Newsletter for Friday, October 17th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (44) :::
[001] - Absolute OS 12.1.10
[002] - Amahi Linux Home Server 9.1 (Development)
[003] - amforth 3.0
[004] - Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript 2008-10-17
[005] - Bazaar VCS 1.8
[006] - Blitz templates for PHP 0.6.4
[007] - check_lm_sensors 3.1.1
[008] - Condor 7.0.5
[009] - CRUSH 2008-10
[010] - Distributed Internet Archiving Program 0.1.1
[011] - dxf2G 1.0.3.1
[012] - Elektra Initiative 0.7.0
[013] - FreeMachines 0.2.8
[014] - gtklick 0.2.0
[015] - H2 Database Engine 1.1.101
[016] - JPexeso 0.8
[017] - jwaBlogger 1.0
[018] - KaufKauf Shoppingmanager 0.57
[019] - klick 0.9.0
[020] - libLAS 1.0.0
[021] - Limited Shell 0.2
[022] - melkjug 0.4
[023] - MikeOS 2.0
[024] - MOSIX 2.24.2.3 for Linux-2.6.27.1 (Linux 2.6)
[025] - NexentaStor 1.0.9
[026] - OCILIB 3.0.1
[027] - OpenGTS 2.0.2
[028] - OpenNMS 1.5.97 (Unstable)
[029] - phpMyFAQ 2.0.9
[030] - pidgin-privacy-please 0.5.2
[031] - Policy Daemon snapshot-200810170639 (2.x (Cluebringer))
[032] - Prelude LML 0.9.14
[033] - pythonOCC 0.99
[034] - QExchange 1.0.0
[035] - rwdhypernote 0.16
[036] - SchemaCrawler 6.0
[037] - SchemaSpy 4.1.0
[038] - Scmbug 0.26.12
[039] - Text Mode Rovio Client 0.0.1 alpha
[040] - typer 0.3.1
[041] - XHTML Family Tree Generator 2.3.8
[042] - XKCD viewer 0.1
[043] - YouTranslate! 1.2.0
[044] - Zina 2.0alpha5
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Absolute OS 12.1.10
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 04:57
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: Printing libraries have been updated to correct output from
OpenOffice 3.0 and AbiWord 2.6.4. Firefox has been updated to a version
without XULRunner, and seems to be better behaved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/absolute-os/
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[002] - Amahi Linux Home Server 9.1 (Development)
by cpg (http://freshmeat.net/users/cpg/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 12:11
Information Management
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: The Amahi Home Server is a Linux Home Server based on Fedora (and
later on Ubuntu). Your machine becomes a "Home Digital Assistant" or HDA
after the installation. Each HDA is a Fedora-based server targeted for home
and home office environments. It provides an iTunes server, calendaring, a
wiki, shared network storage, network backups, a printer server, VPN, and a
plug-in architecture built on Ruby on Rails.
Changes: This release adds "Fixed IPs" and "Fixed Aliases" to the
networking tab, much-improved views of these tables, fixes for a security
issue with new user creation clashing with existing/privileged users, more
informational messages for empty Web apps, table editing fields for
hosts/aliases, shares, users, and Web apps, improvements to check for
proper names that are legal on the Linux platform, fixes to an artifact
that would "nest" tables within tables for users/shares/Web apps, making
them progressively smaller, and a fix for a typo which put Fahrenheit
conversion off by nine degrees.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/amahi/
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[003] - amforth 3.0
by Matthias Trute (http://freshmeat.net/users/mtrute/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 21:35
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Embedded Systems
System :: Hardware
About: amforth is a Forth distribution for the the AVR Atmega
microcontroller. Once put into flash, it needs only a serial connection to
the host computer to work interactivly. New words are compiled directly
into flash, thus extending the dictionary immediately. It provides most of
the ANS94 Forth Standard plus extensions. It is written in AVR standard
assembly language and Forth itself. The main development uses Atmega8 and
Atmega32 controllers; other Atmega controllers work with small adjustments.
