Newsletter for Sunday, July 06th 2008

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

[001] - acidx 1.0
[002] - Adventure-(PHP-)Framework 1.7-BETA (PHP 5)
[003] - array 1.0
[004] - asciiclock 1.0
[005] - bdec 0.3.2
[006] - Bisect 1.0-alpha
[007] - Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer 0.98
[008] - BoltWire 2.24
[009] - Boost Extras 1.0
[010] - Bordeaux 1.2
[011] - Chromium B.S.U. 0.9.13.2
[012] - Clirc 0.0.1.9.3c
[013] - Condor 7.0.3
[014] - DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0.0.m3
[015] - DjVuSmooth 0.1.3
[016] - Dosage 1.6.0
[017] - Empire Server 4.3.15 (Server)
[018] - Erlang R12B-3
[019] - feresPost 3.1.6
[020] - Floola 3.1
[021] - Freenukum 0.2.8
[022] - ICSILog 0.6 beta
[023] - JDave 1.1-rc1
[024] - Krename 3.9.1 (Development)
[025] - libpwmd 5.0.6
[026] - list2pkg 1.0
[027] - lock-keyboard-for-baby 20080706
[028] - Logic File System 0.5
[029] - Mathomatic 14.0.7
[030] - MinorFs 0.3.0
[031] - Nephthys 1.0
[032] - NetDirector 3.2.1
[033] - NSPluginWrapper 1.1.0 (Development)
[034] - Password Manager Daemon 1.11
[035] - Piggy Market Squeak 0.3.0
[036] - plus4emu 1.2.7
[037] - Pure PHP radius class 1.2
[038] - Rasqal RDF Query Library 0.9.16
[039] - Redland RDF Libraries 1.0.8 (Development)
[040] - Redland RDF Library Language Bindings 1.0.8.1
[041] - Simple Groupware 0.414
[042] - srecord 1.43
[043] - Step Into Chinese 0.6
[044] - Subsonic 3.5.beta1
[045] - sysstat for Solaris 20080704
[046] - taim 1.0
[047] - Tcl/Tk 8.5.3
[048] - tproxy relay 1.0
[049] - Units of measurement for Ada 2.8
[050] - Urpkg 1.4
[051] - YaHP Converter 1.2.18c

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

[001] - acidx 1.0
by Kristopolous (http://freshmeat.net/users/kristopolous/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:00

About: Acidx is a simple wrapper for X applications that accept the -fg
and -bg parameters. Specifically designed to have a low memory footprint,
it will wrap X programs such as xterm and randomly determine the background
and foreground colors for the program, while keeping the color scheme
legible.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[002] - Adventure-(PHP-)Framework 1.7-BETA (PHP 5)
by Christian Achatz (http://freshmeat.net/users/ChristianAchatz/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 14:43

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: The Adventure-(PHP-)Framework is a Web development framework that
helps you design and create object oriented and reusable PHP Web
applications. It features a unique DOM model, the generic page controller
component, and a set of shipped XML tag libraries to build GUIs based on
XML/HTML templates. The framework core contains components like front
controller, global benchmark concept, global error handling, and a
configuration management class. It includes complete modules like a
guestbook, a comment function, and a generic pager.

Changes: Because of the introduction of the registry and a new
initialization process, complex configuration (INIT files) are gone and the
adaption of the core parameters is much easier. Thereby, the registry
contains not only the basic configuration parameters, but can also be used
as a central store for application parameters. Due to this large change,
the entire documentation was updated to fit the new configuration
techniques and the registry component. The class reference table now
contains a chapter about the usage of the registry, and the beginner
resources have been updated.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[003] - array 1.0
by Kristopolous (http://freshmeat.net/users/kristopolous/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 05:59

System :: Shells
Utilities

About: array is a program to create and manage arbitrarily named,
arbitrarily sized arrays. It is designed to be easy to integrate into
scripts and to have output that is easy to parse with awk and sed. It is
well suited for dynamic download and temporary installation in environments
where it isn't available.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[004] - asciiclock 1.0
by Kristopolous (http://freshmeat.net/users/kristopolous/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 05:58

About: asciiclock is a program that continuously outputs the current time
to a terminal. It resembles a clock that has been drawn with ASCII art.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - bdec 0.3.2
by Henry Ludemann (http://freshmeat.net/users/henryl/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:21

Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Utilities

About: bdec allows you to write specifications for existing binary formats
in a flexible XML-based syntax and have decoders automatically generated
for you. It is written in Python, and supports decoding to XML or Python
objects.

