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A Look At Java Class Loading
by Kumar Matcha (http://www.jroller.com/page/kmatcha)
Section: Tutorials
Sat, May 14th 2005 00:00
Class loading is one of the most powerful mechanisms provided by the Java
Language Specification. All Java programmers should know how the class
loading mechanism works and what can be done to suit their needs. By
understanding the class loading mechanism, you can save time that would
otherwise be spent on debugging ClassNotFoundException,
ClassCastException, etc.
URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1643/
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (51) :::
[001] - /etc/net Scripts 0.7.4
[002] - Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.2 (Mac OS X)
[003] - BalanceNG 1.355
[004] - cpufreq daemon 1.2.3
[005] - Crack Attack! 1.1.14 (stable)
[006] - dfsch 0.1
[007] - Drivel 1.3.4 (Development)
[008] - Edukator 0.6.1
[009] - ethtool 3
[010] - GETPKG 0.27
[011] - GmailAgent 0.5
[012] - GNU ddrescue 1.0-pre2 (Development)
[013] - GQview 2.0.1 (Stable)
[014] - Internet DJ Console 0.0.5.9
[015] - Ist Shaper 0.0.5
[016] - JChemPaint 2.1.1 (Development)
[017] - JOrbis 0.0.15
[018] - Legends 0.4.1c
[019] - libevent 1.1
[020] - libfget 1.3.3
[021] - linSmith 0.9.0a2
[022] - Liquid Weather ++ 6.0
[023] - LostIRC 0.4.5
[024] - Mariana 0.1.6
[025] - Mathomatic 12.3.2
[026] - mcvox 0.1
[027] - mhWaveEdit 1.4.0
[028] - Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.14
[029] - Peeranha42 0.9 (Chess)
[030] - PHPflow 0.9.2BETA
[031] - phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 RC4 (Development)
[032] - phpQLAdmin 2.2.4 (Stable)
[033] - PPTP Client 1.6.0
[034] - PSMON 1.29
[035] - PyDO 2.0a2 (Development)
[036] - References for TeX and Friends 0.3.9
[037] - Saccs personal accounting 0.6
[038] - sdelta 20050514
[039] - Secure FTP Wrapper 2.5.9
[040] - Simple dictionary application 1.02
[041] - Smarty Purl Parameter Plugins 1.2
[042] - Socks Server 5 3.0 Release 5 (Stable)
[043] - Task Coach 0.37
[044] - The friendly interactive shell 1.9
[045] - The Squirrel programming language 2.0.2 stable (2.x)
[046] - Thunderbird Extension for Sender Verification 0.7
[047] - Torsmo 0.18
[048] - tuxrip 0.99beta6
[049] - Winik 6
[050] - WorldPrint 2.05
[051] - xchat-gnome 0.4
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - /etc/net Scripts 0.7.4
by Pilot (http://freshmeat.net/users/infrastation/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 12:12
System :: Boot :: Init
System :: Networking
System :: Systems Administration
About: /etc/net represents a new approach to Linux network configuration
tasks. Inspired by the limitations of traditional configuration
subsystems, /etc/net provides builtin support for configuration profiles,
interface name management, removable device support, full iproute2 command
set support, interface dependency resolution, and a QoS configuration
framework. /etc/net provides support for the following interface types:
Ethernet, WiFi (WEP), IPv6/IPv6 tunnels, PSK IPSec tunnels, VLAN, PLIP,
Ethernet bonding and bridging, traffic equalizer, Pent@NET, usbnet, and
PPP. Due to its modular design, support for new interface types can be
added without overall design changes.
Changes: Improvements were made to wpa_supplicant. An initial
auto-linkdetect whitelist was added. sysctl.conf is now also treated at
reload.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/etcnet/
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[002] - Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.2 (Mac OS X)
by napi (http://freshmeat.net/users/napi/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:53
Software Development :: Compilers
About: Axiomatic Multi-Platform C (AMPC) is a C IDE that generates Java
bytecode. It supports a very large subset of ANSI C (1989). It can be used
to develop new applications using C as well as port existing applications
written in C to run on JVM enabled devices. A JNI (JVM Native Interface)
feature is available for calling native C or C++ functions. Also, many
Java methods can be called from AMPC. The asm() directive can be used to
embed Jasmin assembly code within C source code.
