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Sourceforge
Modeling/core v0.9pre11 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296672
Object-Relational Bridge for python. Make your objects persistent in a
RDBMS, just by designing how your classes map to an RDBMS schema,
without having to write a single line of SQL! In this release, the
constraint on to-many relationship for which an inverse to-one
relationship had to be defined has been dropped. A caching mechanism is
now available for models at runtime, improving the general performance
of the core (refer to appendix A.1 in the User's Guide for details).
This release also includes some bug fixes, including: the ability to
fetch raw '?' and '*' in"like" qualifiers, RelationshipManipulation
methods were misbehaving when manipulating sub-entities (inheritance
issue). Manipulation of custom data types is now documented (see
section 9). -- Sébastien.
OpenRM Scene Graph 1.5.0 implements parallel rendering
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296654
OpenRM is a 2D/3D Scene Graph rendering engine for Linux/Unix/Win32
layered atop OpenGL. Supports stereoscopy, volume rendering, 2D/3D
texture mapping, picking, LOD and view-dependent operations, text, and
image-based data. New in OpenRM Scene Graph 1.5.0 is direct support for
distributed memory parallel rendering when combined with Chromium
(chromium.sourceforge.net). This significant work is intended to be
used by developers who need the utmost in parallel application
performance, and is designed to drive extremely high resolution tiled
displays in a distributed memory environment. The "parallel OpenRM" is
built to be completely independent of all parallel programming
frameworks, so developers can choose MPI, PVM, etc. to build parallel
applications and still benefit from a parallel scene graph.
Druid 3.0 final released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296633
After a month of beta testing, the 3.0 release is finally out. This is
mainly a bug fix release with only a few adds: a new PDF doc gen module
and localization of the XHTML doc gen module (see changes in the files
section). All the docs have been moved from HTML to PDF to be printed
and have been revised and improved. Druid is a tool that helps the
dba/developer to handle database tables. Users can add/modify/delete
database objects (fields, tables, etc...) using a GUI. When the db
structure is complete, druid can generate the sql-script and docs in
various formats.
HTML Parser Integration Release 1.4-20030727
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296622
HTML Parser is a library, written in Java, which allows you to parse
HTML (HTML 4.0 supported). It has been used by people on live projects.
Developers appreciate it's ease of use. The architecture is flexible,
allowing you to extend it easily. This release includes a preliminary
drop of the new I/O subsystem (which isn't integrated yet),
incorporates JUnit and Apache commons-logging liraries (also not used
yet), and adds several new tests of the contents of the StringBean.
gtk2-perl beta 0.91 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296371
This project provides perl bindings for gtk+ 2.x and a few related
libraries. This release includes several bugfixes, portability issues,
and missing functions in the latest betas for Gtk2 and Glib. Some
dependency issues for Gnome2 and Glade were also fixed.
Slashdot
India Chooses All-Electronic Voting
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/0022242
MaximusTheGreat writes "While the U.S. debates the merits of e-voting,
India has decided to have [0]all electronic polls in the next elections
for its billion strong population. Though India has used e-voting
partially in previous elections, it will be the first time a Lok Sabha
(central parliament) election will be held in the country since 1952
without the use of ballot papers. Election Commission plans to use
about [1] 800,000 electronic voting machines. Also, taking note from
India's experience, other commonwealth countries like Malaysia and
Britain will be [2] sending representatives to India to see the use of
EVMs during the Assembly elections. On a related note they plan to make
voter's identity card [1] mandatory for voting."
Links
0. http://sify.com/news/politics/fullstory.php?id=13201701
1. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=99968
2. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/03062201.htm
Mitch Bainwol To Succeed Hilary Rosen As RIAA Head
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/043224
bmarklein writes "The [0]RIAA has announced that it has named Mitch
Bainwol, former chief of staff to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist, as chairman & CEO. He replaces Hilary Rosen, who left earlier
this month. This confirms the speculation that the RIAA would appoint a
well-connected Republican (Rosen was a Democrat)." Several readers have
submitted links to [1]CNET's coverage as well.
Links
0. http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=industryNews&storyID=3173482
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5056299.html
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/027227
An anonymous reader submits: The [0]Mozilla Thunderbird (stand-alone
Mozilla based mail/news reader) developers have just released their
first milestone: [1] version 0.1, available for Mac [2]Linux, [3]Mac OS
X and [4]Windows. The [5]v0.1 release notes highlight some of the
bigger features like [6]customizable toolbars, [7]UI extensions,
[8]contact manager sidebar, simplified UI, 3-pane mail window option,
and [9]spell checker. Also of note, [10]Mozilla's usage share has risen
from 1.2% in February to 1.6% now, a 33% improvement!"
Links
0. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
1. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/
2.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/thunderbird-0.1-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2
3.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/thunderbird-0.1-macosx.dmg.gz
4. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/thunderbird-0.1-win32.zip
5. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/release-notes.html
6. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/screenshot.png
7. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/extensions.html
8. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/images/abPicker.png
9. http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/
10. http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox23.html
IBM Points Out SCO's GPL Software Distribution
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/0049210
An anonymous reader writes "Cnet is reporting that [0]IBM has launched
a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users, arguing that
SCO's demands for Unix license payments are undermined by its earlier
shipment of an open-source Linux product." [1]JayJay.br points out a
similar but more colorful article on The Register "in which SCO says
that 'SCO-Caldera [2]does not own the copyrights to JFS (Journaling
File System), RCU (Read, Copy, and Update), NUMA (Non-uniform Memory
Access) software, and other IBM-developed AIX code that IBM contributed
to the Linux kernel.' Gee, now that I was almost buying their license
..."
Links
0. http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39143645,00.htm
1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-24-Copyrights_Story01.html
What Is The Real Cost of Spam?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/236202
[0]securitas writes "The NY Times has a nice feature about the
[1]diverging estimates of the costs of spam ([2]Google). The estimates
vary widely from $10 billion to $87 billion per year for American
workers, and even more for global costs. Critics say that research
firms' estimates vastly overstate the actual cost of spam. Public
institutions like Indiana University have to be sensitive to the First
Amendment rights of the spammers. And at companies like Nortel
Networks, security architect Chris Lewis says that the real economic
burden is the 10 to 15 percent - 5,000 to 10,000 messages a day - of
the spam that still gets through, which costs the company about $1 in
lost productivity per message. The costs can be much higher if a top
executive is upset or mad about spam. "If someone in senior management
gets spammed," Mr. Lewis said, "it could take 20 or 30 hours of
everyone's time, up and down the chain." A chart of the [3]per user
amount of spam and the time spent processing it, as well as the
[4]varying estimates of the per user cost of spam are included in the
article."
