Newsletter for Sunday, August 10th 2008

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (50) :::

[001] - AgileWiki 3-4 (Element Model)
[002] - Atomic Tanks 3.1 (Stable)
[003] - Box 0.1, alpha20080809
[004] - Brain Workshop 1.9
[005] - Conquest 8.4
[006] - cpufrequtils 005
[007] - crosstool-NG 1.2.1
[008] - Docx to Text 0.1
[009] - Early Macintosh Image LoadEr 0.12
[010] - EmForge 0.25
[011] - Geomyidae 0.12
[012] - GNU Smalltalk 3.0.4 (Stable)
[013] - GNU Smalltalk 3.0c (Development)
[014] - HylaFAX 5.2.7
[015] - Internet DJ Console 0.7.9
[016] - ispCP Omega 1.0.0 RC6
[017] - Jaikoz 2.5.2
[018] - JCR 0.6.3
[019] - JShot 0.9.8.2a
[020] - Lynis 1.1.9
[021] - Mylene 7.20080808
[022] - MySQL 5.0.67 (Production (5.0.x))
[023] - NexentaStor 1.0.6
[024] - nmr-relax 1.2.14 (Stable)
[025] - Ogg Video Tools 0.5
[026] - onPHP 1.0.6 (Current)
[027] - Open Administration for Schools 3.25
[028] - OVal 1.30
[029] - Paintown 3.1
[030] - PDFResurrect 0.04
[031] - phpMyAdmin 3.0.0-alpha (Development)
[032] - Poldi 0.4
[033] - poppler 0.8.5 (Stable)
[034] - rdup 0.6.1
[035] - RegLookup 0.9.0
[036] - SIPVicious 0.2.4
[037] - Spectro-Edit 0.2
[038] - svninfo 0.7.3
[039] - TEA for Linux 19.0.4
[040] - ThinkUI SQL Client 1.0.8
[041] - TinTin++ 1.98.4
[042] - TiP 0.3.0
[043] - Userful Desktop Swordfish 291
[044] - Video Conference Flash Plugins 0.4
[045] - virt-mem 0.2.9
[046] - Workrave 1.9.0
[047] - wsdlpull 1.20
[048] - Xfprot 1.25
[049] - Xtables-addons 1.5.5
[050] - Zindus 0.7.10

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

[001] - AgileWiki 3-4 (Element Model)
by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 19:02

Database
Documentation
Information Management

About: AgileWiki is meant to create software systems which are fluid,
easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing
requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming
paradigm, and semantic inferencing.

Changes: Services must now register for the service requests they can
process. Framework services are no longer distinguished from other services
and are fully extensible. Service requests now replace many of the
operations and events in Browse and RsBrowse.

License: Common Public License

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

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[002] - Atomic Tanks 3.1 (Stable)
by Slicer (http://freshmeat.net/users/slicer/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 23:06

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy

About: Atanks is a multi-platform Scorched Earth clone similar to the
Worms series of games. Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend
it on bigger and better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition. It
features a wide array of weapons, AI players, destructible landscape,
weather, parachutes, teleports and a wide range of other features.

Changes: This release fixes a few bugs that caused crashes when trying to
load/start games. Some work was done to make the game work better with
Windows. Optionally, shots can now be set with time limits to speed up game
play.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - Box 0.1, alpha20080809
by Matteo Franchin (http://freshmeat.net/users/fnch/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 14:58

Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Interpreters

About: Box is a programming language that puts special emphasis on
graphics. It is intended to be for vector graphics what LaTeX is for
writing scientific documents.

Changes: Improved text placing and formatting capabilities. Extension of
the Window.Save method: it can take a window and complete it (if it is
incomplete) or put the figure into it (if it is complete). A man page and
Ubuntu package. The source has been ported to Windows. Colors in HSV
components and RGB-HSV conversion. Linear or radial color gradients (see
Gradient[]). You can draw polygons with borders, controlling the join
style, cap style, dashes, and color. Style can be used to draw empty
polygons. In this case, the border is not closed in Poly unless
Poly.Close[] is used.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[004] - Brain Workshop 1.9
by radix (http://freshmeat.net/users/radix42/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:58

Education
Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Games/Entertainment

About: Brain Workshop is an implementation of the Dual N-Back mental
exercise. This exercise is the only mental activity that is scientifically
proven to improve your short-term memory and fluid intelligence (IQ). The
game involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of
positions of a square at the same time. Brain Workshop includes an optional
Triple N-Back mode that introduces differently colored squares as a third
stimulus.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Conquest 8.4
by Jon Trulson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jont/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 09:59

Games/Entertainment :: Real Time Strategy
Internet

About: conquest is a real-time multi-player space warfare game originally
written in ratfor for the vax/vms platform. It was an early predecessor to
netrek.

