O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER July 03, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Package 2.1.0 is now available for download. This release is for the new EVMS design, which is based on user-space volume discovery and communication with existing kernel drivers, such as MD/Software-RAID and Device-Mapper. Downloads at the project page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evms/ Please see the INSTALL file in the 2.1.0 package for information about installing and getting started with the new EVMS. Since this new design is based on user-space discovery, there will no longer be boot-time volume activation. Please see the INSTALL file for information about how to activate your volumes using the EVMS user-interfaces and utilities. The INSTALL file also contains instructions for how users may easily "upgrade" an existing 2.4 kernel with Device-Mapper and EVMS 2.0.1 patches. Please see the README file in the 2.1.0 package for more detailed notes concerning this release and it's new features. EVMS 2.1.0 is supported on 2.4.21, 2.4.20, 2.4.19, and 2.5.73 kernels. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). Please see the notes and changelog at: http://www.sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=168707 NDoc version 1.2 beta released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289572 A beta of the latest version of NDoc, the .NET Code Documentation Generator, has been released. The new features include: - new HTML Help 2 documenter (beta version), - new HTML Linear documenter (alpha version), - the MSDN documenter can now generate CHM or Online documentation, - option to link to the .NET Framework SDK v1.0, v1.1 or MSDN Online - support for Visual Studio 2003 and the .NET Framework 1.1, - plus many improvements and bug fixes... The NDoc v1.2 beta source code is available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36057&release_id= 168934 Columba 0.11.0 (unstable) released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289631 A new unstable version of Columba is now available. Columba is an email client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface with wizards and internalionalization support. Its a powerful email management tool with features to enhance your productivity and communication. So, take control of your email before it takes control of you! This version contains numerous new features we want you to testdrive. http://columba.sourceforge.net/downloads_unstable.php For more information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/news.php Python 2.3b2 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=288768 Python 2.3b2 has been released (29-Jun-2003). We encourage you to test your applications with this release, as we plan on a final Python 2.3 release by early August. SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-06-20 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289543 0. Intro. 1. Improved Search. 2. Project of the month: Megamek. 3. Updated Project Registration System. 4. New RSS Feeds. 5. Stats and Top Projects. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear SourceForge.net, One of our biggest challenges in managing SourceForge.net has been handling our growth. With approximately 70 new Open Source Projects and 700 new registered users being added to the site each day, it can be quite a trick trying to stay ahead of the curve. This month I want to mention two improvements that are noteworthy. The first is project search. You can read about it below, but essentially the average time for searching for projects (using the left navbar) been reduced from 30 seconds to 1 second. The second is the beginning of the process of weeding out "dead" projects. These are projects that haven't had any real activity in the past 6 months and have never released any files. This is a big change for us. When SourceForge.net was started over 3 1/2 years ago, the vision was that it would be the permanent record of Open Source Software - Nothing would be deleted. We held on to the mission so strongly that we never developed internal tools to delete projects. Now with over 63,000+ projects and 70 new ones being added daily, we do realize that not -every- project has taken root. The real crusty/vacant ones (haven't released files and have zero activity) will be put in a queue for removal. This process will be done very carefully; we will give the registered admins of the project ample warning and the ability to 'opt-out' of the removal. The upside for the SourceForge.net community is that soon things will be a bit cleaner around here. Search results will list less dead projects and the software map will be easier to traverse. We still have some growing pains, but I hope you enjoy these latest improvements. I want to thank you for supporting SourceForge.net and the Open Source community. As always if you have some feedback or issues related to the site, please feel free to email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick McGovern Director, SF.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] Improved Project Search --------------------------------------------- As SourceForge.net continues to have significant growth in the size of its user base, count of hosted projects, and daily activity, a significant amount of work is done by the SourceForge.net team to ensure suitable site performance and to work to resolve existing performance problems. The SourceForge.net team is happy to announce that the "Software/group search" facility is now operating in a more proper and functional manner. Searches are now performed in real time and last only seconds. Search users should no longer encounter the dreaded "search server is overloaded" messages previously offered during peak traffic hours. The SourceForge.net team expects to further expand the search facility in the near future, and to increase the frequency of search updates (currently twice-weekly) to better meet the needs of our hosted projects. Your patience has been appreciated; we hope you enjoy your search results... http://sourceforge.net/search/ Project of the