.78
[017] - Makagiga 2.3.1 Beta
[018] - Measuring Buffer 20080329
[019] - memcached 1.2.5
[020] - Mia 0.8
[021] - Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.47
[022] - MPICH 1.0.7-rc2 (MPICH2)
[023] - MPICH 3.1 (OSU Micro-Benchmarks)
[024] - MultiBody Dynamics 1.3.3-beta
[025] - Mumps Compiler 10.8
[026] - OpenDBX 1.2.5 (Stable)
[027] - OpenIPMI 2.0.14 (Development)
[028] - Peapod Podcatcher 0.7.1
[029] - PHPkrm 1.5.0
[030] - phpMyAdmin 2.11.5.1
[031] - SigScheme 0.8.1
[032] - Skipole Network Monitor 0.45
[033] - sudo 1.6.9p15
[034] - TaskForest 1.05
[035] - The GNU Privacy Guard 1.4.9 (Monolithic)
[036] - The GNU Privacy Guard 2.0.9 (Modular)
[037] - The VXL Project 1.10.0
[038] - Tofu 1.0
[039] - Vogoo PHP LIB 2.2
[040] - wbmtranslator 0.6.3
[041] - WinFF 0.4
[042] - Zumastor 0.7 (Stable)

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[001] - ACE 1.5a-pl7 (OCI)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:14

Software Development :: Libraries

About: The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) is an object-oriented
(OO) C++ framework that helps you develop and deploy high-performance
networked applications faster and with less code to write and maintain.
ACE is especially useful for systems that use network and/or inter-process
communications and that take advantage of multithreading. While the ACE
source code is free, that's not the only way you save money with ACE.
ACE's wrappers and higher-level patterns help you develop your software
quickly and portably, helping you to complete your projects on time and
within budget.

Changes: Numerous major enhancements and bugfixes were made.

License: OSI Approved

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

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[002] - Be The Wumpus 0.02
by Stephen Cameron (http://freshmeat.net/users/StephenCameron/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:26

Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: Be The Wumpus is a game with no graphics and no text, only audio.
You are a wumpus, a blind, cave-dwelling creature who subsists on meals of
unlucky cave wanderers.

Changes: Support was added for using the keyboard if no joystick is
present. The meals now shoot arrows at you, but there is no damage yet.
The user is allowed to skip introductory music by pressing a button. The
--version option was added. Copyright information which referred to
"Gneutronica" instead of "Bethewumpus" was fixed. Now you can specify a
sound output device other than the default with the --sounddevice option.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[003] - Duplicate Files Finder 0.43
by Matthias Boehm (http://freshmeat.net/users/ma_boehm/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:34

Utilities

About: Duplicate Files Finder is an application which allows you to easily
find and remove duplicate files. Creating hardlinks and symbolic links is
also supported. A special algorithm minimizes the disk traffic, so the
program is very fast. It uses byte by byte comparison.

Changes: This release fixes a severe speed problem which occurred when
there are many items in the result view.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[004] - Elastix 1.0 (User Manual)
by PaloSanto Solutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/palosanto/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:15

Communications :: Internet Phone
Communications :: Telephony
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: Elastix is a software appliance that integrates the best tools
available for Asterisk-based PBXs into a single, easy-to-use interface. It
also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third
party modules. The goals of Elastix are reliability, modularity, and
ease-of-use. It also features strong reporting capabilities.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[005] - Flashcam 1.0
by Swift (http://freshmeat.net/users/SwiftTools/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:22

Multimedia :: Video

About: Flashcam aims at bringing support for V4L2 devices to Adobe Flash
for Linux. Not so many webcams work with Flash, but Flashcam introduces a
workaround until there is a true support from Adobe.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - Freeverb3 2.0.2 (VST plugin)
by Teru KAMOGASHIRA (http://freshmeat.net/users/tkamogashira/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 04:02

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: The Freeverb3 library includes high quality freeverb, nreverb,
impulse response reverb, FIR filter constructor, band splitter, and
hardknee/softknee compressor. Its oversampling feature provides high
quality audio processing. The compressor provides mastering quality audio
processing. This library includes XMMS plugins, audacious plugins, BMP
beep media player plugins, and sample programs, which enable you to test
the audio effects easily. Freeverb3_vst is a VST plugin version of the
freeverb3 library.