Changes: Support for the 64-bit DOUBLE floating point type was added.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ampc/
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[003] - BalanceNG 1.355
by Thomas Obermair (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasobermair/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 12:26
Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
About: BalanceNG is a professional software load balancing solution
running on Linux. It is small, fast, and easy to use and setup. It offers
session persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random,
Hash, and Least Resource) and a customizable UDP health check agent in
source code. It supports VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) to set
up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It integrates pcap
packet dumping for debugging purposes and allows the implementation of a
"transparent forensic logging bridge". It supports "all service load
balancing" based on client IP address which allows most protocols to be
supported.
Changes: The scanner/parser was extended to allow quoted strings. The
"remark" configuration command was added for configuration management and
version control. Time stamps and BalanceNG version stamps were added to
the configuration file.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/balanceng/
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[004] - cpufreq daemon 1.2.3
by mattia (http://freshmeat.net/users/mattia/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 14:21
Utilities
About: cpufreqd is meant to be a replacement of the speedstep applet you
can find in Windows. It monitors battery level, CPU usage, AC state, and
running programs and adjusts the frequency governor according to a set of
rules specified in the config file.
Changes: Three memory leaks were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cpufreqd/
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[005] - Crack Attack! 1.1.14 (stable)
by Stephan Beyer (http://freshmeat.net/users/sbeyer/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:51
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
About: A puzzle/action game in which you rush to eliminate colored blocks
before they fill your screen. Particularly clever eliminations cause
garbage to clutter your opponent's screen. Who will survive the longest!?
Playable both online and off.
Changes: A new (redesigned) GUI was made, sound and music patches were
included (although no sound files are available at the moment), and bugs
were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/crack-attack/
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[006] - dfsch 0.1
by Ale Hakl (http://freshmeat.net/users/xadh/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 13:38
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries
About: dfsch is small embeddable Scheme subset interpreter library written
in C. Some features from a complete Scheme implementation are omitted,
since these features aren't very useful in a scripting language and would
make the library more complicated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dfsch/
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[007] - Drivel 1.3.4 (Development)
by Todd Kulesza (http://freshmeat.net/users/tdk/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 12:57
Communications
Internet
About: Drivel is a LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop. It's designed
to utilize the powerful features of GNOME 2, such as GConf, GnomeVFS, and
GTK+, as well comply with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
Changes: This release adds much-improved support for Blogger and Atom
journals.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/drivel/
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[008] - Edukator 0.6.1
by tuxer (http://freshmeat.net/users/tuxer221087/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:50
About: EduKator is a KDE-based education program for learning about
physics and mathematics in a way that it is fun. The program explains the
theory being taught, and provides exercises for practicing the concepts.
It includes programs for teaching the basic rules of optics, representing
dubblerates graphically, teaching the basics of Archimedes' principles,
and teaching about extrema problems (finding the minimum and maximum
values of mathematical functions).
Changes: The Archimedes exercise was fixed. Russian, French, Spanish, and
Dutch translations were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/edukator/
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[009] - ethtool 3
by Pilot (http://freshmeat.net/users/infrastation/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 04:01
System :: Hardware
System :: Networking
About: ethtool is a Linux net driver diagnostic and tuning tool for the
Linux 2.4.x (or later) series of kernels. Obtain information and
diagnostics related to media, link status, driver version, PCI (or other)
bus location, and more.
Changes: r8159 register dump support was added along with support for
advertising gigabit Ethernet. 10baseT-HD is now advertised properly. Other
minor bugfixes were made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ethtool/
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[010] - GETPKG 0.27
by Jeff Rossi (http://freshmeat.net/users/datadrivendesign/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 06:23
System :: Systems Administration
About: Getpkg is used to download and install packages for Slackware
Linux. It is menu-driven, allowing the user to choose program options by
entering menu choices. Its menus are generated using the dialog utility.
