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SQLite Tutorial
by Mike Chirico (http://freshmeat.net/~mchirico/)
Section: Tutorials
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 00:00
This article explores the power and simplicity of sqlite3, starting with
common commands and triggers. It then covers the attach statement with the
union operation, introduced in a way that allows multiple tables, in
separate databases, to be combined as one virtual table, without the
overhead of copying or moving data. Next, I demonstrate the simple sign
function and the amazingly powerful trick of using this function in SQL
select statements to solve complex queries with a single pass through the
data, after making a brief mathematical case for how the sign function
defines the absolute value and IF conditions.
URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1428/
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (41) :::
[001] - AntiRight Desktop Environment 2.5
[002] - BioSchematics 0.4.4
[003] - Charles Web Debugging Tool 1.8.5
[004] - Con Kolivas patchset-based Overloaded kernel 2.6.10-cko1
[005] - ezUserManager 1.0
[006] - ffmpeg-php extension 0.4.0_alpha
[007] - Freedoom 0.3
[008] - GOBLIN Graph Library 2.7b13
[009] - HeroScribe 1.0pre1
[010] - Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.5.0_01
[011] - Java Desktop Rolemaster Character Generator 0.92.6
[012] - JoSQL 0.4
[013] - JThread 1.1.1 (Stable)
[014] - kPlaylist.php 1.5
[015] - Kydpdict 0.6.7
[016] - libextractor 0.4.0
[017] - Linux 2.6.10 (2.6)
[018] - Linux Multimedia Box 0.3
[019] - listener 0.8
[020] - LogiLogi.org Make 0.2.2
[021] - Majic 0.01pre2-patch06
[022] - Muine 0.7.0
[023] - MultiTail 3.4.3
[024] - MURIX Linux 2004.2
[025] - NachoCalendar 0.20
[026] - OSGlobeLAN 0.6-alpha
[027] - pasmal 1.7
[028] - Posadis 0.60.6
[029] - Posadis Master file editor 0.60.6
[030] - Posadis Zone Editor 0.9pre-041225
[031] - Poslib DNS library 1.0.6
[032] - Poslib DNS library 1.1.0pre-041225 (Development)
[033] - PRADO 1.7.1
[034] - QTuneroid 0.9b3
[035] - Secure Back Door 0.3
[036] - Text-Conquest 1.03
[037] - Tyrant 0.317
[038] - tzls and tzx 1.04
[039] - UFO2000 0.6.627
[040] - Useful Java Application Components 0.9.20
[041] - Wolfpack 12.9.13 Beta (Development)
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[001] - AntiRight Desktop Environment 2.5
by Jeffrey Bedard (http://freshmeat.net/users/jefbed/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 12:11
Desktop Environment
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Playing
Office/Business
About: AntiRight is a lightweight and scripted desktop environment that
uses the Motif toolkit. Development is carried out with a minimalistic
philosophy in mind. The software consists of a text editor, a desktop
panel, a sticky note utility, system management panels, a file manager, a
calculator interface, a color/background selector, a command launcher, a
simple help system, an email and Web browser launcher, a theme selector, a
preferences utility, a series of system monitors including a graphical load
meter, and a CD player. The desktop panel consists of launcher icons, a
launcher panel button, a screen lock button, a virtual desktop switcher,
an alarm utility, a command launcher, a clock, a user counter, a load
meter, and a mail checker.
Changes: Work on new pipe functionality has been started. An MP3 jukebox
applet has been added. The internal load meter is now functional. The
clockload applet has been rewritten in C, and now shows a mail icon if
there is new mail. Buttons on the desktop panel have been rearranged to
improve efficiency.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/antiright/
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[002] - BioSchematics 0.4.4
by liparis (http://freshmeat.net/users/liparis/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 11:57
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: BioSchematics is a L-System interpreter and drawing tool. L-System
grammar is interpreted through a Scheme engine (Guile) and results are
drawn in an OpenGL window.
Changes: Improvements were made to the L-System interpreter, which should
create simpler 3D models.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bioschematics/
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[003] - Charles Web Debugging Tool 1.8.5
by karl (http://freshmeat.net/users/karlvr/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 22:43
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Debuggers
About: Charles is a Web debugging tool, HTTP monitor, and reverse HTTP
proxy for Web developers that includes plain text debugging of HTTPS/SSL.
