Newsletter for Saturday, July 26th 2008

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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (17) :::

[001] - Apache Tomcat 6.0.16 (6.0.x)
[002] - awesome 2.3.3 
[003] - CFD General Notation System 2.5-3 
[004] - check_iax 1.0.0 
[005] - CommandCenter 1.0.8 
[006] - cpufreq daemon 2.3.0 
[007] - Griffith 0.9.7 
[008] - kaptcha 2.3 
[009] - Midi Music Flash Cards 1.0.1 
[010] - SPJson 0.1 
[011] - Tile Project 0.7.4 
[012] - transcode 1.0.6 
[013] - Virtualmin 3.61 
[014] - VVV 0.9 
[015] - XML-Grammar-Fortune 0.0101 
[016] - youtube-dl 2008.07.26 
[017] - Zoom Profiler 1.1.0 


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[001] - Apache Tomcat 6.0.16 (6.0.x)
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:14

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

About: The goal of the Apache Tomcat Project is to provide
commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform that are
developed in an open and cooperative fashion. Tomcat 3.x is an
implementation of the Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1
Specifications. Tomcat 4.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.3 and
JavaServer Pages 1.2 Specifications, and is a re-implementation of the
Tomcat servlet engine from the ground up. The current branch, Tomcat 5.x,
is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.4 and JavaServer Pages 2.0
specifications, with increased attention to scalability, reliability, and
management functionality.

Changes: Numerous bugfixes.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[002] - awesome 2.3.3 
  by Julien Danjou (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdanjou/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:20

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

About: awesome is a window manager for X. It manages windows in several
layout modes, such as tiled or floating. Each layout can be applied
dynamically. Windows can be grouped by tags, and each window can be tagged
with one or multiple tags, and each tag can have its own layout. 

Changes: This version fixes a bug when spawning dialog windows of
maximized windows.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - CFD General Notation System 2.5-3 
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 00:06

Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries

About: The CFD General Notation System (CGNS) provides a general,
portable, and extensible standard for the storage and retrieval of
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis data. CGNS is designed to
facilitate the exchange of data between sites and applications, and to help
stabilize the archiving of aerodynamic data.

License: zlib/libpng License

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

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[004] - check_iax 1.0.0 
  by Alex Samorukov (http://freshmeat.net/users/sammdev/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:21

Communications :: Internet Phone
Communications :: Telephony
System :: Diagnostics

About: check_iax is a Nagios plugin for checking IAX/IAX2 servers. It
sends IAX POKE requests to remote servers and waits for an IAX PONG reply.
It then sends an IAX ACK packet back. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[005] - CommandCenter 1.0.8 
  by Mohd Aika Abdullah (http://freshmeat.net/users/aeka78/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:12

System :: Shells
System :: Systems Administration
Terminals

About: CommandCenter is a tool for managing shell-based scripts with the
capability to remotely run them on any UNIX-like host over SSH. The output
of script runs can be viewed, appended to files, or saved.

License: Shareware

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

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[006] - cpufreq daemon 2.3.0 
  by mattia (http://freshmeat.net/users/mattia/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:14

Utilities

About: cpufreqd is meant to be a replacement of the speedstep applet found
in Windows. It monitors battery level, CPU usage, AC state, temperature
(sensors and ACPI), and running programs, and adjusts the frequency
governor according to a set of rules specified in the config file.

Changes: The sysfs ACPI interface is now used to read battery, AC, and
temperature data. Support for the deprecated /proc interface has been
dropped. Batteries are now also rescanned dynamically.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - Griffith 0.9.7 
  by iznogoud (http://freshmeat.net/users/_iznogoud_/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:22

Desktop Environment :: Gnome

About: Griffith is a film collection manager application. Adding items to
the movie collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and
selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the
related information from the Web. 

Changes: Fetching of posters from Amazon was fixed. Movie plugins for
DVDEmpire, Filmtipset, Filmweb, OFDb, and Zelluloid were updated. The HTML
and PDF export plugins were updated. Latvian and Ukrainian translations
were included, and other translations were updated. A few quick filter
combos were added. An advanced search function is not ready yet.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - kaptcha 2.3 
  by Jon S. Stevens (http://freshmeat.net/users/jons/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:13

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: kaptcha is a modern version of the SimpleCaptcha project. By
default it is very easy to setup and use and the default output produces a
captcha that is hard to bust and similar to the ones produced by Yahoo.com.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[009] - Midi Music Flash Cards 1.0.1 
  by Charles B. Cosse (http://freshmeat.net/users/asymptopia/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:14

Education
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI

About: Midi Music Flash Cards is a music sight-reading trainer. It
generates flashcards dynamically according to "modes" as specified through
a handful of menus across the top. In auto-mode it continuously generates
flashcards, with controllable time intervals between MIDI playback and a
further time interval between displaying written feedback about the key and
notes.

