Newsletter for Sunday, August 03rd 2008

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (39) :::

[001] - 'Q' DVD-Author 1.5.0
[002] - Absolute OS 12.1.06
[003] - AnotherScrapBook A.04.01.14
[004] - b64 1.3.3
[005] - bost 0.0.5
[006] - BoxMonster 1.0.0
[007] - BuGLe 0.0.20080803
[008] - cbrPager 0.9.19
[009] - cptutils 1.30
[010] - cryptmount 3.1beta1 (Testing)
[011] - CSS4J 0.10
[012] - Daikon 4.4.2
[013] - Deliantra Server 2.61
[014] - Digmia Enterprise SSH 1.1g
[015] - Fotoxx 5.0
[016] - fsniper 1.2
[017] - GNU Zile 2.2.61
[018] - image2mpeg 1.01
[019] - launch4j 3.0.1 (Stable)
[020] - launch4j 3.0.1 (Stable)
[021] - LinuxBIOS 2-3468
[022] - mms2web 1.0
[023] - mod-pop 0.1
[024] - OfflineIMAP 6.0.1
[025] - Partimage Is Not Ghost 2.01.14
[026] - Porte 0.2.0
[027] - Project-based Calendaring System 0.7.2
[028] - ptcap 3.2
[029] - pyliblo 0.7.1
[030] - QSvn 0.7.0
[031] - Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.01
[032] - Seed7 2008-08-03
[033] - Sound Converter 1.3.2
[034] - SVEditor 0.0.2
[035] - syren 0.0.6
[036] - The Frink Language 2008-08-02
[037] - uim 1.5.2
[038] - web2ldap 0.16.41
[039] - Wiaflos Accounting 0.0.10

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[001] - 'Q' DVD-Author 1.5.0
by 'Q' DVD-Author (http://freshmeat.net/users/QDVDAuthor/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:46

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Multimedia :: Video
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion

About: 'Q' DVD-Author is a GUI frontent for dvdauthor and related tools.
The goal is to provide an easy-to-use, yet powerful and complete interface
to generate DVD menus, slideshows, and videos to burn on a DVD under Linux.

Changes: DialogImages were added to create slideshows through the new
qrender executable and libffmpeg. libjhead was added to extract EXIF
information for automatic rotation. New plugins to create DVDs were added.
Lots of bugfixes and improvements were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[002] - Absolute OS 12.1.06
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:54

About: Absolute Linux is a lightweight Slackware derivative that uses an
Icewm, pcmanfm, ROX-Filer, ivman, and others to create a lightweight yet
easy to use distribution. Installation is text-based but simplified, and
all packages are installed at once. It can run on a Pentium MMX with 64MB
of RAM (PII 400 with 128MB recommended). It features ease of browsing any
connected device in pcmanfm and an auto-popup menu for inserted playable
media. "Restricted" codecs are available to those eligible via a root-user
installer. Along with CD2 there is a large range of software compiled on
and for Absolute, including OpenOffice, Mplayer, GIMP, and K3B.

Changes: The installer was rewritten. It now has an autosetup feature for
those who want to allow the installer to partition the hard drive and
install a bootloader (LILO) for them. Permissions on the Firefox startup
script (for Firefox-3.0.1) were fixed so that it runs for users properly.
Several packages were updated for security-related reasons.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/absolute-os/

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[003] - AnotherScrapBook A.04.01.14
by ewl (http://freshmeat.net/users/ewl/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 23:23

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation

About: AnotherScrapBook is a static Website generator. It can currently
handle (almost) all kinds of pictures, as well as MJPEG films as typically
generated by a digital camera.

Changes: M-JPEG and Dir files are no longer recreated if there are no
changes. There is a new option --list-configs to list already defined
configurations, and an option --show-config to list options defined in the
configuration chosen with the --config option.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[004] - b64 1.3.3
by Dr Proctor (http://freshmeat.net/users/DrProctor/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:58

About: b64 is a very small, simple, and efficient C library that provides
Base64 encoding and decoding according to RFC 1113. It has no dependencies
on any third-party libraries other than the C standard libary or operating
system services. It also comes with a flexible C++ API.

