Newsletter for Tuesday, November 11th 2008

The freshmeat daily newsletter <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:10:02 +0000 (UTC)

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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/2008/11/11/
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 (53) :::

[001] - Absolute OS 12.1.13
[002] - Asymptote 1.51
[003] - Botan 1.7.21 (Development)
[004] - Bugzero 5.6.5
[005] - Click Framework 1.5
[006] - Dada Mail 3.0.1 (Development)
[007] - DAKOTA 4.2
[008] - deco file extraction framework 1.5.7
[009] - dlib C++ Library 17.12
[010] - evtouch 0.8.8
[011] - FET 5.7.3
[012] - FreeRapid 0.71
[013] - Gammu 1.21.91 (Testing)
[014] - get_iplayer 1.00
[015] - GiftedMotion 1.5
[016] - gmanedit 0.4.2
[017] - Google To ITN r316
[018] - GroundWork Monitor Community Edition 5.1.3 alpha (Unstable)
[019] - GroundWork Monitor Community Edition 5.3 alpha (Unstable)
[020] - hdparm 9.3
[021] - J!Research 1.0 Stable
[022] - Jess 7.1p2 (Stable)
[023] - Joomla! 1.5.8 (1.5.x)
[024] - JOpt.SDK 2.2.6 (JOpt.NET)
[025] - JOpt.SDK 2.2.6 (JOpt.J2EE)
[026] - LibAxl 0.5.5
[027] - libexplain 0.2
[028] - Mahara 1.1.0beta2 (Development)
[029] - MIB Views 1.4.1
[030] - MiniG 0.391
[031] - Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.3.4
[032] - mod_auth_nufw 2.2.2
[033] - ns4 4.2.2
[034] - Opale 0.9
[035] - Open Computer Forensics Architecture 2.1.0pl2
[036] - OpenAFS 1.5.55 (Development)
[037] - OpenSSO Build 5 (Express)
[038] - OpenSSO 8.0 (Enterprise)
[039] - Pasang Emas 1.1
[040] - Perl Dynamic DNS (DDNS) Update Client 2008.1111
[041] - Poweradmin 2.1.2
[042] - ProBIND 1.0.3
[043] - queXF 1.3.0
[044] - Rounded PHP 2.0
[045] - rsyslog 3.21.7 (Beta)
[046] - Spey 0.5.pre1
[047] - SPTK 3.5.8.6
[048] - Sqlkit 0.8.3.1
[049] - Thread Safe Template Library 1.2.0
[050] - USB Network Daemon 0.2
[051] - Wing IDE 3.1.5
[052] - Xtwitter 0.1
[053] - YourKit Java Profiler 8.0-build4020 (EAP)

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[001] - Absolute OS 12.1.13
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 11:07

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 II and above,
including SMP systems. A minimum 128MB RAM is 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. There is a large range of software
available, including OpenOffice, Mplayer, GIMP, and K3B.

Changes: This release was updated to kernel 2.6.27.5, including recompiles
of ndiswrapper, madwifi, and svgalib_helper. There were also several
audio/video package updates. Xpdf replaces epdfview due to the latter's
fragility because of dependencies.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/absolute-os/

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[002] - Asymptote 1.51
by John Bowman (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcbowman/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 11:11

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: Support for the native glut library on Mac OS X now allows
Asymptote's adaptive OpenGL renderer to be used on all major platforms. The
OpenGL renderer now supports anti-aliasing. Rendering problems and normal
orientation issues were fixed. The up vector for embedded PRC output was
fixed. A viewportmargin parameter was added. File attachments now provide a
better way of embedding 3D PRC files in a LaTeX document. Support for
three-dimensional dimension bars was added. PenMargin3 and DotMargin3 were
fixed. The argument put=Above (put=Below) should now be replaced by
above=true (above=false).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - Botan 1.7.21 (Development)
by Jack Lloyd (http://freshmeat.net/users/randombit/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:53

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms, including AES,
DES, SHA-1, RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, and many others. It also supports
X.509 certificates and CRLs, and PKCS #10 certificate requests, and has a
high level filter/pipe message processing system. The library is easily
portable to most systems and compilers, and includes a substantial tutorial
and API reference.

