Newsletter for Sunday, November 02nd 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/2008/11/02/
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 (46) :::

[001] - astSimpleConfig 0.0.2
[002] - Asymptote 1.48
[003] - BalanceNG 2.199
[004] - Brain Workshop 4.2
[005] - Cherokee 0.10.1
[006] - clive 2.0beta3 (Development)
[007] - Dapper Dataflow Engine 0.94
[008] - Data Crow 3.4.2
[009] - DAViCal 0.9.6
[010] - eurephia 0.9.2_beta
[011] - Fina 0.2.0
[012] - flinks 0.2.1
[013] - Fotoxx 5.5
[014] - Free News Wire 0.2 Alpha
[015] - GeeXboX 1.2-beta1
[016] - Hierarchical Data Format 1.9.20 (Pre-release)
[017] - Imaginary Microcomputers R7
[018] - Mathomatic 14.2.2
[019] - Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.3.3
[020] - MochiKit 1.4.1
[021] - MoinMoin 1.8.0
[022] - mu 0.4
[023] - phpBB Rivals 1.6.0
[024] - PycasaDownload 0.5beta
[025] - Python-AD 0.9
[026] - QTGZManager 1.0beta4
[027] - SAOImage DS9 5.4
[028] - Search::Xapian 1.0.9.0
[029] - Shared Scientific Toolbox in Java 1.04
[030] - Smitten 1.1
[031] - Snort Alert Monitor 0.2.0
[032] - Socat 2.0.0-b2 (Beta)
[033] - Subtitle Editor 0.26.0
[034] - teamGit 0.0.4
[035] - trad4 Beta04 (Documentation)
[036] - Ubuntu Customization Kit 2.0.4
[037] - USVN 0.7.2
[038] - Weasel GNU/Linux 2.0.1
[039] - Web Auction 0.3.4
[040] - wimpiggy 0.0.5
[041] - WordPress Testing 2.7 Beta 1
[042] - Xapian and Omega 1.0.9
[043] - Xataface 1.0.6
[044] - Xenomai 2.4.5
[045] - xpra 0.0.5
[046] - youtube-dl 2008.11.01

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

[001] - astSimpleConfig 0.0.2
by mikeOverIP (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikeOverIP/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:36

Communications :: Telephony

About: A lightweight, Web-based, multi-language configuration tool for
Asterisks SIP devices and carriers.

Changes: The carrier can now be just a "register" declaration (for
example, for DIDs / inbound). "extensions" and "extensions templates" are
now sorted by name.

License: Affero General Public License

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

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[002] - Asymptote 1.48
by John Bowman (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcbowman/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 08:01

Education
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
Scientific/Engineering

About: Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for
technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like
syntax. It provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting
that LaTeX does for scientific text. Asymptote is a programming language as
opposed to just a graphics program. It can exploit the best features of
script (command-driven) and graphical user interface (GUI) methods.
High-level graphics commands are implemented in the language itself,
allowing them to be easily tailored to specific applications.

Changes: High-resolution OpenGL tiled rendering was implemented. Support
for vertex-dependent surface colors was added. Rendering artifacts in
planar surfaces and thick lines were fixed. A Gradient palette that varies
linearly over a specified range of pens was added. An improved surface
constructor for convex three-dimensional paths was added. An optional
filltype argument was added to HookHead2 and the new DefaultHead2
arrowhead. A roundbox envelope routine was added. A bug in xasy and an
incorrect precontrol bug in write(path) were fixed. Compilation with
standard glut is now supported.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - BalanceNG 2.199
by Thomas Obermair (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasobermair/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:09

Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancing solution. It is
small, fast, and easy to use and setup. It offers session persistence,
different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random, Least
Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a
customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to set
up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports SNMP,
integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It implements a very fast
in-memory IP-to-location database, allowing powerful location-based server
load-balancing.

Changes: The license revocation list has been updated. The Ubuntu JeOS
VMware virtual appliance has been updated accordingly.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[004] - Brain Workshop 4.2
by radix (http://freshmeat.net/users/radix42/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:40

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 has been scientifically
shown to improve your working memory (short-term memory) and fluid
intelligence. 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: This release adds single n-back modes for younger children and
those who may find dual n-back too challenging. It also adds a new
challenge mode, Dual Variable N-Back. The configuration file is no longer
included in the distribution, so your old settings won't get overwritten.
OpenAL is now the default sound driver on Linux. (Try installing package
python-openal if you're having sound problems.) The pyglet library no
longer needs to be installed separately.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Cherokee 0.10.1
by alo (http://freshmeat.net/users/godsmaze/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:04

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
System :: Networking

About: Cherokee is a very fast, flexible, and easy to configure Web
server. It supports widespread technologies: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS
and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly
encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. It
also provides an easy to use configuration interface that allows you to
configure the server from top to bottom without editing a text
configuration file.