Changes: The printf format-specifier warning in example.2.c on 64-bit
Linux was fixed. The -Wno-long-double flag was removed from non-Mac GCC
makefiles. Makefiles were added for GCC 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and Visual C++ 9 (32
and 64-bit). The GCC-specific string access shim compile error has not yet
been fixed.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/b64/

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[005] - bost 0.0.5
by Patrik Lembke (http://freshmeat.net/users/blambi/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 14:52

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

About: bost is a DNS diagnostic tool for resolving IPs from hostnames and
hostnames from IPs. It performs double checks. It is useful for checking if
there are more IPs on a hostname. It can check IP ranges (CIDR).

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[006] - BoxMonster 1.0.0
by Volker Lanz (http://freshmeat.net/users/VolkerLanz/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 23:24

About: BoxMonster is a call monitor designed to work with the AVM
FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7170 and compatible models. It shows incoming and
outgoing calls as a balloon message in your desktop's system tray. It works
on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and modern Linux desktops like KDE or
GNOME.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - BuGLe 0.0.20080803
by Bruce Merry (http://freshmeat.net/users/bmerry/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 14:55

Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Libraries

About: BuGLe combines a graphical OpenGL debugger with a selection of
filters on the OpenGL command stream. The debugger allows viewing of state,
textures, framebuffers, and shaders, while the filters allow for logging,
error checking, free camera control, video capture, and more.

Changes: This release fixes several minor bugs, with most (but not all)
related to the OpenGL ES and Windows ports.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - cbrPager 0.9.19
by John (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcoppens/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:22

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Desktop Environment :: Theme :: Art
Desktop Environment :: Theme :: Cartoons

About: cbrPager is a no-nonsense, simple to use, small viewer for CBR,
CBZ, and CB7 (comic book archive) files. It views JPG, GIF, and PNG images,
and you can zoom in, out, and fit-to-window. Viewing can be in 1- or 2-page
mode. Navigation is possible by mouse or keyboard.

Changes: This release reads .cb7 archives. The magic signature of 7p
archives is actually 6 bytes long, so the archive type checking mechanism
has been changed. The code has been cleaned up a little. Adding new types
should be easier.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[009] - cptutils 1.30
by J.J. Green (http://freshmeat.net/users/jjgreen/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:08

Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: The cptutils package contains a number of utilities for the
manipulation of color gradients; mainly for translating between different
formats. Formats supported include ggr (GIMP gradient), cpt (GMT color
palette table), avl (Arcview Legend), lut (xmedcon), svg, and version 3 of
the grd format.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[010] - cryptmount 3.1beta1 (Testing)
by rwpenney (http://freshmeat.net/users/rwpenney/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:09

Security :: Cryptography
System :: Filesystems
System :: Systems Administration

About: cryptmount is a utility for creating and managing secure filing
systems on GNU/Linux systems. After initial setup, it allows any user to
mount or unmount filesystems on demand, solely by providing the decryption
password, with any system devices needed to access the filing system being
configured automatically. A wide variety of encryption schemes (provided by
the kernel dm-crypt system and the libgcrypt library) can be used to
protect both the filesystem and the access key. The protected filing
systems can reside in either ordinary files or disk partitions. The package
also supports encrypted swap partitions, and automatic configuration on
system boot-up.

Changes: Support for mounting encrypted filesystems created by
cryptsetup-luks was added. Mechanisms for changing passwords on LUKS
partitions were added. Methods for creating basic new LUKS partitions were
added.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[011] - CSS4J 0.10
by Genus Consulting (http://freshmeat.net/users/genus/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:52

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML

About: CSS4J is a Java library that implements the Document Object Model
CSS API and integrates it with the DOM4J package. Helper classes to format
iText PDF objects according to CSS are also provided.

Changes: A bug that prevented "border-<side>" shorthand properties from
being parsed correctly was fixed. A couple classes which have been removed
from JCLF 3.0 were included.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/css4j/

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[012] - Daikon 4.4.2
by Jeff Perkins (http://freshmeat.net/users/jhpnez/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:51

Documentation
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: Daikon is an implementation of dynamic detection of likely
invariants. An invariant is a property (such as "x=2*y+5" or
"this.next.prev = this" or "myarray is sorted by <") that holds at a
certain point or points in a program. Invariants are often seen in assert
statements, documentation, and formal specifications. Invariants can be
useful in program understanding and a host of other applications. Daikon
runs a program, observes the values that the program computes, and then
reports properties that were true over the observed executions. It can
detect properties in Java, C, C++, Perl, and IOA programs, in spreadsheet
files, and in other data sources.