Changes: This release adds experimental code for the A/B forth VM
registers as discussed at EuroForth 2008. The pictured numeric output was
completely rewritten and conforms to the ANS94 standard, and some internal
cleanups should ease the deployment on systems with external RAM. A few
bugs are fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/amforth/
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[004] - Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript 2008-10-17
by Terry Burton (http://freshmeat.net/users/terryburton/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 17:57
Information Management
Multimedia :: Graphics
Office/Business
About: Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript implements the printing of many
barcode formats entirely within level 2 PostScript, so that the process of
converting the input string into the printed output is performed by the
printer itself. This avoids the need to re-implement the barcode generation
process whenever your language needs change. The project supports most
major barcode formats including EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, ISBN, Code 128
(A, B, and C), Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, Postnet, Code 2 of 5, and
Codabar.
Changes: The ability to override the automatic checksum calculation for
EAN-13, UPC-A, UPC-E, and ISBN was removed.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/postscriptbarcode/
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[005] - Bazaar VCS 1.8
by Martin Pool (http://freshmeat.net/users/bootswork/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 09:31
Software Development :: Version Control
About: Bazaar is a simple decentralized revision control system.
Decentralized revision control systems give users the ability to branch
remote repositories to a local context. Users can commit to local branches
without requiring special permission from the branches that they branched
from.
Changes: Two bugs were fixed after 1.8rc1: errors are reported more
cleanly when a problem occurs when pushing to a smart server, and a problem
in building Pyrex extensions on Win32 was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bzr/
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[006] - Blitz templates for PHP 0.6.4
by Alexey Rybak (http://freshmeat.net/users/alexeyrybak/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 21:36
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Blitz templates is a fast PHP template engine written in C and
compiled as a PHP extension. It started as a php_templates replacement, but
developed into much more. It is based on extensible template controllers
(custom view classes in PHP) and weakly-active templates (simple logic in
HTML). Benchmarks show that it is one of the fastest template engines for
PHP, even though it's not trivial and makes Web application closer to a
smart MVC-like architecture model with maximal separation of HTML from your
code. It was designed for big high-load Internet projects with a lot of
complex presentation logic.
Changes: Minor fixes were made. The variable prefix can be set to an empty
value by ini_set now. Predefined variables are output correctly in a
single-line if statement.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blitz-templates/
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[007] - check_lm_sensors 3.1.1
by Matteo Corti (http://freshmeat.net/users/corti/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 18:04
System :: Monitoring
About: check_lm_sensors is a Nagios plugin to monitor the values of
on-board sensors and hard disk temperatures on Linux systems.
Changes: This release adds a small 0.2s seconds pause before the
processing of the output of the sensors program to avoid synchronization
problems on some systems.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/check_lm_sensors/
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[008] - Condor 7.0.5
by Greg Thain (http://freshmeat.net/users/gthain/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 18:20
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Networking
About: Condor schedules and runs remote CPU intensive applications using
the idle cycles of distributively owned workstations. It monitors a pool of
machines to find idle machines that are then used to complete submitted
jobs, and also provides checkpointing and remote system mechanisms that
allow for job migration and transparent remote execution.
Changes: This release contains many bugfixes and some improvements to
error handling of Local Universe jobs. Note that some of the bugfixes are
security-related; therefore, sites should either upgrade or restrict
permissions on who is allowed to submit Condor jobs to trusted users.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/condor/
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[009] - CRUSH 2008-10
by jeremyhinds (http://freshmeat.net/users/jeremyhinds/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 18:26
Text Processing :: Filters
Text Processing :: General
About: CRUSH (Custom Reporting Utilities for SHell) is a collection of
tools for processing delimited-text data from the command line or in shell
scripts. It provides utilities for aggregating, merging, filtering, and
formatting your data.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/crush-tools/
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[010] - Distributed Internet Archiving Program 0.1.1
by D Brasher (http://freshmeat.net/users/db2/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 18:22
Office/Business
System :: Archiving
System :: Archiving :: Backup
About: DIAP is a quick and low-cost way to make an environment more robust
by backing up data in multiple places. A Perl installer creates the system
with minimal effort. The application provides a decentralized,
self-contained, and managed storage utility. The emergence of a DVTL
(Distributed Virtual Tape Library) is the end result. Nodes can be
dedicated to storage or used for existing services over unused bandwidth.