It is built in Java Swing, and runs on all Java platforms. It is an HTTP
proxy server that displays requests and responses, complete with HTTP
headers. This enables the developer to examine the exact content of HTTP
exchanges, including cookies, caching, and redirects. It can also throttle
your connection in order to simulate modem conditions.
Changes: The throttling configuration has been improved to use Kbps and
%age utilisation rather than bytes/s. Support for WebDAV methods and
chunked POST requests has been added. Various other minor improvements
and fixes have been made.
License: Shareware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/charles/
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[004] - Con Kolivas patchset-based Overloaded kernel 2.6.10-cko1
by Piotr Neuman (http://freshmeat.net/users/sikkh2/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 12:16
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: Con Kolivas patchset-based Overloaded kernel (CKO) is a Linux
kernel patchset based on the Con Kolivas -ck series. Among other things,
it adds updated ALSA and bttv drivers, Reiser4 filesystem, LIRC support,
and shfs.
Changes: The code was updated to 2.6.10-ck1, which includes some VM
bugfixes. The following patches have been updated: reiser4 (2.6.9-4),
libata (2.6.10-rc2), ACPI4Linux (20041210-2.6.10-rc3), ALSA (1.0.7),
vesa-tng (0.9-rc5-2.6.10-rc2), fbsplash (0.9.1-2.6.10-rc3-bk6), swsusp2
(2.1.5.10-for-2.6.10-rc3, but may be problematic in this cko release),
inotify 0.17.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linux-cko/
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[005] - ezUserManager 1.0
by ZoRaC (http://freshmeat.net/users/ZoRaC1/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 23:02
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
System :: Systems Administration
About: ezUserManager is a script that allows administration of .httpasswd
files. It features a signup form, forgotten password form, and an admin
form with the ability to modify and delete users. It offers email
activation, and supports both encrypted and plaintext passwords.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ezum/
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[006] - ffmpeg-php extension 0.4.0_alpha
by tkirby (http://freshmeat.net/users/tkirby/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 22:44
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Video
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
About: ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use
object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from movies
and audio files. It has methods for returning frames from movie files as
images that can be manipulated using PHP's image functions. This works
well for automatically creating thumbnail images from movie files, and
it's fast enough to extract thumbnails on the fly so that thumbnail images
don't need to be stored. ffmpeg-php is also useful for reporting the
duration and bitrate of audio files (mp3, wma...). ffmpeg-php can access
many of the formats supported by ffmpeg.
Changes: This release reworks API to make it more object oriented and
make objects more scriptable. This cleans up the interface and make
integrating encoding support possible. This version also fixes a major
bug in duration calculation that was causing incorrect frame counts to be
returned.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ffmpeg-php/
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[007] - Freedoom 0.3
by Simon Howard (http://freshmeat.net/users/phraggle/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 22:52
Games/Entertainment :: First Person Shooters
About: Freedoom is a project to create a complete, free Doom IWAD file.
Combined with the GPLed Doom source code, it creates a completely free
Doom-based game.
Changes: Various new material has been added, including two new levels.
This also fixes several bugs.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freedoom/
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[008] - GOBLIN Graph Library 2.7b13
by cfp (http://freshmeat.net/users/cfp/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 13:54
Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large
series of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk
scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user
interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but
provides only basic graph layout methods.
Changes: Among other code cleanup steps, the Makefile was revised to ease
the generation of binary packages. A lot of GUI problems has been fixed,
especially with the Cygwin version. A self-installing, up to date Win32
version is now available.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/goblet/
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[009] - HeroScribe 1.0pre1
by Flavio Chierichetti (http://freshmeat.net/users/y0ta/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:32
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation
About: HeroScribe produces typographic quality HeroQuest maps (with either
European or US layout). The maps can be exported to EPS, PDF, or PNG files.
Changes: JRE 1.5 can now be used to run HeroScribe. Multiple-board maps
have been introduced. Quests can now be exported in PDF (via ghostscript).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/heroscribe/
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[010] - Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.5.0_01
by Delicates (http://freshmeat.net/users/Delicates/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:32
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) contains the essential
compiler, tools, runtime libraries, and APIs for developers writing,
deploying, and running applets and applications in the Java programming
language.