Changes: This is a fairly big revision. Several significant enhancements
were made and some serious bugs were fixed. A lot of internal cleanup was
done as well.

License: Artistic License

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

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[006] - cpufrequtils 005
by Dominik Broodwski (http://freshmeat.net/users/brodo/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 19:03

System :: Hardware

About: The cpufrequtils package consists of a library which offers an
unified access method for userspace tools and programs to the CPU frequency
and voltage scaling (cpufreq) subsystem in the Linux kernel, the
"cpufreq-info" and "cpufreq-set" tools to determine and set cpufreq
settings, and debug tools helpful if frequency scaling doesn't work as
expected.

Changes: The cpufrequtils library can again rely on the (deprecated) proc
interface to the Linux kernel cpufreq subsystem. Furthermore, the cpufreq
mailing list changed, so update the address where bug reports are sent.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - crosstool-NG 1.2.1
by Yann E. MORIN (http://freshmeat.net/users/integrator/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 15:06

Software Development
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Embedded Systems

About: crosstool-NG is a versatile toolchain generator, aiming at being
highly configurable. It supports multiple target architectures, different
components (glibc/uClibc...) and versions. crosstool-NG also features
debugging utilities (DUMA, strace...) and generation tools (sstrip...).

Changes: menuconfig builds on POSIX-compliant shells (e.g. dash on
Ubuntu). Saving tarballs locally now works when downloads are forced. An
error message is printed only once (in the top-level shell). The restart
functionality works again. All target libraries are in the sysroot (this
should fix building 64-bit code). The populate script is now relocatable.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/crosstool-ng/

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[008] - Docx to Text 0.1
by Sandeep Kumar (http://freshmeat.net/users/idiotkid/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 23:05

Text Editors :: Word Processors
Text Processing :: General

About: The Docx to Text project aims at generating equivalent text files
from Microsoft .docx document files, preserving as much formatting and
document information as possible along with appropriate character
conversions for a good text experience.

Changes: This initial release attempts to handle the following features
during text extraction: horizontal ruler, line breaks, paragraph
separation, and tabs; nested list formatting (naive); capitalization of
text blocks; and character conversion (" ' < & > - etc.).

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/docx2txt/

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[009] - Early Macintosh Image LoadEr 0.12
by Laurent Vivier (http://freshmeat.net/users/lvivier/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 23:10

System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: Floppy-Based

About: Early Macintosh Image LoadEr (EMILE) makes it possible to boot
linux-m68k from a floppy on a Macintosh such as a Mac II. It can be used
to create rescue disks or remove the MacOS partition (required by the
legacy penguin booter) from your hard drive.

Changes: This release adds multi-boot and ext2 support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - EmForge 0.25
by Alexey Kakunin (http://freshmeat.net/users/akakunin/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 23:09

Office/Business :: Groupware
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion

About: EmForge is a J2EE-based integrated solution for managing a software
development process. It is designed to provide a solution for software
development teams that is both easy to use and flexible. It features
integration of wiki-based documentation, workflow-based task management,
and subversion-based version control. It is easy to integrate with other
systems and technologies. It allows administrators and managers to flexibly
set up different kinds of processes for different projects.

Changes: A Windows installer package is provided. Support for MyLyn 3.0
(used in Eclipse 3.4), MS SQL, and the Geronimo J2EE server was added.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[011] - Geomyidae 0.12
by Zwansch (http://freshmeat.net/users/Zwansch/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:53

Internet
System :: Networking

About: Geomyidae is a generic daemon for the Gopher protocol written in C.
It supports dynamic content, logging, privilege separation, and automated
file/directory indexing.

Changes: The group handling was changed to not be a major security flaw.