Changes: A high visibility I/O cache configuration bug has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - clive 2.0beta3 (Development)
by legatvs (http://freshmeat.net/users/legatvs/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:10

Multimedia :: Video

About: clive is a command line utility for extracting videos from Youtube
and other video sharing Web sites. It was originally written to bypass the
Adobe Flash requirement needed to view the hosted videos. It is
non-interactive, meaning it can work in the background while the user is
not logged on. This allows the user to start an extraction and disconnect
from the system, letting clive finish the work.

Changes: This release adds a few new features, brings back some of the 1.x
options, and fixes a set of bugs.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[007] - Dapper Dataflow Engine 0.94
by Roy Liu (http://freshmeat.net/users/royliu/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:04

Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: Dapper, or "Distributed and Parallel Program Execution Runtime", is
a tool for taming the complexities of developing for large-scale cloud and
grid computing, enabling the user to create distributed computations from
the essentials: the code that will execute, along with a dataflow graph
description. It supports rich execution semantics, carefree deployment, a
robust control protocol, modification of the dataflow graph at runtime, and
an intuitive user interface.

Changes: Command line options for the client and server are now available,
courtesy of the Apache Commons CLI library. The client process lifecycle is
now defined as ending when a disconnect from the server happens. Stem
generation functionality has moved from being a member method of
OutputHandleResource to being a static method of CodeletUtilities. The
FlowNodeFactory class is used in favor of direct instantiation of
FlowNodes. Building of native components has migrated to the CMake. Logging
has migrated to SLF4J. A README has been added to all distributions.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[008] - Data Crow 3.4.2
by rwaals (http://freshmeat.net/users/rwaals/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 18:57

Home Automation
Multimedia

About: Data Crow is a movie, video, book, image, software, and music
cataloger/media manager. Data Crow uses MusicBrainz, Amazon, IMDb, and many
other Web services to retrieve the information for you. It is highly
customizable, easy to use, and feature rich. It helps you to keep track of
your loans, allows you to create reports, enables you to create your own
modules (using wizards) and, most importantly, enables you to easily manage
all your collections.

Changes: This version of Data Crow improves the online search capabilities
and the Data Crow framework as a whole. Bugs have been fixed and minor
improvements made where needed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[009] - DAViCal 0.9.6
by karora (http://freshmeat.net/users/karora/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 08:00

Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: DAViCal (previously called the Really Simple CalDAV Store) is a
server implementation of the CalDAV protocol for storing calendaring
resources (in iCalendar format) on a remote shared server. An increasing
number of calendar clients support the maintenance of shared remote
calendars through CalDAV including Mozilla Calendar (Sunbird/Lightning),
Evolution, Mulberry, Chandler, and Apple's iCal. DAViCal supports basic
delegation of read/write access among calendar users, multiple users or
clients reading and writing the same calendar entries over time, and
scheduling of meetings with free/busy time displayed.

Changes: This release adds initial support for the draft scheduling
extensions to CalDAV, support for the draft calendar-user-principal
extension, various bugfixes, and several new configuration options.
Significant code refactoring has also happened, which is ongoing. The
French translation has been reviewed and updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - eurephia 0.9.2_beta
by David Sommerseth (http://freshmeat.net/users/dazo/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:47

Security
System :: Networking
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: eurephia is an authentication plug-in for OpenVPN. The plug-in
enhances OpenVPN authentication by introducing user name and password
authentication in addition to SSL certificates. In addition, eurephia will
blacklist IP addresses, user accounts, and/or certificates if too many
failed attempts are registered. On the Linux platform, iptables support is
also included, which can be used to restrict each user's network access
through the VPN channel. For the moment, eurephia depends on a patched
OpenVPN server to provide a secure user name and certificate mapping.

Changes: This release contains two bugfixes, giving correct behavior when
blacklisting user certificates and proper shutdown. A new feature was
added, which gives the possibility to blacklist IP addresses also via the
firewall interface.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[011] - Fina 0.2.0
by Tobias Klausmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/klausman/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:17

Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
Utilities

About: Fina is a simple, robust bash script that loads iptables rules from
a rules directory. As such, it isn't concerned with creating rules for you;
it just helps you load them in a robust way, going back to older or safe
rules when things go wrong.