DIAP works in user space over SSH.
Changes: A function prototype for retrieve/fetch. Minor fixes, menu
changes, and typo fixes.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/diap/
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[011] - dxf2G 1.0.3.1
by Pier (http://freshmeat.net/users/Pierpaologarofalo/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 08:11
About: dxf2G is a simple program that converts DXF 2D files into .ngc
G-code files that can be used in programs such as Emc2 (www.linuxcnc.org).
Changes: A bug was fixed to handle 2D polylines with no Z coordinates.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dxf2g/
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[012] - Elektra Initiative 0.7.0
by Markus Raab (http://freshmeat.net/users/godman707/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 18:08
Software Development
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: Elektra is a universal hierarchical configuration store, similar to
GConf and the Windows Registry. It allows programs to read and save their
configurations with a consistent API, and allows them to be aware of other
applications' configurations, leveraging easy application integration.
While architecturally similar to other OS registries, Elektra does not have
most of the problems found in those implementations. Elektra includes a
library, an API, and commandline and GUI tools for administration tasks.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/elektra/
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[013] - FreeMachines 0.2.8
by juanmabc (http://freshmeat.net/users/juanmabc/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 08:58
Games/Entertainment
About: FreeMachines is a game that features 3D video, 3D audio, and 3D
physics with full free development.
Changes: In the source code, the classes were split into files. An h3d
model compiler was introduced. TGA image loading and machine physics were
fixed. C++ memory allocation is now used. Usage of OpenGL calls was
improved. In the distribution, the video was removed in favor of size and
the project description was changed. In the gameplay, colors were added to
scores. A winner state and box, turbo, and fake items were introduced. The
circle and square tracks were recovered.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freemachines/
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[014] - gtklick 0.2.0
by Dominic Sacré (http://freshmeat.net/users/sacred/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 21:35
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: gtklick is a simple metronome with a GTK interface and native JACK
support. It's implemented as a frontend to klick.
Changes: This release adds a speed trainer mode that gradually increases
the tempo while playing. It's now possible to edit the beat pattern, making
each beat either accented, unaccented, or silent.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtklick/
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[015] - H2 Database Engine 1.1.101
by ThomasM (http://freshmeat.net/users/ThomasMueller/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 12:15
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
About: H2 is an SQL database engine written in Java that implements the
JDBC API. Embedded, server, and clustering modes are available. A browser
based console application is included. The database has strong security
features. Disk based and in-memory databases and tables are supported.
Changes: OSGi is now supported. Improved Glassfish/Toplink support has
been added. Compatibility with MS SQL Server has been improved for linked
tables. Queries with more than ten tables are now faster. Opening large
databases is now faster. New ISO date functions have been implemented.
Local temporary tables now support indexes. The automatic server and
re-connect features have been improved.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/h2/
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[016] - JPexeso 0.8
by Bernard (http://freshmeat.net/users/faoi/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 22:53
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
About: JPexeso is a memory training game where the players try to identify
identical cards. It is possible to play against an AI (different types).
The game has support for themes. There are cars, houses, and girls.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jpexeso/
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[017] - jwaBlogger 1.0
by DaveB (http://freshmeat.net/users/dbulmore/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 14:41
Communications
Office/Business
Office/Business :: News/Diary
About: jwaBlogger is an easy-to-configure, set up, customize, and use
social links and blogging environment that provides you the ability to have
your own Web site similar to sites like Digg, Buzzup, DZone, The Server
Side, InfoQ, Slashdot, etc. It also makes a very nice personal blogging
environment.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jwablogger/
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[018] - KaufKauf Shoppingmanager 0.57
by Oxygenic (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxygenic/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 18:21
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: Bugs have been fixed in user login and product selection.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kaufkauf/
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[019] - klick 0.9.0
by Dominic Sacré (http://freshmeat.net/users/sacred/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 21:34
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: klick is an advanced JACK-based metronome, supporting tempo
changes, meter changes, and more. It allows you to define complex tempo
maps for entire songs or performances.
