Newsletter for Sunday, October 05th 2008

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::: L I N K S F O R T H E D A Y :::

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (43) :::

[001] - AntTweakBar 1.12
[002] - bftpd 2.3
[003] - Bible-Discovery 2.2.1
[004] - crosstool-NG 1.2.4
[005] - DBsight 2.0
[006] - Dev9 1
[007] - doxygen 1.5.7.1
[008] - Duat 3
[009] - dvd::rip 0.98.9 (Stable)
[010] - eric4 4.2.2
[011] - Ignuit 0.0.8
[012] - JCards 6.1 (Desktop Version)
[013] - Jhead 2.84
[014] - jVSTwRapper 0.9g
[015] - KaufKauf Shoppingmanager 0.54
[016] - KBiff 3.9 (KDE3)
[017] - mcabber 0.9.8
[018] - mordred 0.1
[019] - NFO Viewer 1.2.1
[020] - ntop 3.3.8
[021] - openQRM Plug-ins 4.1.1.2 (Nagios-plugin)
[022] - p@rdalys 0.0.6
[023] - PEBL 0.09
[024] - PHPLiveX 2.5.1
[025] - PhpWebGallery 2.0.0RC2 (Development)
[026] - Pidgin-Paranoia 0.3.0
[027] - pisa 3.0.27
[028] - Qtractor 0.2.2
[029] - RRDtool 1.3.4
[030] - rsvndump 0.4.1
[031] - RwdTinker 1.80
[032] - Seed7 2008-10-05
[033] - Simple Billing System 0.99
[034] - Simple DocBook Processor 0.51
[035] - Spensierato Pre Release 5.1
[036] - SUS 3.3
[037] - The Python audio processing suite 0.0.1
[038] - tuitest 0.1
[039] - Vuurmuur 0.7beta2 (Pre-releases)
[040] - Wammu 0.29
[041] - WendzelNNTPd 1.4.0
[042] - Wings 3D 0.99.04 (Development)
[043] - YaCy 0.61

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[001] - AntTweakBar 1.12
by philippe_ (http://freshmeat.net/users/philippe_/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:17

Multimedia :: Graphics
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development

About: AntTweakBar is a small and easy-to-use C/C++ library that allows
programmers to quickly add a light and intuitive GUI into OpenGL or DirectX
based graphic programs to interactively tweak them. Program variables can
be linked to a graphical control that allows users to modify them.
Programmers are not required to design the graphical interface by providing
coordinates or by using a visual UI editor. Controls are automatically
organized following an optional given hierarchy.

Changes: This release supports quaternion and direction variables allowing
for the interactive tweaking of rotations and 3D vectors, along with
several other improvements.

License: zlib/libpng License

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

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[002] - bftpd 2.3
by Slicer (http://freshmeat.net/users/slicer/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:06

Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

About: bftpd is a very configurable Linux FTP server which can do chroot
without special configuration or directory preparation. It will work
out-of-the-box with almost no configuration required, and works on all Unix
variants tested. Most FTP commands are supported, and user authentication
is done via passwd/shadow or PAM. tar/gzip on-the-fly is supported.

Changes: This release brings the stable branch up to date with all
bugfixes and improvements in the development tree.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - Bible-Discovery 2.2.1
by SQL Uniform Software Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/sqluniform/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 14:49

Religion

About: Bible-Discovery is complex Bible studying software. It contains
several Bible translations, dictionaries, tools for helping to understand
the texts in the original language, bookmark handling, customizable font
size and colour, a biblical text importing pane, and a parallel and
comparative Bible read feature.

Changes: The language of the German interface has been updated. A German
Web site has been added.

License: Shareware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bible-discovery/

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[004] - crosstool-NG 1.2.4
by Yann E. MORIN (http://freshmeat.net/users/integrator/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:28

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: The DUMA build logs are passed only once through the logger. The
architecture config file is now correctly re-generated. The unavailable
config target xconfig is no longer advertised. The glibc linker scripts are
no longer mangled to remove absolute paths.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[005] - DBsight 2.0
by Chris (http://freshmeat.net/users/chrislusf/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:31

Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search

About: DBSight is a J2EE search platform for instant scalable full-text
search on any relational database, for both beginners and experts. It
features a built-in database crawler following user-defined SQL,
incremental indexing, user-controllable result ranking, the ability to
return results with highlights (like Google), and categorized result counts
(like Amazon). It can easily integrate with other languages with
XML/JSON/HTML. There is a UI for all operations, so no Java coding is
necessary. Deleted or updated records in database can be synchronized also.

