Newsletter for Sunday, November 30th 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/2008/11/30/
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 (44) :::

[001] - 'Q' DVD-Author 1.6.0
[002] - Apache SQL analyser 1.1
[003] - bdec 0.4.1
[004] - bnIRC 1.0
[005] - Bugzilla 3.2 (Stable)
[006] - convmv 1.13
[007] - Coreboot 3782
[008] - Ctalk 0.0.89a
[009] - Cyphesis 0.5.18
[010] - dreambox-api 1.0
[011] - Email 3.1.0
[012] - Eqonomize! 0.6
[013] - ERDmpd 0.8
[014] - FBZX 2.0
[015] - Find 'Em All 1.1
[016] - Flickcurl 1.7
[017] - gFTP 2.0.19
[018] - GLPI 0.71.3
[019] - Gnome Music Player Client 0.17.0-beta1
[020] - GNUmed 0.3.8 (Stable)
[021] - GraphicsMagick 1.3.2
[022] - gWaei 0.9.0
[023] - J-Ben 1.2.2
[024] - JOpt.SDK 2.2.7 (JOpt.J2EE)
[025] - jQuery Timecloud 1.1
[026] - Kanatest 0.4.6
[027] - libmpd 0.17.0-beta1
[028] - libnetfilter_conntrack 0.0.98
[029] - msn-pecan 0.0.17
[030] - Openchart2 1.4.2
[031] - p7zip 4.61
[032] - Paludis 0.32.0
[033] - PCI Utilities 3.0.3
[034] - PowerDNS daemon 2.9.22-rc2 (Stable)
[035] - Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.19
[036] - rpm2html 1.9.7 (Development)
[037] - Shared Scientific Toolbox in Java 1.05
[038] - Veejay 1.4.3
[039] - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.2.3
[040] - Webware for Python 1.0
[041] - When 1.1.15
[042] - xen-shell 1.9
[043] - Yabause 0.9.8
[044] - Zero Install Injector 0.37

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[001] - 'Q' DVD-Author 1.6.0
by 'Q' DVD-Author (http://freshmeat.net/users/QDVDAuthor/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:40

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Multimedia :: Video
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion

About: 'Q' DVD-Author is a GUI frontent for dvdauthor and related tools.
The goal is to provide an easy-to-use, yet powerful and complete interface
to generate DVD menus, slideshows, and videos to burn on a DVD under Linux.

Changes: This release focuses on major improvements to the Slideshow parts
and proper handling of VIDs as part of the slideshows. The FewClickWizards
functionality is now complete, and overall slideshow generation is now
fully integrated in QDVDAuthor.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[002] - Apache SQL analyser 1.1
by Steve Kemp (http://freshmeat.net/users/skx/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:27

Internet :: Log Analysis

About: asql allows you to run SQL queries against log files formatted in
the Apache common log file format. You may load multiple log files into a
session, then run queries using a full SQL implementation, to find things
such as the most common referers to your site, the greediest downloaders,
and much more. Internally, each log file is parsed and imported into a
temporary SQLite database, so performance is very good.

Changes: This release updates the script such that it may be executed
non-interactively from within cron jobs, without a controlling terminal.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[003] - bdec 0.4.1
by Henry Ludemann (http://freshmeat.net/users/henryl/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 15:21

Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: bdec allows you to write specifications for existing binary formats
in a flexible XML based syntax, and have C decoders automatically generated
for you. It supports decoding to XML or Python objects, as well as
generating quality C decoders.

Changes: The project can be compiled to an egg (including templates). The
generated C can be used from C++ programs (e.g. extern c). 'bdecode' and
'bcompile' are installed as part of the egg install. Generated C language
type names are consistent across runs.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[004] - bnIRC 1.0
by Brandon Niemczyk (http://freshmeat.net/users/maccorin/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:48

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: bnIRC is an ncurses IRC client and a framework for programmers. It
utilizes plugins for most of its functionality and supports scripting in
Python.