Changes: 50 bugs have been fixed.
License: SUN Community Source License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sunjdk/
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[011] - Java Desktop Rolemaster Character Generator 0.92.6
by fgreen789 (http://freshmeat.net/users/fgreen789/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:32
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
About: Java Desktop Rolemaster Character Generator is a
gradually-developing cross-platform character generator for the Rolemaster
FRP role-playing game from Iron Crown Enterprises. It can create and
develop Rolemaster characters quickly. It contains information from the
Rolemaster FRP book and the current Character Law, with training packages
and equipment.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mcrg/
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[012] - JoSQL 0.4
by Gary Bentley (http://freshmeat.net/users/barrygently/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 23:06
Database
Database :: API
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
About: JoSQL provides SQL capabilities for querying, ordering, and
grouping of collections of Java objects. It allows a SQL statement to be
applied to the collection of objects and the matching set returned,
ordered and grouped. It should be used when a RDBMS is either too
heavyweight or too impractical.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/josql/
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[013] - JThread 1.1.1 (Stable)
by Jori (http://freshmeat.net/users/jori/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:34
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The JThread package contains classes which represent a thread and a
mutex. On a unix-like platform, the pthread library is used as the
underlying thread mechanism. On an MS-Windows platform, Win32 threads are
used. By using these wrapper classes you can easily create applications
which use threads, without having to worry about which platform the
program will be running on.
Changes: This release fixes a handle leak in the JThread implementation.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jthread/
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[014] - kPlaylist.php 1.5
by Aage Baardsen (http://freshmeat.net/users/aagebkeyteqno/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 23:01
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
About: kPlaylist is a multi-lingual Web-based music streaming system. It's
easy to setup and maintain; everything is Web-based. It includes a
streaming engine, a user signup tool, a search engine, a user editor,
personal options, personal and shared playlists, listings of new and
popular music, a randomizing feature, and a quick way of browsing albums.
Upgrading and installation is automatic.
Changes: This release adds a small bulletin board, a new randomize
feature for finding common music for users, and now shows album images or
fetches them from Internet. Some security issues and bugs were corrected.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kplaylist/
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[015] - Kydpdict 0.6.7
by Maciej Witkowiak (http://freshmeat.net/users/ytm/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 22:44
Education
About: Kydpdict is a graphical frontend to Collins' English/German-Polish
and Polish-English/German dictionaries.
Changes: This version features many small fixes and optimizations all
over the code. Search for speech samples on mounted CD- ROM or FAT32
filesystem should work correctly now.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kydpdict/
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[016] - libextractor 0.4.0
by Christian Grothoff (http://freshmeat.net/users/grothoff/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 22:44
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Multimedia
About: libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files of
arbitrary type. It is designed to use helper-libraries to perform the
actual extraction, and to be trivially extendable by linking against
external extractors for additional file types. The goal is to provide
developers of file-sharing networks, file managers, and WWW-indexing bots
with a universal library to obtain meta-data about files. libextractor
contains a shell-command "extract" that, similar to the well-known "file"
command, can extract meta-data from a file and print the results to
stdout. Currently, it supports the formats HTML, PDF, PS, OLE2 (doc, xls,
ppt), StarOffice, OpenOffice, MAN, DVI, MP3 (ID3v1, ID3v2), OGG, WAV,
JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), ZIP, Real, QT, MPEG, RIFF (AVI),
ASF, and ELF. Various additional MIME types are detected. libextractor can
also be used to compute hash functions (SHA-1, MD5, ripemd160). A Java
binding (JNI) is available.
Changes: This release improves support for different character encodings
and character set conversion. For ID3 tags, the genre is now also
extracted. Support for compressed PNG comments was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libextractor/
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[017] - Linux 2.6.10 (2.6)
by Patrick Lenz (http://freshmeat.net/users/scoop/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:33
System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
Changes: This release contains mostly a lot of small fixes since
2.6.10-rc3, with the biggest thing being the CIFS update and the switch to
the new DVB frontend driver world order. There has been some MMC and USB
work, too, and ARM updates as usual.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linux/
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[018] - Linux Multimedia Box 0.3
by Vlad Seryakov (http://freshmeat.net/users/vladseryakov/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 12:20
About: Linux Multimedia Box is a GUI application for building multimedia
Linux based devices, similar to a PVR or set top box. XML is used for
describing the user interface, and events and callbacks are in embedded
Tcl. It is a fork of Eboxy.