It creates the folder ~/.getpkg and stores configuration options and
downloaded packages within that folder. It requires Slackware and Python.
Changes: This release adds minor UI changes to improve program flow and
usability and changes the installation section to call Slackware package
tools directly instead of using getpkg-installer.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/getpkg/
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[011] - GmailAgent 0.5
by Stas Z (http://freshmeat.net/users/staslinux/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:54
About: GmailAgent is a application that acts as a local email client and
can be used by programs like digikam, gthumb, and others to provide email
access to a Gmail account.
Changes: The search feature in the address book now actually works. A
number of smaller bugs were fixed in the address book and composer window.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmailagent/
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[012] - GNU ddrescue 1.0-pre2 (Development)
by Antonio Diaz Diaz (http://freshmeat.net/users/ant_diaz/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 13:27
System :: Recovery Tools
About: GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file
or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue
data in case of read errors. GNU ddrescue does not truncate the output
file if not asked to. So, every time you run it on the same output file,
it tries to fill in the gaps. The basic operation of GNU ddrescue is fully
automatic. That is, you don't have to wait for an error, stop the program,
read the log, run it in reverse mode, etc. If you use the logfile feature
of GNU ddrescue, the data is rescued very efficiently (only the needed
blocks are read). Also you can interrupt the rescue at any time and resume
it later at the same point.
Changes: Two small bugs have been corrected. One displayed an incorrect
initial input position when it is different from the initial output
position. The other sometimes made ddrescue perform a broader rescue than
requested.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/addrescue/
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[013] - GQview 2.0.1 (Stable)
by John Ellis (http://freshmeat.net/users/gqview/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 15:00
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: GQview is an image viewer for X windows. Features include single
click file viewing, external editor support, thumbnail previews, thumbnail
caching, and adjustable zoom. GQView has the ability to compare files and
list similar or duplicate images based on content. Full screen view and
slideshows allow for basic presentation of images. The program offers
simple image file management with the ability to copy, move, rename, and
delete files. Image collections, similar to a song playlist, are also
supported.
Changes: The Czech and French translations were updated. A few small bugs
were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gqview/
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[014] - Internet DJ Console 0.0.5.9
by Stephen Fairchild (http://freshmeat.net/users/psoriasis/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 12:14
About: Internet DJ console makes it possible for people to connect to a
Shoutcast or Icecast server and be a DJ. It is intended to be something
that the bedroom DJ will want to and enjoy using, and not just be a tool
for streaming music to the Internet. It facilitates live radio shows with
DJ chatter and supports cross-fading for dance mixes.
Changes: The playlist popup menus were remade so they can do batch copying
to any point in the other playlist. A player prefs feature was added. A
minimal player mode that also removes the 6dB overhead in the mixer was
added. A mic boost feature was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/idjc/
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[015] - Ist Shaper 0.0.5
by Karol Lassak (http://freshmeat.net/users/ingwar_swenson/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 06:31
Internet
System :: Networking
About: Ist Shaper is shaper which uses Apache-like configuration files. It
uses iptables and tc to prioritize and limit outgoing traffic on a Linux
box. By default, it uses HTB classes combined with the iptables CLASSIFY
extension.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ist-shaper/
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[016] - JChemPaint 2.1.1 (Development)
by EgonW (http://freshmeat.net/users/egonw/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 04:00
Education
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
About: JChemPaint is a program for drawing 2D chemical structures like
those found in most chemistry textbooks.
Changes: This release has more features ported from the 2.0 branch,
including radical drawing, selecting molecules, and the Plugin menu.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jchempaint/
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[017] - JOrbis 0.0.15
by ymnk (http://freshmeat.net/users/atsuhikoyamanaka/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 11:30
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: JOrbis is a pure Java Ogg Vorbis decoder.
Changes: Bugs in searching tags in the Vorbis comment header were fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jorbis/
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[018] - Legends 0.4.1c
by TerroX (http://freshmeat.net/users/TerroX/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 13:24
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: First Person Shooters
About: Legends is a team-based capture the flag game. It supports up to
64 players, in-game auto-download, and customisable skins, sounds and
scripts. It features a range of guns, grenades, mines, beacons, modules,
and more.