Changes: Many bugfixes. The addition of Debian binary builds. Some minor
feature enhancements. This is the first release to be considered stable.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Bugzilla 3.2 (Stable)
by Max Kanat-Alexander (http://freshmeat.net/users/avatraxiom/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 10:05

Database :: Front-Ends
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Office/Business

About: Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking
system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat, and
NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields, attachment
management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of changes, a
powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email, and console
interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based UI. The user UI is
customizable using templates.

Changes: An enormous number of features were added, including some user
interface enhancements, custom statuses, new custom field types, Oracle
support, and lots of other improvements.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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

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[006] - convmv 1.13
by Björn JACKE (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjoernjacke/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:50

About: convmv converts filenames (not file content), directories, and
even whole filesystems to a different encoding. This comes in very handy
if, for example, one switches from an 8-bit locale to an UTF-8 locale or
changes charsets on Samba servers. It has some smart features: it
automagically recognises if a file is already UTF-8 encoded (thus partly
converted filesystems can be fully moved to UTF-8) and it also takes care
of symlinks. Additionally, it is able to convert from normalization form C
(UTF-8 NFC) to NFD and vice-versa. This is important for interoperability
with Mac OS X, for example, which uses NFD, while Linux and most other
Unixes use NFC. Though it's primary written to convert from/to UTF-8 it can
also be used with almost any other charset encoding. Convmv can also be
used for case conversion from upper to lower case and vice versa with
virtually any charset. Note that this is a command line tool which requires
at least Perl version 5.8.0.

Changes: This release adds a new parseable mode, an option to better fix
double UTF-8 encoded files, and the ability to preserve timestamps. Some
minor things have been polished.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - Coreboot 3782
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 11:53

System :: Boot

About: Coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a project that aims to
replace the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a
payload. Payloads can include a compressed Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2,
OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for
booting Windows and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86.

Changes: Support was added for the LiPPERT Cool RoadRunner-LX embedded
PC/104 board and the SST25VF080B and SST25VF032B flash chips. AMD/ATI SB600
southbridge SPI was added. Intel 810 code clean-ups and enhancements were
made, including support for multiple DIMMs, both single-sided and
double-sided, as well as most combinations thereof. msrtool was enhanced to
decode MSRs and print the value of every field in human readable form.
Atmel AT25F512A supported commands were extended.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - Ctalk 0.0.89a
by thx1132 (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiesling3/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:35

Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries

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

Changes: This release adds the String : printOn and WriteFileStream :
printOn methods, which provide better streaming output capabilities. There
are many object accounting and compatibility improvements, some bugfixes,
and the Win32TerminalStream class, which provides basic console display
capabilities for Win32 systems.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[009] - Cyphesis 0.5.18
by Alistair Riddoch (http://freshmeat.net/users/ajr/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:35

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: Cyphesis is a server for MMORPG games. It is the core engine of the
WorldForge project and is currently focused on implementing fantasy games,
providing rich scripting, full world persistence, and basic physics.

Changes: World data is now fully persistent across crashes and restarts.
Many bugs have been fixed and performance improvements made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - dreambox-api 1.0
by webhiker (http://freshmeat.net/users/webhiker/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:51

Games/Entertainment
Software Development :: Libraries

About: dreambox-api is a programmatic API for controlling and getting
streams from a Dreambox satellite controller in a Java program.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dreambox-api/

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[011] - Email 3.1.0
by Geekoid (http://freshmeat.net/users/geekoid/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:35

Internet
Office/Business
Security :: Cryptography

About: Email sends email to remote SMTP servers via the command line,
which makes it useful in cron jobs. It will send to any RFC standard remote
ESMTP server, is TLS/SSL enabled, and will allow you to encrypt, sign, and
design your message on the fly. It has the capability to use signature
files with dynamic options, address book functionality, and users can also
attach pictures, binary files, documents, or whatever they want. It is
completely compatible with GNUPG for encryption and signing, and is easy to
configure and use.