Changes: This release adds some OSC methods to allow gradually
incrementing the tempo and changing the beat pattern.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/klick/
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[020] - libLAS 1.0.0
by Howard Butler (http://freshmeat.net/users/hobu2/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 18:05
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: libLAS is a C++ library implementing the ASPRS LAS Format
Specification. The library provides an API for reading and writing LiDAR
data stored in LAS files. There are C, C++, .NET, and Python APIs, as well
as a set of command line utilities for processing LAS files.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/liblas/
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[021] - Limited Shell 0.2
by ghantoos (http://freshmeat.net/users/ghantoos/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 04:49
Security
System :: Shells
Terminals
About: Limited Shell (lshell) provides a limited shell configured to eachh
user. The configuration is done simply, using a configuration file. Coupled
with ssh's authorized_keys or /etc/passwd, it becomes very easy to restrict
a user's access to a limited number of commands.
Changes: This release adds config and log options on the command line
(-c|--config and -l|--log). It orders the files for packaging purposes
(initial packaging in source and RPM using distutils). File completion, a
history file per user, logging for warnings and log in/out, and an updated
prompt when the user changes directory (bash-like) have been added. The
check_path function has been corrected. User setting is changed from a
global variable to dict. A default profile is used when a parameter is not
set for a user.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lshell/
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[022] - melkjug 0.4
by Luke Tucker (http://freshmeat.net/users/ltucker/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 21:30
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: melkjug is the software running melkjug.org, a Web application that
allows users to aggregate, mix, and sort articles from feeds based on a
variety of factors.
Changes: This release is focused on a complete visual redesign and general
enhancements to the user inferface. A variety of bugfixes and new features
such as OpenID signup and improved feed searching are also included.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/melkjug/
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[023] - MikeOS 2.0
by Mike Saunders (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheRealMSaunders/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 18:03
System :: Operating System
About: MikeOS is an operating system for x86 PCs, written entirely in
assembler. It's not intended to to become a fully-fledged general purpose
OS. Instead, it's designed for learning basic OS design and x86 assembly
language. Consequently, it runs in 16-bit mode (for BIOS access) and has
very low system requirements. It features rudimentary DOS compatibility.
Changes: This release includes FAT12 file writing support, a new mouse
driver, a C library, and new system calls. Additionally, many bugfixes and
documentation updates were made.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mikeos/
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[024] - MOSIX 2.24.2.3 for Linux-2.6.27.1 (Linux 2.6)
by A. Barak (http://freshmeat.net/users/amnon/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 11:24
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: MOSIX is a management system targeted for high performance
computing on Linux clusters and multi-cluster organizational grids. In
MOSIX, there is no need to modify or link applications with any library,
copy files or login to remote nodes, or even assign processes to different
nodes. It is all done automatically, similar to a single computer with
multiple processors; just fork and forget.
Changes: This release is for Linux kernels 2.6.27.1, 2.6.26.1, and
2.6.25.10.
License: Free For Educational Use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mosix/
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[025] - NexentaStor 1.0.9
by Erast Benson (http://freshmeat.net/users/Erast/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 22:52
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: The HA cluster plugin has semi-automated failover in a group of N
(N >= 2) appliances. The VM DataCenter plugin is integrated with
NexentaStor management of ESX and ESXi servers using the VMware public API.
There is a group of appliance management improvements, NMV improvements all
over, plugin API changes, and NMC bugfixes and minor improvements.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nexentastor/
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[026] - OCILIB 3.0.1
by vicenzo (http://freshmeat.net/users/vicenzo/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 14:42
Database
Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries
About: OCILIB is a portable Oracle Driver that delivers really fast and
reliable access to Oracle databases. It offers a rich, full featured, and
easy-to-use API. OCILIB runs on all Oracle platforms.