Links
0. http://geartest.com
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/technology/28SPAM.html?pagewanted=all
2.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/technology/28SPAM.html?ex=1059969600&en=03c30276f54a51a7&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
3. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2003/07/27/technology/28SPAM.chartjpg.html
4. http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/07/27/business/28SPAM.chartjp.jpg
The Failures Of Desktop Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2227246
[0]PDAJames writes "Maybe Linux isn't quite ready for the desktop after
all. After an earlier, [1]very positive evaluation of SuSE Linux
Desktop, ZDNet UK has carried out a more in-depth review, [2]running
the system in a production environment for two weeks, and found it
wanting. A key problem area was interacting with the corporate Windows
network. When will this stuff finally be ironed out?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020466,2136603,00.htm
2. http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/review/42/1/5326.html
New Directions In Music Tech At Siggraph
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2126254
Cyrrin writes "The 2003 Siggraph [0]conference is under way in San
Diego, and the Emerging Technologies booth is showcasing several
noteworthy projects in the field of human-computer interaction in music
production. First, The Continuator system, from [1]Sony Computer
Science Laboratory, Paris which learns in real-time the style of a
performing pianist, taking into account chord structures, rhythm, and
melody, and then renders a musical performance in a similar style. Next
is [2]The Augmented Composer Project which uses real-time image
processing to read the arrangement and orientation of symbolic cards on
a table to allow a composer to assemble components of a musical phrase.
Finally, those wizards at the [3]MIT Media Lab bring you Hyperscore, a
visual composition program which is intended for childen to be able to
easily create complex and fantastic music sequences. (And it's fun for
adults too!) Hyperscore is part of the [4]Toy Symphony project and is
available for download by going to the Musictoys->Hyperscore-> Showcase
page (Windows-only though)."
Links
0. http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/
1. http://www.csl.sony.fr/
2. http://www.mis.atr.co.jp/~rodney/
3. http://www.media.mit.edu/
4. http://toysymphony.net/
Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2119237
[0]seattlenerd writes "In light of all of the hype about how much cash
Microsoft is sitting on, it's good to be reminded that they do fail. A
lot. [1]This piece in Seattle Weekly points out some of the many
failures -- from ActiMates Barney to Microsoft at Work to pending
disasters in smartphones and interactive TV (despite recent PR-worthy
announcements). But like most litter, the failures are swept under the
rug in the hopes people don't remember that many 'new' Microsoft ideas
are recycled from its own history." Of course, like any big company,
Microsoft is not a monolith.
Links
0. http://www.bytemeonline.com
1. http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0330/news-microsoft.php
Tim O'Reilly Interview
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/2221217
[0]s4 news machine writes "The UK webcaster [1]stage4 has published a
[2]lengthy interview with Tim O'Reilly in which he talks about why DRM
will fail, Macromedia Central and the rise of webservices, and that
Microsoft should have been broken up."
Links
0. http://www.stage4.co.uk
1. http://ww.stage4.co.uk/
2. http://stage4.co.uk/full_story.php?newsID=272
Essential .NET, Volume I
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/2230220
[0]hmobius writes "In a world where developers are baying for
customers' attentions, very few people can claim to command that of the
developer. Their blogs may be the only clue to the higher level of
thinking that they operate at, creating the answers to why and when
code works in addition to the perennial how. Whether he likes it or
not, Don Box is one such system-meister. He may dislike writing books,
but when one comes out, people pay attention and read. His first foray
into text, Essential COM, was the book to explain how COM worked, and
his latest, Essential .NET, takes the .NET FrameworkÂs Common Language
Runtime (CLR), and does exactly the same." Read on for the rest of
hmobius' review.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freshmeat
Accessfs 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130804/
Accessfs is a file system to manage permissions. It is not very useful
on its own. You need to load other modules like "User permission
based IP ports" or "User permission based capabilities".
With these modules there's no need anymore for most Internet daemons to
run as root.
AdvanceMAME 0.71.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130820/
AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for arcade
monitors, TVs, and PC monitors.
Agatha 0.6.6 (Unix)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130821/
Agatha is a Web-based MP3 playing system that allows users to stream
music, create and manage play lists, and control the playing of music
on the remote server (as in a appliance application). Agatha is
implemented with PHP4 and Apache.
Alpaca 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130843/
Alpaca is a multitasking operating system for Z-80 based arcade
hardware. It has been designed to run on both Pac-Man and Pengo based
arcade machines, but can easily be ported to other machines with
similar architectures. It supports four concurrently running processes,
task switching, simple inter-process messaging, semaphores, and a basic
window-based graphical interface.
amiex 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130780/
amiex is a text advertisement exchange. It can be run out of the box or
customized. There are various member area and admin features, like
detailed statistics, the ability to edit and delete member accounts,
set an exchange ratio, force adverts to be served, send email to
members, give credits, and more.
Animail 2.0-pre19 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130866/
Animail is a multiserver POP3/APOP/IMAP4 (with or without SSL) mail
retrieval utility. It features an advanced filtering system based on
blacklisting, whitelisting, or a combination of both. It is possible to
send an autoresponse which prompts people to reply and add themselves
to the 'autoaccept' file. It also allows filters based on regular
expressions which match against the email headers. (If a message is
filtered, only the header is downloaded, not the entire body.)
Combining external filtering programs (e.g. SpamAssassin or Bogofilter)
as message post-download plugins is also easily acomplished, thus
extending filtering capabilities in an unlimited way. Available
delivery options include mailbox, maildir, local SMTP, and pipe to a
command.
AnnotateIt! 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130836/
AnnotateIt! is an open source electronic response system targeted at
composition instructors and students. It allows a user to annotate HTML
and provides facilities for group interaction. Annotations may be
either hyperlinked or inline, depending on the user's preference. It
also features reporting of meta information (annotation types and
counts), predefined annotations, community annotations, conversion of
documents to HTML for annotation, easy document management, and an
assignments calendar.
antinat 0.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130872/
Antinat is a modular, multithreaded, scaleable SOCKS server for Linux
supporting SOCKS 4, SOCKS 5, authentication, firewalling, and name
resolution. Modules can be added without modifying the core server, and
modules can be removed to remove support for some functionality.