Changes: New features include an in-game admin setup system with plug-ins,
an observer camera, third-person reticle, the plasma turret, a new
inventory station, a transitory GUI, new maps for CTF, map updates, and a
deployable station. A server crash which occurred on mission change was
fixed. Bugs which were causing lag were fixed. The Server/Client
preferences files were simplified into one Prefs.cs file. adminuserlist.cs
was moved to /prefs. A lot of script changes and fixes were made, including
the Arena gametype.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/legends/
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[019] - libevent 1.1
by Niels Provos (http://freshmeat.net/users/nielsprovos/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 23:05
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback
function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a
timeout has been reached. It is meant to replace the asynchronous event
loop found in event-driven network servers.
Changes: This release features performance improvements to select and
poll, a work around for the kqueue bug in Mac OS X 10.4, and prevention
of data structure corruption when using epoll and deleting events after
file descriptors have been closed - this happens only when using the API
incorrectly.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libevent/
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[020] - libfget 1.3.3
by Mark D. Roth (http://freshmeat.net/users/roth/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:53
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Software Development :: Libraries
About: fget is a commandline tool for mirroring remote files via FTP. It
is based upon the included FTP client library, whose API is designed to
resemble the normal Unix API for accessing files and directories. This
interface should make it very easy to integrate FTP support into other
applications.
Changes: An option to download files into the current directory instead of
creating a subdirectory with the name of the remote directory was added.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libfget/
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[021] - linSmith 0.9.0a2
by John (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcoppens/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 14:49
Communications :: Ham Radio
Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: linSmith is a Smith charting program. Users can enter either
discrete components or transmission lines, see the results on screen,
and/or generate Postscript output. Component values can be changed
numerically or using scrollbars. Problems can be solved on-screen, and
high-quality Postscript can be output for publication.
Changes: The value text for Z/Y component wasn't initialized. The
frequency resolution was changed to 3 decimal places. A problem in which
the "Update" and "New" buttons were not activated reliably was solved. A
mistake in which the main screen component editor showed uH instead of nH
was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linsmith/
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[022] - Liquid Weather ++ 6.0
by Dumbkiwi (http://freshmeat.net/users/dmbkiwi/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:57
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
About: Liquid Weather ++ is a superkaramba theme and desktop applet for
displaying weather information and forecasts. You need superkaramba and
the KDE desktop. It displays weather information in a compact and easy to
read format.
Changes: By clicking on the main temperature text, the layout can now been
toggled between a new simple layout, and the old detailed layout. The icon
animations were simplified and some tooltip bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lwplus/
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[023] - LostIRC 0.4.5
by Morten Brix Pedersen (http://freshmeat.net/users/mbrix/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 11:28
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
About: LostIRC is a simple, yet very useful IRC client. It has features
such as tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, automatic joining of
servers/channels, and DCC sending, which should cover the needs of most
people. Another design goal is 100% keyboard controllability. LostIRC was
written using the gtkmm GUI library.
Changes: This releases fixes a resource leak, which should improve memory
usage over time. A keybinding was changed in order to be more similar to
other GNOME applications.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lostirc/
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[024] - Mariana 0.1.6
by Tom Hawkins (http://freshmeat.net/users/tomahawkins/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 14:15
Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
About: Mariana performs HDL analysis and model translation. It was
formerly known as HdlArch.
Changes: Mariana now parses Verilog 2001.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mariana/
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[025] - Mathomatic 12.3.2
by George Gesslein II (http://freshmeat.net/users/gesslein/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:58
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Code Generators
About: Mathomatic is a highly portable, general purpose symbolic math
program that can solve, simplify, combine, differentiate, integrate, and
compare algebraic equations. It can do standard, complex number, and
polynomial arithmetic. It is extremely easy to use and has pretty colored,
easily readable display of equations.
Changes: The div_remainder() function was rewritten to simplify better
when there is no remainder, and hence the simplify command works better.