Changes: This release adds the ability for applications to query which
implementations of an algorithm Botan supports and acquire objects from
chosen implementations, as well as a microbenchmark system for easily
comparing the different available implementations at runtime. The HMAC_RNG
reseed logic was altered, increasing both performance and security.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[004] - Bugzero 5.6.5
by Samuel Chen (http://freshmeat.net/users/billhen/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 11:05

Communications :: Email
Database :: Front-Ends
Information Management

About: Bugzero is a Web-based bug tracking, defect tracking, issue
tracking, and change management system used in a distributed team
environment to track software bugs, hardware defects, test cases, or any
other issues. It can also be used equally well as a helpdesk customer
support, trouble ticketing, or email management system to collect and
manage customer feedbacks, incidents, requests, and issues. It is easy to
use, but still flexible and adaptive, and can be configured to fit to your
organization's unique business process and workflow.

Changes: A bug in sequence number generation was fixed.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[005] - Click Framework 1.5
by Bob Schellink (http://freshmeat.net/users/bobschellink/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:52

About: Click Framework is a modern JEE Web application framework providing
a natural rich client style programming model. It is designed to be very
easy to learn and use, with developers getting up and running within a day.
It also supports automatic component rendering, client/server side
validation, full localization, and multiple template engines (currently
Velocity, JSP, and FreeMarker).

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[006] - Dada Mail 3.0.1 (Development)
by justin simoni (http://freshmeat.net/users/skazat/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 07:19

Communications :: Email :: Mailing List Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: Dada Mail is an intuitive, Web-based email list management system,
which runs on any hosting account that can execute custom CGI scripts. Dada
Mail is also a conceptual art project. Dada Mail handles double
opt-in/opt-out subscriptions, and can send complex announce-only and/or
discussion mailing list messages. It also provides archiving, viewing,
searching, resending, and syndicating (through RSS or Atom) sent messages.
Dada Mail produces valid XHTML and sticks to best practices when creating
email messages.

Changes: This release features over 20 bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - DAKOTA 4.2
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:23

Software Development

About: DAKOTA (Design Analysis Kit for Optimization and Terascale
Applications) is a general-purpose software toolkit for performing systems
analysis and design on high performance computers. It provides algorithms
for design optimization, uncertainty quantification, parameter estimation,
design of experiments, and sensitivity analysis, as well as a range of
parallel computing and simulation interfacing services.

Changes: A new stochastic collocation method based on Lagrange
interpolation. Extended quadrature and sparse grid capabilities. Additional
random variable support in LHS and Nataf transformation. Generalized
incremental Monte Carlo sampling. Extended polynomial chaos-based design
optimization capability. New capabilities for model calibration under
uncertainty. Enhanced parallelism in sequential hybrid strategy. A direct
interface to APPSPACK with support for linear/nonlinear constraints.
Improved support for Darwin PPC and Cygwin platforms, Intel and PGI
compilers, and OpenMPI message passing.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - deco file extraction framework 1.5.7
by P. Hartlich (http://freshmeat.net/users/phartlich/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:02

System :: Archiving

About: deco is a command-line program that, together with the deco-archive
package, allows you to extract dozens of popular archive file formats. It
has a consistent interface ("deco 1.tar.bz2 2.rar 3.zip 4.flac 5.deb") and
consistent behavior (never deleting archives after extraction and
extracting relative to the current working directory, just verbosely
enough, all unless explicitly requested otherwise). It creates an
extraction directory if there is more than one file or directory at the
archive top level, and it is able to fix strange permissions.

Changes: A rather theoretical bug concerning the extraction of symbolic
links was fixed. The code has been cleaned up.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/deco-framework/

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[009] - dlib C++ Library 17.12
by Davis King (http://freshmeat.net/users/davis685/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 14:34

Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Software Development :: Libraries

About: dlib C++ library is a modern general C++ library with a focus on
portability and program correctness. It comes with extensive documentation
and thorough debugging modes. The library provides a platform abstraction
layer for common tasks such as interfacing with network services, handling
threads, and creating graphical user interfaces. Additionally, the library
implements many useful algorithms such as data compression routines, linked
lists, binary search trees, linear algebra and matrix utilities, machine
learning algorithms, XML and general text parsing, and many other general
utilities.

Changes: This release was focused on fixing bugs and improving usability.
It also adds a thread pool class to assist users in taking advantage of a
fixed number of CPU cores.