Changes: The program is now platform independent and runs in Linux,
Windows, and Mac OS X.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[010] - SPJson 0.1 
  by stephen (http://freshmeat.net/users/iunknown/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:17

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: SPJson is a simple stream-oriented JSON parser that supports
pull-model and DOM-model XML parsing. As the user passes it chunks of a
JSON document, it identifies objects, arrays, or other entities and returns
the appropriate event. Chunks can range from one byte to the whole JSON
document. Resulting DOM trees can be read, modified, and saved.

Changes: Pull-model and DOM-model JSON parsing was implemented.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[011] - Tile Project 0.7.4 
  by Greg Schenzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/inittab/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:30



About: Tile is a program that can tile windows on the desktop, either
vertically or horizontally. It can avoid screen elements based on window
manager "profiles" and "avoid" data that are user-customizable. It has been
mostly tested under MWM, but it also works with some multi-desktop window
managers [_WIN_WORKSPACE] like FluxBox and Oroborus, given the "-m" option,
or GNOME/Net-WM style WMs, given the "-w" option.

Changes: If run as "iconify", tile will minimize all windows ("Show
Desktop" for MS users). Debian and NetBSD packaging fixes were made. Output
messages were streamlined.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[012] - transcode 1.0.6 
  by Francesco Romani (http://freshmeat.net/users/fromani/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:20

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion

About: transcode is a text console video-stream processing tool. It
supports elementary video and audio frame transformations. Some example
modules are included to enable import of MPEG-1/2, Digital Video, and other
formats. It also includes export modules for writing to AVI files with
DivX, OpenDivX, XviD, Digital Video or other codecs. Direct DVD transcoding
is also supported. A set of tools is available to extract and decode the
sources into raw video/audio streams for import and to enable
post-processing of AVI files. 

Changes: Some typos in the documentation of filter_modfps,
filter_yuy2toyv12, and the man page were fixed. The af6 module now compiles
with the latest avifile. NUV code was backported from HEAD and build
problems were fixed. Experimental support for x86_64 was added, though x86
is preferred. filter_pv is now only built if HAVE_LIBXV is set.
Compatibility with the header layout of recent versions of the ffmpeg
library was achieved. libpostproc support now requires a newer layout. LZO
version 2 is now used.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - Virtualmin 3.61 
  by Jamie Cameron (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcameron/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 00:55

System :: Systems Administration

About: Virtualmin is a Webmin module that simplifies the  process of
setting up and managing virtual servers.  It can create Apache virtual
hosts, BIND DNS  domains, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, and  set up
Sendmail or Postfix to accept email for a  domain. It can also manage
mailboxes and mail  aliases within a domain. 

Changes: This version adds Webmail and admin DNS aliases to new domains, a
page for setting global variables for use in templates, support for editing
included domains in SPF records, Module Config options for a custom logo,
Dutch updates, and many other small features and bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - VVV 0.9 
  by Fulvio Senore (http://freshmeat.net/users/fsenore/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 12:30

System :: Archiving

About: VVV (Virtual Volumes View) is an application that catalogs the
content of removable volumes such as CD and DVD disks for off-line
searching. Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file
system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many
disks.

Changes: The program should now be able to correctly handle filenames
containing foreign characters. Support for localization was added. At the
moment only an Italian version is available: translators are welcome. The
ability to backup and restore a catalog was added along with the ability to
export data to a CSV file. The program's icons were changed to avoid
licensing problems with the Tango icons.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - XML-Grammar-Fortune 0.0101 
  by Shlomi Fish (http://freshmeat.net/users/shlomif/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 00:04

Artistic Software
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
Text Processing :: Markup :: XSL/XSLT

About: XML-Grammar-Fortune is a Perl/RelaxNG/XSLT module that allows one
to collect quotes using an XML grammar, with richer metadata, and to
produce XHTML and plain text (Unix-like fortune format) from them. 

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fortune-xml/

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[016] - youtube-dl 2008.07.26 
  by rg3 (http://freshmeat.net/users/rg3/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 00:06

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Video

About: youtube-dl is a small command-line program for downloading videos
from YouTube.com.

Changes: This release fixes a bug in the Unicode video title treatment,
and another one with output templates referencing absolute paths. The main
change is the program being able to download videos from metacafe.com and
YouTube playlists.

License: Public Domain

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/youtube-dl/

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[017] - Zoom Profiler 1.1.0 
  by RotateRight (http://freshmeat.net/users/rotateright/)
  Sat, Jul 26th 2008 00:06

Software Development
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
System :: Benchmark

About: Zoom is a low-overhead graphical and command line profiler for
Linux. A Zoom profile is system-wide, precise down to the instruction
level, and captures backtraces. This lets you see exactly what was running,
where time was spent, and how that code was called. Drill down into
critical code to get detailed performance data. Zoom analyzes and annotates
your code with specific tuning advice for many compilers and processors.
Share what you find with colleagues or archive it for later review. Zoom
saves profiles as a single, self-contained session file that can be emailed
or attached to bug reports. It also supports remote network profiling and
scripting.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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



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