Apollon 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130757/
Apollon is the filesharing client you were waiting for! It uses
giFT/openFT as a filesharing protocol, and the GUI is very
user-friendly and intuitive.
Armagetron 0.2.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130752/
In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only
make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after
you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are
trying to do the same to you. If you are fast enough, you may be able
to trap them, but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive
close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic
preparations followed by action-packed close combat!
Autogg 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130853/
Autogg is an Ogg player that categorizes music independently of the
catalog structure. It exclusively uses tags to sort by album and
artist. Music can then be inserted into a playlist from the sorted
treelist.
BananaPos 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130770/
BananaPos is point of sale system that consists of a server, a client,
libraries, and some associated utilities. It uses GTK and includes a
Web-based MIS system for administration. It currently supports MySQL.
BattStat 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130717/
BattStat is a short program written to check the battery status on
newer ACPI laptops. Multiple batteries are handled.
Bionic Instinct 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130734/
Bionic Instinct is a green theme with a frilly lizard. The background
is by weirdone (Michi Brandstetter).
BookmarkManager 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130740/
BookmarkManager is an online bookmark manager and is meant as a
replacement for a browser's bookmark system. It runs on a servlet
container, and needs no database. It uses the Prevayler system for
storing its data.
CBT Combo 0.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130844/
CBT Combo is a Computer-Based Training program for K-12 teachers who
use Linux. It is text based and supports full internationalization and
localization. It is a combination of authoring and playback software,
and allows everyone to create training courses for others on most
subjects. It supports access through serial TTYs, telnet, console, and
xterms. X11 is not required but is supported through xterm. It runs
extremely well on older 386 and 486 systems as well as more modern
systems.
Cheap Threads 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130774/
Cheap Threads is a collection of portable C routines for implementing
sychronous threads. It includes a scheduler and a facility for passing
messages among threads. Threads may run in a round robin or according
to a priority scheme. Each thread must voluntarily relinquish control
from time, via an ordinary function return, so that other threads can
run. Since the threads are synchronous, i.e. they don't interrupt each
other, they don't need to use semaphores, mutexes, critical sections,
or other facilities to keep from interfering with each other. One
version of Cheap Threads is designed for embedded systems.
cmdftp 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130720/
cmdftp is a command line FTP client for Linux with shell-like functions
which uses passive mode only, works in local and remote mode
transparently, tries to keep the connection alive, and supports
multiple and recursive file transfers. It is aimed at being simple yet
powerful.
curl and libcurl 7.10.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130785/
curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It
supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER,
as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers,
passwords, portnumbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is
powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are
bindings/interfaces to libcurl for more than a dozen languages and
environments.
Cut The Crap Software 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130776/
Cut The Crap provides a set of Java packages for system development.
From file-based storage utilities, through a generic persistence object
model, to a package called "The Alchemist" that generates
usable persistent models from simple XML descriptions.
Dante 1.1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130788/
Dante is a free implementation of the proxy protocols socks version 4,
socks version 5 (rfc1928), and msproxy. It can be used as a firewall
between networks. The package consists of two parts, a socks server and
a proxy client which supports socks, msproxy, and HTTP proxies.
Commercial support is available.
Datamaster 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130846/
Datamaster is a set of utilities that generates databases and
customizable Web applications automatically from UML class diagrams.
Druid 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130721/
Druid is a tool to handle database tables. Users can add/modify/delete
database objects (fields, tables, etc.) using a simple GUI. When the DB
structure is complete, Druid can generate the SQL script to generate
the DB and the related docs.
easyGG 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130715/
easyGG is an automatic gallery generator. It features automatic image
rotation based on EXIF info, automatic scaling for Web usage, automatic
generation of linked pages, and an index page with thumbnails. When
executed in a directory with JPEG images, it creates a subdirectory
with a ready-to-use gallery.
Exult 1.1Beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130842/
Exult is an open-source game engine for playing Ultima7 on modern
operating systems, using the game's original data files.
File::Scan 0.60 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130858/
File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can
detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and
signatures database.
FIRE|GATE 0.78
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130841/
FIRE|GATE is a Linux IPtables script for use as a firewall and
NAT/masquerade router for home networks or SOHO applications. It shares
access to a single Internet connection from multiple workstations, and
can optionally forward all inbound HTTP, SMTP, or other requests to
internal servers (as opposed to a DMZ). Hardware requirements are
modest, with an i486 with 16MB RAM being capable of handling at least
10 machines (if not many more). FIRE|GATE differs from many online
examples in that it is heavily commented, so it's understandable; it is
fully contained in one script; it includes SYSCTL parameters for
increased strength; it addresses IM client file transfers; and there is
no need to specify/grep for the external IP, even if assigned via DHCP.
Flyspray 0.9.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130711/
Originally developed for the Psi project, Flyspray is an easy to use
bug tracking system for those who don't require all the complexities of
something like Bugzilla. It supports multiple users, file attachments,
and Jabber notifications.
FSlint 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130811/
FSlint is a toolkit to find various forms of lint on a filesystem. At
the moment it reports duplicate files, bad symbolic links, troublesome
file names, empty directories, non stripped executables, temporary
files, duplicate/conflicting (binary) names, and unused ext2 directory
blocks.
FSMGenerator 1.0b4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130855/
FSM Generator allows one to generate FSM implementation source code, in
one of the available programming languages, from configuration files.
The generated FSM can then be compiled together, executed, and
interfaced by the user's software.
Gander 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130824/
Gander serves Python applications over HTTP by doing as little as
possible: a request for a root URL returns an index page, a request for
non-valid application returns "404: Resource NotFound", a
request for uninstantiated object returns "412: Object Not
Instantiated", and all other responses come from the Gander-served
application for which Gander translates URL-style requests into object
method-calls.
GCJ web browser plugin 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130789/
gcjwebpugin is a plugin to execute Java applets in Mozilla and
compatible browsers. It uses the JVM provided by GCJ.