The "group" command was renamed to "flist". A last strcpy() reference was
removed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mathomatic/
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[026] - mcvox 0.1
by Gilles Casse (http://freshmeat.net/users/gcasse/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 04:15
Adaptive Technologies
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Speech
About: mcvox is a Midnight Commander derivative that can be rendered via
an auditory user interface, a Braille display, or a tiny screen.
Changes: This release improved support for rendering by a screen reader.
Three main areas are managed: the menu bar, the main panel, and the
message line. Most elements such as the menu items, the input elements,
and the labels are displayed one line at a time, and the cursor is upon
this line. Any input element is announced using a prefix: 'Button',
'Input', 'Checkbox', or 'Radio'.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mcvox/
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[027] - mhWaveEdit 1.4.0
by Magnus Hjorth (http://freshmeat.net/users/magnush/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 04:15
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
About: mhWaveEdit is a program for playing, editing, and recording sound
files. It supports .wav files and a few other formats. It is good at
editing both large and small files, and has support for 8/16/24/32-bit
signed and unsigned sample formats.
Changes: Native language support was added along with Russian and Swedish
translations. Automatic connection of JACK input and output ports is now
supported and enabled by default. The default colors were changed and some
bugfixes were made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mhwaveedit/
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[028] - Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.14
by Bob van der Poel (http://freshmeat.net/users/bobvanderpoel/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 14:55
About: MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment) is an accompaniment generator. It
creates MIDI tracks for a soloist to perform over from a user-supplied
file containing chords and MMA directives. It is very versatile and
generates excellent tracks. It comes with an extensive user-extendable
library with a variety of patterns for various popular rhythms, an
extensive user manual, and several demo songs. It is a command line driven
program. It creates MIDI files which need a sequencer or MIDI file play
program.
Changes: A number of bugfixes were made. Many more system macros were
added. The ALLTRACKS command was added. Major fixes were made to chord
generation.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mma/
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[029] - Peeranha42 0.9 (Chess)
by eecid (http://freshmeat.net/users/eecid/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 13:52
About: Peeranha42 is an all-in-one software solution for P2P networks. The
software consists of two components, the P42 Client and the P42 Development
Kit. The client is the core of the software package and has a special
pluggable architecture. Furthermore, it builds up the interface between
the P2P network of JXTA and plugins using P2P networks. Due to the fact
that developing a P2P application is generally much harder and time
expensive than developing a simple client-server application, the client
offers an abstract network layer for easy development of P2P applications
in the form of P42 Plugins in minimum time. Some plugins are available for
download.
Changes: If the Rendevous connection fails, the GUI is blocked. Chess
rules are fully implemented. The disconnect button was added. Options to
offer a draw or to resign a game were added. Multi-game-mode was fixed.
The GUI structure was changed. Saving and resuming games. Completed moves
are displayed in the GUI. A popup-menu is displayed when the right mouse
button is clicked. The ability to play MP3s was added.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/p42/
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[030] - PHPflow 0.9.2BETA
by Cyrix (http://freshmeat.net/users/cyrix6x86/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 04:14
Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: PHPflow is a program that provides browser-viewable flowcharts
without the need for Visio-like browser-plugins. All flowchart symbols are
drawn as PNG images, and flowcharts are built by wrapping data provided in
an ini file into a customizable template using the PNG symbols.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpflow/
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[031] - phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 RC4 (Development)
by Thorsten Rinne (http://freshmeat.net/users/thorstenr/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 14:18
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards
About: phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system.
It also offers a content management system with a WYSIWYG editor, an image
manager, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking,
language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup
system, and an easy to use installation script.