License: Public Domain

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

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[012] - GNU Smalltalk 3.0.4 (Stable)
by Paolo Bonzini (http://freshmeat.net/users/bonzini/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 10:03

Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries

About: GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80
language.

Changes: A few operations on collections have been sped up. Code without a
space between a binary minus and a number, such as "a-2", is parsed
correctly. Sockets use the close-on-exec option. Bugs were fixed regarding
pipes, FIFO files, nested exception handlers, virtual filesystems, HTTP,
bytecode optimization, Stream iteration, and the Windows port.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - GNU Smalltalk 3.0c (Development)
by Paolo Bonzini (http://freshmeat.net/users/bonzini/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 10:06

Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries

About: GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80
language.

Changes: Error backtraces include line numbers and filenames.
FileDescriptor is now a subclass of Stream, and the old superclass
ByteStream has been removed. Some functions exported by the VM to plugin
modules are now thread-safe. Stream operations try to eliminate useless
copies and garbage collections when moving data from stream to stream.
Support for imports was added to namespaces. The sockets package was
renamed from TCP to Sockets as it now supports IPv6 and AF_UNIX sockets (in
the Sockets package). Bindings to OpenGL and GLUT were contributed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - HylaFAX 5.2.7
by Lee Howard (http://freshmeat.net/users/faxguy/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:39

Communications :: Fax

About: HylaFAX is a fax and paging system for Unix. It supports sending
facsimile, receiving facsimile, polled retrieval of facsimile, transparent
shared data use of the modem and sending alpha-numeric pages. The software
is structured around a client-server architecture. Fax modems may reside on
a single machine on a network and clients can submit outbound jobs from any
machine that can communicate with the machine on which the modems reside.
An access control mechanism is included to control which users on which
machines may access a server.

Changes: This release improves faxq's FIFO parsing resiliancy. It invokes
SetupPrivateTmp from notify, faxrcvd, and pollrcvd.

License: Freely Distributable

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

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[015] - Internet DJ Console 0.7.9
by Stephen Fairchild (http://freshmeat.net/users/psoriasis/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:47

About: Internet DJ console is a graphical shoutcast/icecast client that
runs under GTK+ and the JACK audio connection kit. In short, it's an
Internet radio app for making a live radio show or podcast. Features
include two main media players with a crossfader, a jingle player,
microphone signal processing (compressor and noise gate), IRC track
announcements with X-Chat, an automatic stream shut-off timer, MP3 or Ogg
streaming and recording at various bit rates, aux input for connecting
external JACK aware applications, and audio level meters.

Changes: A new auto-reconnect mechanism has been added to handle
connection failures. The FAAD2 dependency has been dropped, and a Libmp4v2
dependency added. Header file handling for ffmpeg has been improved. A
midpoint marker has been added to the crossfader. A crossfader response
curve selector has been added. New crossfader centering buttons have been
added. A metadata source selector has been added. Handling of poorly
terminated Ogg streams has been improved. IDJC now runs properly when the
LANG environment variable is unset.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - ispCP Omega 1.0.0 RC6
by RomanSoldier (http://freshmeat.net/users/romansoldier/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 06:35

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
System :: Systems Administration

About: ispCP Omega is a powerful Web hosting control panel. It should be
usable by any Internet service provider (ISP). This Omega release is based
on the original VHCS, an open source project, but is greatly enhanced in
terms of security and usability.

Changes: The INSTALL file was updated. PHPmyAdmin was upgraded to
2.11.8.1. Email messages for subdomains and aliases were not removed when a
reseller or admin removed a parent domain. Protected areas are not working.
The administrator password created by setup is truncated at 8 characters.
File names were changed. An admin or reseller cannot delete a user that
does not have a database. PHP4 support was dropped. Session files for the
master domain are not removed. CHECK_FOR_UPDATES was added in ispcp.conf. A
maximum email size was added. Many more changes were made.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ispcp-omega/

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[017] - Jaikoz 2.5.2
by paul taylor (http://freshmeat.net/users/paultaylor1/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 15:04

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors

About: Jaikoz is a powerful tag editor that allows you to organize, edit,
and correct thousands of audio tags with ease. Jaikoz has powerful
automation features. Jaikoz uses MusicBrainz and MusicIP, online databases
of over 5 million songs, which can match your songs automtically based on
the actual music as well as the metadata. Jaikoz uses a convenient
spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information very quickly and provides
many autoformatting tasks which do most of the work for you.