Genesis 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130786/
Genesis is a bright orange and dark grey theme.
gif2png 2.4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130856/
gif2png is a simple command-line utility to convert images from GIF to
PNG format. It automatically preserves transparency, interlacing and
text comments, and it can do multiple images in one command (e.g.,
gif2png *.gif). The distribution also includes a web2png script that
can be used to convert an entire web tree; it calls gif2png to do image
conversions, then patches IMG SRC tags correctly in referring pages.
giFTcurs 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130869/
giFTcurs is the recommended frontend to giFT. It is feature rich, very
fast, stable, and is being actively developed. It seems to bring out
memories of lost BBS days, and it looks really good.
Ginanh 0.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130726/
Ginanh (Ginanh Is Neither Adom Nor Hunt) is intended to be an RPG game
with a graphical (text mode) user interface and multiplayer support.
gmorgan 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130716/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It
features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
GNet 2.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130870/
GNet is a network library. It is object-oriented, written in C, and
built upon GLib. It is intended to be easy to use and port. It supports
abstract Internet addresses, TCP, UDP, IP Multicast, IPv6, asynchronous
DNS lookups, SHA, MD5, Base64, URIs, and SOCKS. It comes with
documentation and examples.
GNU Parted 1.6.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130743/
GNU Parted allows you to create, destroy, resize, and copy partitions.
Supported partition types include ext2, FAT (FAT16 and FAT32), and
Reiserfs filesystems and Linux swap devices. Supported disk labels
include MS-DOS and PC98 partition tables, Sun and BSD disk labels,
Macintosh partition maps, and raw access. Parted is useful for creating
space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data
between hard disks, and disk imaging.
Grass After the Rain 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130729/
Grass After the Rain is a theme showing raindrops on blades of grass.
The background is by Vlad Gerasimov.
Grutatxt 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130815/
Grutatxt is a plain text to HTML converter. It successfully converts
subtle text markup to lists, bold, italics, tables, and headings to
their corresponding HTML tags without having to write unreadable source
text files.
GTick 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130823/
GTick is a metronome application. It features a scale from 30 beats per
minute to 250 BPM and arbitrary beat modes (meters). It uses GTK+ and
OSS.
gURLChecker 0.5.6 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130724/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web
page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each
page.
HardCore Web Content Editor 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130777/
The HardCore Web Content Editor is a cross-browser/cross-platform Web
content editor. It enables anybody to create, edit, and post Web site
content through a WYSIWYG editor with CSS style sheet support and drag
and drop editing (to be used as a replacement for HTML form textarea
tags).
Hastymail 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130708/
Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform IMAP/SMTP
client application providing a clean Web interface for sending and
reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a
useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away
from their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is
required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text
based and even PDA browsers like Blazer).
HBCI4Java 0.3 (Passport Editor)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130768/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It
supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and
HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented,
so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
HBCI4Java 2.4.1 (Package)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130767/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It
supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and
HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented,
so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
Host Grapher 1.0d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130793/
Host Grapher is a very simple collection of Perl scripts that provide
graphical display of CPU, memory, and process information for a system.
There are clients for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Tru64. No socket
will be opened on the client, nor will SNMP be used for obtaining the
data.
HTTPD::Bench::ApacheBench 0.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130733/
HTTPD::Bench::ApacheBench is the foundation of a complete benchmarking
and regression testing suite for an advanced, transaction- based
mod_perl site. It is useful for stress testing a Web server to its
limit while verifying the HTTP responses for correctness.
hYPerSonic 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130710/
hYPerSonic allows you to build and manipulate signal processing
pipelines from Python scripts. It is designed for real-time control. It
includes objects for oscillators, filters, file IO, and soundcard and
memory operations. It is low-level: every byte counts.
ID3 Tag Framework 0.91a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130795/
ID3Tag.framework is a Cocoa-based framework for reading and writing ID3
tags. It supports 1.1 and 2.0 - 2.4 tag types.
ImageInfo 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130801/
Imageinfo is a single Java class that examines InputStream and
RandomAccessFile objects. It checks whether the stream/file is in one
of the supported image file formats and determines image width, height,
and color depth. ImageInfo does not depend on the AWT or additional
libraries.
ImageroReader 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130850/
ImageroReader is a Java library for reading image files. It can read
BMP, TIFF, PNG, and JPEG image files, and can read thumbnails and
metadata in TIFF, PNG, JPEG, JFIF, EXIF, and PSD files.
IMDB Console Client 2807-2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130816/
The IMDB Console Client gathers information about all your movies and
TV shows (seperated with flags) from the Internet Movie Data Base. It
supports ratings, genre, tagline, plot outline, and cast.
Impact 0.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130838/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping
algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car
crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is
kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and
extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and
output formats.
Inside Systems Mail 1.7-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130808/
Inside Systems Mail is a Webmail system that is programmed in PHP,
makes heavy use of Javascript/DOM, and is designed to work with any
IMAP server (including Microsoft Exchange). It aims to be quick and
easy to use, with an interface that most users will find familiar and
several options that help fine tune the Webmail experience.
IOzone 3.196
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130796/
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and
measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many
machines and runs under many operating systems.
Iperf 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130849/
Iperf is a tool to measure IP bandwidth using UDP or TCP. It allows for
tuning various parameters, and reports bandwidth, delay jitter, and
packet loss. It supports IPv6 and multicast.
ipfreeze 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130848/
Ipfreeze is a program that listens to the netlink device. It takes the
source address from every incoming packet and adds it to a Netfilter
"blacklist" chain. The address is removed from this chain
after a user-definable period of time. This allows you to create rules
that detect and halt certain odd behaviors, such as ports scans, syn
floods, or connection attempts on forbidden ports. The attacker's IP
address is blacklisted using the QUEUE target. There is also a
whitelist where you can declare hosts that you never want to be
blacklisted.
istrice 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130834/
istrice allows a client to assign the compilation of a C/C++ source
file to a remote server throughout the mediation of a Master Server. It
is an implementation of a distribuited compilation environment under
Unix systems. Using the ISTRICE environment you can distribuite the
compilation across a set of 'friend' computer around the network,
reducing the compilation time and system load of a slow or busy
computer.
J-Lan Communicator 1.1 Build 20030728
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130819/
J-Lan Communicator is a small application that facilitates
communication between different hosts on the same local area network.
It does not require a central server and uses very little bandwidth by
taking advantage of a lightweight protocol and UDP packets.
