Newsletter for Saturday, April 12th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (47) :::
[001] - Animal Shelter Manager 2.2.0
[002] - BalanceNG 2.064
[003] - BIXTEP 0.1-rc
[004] - CDlinux 0.6.0
[005] - cuelib 1.1.0
[006] - detox 1.2.0
[007] - Disposable Temporary E-mail 1.4.0
[008] - Download Center Lite 2.1
[009] - Email 3.0.3
[010] - GeoXPlanet 0.4.5
[011] - GNU Interactive Tools 4.9.3
[012] - GNU Libidn 1.7
[013] - Ham Radio Control Libraries 1.2.7.1
[014] - help2info 0.1.1
[015] - Hocuspocus 0.5
[016] - Image matting tool 0.1
[017] - Ion 3-20080414 (Ion3)
[018] - jungletest 20080412
[019] - kradview 1.0.0
[020] - LightWeight Time Tracker 1.1.0
[021] - LinuxSpeaks 1.10
[022] - MirBSD Korn Shell R33d
[023] - mkproject 0.1.1
[024] - mowyw writes your websites 0.5.0
[025] - MuseScore 0.9.2
[026] - NetMRG 0.20
[027] - NTLM authentication library 1.0
[028] - OpenDBX 1.3.7 (Development)
[029] - pactester 1.0.7
[030] - Paludis 0.26.0_pre1
[031] - PHP html2ps 2.0.43 (Stable)
[032] - PHP SOAP Toolkit 0.6.2
[033] - phpESP 2.1.0 (Stable)
[034] - PMD 4.2.1
[035] - Pondus 0.4.0
[036] - QCad Professional 2.2.0.0
[037] - Quick Look 1.1
[038] - Ruby/AWS 0.1.0
[039] - ScummC 0.2.0
[040] - SHOGUN 0.6.0
[041] - Simple Groupware 0.404
[042] - Super Grub Disk 0.9710 (CDROM)
[043] - Syslinux 3.63 (Release)
[044] - tw and gtw 0.1.1
[045] - VT6530 Terminal Emulator 0.2.3
[046] - WikyBlog 1.6.1.4
[047] - xTests 0.4.1
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Animal Shelter Manager 2.2.0
by Bob Tetley (http://freshmeat.net/users/bobintetley/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:17
Database
Information Management
Information Management :: Records Management
About: Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal
sanctuaries, rescue shelters, and veterinary surgery clinics. It features
complete animal and owner management, document generation, flexible
reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more.
Changes: The entire UI has been overhauled and reworked, with date
pickers, better combo handling, and many bugs fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sheltermanager/
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[002] - BalanceNG 2.064
by Thomas Obermair (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasobermair/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:21
Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancing solution. It is
small, fast, and easy to use and setup. It offers session persistence,
different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random,
Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a
customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to
set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports
SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It integrates pcap
packet dumping for debugging purposes and allows the implementation of a
"transparent forensic logging bridge".
Changes: Unnecessary and confusing forwarding table "relearning" warnings
concerning VRRP traffic are now suppressed. This has been applied to the
"stable" branch as well, resulting in 1.922.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/balanceng/
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[003] - BIXTEP 0.1-rc
by clab (http://freshmeat.net/users/clab/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 03:28
Information Management
About: BIXTEP is a tool for organizing textual information in the Bash
shell. It features an easy-to-use interface, allows for fast input of
texts with your default editor, and displays the relations between the
tagged items. Its use spans from quick note taking to managing excerpts
and sources. All data is stored in an XML file.
Changes: This release features basic item types: notes, excerpts, and
sources. Information can be organized through keywords and field
relations. Full-text search, listing items, plain text export, and backup
of files are implemented. The command line interface is separated from the
user interface.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bixtep/
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[004] - CDlinux 0.6.0
by BenZ (http://freshmeat.net/users/zhaoxh/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:38
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: CD-Based
System :: Systems Administration
About: CDlinux is a compact Linux distribution. It is small in size, yet
rich in features. It ships with an up-to-date version of the Linux kernel,
Xorg, Xfce, and many popular applications. It has good internationalization
and locale support and is highly user-configurable.