Changes: The C decoder memory is now freed. Decoders are validated with
valgrind. A new "release" script was added to simplify making new releases.
Sequence values are handled in the C decoder. Sequence values are printed
in the C decoder output. XML output no longer includes whitespace around
decoded values. Entry names are now allowed to use the "-" character. Speed
was improved when choosing between embedded choices. Bit buffers now
allocate their own memory (instead of reusing the input).

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[006] - Bisect 1.0-alpha
by xclerc (http://freshmeat.net/users/xclerc/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 21:20

Software Development :: Testing

About: Bisect is a code coverage tool for the Objective Caml language.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[007] - Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer 0.98
by Scarfy (http://freshmeat.net/users/Scarfy/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 12:12

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer is a 3rd person action shooter. With
the apparent defeat of Galdov and the reclaiming of the Fire, Time, Space,
and Reality Crystals, the Blobs' battle was only just beginning. Bob had
rescued many Blobs and fought many battles, but now he had an ever bigger
task ahead of him. The Blobs' homeworld is still littered with the alien
forces and Bob once again makes it his task to lead the counter attack. But
even without Galdov the aliens are still extremely well organised.

Changes: Some cutscenes were fixed (such as Teeka not moving after crypt
battle). An alarm sound effect was added to Mission 10. Glass doors are now
visible again. Switches and features, such as save points and info points,
are no longer drawn when they shouldn't be. There were other miscellaneous
bug and level fixes made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - BoltWire 2.24
by Caveman (http://freshmeat.net/users/fast4god/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 21:21

About: BoltWire is an easy to use, yet amazingly robust Web development
system. Some of its features include instant user and group management, an
advanced internal search engine with fully templated output, powerful data
management, internally-editable skins, UTF-8 and multi-lingual support,
unlimited hierarchical case-insensitive page names, a built in scripting
engine, and fully customizable site actions via BoltWire's built in forms
processor.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[009] - Boost Extras 1.0
by Alexis Wilke (http://freshmeat.net/users/alexis_wilke/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:17

Software Development :: Libraries

About: Boost Extras is a set of extraneous libraries for the Boost
environment. It includes an adaptation of the Boost source to compile with
the GNU build system, a set of classes to handle INI files, and a class to
derive from to use the boost::intrusive_ptr<>.

Changes: gnu-boost and boost-1.35.0.tar.bz2 were added. The former is a
small set of scripts used to generate the latter, which is a version of the
Boost library that uses configure and Makefile.am scripts to build the
library (instead of the Jam build system).

License: Boost Software License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/boost-extras/

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[010] - Bordeaux 1.2
by twickline (http://freshmeat.net/users/twickline/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 12:25

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
System :: Emulators
Utilities

About: Bordeaux is a Wine GUI configuration manager that runs winelib
applications. It aims to support installation of third party utilities,
installation of applications and games, and the ability to use custom
configurations.

Changes: Support was added for basic Office 2007 applications: Word,
Excel, and Powerpoint. IEs4Linux was dropped in favor of direct
installation of IE using Bordeaux. Cellar support and a basic Cellar
manager implementation were added. Each supported application now gets its
own private cellar. The extra winetricks packages are marked Unsupported by
default and they install to ~/.bordeaux/unsupported.

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[011] - Chromium B.S.U. 0.9.13.2
by Paul Wise (http://freshmeat.net/users/pabs3/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 12:08

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Playing

About: Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling
shooter. It uses OpenGL for graphics, OpenAL for sound effects, and FTGL
for text rendering.