Changes: Daikon's set of invariants and derived variables enabled by
default was changed to provide more relevant invariants. Configuration
options were added for some invariants. Bugs were fixed in Daikon and
Chicory.

License: Open Software License

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

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[013] - Deliantra Server 2.61
by Marc A. Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcg1/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:13

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: Deliantra is an advancement of the crossfire multi-user RPG game.
Unlike the original project, it focuses mainly on stability and
playability, but also adds modern technology such as map scripting, Perl
server extensions, asynchronous I/O, higher resolution graphics, and better
client support.

Changes: Further improvements on the jeweler skill. A crash bug in the
'observe' command has been fixed, and there are minor improvements and
bugfixes in the server distribution.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - Digmia Enterprise SSH 1.1g
by Juraj Bednar (http://freshmeat.net/users/jooray/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 23:35

Internet

About: DSSH was written as a direct replacement for the OpenSSH client. It
adds SSH over SSH tunneling capabilities (for example, to log in to a
network hidden by a firewall), scripting support (using Groovy), an
advanced agent (which allows storing of passwords) and "su -" interactive
logging for machines that have disabled direct root login. All of this was
done to enable automated scripting and logging to many machines based on a
few simple rules. It uses the Trilead SSH library (slightly patched).

Changes: This release adds scp mode by popular request (just add -s and it
should work as a normal scp command). Recursive mode is not yet supported.
It has been ported to the latest Trilead SSH library (which is a successor
of Ganymed SSH). It is the same code base, but package names have changed
and few features were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - Fotoxx 5.0
by kornelix (http://freshmeat.net/users/kornelix/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:50

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Raster-Based
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Fotoxx is a program for improving digital photos. It allows you to
navigate through large image directories using a window of thumbnail
images, create HDR (high dynamic range) images by combining bright and dark
images to improve details visible in both bright and dark areas, create
panoramas by joining overlapped images, adjust brightness and color
intensity independently for different underlying brightness levels, reduce
fog or haze by removing "whiteness" and intensifying colors, rotate an
image (level a tilted image or turn 90 degrees), remove red-eyes from
electronic flash photos, sharpen, resize, or crop images, reduce noise in
low-light photos, change color depth, and stretch an image by dragging the
mouse.

Changes: This release focuses on improvements in convenience and
usability. Scroll bars were added to more easily pan across large images.
Zoom in/out with toolbar buttons or left/right mouse buttons (zoom to the
mouse position). The +/- keys can also be used for zoom. Slide show mode
was added to the menu, and several control functions were mapped to the
keyboard. Select Area is now a separate dialog that can be used parallel
with relevant edit dialogs to edit a mouse-outlined section of the image.
The user guide was converted from PDF to HTML.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[016] - fsniper 1.2
by Andrew Yates (http://freshmeat.net/users/andrewyates/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:11

Utilities

About: fsniper is a tool that monitors a given set of directories for new
or modified files. Then, based on the file's type or name, it invokes a
script to be run on that file. Directories are monitored using inotify,
instead of simply continuously polling them for changes. Common uses
include making a single download directory for all things from a Web
browser and having semi-intelligent scripts figure out what to do with
those files. You write the scripts yourself.

Changes: This release automatically watches new directories created in
recursively watched directories, and fixes a configuration file parsing
regression that resulted in comments causing crashes.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[017] - GNU Zile 2.2.61
by Reuben Thomas (http://freshmeat.net/users/rrt/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 23:32

Text Editors
Text Editors :: Emacs

About: GNU Zile (Zile is Lossy Emacs) is a small, fast, and powerful Emacs
clone. It is useful for small footprint installations (e.g. on floppy disk)
or quick editing sessions.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[018] - image2mpeg 1.01
by Christian Lorenz (http://freshmeat.net/users/gromeck/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:11

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation

About: image2mpeg is a tool to convert digital photos (or any other
images) into MPEG video streams, with transitions between the images. The
photo stream may be accompanied with music (or any other audio stream). The
resulting slideshow may be prepared for VCD, SVCD, or DVD playback in
stand-alone players, or the MPEG videos may be converted into FLV (Flash
Videos). The type of transition can be selected for each image separately
from a set of fade, slide, roll, etc.