Changes: This release ships with Linux 2.6.24.4, Xorg 7.3, Xfce 4.4.2,
Firefox 2.0.0.3, Pidgin 2.4.1, and many other up-to-date popular
applications. These are all packed in a 51M ISO. This release added basic
MacTel support and greatly improved support for
internationalization/locales. It also introduced a new method for
auto-configuring X. All newer video cards can be auto-detected and
configured. Booting and hardware detection were fine-tuned, and it is now
possible to boot into X within 30 seconds on most hardware configurations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdlinux/
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[005] - cuelib 1.1.0
by Gorath99 (http://freshmeat.net/users/Gorath99/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:24
Information Management :: Metadata/Semantic Models
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: Cuelib is a Java library for manipulating and otherwise working
with cue sheets. Cue sheets describe the layout of a CD or DVD, and are
the de facto standard for describing track data of multi-track audio
files, such as WAV or FLAC images of entire audio CDs.
Changes: A command line tool that can cut files into tracks based on
information provided in a cue sheet was added. This has support for
post-processing, so you can easily encode tracks using lame or FLAC
(including setting the ID3 tags based on the data in the cue sheet).
Tracks hidden in pregaps are supported, such as used in Skunk Anansie's
album Stoosh. A serializer that writes a cue sheet to an XML
representation was added. A convenient method for getting various metadata
from cue sheet representations was added.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cuelib/
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[006] - detox 1.2.0
by Doug Harple (http://freshmeat.net/users/purgedhalo/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:08
System :: Systems Administration
Utilities
About: detox is a utility designed to clean up filenames, especially those
created on other operating systems. It replaces non-standard characters,
such as spaces or Latin-1 characters, with standard equivalents.
Changes: This release provides more configurable filters, inline
detoxification, and bugfixes.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/detox/
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[007] - Disposable Temporary E-mail 1.4.0
by GentleSource (http://freshmeat.net/users/NameNick/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 18:00
Communications :: Email
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: The Disposable Temporary E-mail script provides users with
disposable e-mail addresses that expire after a certain time. Users can
read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary address, or
generates a new address with a button click.
Changes: People can pick their own email address. RSS/Atom feed of
incoming email messages. Automatic email check per XML HTTP request
(AJAX).
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/temporaryemail/
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[008] - Download Center Lite 2.1
by GentleSource (http://freshmeat.net/users/NameNick/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 18:03
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Download Center Lite enables a Web site owner to offer file
downloads of any file type on the Web site. The script has two potential
uses. First, you can use it if you want to hide the real path to the
download folder on your Web server and prevent direct access to the
download folder. Second, you can make sure that your visitors are prompted
by their browser to save the file instead of viewing within the browser or
an external application. The script can also log and count the downloads.
Changes: A minor security fix, a minor feature enhancement, and minor
bugfixes were done.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/download-center-lite/
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[009] - Email 3.0.3
by Geekoid (http://freshmeat.net/users/geekoid/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 18:04
Internet
Office/Business
Security :: Cryptography
About: Email sends email to remote SMTP servers via the command line,
which makes it useful in cron jobs. It will send to any RFC standard
remote ESMTP server, is TLS/SSL enabled, and will allow you to encrypt,
sign, and design your message on the fly. It has the capability to use
signature files with dynamic options, address book functionality, and
users can also attach pictures, binary files, documents, or whatever they
want. It is completely compatible with GNUPG for encryption and signing,
and is easy to configure and use.
Changes: A seg fault when using AUTH PLAIN was fixed. An issue in using LF
instead of CRLF was fixed. OpenSSL is not required anymore.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/email/
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[010] - GeoXPlanet 0.4.5
by rocket357 (http://freshmeat.net/users/rocket357/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 18:07
Desktop Environment
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
About: GeoXPlanet is a program that integrates geolocation technology and
xplanet. View the earth, with a geographic plot of the computers you've
connected to, directly on your desktop background in near real-time. It
can be used with the MaxMind GeoLiteCity database.