Changes: The alternative to use for SDL/GLUT and OpenAL/SDL Mixer may now
be specified. Some issues with the fontconfig support were fixed. Some
memory leaks and OpenAL shutdown were fixed. The window title case in the
SDL backend was fixed.

License: Artistic License

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

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[012] - Clirc 0.0.1.9.3c
by Kristopolous (http://freshmeat.net/users/kristopolous/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 05:53

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
Utilities

About: Clirc is an IRC spider and bouncer with a built-in Web server that
politely uses non-user trackable IRC commands in order to cluster chat
rooms into large similar groups with affinity ratings.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[013] - Condor 7.0.3
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 05:54

System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Networking

About: Condor schedules and runs remote CPU intensive applications using
the idle cycles of distributively owned workstations. It monitors a pool of
machines to find idle machines that are then used to complete submitted
jobs, and also provides checkpointing and remote system mechanisms that
allow for job migration and transparent remote execution.

Changes: Condor no longer requires its EXECUTE directory to be
world-writable, as long as it is not on a root-squashed NFS mount and is
owned by the user given in the CONDOR_IDS setting (or by Condor's real UID,
if not started as root). A bug where condor_schedd would become
unresponsive during a shutdown was fixed. Numerous other bugs were fixed.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[014] - DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0.0.m3
by DataNucleus (http://freshmeat.net/users/datanucleus/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 12:16

Database
Database :: API
Database :: Front-Ends

About: DataNucleus Access Platform is a standards-compliant Java
persistence product. It is fully compliant with the JDO1, JDO2, JDO2.1, and
JPA1 Java standards. It also complies with the OGC Simple Feature
Specification for persistence of geospatial Java types. It allows access to
all popular RDBMSs available today, together with db4o, LDAP, Excel
documents, and XML databases.

Changes: The level2 caching process has been rewritten to allow full
control. Support for JDO 2.2 "read-only" has been added. JPQL query
language support has been added for all datastores. In-memory evaluation of
JDOQL queries has been extended to cope with more syntax. Support for
persistence of a wider range of field types has been added for XML and
Excel datastores. Support for multiple levels of "xpath" has been added for
XML datastores. JDOQL query language support has been added for NeoDatis
datastores. Bugfixes have been made for RDBMS constraints.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[015] - DjVuSmooth 0.1.3
by Jakub Wilk (http://freshmeat.net/users/ubanus/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:42

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
Text Processing

About: DjVuSmooth is a graphical editor for DjVu documents.

Changes: A UTF-8 locale is no longer assumed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[016] - Dosage 1.6.0
by Tristan Seligmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/mithrandi/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 21:23

Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: Dosage is an application that keeps a local "mirror" of specific
Web comics, with a variety of options for naming schemes and updating
options. It supports a recursive "catch-up" method, where it traverses a
comic by essentially visiting previous comics and picking out the comics.
An ever growing number of Web comics are available to satisfy your
addiction.

Changes: Dosage now depends on Twisted and zope.interface. This is needed
for the new plugins system (which is a lot nicer and cleaner than the old
modules system).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - Empire Server 4.3.15 (Server)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:02

Games/Entertainment :: Real Time Strategy
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy

About: Empire is a game that is played against human opponents over a
computer network. It is possible for a game to last from a few hours to
many months. While the common goal of an Empire player is to win, there
is no clear-cut definition of what winning is. Players may seek to achieve
whatever goals they want to achieve.

Changes: Potential buffer overruns were fixed. Potential leakage of PRNG
seed was fixed. Numerous minor bugs were fixed. Documentation updates were
done.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - Erlang R12B-3
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:01

Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Interpreters

About: Erlang is a small concurrent functional programming language
developed by Ericsson. It is being used by Ericsson as a systems
programming language for large concurrent fault-tolerant distributed
systems.

Changes: Numerous minor bugfixes and documentation updates were made.