Month: MegaMek --------------------------------------------- The SourceForge.net team loves games. Our favorites are online, net-based games that offer the ability to battle friends and foes from all over from world. SourceForge.net's June 2003 project of the month, MegaMek, is a Java based networkable game for 2 or more players. It's a strategic game that features brains over fast reflexes. The Software, licensed under the GPL, has enjoyed a position in the top 25 SF.net most active projects since it's founding in February 2002. With new features being added daily, MegaMek is a project to keep an eye on. http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-06.php Updated Project Registration System --------------------------------------------- SourceForge.net provides hosting for Open Source software development projects. Each day, SourceForge.net evaluates more than 100 new projects for hosting. Historically, there have been a number of pitfalls in this process. In particular, ensuring that each new project registration contains enough information to be properly considered by the SourceForge.net team without the added delay of asking the submitter for more information. Delays due to lack of information previously impacted roughly 15% of our new project registrations, causing these registrations to take more than our ideal two business days to be processed fully. The project registration system on SourceForge.net has recently been completely rewritten, integrating fixes for all previously-reported issues (in the past couple of years) and generally making the process more seamless for the submitter. Based on information collected during the early stages of the project registration process, the project registration system automatically advises you as to what should be included in your project description, and helps to bring potential pitfalls to your attention before the registration request is submitted. Users of our past project registration pages will note a larger amount of integrated documentation, the ability to easily return to earlier stages in the process without losing entered data, and the capability to review the information you have provided (and make necessary changes) before submitting it to the SourceForge.net team for consideration. We hope these changes will help make the process of registering a project on SourceForge.net easier to understand, and help us to further improve the turnaround time on hosting requests. New RSS Feeds. --------------------------------------------- This is information from the last sitewide email, but we think it's worth repeating. A convenient way to keep up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site, project news, activity information, and new projects is now available. SourceForge.net provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed using an RSS reader or aggregator (some content management systems also allow you include data from an RSS feed on your website, much as Slashdot and Freshmeat do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using these RSS feeds, you can keep up-to-date with the latest project news and file releases, Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics (such as top projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1 Stats and Top Projects. --------------------------------------------- Number of Projects: 63,569 Number of Registered Users: 642,495 Daily Stats for June 11th, 2003 SF.NET : 1,762,941 pages served SF.NET project web space : 4,037,233 pages served Total Pages: 5,800,174 CVS updates: 15,017 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 310,666 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 124712 Top 25 Projects: 1. GAIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique feature. 2. phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. 3. JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java 4. AWStats http://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats/ Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful and featureful web server logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web (but also FTP or Mail) statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords, robots, etc. 5. Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 6. guliverkli http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 7. BZFlag http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/ OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag. 8. Tiki CMS/Groupware http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is a powerful CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) 9. ScummVM http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 10. Freecraft http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecraft/ This is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game engine. It is possible to play over LAN, internet or against the computer and to build C&C, W*rCr*ft, St*rCr*ft or AOE like RTS games with it. Currently only a W*rCr*ft 2 compatible theme is available. 11. XboxMediaPlayer http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/ The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2, MP3, JPG & other supported video/audio/picture formats via your TV so it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports streaming media over a network. 12. wxWindows http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/ wxWindows is a free C++ framework that facilitates cross platform software development, including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc. 13. POPFile http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients. 14. moregroupware http://sourceforge.net/projects/moregroupware/ Web-based groupware written in PHP4. Including modules like webmail, notes, todo, contacts, project management, calendar and others. 15. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 16. TUTOS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/ calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things. 17. filezilla http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. 