Changes: This version includes experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0
using the PHP5 MySQLi extension. It also features the new default XHTML
design and fixes many minor bugfixes.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmyfaq/
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[032] - phpQLAdmin 2.2.4 (Stable)
by Turbo Fredriksson (http://freshmeat.net/users/fransurbo/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 12:09
Database :: Front-Ends
Office/Business
About: phpQLAdmin is designed primarily for administration of a QmailLDAP
user database, but also has EZMLM, QmailLDAP/Controls, Bind9/LDAP (using
the LDAP SDB driver), and Apache configuration (using the mod_cfg_ldap
module) management ability.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpqladmin/
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[033] - PPTP Client 1.6.0
by Pilot (http://freshmeat.net/users/infrastation/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 06:22
Security :: Cryptography
System :: Networking
About: PPTP Client allows you to connect to a PPTP server from a Linux
box. It sets up a PPTP call, after which the PPP daemon establishes a PPP
link over that PPTP call. The client can access PPTP-based VPNs. Besides
remote access to internal corporate networks, some CATV and ADSL ISPs are
using PPTP to provide Internet access to their customers.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pptpclient/
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[034] - PSMON 1.29
by Nicola Worthington (http://freshmeat.net/users/nicolaw/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 23:53
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: psmon is a Perl script which can be run as a stand-alone program or
a fully functional background daemon, capable of logging to syslog with
customisable email notification facilities. The user defines a set of
rules in an Apache-style plain text configuration file. These rules
describe what processes should always be running on the system, and any
limitations on concurrent instances, TTL, and maximum CPU/memory usage of
processes. psmon scans the UNIX process table and, using the set of rules
defined in the configuration file, will respawn any dead processes, and
slay or "deal with" any aggressive or illegal processes.
Changes: This release removes the Unix::Syslog dependency and uses stubs
in the <DATA> handle which will print messages to STDERR if Unix::Syslog
cannot be loaded. The overloading of the AdminEmail command line option
over other AdminEmail values was abstracted from the sendmail() method to
the calling code. The debug output code was tidied up, and may now be
enabled by setting the PSMon_DEBUG environment variable to a boolean true
value. More POD documentation was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/psmon/
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[035] - PyDO 2.0a2 (Development)
by smulloni (http://freshmeat.net/users/smulloni/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:53
Database
About: PyDO is an object-relational mapping library for Python that is
easy to use, explain and extend. It supports multiple database systems,
including PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MySQL. The 1.x series also supports
Oracle, SapDB, and Firebird.
Changes: This release fixed several bugs and updated the documentation.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pydo/
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[036] - References for TeX and Friends 0.3.9
by Michael Wiedmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/miwie/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 12:17
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: References for TeX and Friends is an ongoing project which provides
a help file for LaTeX (and its friends like ConTeXt, Metapost, Metafont,
etc.) using a state-of-the-art source format, DocBook/XML. Various output
formats can be generated from the source file. Anyone can write a
converter for any desired output format. Because the source file is XML,
the easiest way to do this might be to use XSLT.
Changes: A consistent naming scheme for IDs is now used to ease the use of
this reference for other projects (such as "Kile"). A new section, called
"float", was added in the "LaTeX" chapter.
License: GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tex-refs/
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[037] - Saccs personal accounting 0.6
by Satya (http://freshmeat.net/users/satyap/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 12:55
Information Management :: Records Management
About: Saccs is a simple Web-based personal accounting package to track
bank and credit card balances. A person can have multiple accounts.
Multiple installations on one system can accommodate multiple users.
Changes: Names may now be added to a community account, and the totals may
be seen.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/saccs/
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[038] - sdelta 20050514
by Kyle (http://freshmeat.net/users/kyles/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:54
System :: Archiving :: Compression
Utilities
About: sdelta analyzes two files and outputs the difference. It applies
the difference or delta file to the first of the original files to
construct a bit for bit clone of the second file. It is optimized for use
with source tarballs, and also contains sdreq, the client for the sdelta
Public Patch Repository. The PPR can generate on demand source upgrade and
downgrade patches for over 250,000 version specific source tarballs. By
using sdreq you can acquire new source tarballs from the PPR several times
faster and with only 15% of the downloading that you currently do.
Changes: The Public Patch Repository was moved to berlios.de. The included
client for the PPR was updated. This release contains enhancements for
generating patches on systems with limited memory. Instead of using system
swap, sdelta and sdelta2 now automatically perform swapping to temporary
files in /tmp. This improves patch generation speed, and as long as /tmp
resides on a physical file system and not a tmpfs virtual file system,
this modification allows patches of very large source tarballs to be
generated on boxes with a fraction of the memory one would expect to be
required.