Changes: This release fixes a few memory leaks introduced in 3.0.0 and
fixes ocilib source compilation with MSVC6++.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ocilib/
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[027] - OpenGTS 2.0.2
by MDFlynn (http://freshmeat.net/users/mdflynn/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 04:58
About: OpenGTS is a full-featured GPS tracking system that includes the
OpenDMTP server, yet also can support other remote tracking device types.
It also provides a Web interface that provides GPS tracking and location
reporting. Server configuration experience is required to use this.
Changes: Many new features. Initial support for GeoServer (via OpenLayers)
to support custom ESRI shapefiles. Better ACL control. Additional yellow
'arrow' pushpins indicating GPS direction. Support for expandable menus.
The map auto-update feature now supports re-centering on a new GPS location
without changing the current zoom level.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/opengts/
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[028] - OpenNMS 1.5.97 (Unstable)
by Tarus Balog (http://freshmeat.net/users/tarusb/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 04:57
System :: Hardware
System :: Networking
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: OpenNMS is the first enterprise-grade network management platform
developed using the open source model. The three main functional areas of
OpenNMS are service polling, which monitors services on the network and
reports on their "service level"; data collection from the remote systems
via SNMP in order to measure the performance of the network; and a system
for event management and notifications.
Changes: This release candidate contains a number of bugfixes and new
features.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/opennms/
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[029] - phpMyFAQ 2.0.9
by Thorsten Rinne (http://freshmeat.net/users/thorstenr/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 08:52
Information Management
About: phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system.
It support various database systems and it also offers a content management
system with a WYSIWYG editor, an image manager, flexible multi-user
support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates,
extensive XML support, PDF support, DocBook XML support, a backup system,
and an easy to use installation script.
Changes: This release improves the spam detection and fixes some bugs
introduced with version 2.0.8.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmyfaq/
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[030] - pidgin-privacy-please 0.5.2
by Stefan Ott (http://freshmeat.net/users/cockroach/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 04:58
Communications :: Chat
About: pidgin privacy please is a pidgin plugin to stop spammers from
annoying you. You can block messages from certain users, block messages
from people who are not on your contact list, and suppress repeated
authorization requests. Optionally, senders of blocked messages can be
notified with an auto-reply.
Changes: This release fixes build issues on Windows. It removes pidgin
patches since they are no longer necessary.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pidgin-pp/
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[031] - Policy Daemon snapshot-200810170639 (2.x (Cluebringer))
by Nigel Kukard (http://freshmeat.net/users/nkukard/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 09:17
Communications :: Email :: Filters
About: Policyd v2 (codenamed "cluebringer") is a multi-platform policy
server for popular MTAs. This policy daemon is designed mostly for large
scale mail hosting environments. The main goal is to implement as many spam
combating and email compliance features as possible while at the same time
maintaining portability, stability, and performance. Its features include
detailed policy and group specification, access control, helo/ehlo checks
(helo randomization prevention and RFC compliance), SPF checks,
Greylisting, Quotas, and Amavisd-new integration.
Changes: A new Accounting module was added. "Last" processing
functionality was added in Quotas and Accounting. Various bugfixes and
enhancements were made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/policyd/
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[032] - Prelude LML 0.9.14
by yoann (http://freshmeat.net/users/yoann/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 14:46
Internet :: Log Analysis
Security
System :: Logging
About: Prelude-LML is a signature-based log analyzer monitoring your log
file and received syslog messages for suspicious activity. It handle events
generated by a large set of components, including but not limited to: APC
Emu, BigIP, Cisco PIX, Clamav, Dell-OM, Grsecurity, Honeyd, ipchains,
Netfilter, ipfw, Nokia ipso, Apache ModSecurity, Ms-SQL, Nagios, Norton
Antivirus Corporate Edition, NTsyslog, Pam, Portsentry, Postfix, Proftpd,
SSH, and others. It is part of Prelude, a hybrid Intrusion Detection
framework implementing an open communication layer for use by any security
application.