JFaceDbc 2.0 beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130778/
JFaceDbc is a JDBC client application written in Java. It can run as a
stand-alone application or as an Eclipse Plugin, and features a GUI
based on JFace and the SWT libraries from the Eclipse Project.
JFreeChart 0.9.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130764/
JFreeChart is a chart library for Java that supports a wide range of
charts including pie charts (2D and 3D), bar charts (horizontal and
vertical, regular or stacked line charts with optional 3D-effects, XY
plots, scatter plots, time series charts, high/low/open/close charts,
candlestick plots, Gantt charts, Pareto charts, combination charts, and
more. It is suitable for use in applications, applets, servlets, and
JSP.
JGraph 2.2.1 (For Java 1.3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130748/
JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than
many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component,
you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It
can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a
custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.
Jin client for chess servers 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130723/
Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. While it currently only
supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet
Chess Server (freechess.org), it is written to be flexible enough to
support any chess server. It is based on the Swing UI toolkit and runs
on any Java 1.1 compatible JVM.
jMusic 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130762/
jMusic provides a library of classes for generating and manipulating
music, and is a solid framework for computer assisted composition in
Java. jMusic supports composers by providing a music data structure
based upon note/sound events, and methods for working with that musical
data. jMusic can read and write MIDI files, audio files, and its own
.jm files. jMusic is designed to be extendible, encouraging you to
build upon the functionality of jMusic by programming in Java to create
your own music composition tools.
Kahakai 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130709/
Kahakai is a fork of the Waimea window manager, adding scripting
support for many languages through SWIG.
kbarcode 1.3.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130769/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can
be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex
labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode
comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch
import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of
predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many
languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no
problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement
for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN,
UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
kdissert 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130854/
kdissert is an attempt to make a mindmapping-like tool to help students
to write texts like dissertations, theses, and reports. It is meant to
organize the ideas faster, not to actually write the documents
themselves.
LabPlot 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130759/
LabPlot is a KDE application for data plotting and function analysis.
It support both 2D and 3D plots and tries to emulate most of the
functions supported by programs like Microcal Origin or SPSS Sigmaplot.
lescegra 20030728
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130830/
Lescegra is an object-oriented 3D graphics engine based on OpenGL. It
is written in strict ANSI C and brings no dependencies other than an
OpenGL implementation.
Linux 2.6.0-test2 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130680/
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.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130741/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network
administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely
turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your
network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing
"bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are
easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such
as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and
content blocking.
LKL 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130761/
LKL is a userspace keylogger that runs under Linux on the x86
architechture. LKL sniffs and logs everything that passes through the
hardware keyboard port (0x60). It translates keycodes to ASCII with a
keymap file.
LTI-Lib 1.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130750/
The LTI-Lib is an object oriented library with algorithms and data
structures frequently used in image processing and computer vision. It
was developed at the RWTH-Aachen University as a part of many research
projects on computer vision dealing with robotics, object recognition,
sign language, and gesture recognition. It provides an object oriented
C++ library that includes fast algorithms, which can be used in real
applications.
LTOOLS 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130754/
The LTOOLS are a set of command line tools for reading and writing
Linux ext2 and ext3 filesystems from DOS, Windows, Solaris, or Linux.
They are useful for dual-boot configurations and system recovery. It
features Java-based and .NET graphical interfaces, an Explorer-like
interface in a Web browser, and a method of providing remote access to
filesystems.
MarsDict 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130845/
MarsDict is a GTK dictionary frontend which uses plugins to get words
from data sources. With the appropriate plugin, it can connect to
MySQL, dict servers, or plain text files.
mdadm 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130868/
mdadm is a tools for creating, maintaining, and monitoring Linux
"md" device arrays, also known as Software RAID.
Meld 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130861/
Meld is a GNOME 2 visual diff and merge tool. It integrates especially
well with CVS. The diff viewer lets you edit files in place (diffs
update dynamically), and a middle column shows detailed changes and
allows merges. The margins show location of changes for easy browsing,
and it also features a tabbed interface that allows you to open many
diffs at once.
Memory Allocation Checker 0.1.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130810/
Memcheck provides the ability to fault on pointer overrun (read or
write) or freed pointer deference (read or write), logs double free and
realloc of already freed pointers and memory not freed on exit, checks
for pointer underrun on free and realloc, optionally reverses the
behavior of overrun and underrun, "churns" reallocations to
always return a different pointer, and logs pointer overruns instead of
faulting. It has a very small performance impact, with the tradeoff of
a large memory footprint. It includes a validation test suite to verify
correctness of the library. It is tested on a variety of architectures,
including Alpha, ARM, HPPA, PPC, ix86, IA64, rs6000, S390, SPARC, and
SPARC64. It is tested on a variety of platforms, including OSF,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, HP/UX, Mac OSX, AIX, SCO, and Solaris.
Metalcity 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130718/
Want that Java Swing look and feel? Use the Metalcity theme for
Metacity with the GTK Metal theme.
Moa Snippets 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130751/
Moa Snippets allows you to create editable areas in your Web site. It
features a powerful backend administration tool that lets you display
snippets in predefined locations, in any order, or by category, and
includes the ability to create multiple users to access the backend
tool.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130779/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and
relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create,
retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without
having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation
of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be
used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in
relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard
Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are
automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic
checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported
databases are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
mod_auth_bsd 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130867/
mod_auth_bsd is an Apache module which provides HTTP Basic
authentication via the BSD Authentication framework as available in
OpenBSD.
mod_mylo 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130798/
mod_mylo is a dynamic module that can be added to Apache to do logging
to a MySQL server, in addition to the normal access logs.
Mojo Mail 2.8.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130747/
Mojo Mail is a light-weight Web-based email mailing list manager. It
supports announce-only lists and group discussion lists, as well as
archiving, double opt-in subscriptions, and double opt-out
unsubscriptions. List mailings can be sent using sendmail, qmail, or
even with a straight SMTP connection (either all at once, or in timed
batches). All list administration can be done through your browser via
Mojo Mail's administrative control panel. Creating new lists and
administrating them is easy. Mojo Mail is a great alternative to
programs such as Majordomo if you want to give more control to the
actual list owners, who may not have much experience with such
applications. Mojo Mail can be run simply as a CGI script and needs no
special modules installed. The entire look of html pages created by
Mojo Mail can be customized with any template you can provide, on a
list by list basis.
msmtp 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130840/
msmtp is a very simple program that works as an "SMTP plugin"
for Mutt and (probably) other MUAs. It forwards messages to an SMTP
server which does the delivery. It can use various SMTP AUTH methods
and TLS-encrypted connections.
mvc 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130766/
MVC is a text mode v4l video capture program that features motion
detection. It is very small and easy to use, and could be used to
monitor and record the people that enter your room.