Changes: Some crashes were fixed. Concurrency of the scripts was improved.
The skin GUI was improved. Searching with remote control keys was added.
Example files for movies and TV guide pages were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lmbox/
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[019] - listener 0.8
by Folkert van Heusden (http://freshmeat.net/users/fvh/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:31
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording
Security
Utilities
About: listener is a typical security-related program like the motion
package (which detects motion on a Webcam): it listens for sound. If it
detects any, it starts recording until the sound stops (or a bit later,
which is configurable). It stores the audio in .WAV files.
Changes: This release adds external filter support, low- and highpass
filters, and a coding example. The maximum length of a sample file can now
be set.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/listener/
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[020] - LogiLogi.org Make 0.2.2
by Wybo Wiersma (http://freshmeat.net/users/wybow/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 12:02
Software Development :: Build Tools
About: LogiLogi.org Make is yet another make replacement, but one that
allows you to create your makefile in C++. A header and footer are added
to it, and it's then compiled using your C++ compiler. Afther that it's
run, and that's the point where your other sources are being compiled.
Thanks to the lakeUsr extension library (which is included), many
(possibly complex) compile commands can be given with one simple function
call. The lakeUsr library features compilation of source trees,
compilation of static libraries, installation of libraries and headers,
and cleaning. LogiLogi.org Make was inspired by Icmake.
Changes: Lake has been tested on Windows XP using Cygwin. A few small bugs
have been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lake/
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[021] - Majic 0.01pre2-patch06
by John Ohno (http://freshmeat.net/users/unknown1570/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 12:17
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Majic is an interpreter and compiler for Erc, a link-oriented
programming language.
Changes: Bugfixes and feature additions have been made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/majic/
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[022] - Muine 0.7.0
by Jorn Baayen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jbaayen/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:31
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: Muine is a music player for GNOME. Its UI has been designed from
the ground up to be very comfortable, and not just a clone of iTunes. It
is playlist-based, but does have a music library (not a traditional one,
though).
Changes: This release adds support for dragging albums and songs all
around the application, shuffle functionality, the use of gtk+ 2.4
features like the new file selector, and many bugfixes and UI
improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/muine/
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[023] - MultiTail 3.4.3
by Folkert van Heusden (http://freshmeat.net/users/fvh/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 11:53
System :: Logging
System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original
tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your
console (with ncurses). Merging of 2 or more log files is possible. It can
also use colors while displaying the log files (through regular
expressions) for faster recognition of what is important. It can also
filter lines (again with regular expressions). It has interactive menus
for editing given regular expressions and deleting and adding windows. One
can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and other software.
When viewing the output of external software, MultiTail can mimic the
functionality of tools like 'watch'.
Changes: Blinking, underlined, reverse, and bold were added for
color-output. A compilation warning on Sun systems was fixed. The Solaris
version now also uses ncurses.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/multitail/
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[024] - MURIX Linux 2004.2
by Murilo Pontes (http://freshmeat.net/users/pppz/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 23:04
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: MURIX Linux is a distribution based on LFS for building bootable
CDROMs.
Changes: This release updates to Linux 2.6.9, memtest86 3.2, memtest86+
1.30, smartmontools, ettercap 0.70, tcpflow 0.21, udev 48, mc 4.6.0,
parted, dhcpcd, mplayer 1.0pre5, apache-httpd 2.0.52, alsamixer, grub
0.95, OpenSSH client and server 3.9, and iptraf 2.7.0.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/murix/
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[025] - NachoCalendar 0.20
by Ignacio Merani (http://freshmeat.net/users/imerani/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 22:40
Software Development :: Libraries
About: NachoCalendar is intended to provide a fully customizable calendar
component for Java. Currently three components are provided: DateField,
MonthPanel, and CalendarPanel.