License: Boost Software License

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

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[010] - evtouch 0.8.8
by Conan (http://freshmeat.net/users/kenan/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 11:09

About: evtouch aims at integration of pointer support for the Linux 2.6
event interface to X.

Changes: This version works with the current Xorg. A RandR-Rotation bug
was fixed.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[011] - FET 5.7.3
by Liviu Lalescu (http://freshmeat.net/users/LalescuLiviu/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:25

Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence

About: FET (free timetabling tool) automatically schedules the timetable
of a school, high school, or university. It aims to have the same
functionality as expensive scheduling programs.

Changes: This release modifies the spreading activities dialog. Now the
activities split into 2 and 3 not in consecutive days is by default not
checked, because this might lead to impossible timetables for difficult
files. If you want spreading for these activities, you need to manually
select this option.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - FreeRapid 0.71
by Vity (http://freshmeat.net/users/Vity01/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 04:34

Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: FreeRapid is a simple Java downloader for Rapidshare and other file
share archives. It has support for concurrent dwnloading from multiple
services, and is able to use a proxy list. Code also contains a simple API
for adding other services like plugins.

Changes: This version includes Hungarian, German, and Spanish
translations. New plugins for hosters were added: HellShare.com,
QuickShare.cz, and FileBase.to. CAPTCHA recognition for megaupload.com was
implemented.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[013] - Gammu 1.21.91 (Testing)
by Michal &#268;iha&#345; (http://freshmeat.net/users/nijel/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 14:40

Communications :: Telephony
Utilities

About: Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is a cellular manager for
various mobile phones/modems. It supports a wide variety of Nokia, Symbian,
and AT devices (Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, Samsung, SE, and
others) over cables, infrared, or BlueTooth. It contains libraries with
functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm,
calls, and more (used by external applications like Wammu). It also
includes a command line utility that can make many things (including
backups) and an SMS gateway with full MySQL and PostgreSQL support from the
PHP interface.

Changes: Initialization of AT phones in some corner cases was fixed. The
FBUS protocol can reinitialize on failure. Working support for OBEX on
Siemens phones was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - get_iplayer 1.00
by Linuxcentre (http://freshmeat.net/users/linuxcentre/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 04:39

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video

About: get_iplayer allows a user to download or stream any iPlayer program
from the BBC in H.264 (Quicktime/mp4) format, any radio programs in MP3 or
RealAudio format (optionally converted to WAV or MP3), and all podcasts in
MP3/AAC format. It even downloads the subtitles where available.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[015] - GiftedMotion 1.5
by Patrick Ahlbrecht (http://freshmeat.net/users/PatrickAhlbrecht/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 21:54

Desktop Environment :: Tools
Multimedia :: Graphics

About: GiftedMotion is a small and easy-to-use GIF animator. If you need a
simple way to turn a series of still images into an animation to be
displayed on a Web page without the hassle of learning how to use a
full-blown graphics suite, then GiftedMotion is probably the tool for you.

Changes: The image loading dialog now features a preview and the ability
to set a default time to show for each frame.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - gmanedit 0.4.2
by Joop Stakenborg (http://freshmeat.net/users/pa3aba/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 18:19

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Software Development

About: The GNOME Manpages Editor (gmanedit) is an editor for man pages
that runs on X with the help of GTK+.

Changes: This release fixes several crashes and buffer overflows.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - Google To ITN r316
by Robert Lange (http://freshmeat.net/users/maddogII/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:52

Utilities

About: Google2Itn converts a Google Maps URL to a TomTom Route file. It
takes all waypoints from the URL and creates an ITN entry for each. Thus
it's possible to plan your trips in Google Maps and then transfer the
generated ITN file to your TomTom navigation handheld.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/google2itn/

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[018] - GroundWork Monitor Community Edition 5.1.3 alpha (Unstable)
by Amy Abascal (http://freshmeat.net/users/webmistress/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 21:56

System :: Diagnostics
System :: Hardware
System :: Logging

About: GroundWork Monitor Community Edition can give you insight into your
computing infrastructure, allowing you to see the current and historical
states of all your computers: servers, desktops, and laptops, all of your
network devices, all of your services (like TCP/IP and Web services), and
all of your applications (like mail servers and database apps). You can
choose to be alerted when something goes awry via pager, SMS, email, or
phone, and even set up automatic restarts or fall-overs.