Changes: UTF-8 support was added for headers and message. A timeout option
was added. A bug that was causing 100% CPU usage on some mailings was
fixed. The "No SMTP Server specified" problem that existed on 64-bit and
Solaris systems was fixed. A problem was fixed where MIME types weren't
being guessed correctly or the MIME type was coming out blank. VCARD
support was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - Eqonomize! 0.6
by Hanna K. (http://freshmeat.net/users/hannak/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:39

Office/Business :: Financial

About: Eqonomize! is an application for personal finance management with a
focus on efficiency and ease-of-use for the small household economy. It
provides bookkeeping by double entry and support for scheduled recurring
transactions, security investments, and budgeting. It gives a clear
overview of past and present transactions and development of incomes and
expenses, with descriptive tables and charts and approximations of future
account values.

Changes: This the first version using KDE4. It also includes some new
translations and bugfixes, among others a long awaited fix for the bug that
caused Eqonomize! to not start when loading some files. A small update
(0.5.1) is also available for the deprecated KDE3 version.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - ERDmpd 0.8
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 10:07

Software Development

About: ERDmpd is an interface to the mpc command line utility to control
the MPD audio server. It should work anywhere MPD and mpc can run.

Changes: This version has resovled the finding of priv related to
dependence upon application name. So now the application name is passed
from index.yaws.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[014] - FBZX 2.0
by Raster (http://freshmeat.net/users/scostas/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:58

System :: Emulators

About: FBZX is another Sinclair Spectrum emulator for Linux, but with an
special feature: it works with the framebuffer, so it can work at full
speed and full screen. Its main features are extremely accurate emulation
of screen and sound (both speaker and AY-3-8912 sound chip), emulation of
joysticks (kempston, cursor, and Sinclair), and emulation of 48K (both
issue 2 and issue 3), classic 128K, Plus 2, and Plus 2A. It supports Z80
snapshot files (both loading and saving) and TAP files (allowing normal
loading or fast-speed loading).

Changes: The code is now completely free, thanks to a new Z80 emulator
written from scratch. It now emulates the Spanish 128K. Either ALSA or OSS
can be used for sound output. The volume settings are now stored. The
program can be run from the local directory, without installing in /usr. A
bug in the sound with some soundcards was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[015] - Find 'Em All 1.1
by klappnase (http://freshmeat.net/users/klappnase/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:51

Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Systems Administration

About: FindEmAll is a fast, resource-efficient, and powerful, yet
easy-to-use graphical find-and-grep tool with some unique features.

Changes: Two bugs that might have caused the search to hang or some search
results to be omitted have been fixed. An option to omit hidden files and
directories from the search has been added. A few minor GUI improvements
were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - Flickcurl 1.7
by Dave Beckett (http://freshmeat.net/users/dajobe/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 23:45

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Flickcurl is a C library for calling the Flickr Web service API. It
handles the API signing, token management, and parameter encoding and
decoding, resulting in C functions for the Web services APIs. It uses
libcurl to call the REST Web service, and libxml2 to manipulate the XML
responses. The library supports reading photo, tag, and comments
information, the photo upload and searching APIs, and writing tags and
comments. It provides utilities such as "flickcurl" to exercise the API and
"flickrdf" to get RDF metadata descriptions out of photos, tags, and
machine tags.

Changes: Support for the new Machine Tags API was added, handling machine
tag namespaces, predicates, and values. Support for the updated Places API
calls was added with access to ESRI shape data and URLs. Support for the
(not announced) flickr.tags.getClusterPhotos was added. Some other minor
fixes and improvements were made.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[017] - gFTP 2.0.19
by Brian Masney (http://freshmeat.net/users/masneyb/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 23:47

Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

About: gFTP is a free multithreaded file transfer client for *NIX based
machines running X11R6 or later. It has text and GTK+ 1.2/2.x interfaces
and supports the FTP, FTPS (control connection only), HTTP, HTTPS, FSP, and
SSH protocols and has FTP and HTTP proxy server support. It supports UNIX,
EPLF, Novell, MacOS, VMS, MVS, and NT (DOS) style directory listings, and
has a bookmarks menu that allows you to quickly connect to remote sites.
The code is fully internationalized and there are currently 45 translations
available.