Changes: A reverse DNS lookup and radius option was added. Configuration
was made more streamlined and sane. XFCE support is now experimental.
Minor bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geoxplanet/
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[011] - GNU Interactive Tools 4.9.3
by Ian Beckwith (http://freshmeat.net/users/ianbeckwith/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:49
Utilities
About: GIT is a set of interactive tools. It contains an extensible file
system browser, an ASCII/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer, and
some other related utilities and shell scripts. It can be used to increase
the speed and efficiency of most of the daily tasks such as copying and
moving files and directories, invoking editors, compressing and
uncompressing files, creating and expanding archives, compiling programs,
sending mail, etc. It looks nice, has colors (if the standard ANSI color
sequences are supported), and is user-friendly.
Changes: After a long hiatus, gnuit is now being actively maintained
again. gnuit was formerly known as git. The file manager binary has been
renamed to gitfm. This release also brings support for 64-bit IO, a host
of bugfixes, and a few small new features.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnuinteractivetools/
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[012] - GNU Libidn 1.7
by Simon Josefsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jas4711/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:21
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
Software Development :: Libraries
Text Processing
About: GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode, and
IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names
(IDN) working group. It is used to prepare internationalized strings (such
as domain name labels, usernames, and passwords) in order to increase the
likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make
sense for typical users throughout the world. The library contains a
generic Stringprep implementation that does Unicode 3.2 NFKC
normalization, mapping and prohibition of characters, and bidirectional
character handling. Profiles for iSCSI, Kerberos 5, Nameprep, SASL, and
XMPP are included. Punycode and ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE) via IDNA
are supported.
Changes: For the idn command line tool, a new parameter, --nfkc, was added
to process a string with Unicode v3.2 NFKC. A minor build fix was made for
native Win32 builds. The gnulib files were updated.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libidn/
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[013] - Ham Radio Control Libraries 1.2.7.1
by Stéphane Fillod (http://freshmeat.net/users/fillods/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:18
Communications :: Ham Radio
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The HAM radio equipment control libraries allow you to write
amateur radio equipment control programs for transceivers and antenna
rotators which use CAT or similar computer interfaces for control.
Changes: This version is a maintenance release. Owners of a FT1000MP
definitely need to upgrade in order to fix a regression introduced by
1.2.7. This release also has a new backend for miniVNA. Fixes were made
for the Tentec Orion and Omni VI Plus. The scanning has been implemented
in the AOR backend. Kenwood models TS-2000 and TS-870S can now get and set
antenna. The TS-2000 backend gained strength meter calibration.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hamlib/
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[014] - help2info 0.1.1
by juanmabc (http://freshmeat.net/users/juanmabc/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:28
Documentation
Software Development
Software Development :: Documentation
About: help2info is a bash script that generates a simple info page from
the output of the --help argument of the specified program.
Changes: Error output was fixed to be sent to stdout instead of stderr.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/help2info/
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[015] - Hocuspocus 0.5
by muth (http://freshmeat.net/users/muth/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:31
Home Automation
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video
About: Hocuspocus is a small and extensible Web server for controlling key
Linux applications remotely via a Web server. This means you can adjust
things like system volume from any browser, including a WiFi enabled PDA
such as the iPhone.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hocus/
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[016] - Image matting tool 0.1
by Thomas Haenselmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/haensel/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:05
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Raster-Based
About: Image matting tool cuts out objects in photos using an
alpha-matting technique. While clear cuts can be found for all objects
that are clearly separated from their environment, objects with fuzzy
borders and semi-transparent areas don't have a clear outline. The tool
creates an alpha channel that defines the degree to which the background
shines through the foreground for every pixel. The background color can
then be subtracted. The user defines a rough boundary of an object with a
large brush and a high-quality segmentation is generated. Problematic
areas can be edited manually.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/imagematting/
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[017] - Ion 3-20080414 (Ion3)
by tuomov (http://freshmeat.net/users/tuomov/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:35
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
About: Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also
has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows.