Changes: Better performance out of the same package. By leveraging Nagios
3, you should see a significant performance increase from GWMCE 5.2
versions with active checks. New packaging, including an installation
wizard and fewer prerequisites, should lower your blood pressure and
chances of having a faulty install. The notification service will alert you
of important updates, helping to keep your monitoring system healthy. The
alpha release is designed for development and testing environments.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[019] - GroundWork Monitor Community Edition 5.3 alpha (Unstable)
by Amy Abascal (http://freshmeat.net/users/webmistress/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:00

System :: Diagnostics
System :: Hardware
System :: Logging

Changes: Better performance out of the same package. By leveraging Nagios
3, you should see a significant performance increase from GWMCE 5.2
versions with active checks. New packaging, including an installation
wizard and fewer prerequisites, should lower your blood pressure and
chances of having a faulty install. A notification service will alert you
of important updates, helping to keep your monitoring system healthy. This
alpha release is designed for development and testing environments.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[020] - hdparm 9.3
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 21:57

System :: Hardware
Utilities

About: hdparm is a Linux shell utility for viewing and manipulating
various IDE drive and driver parameters. Most drives can benefit from
improved performance using a command similar to "hdparm -qm8 -qu1 -qc1 -qd1
/dev/hda".

Changes: Support for Device Configuration Overlay was added, with the new
flags "--dco-freeze", "--dco-identify", and "--dco-restore". A firmware
download capability was implemented. Supposedly obsolete "cache/buffer
size" reporting was added to "-I". New "--idle-immediate" and
"--idle-unload" flags were implemented. Kernel bugs associated with "-N"
are now detected and reported.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[021] - J!Research 1.0 Stable
by Luis Galárraga (http://freshmeat.net/users/lgalarra/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 04:39

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

About: J! Research is a component for Joomla! 1.5 that allows for
management of research-related work such as publications, projects, and
theses categorized by research area.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[022] - Jess 7.1p2 (Stable)
by Ernest Friedman-Hill (http://freshmeat.net/users/ejfried/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 18:27

Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Jess is a fast, light rule engine and scripting environment written
entirely in Java. You can build Java software that has the capacity to
"reason" using knowledge you supply in the form of declarative rules. It is
supplied as a programmer's library, making it ideal for embedding in larger
applications. Jess includes development tools built on the Eclipse
platform. It is free for academic use and can be licensed for commercial
use.

Changes: This release enhances the QueryResult class, and fixes bugs in
slot-specific, no-loop, and salience evaluation in peered engines.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[023] - Joomla! 1.5.8 (1.5.x)
by Joomla! Developers (http://freshmeat.net/users/joomladevs/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:11

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

About: Joomla! is an award-winning Web-based content management system. It
provides for split front end content access and backend administrator
access. Group-based access control allows for different levels of system
control for both the site and the administrator. The Joomla! framework
allows for extension by installable components (applications), modules
(template blocks), languages, templates, and mambots (plugins that enhance
system functions).

Changes: Two moderate-level security issues have been fixed. There are
performance improvements for sites with many menu items. Administrator
modules now correctly uninstall INI files.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[024] - JOpt.SDK 2.2.6 (JOpt.NET)
by dnaevolutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/dnaevolutions/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 04:31

Office/Business :: Scheduling
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: JOpt.SDK is an automated vehicle routing and dispatching component
for both Java/J2SE and .NET. It can solve Travelling Salesman Problems
(TSP) and Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows
(CVRP,VRPTW). It offers route and transport optimisation with respect to
various constraints such as time windows, load capacities, and prescribed
itinerary. The component is based on genetic algorithms, and automatically
determines an optimized allocation of vehicels to an arbitrary set of
orders.

Changes: This release has an additional construction algorithm in order to
better (faster) cope with heterogeneous fleet problems.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[025] - JOpt.SDK 2.2.6 (JOpt.J2EE)
by dnaevolutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/dnaevolutions/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 18:39

Office/Business :: Scheduling
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

Changes: This release has an additional construction algorithm in order to
better (faster) cope with heterogeneous fleet problems.

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[026] - LibAxl 0.5.5
by Advanced Software Production Line (http://freshmeat.net/users/aspl/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 14:30

Software Development :: Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: LibAxl is an efficient implementation of the XML 1.0 standard
specification. It doesn't have any external library dependencies, having a
clean implementation based on opaque types and a consistent API to
manipulate your XML documents without compromising your code. It is
extremely memory efficient and thread safe with a small footprint (111k).
It also includes XML Namespaces support.