Changes: A new Scaffolding Engine for more flexible result page rendering
has been added. Developers can create customized re-usable scaffolding. A
Tag cloud scaffold has been added. It is easier to add JDBC libraries. The
performance of SQL retrieval has been greatly enhanced by batching SQL.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[006] - Dev9 1
by jyujin (http://freshmeat.net/users/jyujin/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:30

System :: Boot :: Init
System :: Filesystems

About: Dev9 is a Linux /dev manager. The idea is to write a 9p2000.u
server that ends up providing the same functionality as a combined devfs
and udev.

Changes: This is the first release of the project. It should theoretically
work, but there are some issues with character devices. Nevertheless,
automounting, socket I/O, parsing /sys, creating device nodes themselves,
and processing rules to create nodes all work as they should.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dev9/

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[007] - doxygen 1.5.7.1
by Dimitri van Heesch (http://freshmeat.net/users/dvh/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 11:31

Software Development
Software Development :: Documentation

About: Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like documentation system for
C++, C, Objective-C, C#, Java, IDL, Python, PHP, VHDL, and Fortran. Doxygen
can be used to generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an
off-line reference manual (in LaTeX or RTF) from a set of source files.
Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code-structure from
undocumented source files. This includes dependency graphs, class diagrams
and hyperlinked source code. This type of information can be very useful to
quickly find your way in large source distributions.

Changes: This version fixes the problem where doxygen stops with an error
when GENERATE_HTML was set to NO. It also includes a couple of other fixes,
and it is now possible to set the size of the font for dot generated
graphs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - Duat 3
by jyujin (http://freshmeat.net/users/jyujin/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:29

System :: Filesystems
System :: Networking

About: Duat is an I/O library implementing the 9p2000 and 9p2000.u
protocols. It only depends on Curie, which means it may be used when a very
small program or memory footprint is needed.

Changes: This release fixes a number of bugs, cleans up the API a bit, and
introduces an abstract set of operations to manipulate a synthesized
filesystem. The interface for manipulating files is not complete. In
particular, writes to files and reads from anything but a static buffer do
not work just yet.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[009] - dvd::rip 0.98.9 (Stable)
by Jörn Reder (http://freshmeat.net/users/jred/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 14:43

Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion

About: dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It
provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all
aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known
video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools.

Changes: This release adds a new translation to Danish. It also fixes a
cluster avimerge problem with recent transcode versions, and adds full
support for anamporh transcoding without any scaling applied.

License: Artistic License

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

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[010] - eric4 4.2.2
by Detlev Offenbach (http://freshmeat.net/users/detlev/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 14:44

Software Development

About: Eric4 is a Python IDE written using PyQt4 and QScintilla2. It has
integrated project management capabilities with class browsing functions,
gives developers an unlimited number of editors with syntax highlighting
and code folding, an integrated Python shell, an integrated Python
debugger, a file system browser with class browsing capabilities for Python
files, and more. Eric4 is the successor of the well known eric3 development
environment.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eric4/

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[011] - Ignuit 0.0.8
by Timothy Musson (http://freshmeat.net/users/timothym/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 08:25

Education

About: Ignuit is a memorization aid based on the Leitner flash card
system. It has a GNOME look and feel, a good selection of quiz options, and
supports UTF-8. It can be used for both long-term learning and cramming.

Changes: The card editor now supports undo and redo. A new quiz mode was
added. Card pane columns can now be shown or hidden. Several other minor
changes were made.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[012] - JCards 6.1 (Desktop Version)
by Nick Sydenham (http://freshmeat.net/users/nsydenham/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:21

Database
Information Management :: Records Management

About: JCards is a Java application designed to store and manage data in
any format that the user defines. Instead of having multiple
applications/spreadsheets/databases to manage passwords, tasks, shopping
lists, etc., JCards allows the user to define a database that contains the
fields they want. This is accomplished via an easy to use interface that
requires no understanding of SQL or any other database jargon. JCards was
initially developed for PDAs, but has now branched into another version
that is suitable for the modern desktop environment and includes a number
of extra features.

Changes: Minor usability enhancements and bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - Jhead 2.84
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:28

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

About: Jhead is a command line driven utility for extracting digital
camera settings from the Exif format files used by many digital cameras. It
handles the various confusing ways these can be expressed, and displays
them as F-stop, shutter speed, etc. It is also able to reduce the size of
digital camera JPEGs without loss of information, by deleting integral
thumbnails that digital cameras put into the Exif header. If you need to
add Exif support to a program, this is a simple program to cut and paste
from. Many projects, including PHP, have reused code from this utility.