18. Armagetron http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetron/ Armagetron is a simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron. The main focus lies on the multiplayer mode, which has already made Armagetron a popular warmup game on LAN parties. 19. ffdshow http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ ffdshow is DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX and XVID movies using libavcodec or xvid with rich set of video postprocessing filters. ffdshow can also be used as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders. 20. TV-Browser http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvbrowser/ TV-Browser is a java-based TV guide which is easily extensible using plugins. It is designed to look like a paper based tv guide. 21. Mobicq http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobicq/ Mobicq is a native ICQ client for mobile devices, such as celluar phones. It is written using Java 2 Micro Edition (MIDP 1.0) and uses ICQ protocol version 8. 22. Alvaro's Messenger http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn/ Alvaro\'s Messenger is a MSN messenger clone for linux/unix/windows/mac. It features multilanguage support, file transfers, new graphical interface, emoticons, multiple profiles support, dock icon, sound events, email notification, url processing... 23. MAMEoX http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameox/ MAMEoX is a port of the popular MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) system to the XBOX. The main goals of the project are to provide a well documented port with a consistent coding style. 24. WebCalendar http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar/ WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for a single user or an intranet group of users. 25. TortoiseCVS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/ TortoiseCVS is an extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer that makes using CVS fun and easy. Features include: colored icons, tight integration with SSH, and context-menu interactivity. Slashdot Digital Shoplifting From Bookstores? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/232259 [0]ipandithurts writes "According to a report from Tokyo via IOL, Japanese publishers [1]have launched a campaign to stop 'digital shoplifters.' These 'digital shoplifters' are using cellphones to photograph magazine pages in bookstores, rather than buying them. 'Digital shoplifting is becoming a big problem as camera-equipped mobile handsets are spreading fast and their quality is improving greatly,' said Kenji Takahashi, an official at the Japan Magazine Publishers Association. Will entry into a bookstore soon include a 'cell-phone patdown?'" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=qw1056959460701B215 Telemarketers Plan Counterattack http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/0038234 Chris Hoofnagle writes "CNN reports that companies who heavily use telemarketing are [0]planning to counterattack consumers with a barrage of spam and junk mail in October, when the new [1]do-not-call registry goes into effect. Slashdotters should be aware that, as well as [2]anti-spam email software, there are tools to avoid junk snail-mail, such as Junkbusters' free [3]Declare, Private Citizen's [4]excellent service and the Postal Service's Prohibitory Order service, which is described at [5]the EPIC privacy page." Links 0. http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/02/news/companies/telemarketers/ 1. http://donotcall.gov/ 2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1942207&tid=111 3. http://www.junkbusters.com/declare.html 4. http://www.private-citizen.com/ 5. http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling Are You Using 802.1X? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2330259 WirelessMan asks "I work for a certain university in the US, and our IT department has just deployed IEEE 802.1x authentication for our wireless network. One of the benefits is that all users' sessions are encrypted using tumbling WEP keys. One of the (major) drawbacks is the 'newness' of 1x. As far as I can tell (Google, etc) there aren't a whole lot of places out there who have taken the plunge. [0]Google it, or check out [1]this brief description. Does the Slashdot community have any experience with 1x?" Links 0. http://www.google.com/search?q=802.1x 1. http://www.80211-planet.com/tutorials/article.php/1041171 Scott McCloud Tries Webcomic Micropayment http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2235226 [0]jaime g. wong writes "[1]Scott McCloud's latest comic, 'The Right Number', is finally [2]available online... for just 25 cents! McCloud [3]has discussed the concept of micropayment for online comics before; let's all hope this idea, using [4]BitPass technology, will succeed." There's more info via a [5]a Comic Book Resources article, and Tycho over at [6]Penny Arcade also has opinions on the micropayment route: "..if you have enough readers who care about your work to go through all that rigmarole, you could succeed with any business model... I see it as a model for compensation, lined up with the other models for compensation, like at the police station." Links 0. http://people.paperclip.com.pe/jaguar/ 1. http://www.scottmccloud.com/ 2. http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/trn/intro.html 3. http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-5/icst-5.html 4. http://www.bitpass.com/learn/ 5. http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=2421 6. http://www.penny-arcade.com/ HP To Sell PCs With Mandrake 9.1 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/227248 theoddball writes "HP just announced a new PC model (HP Compaq d220) that's [0]available preloaded with Windows or Mandrake 9.1. The machine appears to be targeted to business users, although it's on the lower-end of the scale - [1]specs are here. Mandrake also has a [2]press release announcing the deal, which will grow to include four other HP models. Is this a sign that top tier manufacturers are taking Linux more seriously, or at least seeing a profitable niche?" We commented on [3]MandrakeSoft's status update yesterday. Links 0. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2003/030702a.html 1. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-64287-89301-321860-f9-337529.html 2. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2426 3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/225223&tid=147 July 6th - Website Defacement Day? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2149226 [0]pabl0 writes "According to an article from SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle), a challenge has been posted, inviting web-site defacers to [1]alter the content of as many web sites as possible on July 6th, with an apparent limit of 6,000 websites per contestant. Looks like this would be a good time to make sure all those web-server security patches are applied!" Links 0. http://www.gotclue.net 1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/07/02/financial1239EDT0109.DTL&type=tech USPS To Provide Personal Identity Certification http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/2126230 Zentalon writes "The United States Postal Service has [0]announced that it will provide In-Person Proofing (pdf) to physically authenticate individuals before a digital signature certificate is issued to that person. This has a bunch of interesting ramifications; for instance, I could create a simple spam filter that only accepts mail from individuals and organizations that have an authenticated certificate. It could also allow for more secure financial transactions. Anyone know if any other national postal services are planning the same thing?" Funny, they don't seem to always know where to deliver so-called first-class mail ... Links 0. http://www.ribbs.usps.gov/files/fedreg/usps2003/03-15211.PDF Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out The Blind http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/1940226 geekee writes "An article on CNET claims that a technique whereby a user enters a code word displayed in an image in order to register for a service such as an e-mail account [0]discriminates against the blind. Advocacy groups for the blind are even hinting at lawsuits against companies using this practice. A proposed audio workaround for the blind still has problems since it has to be garbled to the point where most people can't understand it to prevent a computer from recognizing the letters. Brings up some interesting issues surrounding the Turing test." Links 0. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1022814.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed Open Source Project Management Lessons http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/1817220 [0]cpfeifer writes "Paul Baranowski [1]takes a moment to reflect on Open Source Project Management in his blog. His reflections are based on the first two years of the Peek-a-booty project." Interesting comments on media coverage, choice of programming language, when to release a project, and more. Links 0. http://www.cpfeifer.org 1. http://www.peek-a-booty.org/pbhtml/index.php Anti-Spam Bill Killed In California http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/170245 [0]Craig Newmark (craigslist) writes "In California, we had a pretty good antispam bill proposed by Sen. Debra Bowen, which was killed yesterday. A pro-spammer bill, backed by the big media sites including Microsoft, passed through committee. [1] Here's a quick round up. We're considering a big feedback campaign, based on conversation with staffers on what works for them, since they want to hear from constituents, as opposed to spam. More to come ..." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://news.google.com/news?q=bowen+spam&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=G&edition=&scoring=d Freshmeat 2Pong 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127944/ 2Pong is a pong clone that is played with two balls instead of one. The game features two modes of play - the regular pong game, and a time-based mode against an unbeatable AI opponent. Network support for 1-vs-1 games is planned. absence 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128117/ absence is a calendar tool for keeping track of people (but could be adapted for any other object) on a daily basis. It is meant to replace that ubiquitous whiteboard in the office of the boss. You know the one, where someone has used a permanent magic marker to mark a matrix, and vacations/training/etc. are marked with non-permanent markers as blocks. absence is a CGI system, and has a resolution of one day. It is not intended to be used for keeping appointments or any other activity that requires a finer resolution. It generates an image for each month to be displayed using the GD library, and it can be configured to produce PNG or GIF (or even JPEG). Anagramarama 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128109/ Anagramarama is a word guessing game for Linux, Windows, and BeOS. The aim is to find as many words as possible in the time available. Get the longest word and you'll advance to the next level. It uses SDL. Another NBD distribution 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127986/ The Another NBD distribution provides both an NBD (network block device) client and server as well as SGML-based manual pages. It provides numerous additional features beyond the original NBD tools distribution, including a multi-threaded implementation, robustness enhancements, a server monitoring tool, and more detailed user messages. The tools are fully compatible with the existing Linux kernel NBD driver. Astaro Security Linux 4.009 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128059/ Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, spam protection, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, Wireless LAN, VLAN, PPPoE, PPPoA, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities. aww 0.27 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127922/ aww (administer wml websites) is a frontend for WML, the Website META Language. It does much more than the wmk tool that comes with WML, and easily be extended with modules. BIE 5.