Changes: Fina now is able to handle both IPv4 and IPv6 rule sets.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[012] - flinks 0.2.1
by mbays (http://freshmeat.net/users/mbays/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:25

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

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

Changes: This release adds named anchor handling, blink-rests, URL
shortcuts, command-line arguments, in-browser config setting, lazy parsing,
support for small terminals, and a few other things. It also fixes some
bugs.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[013] - Fotoxx 5.5
by kornelix (http://freshmeat.net/users/kornelix/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 19:29

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

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

Changes: Red-eye methods were consolidated and improved (not perfect, to
be continued). This release will remember the last image opened in a prior
session and return there. Internal improvements for robustness and
maintainability. Mouse functions were made more responsive for slower CPUs.
Minor improvements have been made in user messages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - Free News Wire 0.2 Alpha
by personman (http://freshmeat.net/users/personman145/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 02:31

About: Free News Wire is a server-side RSS feed reader and aggregator
designed to make it easy to display live news headlines on your Web site.
It uses PHP, RSS, and SQL.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[015] - GeeXboX 1.2-beta1
by Benjamin Zores (http://freshmeat.net/users/tutuxclan/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 18:56

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

About: GeeXboX is a standalone media player Linux distribution, similar to
MoviX. It's a small bootable CD that allows you to play your favorite video
(DivX, XviD, H.264, MPEG 1/2, VCD, DVD, OggMedia, Windows Media, RealMedia,
etc.) and audio (MP3, Audio CD, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, etc.) files. It also
supports networking, and is able to play media from Windows/Samba share,
NFS, UPnP A/V Media Servers, RTP/RTSP servers, or SHOUTcast. It supports
TV-out, TV tuners, DVB cards, and WiFi cards. It is based on MPlayer, and
can be used on any x86 or PowerPC computer. It's easy to modify the source
to build your own GeeXboX or use an alternative boot method.

Changes: HDTV support with X.org inclusion. Ported to the x86_64
architecture. Audio visualization support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - Hierarchical Data Format 1.9.20 (Pre-release)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 03:15

Database
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries

About: HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) is a general purpose library and
file format for storing scientific data. It arranges data into datasets
(multidimensional arrays) and groups (a structure for organizing objects).

Changes: An error has been fixed with family/split/multi VFD not updating
driver info when the "latest" version of the file format is used.
Alignment+threshold errors when metadata aggregation is enabled have been
fixed. H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids have been changed to ignore
objects registered by the library for internal library use. A potential
memory leak during compound conversion has been fixed. An error with 'make
check install' has been fixed. An issue with finding szip shared libraries
has been fixed.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[017] - Imaginary Microcomputers R7
by Dr. Java (http://freshmeat.net/users/drjava/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:45

Software Development

About: The idea of Imaginary Microcomputers is to design simple computers,
comparable to vintage home computers, large numbers of which are simulated
on a PC in parallel. The machines connect to each other with the goal of
seeing efficient structures grow spontaneously, like crystals.

Changes: IMC now features a usable socket-based VM server. The protocol is
textual and allows manual access through telnet. The assembler language now
supports many typical BASIC constructs. VMs can now do socket communication
and file I/O. As an example application, a miniature Web server is
provided.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[018] - Mathomatic 14.2.2
by George Gesslein II (http://freshmeat.net/users/gesslein/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 18:57

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: Mathomatic is a free, portable, general-purpose CAS (Computer
Algebra System) and calculator software that can symbolically solve,
simplify, combine, and compare equations, perform complex number and
polynomial arithmetic, etc. It does some calculus and is very easy to use.

Changes: Minor improvements were made. A serious failure of the new, more
accurate simplification was fixed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[019] - Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.3.3
by Eduardo Aguiar (http://freshmeat.net/users/aguiar/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:32

Security :: Forensics

About: Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in
Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract
interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined
using XML files for easy integration with other tools.