Changes: This release fixes an issue that was preventing Tag From
Musicbrainz from working correctly.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jaikozmp4tagger/

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[018] - JCR 0.6.3
by John Dickson (http://freshmeat.net/users/captsens/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:45

Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: JCR is a Web application for performing and managing formal code
reviews. Although it has some special logic for reviewing Java projects, it
can be used for reviews of any type of source code. JCR manages all stages
of the review process (initial project setup, individual review, joint
review meeting, post-review tidy-up), but it's mainly there to show diff
views of files that have changed and to allow comments to be made on any
line of any file marked for review.

Changes: Several changes have been made to handle installation issues
caused by changes to third party libraries since the last release, so if
you have had problems installing 0.6.2, try this version. There have also
been minor usability improvements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - JShot 0.9.8.2a
by zeroflag (http://freshmeat.net/users/zeroflag/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 15:02

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors

About: JShot is a screen capture and uploader utility which allows you to
capture a part of your screen and publish it in one step. It lets you
upload your screenshot to an FTP server or image hosting server, or send it
to an Instant Messaging partner. It copies the link of your screenshot to
the clipboard, so you can publish your shot in one step. It is possible to
extend the functionality of JShot by installing plugins. JShot also has
drawing and image editing functionalities. It supports drawing shapes on
the picture, cropping, rotating, text annotation, etc.

Changes: Active window capture works on Vista. A Selection: Out of bounds
error is fixed. The "start with empty window" option is fixed. Opening with
an external editor is fixed on Linux. Convolution effects do not create a
black border around the picture. The Link frame closes itself. A recent
uploads menu is added. An initial browser startup issue is fixed. Opening
screenshots is fixed on Linux. A profile refreshing issue is fixed on
Linux. Icon size is calculated according to the current platform. Temporary
files are stored in the JSHOT_HOME/tmp directory.

License: Freeware

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

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[020] - Lynis 1.1.9
by M. Boelen (http://freshmeat.net/users/MBoelen/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:45

Security :: Forensics
System :: Diagnostics

About: Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the
system configuration and creates an overview of system information and
security issues usable by professional auditors.

Changes: This release adds several new tests for the AppArmor framework,
FreeBSD boot loader, PHP options, and networking. It also has several small
improvements and a few bugfixes. Logging is improved and several tests have
been extended.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[021] - Mylene 7.20080808
by Ciprian Niculescu (http://freshmeat.net/users/x1f42/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:49

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

About: Mylene is a command line MPEG audio player. It can play plain and
system embedded MPEG audio streams. It works for Linux OSS and ALSA
emulated OSS and Mac OS X. The player can be used interactively by telling
it to establish a UNIX or INET server on which commands can be received.
The seek-h262 MPEG decoder is required for audio and system MPEG decoding.

Changes: An ID3 based file selection bug was fixed. A Mac OS X playback
bug was fixed. Some more simple file section criteria has been added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - MySQL 5.0.67 (Production (5.0.x))
by Patrick Lenz (http://freshmeat.net/users/scoop/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 15:02

Database :: Database Engines/Servers

About: MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a
client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and
many different client programs/libraries.

Changes: To enable stricter control over the location from which
user-defined functions can be loaded, the plugin_dir system variable has
been backported from MySQL 5.1. The FEDERATED storage engine is now
disabled by default in the .cnf files shipped with MySQL distributions.
Because NDB_LE_MemoryUsage.page_size_kb shows memory page sizes in bytes
rather than kilobytes, it has been renamed to page_size_bytes. Some changes
were made to CHECK TABLE ... FOR UPGRADE and REPAIR TABLE with respect to
detection and handling of tables with incompatible .frm files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[023] - NexentaStor 1.0.6
by Erast Benson (http://freshmeat.net/users/Erast/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 06:38

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

About: NexentaStor leverages the ZFS file system and is optimized for use
in 2nd-tier NAS and iSCSI applications requiring open, low cost, high
performance storage as well as dramatically simplified provisioning,
expansion, backup, replication, and archiving. It is also used as a primary
NAS in businesses that wish to expand at closer to commodity pricing. It
supports unlimited snapshots, snapshot mirroring (replication), block level
mirroring, integrated search, and easy management of extremely large
storage pools.