Changes: This release includes improvements for C++ users. The
axl-bool-removal-02 change notification was applied.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[027] - libexplain 0.2
by Peter Miller (http://freshmeat.net/users/pmiller/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 02:14

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.

Changes: Coverage now includes chmod(2), chown(2), dup(2), fchdir(2),
fchmod(2), fstat(2), ftruncate(2), fwrite(3), mkdir(2), readdir(3),
readlink(2), remove(3), rmdir(2), and truncate(2). The lsof(1) command is
used to obtain supplementary file information on those systems with limited
/proc implementations.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[028] - Mahara 1.1.0beta2 (Development)
by Mahara (http://freshmeat.net/users/maharateam/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 04:36

Education
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Mahara is fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume
builder, and social networking system for connecting users and creating
online communities.

Changes: A number of bugfixes and minor features, including support for
internally authenticated users to change their usernames, making Views
accessible to logged-out users at a cryptic URL, embedding flash videos and
Javascript from selected trusted sites, and support for public groups with
forums that are visible to logged out users.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[029] - MIB Views 1.4.1
by Muonics, Inc. (http://freshmeat.net/users/muonics/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:37

System :: Networking
System :: Systems Administration

About: MIB Views is an entry-level SNMP management application providing
an easy to use tabbed interface with several SNMP tools. The tools are
based partly on those bundled in MIB Smithy, with a more consolidated GUI
and new features. The suite includes MIB Browser (Tree View), SNMP Query,
Table View, SNMP Walk, and Trap Watch tools, with more tools and plugin
features in the works. MIB Views supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3, with
MD5 and SHA authentication and DES encryption.

Changes: This version is built with Tcl/Tk 8.4.19, which fixes a crash on
startup with newer versions of Mac OS X. New icons were added for Unix
platforms, and the Tree View's handling of lexicographic errors in agents
was improved.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[030] - MiniG 0.391
by Thomas Cataldo (http://freshmeat.net/users/tcataldo/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 18:33

About: MiniG (Mini Gmail) is an AJAX Webmail for the OBM groupware
solution. Its user interface is designed to feel like GMail. MiniG can work
with any Cyrus IMAP server.

Changes: This releases has major stability fixes when moving email
messages. It adds drag and drop support for moving conversations, email
conversation previews, templates and starred email support, and many user
interface fixes. For the first time, Debian packages of a complete OBM +
MiniG architecture are available.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[031] - Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.3.4
by Eduardo Aguiar (http://freshmeat.net/users/aguiar/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:25

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: Two new extensions have been created. The GtkUI extension
abstracts UI coding, and the Date Code extension translates the hard disk's
datecode to date format. Icon renderization codes have been unified.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - mod_auth_nufw 2.2.2
by Vincent Deffontaines (http://freshmeat.net/users/gryzor/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 11:06

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

About: mod_auth_nufw is a Single Sign On Apache module which performs
secure user identification and authentication, based on the Nufw
firewalling suite. Nufw marks all connections of a network with a unique
UserID. This module takes advantage of that mark and uses it to
transparently identify and authenticate users requiring access to an Apache
server.

Changes: Support for compiling on 64-bit architectures, support for IPv6
mapped IPv4 addresses, better error messages in the log when the database
is unreachable, a fix for a small memory leak, and other bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - ns4 4.2.2
by Chris Mason (http://freshmeat.net/users/chrimaso/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 11:06

Internet
System :: Archiving
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: ns4 is a command line configuration management tool that runs on a
Unix or Windows based operating system. It allows the automated backup of
node (i.e. routers and switches) configurations to an FTP/SFTP server or
local media on a daily basis to create configuration archives. It can run
ad-hoc commands on multiple nodes as well as custom scripts for automating
complex tasks. It uses Perl and allows you to manipulate the output of
commands using regular expressions within scripts. Configuration based
cartridges are used to specify new node types, allowing the user to extend
its functionality in a simple and dynamic way.

Changes: This release improves support for running ns4 under Windows. To
help simplify the installation under Windows, an installer has now been
provided to install the necessary Cygwin runtime files on the system. There
were also a couple of regression bugfixes.