These features help to keep windows organized and to switch quickly
between them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive
window manager for users who prefer the keyboard.
Changes: This is a maintenance release with minor bugfixes.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ion/
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[018] - jungletest 20080412
by Andrew Ziem (http://freshmeat.net/users/andrewziem/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 18:21
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: Jungletest is a system for automated testing of OpenOffice.org
against a large set of documents. Currently, tests determine whether OOo
will crash or hang when loading, scrolling, or exporting the document. The
documents can be automatically harvested from the OOo Issue Tracker or
through random URLs found on Yahoo.
Changes: The license was changed from GPL 2 to GPL 3. pYsearch is used to
search Yahoo. The Google Web search was removed because Google closed the
API. A fix for "file -bi" sometimes spitting out the MIME type twice was
added. The external apsw dependency was removed in favor of Python 2.5's
internal SQlite3. The --document-format command line option was added to
choose which formats to search the Web for.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jungletest/
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[019] - kradview 1.0.0
by David Santo Orcero (http://freshmeat.net/users/irbis/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 18:00
Scientific/Engineering :: Medical Science Apps.
About: Kradview is a viewer of images obtained from different sources such
as X-ray, NMR, and DICOM-compatible imaging devices. Its aim is to be an
easy-to-use DICOM viewer with instant rendering of images, no matter the
size and the zoom of the DICOM image. It allows medical professionals to
view X-ray images easily.
Changes: More DICOM images are supported.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kradview/
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[020] - LightWeight Time Tracker 1.1.0
by aiken_cz (http://freshmeat.net/users/aiken_cz/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:35
Office/Business :: Scheduling
Utilities
About: LightWeight Time Tracker (LWTT) is a very simple time-tracking
program. It provides independent real-time tracking of multiple tasks
(such as programming, presentations, lectures, etc.). The data are saved
to an XML file under the home directory.
Changes: This version adds two features. The first is the possibility to
reset tasks' time consumption. The second is saving of the position and
size of the application window.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lwtt/
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[021] - LinuxSpeaks 1.10
by joekamphaus (http://freshmeat.net/users/joekamphaus/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:10
About: The LinuxSpeaks project is a collection of scripts and library
modules that aspire to be a comprehensive vocal, sight-free user interface
to the Linux operating system. Excluding the editor, these scripts are
merely front end applications to many command line applications already
written and thoroughly tested. Both a tarball installation package and a
Live CD ISO are available for download. Configurations for eSpeak,
festival, and cepstral are easily made within LinuxSpeaks.
Changes: A voice recorder applet was added along with a time configure
applet for setting the time and date either by NTP or manually. A pager
applet was integrated into the system and made the default for reading
files, etc. Broken prompts were fixed. A Tcl 8.4 install bug was fixed in
te install script. Some of the code was cleaned up.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxspeaks/
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[022] - MirBSD Korn Shell R33d
by mirabile (http://freshmeat.net/users/mirabile/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:07
System :: Shells
About: The MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) is an actively developed successor of
pdksh (the Public Domain Korn Shell), aimed at producing a shell good for
interactive use, but with the primary focus on scripting. It is intended
to be portable to most *nix-like operating systems as long as they're not
too obscure. mksh incorporates improvements from OpenBSD and Debian, as
well as bugfixes and enhancements developed for the MirOS, FreeWRT, and
MidnightBSD projects. The emacs command line editing mode is UTF-8
capable, and Byte Order Marks are ignored in scripts. The shell supports
large files, as well as all pdksh and some csh, AT&T ksh, and GNU bash
features, is compatible with the Bourne shell and POSIX (within limits),
has no limit on array sizes, and incorporates some other useful builtins
and features. While being already fast and small (without losing
functionality), flags to make it even smaller can be given at compile
time. An interactive shell reads "~/.mkshrc" on startup.