Changes: More EXIF tags are decoded in '-v' mode. Several potential string
overflows were fixed. A missing deletion of IPTC section on "-purejpg" was
fixed. A GPS altitude decode bug was fixed.

License: Public Domain

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

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[014] - jVSTwRapper 0.9g
by daniel309 (http://freshmeat.net/users/daniel309/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 14:55

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis

About: jVSTwRapper is an easy and reliable Java wrapper for the Steinberg
VST interface. It enables you to develop VST 2.4 compatible audio plugins
and virtual instruments and user interfaces with the Java programming
language. Three demo plugins (with source) are included.

Changes: Integrated with VSTAU for Audio Unit support. Apache Maven
integration allows you to create a .zip file for your jVSTwRapper plugin
for all 3 supported platforms. Maven-based compilation and deployment of
the wrapper itself. A simple GUI to show/hide the plugin when window
embedding is turned off. Greatly improved GUI stability on all platforms.
Automation support for the JayDLay example plugin. A tricky threading bug
has been fixed. A new example VST instrument: LiquinthVST. Performance
improvements, in particular further minimizing the need for garbage
collection.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[015] - KaufKauf Shoppingmanager 0.54
by Oxygenic (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxygenic/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 15:05

About: The KaufKauf Shoppingmanager is a Web-based application that allows
you to manage your goods at home. It supports barcode scanners for faster
management, and it automatically creates shopping lists that can be printed
out or downloaded by cellphone. It also watches "best before" dates and
informs you via email or SMS when foods reach that date. The complete
application is a system that can be accessed from nearly everywhere and
offers you the possibility to find out what you really need next from the
supermarket.

Changes: After a new product is scanned, the user can jump to the search
mask directly. The full software is now available in English on English
systems.

License: Freeware

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

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[016] - KBiff 3.9 (KDE3)
by Kurt Granroth (http://freshmeat.net/users/kurt_granr/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:21

Communications :: Email
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Internet

About: KBiff is a KDE "biff" or new mail notification utility. It is
highly configurable but very easy to use and setup. It supports session
managment (it "remembers" the last state it was in before you logged off)
and can be docked into the panel. It has support for mbox (Unix-style),
maildir (qmail-style), mh, POP3, IMAP4, and NNTP mailboxes.

Changes: Status window fixes for multi-monitor setups. KDE 2 support has
been removed. A 'stopped' icon state has been added. There are many
automake/configure/Makefile updates. This is a generic refresh after three
years of being dormant.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - mcabber 0.9.8
by Mikael Berthe (http://freshmeat.net/users/mckael/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:28

Communications :: Chat

About: MCabber is a small Jabber console client. It features SSL support,
Multi-User Chat, PGP support, history logging, and external actions
triggers. It also has support for Aspell and OTR (Off-The-Record
messaging).

Changes: URLs can be extracted from messages to the log window using the
url_regex option. OTR messages are now flagged with "O". Two new commands
have been added, "/buffer save" and "/echo", as well as several new options
and UI improvements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - mordred 0.1
by green sheep (http://freshmeat.net/users/greensheep/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:07

Scientific/Engineering :: Physics

About: Mordred is a tool for mechanical engineers to calculate the
movements and forces of a mechanical system. For the existence of a
solution, it is necessary that the system be statically statically
determinate. The results can be logged to a textual report, and can be
displayed graphically. You define your mechanism graphically, for the most
part, but can define your forces and coordinates textually in order to
reach full precision. It requires Java 6 in order to run.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[019] - NFO Viewer 1.2.1
by Osmo Salomaa (http://freshmeat.net/users/osmo/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 14:45

Utilities

About: NFO Viewer is a simple viewer for NFO files, which are "ASCII" art
in the CP437 codepage. The advantages of using NFO Viewer instead of a text
editor are preset font and encoding settings, automatic window size, and
clickable hyperlinks.

Changes: This release fixes sensitivity updating of menu items, fixes
AssertionErrors when installing, and adds a Simplified Chinese translation.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[020] - ntop 3.3.8
by Riccardo Paterna (http://freshmeat.net/users/paterna/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 08:06

System :: Emulators

About: ntop is a network probe that shows network usage in a way similar
to what top does for processes. In interactive mode, it displays the
network status on the user's terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a Web
server, creating an HTML dump of the network status. It sports a
NetFlow/sFlow emitter/collector, an HTTP-based client interface for
creating ntop-centric monitoring applications, and RRD for persistently
storing traffic statistics.