License: Free for non-commercial use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ns4/

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[034] - Opale 0.9
by Thomas Capricelli (http://freshmeat.net/users/orzel/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 04:41

Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting

About: Opale is a simple personal finance manager and planning tool. It
can work with Qt-only (Linux, Windows, and Mac OS) or KDE (Linux only). It
provides graphs and pie charts. The file format is XML-based.

Changes: This release has been ported to Qt4/KDE 4, and ported/tested
under Windows. It fixes several long-standing bugs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - Open Computer Forensics Architecture 2.1.0pl2
by klpd (http://freshmeat.net/users/klpd/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 11:05

About: The Open Computer Forensics Architecture (OCFA) is a modular
computer forensics framework to automate the digital forensic process, to
speed up the investigation and give tactical investigators direct access to
the seized data through an easy to use search and browse interface. The
architecture forms an environment where existing forensic tools and
libraries can be easily plugged into the architecture and can thus be made
part of the recursive extraction of data and metadata from digital
evidence. It aims to be highly modular, robust, fault tolerant, recursive,
and scalable in order to be usable in large investigations that spawn
numerous terabytes of evidence data and cover hundreds of evidence items.

Changes: Problems with bogus CVS tags that resulted in problems with
installing the previous patchlevel release were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - OpenAFS 1.5.55 (Development)
by Edgester (http://freshmeat.net/users/edgester/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 04:33

Communications :: File Sharing
System :: Filesystems

About: AFS is a distributed filesystem which offers a client-server
architecture, transparent data migration abilities, scalability, a single
namespace, and integrated ancillary subsystems.

Changes: This release fixes a panic caused by corruption of the SMB
virtual circuit list (race condition). It fixes a panic caused by receipt
of a UTF-16 string that cannot be converted to UTF-8. It adds support for
linked cells. and increases the length of the cell and realm names for
Network Identity Manager dialogs. Under Linux, there is support for 2.6.28
(except NFS translator modules), and support for using the exportfs API.
This release avoids deadlocks when writing back mmapped files larger than
the cache, and avoids an oops when doing PAG garbage collection.

License: IBM Public License

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

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[037] - OpenSSO Build 5 (Express)
by Paul C. Bryan (http://freshmeat.net/users/pbryan/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 07:15

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Security

About: The Open Web SSO project (OpenSSO) provides core identity services
to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a
security component in a network infrastructure. OpenSSO provides the
foundation for integrating diverse Web applications that might typically
operate against a disparate set of identity repositories and are hosted on
a variety of platforms such as Web and application servers. This project is
based on the code base of Sun Java System Access Manager.

Changes: Simplified installation and configuration, centralized server and
agent configuration, OpenSSO Enterprise Administration Console Common
Tasks, Simplified Web Services Security agents, WS-Federation support,
support for XACML version 2.0, Secure Authentication and Attribute
Exchange, SAMLv2 profile support, a Security Token Service (STS), SAMLv2
assertion failover, a new command-line utility (ssoadm), support for
Service Tags, internationalization and localization changes, and Unix,
SecurID, and SafeWord authentication modules.

License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)

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

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[038] - OpenSSO 8.0 (Enterprise)
by Paul C. Bryan (http://freshmeat.net/users/pbryan/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 18:25

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Security

Changes: Simplified installation and configuration. Centralized server and
agent configuration, OpenSSO Enterprise Administration Console Common
Tasks. Simplified Web Services Security agents. WS-Federation support.
Support for XACML version 2.0. Secure Authentication and Attribute
Exchange. SAMLv2 profile support. A Security Token Service (STS). SAMLv2
assertion failover. A new command line utility (ssoadm). Support for
Service Tags. Internationalization and localization changes. Unix, SecurID,
and SafeWord authentication modules.

License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)

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

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[039] - Pasang Emas 1.1
by Nor Jaidi Tuah (http://freshmeat.net/users/norjaidi/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 11:05

Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy

About: Pasang Emas is an implementation of Pasang, a traditional
two-player board game of Brunei. The game starts with a board full of
tokens. The players take turn capturing these tokens. The player with the
most tokens wins.

Changes: Cosmetic change to pattern selection buttons, buttons for
generating and selecting random patterns, and a fix for a crash bug related
to "undo" not resetting things properly.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pasang-emas/

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[040] - Perl Dynamic DNS (DDNS) Update Client 2008.1111
by Jari Aalto (http://freshmeat.net/users/jaalto/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 14:47

About: Perl-dyndns is project to provide a cross-platform solution for
DHCP ISP-connected users who can obtain permanent DNS, MX, and Web hosting
service from a DDNS provider. Among others, it supports dyndns.org on Win32
and Linux.