Changes: The new PartCatalogue extension manages parts and part-numbers,
setting other item's attributes based solely on part-number. CaseTreeview
changes case and item names on modification. Events now accept keyword
parameters. AttributeViewer columns are now resizable. The on_delete event
was fixed in AttributeViewer.Window. Attributes can be moved up and down in
CategoryManager.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - MochiKit 1.4.1
by Per Cederberg (http://freshmeat.net/users/cederberg/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 19:01

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries

About: MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested suite of JavaScript
libraries to get things done quickly. It is the result of taking ideas from
Python, Objective-C, etc. and adapting them to JavaScript.

Changes: This release fixes export of the deprecated computedStyle
function for compatibility with version 1.3. A number of minor corrections
have been made in the MochiKit.Style module to handle element hiding and
clipping better. The Event.relatedTarget() now avoids returning XUL
elements in Mozilla-based browsers.

License: Academic Free License (AFL)

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

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[021] - MoinMoin 1.8.0
by TW (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomaswaldmann/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 02:42

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

About: A WikiWikiWeb is a collaborative hypertext environment, with an
emphasis on easy access to and modification of information. MoinMoin is a
Python WikiClone that allows you to easily set up your own wiki, only
requiring a Web server and a Python installation.

Changes: The big new features of this release are a major GUI editor
upgrade, many GUI editor related bugfixes, and a new "modernized" theme. It
also has quite a few smaller features, bugfixes, and cleanups.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - mu 0.4
by djcb (http://freshmeat.net/users/djcb/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:06

Communications :: Email
Utilities

About: mu is a collection of utilities for maildirs, in particular for
indexing and searching them. mu fills a database with information about a
message, which can then be queried with an easy query language. It can work
stand-alone or be integrated with a mail client like Mutt.

Changes: This version adds extensions to the query language and the
ability to get statistics about the messages that match some queries.
mu-index is substantially faster. Also, mu-msginfo has been extended. Small
optimizations have been done, and some bugs have been fixed. Finally, some
GTK+ widgets have been added; they are to be considered "experimental".

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[023] - phpBB Rivals 1.6.0
by A.I. BOT (http://freshmeat.net/users/AIBOT/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:37

About: phpBB Rivals is a script for creating an all-in-one Web site for
gaming groups. It supports clans, ladders, and tournaments.

Changes: The match reporting bug was fixed. Administrators can now edit a
clan's matches. Tournaments can now be seeded manually. The rival's
installer now has an option upgrader (for 1.6.0 to 1.6.x).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - PycasaDownload 0.5beta
by matiasb (http://freshmeat.net/users/mbordese/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 19:28

Internet

About: PycasaDownload is a program to download Picasa photo albums or just
the photos you like best from a given album. You provide the username, and
all the available public albums from that user will be presented to you.
The program let you download all the photos from one or several Picasa
albums, in full resolution, with just one click. You can also browse a
given album and choose which photos to download. It provides a very
user-friendly PyGTK GUI, and is based on the Google Picasa API.

Changes: Updated documentation. A complete redesign of the GUI. Previews
for albums and for album contents. "Check for new version" has been added
to the Help menu. A new logo has been created and tuned. Selective download
for albums and photos. The Google API has been added to the source code;
installation is not needed anymore.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pycasa-download/

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[025] - Python-AD 0.9
by Geert Jansen (http://freshmeat.net/users/geertj/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 19:31

Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
System :: Networking :: LDAP

About: Python-AD is an AD client for the Python programming language. It
is built with Python-LDAP and provides some enhanced features such as
credential management, domain controller location, and transparent
multi-domain functionality.

Changes: The bug that would crash the locator in case multiple domain
controllers were present has been fixed. The rename() and modrdn()
operations have been added to the AD client.The ad.protocol.asn1 library
has some new features, including support for parsing object IDs.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[026] - QTGZManager 1.0beta4
by Alexandre Albuquerque Arnt (http://freshmeat.net/users/aaarnt/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:30

System :: Systems Administration

About: QTGZManager is a frontend to the Slackware pkgtools. It can compare
versions, install, reinstall, upgrade, downgrade, and remove packages. It
also converts RPMs to TGZs, shows the package contents and information, and
freezes or unfreezes a specific version.

Changes: Packages are filtered in the selected directory with hit or miss
color feedback. Ctrl + and Ctrl - respectively increases and decreases the
font size of package lists. The selected directory's name is shown on the
top of the first pane. The About box was reworked. More view arrangements
are available through four view buttons. The open konsole function (F4)
works on the selected directory. Package information is shown as a tooltip
when the mouse is over the package lists.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[027] - SAOImage DS9 5.4
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 03:25

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy

About: SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization
application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame
buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It
provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks and is highly
configurable and extensible. DS9 is a stand-alone application that requires
no installation or support files. It supports advanced features such as
multiple frame buffers, mosaic images, tiling, blinking, geometric markers,
colormap manipulation, scaling, arbitrary zoom, rotation, pan, and a
variety of coordinate systems.