Changes: This release fixes a possible permission error that could happen
when a given logfile was only accessible through a group-specific
permission. The ModSecurity ruleset now provides much more descriptive
classification text, adds regexps for [file ..], [line ...], and [tag ...]
fields, and finetunes targets/types. Gamin/FAM support has been deprecated
in favor of libev, fixing an SELinux issue. The polling architecture has
been improved by using an operating system-specific backend when possible.
This release monitors files that are not immediately available for reading
on startup. Once the file can be monitored, libev provides notification.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/preludelml/
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[033] - pythonOCC 0.99
by Thomas Paviot (http://freshmeat.net/users/tpaviot/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 11:18
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: pythonOCC aims to provide a full Python wrapper for the OpenCascade
3D modeling/visualization library classes. The first step is to focus on
modeling and import/export classes (IGES, STEP, VRML) in order to provide a
complete, powerful, and easy-to-use 3D modeler using Python scripts.
Changes: This release adds many classes and methods from the OCC library,
a new API reference documentation, and a wxPython based 3D viewer. A sample
named CAD Viewer, part of the pythonOCC project, allows you to open and
display STEP, STL, and IGES CAD files.
License: The CeCILL License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pythonocc/
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[034] - QExchange 1.0.0
by TortugaLabs (http://freshmeat.net/users/tortugalabs/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 04:46
Office/Business :: Financial
About: QExchange is a Qt4 currency exchange calculator. The main features
are daily and historical currency conversion, a chart view of historical
rates trends, and exchange rates network updates from the European Central
Bank. It runs under Linux, Win32 and Mac OS X.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qexchange/
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[035] - rwdhypernote 0.16
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 22:55
Desktop Environment
Text Processing
About: rwdhypernote is a hierarchical note editor. It uses a directory
structure for notes, and can record internal links and Web links. It has
context-sensitive help. Additional applets can be downloaded. The GUI
interface used is RubyWebDialogs, which runs through a Web browser.
Therefore, it is completely cross-platform. This is part of the Tinker
framework using Ruby, so applets can be added and removed.
Changes: This release has been updated for rwdtinker 1.83, includes a
document screen, includes mind mapping screens, and can open FreeMind files
and XML files.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rwdhypernote/
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[036] - SchemaCrawler 6.0
by Sualeh Fatehi (http://freshmeat.net/users/sualeh/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 04:55
Database
Database :: API
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: SchemaCrawler is a platform (OS and database) independent command
line tool to output your database schema and data in a readable form. The
output is designed to be diff-ed with previous versions of your database
schema. SchemaCrawler is also an API that improves on standard JDBC
metadata.
Changes: This release introduces a number of API changes and new features.
Notable among these is full support for multiple schemata in a catalog. The
SchemaCrawler API returns a catalog as the top level object, which contains
schemata. Another change is that SchemaInfoLevel is an option, not a
CrawlHandler property, to allow for better separation of concerns. Finally,
SchemaCrawler has support for JavaScript scripting with J2SE 6 and above.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/schemacrawler/
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[037] - SchemaSpy 4.1.0
by John Currier (http://freshmeat.net/users/johncurrier/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 23:01
Database
Database :: Front-Ends
About: SchemaSpy is a Java-based tool that analyzes the metadata of a
schema in a database and generates a visual representation of it in a
browser-displayable format. It lets you click through the hierarchy of
database tables via child and parent table relationships as represented by
both HTML links and entity-relationship diagrams. It's also designed to
help resolve the obtuse errors that a database sometimes gives related to
failures due to constraints.