Changes: cPacket cTap support was improved. The core was fixed when ntop
is started with -f. A crash in handling DHCP packets was fixed. Fixes were
made for (Open)Solaris. Tiny changes were made to configure. A minor HTML
header change was done.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - openQRM Plug-ins 4.1.1.2 (Nagios-plugin)
by M. Rechenburg (http://freshmeat.net/users/waplocater/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 14:47

About: openQRM Plug-ins is a collection of community-supported plug-ins
that enable openQRM to manage other enterprise and open source software.

Changes: The Nagios configuration for the openQRM network was simplified
and automated via nmap2nagios-ng.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openqrm-plugins/

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[022] - p@rdalys 0.0.6
by Gunnar Wrobel (http://freshmeat.net/users/LuciferC/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:07

Communications :: Email
Office/Business :: Groupware
System :: Installation/Setup

About: p@rdalys provides the full configuration set for the Kolab Server
and is based on puppet. Besides the configuration data, it provides Ruby
extensions to puppet.

Changes: This is an intermediate release that provides many fixes and
improvements but does not yet deliver the complete Kolab server
configuration.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[023] - PEBL 0.09
by Shane Mueller (http://freshmeat.net/users/nestify/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:10

Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Education :: Testing
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation

About: PEBL is software for creating psychology experiments. PEBL offers a
simple programming language tailor-made for creating and conducting simple
experiments.

Changes: This version offers many fixes and improvements, including
additional drawing functions, ten new tests in the test battery, and better
robustness on Windows.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - PHPLiveX 2.5.1
by Arda Beyazo&#287;lu (http://freshmeat.net/users/ardabeyaz/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:06

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

About: PHPLiveX is a lightweight PHP-JavaScript class library that helps
you integrate AJAX into your PHP applications. Without loading a page
again, you may call your PHP functions in the same page, submit your form
to an URL, and send a request to another page with passing of any type of
data.

Changes: Now a select box can be used as a "target" DOM element for the
response. For example, it may be used when listing towns after a choice of
city in drop-down menus. A bug that occurred when using "=" and "%"
characters has been fixed. A bug that occurred when AJAXifying more than
one class has been fixed. Now the "params" option may be used with the
"SubmitForm" method.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - PhpWebGallery 2.0.0RC2 (Development)
by Pierrick LE GALL (http://freshmeat.net/users/z0rglub_pierrick/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 08:09

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: PhpWebGallery is an image gallery with a very simple installation
interface and administration panel. It features free or restricted access,
user management, groups, access management for each category, multi-server
support, user comments, HTML templates, virtual categories, multi-lingual
support, an RSS notification feed, EXIF and IPTC support, multi-category
support (each picture can belong to more than one category), compliance
with W3C specifications, and simple external authentication.

Changes: Client side dynamic behavior such as resizable textareas and
category selection boxes or a date selector were added. The plugin manager
was redesigned. A new set of icons for the new default theme was added.
Many bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - Pidgin-Paranoia 0.3.0
by Simon Wenner (http://freshmeat.net/users/nowic/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 08:23

Communications :: Chat
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Security :: Cryptography

About: Pidgin-paranoia is a plugin for Pidgin (formerly known as Gaim)
that provides information-theoretically secure encrypted conversations
using one-time pads. Because the plugin uses a one-time pad where the
secret key has the same length as the message and the key is only used
once, the encryption is information-theoretically secure. This means that
from the encrypted messages the contents of the messages are not revealed.
In short: If you use truly random numbers to generate the key files, and if
you keep them perfectly secret, one-time pads can not be broken.

Changes: This release focuses on stability and usability improvements.
Session handshake can be expected to work all the time. The user gets live
feedback about the current state during key generation. The consistency of
received messages is checked. In addition, this release provides
performance improvements that allow the software to scale better as the
number of paranoid people in your contact increases. The software is
considered to be in a beta stage and suitable for everyday use.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pidgin-paranoia/

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[027] - pisa 3.0.27
by holtwick (http://freshmeat.net/users/holtwick/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 14:42

Documentation
Education
Office/Business

About: pisa converts HTML to PDF using the ReportLab Toolkit, the
HTML5lib, and pyPdf. It supports HTML 5 and CSS 2.1 (and some of CSS 3).
The main benefit of this tool that a user with Web skills like HTML and CSS
is able to generate PDF templates very quickly without learning new
technologies.