Changes: Building with ImageMagick (libMagick/libMagickCore) has been
fixed. A problem with command line passing has been fixed. A problem with
16-bit RGB input images has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/image2mpeg/

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[019] - launch4j 3.0.1 (Stable)
by Grzegorz Kowal (http://freshmeat.net/users/grzegok/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:06

Software Development :: Build Tools
System :: Software Distribution Tools

About: Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications
distributed as jars in Windows native executables. The executable can be
configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and
it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The
wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a
native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download
page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found. The increase in size of
the application is small.

Changes: Support for 64-bit Windows, 64-bit JRE, and IBM JRE was added. A
Java runtime preference option was introduced. It is now possible to set
the initial process priority and allow running only a single instance of
the application. Dynamic initial and maximum heap sizes were added. The
error reporting was redesigned and now supports custom messages. The
runtime logging produces more detailed output. Various bugs were fixed, and
the license was changed to a less restrictive one.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/launch4j/

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[020] - launch4j 3.0.1 (Stable)
by Grzegorz Kowal (http://freshmeat.net/users/grzegok/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:06

Software Development :: Build Tools
System :: Software Distribution Tools

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/launch4j/

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[021] - LinuxBIOS 2-3468
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 23:30

System :: Boot

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

Changes: This release adds support for SMSC SIO10N268, FDC37N971, and
FDC37N972 SuperIO chips and the Winbond W83697HF SuperIO chip. It adds
support for the Winbond W39V040C and MSI K8T Neo2-F flash ROMs. It adds
memory initialization support for the AMD Fam10 B3. A bug with Intel
multi-core support has been fixed. There are numerous bugfixes and code
cleanups.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - mms2web 1.0
by Andreas Utterberg (http://freshmeat.net/users/andutt/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:24

About: mms2web.pl is a simple Perl program that extracts pictures from
mail files and publishes them on, for example, a Web server. The mail or
MMS sent to the mail address/mail folder is separated into different
sections on the Web server based on a tagging system. This gives you the
ability to create profile/user based sections in your Web space where users
can send content from email or cell phones that can be automatically
published.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mms2web/

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[023] - mod-pop 0.1
by eneville (http://freshmeat.net/users/eneville/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 23:28

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: mod-pop is a simple Apache 2 module to provide POP (Post Office
Protocol) authentication for restricting site access to users who can
provide valid POP credentials.

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod-pop/

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[024] - OfflineIMAP 6.0.1
by John Goerzen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jgoerzen/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:47

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP

About: OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify email reading. It allows you to
read the same mailbox from multiple computers and ensures that your changes
will be automatically reflected on all computers. You can use various mail
clients to read a single box or read mail while offline with full
synchronization when you reconnect. You can read IMAP mail with readers
that lack IMAP support (same goes for SSL). OfflineIMAP's multithreaded
synchronization algorithm performs between 10 and 60 times faster than many
mail readers' internal IMAP support, and it can be used even with mail
readers that support IMAP already. There are five available user interface
modules, including scripted execution, an interactive terminal interface,
and GUI interfaces.

Changes: Support for SSL client certs was added. The ability to disable
fsyncing was added. The power profile was reduced.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - Partimage Is Not Ghost 2.01.14
by Natan (http://freshmeat.net/users/natan770/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:59

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

About: Partimage Is Not Ghost (PING) is a live Linux ISO based on LFS
(Linux From Scratch). It can be burnt on a CD and booted, or integrated in
a PXE/RIS environment. Several tools that make it the perfect choice for
easily backing up and restoring whole partitions are included. It supports
backups to and from SMB shares, backup of BIOS data, the ability to blank
the local admin's password, creation of bootable restoration DVDs, the
ability to partition and format a disk before installing Windows, and more.