Changes: Improvements to the networking code, fixes for several segfaults,
i18n fixes, and 38 updated or new translations.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - GLPI 0.71.3
by moyo (http://freshmeat.net/users/moyo/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 15:21

Information Management :: Issue Tracking
System :: Systems Administration

About: GLPI (Gestion Libre de Parc Informatique) is an information
resource manager with an administration interface. You can use it to build
a database with an inventory for your company (computers, software,
printers, etc.). It has functions to make the daily life of the
administrators easier, including a job/request tracking system with mail
notification and methods to build a database with basic information about
your network topology. It provides a precise inventory of all the technical
resources (all their characteristics are stored in a database) and
management and history of the maintenance actions and the bound procedures.
It is dynamic and is directly connected to the users, who can post requests
to the technicians.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - Gnome Music Player Client 0.17.0-beta1
by avuton (http://freshmeat.net/users/avuton/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:46

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: Gnome Music Player Client (GMPC) is a front end for the Music
Player Daemon. It's focused on speed and ease of use. Features are added
through plugins.

Changes: Bugfixes, cleanups, features, speedups, memory footprint
shrinkage, and translation updates were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-music-player-client/

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[020] - GNUmed 0.3.8 (Stable)
by Sebastian Hilbert (http://freshmeat.net/users/shilbert/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 08:49

Information Management
Office/Business
Scientific/Engineering :: Medical Science Apps.

About: GNUmed is a comprehensive scalable software solution for electronic
medical practices with an emphasis on privacy protection, secure patient
centric record sharing, decision support, and ease of use. It is intended
to become a sophisticated decision support system that will elevate the
quality of medical care that can be delivered.

Changes: An error with the language mismatch was fixed. A missing
configuration file option was introduced. A number of smaller improvements
regarding launchpad usage were introduced. New features include a
confirmation dialog before deleting a document from tree context menu and a
way to edit the part comment in document part details dialog.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - GraphicsMagick 1.3.2
by Bob Friesenhahn (http://freshmeat.net/users/bfriesen/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:47

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Raster-Based
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion

About: GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries which
support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 90 major
formats including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,PNG, PDF,
PhotoCD, SVG, and GIF. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which
provides a subset of SVG capabilities. C, C++, Perl, Tcl, and Ruby are
supported. Originally based on ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick focuses on
performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs. It runs
on all modern variants of Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X.

Changes: This release fixes a number of minor bugs, such as a memory leak
and a wrong preview parameter. The performance was improved even more over
the previous release. The ability to selectively strip embedded profiles
(based on an exclusion list) was added. The bugs fixed are minor and mostly
inherited from ImageMagick.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[022] - gWaei 0.9.0
by Zachary Dovel (http://freshmeat.net/users/pizzach2/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:36

Education

About: gWaei is a Japanese-English dictionary program for the GNOME
desktop. It is made to be a modern drop-in replacement for Gjiten, with
many of the same features. The dictionary files it uses are from Jim
Breen's WWWJDIC project and are installed separately through the program.
It features easy dictionary installation, support for searching using
regular expressions, streaming of results so the interface is never frozen,
and a simple interface that makes sense.

Changes: This release brings compatibility to locales other than
Ja_JP.UTF-8. Particularly in C locales, the program had a tendency to
crash. This hopefully fixes the last of the major bugs. Other major changes
include Kanjipad integration. Clicking one of the kanji characters will
automatically copy it into the search input bar. The install window now
lets you choose different install sources than the default source. This
makes it possible to save an edict file and install it without an Internet
connection.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[023] - J-Ben 1.2.2
by Paul Goins (http://freshmeat.net/users/vultaire/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 11:44

Education

About: J-Ben is an aid for studying Japanese. Its primary focus is for
looking up and studying kanji (the Chinese characters used in Japanese
writing). It also features kanji and vocabulary study lists,
cross-referencing of kanji searches with the vocabulary list, a kanji flash
card drilling mode, and a Japanese-English dictionary.

