Newsletter for Sunday, October 26th 2008

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

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2008/10/26/
freshmeat.net newsgroup: news:///fm.announce

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::: A D V E R T I S I N G :::

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (32) :::

[001] - Astaro Command Center 1.901
[002] - Astaro Security Linux 7.404 (Stable 7.X)
[003] - Bacula 2.5.16 (Development)
[004] - Brain Workshop 4.1
[005] - Camera Life 2.6.2b9
[006] - Cibyl 20
[007] - ClamTk 4.02
[008] - Ctalk 0.0.82a
[009] - feresPost 3.2.3
[010] - flinks 0.2
[011] - fPanel 0.2
[012] - freedomeditor 0.1.1
[013] - GNOME Structured File Library 1.14.10
[014] - Ignuit 0.0.10
[015] - irclogger 1.14d
[016] - JDebugTool 4.1.3
[017] - jWorkSheet 0.81
[018] - Kuklomenos 0.3.1
[019] - latrace 0.5.1
[020] - libexplain 0.1
[021] - Mule - Universal Message Objects 2.1.1
[022] - mulopiro 1.0
[023] - MySQL 6.0.7 (Alpha (6.0.x))
[024] - OpenVRML 0.17.10
[025] - rwdgutenberg text reader 0.13
[026] - sftpup 6
[027] - Sutekh 0.6.0rc1 (Stable)
[028] - sysprof 1.0.11
[029] - Tokyo Cabinet 1.3.15
[030] - trading-shim 081024
[031] - V6 Thompson Shell Port 20081026
[032] - Wcalc 2.4

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[001] - Astaro Command Center 1.901
by astaro (http://freshmeat.net/users/astaro/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 16:09

Internet
Security
System :: Networking

About: Astaro Command Center (ACC) is an application for centralized
management of Astaros gateway products. With ACC, network administrators
can easily manage and control multiple Astaro devices. The two separated
Web-Based GUIs (WebAdmin and Gateway Manager) enable the split of
ACC-system administration and role-based Gateway monitoring and can be also
implemented in existing Active Directory or eDirectory environments.
provides an effective overview that details the actual health of each
device, swiftly allowing administrators to see which gateways require more
attention or immediate action (by reason of e.g. threat level, license, or
CPU/memory/disk usage). Over the one-click WebAdmin SSO to each connected
gateway, it is possible to react instantly if necessary.

Changes: This Up2Date improves world map functionality, has several tree
view adjustments and fixes, and improves handling and performance for a
large number of devices. It includes some fixes for issues in the Web-based
GUI.

License: Freely Distributable

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

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[002] - Astaro Security Linux 7.404 (Stable 7.X)
by astaro (http://freshmeat.net/users/astaro/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 16:09

System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: Astaro Security Linux is an all-in-one network security gateway
that includes a firewall, intrusion protection, virus protection, spam
protection, URL filtering, and a VPN gateway. Features include stateful
packet inspection, deep packet filtering, intrusion detection and
prevention, portscan detection, content filtering, virus detection for
email and Web traffic, profile handling, IPSec, SSL, and PPTP VPN
tunneling, spam blocking, proxies for HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS, VoIP,
SOCKS, and Ident, logging, and reporting. The WebAdmin, the Install Wizard,
and Up2Date service make it easy to install, manage, and update.

Changes: This small Up2Date package enhances the stability of the HTTP
proxy and address a few issues with Authentication.

License: Free For Home Use

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

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[003] - Bacula 2.5.16 (Development)
by Lev_Arris (http://freshmeat.net/users/LevArris/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 07:36

System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup,
recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different
computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is efficient and
relatively easy to use, while offering many advanced storage management
features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files.