Natural Docs 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130739/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code
documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so
the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation.
It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
NetMRG 0.10pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130875/
NetMRG is a network monitoring, reporting, and graphing system. Using
MySQL, PHP, C++, pthreads, and RRDTOOL, it is capable of monitoring
thousands of variables on five-minute intervals. Graph templating
allows network admins to begin monitoring devices with minimal
overhead. NetMRG is also capable of responding to programmable events,
such as variables exceeding accepted tolerances. It can accommodate
server hosting and Internet service provider environments with
different users allowed to view only their own equipment's graphs.
News Spotter 0.8B
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130744/
News Spotter is an RSS headline viewer. It distinguishes itself from
similar applications through its minimalist user interface, which
proactively displays an alert upon receipt of additional news items.
Newts 0.11.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130827/
Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message
board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the
Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at
Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and
feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles
data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to
manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and
additional clients.
OpenAMF 1.0RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130876/
The OpenAMF Project is an open-source alternative to MM's Java Flash
Remoting. The project's goal is to produce a program which is much more
capable of providing application services to SWF clients than the
proprietary MM solution. This project began as a Java port of amfphp.
OProfile 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130817/
OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent profiler for Linux. It is
capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes, shared
libraries, the kernel, and device drivers, via the hardware performance
counters.
pam_sqlite 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130863/
pam_sqlite allows developers to authenticate users against a table in
an SQLite database. It supports checking account information
(pam_acct_expired, new_authtok_reqd) and updating authentication
tokens.
pam_usb 0.1-beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130865/
pam_usb is a PAM module that enables authentication using an
USB-Storage device (such as an USB Pen) through PAM. It can work with
any application using PAM such as your system login (login), your X
login (XDM/KDM/GDM), your screensaver (xscreensaver), and many others.
It supports multiple users for the same device, multiple passwords for
the same user (based on the system's hostname), and serial numbers
access list.
Parsifal XML Parser 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130814/
Parsifal XML Parser is a minimal, non- validating XML parser written in
ANSI C. It implements a subset of SAX2 with full XML name space
support.
pdnsd 1.1.8b1-par6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130797/
pdnsd is a Proxy DNS server for Linux and FreeBSD that is designed to
cope with unreacheable nameservers (e.g. because the dial-in link is
not up) in a graceful manner to prevent DNS-dependent applications like
Netscape from hanging. It has a permanent disk cache and supports
parallel query and a wide variety of link uptests. It also has the
ability to serve some local records.
perltidy 20030726
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130877/
Perltidy is a Perl script indenter and beautifier. By default it
approximately follows the suggestions in perlstyle(1), but the style
can be adjusted with command line parameters. Perltidy can also write
syntax-colored HTML output.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.4 beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130755/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It
also offers a content management system, 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.
pkdump 0.96.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130725/
pkdump detects TCP and UDP port scans and connection attempt from
foreign hosts over the Internet.
Plesk Server Administrator 6.0.1 (6.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130735/
Plesk Server Administrator (PSA) is a multi-platform, Web-based
software solution that simplifies and automates the administration of
UNIX and Linux Web servers. PSA helps Web hosting companies and their
reseller clients deliver better, faster service to domain owners by
sharing server management with them.
plucker 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130851/
Plucker is an offline Web and eBook viewer for Palm OS-based handheld
devices and PDAs. It comes with Unix/Linux tools and conduits, and
Windows and Mac OS X conduits that let you decide exactly what part of
the Web you want to view on your PDA (as long as it's in standard HTML
or text format). The requested Web pages are processed, compressed, and
transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer.
polyxmass 0.6.0 (polyxmassdata)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130694/
polyxmass is a mass spectrometry framework where users are able to
define brand new polymer chemistries (with the polyxdef module), and
use these definitions in order to make simple mass calculations (with
the polyxcalc module) or perform complex simulations of polymer
chemistry with related mass data computations (with the polyxedit
module). The framework allows full customization of every aspect of the
polymer chemistry being defined, and of the way the polymer sequences
are graphically displayed. This program was formerly called
"polyXmass".
PonyProg 2.06c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130722/
PonyProg is a serial device programmer with a user friendly GUI
framework available for Intel Linux and Windows. Its purpose is being
able to read from and write to most serial devices. At the moment it
supports I²C Bus, Microwire, SPI eeprom, the Atmel AVR, and
Microchip PIC micro. Hardware programmer (SI-Prog) schematics are
included.
Poppy on White 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130732/
Poppy is a minimalist red, black, and white theme. The background is by
mookoo cat.
PTimeTracker 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130859/
PTimeTracker is a small Qt-based program that helps you keep track of
the time spent on projects. The time in minutes spent on the active
project is displayed on the icon and title bar and therefore viewable
even when the program is minimised. A detailed report is available on
total hours worked on different projects. This report displays the
amount of time spent on each of the projects per day.
pwbuilder 0.6rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130791/
pwbuilder is a powerful tool for creating software packages for
Slackware Linux. pwbuilder aims to be the easiest tool in its category.
However, pwbuilder provides an advanced API that allows you to make
packages exactly in the way you want.
PwG 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130833/
PwG is a small tool which generates secure, random passwords. It's able
to interoperate with PwM-Password-Manager.
pydance 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130746/
pydance is a dancing game written in Python, formerly named pyDDR. The
idea is simple. There's a floor mat with arrows, and the game scrolls
arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows
reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits
the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time
with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put
together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat
play are supported.
Qalculate! 0.1 (GTK+)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130839/
Qalculate! is a modern desktop calculator. It is small and simple to
use, but with much power underneath. It features customizable functions
and variables, unit handling, and an interface with one-line
fault-tolerant expression entry, but with optional traditional buttons.
QDist 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130745/
The QDist package implements the O(n log^2 n) time method for computing
the quartet distance between unrooted evolutionary trees.