Changes: Kanji can now be added and sorted by Japanese Language
Proficiency Test (JLPT) level. A bug with the JLPT code introduced in the
previous version was also fixed. The kanji list editor has also been
slightly revised.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/j-ben/

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[024] - JOpt.SDK 2.2.7 (JOpt.J2EE)
by dnaevolutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/dnaevolutions/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 23:48

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: The assisted mode has become the default case. The algorithm has
been improved to address a broad range of problem types, and the
optimization now always starts with a construction algorithm to create
initial solutions. After that, the initial solution is subsequently
improved by a second algorithm. Timewindow support has been added to the
mixed fleet construction algorithm.

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[025] - jQuery Timecloud 1.1
by stef (http://freshmeat.net/users/ctrlc/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:54

Internet :: Log Analysis
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Animation

About: jQuery Timecloud is a pure JavaScript visualization of tagclouds
over time. The widget has similar navigation controls to the Google Finance
graph. Examples for usage include visualization of delicious tags or
subversion developer activities.

Changes: IE8 support was added via excanvas. Code refactoring resulted in
some small bugfixes and a UI overhaul, including proper animation controls,
mouse-wheel support, and min/max labels for the sparklines.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[026] - Kanatest 0.4.6
by pasp (http://freshmeat.net/users/pasp/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 23:45

Education :: Testing

About: Kanatest is a Japanese kana (hiragana and katakana) simple
flashcard tool. It offers fourteen lessons and three drill modes: hiragana,
katakana, and mixed mode. The tool displays randomly selected kana
characters (respecting mode and lesson) and waits for the user answer
(expected as the romaji equivalent). This process continues until all
questions are answered or all questions are answered correctly (depending
on options). At the end of test, information about drilling time and
correctness ratio is displayed. The results are stored, and a user can
review his performance at any time.

Changes: Selecting kana in user-defined lessons using statistics has been
added. Many improvements and bugfixes have been made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[027] - libmpd 0.17.0-beta1
by avuton (http://freshmeat.net/users/avuton/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:49

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Software Development :: Libraries

About: libmpd is a high level C library for accessing the Music Player
Daemon (MPD).

Changes: Unix socket and idle support were added. Bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[028] - libnetfilter_conntrack 0.0.98
by Pablo Neira Ayuso (http://freshmeat.net/users/pneira/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:26

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: libnetfilter_conntrack is a library that allows user-space programs
to interface the kernel connection tracking table of the netfilter
subsystem in the Linux kernel.

Changes: One major fix and a couple of minor fixes were made. The new
attribute group API was added. Cleanups were done.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - msn-pecan 0.0.17
by Felipe Contreras (http://freshmeat.net/users/felipec/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:36

Communications :: Chat

About: msn-pecan is an alternative MSN protocol plug-in for libpurple. It
aims to have a much faster development process, a low barrier for
contributions, and close contact with the user base.

Changes: Custom emoticon sending was added. Other fixes and improvements
were made.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msn-pecan/

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[030] - Openchart2 1.4.2
by approximatrix (http://freshmeat.net/users/approximatrix/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:26

Multimedia :: Graphics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: Openchart2 is a simple charting and plotting library designed for
incorporation with a variety of Java applications. The library can generate
two dimensional bar, pie, radar, and scatter charts with customized titles,
axis labels, legends, and colors. The simplicity of the library is its
strongest feature. Openchart2 is a branch of the original JOpenChart
library.