Changes: BEFW11S4 Cisco v4 support was added. The standard Perl
Makefile.PL is used. The installation was improved and many bugs were
fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/perl-dyndns/

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[041] - Poweradmin 2.1.2
by Rejo Zenger (http://freshmeat.net/users/rejozenger/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 18:28

Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: Poweradmin is a friendly Web-based DNS administration tool for Bert
Hubert's PowerDNS server. The interface has full support for most of the
features of PowerDNS including all zone types (master, native, and slave),
supermasters for automatic provisioning of slave zones, full support for
IPv6, and support for multiple languages.

Changes: This release fixes a security issue with potential privilege
escalation for normal users under certain conditions. Additionally, it
fixes a number of smaller bugs.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[042] - ProBIND 1.0.3
by youngmug (http://freshmeat.net/users/youngmug/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 04:30

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
System :: Networking

About: ProBIND is a Web application designed for managing the DNS zones
for one or more servers running the ISC BIND DNS server software. It works
best for companies that need to manage a medium-sized pool of domains
across a set of servers.

Changes: Multiple bugs have been fixed, and some code has been cleaned up.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[043] - queXF 1.3.0
by Adam Zammit (DCARF) (http://freshmeat.net/users/azammitdcarf/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 04:38

Office/Business
Scientific/Engineering

About: queXF (pronounced kweks-eff) takes scanned paper forms generated
using queXML and reads them. Operators can then verify that queXF has read
the form correctly. Once this is done, the data collected can be exported
in a fixed width ASCII file with a DDI data description. queXF can be used
as an alternative to programs such as Cardiff Teleform and Remark OMR, in
some situations. It removes the need to manually enter form data, therefore
reducing error and fatigue. It does OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) on each
form to determine if boxes have been filled, and can use Tesseract OCR to
determine what characters have been entered into boxes.

Changes: Interactive banding of forms (faster, using AJAX, thanks to
Prototype JS and Rectangular Marquee Tool). More accurate barcode
detection. All pages are XHTML 1.1 compliant. Page size modifications are
possible in config.inc.php. Banding zooming works without resetting the
page.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[044] - Rounded PHP 2.0
by Al (http://freshmeat.net/users/nak5ive/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 07:16

About: Rounded PHP is an API for creating perfect anti-aliased rounded
corner images on the fly. Using the internal GD library in PHP 5+ and a
simple set of query variables, a developer will have little need to store
many different rounded corner images to use around a Web site.

Changes: The API now has the capability to adjust color opacities (in PNG
format) and transparency in GIF formats. This is a major update. Each color
(foreground, background, and border colors) can have a different opacity
level. Installation has also been made easier by packing all of the
necessary scripts into one file.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[045] - rsyslog 3.21.7 (Beta)
by Rainer Gerhards (http://freshmeat.net/users/rgerhards/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 18:29

System :: Logging

About: Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd. Among others, it
offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable syslog over TCP, SSL,
TLS, and RELP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and many
more), email alerting, fully configurable output formats (including
high-precision timestamps), the ability to filter on any part of the syslog
message, on-the-wire message compression, and the ability to convert text
files to syslog. It is a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd and able to
work with the same configuration file syntax.

Changes: This version brings all features of the current development to
the beta branch. It also contains one new addition: the ability to replace
a not found regular expression match with a zero. This can be useful for
storing numerical values into databases. This is a recommended update for
all beta branch users.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[046] - Spey 0.5.pre1
by David Given (http://freshmeat.net/users/dgtaocouk/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 14:44

Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents

About: Spey is an SMTP proxy that sits between your existing mail server
and the outside world, blocking spam using a greylisting technique. It is
simple, lightweight, easy to install and configure, requires minimal
changes to your existing mail server, is completely independent of which
mail server you're using, and extremely effective. The author's spam intake
has dropped from over a hundred messages a day to about 5. It uses the
Sqlite database library as a backend.