QuikWiki 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130871/
QuikWiki is a Perl CGI wiki that supports all of the normal Wiki
functions of browsing, creating, and editing Web pages. Additionally,
QuikWiki supports inline image display, text markup, RCS revisions, and
page templates.
QuoteEngine 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130707/
The QuoteEngine is an eggdrop TCL script (with an optional PHP-based
Web interface) that allows channel users (with the right flags) to
store IRC quotes in a MySQL database. Adding, searching, fetching, and
deleting from the channel are supported. Multiple channel support is
native.
Rule Set Based Access Control 1.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130790/
Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC) is a Free Software security
extension for current Linux kernels. It is based on the Generalized
Framework for Access Control (GFAC) by Abrams and LaPadula and provides
a flexible system of access control based on several modules. All
security relevant system calls are extended by security enforcement
code. This code calls the central decision component, which in turn
calls all active decision modules and generates a combined decision.
This decision is then enforced by the system call extensions.
S tar 1.5.a18 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130806/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes
POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives.
Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It
saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for
speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive
sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags,
automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition,
automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and
special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental
backups. It includes the only known platform independent
"rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The
"rmt" server from the star package implements all
Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client
from any OS to contact any OS as server.
samhain 1.7.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130714/
samhain is a daemon that can check file integrity, search the file tree
for SUID files, and detect kernel module rootkits (Linux only). It can
be used either standalone or as a client/server system for centralized
monitoring, with strong (192-bit AES) encryption for client/server
connections and the option to store databases and configuration files
on the server. For tamper resistance, it supports signed
database/configuration files and signed reports/audit logs. It has been
tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Unixware.
SAP DB 7.4.03.27 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130765/
SAP DB is an open, SQL-based, relational database management system
that provides high availability and performance scaling from small to
very large implementations. It supports open standards including SQL,
JDBC and ODBC, as well as access from Perl, Python, and PHP. SAP DB is
platform independent, so users can deploy it for a wide array of
projects.
Scorched3D 35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130828/
Scorched3D is a cross-platform 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery
game Scorched Earth. Scorched3D can be played against the computer,
other players, and remotely across the Internet or LAN.
Scriptura 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130760/
Scriptura is a multi-platform design and generation solution for
business documents. The easy-to-use graphical designer allows
pixel-perfect positioning of static and dynamic elements in document
templates. The layout of your documents can be enriched with graphical
elements like fonts, colors, images, and barcodes, while dynamic data
from a variety of data sources provides the content. Conditions based
on dynamic data can be used to tailor the layout and content of your
documents. Document templates can be locked to prevent deliberate or
accidental changes. It uses Java, XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, JDBC, XPath,
XHTML, PDF, and PCL technologies.
ScummLinux 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130857/
ScummLinux is a ScummVM LiveCD. It allows you to play your favorite
ScummVM-supported games anywhere; just boot the CD, choose a game, and
enjoy. It supports all the soundcards supported by the Linux kernel and
TV-Out for some graphics cards, so you can even play on a television
set.
SecExMail 1.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130826/
SecExMail is email encryption software that uses RSA public key
encryption and the Twofish block cipher. It features PGP style email
keys, but without the dependence on email software-specific plugins.
The software runs unobtrusively as a relay agent in the system tray on
your desktop and actively filters messages between your email client
and your mail server, encrypting and decrypting mail to and from known
users in real-time. It also includes an HTML filter, which eliminates
the chances of malicious attacks via HTML email.
Sgraph 0.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130880/
Sgraph is a utility to create graphs from data supplied by the user. It
creates standard stock charts, using min/max/close and volume data. It
can also be linked as a static library, to interface with your stock
data manipulation routines.
srecord 1.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130782/
SRecord is a collection of powerful tools for manipulating EPROM load
files. It understands a number of file formats including Motorola
S-Record, Intel hex, Tektronix hex and binary, for both input and
output. SRecord filters include cropping, filling, splitting, joining,
and more. All filters may be applied to all file formats.
Sunflower 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130730/
Sunflower is a dark theme with an embossed sunflower. The background is
by softshape art (Vlad Gerasimov).
System Rescue CD 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130792/
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system available from a bootable CDROM that
provides an easy way to perform administrative tasks on your computer,
such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk or backing
up data. It contains a lot of system utilities (such as parted,
qtparted, partimage, and fstools) and basic utilities (such as editors,
midnight commander, and network tools).
Tcl/Tk 8.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130807/
Tcl provides a portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, and
Macintosh that supports string processing and pattern matching, native
file system access, shell-like control over other programs, TCP/IP
networking, timers, and event-driven I/O. Tcl has traditional
programming constructs like variables, loops, procedures, namespaces,
error handling, script packages, and dynamic loading of DLLs. Tk
provides portable GUIs on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh. A powerful
widget set and the concise scripting interface to Tk make it a breeze
to develop sophisticated user interfaces.
Term::Animation 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130878/
Term::Animation provides a framework to produce sprite animations using
ASCII art.
The Gallery 1.3.4-p1 (1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130713/
Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy
to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the
ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection
via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and
more. Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per
individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.
The Tamber Project 1.2.13 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130813/
The Tamber project is a free, componentised n-tier website engine that
uses open languages such as XML and JavaScript. In a nutshell, content
is stored in separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects;
business functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP; and
presentation is controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for
delivery over multiple channels such as HTML, WAP and email. Currently
Tamber contains modules that support; automatic locale detection,
search engine tracking and optimisation, e-commerce catalogues;
shopping carts and order management, secure sign in, data access and
conversion services, advanced session management, content managemt
tools and forums.
Tiki 1.7 RC4 (Release candidates)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130874/
Tiki is a powerful content management system that features articles,
forums, newsletters, blogs, a file/image gallery, a Wiki, drawing, a
tracker, a directory, poll/surveys and quizzes, a FAQ, chat, a banner,
Webmail, a calendar, and ACLs, etc.
Toadskin 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130802/
Toadskin is a tarpit programming language influenced by BrainF**k and
Forth. It is stack-based and supports definition of Forth-like words.
All instructions and words are one character in length and should be
familiar to anyone who has played with BrainF**k.
TunnelFighter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130773/
TunnelFighter is the basic engine of a 3D game that involves flying
down a tunnel.