Changes: A tty's I/O is now flushed before using it when attaching mksh to
a different tty than the current terminal using "mksh -T". This fixes a
security problem where users could have already typed on some other
(previously unused) virtual console, and the shell would execute these
commands once spawned. The path to "ls" is no longer hard-coded in
dot.mkshrc.
License: DFSG approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mksh/
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[023] - mkproject 0.1.1
by juanmabc (http://freshmeat.net/users/juanmabc/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:28
Software Development :: Build Tools
About: mkproject ("make project") is a script that makes project
skeletons. It automatizes the task of starting a new project with the
information provided from the command line. The package created by default
is a "hello world" project of the selected skeleton that uses the autotools
to be managed.
Changes: Error output was fixed to be sent to stdout instead of stderr.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mkproject/
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[024] - mowyw writes your websites 0.5.0
by Moritz Lenz (http://freshmeat.net/users/moritzlenz/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:42
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: Mowyw is an offline content management system, which means it is a
kind of preprocessing system specifically designed for Web sites. It uses
a very simple, easy to learn syntax, and is intended to be rather
flexible. Headers and footers, includes (like SSI includes), and menus are
implemented, with more features planned.
Changes: This version supports conditionals, loops, and external data
sources like XML files and databases. It now comes with a large test
suite.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mowyw/
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[025] - MuseScore 0.9.2
by ws (http://freshmeat.net/users/wernerschweer/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:35
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: MuseScore is a graphical WYSIWYG music score typesetter. Notes are
entered on an "virtual note sheet". As notes are entered, the score is
immediately reformatted. It uses the LilyPond project's TrueType fonts.
Changes: This revision introduces a new harmony element used for chord
names, which allows for proper import and export to MusicXml. A new import
filter reads some "Band In A Box" files with proper display of chord names.
Scores can be transposed and a new function allows the creation of excerpts
of selectable instruments. The new online documentation, many other small
enhancements, and a lot of bugfixes increase usability.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mscore/
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[026] - NetMRG 0.20
by Brady Alleman (http://freshmeat.net/users/balleman/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:08
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: NetMRG is a network monitoring, reporting, and graphing system.
Using MySQL, PHP, C++, pthreads, and RRDTOOL, it is capable of monitoring
thousands of arbitrary values at user-configured intervals (typically 5
minutes). Graph templating allows network and system admins to begin
monitoring routers, switches, servers and other devices with minimal setup
overhead. NetMRG is also capable of responding to programmable events, such
as variables exceeding accepted tolerances. NetMRG can be deployed in
server hosting and ISP environments, allowing users to view only their own
equipment's bandwidth or traffic graphs.
Changes: Compilation under GCC 4.3 has been fixed. View pages have been
restructured to show graph titles for easier in-page searching. MySQL 5
compatibility has been fixed. Device properties, which keep track of
things like model and serial numbers have been added. The ability to chain
interfaces to travel between them and Ajax monitor selection for graphs
have been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/netmrg/
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[027] - NTLM authentication library 1.0
by Simon Josefsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jas4711/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:27
Security
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The NTLM library contains utilities for authenticating against
Microsoft servers that require NTLM authentication. The goal of this
project is to make libntlm easier to build (by using autoconf, automake,
and libtool) for use by other projects.
Changes: Minor gnulib fixes were made. This release is now declared
stable.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libntlm/
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[028] - OpenDBX 1.3.7 (Development)
by Norbert Sendetzky (http://freshmeat.net/users/nsendetzky/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:50
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: Many improvements and bugfixes are included in this release and
it's recommended to all developers to upgrade to the latest version. The
existing odbx_result_free() is deprecated in favor of the new
odbx_result_finish(). Additionally, the C++ Stmt::bind() method of the API
was removed and the Stmt::escape() method was moved to the connection
object. It's now also possible to write data into large objects using the
Firebird and Oracle backends, but the Oracle LOB implementation doesn't
work at the moment.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/opendbx/
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[029] - pactester 1.0.7
by Manu (http://freshmeat.net/users/manugarg/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:11
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
About: Pactester is a tool to test proxy auto-configuration (PAC) files.