Changes: This version adds proper support for AUTH, now handled entirely
by spey, to allow accredited users to bypass the greylist. In addition, a
number of serious bugs have been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[047] - SPTK 3.5.8.6
by Ilya VE (http://freshmeat.net/users/iluxa/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 11:08

Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Widget Sets

About: SPTK (Simply Powerful Toolkit) is a cross-platform toolkit that
provides a set of C++ classes for fast and easy application development. It
provides GUI components that use FLTK, and features database support with
seamless connection to GUI components. There are drivers for use of SQLite
and PostgreSQL directly, as well as support for other database engines
through UnixODBC. SPTK includes many classes for working with strings,
dynamic arrays, and maps, and is faster and has a smaller footprint than
STL. It also supports reading, writing, and creating Excel 7 files,
high-level GUI components with dataset support, support for automatic
layouts, and support for Aspell.

Changes: Many fixes were made. The most important one was an exception
thrown when calling PostgreSQL stored functions returning void. Now, when
compiled with PostgreSQL 8.2 or later, the exception doesn't happen.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sptk2/

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[048] - Sqlkit 0.8.3.1
by Sandro Dentella (http://freshmeat.net/users/sandro_dentella/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 11:04

Database :: API
Database :: Front-Ends

About: Sqlkit is PyGtk package that provides Mask and Table widgets for
editing database data. It is meant to be used as a base for database
desktop applications. It also provides 'sqledit', an application that can
be used from the command line to browse and edit data.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[049] - Thread Safe Template Library 1.2.0
by Slava I. Levtchenko (http://freshmeat.net/users/sll/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 18:26

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Operating System Kernels
System :: Operating System Kernels :: BSD

About: Thread Safe Template Library (TSTL) is a C++ library that provides
thread-safe storage data structures without global locking. It includes
classes for maps based on a non-binary extensible hashing tree for very
fast access, a pipe, a queue, a timercache, a limitcache, and a fast writer
multiple reader guard (WMRG) without global locking (which uses the
interlocked instruction set of the CPU). It's useful for writing
multithreaded applications and operating system components.

Changes: A new class 'relocker' was added. It's an implementation of a
re-enterable locker with two locking politics: waitable locker and spin
locker.

License: Freeware

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

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[050] - USB Network Daemon 0.2
by SCAPS (http://freshmeat.net/users/SCAPS/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 07:15

Internet
Software Development
System :: Hardware

About: The USB Network Daemon is an application that makes a USB interface
available over the network as transparently as possible. Because the data
structures that are accepted by the daemon are similar to the direct USB
calls of a well-known USB driver vendor, the (additional) implementation of
the network interface can be done easily. Because of that, applications can
be adapted for both local direct and remote network USB accesses easily.

Changes: The vendor and product ID of the handled devices can now be set
via the configuration file. The daemon now handles up to six devices of the
configured types at the same time.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[051] - Wing IDE 3.1.5
by Stephan Deibel (http://freshmeat.net/users/sdeibel/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 22:26

Software Development
Software Development :: Debuggers
Text Editors

About: Wing IDE is a development environment for Python. It provides
powerful editing, code intelligence, testing, debugging, and search
capabilities that reduce development and debugging time, cut down on coding
errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python code.

Changes: This release avoids auto-starting batch searches when a project
is opened, fixes several vi mode problems, adds a 'watch' item to the
editor context menu, recognizes the type of 'x' in 'from x import y',
allows the debugger to start even if replacing sys.stdin fails, stores the
list of test files in the shared project file (*.wpr), and makes about 16
other minor bugfixes.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[052] - Xtwitter 0.1
by Tsukasa Hamano (http://freshmeat.net/users/hamano/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 14:42

About: Xtwitter is very tiny twitter client for the X Window System.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[053] - YourKit Java Profiler 8.0-build4020 (EAP)
by YourKit Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/YourKitTeam/)
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 14:38

Software Development
Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: YourKit Java Profiler is a CPU and memory profiler that makes it
easy to solve wide range of CPU- and memory-related performance problems.
It features automatic leak detection, powerful tools for the analysis of
memory distribution, an object heap browser, comprehensive memory tests as
part of your JUnit testing process, extremely low profiling overhead,
transparent deobfuscation support, and integration with Eclipse, JBuilder,
IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and JDeveloper IDEs.

Changes: The "Class loaders" view, which shows objects grouped by class
loader, was implemented. A graph with thread status telemetry is
automatically scrolled when the mouse is dragged to the left or right side.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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