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128110/ BIE (Business Integration Engine) is an open source integration system that makes it easy for organizations to exchange data with external trading partners regardless of their native applications. It competes in the same space as applications like Microsoft BizTalk except that it is truly cross-platform since it written in Java. bogofilter 0.13.7.2 (Current) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128101/ Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail. bogofilter 0.13.6.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128100/ Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail. BottomFeeder 3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128003/ BottomFeeder is an application that reads and displays RSS formatted feeds. RSS is a syndication format, used by a growing proportion of sites (including Slashdot). cgi-wrap.c 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128104/ cgi-wrap.c allows you to execute CGI scripts under a special UID/GID in a chroot environment. Unlike suexec, it does not execute arbitrary (user-)scripts but only programs which are installed and configured by the system administrator. This allows you to remove some restrictions of suexec without lowering security. Chemical Development Kit 20030702 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128048/ The Chemical Development Kit (CDK) classes are Java utitility classes for chemoinformatics and computational chemistry. They are a complete re-write of the CompChem classes that were the basis of JChemPaint, a Java Editor for 2D chemical structures, and of JMDraw, a Java package for the graphical layout of 2D chemical structures. Columba 0.11.0 (unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128042/ Columba is a highly multithreaded Java email client. It supports multiple POP3/IMAP accounts, message filtering, the common basic features you would expect, and an address book. ConsultComm Project Timekeeper 3.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/127932/ Consultant Communicator (ConsultComm) is a lightweight, cross-platform program that allows anyone managing multiple projects, clients, or tasks to effectively keep track of exactly how much time has been spent on each project. Courier-IMAP 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128001/ Courier-IMAP is a lightweight server that provides IMAP access to maildir mailboxes. It supports folders, custom authentication modules, and virtual mailboxes. A compatible POP3 server is also provided. The source code is based on the IMAP module in the Courier Mail Server, but this build is independently repackaged to work with any other MTA that delivers to maildir format mailboxes. CourseForum 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128039/ CourseForum provides a painless, straightforward and flexible solution for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and student collaboration. It can be used for lecture notes, Q&A, class discussions, research, student portfolios, projects, and more. The easy Web browser interface and quick installation lets you get started in minutes, and everyone can easily create, read, and contribute. cpptools 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127916/ cpptools is a set of tools for C/C++ development. It includes a lint (lexical analyzer), a code beautifier, and many refactoring tools. CPSSkins 0.9pre7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127929/ CPSSkings is an intuitive skin management system for the Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server. It can be configured through the Web, and every element can be selected among a list of visual previews. Over 250 stylesheet parameters are addressed individually, and all modifications are instantaneous. CSS level 2 is used extensively on browsers that support it, but older and text-based browsers are also supported through a simplified stylesheet generated on the fly. Cyrus IMAP Server 2.1.14 (2.1) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128092/ The Cyrus IMAP server is generally intended to be run on sealed systems, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to Cyrus. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server large advantages in efficiency, scalability, and administratability. Multiple concurrent read/write connections to the same mailbox are permitted. The server supports access control lists on mailboxes and storage quotas on mailbox hierarchies, multiple SASL mechanisms, and the Sieve mail filtering language. darcs 0.9.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128033/ Darcs is an advanced revision control system along the lines of CVS or arch. It has two particularly distinctive features which differ from other revision control systems: each copy of the source is a fully functional branch, and underlying it is a consistent and powerful theory of patches (the latter being darcs' most important feature). Darkbot 7rc8a http://freshmeat.net/releases/128002/ Darkbot is a very fast and small IRC bot written in C. Originally created as an aid for help channels to answer repeated questions from its virtually unlimited database, it has became a very popular talking robot in a generic sense, being used all over IRC networks for different purposes and in 18 languages. Data can be added to it and managed dynamically online or edited in its database files offline. An extensive but easy-to-understand list of commands and features, including some channel operation functions and levels of protection, makes Darkbot a very flexible but somehow powerful and complex robot, with almost human conversations and reactions. DB_QueryTool 0.9.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127964/ DB_QueryTool is an object oriented abstraction for the SQL query language. It includes methods for limiting, ordering, grouping, and joining to easily build queries, and features a simple interface that interacts nicely with HTML forms using arrays that contain column data. Debt Minder 1.7.