Changes: This release removes support for Chandra Source Catalog by
request. It adds support for mask transparency and adds new mask
properties. It adds grid title support.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/saoimageds9/

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[028] - Search::Xapian 1.0.9.0
by Olly Betts (http://freshmeat.net/users/OllyBetts/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:49

Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Software Development :: Libraries :: Perl Modules

About: Search::Xapian is a Perl XS frontend to the Xapian C++ search
library. It is a fairly complete wrapper: most features of the Xapian
library are made available for use from Perl. Xapian is a highly adaptable
toolkit that allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search
facilities to their own applications. It supports the Probabilistic
Information Retrieval model as well as a rich set of boolean query
operators. It's fast and scalable to hundreds of millions of documents.

Changes: This release adds wrappers for the following functions in the
Xapian namespace: get_major_version(), get_minor_version(), get_revision(),
sortable_serialise(), and sortable_unserialise(). Makefile.PL now rejects
xapian-core versions earlier than 1.0 with an error rather than just a
warning.

License: Perl License

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

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[029] - Shared Scientific Toolbox in Java 1.04
by Roy Liu (http://freshmeat.net/users/royliu/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:03

Scientific/Engineering :: Image Recognition
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
System :: Networking

About: Shared Scientific Toolbox in Java is a library of quality
lightweight components for scientific/distributed computing that includes
the first true multidimensional array package in Java, a parallel data flow
engine, an asynchronous sockets layer, an annotation-driven class loader,
and more.

Changes: Logging has migrated to SLF4J. The build process for native
libraries has migrated to CMake for build system generation. Additional
backports of popular methods exclusive to the Java 1.6 foundation classes
have been added. Subtle class loader memory leaks have been fixed. Source
distributions have been consolidated into a single distribution featuring
Linux 32-bit, Linux 64-bit, and Windows 32-bit builds. Windows builds of
native libraries have been fixed to conform for JNIEXPORT, JNIIMPORT, and
JNICALL conventions. A README file has been added to all distributions.

License: OSI Approved

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

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[030] - Smitten 1.1
by Steven Goodwin (http://freshmeat.net/users/steevatbluedust/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 02:31

Home Automation
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Smitten differs from traditional media centres in three major ways.
It contains no media playback at all, which makes it very small (and
suitable for porting to embedded systems) and quick to initialize. It
targets a TV display and interface, which means there's less information on
any particular screen, and a much simpler control interface consisting of
left, right, up, down, and select. No mouse is required. It is also highly
skinnable, and cross-platform to most systems. Essentially, it provides an
easy-to-use menu system that allows the user to navigate a hierarchy of
files, and view them using an (external) tool.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[031] - Snort Alert Monitor 0.2.0
by Sam Freiberg (http://freshmeat.net/users/sfreiberg/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:43

Security

About: SAM is a real-time Snort alert monitor. It provides many ways to
indicate that you may be experiencing an intrusion attempt on your network,
including audio/visual warnings, email warnings, etc.

Changes: Postgres support was added. Online signature references were
added. UI cleanup was done. An about page was added that lists
contributors, libraries, and other contributions made directly and
indirectly.

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sam-snortalertmonitor/

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[032] - Socat 2.0.0-b2 (Beta)
by Gerhard Rieger (http://freshmeat.net/users/rieger/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 02:32

Utilities

About: Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two
independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe,
device (terminal or modem, etc.), socket (Unix, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP),
SSL, a client for SOCKS4, or proxy CONNECT. It supports broadcasts and
multicasts, abstract Unix sockets, Linux tun/tap, GNU readline, and PTYs.
It provides forking, logging, and dumping and different modes for
interprocess communication. Many options are available for tuning socat and
its channels. Socat can be used, for example, as a TCP relay (one-shot or
daemon), as a daemon-based socksifier, as a shell interface to Unix
sockets, as an IP6 relay, or for redirecting TCP-oriented programs to a
serial line.