Changes: The Linux kernel was upgraded to 2.6.26. It is now possible to
have restorations of locally-stored images automatically. Several minor
fixes were done.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - Porte 0.2.0
by wdavidw (http://freshmeat.net/users/wdavidw/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 23:27

Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: Porte is a framework designed to save time and to simplify the
development of relational database applications written in PHP. It saves
you from writing repetitive SQL to interact between your objects and the
database. It can retrieve, search, and save objects without a single line
of SQL.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[027] - Project-based Calendaring System 0.7.2
by Roalt Zijlstra (http://freshmeat.net/users/roaltzijl/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:43

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: Project-Based Calendaring System (PBCS) is an open source Web-based
calendaring system, designed to be a useful tool for project managers or
project planners. It allows users to have appointments of multiple people
in one overview, making it easy to plan appointments for projects in the
future. There are special overviews to see all appointments at once for a
week or a month. There is also a section to add notes or reminders.

Changes: HTML 4.01 validity was improved, fixing problems with the User
Picker and the User&Group manager. A Portuguese translation was added. The
installer was greatly improved, so it should install better, configure
better, and there should be no blank screens after you log in. PBCS should
now cleanly install on Microsoft Windows using Apache and PHP5.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - ptcap 3.2
by Rob Fowler (http://freshmeat.net/users/mianos/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 10:11

Database
Internet :: Log Analysis
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: ptcap is a Unix daemon that captures traffic packet size, source,
destination, and times and saves this data into a native Postgres or ODBC
database in near real time, from which traffic reports may be made. It does
not save the actual data or headers. It works on ethX or cooked devices
like ppp0. It uses Postgres embedded SQL to insert the data, pcap to
capture traffic, and pthreads to capure and write at the same time. Pcap
filters can be specified on the command line. Logs go to syslog.

Changes: The database interface has been completely rewritten to use
libodbc++ and support ODBC. PostgreSQL and MySQL have been tested and the
new schema is provided (as well as example odbc.ini files). Work is ongoing
to support native PostgreSQL again with a configure argument. The project
host has been moved to SourceForge and a subversion repository has been
started.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - pyliblo 0.7.1
by Dominic Sacré (http://freshmeat.net/users/sacred/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 23:26

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
System :: Networking

About: pyliblo is a Python wrapper for the liblo OSC library. It supports
almost the complete functionality of liblo, allowing you to send and
receive OSC messages using a nice and simple Python API.

Changes: This release adds man pages for the send_osc and dump_osc
scripts.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - QSvn 0.7.0
by oszine (http://freshmeat.net/users/oszine/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 15:32

Software Development
Software Development :: Version Control

About: QSvn is a cross platform GUI Subversion client for Linux, Unix, Mac
OS X, and Windows.

Changes: This version supports Subversion-Merge. Accordingly, there are
some minor new features, changes, and fixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qsvn-qtbasedsubversiongui/

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[031] - Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.01
by alxtoth (http://freshmeat.net/users/alxtoth/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:48

About: Reverse Snowflake Joins is a tool that parses SQL Select statements
and generates a diagram. In addition to joins, the diagram shows parts of
the underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For example x=30, GROUP BY
(year), SUM(profit), HAVING MIN(age) > 18.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[032] - Seed7 2008-08-03
by Thomas Mertes (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomas_mertes/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:25

Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters

About: Seed7 is a general purpose programming language. It is a higher
level language compared to Ada, C++, and Java. In Seed7, new statements and
operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type
parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object
orientation is used when it brings advantages and not in places when other
solutions are more obvious. Although Seed7 contains several concepts of
other programming languages, it is generally not considered as a direct
descendant of any other programming language.

Changes: The charsets.s7i library was renamed to chartype.s7i. A new
charsets.s7i library, with 44 codepages and an encoding.s7i library, was
added. The functions getWord, getQuotedText, getHttpSymbol,
getSymbolOrComment, getSymbol, getXmlTagOrContent, and getSymbolInHtmlTag
were added or improved. Two 'for' loops and the functions str, lpad0,
striToUtf8, utf8ToStri, and toInt were added to seed7_05.s7i. The compiler
was improved to generate better code. Now the actions STR_APPEND, STR_CAT,
and STR_HEAD use strings with capacity. The functions socClose, socGetc,
socLineRead, and socWordRead were improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/seed7/

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[033] - Sound Converter 1.3.2
by Gautier Portet (http://freshmeat.net/users/kassoulet/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 15:34

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion

About: Sound Converter is a simple sound converter application for the
GNOME environment. It reads anything the GStreamer library can read, and
writes WAV, FLAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis files.