License: OSI Approved

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

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[019] - feresPost 3.1.6
by feresPost (http://freshmeat.net/users/feresPost/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 07:19

Scientific/Engineering

About: feresPost is a Ruby extension that provides the definition of
classes and modules devoted to the development of automated post-processing
for Nastran or Samcef finite element results. The library allows easy
manipulation of finite element models, groups, and results. Efficient
post-processing is possible because the time-consuming operations are
written in C/C++.

Changes: Attributes were added to several classes. The "readBdf" method in
the "NastranDB" class was partially reprogrammed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - Floola 3.1
by floola (http://freshmeat.net/users/floola/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 12:06

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 photos,
artwork, podcasts, and smart playlists. It automatically converts any
incompatible audio or video file so that you can copy almost any file to
it. It even allows adding YouTube and MySpace videos with a single click.

Changes: An issue with main listbox columns was fixed. A podcast
downloading issue when losing focus was fixed. The filetype is also written
to the database. FFmpeg parameter issues were fixed. Photo database
handling was improved. Issues with copying photos when fullres is not
available were fixed. last.fm tracks played in Floola had the wrong
timestamp. A Korean translation was added. The synch folder had the wrong
file count.

License: Freeware

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

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[021] - Freenukum 0.2.8
by wosman (http://freshmeat.net/users/sttereo3/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:18

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: The Freenukum Jump'n Run game is a clone of the old EGA graphics
based 2D game Duke Nukem. It uses the original Duke Nukem level and
graphics files.

Changes: Enemy shots, bombs, particle fireworks, and a tankbot enemy were
added. The dependency on glib was removed. A menu shortcut is now
installed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[022] - ICSILog 0.6 beta
by fractor (http://freshmeat.net/users/fractor/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 05:59

Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries

About: ICSILog is a C-language implementation of a fast single-precision
approximation of the natural logarithm with adjustable accuracy. The core
idea is to use a quantized version of the mantissa of the input floating
point number as a pointer into a lookup table. The amount of quantization
of the mantissa determines the table size and therefore the accuracy.
Current processors are able to store relatively large lookup tables in
cache memory. Therefore an acceptable accuracy can be reached without too
many main memory accesses.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[023] - JDave 1.1-rc1
by Joni Freeman (http://freshmeat.net/users/inhuman/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 12:17

Software Development :: Testing

About: JDave is a behavior-driven development framework that provides an
easy way to specify the behavior of your Java classes.

Changes: Scala support was improved by better JMock syntax and integrated
ScalaCheck property verification. The jdave-wicket-selenium module was
improved. All reported bugs were fixed.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[024] - Krename 3.9.1 (Development)
by Dominik Seichter (http://freshmeat.net/users/domseichter/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 15:34

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Utilities

About: Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE which can
rename a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the
files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename
supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename to
lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every word to
uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing parts of the
filename, and many more. It can also change access and modification dates,
permissions, and file ownership.

Changes: TagLib support for renaming of audio files was added. Renaming of
directories was fixed. Date and permissions plugins were re-added. A large
number of bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - libpwmd 5.0.6
by Ben Kibbey (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjk/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 05:53

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Utilities

About: libpwmd is a library that makes it easy to patch applications to
use pwmd (Password Manager Daemon). It supports password retrieval from a
pinentry program.

Changes: A few changes were made in the way pinentry is handled. The pwmc
command line option -t was added to specify the pinentry timeout.
pwmc_open_async() can now use PWMD_OPTION_PINENTRY_TRIES.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - list2pkg 1.0
by Sebastien Vasey (http://freshmeat.net/users/svasey/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 21:21

System :: Archiving :: Packaging
System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Software Distribution

About: List2pkg is a program to create Slackware packages in a simple way.
More precisely, given a list of files, it will create a Slackware package
containing these files. A user trying to install that package will see the
same files installed at the same locations they were on your system.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/list2pkg/

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[027] - lock-keyboard-for-baby 20080706
by Chris (http://freshmeat.net/users/fettucine/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 12:12

Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Screen Savers
Desktop Environment :: Tools

About: lock-keyboard-for-baby is a utility for those times when a
baby/toddler wants to bash away at your keyboard. It grabs the keyboard
until you type a phrase (which hopefully the baby won't type), but without
blocking the screen like a screensaver.