License: Q Public License (QPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sdelta/
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[039] - Secure FTP Wrapper 2.5.9
by glub (http://freshmeat.net/users/glub/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 13:34
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Security
Security :: Cryptography
About: Secure FTP Wrapper is a server based package that enables an
existing FTP server to become a Secure FTP server. In this release the
wrapper allows a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection to be made to your
FTP server.
Changes: Data handling was fixed for a couple error conditions.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ftpswrap/
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[040] - Simple dictionary application 1.02
by Zdenek Broz (http://freshmeat.net/users/zdenekbroz/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:59
Education
About: Simple dictionary application allows users to use any plain text
dictionary that is UTF-8 with one translation per line and words separated
by tabulators.
Changes: Dictionaries are no longer loaded into RAM but are searched on
disk, which is very fast even for big dictionaries. Search results
contains all entries that begin with string you have entered.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sda/
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[041] - Smarty Purl Parameter Plugins 1.2
by Paul Kremer (http://freshmeat.net/users/nofutureuk/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 06:13
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: The Smarty Purl Parameter Plugins help with handling GET
parameters. They give you an easy way to manage parameters for hyperlinks
in Smarty template files.
Changes: A problem related to dynamic loading of the included shared.class
has been solved. Several warnings about uninitialized variables have been
corrected. The code has been cleaned to have proper indentation and has
been imported into CVS.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/purl_parameter_plugin/
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[042] - Socks Server 5 3.0 Release 5 (Stable)
by Matteo Ricchetti (http://freshmeat.net/users/matteoricchetti/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 12:24
Internet :: Proxy Servers
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: Socks Server 5 is a socks server for the Linux and Solaris
platforms. It supports the SOCKS protocol versions 4 and 5.
Changes: Connect response using DNS was fixed. The authentication buffer
was increased. A profiling bug was fixed. The package structure was
modified.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ss5/
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[043] - Task Coach 0.37
by Frank Niessink (http://freshmeat.net/users/fniessink/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 14:22
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: Task Coach is a simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and
todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers,
such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide
facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things to do
consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with
composite tasks.
Changes: This release adds the ability to sort tasks by subject next to
sorting by due date. In addition, a new date picker control is used to set
dates. Turning columns on or off in the task list view can now also be done
by right-clicking a column header.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/taskcoach/
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[044] - The friendly interactive shell 1.9
by liljencrantz (http://freshmeat.net/users/liljencrantz/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 04:00
Software Development :: Interpreters
System :: Shells
Utilities
About: fish, the friendly interactive shell is a shell that is focused on
interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness. The design goal
of fish is to give the user a rich set of powerful features in a way that
is easy to discover, remember, and use. fish features a user-friendly and
powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of every completion,
tab-completion of strings with wildcards, and many completions for
specific commands. It also features an extensive and discoverable help
system. A special help command gives access to all the fish documentation
in your preferred Web browser. Other features include syntax highlighting
with extensive error checking, support for the X clipboard, smart terminal
handling based on terminfo, an easy to search, no duplicates history.
Changes: A large number of UI tweaks were made along with improved search,
better completion pager layout code, and improved error reporting. The
quoting rules were changed so that quoted and unquoted text can be mixed
in one token, and the syntax for defining functions was improved. This
release also included several bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thefishshell/
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[045] - The Squirrel programming language 2.0.2 stable (2.x)
by Alberto (http://freshmeat.net/users/fagiano/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 14:54
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Squirrel is a light-weight programming language (around 6000 lines
of code) that features higher-order functions, delegation, tail
recursion, generators, exception handling, and automatic memory
management through reference counting or garbage collection. It has a
C-like syntax.
Changes: Performance improvements were made, especially for GCC users. All
dependencies were removed from C++ exception handling. Various bugfixes
were made.