Changes: This release features multiple selection support, keyboard
navigation, highlighting the current day within a red oval, anti-aliasing
support, bugfixes, and many internal rewrites, which may result in better
speed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nachocalendar/
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[026] - OSGlobeLAN 0.6-alpha
by Lars Åge Kamfjord (http://freshmeat.net/users/laaknor/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 22:46
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: OSGlobeLAN is a Web portal for LAN parties, featuring a seat map
system, registration, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/osglobelan/
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[027] - pasmal 1.7
by James Meehan (http://freshmeat.net/users/jamesmeehan/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 12:09
System :: Networking
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: pasmal is a TCP/IP packet authentication system. When it receives a
sequence of ICMP or TCP packets to any port (open/closed), it will issue a
command on the server. It uses a "smokescreen frame" that features
encrypted authentication packets for avoiding sniffers, as well as a
TCP/UDP key for remotely activating the system. pasmal comes with an
optional Web-based administrator that can handle all its
filter/firewall/port knocking/encoding keys facilities. It also acts as an
intrusion detection system due to its sniffer capabilities.
Changes: Intrusion alert levels (depending on the intrusion time on
forbidden ports) and customizable protection were added. An access list of
authorized IP addresses to be filtered by the intrusion detection engine
was added. Code optimization of module_alert.c, pasmal.c. Customizable
features (STATICKEY option) were added to avoid high CPU usage during
sniffing. PHP customization features were added to pasmal web-admin.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pasmal/
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[028] - Posadis 0.60.6
by Meilof (http://freshmeat.net/users/meilof/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 11:42
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
System :: Networking
About: Posadis is a domain name server for Unix and Win32 systems. It can
both act as an authoritive and as a caching DNS server, and it supports
standard DNS master files, zone transfers, and DNS Notify. Its modular
structure allows plug-ins to define new zone types and add new
functionality.
Changes: An option to dump the cache to file and re-load it on server
startup was added. Many smaller bugfixes were made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/posadis/
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[029] - Posadis Master file editor 0.60.6
by Meilof (http://freshmeat.net/users/meilof/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 11:43
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
System :: Networking
Text Editors
About: Mfedit is a graphical editor for DNS master files based on GTK+ and
Poslib. Using this tool, you can add, modify, and remove resource records,
and run syntax checks on your DNS zones. It supports standard DNS master
files as well as some BIND extensions.
Changes: A bug in GTK2 support was fixed. Some compiler warnings were
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mfedit/
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[030] - Posadis Zone Editor 0.9pre-041225
by Meilof (http://freshmeat.net/users/meilof/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 11:41
Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
About: The Posadis Zone Editor is a graphical tool to edit DNS (Domain
Name System) zones using DNS update. Because it uses zone transfers, you
can simply edit the DNS zone, and have only the changes transferred to the
DNS server.
Changes: A crash which often occurred after saving changes to a zone was
fixed. Support for dumping zones to a file was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zoneedit/
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[031] - Poslib DNS library 1.0.6
by Meilof (http://freshmeat.net/users/meilof/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 07:33
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
System :: Networking
About: Poslib is a library which provides easy access to the Domain Name
System. The client part can be used to create DNS client applications,
while the server part lets you easily create a multi-threaded DNS server
program, portable to many operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, and
Windows.
Changes: This release adds some small bugfixes, changes to build on
OpenBSD, small errors in DNS message reading, IPv6 address handling, and
initial cache file reading.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/poslib/
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[032] - Poslib DNS library 1.1.0pre-041225 (Development)
by Meilof (http://freshmeat.net/users/meilof/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 11:37
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
System :: Networking
About: Poslib is a library which provides easy access to the Domain Name
System. The client part can be used to create DNS client applications,
while the server part lets you easily create a multi-threaded DNS server
program, portable to many operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, and
Windows.
Changes: Small bugfixes were made in Resource Record handling, IPv6
address handling, and domain name compression. A mass copy-and-replace was
done to make things work without the -funsigned-char flag. The RR property
was added to the string function.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/poslib/
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[033] - PRADO 1.7.1
by Qiang Xue (http://freshmeat.net/users/qiangxue/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 11:50
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Widget Sets
About: PRADO is an event-driven and component-based framework for Web
application development in PHP 5. It shares many similarities with
ASP.NET and RAD tools such as Borland Delphi, and Visual Basic.