Changes: This version contains many updates and bugfixes including changes
to the GUI, compressor/limiter, and preset program.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freeverb3/

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[007] - Geneious 3.6.2
by yogi (http://freshmeat.net/users/yogibear/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:29

Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: Geneious is an integrated bioinformatics tool suite for
manipulating, finding, sharing, and exploring biological data such as
linear and circular DNA sequences, proteins, phylogenies, chromatograms,
3D structure information, publications, etc. It features sequence
alignment and phylogenetic analysis, restriction analysis, contig
assembly, access to biological databases at NCBI and elsewhere (PubMed,
Nucleotide, PopSet, SNP, Structure, PFAM, etc.), BLAST, and more. It
includes an API for creating your own plugins.

Changes: A bug that prevented a small fraction of users from starting the
program was fixed along with two residue numbering bugs in PDB documents.
Edit history annotations in the sequence viewer can now be hidden.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[008] - GreenSQL 0.3.3 (Console)
by Yuli Stremovsky (http://freshmeat.net/users/yuli_s/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 02:06

Database
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Security

About: GreenSQL is a database firewall used to protect databases from SQL
injection attacks. GreenSQL works in a proxy mode and has built-in support
for MySQL. The logic is based on evaluation of SQL commands using a risk
scoring matrix, as well as blocking known DB administrative commands (such
as DROP and CREATE).

Changes: A Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) security bug was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[009] - H2 Database Engine 1.0.69 (2008-03-29)
by ThomasM (http://freshmeat.net/users/ThomasMueller/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:12

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

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

Changes: A new shell tool is now included to query a database from the
command line. Most command line tools can now be called from within the H2
console.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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

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[010] - Javascript VirtualKeyboard 3.3.4
by WingedFox (http://freshmeat.net/users/WingedFox/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:32

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development

About: Javascript VirtualKeyboard allows you to use any existing keyboard
layouts without having them installed on your local PC. This tool is
useful for embedding into a WYSIWYG HTML editor, a Web mail system, chat,
forum, or any other application requiring user input. About 70
languages/130 keyboard layouts are supported. It has an easy and powerful
design, allowing it to implement complex layouts like Korean, Japanese,
Chinese, and so on. It has full support for keyboard and mouse input. It
features a completely CSS-driven UI that is easy skinnable.

Changes: A problem with duplicating field content in IE was fixed along
with URL parameter names in vk_loader.js.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[011] - Kit108 PHP Library 1.0
by Bogdan Stancescu (http://freshmeat.net/users/bstancescu/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:15

Scientific/Engineering
System :: Hardware

About: Kit108 PHP Library is a PHP library for controlling the Ocean
Controls Kit108 serial device. It supports both input and output.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kit108php/

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[012] - LilyKDE 0.4.11
by Wilbert Berendsen (http://freshmeat.net/users/wbsoft/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:27

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
Utilities

About: LilyKDE is a set of tools to integrate the LilyPond music
typesetter into KDE. It consists of icon and MIME type information for
LilyPond files, a Kate plugin to run LilyPond and embed a preview with
clickable notes and error messages, and a Konqueror service menu.

Changes: DESTDIR handling in the Makefile has been fixed (this is needed
for distributors). In the settings page, tooltips and command entries are
marked red when the commands entered do not exist.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - Limited Shell 2008-03-29
by ghantoos (http://freshmeat.net/users/ghantoos/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:28

Security
System :: Shells
Terminals

About: Limited Shell (lshell) is an application that lets you restrict the
environment of any SSH user. It provides an easily configurable shell: just
choose a list of allowed commands for every limited account. No
installation is required.

Changes: SCP support was added, and is also configurable through the
configuration file. A path variable was added to restrict the user's
geographic actions. A class declaration bug and configuration file
location were corrected. The README file was updated with another usage of
lshell.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[014] - LinuxBIOS 2-3194
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:30

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: Initial support was provided for some basic CMOS read/write
functions and bcd2dec()/dec2bcd() functions. The display of debug data was
made more consistent. Buggy optimizations were removed and minor bugs were
fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - LTris 1.0.12
by kulkanie (http://freshmeat.net/users/kulkanie/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:19

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: LTris is a Tetris clone with nice effects, graphics, and sound. It
has a menu, a highscore, a two player mode, and an advanced game mode in
which you get a new figure in each level and later suddenly-appearing
tiles and lines.

Changes: This release provides a Portuguese translation and localization
of the y/n confirmation (for example, "j/n" in German).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - mactorii 0.78
by Steve Bian (http://freshmeat.net/users/freespace/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:31

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: mactorii is an image browser that sorts images based on similarity
to a chosen image and clusters images based on their similarity. It has a
delete feature similar to that of qiv and an unlimited undelete
capability.