License: zlib/libpng License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/squirrel_lang/
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[046] - Thunderbird Extension for Sender Verification 0.7
by Joshua Tauberer (http://freshmeat.net/users/tauberer/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 13:44
Communications :: Email :: Filters
About: The Thunderbird Extension for Sender Verification validates the
From: address of incoming email messages by using the Sender Policy
Framework and DomainKeys. The result of the verification is displayed at
the top of every message.
Changes: SPF checks are no longer performed by sending a query out to a
central server. The extension does all of the SPF work itself. However,
email messages with DomainKeys info are still checked the old way when SPF
fails. There are also new rudimentary checks for "domain look-alikes".
License: Public Domain
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thunderbirdspf/
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[047] - Torsmo 0.18
by Firebird (http://freshmeat.net/users/firebird/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 06:27
System :: Monitoring
About: Torsmo (TyopoytaORvelo System MOnitor) is a system monitor that
sits in the corner of your desktop. Torsmo can show various information
about your system and its peripherals. Torsmo is very light and
customizable, and it renders text on the root window.
Changes: This release fixes the width for all bars, some double buffers,
and Xft, ACPI fan, and ACPI AC adapter problems. It changes the signal for
configuration file reloading to SIGUSR1 and the battery feature to
${battery <filename in /proc/acpi/battery/>}. It applies the netbsd, cpu
frequency, adt746x, FreeBSD, Xdbe, Seti, X-Mozilla-Status, NVCtrl,
pad_percents, utime, fs_used_perc, and fs_bar_free patches, and patch that
supports the maildir format. It adds Xft support and xftfont configuration,
mixer features, min -> m, I2C divisor from a file, and SETI@Home features.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/torsmo/
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[048] - tuxrip 0.99beta6
by tuxrip (http://freshmeat.net/users/tuxrip/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 06:23
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Video
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion
About: Tuxrip is a Linux bash script for ripping and encoding DVD titles
in mpeg4 format (DivX, XviD, FFmpeg libavcodec). It features per title or
full DVD ripping, audio extraction and encoding, support for multi-audio
tracks, 2-pass video compression for a given file size and quality,
compressibility testing for optimal quality and resolution determination,
support for codec options, audio/video synchronization, CD burning, and
automatic computer shutdown. It uses OggVorbis for encoding audio and
either FFmpeg libavcodec or XviD as video codecs. It can use Ogg or
Matroska containers and supports subtitles in vobsub format. Subtitles are
muxed in matroska container and are automatically compressed.
Changes: A new container is now supported: AVI + MP3 to support standalone
hardware players. This release adds the ability to set the priority of the
encoding process, syncing audio and video manually, and disabling the auto
black bars detection. It fixes auto black bars detection and a display bug
in --test-comp mode. The version of transperl has updated in order to
support x264.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tuxrip/
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[049] - Winik 6
by nikhim (http://freshmeat.net/users/nikhim/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:52
About: Winik is a Cygwin/Unix distro, for Windows platforms, that is easy
to install and use. It features support for various different window
managers and more.
Changes: Installation direct from CD-ROM is now supported. The
installation time was cut to one third of the previous release.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/winik/
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[050] - WorldPrint 2.05
by Eduardo Trapani (http://freshmeat.net/users/umisha/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 14:57
Printing
Text Processing :: Filters
Text Processing :: Fonts
About: WorldPrint is a filter for Mozilla (Galeon, etc.), Htmldoc, and
Netscape PostScript output that uses TrueType fonts to allow the printing
of pages written in Unicode, Big5, SJIS, KOI-8, ISO-8859*, and other
charsets.
Changes: Support was added for newer versions of htmldoc (>= 1.8.24),
mozilla (>= 1.7.3), and firefox.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wprint/
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[051] - xchat-gnome 0.4
by David Trowbridge (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidtrowbridge/)
Sat, May 14th 2005 03:57
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
About: xchat-gnome is a GNOME frontend for the popular X-Chat IRC client
that was designed with an emphasis on HIG compliance and desktop
integration.
Changes: Bugfixes and optimizations were made. Several minor annoyances
were fixed, and memory footprint and speed were greatly improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xchat-gnome/
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