Changes: The main enhancements are so-called address chains that
concatenate simple addresses. Address chains are similar to command shell
pipes, but work bidirectionally.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[033] - Subtitle Editor 0.26.0
by kitone (http://freshmeat.net/users/kitone/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 19:30

Multimedia :: Video
Utilities

About: Subtitle Editor is a GTK+2 tool to edit subtitles for
GNU/Linux/*BSD. It can be used for new subtitles or as a tool to transform,
edit, correct, and refine existing subtitles. It also shows sound waves,
which makes it easier to synchronize subtitles to voices.

Changes: Dependence on PCRE has been removed. There are fixes in
AdobeEncoreDVD, ASS/SSA, and MicroDVD formats. A default style is added if
the document doesn't have at least one when the file is saved (ASS/SSA).
Subtitle Editor now has a wiki.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[034] - teamGit 0.0.4
by Abhijit Bhopatkar (BAIN) (http://freshmeat.net/users/bainonline/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:34

About: TeamGit is a git GUI for small teams.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[035] - trad4 Beta04 (Documentation)
by schevans (http://freshmeat.net/users/schevans/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 07:20

Information Management
Office/Business :: Financial :: Investment
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: Trad4 is a fully concurrent, thread safe, graph based programming
language that scales linearly on multiple cores. It is initially intended
for deployment in the financial industry to model real-time risk. It is a
new way of arranging programs in memory and a new style of flow-of-control.

Changes: Native constants, enums, and structures have been documented.
Appendix C: general_computer has been ported from the version 1.0
documentation. The bond_risk documentation has been extended to include
repo_trade and fx_rate. A section on porting your existing software to the
trad4 architecture has been added.

License: Free For Educational Use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/trad4/

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[036] - Ubuntu Customization Kit 2.0.4
by Fabrizio Balliano (http://freshmeat.net/users/balliano/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 18:59

System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: Ubuntu Customization Kit is a tool that helps you to customize
official Ubuntu Live CDs (including Kubuntu/Xubuntu and Edubuntu) to your
needs. You can add any package to the live system, including language packs
and applications.

Changes: Initrd detection, ISO MIME type detection, and the languages list
were updated to Intrepid.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[037] - USVN 0.7.2
by Julien Duponchelle (http://freshmeat.net/users/noplay/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:27

Information Management :: Document Repositories
Software Development :: Version Control
Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion

About: Userfriendly SVN (USVN) is a Web-based interface to configure your
subversion repositories. This interface allows you to create new projects
without a command line client, and it requires priviliged access to the
server. USVN will take care of managing the list of users which are
authorized to check out source code. This allows you to delegate the
administration of your Subversion depots. USVN permits easy management of
access restriction on Subversion files.

Changes: This version fixes blocking bugs reported by users and adds minor
improvements. Project creation with Subversion 1.5 was fixed. A bug in
which all members would be gone after modifying a group was fixed.
Subversion URLs are now clickable. Files can be downloaded from the file
browser. New translations were made for Indonesian and Dutch.

License: The CeCILL License

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

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[038] - Weasel GNU/Linux 2.0.1
by Filip Brcic (http://freshmeat.net/users/brcha/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:17

System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: Weasel GNU/Linux is a KDE4-centric desktop distribution, using KDE
4.1.0. It is based on rPath Linux 2, which is based on RHEL 5.x. The core
distribution is meant to be fairly stable, and the GUI is mostly
bleeding-edge.

Changes: This version includes Conary 2.0.28, Linux kernel 2.6.26, GCC
4.1.2, Glibc 2.5, Xorg-X11 7.3, KDE 4.1.0, and Qt 4.4.0.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[039] - Web Auction 0.3.4
by Steve Hannah (http://freshmeat.net/users/shannah/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:31

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Office/Business :: Groupware

About: Web Auction is a simple auction designed for organizations or
individuals who want to hold an auction. It is unlike Ebay in the sense
that only administrators can add products. Products can have pictures,
price, minimum bids, bid increments, and more.

Changes: Glitches in timezones were fixed once and for all. A PHP 4
compatibility issue was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - wimpiggy 0.0.5
by Nathaniel Smith (http://freshmeat.net/users/njsmith/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 18:55

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Software Development :: User Interfaces

About: Wimpiggy is a library for writing EWMH-compliant, compositing
window managers using Python and GTK+. The goal is to make writing a window
manager as easy as writing a PyGTK application. This library can be used to
build a trivial, working window manager in only about 40 lines of code.