Changes: This release adds mouse-locking support. So now your mouse or
touchpad can also be protected.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lk4b/

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[028] - Logic File System 0.5
by yoann padioleau (http://freshmeat.net/users/aryx/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:00

Database
Information Management
System :: Filesystems

About: The Logic File System enables the user to access files through an
additionnal mountpoint, /lfs, where powerful logic queries can be issued
and navigation can be done through different dimensions, like date, size,
or extension. For instance, LFS allows the user to perform the following
commands in the shell: "cd /lfs/ext:mp3|ext:ogg/year:1973/genre:Disco/" and
"ls artist:BeeGees/ artist:DonnaSummer/ artist:Chic/".

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[029] - Mathomatic 14.0.7
by George Gesslein II (http://freshmeat.net/users/gesslein/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 12:13

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: Mathomatic is a fast and easy-to-use console mode Computer Algebra
System (CAS) that can manipulate symbolic equations and expressions,
perform standard, complex number, and polynomial arithmetic, etc. It does
some calculus and displays expressions in color when using a terminal
emulator.

Changes: This version contains bug fixes. Presentation of expressions with
coefficients is improved, and the readline history is now remembered
between sessions.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[030] - MinorFs 0.3.0
by Ghede (http://freshmeat.net/users/Ghede/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:35

Security
System :: Filesystems

About: MinorFS combines a small set of cooperating userspace filesystems
for Linux that provide private storage to pseudo persistent processes. This
allows programs that are run by a user to keep some data safe from all
potential malware that runs with all this users' privileges. It further
implements simple password capabilities as a way to explicitly share access
with other processes or users.

Changes: The internal design and low level storage have been updated. The
design has been updated to allow for user level administration.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[031] - Nephthys 1.0
by unki (http://freshmeat.net/users/unki/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:40

Communications
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet

About: Nephthys provides a Web interface to create file-sharing "buckets",
through which data can be shared. Nephthys handles the buckets in the local
filesystem of the server. Access and data transfer is made via FTP and
WebDAV. Nephthys itself does not provide the access protocol, but relies on
well known projects like Apache HTTPD (WebDAV) and ProFTPD (FTP).

Changes: This is the first public release of Nephthys. For authentication,
Nephthys now supports a local user database as well as relying on the Web
server's authentication modules.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[032] - NetDirector 3.2.1
by Greg Wallace (http://freshmeat.net/users/aowens/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:34

System :: Systems Administration

About: NetDirector is an open and extensible management framework for
managing configurations of common open source network services. NetDirector
currently manages the following services: Apache, BIND, DHCP, Samba, NFS,
Postfix, Sendmail, VSFTP, system users and groups, system network
interfaces, and numerous system files. NetDirector also offers revision
control, troubleshooting/logs, scheduling of changes, server configuration
cloning, tracking of past or scheduled changes, and granular role-based
user management.

Changes: This release marks the transition to the GPL. It has been
packaged as a .deb file for use on Debian/Ubuntu platforms. There are
several bugfixes and upgrades.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[033] - NSPluginWrapper 1.1.0 (Development)
by Gwenole Beauchesne (http://freshmeat.net/users/gbeauche/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:37

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: NSPluginWrapper is a cross-platform Netscape 4 (NPAPI) compatible
plugins viewer. It makes it possible to use plugins that are not available
yet to a specific platform. For example, you can use the Adobe Flash Player
9 (Linux/i386) plugin on Linux/x86_64, NetBSD, and FreeBSD platforms along
with a native JVM in the same browser.

Changes: A standalone plugins player (nspluginplayer) was added.
Windowless plugins (e.g. Flash Player 10 beta 2) are now supported in
Firefox 3. NSPluginWrapper now tries to restart plugins that crashed, thus
avoiding a browser restart.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[034] - Password Manager Daemon 1.11
by Ben Kibbey (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjk/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 05:52

Information Management
Security
Security :: Cryptography

About: Password Manager Daemon serves clients data via a local socket. The
data is stored in an encrypted XML file, and the client must provide the
key to modify it. There is also a library available to make patching
applications to use the daemon easier.