UgLy Game Search Engine rc 11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130620/
The UgLy Game Search Engine quickly searches the network for game
servers, and then lists them in a qstat-formatted file and html for use
by other programs, such as Server Query and Gametrakker. The script
itself uses very little memory and bandwidth and will happily run in
the background. It supports games such as Quake 1/2/3, Unreal, Jedi
Knight 2, Half Life, and many more.
wakeup 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130837/
wakeup is a utility for Solaris that schedules the system to turn its
power back on at a specified time. It uses undocumented ioctls to set
the time of day chip to send a signal to the hardware at a certain
time. When that happens, sun4u-based machines that support it will
power back on if they happen to be off at the time the alarm goes off.
wallstreet9 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130772/
wallstreet9 is a small home banking application that uses HBCI4Java for
HBCI functionality. It is not intended to become a high-end home
banking application, but can be used as a test application for your
HBCI account or as a demonstration of how to use HBCI4Java.
Web Thermometer 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130719/
WebThermometer is the software and a hardware design for attaching a
thermometer to your COM port. It displays the measured temperature on
the Web and is cheap and easy to build.
WebGUI 5.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130702/
WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average
business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular,
pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the
people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content
management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are
building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has
something to offer.
Webmatic applets 1.38
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130799/
The Webmatic applets are some Java applets with various graphics
effects to add to your Web site.
WebTK 0.alpha4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130812/
WebTK is a Python framework, using Twisted as its underlying Web
server, and allowing webmasters to develop websites like any classic
GUI software. It is object-oriented, providing and handling event-based
widgets. It also does not need any database to work, as it uses object
persistence with the help of PyPerSyst.
whoischk 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130800/
whoischeck will monitor a list of domains and report when there has
been any change to the data reported in the whois database. This change
could be that the domain has become available to register, has been
suspended or otherwise disabled or even that the listed nameservers
have changed.
Zero Install 0.1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130829/
The Zero Install system removes the need to install software or
libraries by running all programs from a network filesystem. The
filesystem in question is the Internet as a whole, with an aggressive
caching system to make it as fast as (or faster than) traditional
systems such as Debian's APT repository, and to allow for offline use.
It doesn't require any central authority to maintain it, and allows
users to run software without needing a root password.
Slashcode
YogaCircle.net (New Yoga Slash Site)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0339211
Well this should be a first. A Yoga base Slash site. Check it out, if
you have any questions or comments let me know. Thanks for the code.
csdaily.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0337226
Yet another Slash site, Computer Science Daily News. Aims to be a
resource for Computer Science professionals, researchers, students and
instructors. Hopefully this fills a niche, computer science
developments seem to be very decentralized, and hard to find. Slash
seems to be working out nicely, though I'm still learning the ropes...
--csdaily
Slash on server running Livejournal?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0035257
Maybe this is the wrong venue to ask in, and I'm sorry if it is, but
this question has been nagging me for about the past week or so. I have
a personal server running Slackware 8 with a custom-compiled Apache
1.3.27 (with the appropriate mod_perl) and MySQL 4.0.13. This server is
currently running the LiveJournal server code and works quite well at
this. I'm interested in attempting to set up slash for personal use
(the Livejournal code is running for personal use as well), and herein
lies the question. Can slash be run on the same server in another
VirtualHost without having a separate apache installation/process and
doing some fancy trick with mod_rewrite? Or am I asking too much? I
will be happy to provide any further info anyone needs through e-mail
(the e-mail link above is NOT spam-armored at all).
QubitNews is finally launched!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0030227
QubitNews: News and Inforation from the Quantum Community. This is
conceived as a meeting-point for the community working in the fast
developing field of Quantum Information and Computation. This is an
open and free project devoted to the exchange of information in this
field.: news, stories, announcements, comments of scientific work,
debates, polls, forums, etc... Many aspects of your work that cannot
appear in scientific journals may find a place here. The main feature
of QubitNews is that it is dynamical: you are wellcome to participate
and modify the look and feel of this site. You may become an anonymous
user, site user or an Author. Visit the homepage and consult the
documents About, FAQ, How-To and GettingStarted. It may be useful,
helpful and a lot of fun.
Tuxedo.org Now running Slashcode
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2014232
Tuxedo.org is now running Slashcode. I should have done this a couple
of years ago... Most recent story is Linus Torvalds Comments on SCO
Lawsuit and Linux. Hope you all enjoy the new site! --Chuck Peters
Best hosting service for Slash?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1449209
I'm going to be doing some "big things" with Slashcode but am
interested in going through someone to set up Slashcode and the server,
so that I can just right in and start building the site. What are the
best hosting services out there? Will they set up Slash for me? What
kinds of experiences have people had?
Dissociated Press goes Slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1442252
After a bit of poking and prodding, I've converted Dissociated Press to
Slashcode (2.2.6). Works great!
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1816237
All things come to an end and its been a wonderful ride. Today is my
last day at OSDN and this will be the last thing I will be posting on
Slashcode. It has been fun working on Slash for the last few years and
I have enjoyed working with the Slash community (tf32, ACS, vladinator,
ericdano, and many more that I am forgetting). On Monday I start work
for MySQL so I will be a bit busy for a while but I expect you will
still see Slash stuff coming from me in the future. I will continue to
be in #slash for a while, and you can still always reach me via email.
The best of luck with you and your sites, it has been great!
Spottedrabbit.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1756251
After much kicking and screaming, yet another Slash Site! The Spotted
Rabbit with news and events for Sussex County NJ, and Orange County,
NY. It still looks a lot like basic slash, but I'm new to this, and
we're working on it! --Ken Hall
Multiple Instances
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1543202
Please indulge a beginner. I currently have slashcode setup on a single
domain with its own IP address (wwwntm.biz) for testing purposes. Here
is my dilemma. I am setting up a community similar to yahoo/geocities.
It will be www.newthoughtcommunity.net and the individual communities
will be sub-domains of this domain ex;
community1.newthoughtcommunity.net, community2.newthoughtcommunity.net
etc Residents of the communities will be set up as users ex;
http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user1,
http://community1.newthoughtcommunity.net/user2 etc. Directory is:
/home /newthoughtcommunity /community1 /community2 I know that slash
can be setup with virtual domains, but can sub domains have there own
instance. I need each community to have their own slash. Also. When I
set up a new instance of slash for a virtual domain, do I use the same
database and administrator with a new virtual user when I run
DBI::Password? Thank you for any help you can offer John --John Macuga
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