Changes: HTTPS Web GUI improvements were made. Windows SDK and client
authentication were fixed. Integration with the Amanda backup system and a
plugin were added. NMC client key management was implemented. The
automounter was fixed for rsync+nfs:// tiering. Many bugfixes and code
cleanups were done all over.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[024] - nmr-relax 1.2.14 (Stable)
by Edward d'Auvergne (http://freshmeat.net/users/dauvergne/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:54

Scientific/Engineering

About: relax is a program designed for the study of the dynamics of
proteins or other macromolecules though the analysis of NMR relaxation
data. It supports exponential curve fitting for the calculation of the R1
and R2 relaxation rates, calculation of the NOE, reduced spectral density
mapping, and the Lipari and Szabo model-free analysis.

Changes: This release fixes minor bugs in the consistency testing analysis
and the compilation of the C modules in Windows when using Python 2.5. The
relax manual has also had a minor facelift.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nmr-relax/

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[025] - Ogg Video Tools 0.5
by Yorn (http://freshmeat.net/users/yorn/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 14:59

Desktop Environment :: Tools
Multimedia :: Video

About: The Ogg Video Tools is a toolbox for manipulating Ogg video files,
which usually consist of a video stream (Theora) and an audio stream
(Vorbis). It includes a number of handy command line tools for manipulating
these video files, such as for splitting the different streams.

Changes: This version includes, beside minor bugfixes, an update for gcc
3.4 and a major cleanup in the configure script. A documentation file for
detailed information of the tools has been added, and the doxygen source
code documentation has been started.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - onPHP 1.0.6 (Current)
by voxus (http://freshmeat.net/users/voxus/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 10:06

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: onPHP is an object-oriented framework aimed at rapid development of
scalable robust applications with outstanding code reusability level. It
also provides code generation tools to save your time, and a PHP extension
(module) to save the CPU time of your servers.

Changes: A new scalable transparent DAO worker was ported from the trunk.
Lots of optimizations and bugfixes were made.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[027] - Open Administration for Schools 3.25
by Les Richardson (http://freshmeat.net/users/richl/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 06:39

Education

About: Open Administration for Schools (OAfS) is a Web-based school
administration package. Open Admin does demographics, attendance,
discipline, report cards, and has an online gradebook and parent viewing
function. It is designed for elementary, K-12, and small high schools. It
generates plain HTML and uses LaTeX for PDF generation. It also includes
special education and division-wide central office modules (all schools run
on the same server with different virtual sites; two sites per school, one
for teachers, and one for the office). Parent functions are by separate
parent/school site.

Changes: IEP was rewritten for translation and improved entry, including
session management. Teacher password policies were added to support teacher
site access controls. Transcript system improvements were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - OVal 1.30
by seb (http://freshmeat.net/users/sebthom/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 19:06

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing

About: OVal is a pragmatic and extensible validation framework for any
kind of Java objects (not only JavaBeans). Constraints can be configured
with annotations, POJOs, or XML. Custom constraints can be expressed in
pure Java or by using scripting languages such as JavaScript, Groovy, or
BeanShell. Besides simple object validation, OVal provides certain
Programming by Contract features. They can easily be enabled by using the
provided AspectJ aspects.

Changes: A constraint check exclusion feature that can be used for
fine-grained deactivation of constraints has been added. @MatchPattern can
now match against multiple patterns. Constraint configuration XSD has been
added as a replacement for the DTD. ConstraintViolation now provides more
details about the violated constraint (checkName, messageVariables, and
messageTemplate). Support has been added for using Spring AOP to enable
programming by contract for Spring managed beans. Usage of the probe mode
feature has been greatly simplified.

License: Eclipse Public License

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

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[029] - Paintown 3.1
by kazzmir (http://freshmeat.net/users/kazzmir/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:41

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Paintown is a 2D fighting game in the same style as Double Dragon
and TMNT. Paintown is very extensible and comes with editors to help design
new levels and animations.