Changes: This beta release introduces new features like "accurate backup"
(tracking of deleted files in incremental/differential backups), copy jobs,
"Virtual Backup" (consolidating full and subsequent
differential/incremental backups into a new full backup), and TLS
authentication. Bacula now uses shared libraries to reduce memory
footprint, allows bextract to restore data of "non-portable" Win32 backups
on any OS, and offers better control over duplicate jobs and upgrading jobs
to Differential or Full. The release also introduces a plugin API and a
plugin for backing up Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[004] - Brain Workshop 4.1
by radix (http://freshmeat.net/users/radix42/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 07:54

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

About: Brain Workshop is an implementation of the Dual N-Back mental
exercise. This exercise is a mental activity that is scientifically proven
to improve your working memory (short-term memory) and fluid intelligence
(gF). The game involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a
sequence of positions of a square at the same time. Brain Workshop includes
additional challenging game modes beyond Dual N-Back.

Changes: The squares in Dual and Triple N-Back have a new look. Individual
scores for each input category (position, sound, etc.) are shown in the
graph screen. New piano sounds are available in the configuration file to
test your tonal memory.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Camera Life 2.6.2b9
by Will Entriken (http://freshmeat.net/users/fulldecent/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 07:57

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

About: Camera Life is a system for cataloging your photo collection. It
gives users the ability to search or browse your archive in intuitive ways,
with an attention to powerful administrative functions. Photos can be
stored locally, on a remote server, on Amazon S3, or on Flickr. The theme
and icons can be easily customized. It is compatible with the Gallery
Remote API (so you can upload with iPhoto, Digikam, and Java). It is RSS
enabled, supports microformats and OpenSearch, and has a special version of
the site for iPhone/iPod touch. AJAX is used to optimize the site as
necessary.

Changes: Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed, as detailed at
http://www.digitrustgroup.com/advisories/web-application-security-camera-life2.html.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - Cibyl 20
by Simon Kagstrom (http://freshmeat.net/users/sys2066/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 12:48

Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Cibyl is a programming environment that allows compiled C/C++
programs to execute on J2ME-capable phones. Cibyl uses GCC to compile
programs to MIPS binaries, and these are then translated into Java
bytecode. The use of binary translation and the simplicity of translating
MIPS instructions means that Cibyl programs can be quite well-performing.
With Cibyl, programs written in C/C++ can be ported to J2ME without
switching languages.

Changes: setjmp/longjmp has been implemented. Exception handling has been
refactored, including the ability to throw Java exceptions from C/C++. An
optimization-related bug has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - ClamTk 4.02
by phenom (http://freshmeat.net/users/phen0m/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 19:03

About: ClamTk is a graphical frontend for Clam Antivirus. It is designed
to be a lightweight, easy-to-use, point-and-click virus scanner.

Changes: This release fixes several issues from the 4.01 release, and
includes an updated Korean language file.

License: Perl License

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

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[008] - Ctalk 0.0.82a
by thx1132 (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiesling3/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 12:57

Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Ctalk provides object oriented programming features, like classes,
methods, operator overloading, and inheritance to otherwise standard C
programs. You can use only a few objects and classes in a program, or you
can write programs entirely in Ctalk. The package provides a translator
from Ctalk source code into C for compilation and a library that provides
run-time support for class objects. The preprocessor, ctpp, is also
available separately, and the package includes sample programs and
documentation.

Changes: This release adds the "Application" class and contains many
internal compatibility, performance, and method API improvements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ctalk-lang/

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[009] - feresPost 3.2.3
by feresPost (http://freshmeat.net/users/feresPost/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 12:51

Scientific/Engineering

About: feresPost is a Ruby extension that provides the definition of
classes and modules devoted to the development of automated post-processing
for Nastran or Samcef finite element results. The library allows easy
manipulation of finite element models, groups, and results. Efficient
post-processing is possible because the time-consuming operations are
written in C/C++.

Changes: Methods were added and modified in the Result class. Ply stresses
and strains may be recovered in laminte axes in the ClaLam class.

License: Freeware

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

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[010] - flinks 0.2
by mbays (http://freshmeat.net/users/mbays/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 07:33

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: Flinks is a flashing-word Web browser intended for speed reading.