PAC files are used by browsers to identify the correct proxy server for a
given URL. Since the PAC file evaluation mechanism is generated inside the
browser and cannot be accessed from outside, the only way to tell which
proxy your browser will use for a specific URL is manual inspection of the
PAC file. Unfortunately, this approach is error prone and quickly becomes
impractical for large and complex PAC files. Pactester resolves this issue
by simulating browser behavior.
Changes: A new option was added for specifying client IP address (as
returned by myIpAddress).
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pactester/
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[030] - Paludis 0.26.0_pre1
by Ciaran McCreesh (http://freshmeat.net/users/ciaranm/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 18:06
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: paludis now rebuilds the VDB names and provides caches
incrementally after each install and uninstall. This can give a
significant speed-up, but it makes it more important to run paludis
--regenerate-installed-cache after installing or removing a package with
portage, as this will no longer be done automatically. This also changes
the format of the provides cache, so you will need to run paludis
--regenerate-installed-cache once after upgrading. paludis now uses
${builddir}/${CATEGORY}-${PF} instead of ${builddir}/${CATEGORY}/${PF} as
a temporary build directory.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/paludis/
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[031] - PHP html2ps 2.0.43 (Stable)
by Konstantin (http://freshmeat.net/users/bkon/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:33
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
About: html2ps is a PHP equivalent of the popular Perl script by the same
name that accurately converts HTML with images, complex tables (including
rowspan/colspan), layers/divs, and CSS styles to Postscript and PDF.
Unlike most other HTML2PS/HTML2PDF converters, it offers good CSS 2.1
support and is very tolerant to non-valid HTML. It can convert even
CSS-intense sites like aol.com and msn.com.
Changes: Space could be added after some non-whitespace symbols
immediately followed by inline boxes. Under certain circumstances, custom
characters were ignored in CSS3 margin box content. Some temporary files
were not removed when using the fpdf output method. All of these problems
have been fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2ps_php/
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[032] - PHP SOAP Toolkit 0.6.2
by Michael Tutty (http://freshmeat.net/users/mtutty/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:53
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
About: PHP SOAP Toolkit is a comprehensive SOAP library for PHP 5. It
provides WSDL parsing and template-based code generation for client,
server, and data types for contract-first Web services. It wraps the
native PHP SOAP client and server, and uses WS-Helper to provide
code-first Web services.
Changes: Overloaded Create() methods are now generated properly in the
client. The generated factory method in the client now correctly uses the
complete client class name. The server's documentation page has been
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/soap_toolkit/
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[033] - phpESP 2.1.0 (Stable)
by Franky (http://freshmeat.net/users/liedekef/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:23
Communications
Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: phpESP is a set of PHP scripts to let non-technical users create
surveys, administer surveys, gather results, and view statistics, all
managed online after database initialization.
Changes: Web-based updates and installations are now possible. Changing
database table prefixes is now possible. There is now a dashboard
implementation. You can now enter a start/stop date for a survey. You can
now do authenticated LDAP binds when searching. The configuration files
have been split into three files to allow easier updates from previous
versions.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpesp/
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[034] - PMD 4.2.1
by Xavier Le Vourch (http://freshmeat.net/users/xlv/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:28
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables,
empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and more. It includes
CPD, a tool to detect chunks of identical code.
Changes: This release fixes a few bugs but does not introduce major
changes. The refactoring effort that will lead to PMD 5.0 has been started
on the main trunk.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pmd/
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[035] - Pondus 0.4.0
by Eike Nicklas (http://freshmeat.net/users/stufam/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 03:27
Utilities
About: Pondus is a personal weight manager that keeps track of your body
weight. It aims to be simple to use, lightweight, and fast. The data can
be plotted to get a quick overview of the history of your weight. A simple
weight planner allows you to define "target weights" and this plan can be
compared with the actual measurements in a plot.