Changes: This releases fixes a few UI issues and some crashes. A new song
was added.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[030] - PDFResurrect 0.04
by enferex (http://freshmeat.net/users/enferex/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 23:02

Security
Utilities

About: PDFResurrect is a tool aimed at analyzing PDF documents. The PDF
format allows for previous document changes to be retained in a more recent
version of the document, thereby creating a running history of changes for
the document. This tool attempts to extract all previous versions while
also producing a summary of changes between versions. It can also "scrub"
or write data over the original instances of PDF objects that have been
modified or deleted, in an effort to disguise information from previous
versions that might not be intended for anyone else to read.

Changes: This release corrects a misspelling regarding the URL of the
GPLv3 license.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[031] - phpMyAdmin 3.0.0-alpha (Development)
by phpMyAdmin Devel Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/phpmyadmin/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 14:58

Database :: Front-Ends
System :: Systems Administration

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

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - Poldi 0.4
by Moritz Schulte (http://freshmeat.net/users/moritzschulte/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 14:59

Security

About: Poldi is a PAM module that implements authentication through the
OpenPGP smart card. It uses the smart card daemon from the GnuPG project
for smart card access.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[033] - poppler 0.8.5 (Stable)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 10:01

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Poppler is a PDF rendering library derived from xpdf. It has been
enhanced to utilize modern libraries such as freetype and cairo for better
rendering. It also provides basic command line utilities.

Changes: Several crashes were eliminated. Saving of files was improved.
Some memory leaks in Annotation handling were plugged. Several fixes and
enhancements to pdftohtml were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[034] - rdup 0.6.1
by Miek Gieben (http://freshmeat.net/users/miek/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 10:01

System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: rdup is a utility inspired by rsync and the Plan9 way of doing
backups. rdup itself does not backup anything; it only prints a list of the
names of files that have changed since the last backup. It also handles
files that are removed, allowing for correct incremental backups. Auxilary
script that implement a backup strategy are included.

Changes: Various bugs were fixed. An rdup-s3 utility was added, which
allows uploading to Amazon's S3 service.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[035] - RegLookup 0.9.0
by Tim Morgan (http://freshmeat.net/users/gobbles/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:44

Security :: Forensics
System :: Diagnostics
System :: Recovery Tools

About: RegLookup is an small command line utility for dumping or querying
Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3/Vista registries.

Changes: This release has greatly increased speed through a rewrite of the
underlying regfi library. It adds a new tool, reglookup-recover, which
attempts to recover deleted keys, values, and other data structures from
unallocated registry hive areas. It has improved data validation for more
secure operation. The regfi library interface has been expanded to allow
more direct access to data structures. Several output bugs and a path/type
filtering bug have been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[036] - SIPVicious 0.2.4
by Sandro Gauci (http://freshmeat.net/users/obs1/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 19:04

Communications :: Internet Phone
Security

About: The SIPVicious tools are used to audit SIP devices. svmap lists SIP
devices found on an IP range, svwar identifies active extensions on a PBX,
and svcrack is an online password cracker for SIP PBX. svreport manages
sessions and exports to PDF, XML, CSV, and plain text.

Changes: svwar.py can now scan for templated numbers. This allows more
flexible usage of ranges of numbers, allowing for prefixes and suffixes as
need be. svwar.py now sends ACK to be nice to other devices. Each tag is
padded with a unique 32 bit. Contact header is always added to the request
to always send well-formed SIP requests. Large data is sent fragmented now
(mysendto). svwar.py handles new SIP response codes.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[037] - Spectro-Edit 0.2
by Jonathan Fuerth (http://freshmeat.net/users/jfuerth/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 04:50

About: Spectro-Edit reads in regular PCM audio files, then shows the audio
visually in a time vs. frequency plot. The fun part is that you can "paint
out" any part of the visualization and play back the audio subject to your
modifications. When you are happy with the result, you can save your work
back to a WAV file. This could be useful for podcasting (edit out
microphone noise, chair squeaks, phones ringing, and other background
noise), music (make strange and unusual modifications to the sound for
artistic reasons), research (visualize animal calls or noise pollution from
nearby industrial activity), and general purpose geekery (which was the
original purpose).