Changes: This release contains an assortment of small bugfixes for more
obscure corners of X (some race conditions, windows with non-zero
"borders", etc.), plus a switch to a more systematic logging system.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - WordPress Testing 2.7 Beta 1
by Dougal Campbell (http://freshmeat.net/users/emc3/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:13

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

About: WordPress is a state-of-the-art, semantic, personal publishing
platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It was
born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing
system. While primarily geared towards functioning as a Weblog, WordPress
is also a flexible CMS capable of managing many types of Web sites. In
addition to the basic blog functions, it also has an integrated link
manager (e.g. for blogrolls), file attachments, XFN support, support for
stand-alone pages, Atom and RSS feeds for both content and comments,
blogging API support (Atom Publishing Protocol, Blogger, MetaWeblog, and
Movable Type APIs), spam blocking features, advanced cruft-free URL
generation, a flexible theme system, and an advanced plugin API.

Changes: WordPress 2.7 has a newly redesigned administrative interface,
the result of much user feedback and testing. New features include a
built-in WP core upgrade function, plugin directory browser/installer, the
ability for child themes to override individual template files, sticky
posts, improved comment management, and much more.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[042] - Xapian and Omega 1.0.9
by Olly Betts (http://freshmeat.net/users/OllyBetts/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:49

Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Xapian is a search engine library, scalable to collections
containing hundreds of millions of documents. It's written in C++ with
bindings for Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C#, and Ruby. It is a highly
adaptable toolkit that allows developers to easily add advanced indexing
and search facilities to their own applications. It supports the
Probabilistic Information Retrieval model and also a rich set of boolean
query operators. Omega is a Web search application built upon the Xapian
library. It can index a Web server's document tree (including HTML, PDF,
OpenOffice, MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Works, WordPerfect, RTF, PS, etc.), or
data exported from arbitrary sources (e.g. SQL databases).

Changes: Spelling correction is now even faster. (A 15% speed up was
measured.) Two bugs caused by excess precision on x86 Linux have been
fixed. Query::MatchAll now gives equal weights to all documents. A crash
while compacting the spelling table has been fixed. The copydatabase
example now copies user metadata too. The omega CGI binary now catches and
reports std::exception.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[043] - Xataface 1.0.6
by Steve Hannah (http://freshmeat.net/users/shannah/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:31

Database
Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: Xataface is a flexible and shapable skin that sits on top of MySQL,
making it accessible to every-day users. It automatically generates the
appropriate forms, lists, and menus for a user to interact with the
database without having to know any SQL. It is a full-featured Web
application framework, and gives developers the flexibility to customize
the features and behavior of their application via configuration files
(using the simple INI-file syntax), templates, and plug-ins. A generic
application with no customizations is completely functional, but the
developer is free to customize things at his leisure.

Changes: renderCell() support was added for related lists. Bugs were
fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[044] - Xenomai 2.4.5
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 03:24

System :: Emulators

About: Xenomai is a realtime development framework cooperating with the
Linux kernel in order to provide pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard
realtime support to userspace applications, seamlessly integrated into the
GNU/Linux environment. Xenomai is based on an abstract RTOS core, usable
for building any kind of realtime interface, over a nucleus which exports a
set of generic RTOS services. Any number of RTOS personalities called
"skins" can then be built over the nucleus, providing their own specific
interface to the applications by using the services of a single generic
core to implement it.

Changes: Linux kernel support has been upgraded to kernel 2.6.26. Support
has been added for the MPC836x. There are numerous bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[045] - xpra 0.0.5
by Nathaniel Smith (http://freshmeat.net/users/njsmith/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 18:55

Desktop Environment :: Tools
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
Utilities

About: X Persistent Remote Applications (xpra) is "screen for X". It lets
you run applications remotely (like ordinary X or VNC), but unlike ordinary
X, these applications are "persistent" if you lose your connection, or even
if you want to switch to another computer. Also unlike VNC, they are
ordinary applications on your desktop managed by your window manager, not
trapped in a box.

Changes: This release contains several minor feature improvements (for
instance, mouse scroll wheels are now supported), but the main change is a
large number of bugfixes. Most importantly, keyboard input to Qt apps now
works, and robustness in general is greatly improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[046] - youtube-dl 2008.11.01
by rg3 (http://freshmeat.net/users/rg3/)
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 00:12

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Video

About: youtube-dl is a small command-line program for downloading videos
from YouTube.com.

Changes: This release fixes two small bugs: YouTube playlist entries are
now downloaded in order, and some locale-related TypeError exceptions have
been prevented.

License: Public Domain

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/youtube-dl/

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