Changes: Support for pinentry timeouts was added. Launching pinentry when
no DISPLAY was set was fixed. A "priority" configuration parameter was
added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - Piggy Market Squeak 0.3.0
by guilpms (http://freshmeat.net/users/guilpms/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 05:51

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

About: Piggy Market Squeak is an easy-to-use alert system for trends in
stocks and shares. It has a user-friendly graphical user interface and
email alerts. It can highlight and sort buy and sell signals from
marketplaces or portfolios. It is versatile and integrates new trend
indicators.

Changes: A new feature to provide an alert on a given threshold is
directly available from a right click in the portfolio. A large number of
bugs were fixed, especially in the graph feature.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - plus4emu 1.2.7
by Istvan Varga (http://freshmeat.net/users/istvanv/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:38

System :: Emulators

About: plus4emu is a portable emulator of the Commodore Plus/4 computer.
It supports Windows and POSIX platforms (32 bit Windows, 32 and 64 bit
Linux, and Mac OS X have been tested). It implements accurate, high quality
hardware emulation, but the system requirements are higher than that of
most other emulators.

Changes: Support for using the mouse to change the cursor position in the
emulated machine, and copying text to and pasting from the clipboard. A new
command line option for typing text of any length at startup. A machine
configuration option to control the SID output volume. Minor sound
emulation improvements. Various improvements have been made to the
'compress' and 'p4fliconv' utilities. In OpenGL video mode, the vertical
interlace effect is now also displayed at quality 1 and 2, and quality 2
uses 32-bit textures. Minor optimizations and bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/plus4emu/

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[037] - Pure PHP radius class 1.2
by syscoal (http://freshmeat.net/users/syscoal/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:38

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Security

About: Pure PHP radius class can be used to authenticate users with a
RADIUS network access server according to RFC 2865. It connects to a Radius
server given its IP address, and requests access on behalf of a user given
his password. Once authenticated, the class may return the attributes of
the authorized user. This class works with at least the following RADIUS
servers: Authenex Strong Authentication System (ASAS) with two-factor
authentication; FreeRADIUS; Microsoft Radius server IAS; Radl; RSA SecurID;
WinRadius; and ZyXEL ZyWALL OTP (One-Time Password for Two-Factor
Authentication, Authenex ASAS branded by ZyXEL).

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[038] - Rasqal RDF Query Library 0.9.16
by Dave Beckett (http://freshmeat.net/users/dajobe/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:12

Database :: Database Engines/Servers

About: Rasqal is a C library for querying RDF, supporting the RDQL and
SPARQL languages. It provides APIs for creating a query and parsing query
syntax. It features pluggable triple-store source and matching interfaces,
an engine for executing the queries and an API for manipulating results as
bindings. It uses the Raptor RDF parser to return triples from RDF content
and can alternatively work with the Redland RDF library's persistent triple
stores. It is portable across many POSIX systems.

Changes: A major API/ABI change was made, so Rasqal 0.9.16 is incompatible
with earlier releases. A new rasqal_world object was added and used for all
constructor functions. All deprecated functions and macros were removed.
Query result sets can now be read and written from sparql XML results
format. Error syntax error reporting was improved.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[039] - Redland RDF Libraries 1.0.8 (Development)
by Dave Beckett (http://freshmeat.net/users/dajobe/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:13

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Redland is a set of C libraries providing a high-level API for the
Resource Description Framework (RDF), allowing it to be stored, parsed,
serialized, queried, and manipulated. It has an object-based, modular
design and comes with detailed reference documentation and examples. APIs
are provided in C#, C, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Tcl. Redland
supports all RDF vocabularies such as FOAF, RSS 1.0, Dublin Core, DOAP, and
OWL, the query languages RDQL and SPARQL, and all RDF syntaxes including
Turtle, RDF/XML, RSS, Atom, and GRDDL.