Changes: This release can fully evaluate Ruby on Rails databases that
associate foreign keys to primary tables/keys with a translation of
singular to plural form. It resolves a bug where SchemaSpy was using
incorrect entity relationship diagram notation. It adds support for MS SQL
Server 2005 with jTDS driver, including column comment retrieval for all of
the MS SQL databases. You can now specify database connection properties on
the command line. There is a new -sso option to support single sign-on
databases.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/schemaspy/
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[038] - Scmbug 0.26.12
by Kristis Makris (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkgnu/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 21:32
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
Software Development :: Version Control
About: Scmbug integrates software configuration management (SCM) with
bug-tracking. It aims to solve the integration problem once and for all. It
will glue any source code version control system (such as CVS/CVSNT,
Subversion, and Git) with any bug tracking system (such as Bugzilla,
Mantis, Request Tracker, Test Director).
Changes: This release adds partial support for Git integration, begins to
report deletions of files in Subversion with the actual revision number
instead of "NONE", fixes a bug related to accurately detecting the revision
number of a changeset in Subversion when more than one, separate, commit
operations are issued at once, adds a WebReport that can email all
developers with open bugs during a release, applies bugfixes in the
WebReports, applies performance optimizations for activity_get_bugs for
TestDirector, and corrects the sorting of bugs in Bugzilla in VDD
documents.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/scmbug/
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[039] - Text Mode Rovio Client 0.0.1 alpha
by Del (http://freshmeat.net/users/kermit1221/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 04:46
About: Text Mode Rovio Client is a console application for controlling the
WowWee Rovio mobile Web cam. Video display is in ASCII, and all commands
are issued from the keyboard. It can use VLC for "real" video and audio.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/asciirovio/
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[040] - typer 0.3.1
by juanmabc (http://freshmeat.net/users/juanmabc/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 17:56
Education
About: typer is a graphical typing trainer.
Changes: Updates for current versions of GNOME.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/typer/
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[041] - XHTML Family Tree Generator 2.3.8
by Ferenc Bodon (http://freshmeat.net/users/bodon/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 21:38
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
About: XHTML Family Tree Generator is a CGI Perl script together with some
Perl modules that will create views of a family tree. Data can be stored in
a database or in a data file. The data file is either a simple text (CSV),
an Excel, or GEDCOM file listing the family members, parents, and other
details. It is possible to show a tree of ancestors and descendants for any
person, showing any number of generations. Other facilities are provided
for showing email directories, birthday reminders, facehall, and more. It
has a simple configuration, makes heavy use of CGI (and other CPAN
modules), generates valid XHTML, and has support for Unicode and multiple
languages.
Changes: No zoom-out button if there are no more generations. The border
color of the image depends on the existence of the member (black for dead
relatives). See the classes dead and alive in the stylesheet.
Gender-dependent picture for unknown persons. Proper UTF-8 and Excel
encoding (big endian) handling. Bugfixes (e.g. in language switching). A
config file change (see option encoding for CSV format).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/familytree_cgi/
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[042] - XKCD viewer 0.1
by /fox/ (http://freshmeat.net/users/fox91/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 11:17
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: XKCD viewer is a program that allows you to read the xkcd comics by
Randall Munroe without any Web browser. It features buttons similar to
those found on xkcd.com like (prev, next, random, ...) a search function, a
tooltip with a comic description, key bindings, and an alert when there are
new comics. It allows you to get direct links easily, to copy links to the
clipboard, to save comics on your computer, and to navigate directly to a
comic by specifying its ID or URL.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xkcd_viewer/
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[043] - YouTranslate! 1.2.0
by LAAS02 (http://freshmeat.net/users/laas02/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 11:47
Utilities
About: YouTranslate! is a small and simple application that lets you use
the Google Translate service in an easy and fast way. It is designed to be
more convenient than opening up this service in a Web browser.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/youtranslate/
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[044] - Zina 2.0alpha5
by Ryan (http://freshmeat.net/users/pancake/)
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 22:53
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
About: Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal
jukebox, a Podcaster, and an MP3 streamer. It can run alone, be embedded
into an existing Web site, or be used as a module in Drupal, Joomla,
Wordpress, Xoops, and others.
Changes: This release adds the option to show artist images in the
category view. Category views are now configurable on a per directory
basis. Genres can now be associated with images. Song files can now be
optionally sorted by date. This release also provides better IIS support.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zina/
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