Changes: The license has been changed to the GPLv2. There are minor
changes.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[028] - Qtractor 0.2.2
by Rui Nuno Capela (http://freshmeat.net/users/rncbc/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:19

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application. The
initial target platform is Linux, using the infrastructure of the Jack
Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI. It is meant to be a fairly-featured Linux
desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home
studio.

Changes: A spurious MIDI events recording bug has been fixed. Audio track
monitoring and plug-in loop processing has been slightly improved if not
fixed. The MIDI clip editor has improved precision and correct snapping.
Multiple track mute and solo one-click toggling. Better MIDI connection
persistence across sessions. Record-armed tracks aren't muted on playback
anymore. Optimized audio clip waveform caching and drawing. Many other
fixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - RRDtool 1.3.4
by Tobias Oetiker (http://freshmeat.net/users/oetiker/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:28

Database
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries

About: RRDtool (Round Robin Database Tool) is time-series data storage and
graphing utility created by the author of MRTG. Using RRDtool, you can
write your own MRTG-like tools in a matter minutes with only a few lines of
Perl or shell code.

Changes: This release handles truncated RRD files without crashing. It has
fixes for xport and VDEF/SHIFT.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - rsvndump 0.4.1
by Jonas Gehring (http://freshmeat.net/users/saubue/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 08:24

Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: rsvndump is a command line tool that is able to dump a subversion
repository that resides on a remote server. All data is dumped in the
format that can be read/written by svnadmin, so the data produced by
rsvndump can easily be imported into a new subversion repository.

Changes: This release adds a command line switch to keep dumped revision
numbers in sync with the source repository. Additionally, a bug which could
prevent dumping a single file has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[031] - RwdTinker 1.80
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 15:04

Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Software Development :: User Interfaces

About: rwdtinker is the core application for a Ruby application framework
using the RubyWebDialogs GUI. It provides a system for developing programs,
and uses a Web-based interface. It allows a developer to combine and create
applets to implement an application. It features built-in bug report
submission, remote control with UDP ports, a test framework, and
context-sensitive help.

Changes: This release has changed PDA handling in rwd.rb. It has added
logging, and a log review screen in the tinker back window. It also changes
applet loading to not depend on version config files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - Seed7 2008-10-05
by Thomas Mertes (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomas_mertes/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:21

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 chapter about primitive actions in the manual was improved.
The definition of STD_NULL in the seed7_05.s7i library was improved to
support read and write operations with STD_NULL. The bas7.sd7 (basic
interpreter) example program was improved. The compiler (comp.sd7) was
improved to support local interface declarations and dynamic functions that
refer to constant values. Several improvements were made to support
compilation with the cl compiler from MSVC and the bcc32 compiler. The
function bigCLit() was improved to avoid C code that the cl C compiler
miscompiles to the wrong machine code.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - Simple Billing System 0.99
by potlaty (http://freshmeat.net/users/potlaty/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:34

About: sbills is console-based billing system. It gets and analyzes
traffic information about users that are connected through a pppd service.
The program gives you an opportunity to edit user information such as name,
login, password, IP address, and traffic per day limit. It can disconnect
users if their day's traffic is over the limit.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[034] - Simple DocBook Processor 0.51
by Philip Hazel (http://freshmeat.net/users/ph10/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:07

Text Processing :: Markup :: DocBook
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: SDoP (Simple DocBook Processor) reads a DocBook XML file, processes
it into typeset pages, and outputs the result as PostScript (which can
easily be converted to a PDF). It is "simple" because it supports only a
subset of DocBook, and also because it does not make use of a DTD or
stylesheets or any other heavyweight apparatus. It is a single program.
SDoP is used to format the Exim reference manual.

Changes: A few minor bugs have been fixed. It is possible to specify a
different font for subsection titles.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[035] - Spensierato Pre Release 5.1
by Fryer (http://freshmeat.net/users/prfryer/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 15:00

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

About: Spensierato is a simple-to-use Web site CMS. It is designed to
allow in-site editing so that non-technical users can just find the page,
update an element, and save it. It is written in PHP using a MySQL backend
and released under the GPL. Some components use different license
agreements; details are included.