Changes: A resize handler was added for conformity with OS X UI
expectations. A bug this introduced with regards to text background
rendering was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[017] - Makagiga 2.3.1 Beta
by kdt (http://freshmeat.net/users/kdt/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:23

Internet
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
Office/Business

About: Makagiga is a free, easy-to-use, cross-platform application for
doing a variety of tasks, such as text editing, todo listing, RSS reading,
and simple image viewing. Plugins are used to implement its various
capabilities. It can perform file import/export, backing up files,
Internet searching (Google, Wikipedia), and more.

Changes: This release includes new features and bugfixes, including a
French translation, improved user interface, and more.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[018] - Measuring Buffer 20080329
by Thomas Maier-Komor (http://freshmeat.net/users/komor/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:36

System :: Archiving
System :: Networking

About: Measuring Buffer is an enhanced version of buffer. It features
display of throughput, memory-mapped file I/O for huge buffers, network
support, and multithreading.

Changes: Several build enhancements, minor fixes, and improvements were
made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - memcached 1.2.5
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 02:04

Software Development :: Libraries

About: memcached is a high-performance distributed memory object caching
system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic Web
applications by alleviating database load. The memcached server and clients
work together to implement one global cache across as many machines as you
have.

Changes: Minor bugfixes, build support for OpenSolaris, IPv6 support, a
"noreply" mode for many commands, and largepage support for Solaris. Out
of memory errors were made more clear and eviction/OOM tracking per slab
class was added.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[020] - Mia 0.8
by code @ brilaps (http://freshmeat.net/users/codebrilaps/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:22

Communications :: Chat

About: Mia is a Web-based Ajax chat application. It is designed to be
simple to setup, easy to use, secure, platform independent, and database
platform agnostic.

Changes: This release is stable enough for everyday use and has undergone
a great deal of testing on the various popular platforms and browsers.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mia-chat/

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[021] - Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.47
by Mjrz (http://freshmeat.net/users/mjrz/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:29

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 utility for pre-creating basic accounts and categories during
setup was added. A bug where there was no error notification if a create
transaction had errors was fixed.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[022] - MPICH 1.0.7-rc2 (MPICH2)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 03:08

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: MPICH is a robust and flexible implementation of the MPI (Message
Passing Interface). MPI is often used with parallel or distributed
computing projects. MPICH is a multi-platform, configurable system
(development, execution, libraries, etc) for MPI. It can acheive
parallelism using networked machines or using mulitasking on a single
machine.

Changes: Numerous bugfixes and code cleanups.

License: Freely Distributable

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

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[023] - MPICH 3.1 (OSU Micro-Benchmarks)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 03:20

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

Changes: This version adds a new multi-pair latency benchmark.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[024] - MultiBody Dynamics 1.3.3-beta
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 03:08

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Physics

About: MBDyn features the integrated multidisciplinary analysis of
multi-body, multi-physics systems, including nonlinear mechanics of rigid
and flexible constrained bodies, smart materials, electric networks,
active control, hydraulic networks, and essential fixed-wing and
rotorcraft aerodynamics. It allows you to simulate the behavior of
heterogeneous mechanical, aero-servo-elastic systems based on first
principles equations. It is being actively developed and used in the
aerospace and automotive fields for dynamics analysis and simulation of
complex systems. The extension of available analysis domains to new
models, and new analysis domains, is planned and problem-driven.

Changes: This release added support for OpenMPI, accelerations in external
force output and external modal force output, nested elements. Elastic and
viscous variants of nlsf/nlp const. laws ere added. A dof/equation
description was added to solution/residual output and linear solver
diagnostics. Support for Octave-compatible sparse matrix output was added.
Numerous bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[025] - Mumps Compiler 10.8
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 03:09

Database
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Database :: Front-Ends

About: Mumps Compiler is a compiler for a subset of the Mumps language, a
language used mainly in healthcare. It is compatible with most operating
systems with a standard C compiler.

Changes: Numerous feature enhancements and bugfixes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[026] - OpenDBX 1.2.5 (Stable)
by Norbert Sendetzky (http://freshmeat.net/users/nsendetzky/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:16

Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries

About: The OpenDBX libraries provide a unified and consistent API for
software developers to different database management systems. The C and
C++ libraries aim to implement access to the native database interfaces
efficiently via a thin abstraction layer. They consist of a basic set of
functions that are part of all vendor database libraries and can be
extended by additional function blocks. Currently, Firebird/Interbase, MS
SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite 2 and 3, and Sybase ASE are
supported.