Changes: Supports loading and saving of mono 16-bit PCM audio files (WAV
and AIFF). The user interface is still very basic; nonetheless, the program
is quite usable.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spectro-edit/

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[038] - svninfo 0.7.3
by Achim D. Brucker (http://freshmeat.net/users/brucker/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 19:03

Software Development :: Version Control
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX

About: svninfo is used to extract the revision and file information
provided by the Subversion revision control system. To present the version
information of a document, one needs to extract it from some kind of text
inserted by the revision control system. Subversion offers therefore the
Id keyword, which is expanded by the Subversion update command and contains
a lot of useful information. This information is made available through
this package.

Changes: A bug resulting in incorrect date for maximal revision (i.e.
\svnInfoMaxToday) has been fixed.

License: The Latex Project Public License (LPPL)

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

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[039] - TEA for Linux 19.0.4
by roxton (http://freshmeat.net/users/roxton/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 14:56

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Text Editors
Text Processing

About: TEA is a modest and easy-to-use GTK+2-based editor with many useful
features for HTML editing. It features a small footprint, a tabbed layout
engine, support for multiple encodings, code snippets, templates,
customizable hotkeys, an "open at cursor" function for HTML files and
images, miscellaneous HTML tools, preview in external browser, string
manipulation functions, SRT subtitles editing, Morse-code tools, bookmarks,
syntax highlighting, and drag-and-drop support.

Changes: This release fixes bugs related to the spell checker and file
manager.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - ThinkUI SQL Client 1.0.8
by ThinkUI (http://freshmeat.net/users/thinkui/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:46

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: The ThinkUI SQL Client is a graphical program that allows Java
developers to browse a database structure, edit data in the tables, issue
SQL queries, and generate code (e.g. Java Bean, DAO, SQL queries, JSP
files, etc.) based on customizable Velocity templates.

Changes: This release adds support for "batch" code generation via Apache
Ant. Other features includes support for filtering DB_CONNECTION records
and adding a "New" button for creating a new Query in "List Queries"
viewer. Bugs fixed include a stack overflow bug with the DB connection pick
list in the Generate Code viewer as well as improved error handling and
usability issues.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[041] - TinTin++ 1.98.4
by Scandum (http://freshmeat.net/users/scandum/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:38

Communications :: BBS
Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
Terminals :: Telnet

About: TinTin++ is a feature rich MUD client with an easy to learn
scripting language that runs in console mode.

Changes: The Ctrl-C macro has been changed to clear the input line rather
than exiting the program, which can now be done with Ctrl-D. In actions,
%{variable} can be used to store trigger arguments directly into variables.
When formatting time arguments like %Y, %M, and %D, the current time will
be used if no time stamp is provided.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[042] - TiP 0.3.0
by Nicola Fontana (http://freshmeat.net/users/entidi/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:36

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: TiP is a general purpose framework for quickly build a working Web
site in a typical PHP/MySQL environment. It is targeted at developers,
experienced Web administrators, and anyone unafraid of hacking and using a
text editor.

Changes: This release implements TIP_Class, a new content module able to
span one logical element into more than one database table. To implement
this feature, the TIP_Form module has been modified to allow a staged form
submission, where the data is fetched in more than one submit (and a
following form depends on some value submitted in the previous form). The
"source" term has been renamed to "template", as template is a more
recognized term. Furthermore, the template extension is now managed in the
template engine.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[043] - Userful Desktop Swordfish 291
by Userful (http://freshmeat.net/users/Userful/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 06:35

Desktop Environment
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: Userful Desktop is a desktop Linux distribution specifically
designed for kiosks, Internet cafes, and public access computers. The
software also includes Userful's unique "Desktop Multiplier" software that
turns 1 PC into 10. Desktop settings can be easily managed for hundreds of
desktops at once via session profiles which are created and stored via a
central Web-portal. Key features include time management, revenue from
pre-paid cards, Internet filtering, privacy protection, automated clean-up,
print-job costing, and much more. Userful Desktop replaces both
DiscoverStation and Desktop Server.