Changes: Redland was updated to use the new Rasqal 0.9.16 API
(incompatible with earlier versions) and was updated to use Raptor 1.4.18.
A new "trees" indexed in-memory storage was added. Improvements were made
to low-memory and other failures of resource allocation. Some minor API
additions and changes were made to the concepts, parser, and serializer
classes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[040] - Redland RDF Library Language Bindings 1.0.8.1
by Dave Beckett (http://freshmeat.net/users/dajobe/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:14

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Information Management :: Metadata/Semantic Models
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: redland-bindings provides high-level language bindings for the
Redland RDF C libraries, allowing full access to the C APIs along with
enhancements for individual languages. It currently provides bindings in
C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl.

Changes: The language bindings were updated to use the Redland 1.0.8 API.
The configuration now prefers pkg-config, which helps Mac OS X linking
problems. Minor fixes were made to the Perl, Python, and Ruby bindings.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/redland-bindings/

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[041] - Simple Groupware 0.414
by Thomas Bley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simplegroupware/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:40

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: Real URLs were implemented in the CMS module, as well as static
caching for attachments. Compatibility for Apache 2.2.8 was added in the
default WebDAV configuration. The sgsML parser was expanded with sorting
for static values. Italian and French translations were updated, and the
new version of PmWiki was included. Fixes were applied to numeric default
values in PostgreSQL, localized date formatting, and exceptional view
permissions.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[042] - srecord 1.43
by Peter Miller (http://freshmeat.net/users/pmiller/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 06:39

Software Development :: Embedded Systems

About: SRecord is a collection of powerful tools for manipulating EPROM
load files. It understands a number of file formats including Motorola
S-Record, Intel hex, Tektronix hex and binary, for both input and output.
SRecord filters include cropping, filling, splitting, joining, and more.
All filters may be applied to all file formats.

Changes: The srec-cat -data-only option has been broken down into four
separate controls. It is now possible to -enable and -disable individual
features, such as "header", "data-count", "execution-start-address", and
"footer". The srec_cat -start-address option was renamed
-execution-start-address due to confusion with -offset filter. Examples of
converting to and from binary files have been added to the srec_examples(1)
man page. A bug has been fixed in the MOS Tech format, so it now emits an
end record even when there is no execution start address passed in.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[043] - Step Into Chinese 0.6
by Charles B. Cosse (http://freshmeat.net/users/asymptopia/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:43

Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: Step Into Chinese is a flexible language-mining and flashcard
system to assist English speakers seeking to understand the Chinese
language. It was designed to address the lack of a one-to-one
correspondence between Chinese characters and corresponding Pinyin
morphemes.

Changes: Updated to work with current wx versions. The exit procedure,
which behaved badly under some window managers and operating systems, has
been cleaned up.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[044] - Subsonic 3.5.beta1
by Sindre Mehus (http://freshmeat.net/users/sindre_mehus/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 15:22

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

About: Subsonic is a Web-based music streamer, jukebox, and Podcast
receiver. It provides access to your entire music collection wherever you
are. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your music
while away from home.

Changes: A new Subsonic Mobile Player for streaming to mobile phones has
been added. Personal images (avatars) are now supported, as well as a
read-only mode. This release also contains many important bugfixes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[045] - sysstat for Solaris 20080704
by Thomas Maier-Komor (http://freshmeat.net/users/komor/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:36

System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: sysstat complements Solaris' system tools for performance analysis.
It presents all key performance metrics on a VT100 terminal and has the
possibility to toggle its view between different hosts.

Changes: This release adds fibre channel disk support and more precise
virtual memory per user usage information. It removes an invalid assert.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/solaris-sysstat/

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[046] - taim 1.0
by Kristopolous (http://freshmeat.net/users/kristopolous/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 05:56

Communications :: Chat

About: Taim utilizes Pidgin to make a simple Web based AIM client. This is
useful on a cellphone where you may have unlimited data, software
controlled by brew, and limited messaging. Care was taken to serve the
smallest set of HTML characters possible while still maintaining
functionality. It's also a bot that can potentially run arbitrary commands
on your system. After cleansing input in a specialized !script command,
your input gets passed off to a shell script on your system.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[047] - Tcl/Tk 8.5.3
by Andres Garcia (http://freshmeat.net/users/andresgarci/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:39