Changes: Marks, modelled after vim's, were added; global marks are
preserved between instances. Counts can now be given to commands.
Arbitrarily long URLs can now be edited. Some crash-bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[011] - fPanel 0.2
by dazjorz (http://freshmeat.net/users/dazjorz/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 07:47

Information Management
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: fPanel is a set of hosting management CLI tools, much like Plesk,
cPanel or DA. It allows you to add and remove domains, and writes Apache
configuration.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[012] - freedomeditor 0.1.1
by barttt (http://freshmeat.net/users/bartb000/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 12:47

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Pre-processors

About: freedomeditor is a Web-based GUI focused on creating an extensively
modular Web development environment (with filesystem browsing
functionality) that uses multiple integrated Web development environments.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - GNOME Structured File Library 1.14.10
by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdassen/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 12:51

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Financial :: Spreadsheet

About: The GNOME Structured File Library is a utility library for reading
and writing structured file formats. Support for MS OLE2 streams is
complete, as is zip import. There is also support for document metadata and
some initial work on decompressing VBA streams in OLE files for future
conversion to other languages. This library replaces libole2 and is used in
gnumeric, mrproject, abiword, libwv2, koffice. It is also part of the AAF
format.

Changes: Some problems were fixed. A bug in sshfs is now worked around.
Tar archives are supported. Gsf support for broken archives was improved. A
critical message for bad OLE2 is avoided.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[014] - Ignuit 0.0.10
by Timothy Musson (http://freshmeat.net/users/timothym/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 12:56

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: Card expiry is now handled by hourly polling, and the category
pane now uses color to indicate expired cards. Several minor bugs have also
been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[015] - irclogger 1.14d
by Colas Nahaboo (http://freshmeat.net/users/colas/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 07:53

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: Irclogger is a simple IRC bot that provides a Web log of what is
said. Users can set passwords on the log files. Each logged phrase becomes
a part of the Web with its own URL.

Changes: A new "only URLs" view was added. Search results are no longer
incorrectly offset by one line. The program now works with new agrep
versions.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - JDebugTool 4.1.3
by debugtools (http://freshmeat.net/users/debugtools/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 19:03

Software Development :: Debuggers

About: JDebugTool is a standalone graphical Java debugger built on top of
the standard JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture).

Changes: In this release, the tooltips on the tabs in the Objects and
String/To String top-level Frames, now display the object paths taken to
"drill down" to the object displayed in that tab. Hot Swap will now
remember the root directory/directories of the class files that are
hot-swapped, so that subsequent hot-swap operations on class files in the
same class file hierarchies will no longer require the user to navigate in
the File Chooser dialog each time to the class file. The File Chooser
dialog will now open to the anticipated class file to hot-swap
automatically.

License: Shareware

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

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[017] - jWorkSheet 0.81
by Paul Ponec (http://freshmeat.net/users/pponec/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 23:39

Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: jWorkSheet is a desktop personal time tracker for your projects.
Data are presented in a spreadsheet-like format. The application offers
some completed work sheet reports, but you can create your own user reports
with XSL transformations.

Changes: If the data.xml file is missing or is empty, the application
tries to restore a backup and show an info dialog. The first application
parameters can specify a data directory (e.g. for portable launching).
Sorting the project description is allowed via a click on the table header.
UJO Framework release 0.81 is used.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[018] - Kuklomenos 0.3.1
by mbays (http://freshmeat.net/users/mbays/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 16:10

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Kuklomenos is an abstract shoot-em-up game with some strategic
aspects. It enjoys minimalistic graphics and intense, challenging gameplay.

Changes: This release adds a menu system and configuration saving.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[019] - latrace 0.5.1
by jolsa (http://freshmeat.net/users/jolsa/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 23:33

Software Development
Software Development :: Debuggers
System :: Diagnostics

About: latrace is a glibc 2.4+ LD_AUDIT frontend. It allows you to trace
library calls and get their statistics in a manner similar to the strace
utility.