Changes: Hotmail no longer throws up an "upgrade" error. TuxPaint is now
an extra package (which is installed by default). DiscoverPrint is now
called Userful-Desktop-Printing, and the GUI console now allows you to
refresh when there are no print jobs. A calendar template was added to the
list of templates in OpenOffice. Epiphany's language settings are now based
on session settings. The translation strings were updated. A print button
configuration in Firefox was fixed. The "block Flash" feature in Firefox
was fixed.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[044] - Video Conference Flash Plugins 0.4
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (http://freshmeat.net/users/lkcl/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 19:12

Communications
Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Conferencing

About: Video Conference Flash Plugins provides Flash/ActionScript 3
plugins that provide the minimum functionality for accessing a webcam and
video - live or recorded - from a Flash Media Server such as OSflash Red5,
FMS, or tape/rtmpy. The plugins take "FlashVars" parameters to control
almost everything. They can be used to create video conferencing Web sites,
video chat sites, or YouTube clones.

Changes: receiveVideo has an experimental playback shuttle, which performs
as badly as other flash playback shuttles on Linux (badly). Single-click on
the position slider fails, but dragging works fine. It is released (as
experimental) out of curiosity in case it works under Windows.
Play/stop/pause/resume buttons have been added.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[045] - virt-mem 0.2.9
by Richard Jones (http://freshmeat.net/users/rwmj/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 04:51

System :: Diagnostics
System :: Logging
System :: Monitoring

About: Virt-mem is a set of system administrator tools for monitoring and
diagnosing issues with virtual machines. Tools such as "virt-ps" and
"virt-dmesg" work analogously to ordinary "ps" and "dmesg". No software has
to be installed inside the virtual machine.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/virt-mem/

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[046] - Workrave 1.9.0
by dotsphinx (http://freshmeat.net/users/dotsphinx/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 23:03

Desktop Environment :: Gnome

About: Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention
of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to
take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily limit.
It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using GTK/Win32).

Changes: A fix for transparency of the tray icon on Linux. New activity
monitoring for Windows. Improved 64-bit and Vista support. Exercises are
randomized. The language can be selected in the preferences (Windows). The
option 'Start Workrave when Windows starts' has been added. Extended DBUS
support on Unix. An initial OS X port. Networking support can now be
enabled without accepting incoming connections from other Workraves. A
sound has been added that indicates the next step in the exercise. The
volume and all sounds can be configured. A new sound theme has been added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[047] - wsdlpull 1.20
by vivek (http://freshmeat.net/users/vivek200120/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 04:48

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: wsdlpull is an efficient and powerful command line utility for
dynamic inspection and invocation of WSDL web services. It also has a C++
library with a Dynamic WSDL Invocation API, a WSDL parser, a schema parser
and validator, and an XML parser/serializer.

Changes: This release handles extensibility attributes in operation's
elements. A bug with an empty soap header element in response has been
fixed. Warnings have been fixed. WSDL element names for input/output/faults
are stored in messages. An invoker API has been added to set the HTTP
authentication parameters. An invoker to get SOAP fault details has been
added. When parsing an XSD file, the 'anyAttribute' in complex types is
taken into account.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[048] - Xfprot 1.25
by Tito (http://freshmeat.net/users/Titox/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 15:05

Utilities

About: XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux
Small Business Edition.

Changes: Some bugs in the scripts for F-prot v.6 were fixed. Some broken
translations were fixed. A simple man page was added. Some outdated
information in the README file was removed. The source code was moved to
autoconf and automake for easier configuration and building. Please remove
any previously installed version before installing this one.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[049] - Xtables-addons 1.5.5
by Jan Engelhardt (http://freshmeat.net/users/jengelh/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 15:06

System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: Xtables-addons is a package that mostly supersedes the old
patch-o-matic repository for the Linux kernel and iptables. Instead of
patching the kernel source, extensions are built as modules and thus allow
extending kernels without recompilation.

Changes: This release adds new targets and matches, SYSRQ and ipset.
quota2 implements a counter for low-level accounting. An oops in the error
path of the kernel code has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xtables-addons/

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[050] - Zindus 0.7.10
by Zindus Development (http://freshmeat.net/users/Zindus/)
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 03:43

About: The Zindus Thunderbird addon synchronizes your Thunderbird
addressbook with Google/Gmail and Zimbra. Google users can use it to access
their Gmail, Google Reader, or Google Calendar contacts in Thunderbird.
Zimbra users can synchronize the Personal Address Book, other selected
addressbooks, and the Global Address List (GAL).

Changes: Bugfixes for Linux and Zimbra users.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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

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