Changes: This release enables building of the Sybase back-end using
FreeTDS version 0.63. Firebird 2.0 changed its behavior and no longer
supports soft commits if two connections operate on the same table, so the
Firebird back-end now uses hard commits and additionally does a rollback in
odbx_unbind() instead of a commit. The pgsql_odbx_result() function in the
pgsql back-end cleans up correctly in the event of errors only returns
fatal errors via odbx_error_type() if the connection itself is dead.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[027] - OpenIPMI 2.0.14 (Development)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 03:12

System :: Hardware
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

About: OpenIPMI is an effort to create a full-function IPMI system to
allow full access to all IPMI information on a server and to abstract it
to a level that will make it easy to use.

Changes: A major bug in event handling was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - Peapod Podcatcher 0.7.1
by huwlynes (http://freshmeat.net/users/huwlynes/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:13

About: Peapod Podcatcher is a command line podcast receiver that supports
downloads via HTTP and BitTorrent. It can re-write ID3 and Vorbis tags to
help you organise your podcasts.

Changes: The documentation was broken in the previous release, and has now
been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - PHPkrm 1.5.0
by Pau Rodriguez (http://freshmeat.net/users/prodriguez/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:17

Security

About: PHPkrm is a Web-based GNUPG keyring manager. It allows anonymous
visitors to add their own public keys and download all keyrings, and
allows synchronization with external servers to refresh the keys and/or
upload the keys.

Changes: A possible XSS vulnerability was fixed. It is now possible to
customize the header of the keyrings (in both HTML and TEXT modes).

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[030] - phpMyAdmin 2.11.5.1
by phpMyAdmin Devel Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/phpmyadmin/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:28

Database :: Front-Ends
System :: Systems Administration

About: phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL
over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter
tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on
fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and
administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[031] - SigScheme 0.8.1
by YamaKen (http://freshmeat.net/users/yamaken/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:30

Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries

About: SigScheme is a R5RS Scheme interpreter for embedded use. It
features a small footprint (64KB in library form on the "small"
configuration) like SIOD and TinyScheme, low memory consumption (2-words
per cons cell), handling of multibyte characters (UTF-8, EUCs, and
Shift_JIS), and more. It is mainly developed to replace the Scheme
interpreter of uim.

Changes: Critical memory bugs and build problem on some platforms were
fixed.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[032] - Skipole Network Monitor 0.45
by Bernard Czenkusz (http://freshmeat.net/users/BernieSkipole/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:29

System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: SkipoleMonitor is a free network monitor. On running the program, a
GUI window appears, and hosts can be added, which Skipole Monitor will
regularly ping, showing Red-Yellow-Green status results via a built-in Web
server. Email and syslog alerts can be generated as hosts change status.

Changes: 24-hour graphs of ping history for each host are displayed on the
Web pages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - sudo 1.6.9p15
by Todd Miller (http://freshmeat.net/users/courtesan/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:19

About: Sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to give certain users
(or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root
while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command
basis, it is not a replacement for the shell.

Changes: The installation of sudo_noexec.so on AIX systems was fixed.
libtool was updated to version 1.5.26. Printing of default SELinux role
and type in -V mode was fixed. The HOME environment variable is once again
preserved by default, as per the documentation.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[034] - TaskForest 1.05
by enoor (http://freshmeat.net/users/enoor/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:27

System :: Monitoring

About: TaskForest is a simple but expressive job scheduler that allows you
to chain jobs and tasks and to create time dependencies. It uses plain-text
configuration files to specify task dependencies. It is designed for use on
a single machine.

Changes: More test cases and a DESIGN document were added. The installer
was made more robust. All known bugs were fixed. Family::readFromFile
makes a Family no longer current and now accepts both single and double
quotes. getLogDir throws an exception if the mkdir fails.

License: Artistic License

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

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[035] - The GNU Privacy Guard 1.4.9 (Monolithic)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:33

Security :: Cryptography

About: GnuPG (the GNU Privacy Guard or GPG) is GNU's tool for secure
communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to
create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility
and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described
in RFC2440. As such, it is meant to be compatible with PGP from NAI, Inc.
Because it does not use any patented algorithms, it can be used without
any restrictions.