Changes: A C-like syntax for the config file. typedef/struct/functions.
Optional detailed output for structures (by ptr and value). doc/expl in the
man page.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - libexplain 0.1
by Peter Miller (http://freshmeat.net/users/pmiller/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 23:53

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Diagnostics
Utilities

About: The libexplain project provides a library that may be used to
explain Unix and Linux system call errors. This will make your
application's error messages much more informative to your users. The
library is not quite a drop-in replacement for strerror, but it comes
close, each system call has a dedicated libexplain function.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[021] - Mule - Universal Message Objects 2.1.1
by Ross Mason (http://freshmeat.net/users/rossmason/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 23:38

Communications
Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks
Software Development

About: Mule is the leading open source ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) and
integration platform. It is a scalable, highly distributable object broker
that can seamlessly handle interactions with services and applications
using disparate transport and messaging technologies.

Changes: Component Interceptors have been re-introduced. Expression
Support on transformations, content-based routing, and filters.
Reconnection Strategies have been replaced with the new Retry Policy
framework. Component bindings are now supported in scripting languages such
as Groovy. Routers now support returning collections of messages. The
Message Splitter router has been simplified to make it easier build custom
splitter routers. The documentation is orders of magnitude better than in
previous releases. The Mule codebase has been made OSGi-ready.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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

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[022] - mulopiro 1.0
by Bo Lindbergh (http://freshmeat.net/users/blgl/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 07:32

System :: Logging

About: mulopiro is an on-the-fly Web server log file rotator like
rotatelogs, except that it uses named pipes to manage many logs with only
one process.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[023] - MySQL 6.0.7 (Alpha (6.0.x))
by Patrick Lenz (http://freshmeat.net/users/scoop/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 12:56

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: mysqlbinlog now supports --verbose and
--base64-output=DECODE-ROWS options to display row events as commented SQL
statements. The server consumed excess memory while parsing statements with
hundreds or thousands of nested boolean conditions (such as OR (OR ... (OR
.. ))), which has been fixed. Some performance problems of SHOW ENGINE
INNODB STATUS were reduced by removing used cells and total number of lock
structs in row lock hash table from the output. The
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FALCON_TABLES table has been removed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - OpenVRML 0.17.10
by Braden McDaniel (http://freshmeat.net/users/braden/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 23:30

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: OpenVRML is a VRML and X3D browser plug-in and C++ toolkit for
incorporating VRML support into applications. OpenVRML provides VRML97 and
Classic VRML X3D parsers, a runtime, and an OpenGL renderer as C++
libraries. The renderer is fully separate from the runtime library so that
users can also provide their own renderer.

Changes: 32-/64-bit parity and stream handling bugs in the XEmbed control
were fixed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[025] - rwdgutenberg text reader 0.13
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 23:53

Desktop Environment
Information Management
Text Processing

About: rwdgutenberg is a book reading tool. It can find text files, build
lists of text files, auto read texts, has context sensitive help, and can
submit bug reports with one click. Additional applets can be downloaded. It
includes the rwdtinker framework, and should not require any other
downloads. It only requires that Ruby be installed, and should work on all
platforms.

Changes: This release has initial MARC lookup of ISBN numbers and more
help text.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - sftpup 6
by Meik Teßmer (http://freshmeat.net/users/mtessmer/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 07:32

Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

About: sftpup is used for uploading files to FTP servers and keep them
consistent with a local directory.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[027] - Sutekh 0.6.0rc1 (Stable)
by Simon Cross (http://freshmeat.net/users/hodgestar/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 07:57

Games/Entertainment

About: Sutekh is a card collection manager for the game called "Vampire:
the Eternal Struggle" (VtES). Card information is stored in an SQL database
backend. Current functionality includes parsing information from the
official VtES card list and ruling HTML files, exporting of decks to HTML
and ARDB XML files, flexible filtering of lists of cards, backing up and
restoring of the card database, configurable selection of which card
information is displayed, and basic deck analysis.