Changes: A new weight planner, CSV import and export, and some usability
improvements.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pondus/
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[036] - QCad Professional 2.2.0.0
by Andrew Mustun (http://freshmeat.net/users/andrew23/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:25
About: QCad Professional is an application for computer aided drafting in
two dimensions (2D). With QCad, you can create technical drawings such as
plans for buildings, interiors, mechanical parts, or schemas and diagrams.
QCad reads an writes DXF files and can export to SVG, PDF, and various
bitmap formats.
Changes: The highlights of this release are SVG export, rulers at the side
of the drawing area, isometric projections, and ordinate dimensioning.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qcadpro/
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[037] - Quick Look 1.1
by Carlos Rodrigues (http://freshmeat.net/users/CrLf/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:27
System :: Systems Administration
About: Quick Look is a package to collect system statistics and output
pretty graphics and (X)HTML pages. It allows system administrators to have
a quick look at the status of their systems without going for a more
advanced (and heavier) solution. It currently shows CPU and memory usage,
load average and process spawning rates, I/O operations, network traffic
rates, and tracked network connections.
Changes: A problem with occasional huge spikes in graphs after rebooting
was fixed, but existing data files must be converted.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/quicklook/
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[038] - Ruby/AWS 0.1.0
by Ian Macdonald (http://freshmeat.net/users/ianmacd/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:26
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules
About: Ruby/AWS is a high-level Ruby language interface to the Amazon
Associates Web Service API v4. It aims to automate and remove the grunt
work of interacting with the Amazon API and, in so doing, make it much
easier to use. Ruby/AWS is the successor to Ruby/Amazon.
Changes: This version features a completely rewritten XML parser, which
dynamically creates classes based on XML returned by AWS. This makes
Ruby/AWS highly future-proof. Multiple operations are now implemented.
Numerous fixes and small improvements have been made. Large scale code
clean-up has been performed and much more documentation has been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ruby-aws/
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[039] - ScummC 0.2.0
by albeu (http://freshmeat.net/users/albeu/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:31
Games/Entertainment
Software Development :: Compilers
About: ScummC is a set of tools that allow you to create completely free
games that can be run with ScummVM. It currently supports SCUMM v6 and has
partial support for v7.
Changes: It is finally possible to build completely free games. This
release features a true mini-game as an example. Although short, it
feature all the basic blocks of a typical adventure game and demonstrates
many of the things that are currently possible with ScummC.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/scummc/
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[040] - SHOGUN 0.6.0
by Soeren Sonnenburg (http://freshmeat.net/users/sonnenburg/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 18:13
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
About: SHOGUN is a machine learning toolbox whose focus is on large scale
kernel methods and especially on Support Vector Machines (SVM). It
provides a generic SVM object interfacing to several different SVM
implementations, all making use of the same underlying, efficient kernel
implementations. Apart from SVMs and regression, SHOGUN also features a
number of linear methods like Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Linear
Programming Machine (LPM), (Kernel) Perceptrons, and algorithms to train
hidden Markov models. SHOGUN can be used from within C++, Matlab, R,
Octave, and Python.
Changes: The static R, Octave, Matlab, and Python interfaces have been
rewritten from scratch, simplifying future extensions. They now use the
same syntax and support the same set of commands. Toy examples describing
the use of kernels, classifiers, distributions, features, distances,
regression methods, and preprocessors for the static Python, R, Octave,
and Matlab interface have been added. The user documentation has been
improved. Support for ACML and Intel MKL and POIMs for the Python modular
interface was added. Major memory leaks were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/shogun/
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[041] - Simple Groupware 0.404
by Thomas Bley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simplegroupware/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:30
Communications
Information Management
Office/Business
About: Simple Groupware is a complete enterprise application offering
email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization
with cell phones and Outlook, full-text search, and much more. Simple
Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP,
CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP, and SyncML under one platform. Unlike other
groupware software, Simple Groupware contains the programming language
sgsML to enable the quick customization and creation of powerful Web
applications.