Changes: A possible memory corruption while importing OpenPGP keys was
fixed. AES encryption performance was improved by more than 20% on x86,
and decryption is also slightly faster.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - The GNU Privacy Guard 2.0.9 (Modular)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:35

Security :: Cryptography

Changes: A possible memory corruption while importing OpenPGP keys, as
reported in CVE-2008-1530, was fixed. The Admin PIN for OpenPGP cards may
now be entered with the pinpad. Certificate chain construction was
improved. The PKITS framework was extended. A bug in the ambigious name
detection was fixed. Further minor bugfixes were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[037] - The VXL Project 1.10.0
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:30

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Video
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence

About: VXL is a set of portable C++ libraries designed for computer vision
research and implementation. Numerics, imaging, and geometry are provided
by stand-alone core libraries, with easy to use APIs and sophisticated
processing algorithms. Other libraries provide stereo, video, structure
from motion, probability modeling, GUI design, classification, robust
estimation, feature tracking, topology, 3d imaging, and much more. It is
written and used by an international team from academia and industry.

Changes: Numerous minor API additions and code speedups.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[038] - Tofu 1.0
by Mushroom (http://freshmeat.net/users/sb_mushroom/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:16

Office/Business :: Scheduling
Software Development
Utilities

About: Tofu provides an easy and very lightweight way to manage your todo
list(s). It stores each of your todo lists in a directory where tasks are
individually detailed in plain text files. Then you can assign these tasks
a level of priority and some markers to retrieve and manipulate (list,
view, edit, delete, etc.) them easily.

Changes: A default default "tutorial" mode was added to "playground.pl" in
order to ensure that all of the examples in the "PLAY" tutorial match with
the content of the generated stack. The content of the "PLAY" tutorial was
updated, and some minor fixes and clarifications were made in "tofu.1".
Tofu also now automatically checks the tasks added to the stacks in order
to ensure that they have a content before accepting it. This can be
disabled with the new "checknew" configuration option.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[039] - Vogoo PHP LIB 2.2
by oposs76 (http://freshmeat.net/users/oposs76/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 23:36

Adaptive Technologies
Database :: API
Information Management

About: Vogoo PHP Lib is a powerful recommendation/collaborative filtering
engine designed to be easily integrated into Web sites. You can recommend
items that match your customers' tastes, include a "people who liked this
item also liked..." feature with a few lines of code, or easily compute
tastes similarities between your users.

Changes: The ability to limit the number of items returned by item-based
CF functions was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - wbmtranslator 0.6.3
by Emmanuel Saracco (http://freshmeat.net/users/esaracco/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 03:12

Software Development :: Internationalization
Utilities

About: wbmtranslator is a translation assistant for webmin/usermin
modules.

Changes: Encoding problems were fixed in the Google translation console
and Greek and Dutch languages were added. Translator name information was
added to the send translations section and e-mail content to the Webmin
translations team was updated to be more consistent regarding to the
translation type. A "trans_name" variable was added in the config.info
file and the webmin core modules list was updated. A problem with the
"module.info" translation that occurred when it did not have descriptions
for all module languages was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - WinFF 0.4
by biggmatt (http://freshmeat.net/users/biggmatt/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:26

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion

About: WinFF is a cross platform batch GUI for FFmpeg. WinFF processes
multiple files in multiple formats at one time. For example, it will
convert MPEG, FLV, and MOV files into AVI files all at once.

Changes: Command line processing was improved. The presets have been
categorized. New presets were provided for Raw Dv, Neuros Osd, and
Palm.Bulgarian, German, Italian, and Turkish translations were added. An
option to shut down upon finishing was added along with an option to
specify audio channels.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[042] - Zumastor 0.7 (Stable)
by shapor (http://freshmeat.net/users/shapor/)
Sat, Mar 29th 2008 01:28

System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Mirroring
System :: Filesystems

About: The Zumastor Linux storage project adds enterprise storage features
to Linux, primarily improved snapshots and remote replication.
Point-in-time, near zero-cost, block level snapshots can be added to any
existing filesystem and performance does not degrade with multiple
snapshots. Remote replication is achieved by sending minimal block level
deltas between snapshots without having to traverse the entire filesystem
like rsync does.

Changes: This release adds an experimental "revert to snapshot" feature,
an experimental "multilayer replication" feature (e.g. for doing star
topology software distribution), and lets downstream replicas retain
snapshots (which is of importance when using the system as part of a
backup scheme).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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