Changes: This release adds AAC encoding support. It uses the gstreamer gio
source when available. Create-folders is also activated when using
same-as-input-folder. Slashes in tags have been fixed (no more creating
unwanted folders). This is just a fast hack: slashes are just replaced by
dashes. A crash when gnomevfssink is not present hsa been fixed. A small
crash in batch mode has been fixed. The Polish translation has been
updated.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[034] - SVEditor 0.0.2
by Matthew Ballance (http://freshmeat.net/users/mballance/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:55

About: SVEditor is an Eclipse-based editor for SystemVerilog files.
Coloring of SystemVerilog keywords and extraction and display of structural
elements is supported.

License: Eclipse Public License

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

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[035] - syren 0.0.6
by Ketmar (http://freshmeat.net/users/ketmar/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:56

About: syren is a CLI file downloader somewhat similar to wget and aria2c.
It features support for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP, resumable downloads, HTTP
proxy support (including CONNECT mode for HTTPS), LISP scripting support, a
small reusable downloader library, a small, reusable, and fast LISP
interpreter library, predictable console output suitable for parsing by
frontends, cookie support, easy changing of UserAgent and Referer fields,
POST method support, and more.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - The Frink Language 2008-08-02
by Alan Eliasen (http://freshmeat.net/users/eliasen/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 09:59

Education
Internet
Scientific/Engineering

About: Frink is a calculating tool and programming language designed to
help you in the real world. It tracks units of measurement throughout all
calculations and ensures that answers are correct. It converts between
systems of measurement and has a huge library of physical data. It handles
conversions between time zones, currencies, and historical values of the
U.S. dollar and the British pound, translates between several languages,
does date/time math, and more.

Changes: This release fixes the calculation of Julian day for B.C. dates.
In addition, the handling of the switch between the Julian and the
Gregorian calendar was made more consistent. This enables proper date/time
math for dates in the distant past. If performing analysis with dates
before 1583, updating is strongly recommended. Several astronomy libraries
were also improved, and functions to control output format were added.

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[037] - uim 1.5.2
by Etsushi Kato (http://freshmeat.net/users/ekato/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 10:01

Software Development :: Internationalization
Software Development :: Libraries

About: uim is a multilingual input method framework. It aims to provide a
flexible development platform and useful user environment for input
methods. It works in many environments, including general desktop systems
such as GNOME or KDE, and even in a console. It also supports Linux Zaurus
and Mac OS X.

Changes: This release contains critical fixes for the emacs client
(uim.el) user and miscellaneous minor fixes.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uim-inputmethod/

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[038] - web2ldap 0.16.41
by Michael Stroeder (http://freshmeat.net/users/stroeder/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 21:19

Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
System :: Networking :: LDAP

About: web2ldap is a full-featured Web-based LDAPv3 client written in
Python. It is designed to run either as with stand-alone built-in Web
server or under the control of another Web server with FastCGI support
(e.g. Apache with mod_fastcgi). It has support for various LDAPv3 bind
methods and a powerful built-in schema browser. HTML templates are
supported for displaying and editing entries, and LDIF templates can be
used for quickly adding new entries. A built-in X.509 parser displays a
detailed view of certificates and CRLs with active links.

Changes: Redirects to arbitrary URLs are only allowed with a valid session
ID. There are various small enhancements for plugin classes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web2ldap/

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[039] - Wiaflos Accounting 0.0.10
by Nigel Kukard (http://freshmeat.net/users/nkukard/)
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 10:00

Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
Office/Business :: Financial :: Point-Of-Sale
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Wiaflos Accounting is an attempt to create a multi-platform
server-client based accounting system. The goal is to have a central
accounting engine which can either run on a dedicated server or on the same
PC as the client interface. A SOAP API allows for the easy writing of GUI
or Web interfaces or for tying into in-house systems. It is intended to be
useful for everyone from single-person organizations to multinational
corporate entities.

Changes: A few bugs were fixed in supplier credit notes. The ability to
link an inventory item to a GL expense was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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