Changes: Manual scaling and general efficiency of dot plots have been
improved. Bugs related to the classic coordinate systems have been
resolved. Possible threading issues when rendering buffered charts have
been corrected.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openchart2/

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[031] - p7zip 4.61
by myspace54 (http://freshmeat.net/users/myspace54/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:47

System :: Archiving
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Compression

About: p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for Unix, Mac OS X, and BeOS. 7za.exe is
the command line version of 7-zip, a file archiver with a high compression
ratio.

Changes: This release supports LZMA compression for .ZIP archives. It can
unpack UDF, XAR, and DMG/HFS archives. It now uses the BCJ/BCJ2 filters for
executables.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/p7zip/

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[032] - Paludis 0.32.0
by Ciaran McCreesh (http://freshmeat.net/users/ciaranm/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:49

System :: Software Distribution
System :: Software Distribution Tools

About: Paludis is a package management library that works with Gentoo
style ebuilds, together with a simple console client. It is entirely
independent of Portage.

Changes: This release handles unmirrorable files sensibly. Sets would
sometimes not end up being added to world. This is now fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - PCI Utilities 3.0.3
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:28

System :: Hardware

About: The PCI Utilities package contains various utilities dealing with
the PCI bus, and also a library for portable access to PCI configuration
registers. It includes `lspci' for listing all PCI devices (very useful for
debugging of both kernel and device drivers) and `setpci' for manual
configuration of PCI devices.

Changes: The decoding of several PCI-X capabilities was added. Printing of
MSI capabilities was added. "lspci -k" now displays the subsystem ID too,
making "-k" show everything needed to identify the device and the available
drivers. The pci.ids file was updated. Compatibility problems with various
default settings of wget are now worked around. A Cygwin port was added.
Several other bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[034] - PowerDNS daemon 2.9.22-rc2 (Stable)
by ahu (http://freshmeat.net/users/ahu2/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:38

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)

About: PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with
a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads
information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases.
Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend
is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a Web-based DNS
maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.

Changes: Compared to 2.9.21, this version offers a massive performance
boost for installations running with high cache-TTLs or a large packet
cache, in many cases of an order of magnitude. Additionally, a large number
of bugs were addressed, some features were added, and overall many areas
saw improvements. RC2 fixes important issues compared to RC1.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.19
by alxtoth (http://freshmeat.net/users/alxtoth/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 12:01

About: Reverse Snowflake Joins is a tool that parses SQL Select statements
and generates a diagram. In addition to joins, the diagram shows parts of
the underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For example x=30, GROUP BY
(year), SUM(profit), HAVING MIN(age) > 18.

Changes: Support was added for mixing where clause fragments into ANSI
joins.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[036] - rpm2html 1.9.7 (Development)
by Hany (http://freshmeat.net/users/hany/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:15

System :: Software Distribution
System :: Systems Administration

About: rpm2html automatically generates Web pages describing a set of RPM
packages. The goal of rpm2html is also to identify the dependancies between
various packages, and being able to find the packages providing the
ressources needed to install another package.

Changes: Protection of email addresses has been enhanced. Broken enabling
of GPG support has been fixed and full directory paths are no longer being
used in the title of some pages.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpm2html/

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[037] - Shared Scientific Toolbox in Java 1.05
by Roy Liu (http://freshmeat.net/users/royliu/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 11:55

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: An annotation-driven finite state machine specification has been
created, along with an annotation-driven command line argument API using
the Apache Commons CLI library underneath. Laplacian of Gaussian filters
have been added. Alternate array slicing semantics have been added. The
logging infrastructure has been updated to use Log4J underneath SLF4J. The
CMake build process has been updated. The full distribution now ships with
statically linked, precompiled FFTW 3.2. Directory structure has been
reorganized to separate Jars from source code.

License: OSI Approved

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

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[038] - Veejay 1.4.3
by Niels Elburg (http://freshmeat.net/users/nelburg/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 23:51

Multimedia
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Video

About: Veejay is a visual instrument and real-time video sampler. It
allows you to "play" the video like you would play a piano. While playing,
you can record the resulting video directly to disk (video sampling).
Veejay can be operated live by using the keyboard (which is completely user
definable) or remotely over TCP/IP. Veejay can be used to manipulate video
in a realtime environment such as visual performances or for (automated)
interactive video installations.