Changes: TCheckBoxList was enhanced with several new properties. Several
requested features were implemented. Many reported bugs were fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/prado/
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[034] - QTuneroid 0.9b3
by Boo (http://freshmeat.net/users/boo7boo/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 12:10
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: QTuneroid is a musical instrument tuner, designed to tune musical
instruments on PC using a microphone or by directly connecting the
instrument to the PC's sound card. This program is a fork of Tuneroid by
Jozef Kosoru.
Changes: A Russian translation was added. Level meter improvements were
made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qtuneroid/
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[035] - Secure Back Door 0.3
by Jordan Wilberding (http://freshmeat.net/users/diginux/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 13:53
System :: Systems Administration
Terminals :: Telnet
About: Secure Back Door (SBD) is a tool that provides ultra-secure and
minimal access to a computer, which allows you to run a single command
based on a one time key. It is good if you don't want to have an SSH
server running all the time, and only want to start it when needed.
Because it is written in only a few lines of code, it is hoped that it
will be less susceptible to security exploits than a program like SSH.
Changes: This version includes server to client authentication, which
should help to reduce and almost eliminate the ability of using IP
spoofing to brute force the server, as well as the ability to do a DoS
attack on the server. There was also some code cleanup in the sockets to
reduce unneeded code. This release also contains a basic layout of the
protocol that SBD uses. It is nearing completion, and close to being
finalized.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sbdd/
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[036] - Text-Conquest 1.03
by Ali G Rudi (http://freshmeat.net/users/aligrudi/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:32
About: Text-Conquest is a text game very similar to the konquest game in
the KDE game package. It has the same rules, but supports network gaming.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnu-conquest/
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[037] - Tyrant 0.317
by Mike (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikera/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:30
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
About: Tyrant is a game of heroic adventure in the style of the classic
game, rogue.
Changes: This release adds shift-walk improvements, unit tests, and many
useful bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tyrant/
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[038] - tzls and tzx 1.04
by perdenab (http://freshmeat.net/users/perdenab/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:27
Utilities
About: tzls and tzx are commandline utilities for quickly unpacking or
listing the contents of various types of common Unix archive files, which
may be compressed in any of several ways. The supported compression types
are bzip2, gzip, and compress. The supported archive types are tar, cpio,
zip, rar, and arj. The tools are implemented as shell scripts, so no
compilation is required.
Changes: The ARJ and RAR formats are now supported if the required
binaries exist on the target system. The required archive and compression
binaries are now checked for. A filename extension check has been re-added
due to older file(1) commands reporting "data" for certain archive types.
file(1) on some systems cannot read from stdin; this is now handled.
bunzip2(1) on some systems requires a filename after -c, so -c is no
longer used in the script.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tzls_tzx/
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[039] - UFO2000 0.6.627
by Serge Semashko (http://freshmeat.net/users/ssvb/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 01:56
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: UFO2000 is a multi-playable remake of Microprose's X-COM: UFO
Defense that uses the Allegro game programming library. It requires the
data files from original game.
Changes: This version added support for different mission scenarios,
internationalization, many user interface improvements, lots of help
messages, a help system, a better looking and themable GUI, morale and
panic support, an increase of the squad size limit from 10 to 15, and many
other bugfixes and improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ufo2000/
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[040] - Useful Java Application Components 0.9.20
by Christian Lauer (http://freshmeat.net/users/lauerc/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 23:02
Software Development :: Interpreters
Text Processing
About: Useful Java Application Components (UJAC) is a collection of
components that may be useful for your project. It provides a powerful
expression interpreter, an iText-based document processing engine that
generates PDF documents based on XML templates, a charting library
supporting JSP custom tags, and much more.
Changes: This release switches to an official iText version again. It
fixes some issues discussed in the forum like XSLT-related problems or in
font handling. It also contains a significantly enhanced version of the
built in Web application framework. A small demo application shows the
capabilities of this new feature.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ujac/
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[041] - Wolfpack 12.9.13 Beta (Development)
by Sebastian Hartte (http://freshmeat.net/users/darkstorm/)
Sat, Dec 25th 2004 06:34
Communications
Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
About: Wolfpack is software for an Ultima Online MMORPG server. Gameplay
is scripted using Python and XML. You need EA's Ultima Online to play on
Wolfpack servers.
Changes: This release adds encryption support for the latest client
version and improves the support for the latest AoS item properties. There
have been many speed and stability improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wolfpack/
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