Changes: A new HTML export with vertical layout was added, together with
the "last modified by" field. Fixes were applied to renaming non-empty
folders and sorting mail messages in Cyrus IMAP.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/simplegroupware/
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[042] - Super Grub Disk 0.9710 (CDROM)
by adrian15 (http://freshmeat.net/users/adrian15/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:20
System :: Boot
System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Recovery Tools
About: Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy or CDROM that is oriented
towards system rescue, specifically for repairing the booting process.
Super Grub Disk is simply a Grub Disk with a lot of useful menus. It can
activate partitions, boot partitions, boot MBRs, boot your former OS
(Linux or another one) by loading menu.lst from your hard disk,
automatically restore Grub on your MBR, swap hard disks in the BIOS, and
boot from any available disk device. It has multi-language support, and
allows you to change the keyboard layout of your shell.
Changes: Booting Windows was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/supergrub/
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[043] - Syslinux 3.63 (Release)
by H. Peter Anvin (http://freshmeat.net/users/hpa/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:09
System :: Boot
About: SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux operating
system which operates on Linux EXT2/EXT3 filesystems, MS-DOS FAT
filesystems, network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. SYSLINUX
has an advanced extension API and contains two optional menu systems. It
also includes MEMDISK, a tool for booting legacy operating systems from
non-traditional media like PXE or CD-ROM.
Changes: This release fixes a bug where EXTLINUX was confused by
directories that contained deleted files. Support for class E addresses as
unicast was added in PXELINUX. Support for Microsoft SDI RAM disk images
was added. Bugs in the PCI and DMI detection code was fixed. Bogus host
platform dependencies in the build system were cleaned up.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/syslinux/
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[044] - tw and gtw 0.1.1
by juanmabc (http://freshmeat.net/users/juanmabc/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:29
Text Processing :: Linguistic
About: tw (short for "Translate word") is a script that translates words
in different languages. It uses internal dictionaries, the Google
translation service, and free translation capabilities to translate a
word. gtw (short for "Graphical Translate Word") is a graphical front end
for tw.
Changes: Error output was fixed to be sent to stdout instead of stderr.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/twandgtw/
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[045] - VT6530 Terminal Emulator 0.2.3
by John Garrison (http://freshmeat.net/users/necron99/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 17:32
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Terminals
Terminals :: Telnet
About: VT6530 is a C++ implementation of the proprietary terminal used
with Tandem (HP Non-Stop) mainframes.
Changes: The code was updated to compile with the latest version of SPL.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vt6530/
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[046] - WikyBlog 1.6.1.4
by Josh Schmidt (http://freshmeat.net/users/oyejorge/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 01:05
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary
About: WikyBlog is a Wiki/Blog CMS/groupware application with an AJAX
enhanced tabbed interface that enables users to view and edit multiple
files within the same page. UTF-8 support for multi-language abilities,
integrated custom template editing, file upload, a flexible user privilege
system, and Google Maps integration number among its many features.
Changes: This version adds a complete Bengali translation and a
$wbCookieDomain variable and fixes a few bugs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wikyblog/
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[047] - xTests 0.4.1
by Dr Proctor (http://freshmeat.net/users/DrProctor/)
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 18:17
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: xTests is a small, simple, lightweight, portable unit/component
testing library for exercising C and C++ libraries. It relies on no
platform-specific or compiler-specific constructs and doesn't require
pre-processing of your source code by scripting languages or use macros to
create secret classes that use Schwarz counters to register test cases. It
relies on you to simply code what you want, and nothing that you don't
want.
Changes: Explicit support for boolean tests was added (rather than
requiring casts to int as in the previous versions).
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xtests/
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