Changes: Easier to compile; several dependencies have been dropped
(Unicap, MJPEG Tools, and GtkCairo). Faster capturing (EffecTV's v4lutils)
instead of Unicap. A command line switch to swap YUV range [0..255] <->
[16..235] on input video files. Better slow motion: interpolation of the
first/last frame according to loop direction. A skin for 1024x768 reloaded
has been added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[039] - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.2.3
by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas (http://freshmeat.net/users/plcl/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:35

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI

About: Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI event generator and receiver.
It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI
synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can
use the computer's keyboard or mouse to play MIDI notes. You can use the
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another
instrument or MIDI file player.

Changes: A bug that rendered VMPK's input port useless when used to
display notes sent from other programs like Rosegarden has been fixed. The
usage of system resources in Linux has been optimized, avoiding creation of
an ALSA sequencer queue.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[040] - Webware for Python 1.0
by Chris Zwerschke (http://freshmeat.net/users/chrisz/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 09:55

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

About: Webware for Python is a suite of Python packages and tools for
developing object-oriented, Web-based applications. The suite uses well
known design patterns and includes a fast Application Server, Servlets,
Python Server Pages (PSP), Object-Relational Mapping, Task Scheduling,
Session Management, and many other features. Webware is very modular and
easily extended. It is well proven and platform-independent. It is
compatible with multiple Web servers, database servers, and operating
systems.

Changes: A lot of bugs have been fixed, and a few small improvements and
changes have been made since the last release.

License: OSI Approved

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

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[041] - When 1.1.15
by Ben Crowell (http://freshmeat.net/users/bcrowell/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 11:45

Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: When is an extremely simple personal calendar program, aimed at the
Unix geek who wants something minimalistic. It can keep track of things you
need to do on particular dates. It's a very short and simple program, so
you can easily tinker with it yourself. It doesn't depend on any libraries,
so it's easy to install. You should be able to install it on any system
where Perl is available, even if you don't have privileges for installing
libraries. Its file format is a simple text file, which you can edit in
your favorite editor.

Changes: This version eliminates an error message that occurs on systems
using perl 5.10, such as Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.

License: Perl License

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

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[042] - xen-shell 1.9
by Steve Kemp (http://freshmeat.net/users/skx/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:27

About: xen-shell is a simple console program to allow a hosting company to
delegate control of Xen instances directly to their clients. The shell
allows a user to boot, shutdown, or reimage their own personal Xen guest
without giving the user general access to the Xen host system or allowing
the user to touch the instances of other users.

Changes: This release allows the user to start up their Xen guest and
immediately view any console output. This is almost mandatory when pygrub
is being used.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xen-shell/

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[043] - Yabause 0.9.8
by Guillaume Duhamel (http://freshmeat.net/users/yabause/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 23:46

Games/Entertainment
System :: Emulators

About: Yabause is a Sega Saturn emulator.

Changes: This release fixes a number of bugs and adds mouse support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[044] - Zero Install Injector 0.37
by Thomas Leonard (http://freshmeat.net/users/tal197/)
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 20:20

Internet
System :: Archiving :: Packaging
System :: Software Distribution

About: The Zero Install Injector makes it possible for users to install
software easily and without the need for root privileges. It takes the URL
of a program's interface description and chooses suitable versions of the
program and all of its dependencies (also identified by URLs) according to
the user's policy settings (eg. "stable", "testing", "minimal network use",
etc). The chosen versions are downloaded and cached and the program is run,
using environment variables to let it find the components.

Changes: Minor bugs were fixed in the code to avoid rechecking a failed
feed too often, for selecting source code versions for compiling, and for
saving user preferences about preferred versions. The dialog for managing
installed applications was improved.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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