Software Development :: Embedded Systems
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Testing

About: Tcl provides a portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows,
and Macintosh that supports string processing and pattern matching, native
file system access, shell-like control over other programs, TCP/IP
networking, timers, and event-driven I/O. Tcl has traditional programming
constructs like variables, loops, procedures, namespaces, error handling,
script packages, and dynamic loading of DLLs. Tk provides portable GUIs on
UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh. A powerful widget set and the concise
scripting interface to Tk make it a breeze to develop sophisticated user
interfaces.

Changes: This release corrects unreliable [fcopy] callbacks and enables
bidirectional fcopy. It supports Tcl Module packages in a Safe Base interp.
Several crashes have been fixed. Tk is more robust when Tcl and Xlib
disagree about system encoding. Solaris support for DTrace and 64-bit has
been improved. Floating point rounding on Solaris/x86 has been fixed.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[048] - tproxy relay 1.0
by Kristopolous (http://freshmeat.net/users/kristopolous/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 05:57

Internet :: Proxy Servers
Software Development :: Testing
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: tproxy is a single threaded multiplexed proxy and a relay with
trigger and logging capabilities. Suppose your client-server application
has a server running on port 8000. If you modify the server to run on port
8001 and you put tproxy in the middle, it will relay all traffic from 8000
to 8001. Doing so makes tproxy function as a user level tap. tproxy lets
you increment debug counters so that you can use standard Unix tools to
trove through logs after the execution and testing time.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[049] - Units of measurement for Ada 2.8
by Dmitry Kazakov (http://freshmeat.net/users/kazakov/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 12:10

Scientific/Engineering

About: The library provides an implementation of dimensioned values for
Ada. Unit checks are made at run-time, if not optimized out by the
compiler. SI and irregular measurement units are supported. Shifted units
like degrees Celsius are supported too. Conversions from and back to
strings are provided for all various irregular units. An extensive set of
GTK widgets for dealing with dimensioned values is included, though use of
GTK is not mandatory for the rest of the library.

Changes: Conversion factors were verified and, when necessary, corrected.
The references to the sources are now provided in the documentation. The
irregular units dram, gill, and league were added. The SI derived unit
katal (kat) was added. The irregular unit candle was removed. Bq was moved
to derived SI units. The Unicode ounce sign is now supported for ounces. A
bug was fixed in Get_Value_As.

License: GNAT Modified GPL (GMGPL)

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

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[050] - Urpkg 1.4
by Sebastien Vasey (http://freshmeat.net/users/svasey/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 21:21

System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Systems Administration
Utilities

About: Urpkg is software to install programs in a safe and undoable way.
It is able to see what files any given installation command creates, and
list and remove them. You are able to restrict the installation command so
that it only writes where you allow it to, and does not overwrite files
from other packages. Urpkg is especially useful if you want to install
programs from source, or create binary packages in an automated way. Under
the hood, urpkg creates a user for each package it has to install, which
prevents the installation command from run with root privileges. It can be
seen as a "command tracer" that remembers what files a command created and
prevents it from doing forbidden things. It is written in C but relies on
some external commands, like GNU Find.

Changes: This release adds instructions to use urpkg to create Slackware
packages in the documentation. Urpkg can now install itself. Several
bugfixes and documentation clarifications were also made.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[051] - YaHP Converter 1.2.18c
by Quentin Anciaux (http://freshmeat.net/users/allcolor/)
Sun, Jul 6th 2008 23:42

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: YaHP is a Java library that allows you to convert an HTML document
into a PDF document.

Changes: Rendering of form components (textfield, textarea, combo,
radiobutton, checkbox, button, and listbox) in the flying saucer renderer.
Double encoding of &, <, and > has been corrected. HTML entities are
normalized before rendering. Known bug: header/footer rendering does not
works in headless mode for the flying saucer renderer. There are updated
samples and code cleanup.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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