Changes: This release installs on PHP with MySQL. mod_rewrite has been
made optional, so it should work on other Web servers. There are fixes for
skins to work better if Tidy is not installed. There is a major fix, as
'Text Articles' were not been saved in Pre Release 5.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - SUS 3.3
by pdg (http://freshmeat.net/users/metadalek/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 08:26

About: SUS is a (setuid root) utility to allow a user to run a command as
another user, typically the super user (root). SUS consults a control file
to determine if the user is allowed to run the specified command as the
specified target user. Very fine grained control is possible over what
commands may be run by considering commands and arguments as references to
UNIX objects, namely users, groups, files, processes, and hosts. Attributes
of the referenced objects are used to match against object class sets
defined in the control file.

Changes: This version adds two new features: the ability to use a hash of
a file as an attribute for comparisons and the ability to extract
atttributes of an existing file, user, or group and substitute them into
the control file at runtime.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[037] - The Python audio processing suite 0.0.1
by Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) (http://freshmeat.net/users/ruddo/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 23:31

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: The Python audio processing suite is a module that contains a
variety of convenience functions to process audio signals. The instrumental
goal of these algorithms is to robustly identify the same songs released in
different albums (but not different takes of said song).

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/python-audioprocessing/

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[038] - tuitest 0.1
by Andreas Krennmair (http://freshmeat.net/users/akrennmair/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:27

Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing

About: tuitest is a tool to create and run automated tests of text user
interfaces. It is meant as a complement to the widespread use of unit
tests, and uses concepts known from GUI testing tools with the difference
that it applies them specifically to text- and terminal-based user
interfaces. It consists of a recorder that records the interaction with an
application under tests and generates a Ruby script that replays the same
interaction, optionally with the same timing. Ruby replaying is supported
through a native Ruby module.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[039] - Vuurmuur 0.7beta2 (Pre-releases)
by Victor Julien (http://freshmeat.net/users/Victor78/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 14:45

Internet :: Log Analysis
Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: Vuurmuur is a firewall manager for Linux that supports traffic
shaping. It has powerful monitoring features for logging and live
connections. It can be managed entirely through an Ncurses GUI, on the
console, or through SSH.

Changes: Detection for support for the NAT random option was added. Checks
for the iptables, iptables-restore, and tc command line tools were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - Wammu 0.29
by Michal &#268;iha&#345; (http://freshmeat.net/users/nijel/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 08:01

Communications :: Telephony
Office/Business :: Scheduling
Utilities

About: Wammu is a mobile phone manager that uses Gammu as its backend. It
works with any phone that Gammu supports, including many models from Nokia,
Siemens, and Alcatel. It has complete support (read, edit, delete, copy)
for contacts, todo, and calendar. It can read, save, and send SMS. It
includes an SMS composer for multi-part SMS messages, and it can display
SMS messages that include pictures. Currently, only text and predefined
bitmaps or sounds can be edited in the SMS composer. It can export messages
to an IMAP4 server (or other email storage).

Changes: Crashes in backup restore were fixed. Corrupted entries are
handled. More diagnostics options were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - WendzelNNTPd 1.4.0
by Steffen Wendzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/cdpxe/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 08:08

Communications :: Usenet News
Internet
System :: Networking

About: The WendzelNNTPd is a tiny, easy to configure NNTP server for Unix,
Linux, and Windows. The server is IPv6-ready, only supports the most
important NNTP commands, is very secure, and uses an SQL backend. It also
comes with a Qt-based GUI.

Changes: WendzelNNTPd now uses its SQL backend only for storing any kind
of meta information, but whole posting bodies are now stored within the
file system, which makes huge postings possible and provides much better
performance since SQLite now only has to handle the rest of the
information. Also, the code was ported to Windows again and includes some
fixes.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[042] - Wings 3D 0.99.04 (Development)
by optigon (http://freshmeat.net/users/optigon/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 19:03

Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling

About: Wings 3D is a powerful and easy to use 3D subdivision modeler
inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.

Changes: This release features many new tools, preference options,
bugfixes, and a Turkish translation.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wings3d/

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[043] - YaCy 0.61
by miTreD (http://freshmeat.net/users/miTreD/)
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 08:07

Communications :: File Sharing
Information Management
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)

About: YaCy is a personal Web crawler and Web search engine. It's also a
P2P-based Web index exchange network without a central server and no
censoring possibility. Web crawls can be done locally, or you can trigger a
collaborative Web crawl with all other YaCy peers. YaCy is fun to use and
shows interesting text, image, audio and video search results with direct
links to Ogg, MP3, and video files. It has a cooperative bookmark system
and many Web publishing functions.

Changes: This is a quick release, with a lot of security fixes and
bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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