Changes: The database structure was reworked in order to remove the
distinction between abstract and physical decks from the user's
perspective. This change required significant reworking of other parts of
Sutekh, but it's relatively stable again. Other changes include the
addition of built-in documentation, cleaning up and testing of importers
and exporters, workarounds for GTK behavioral differences on Windows, the
addition of more keyboard short-cuts, and other small fixes and changes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - sysprof 1.0.11
by Søren Sandmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/sandmann/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 07:40

Software Development

About: Sysprof is a sampling CPU profiler that uses a Linux kernel module
to profile the entire system, not just a single application. It handles
shared libraries, and applications do not need to be recompiled. It
profiles all running processes, not just a single application, has a nice
graphical interface, shows the time spent in each branch of the call tree,
can load and save profiles, and is easy to use.

Changes: This version compiles with recent kernels.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - Tokyo Cabinet 1.3.15
by Mikio Hirabayashi (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikio/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 12:52

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Tokyo Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. It
is the successor of QDBM. Tokyo Cabinet runs very fast. For example, the
time required to store 1 million records is 1.5 seconds for a hash database
and 2.2 seconds for a B+ tree database. Moreover, the database size is very
small. For example, the overhead for a record is 16 bytes for a hash
database, and 5 bytes for a B+ tree database. Furthermore, the scalability
of Tokyo Cabinet is great. The database size can be up to 8EB.

Changes: Performance of the hash function was improved. Perl and Ruby
interfaces of the network server were added. Bugs regarding compilation on
BSD and Solaris were fixed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[030] - trading-shim 081024
by R P Herrold (http://freshmeat.net/users/rpherrold/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 19:11

Database :: API
Office/Business :: Financial :: Investment

About: The trading shim is a command line interpreter with a DBMS backend
to the socket-based 'binary format' API of the Interactive Brokers' Trader
Workstation. It uses mnemonic ASCII text commands to permit downstream
clients to easily access several worldwide securities markets and exchanges
(stocks, options, futures, bonds, and Forex) for "tick" data and history
(intraday and EoD). It also allows clients to initiate and supervise trades
of securities, manage accounts, and more.

Changes: This release fixes bugs in sql/slow.sql that constrained Contract
generation, and in startup with a FA account. It generalizes a type to
handle 'missing value' History data replies. It has changed from using AIG
to AMAT, in light of recent market events.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/trading-shim/

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[031] - V6 Thompson Shell Port 20081026
by J.A. Neitzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/jneitzel/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 23:32

System :: Shells

About: V6 Thompson Shell Port is a port of the Sixth Edition (V6) UNIX
Thompson shell (circa 1975). The project includes osh, an enhanced,
backward-compatible port of the shell, as well as sh6 (a port of the
original shell) and glob6 (a port of the global command). Together, they
provide a user interface which is backward compatible with that provided by
the Sixth Edition Thompson shell and global command, but without the
obvious enhancements found in osh. This project also includes the following
associated external utilities: if, goto, and fd2.

Changes: This release integrates the external 'if', 'goto', and 'fd2'
shell utilities into osh as special built-in commands to improve shell
performance. It adds 'echo' as a special built-in command for the same
reason. It adds a new '-e' command line option to the fd2 utility. This
option allows redirection of stdout to stderr.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/v6shell/

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[032] - Wcalc 2.4
by memoryhole (http://freshmeat.net/users/memoryhole/)
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 23:53

About: Wcalc is a very capable calculator. It has standard functions (sin,
asin, and sinh for example), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, etc.),
support for using variables, a command history, hex/octal/binary input and
output, unit conversions, bit-shifting, embedded comments, and an
expandable expression entry field. It evaluates expressions using the
standard order of operations.

Changes: Many small bugfixes, improved C-like bitwise operations, and
stability fixes. The input internationalization is now allowed to be
different from the output internationalization.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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