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128004/ Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files DOLPHIN SMASH 5.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128098/ Dolphin Smash is a mixed-signal, multi-language simulator for IC or PCB designs. It uses SPICE syntax for analog descriptions, Verilog-HDL and VHDL for digital, VHDL-AMS and ABCD (a combination of SPICE and C) for analog behavioral, and C for DSP algorithms. dvipng 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128085/ This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include speed; it is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images. Furthermore, it does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI. It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more. eFAQ 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128041/ eFAQ is a Web-based Frequently Asked Questions component written in server side Java. The eFAQ can be entered manually as well as fed by the eForum and HelpDesk systems. eForum 3.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128038/ eForum is server side Java-based software that enables geographically distant participants to share ideas and enhance teamwork via the Web. It allows project moderators to manage feedback and project discussions, and can display interactive Q&A tools. Enterprise Groupware System 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128027/ Enterprise Groupware System (EGS) is a comprehensive online CRM system offering advanced functionality and multi-layer logins. As a Web-based system, it allows employees to log in to the system even when away from the office. It includes contacts, project management, email ticketing, file sharing, and HR management. FIBPlus 4.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127746/ FIBPlus is a fast, flexible and high-performance component library for Borland's Delphi 3-7, C++ Builder 3-6, and Kylix 3, intended for work with Borland InterBase and Firebird using the direct Interbase API. It allows the use of all Interbase features and benefits: array fields, BLOB fields, generators, and full control of transactions, support for all standard and third party visual data-aware components, special features for optimization of InterBase network traffic, and a set of special design-time experts. File Service Protocol 2.8.1 beta 6 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128067/ FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years). File::Scan 0.59 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128024/ File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and signatures database. FMPP 0.8.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128116/ FMPP is a text file preprocessor that uses FreeMarker templates to provide macros, flow control, and expressions. It uses recursive directory processing, so it can generate complete homepages (a tree of HTML files and images). It is extendable in Java to display data from any data source (such as a database). It is usable with a command-line interface, as an Ant-task, or embedded into a Java application. GenoPix2D June_23_2003 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127953/ GenomePixelizer 2D plotter (or genoPix2D) generates images (actually interactive canvases) of genomic similarity dot plots in which each "dot" indicates similarity between a pair of genes. Diagonal runs of dots generally indicate collinearity (or synteny) in the genomic regions being compared. The program can compare large (chromosome-scale or even eukaryotic genome-scale) genomic regions, and can produce PostScript output of the dot plots. Images on a genoPix2D canvas are not static. They are interactive, and every dot (element) is associated with corresponding gene annotations that are searchable by gene ID or keyword. ggcov 0.1.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128046/ Ggcov is a GTK+ GUI for exploring test coverage data produced by C programs compiled with gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage. It's basically a GUI replacement for the gcov program that comes with gcc. GNOME-DB 0.12.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128114/ GNOME-DB is a unified engine for accessing database systems from different database vendors by using a uniform and powerful API based entirely on CORBA. GNU MP3 Daemon 2.5b (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128094/ GNUMP3d is a small, portable, and robust server for streaming MP3s, OGGs, and other audio files. It presents a simple and attractive interface to Web browsers, which allows you to navigate through your music collection. Individual files may be streamed, as can whole directory trees. Other features include the ability to see your most popular tracks, and to search your collection for songs. GPdf 0.104 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128055/ GPdf is a PDF viewer for GNOME, based on Xpdf. GSwitchIt 2.3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128099/ gswitchit is a simple keyboard state indicator for the GNOME panel. It supports up to 4 keyboard groups and has customizable images for each group. Gv4l 2.0.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128115/ Gv4l is a v4l (Video4Linux) frontend of transcode used to watch and/or record from a v4l-capable device. The v4l device streams can be recorded in both raw and encoded format, such as DivX. Happy Sliding Menus 1.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128017/ Happy Sliding Menus is a set of Java applets which provide a configurable menu of options. It is available in numerous themes and is suitable for sidebar navigation. It includes an easy-to-use online configuration tool. It features support for true-type fonts, multi-state user-defined icons, multiple event triggers, and more. Many different sliding styles are available, including stylish expanding slides with top level items that expand around the submenu. Host Grapher 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127920/ Host Grapher is a very simple collection of Perl scripts that provide graphical information for CPU, memory, and processes. There are clients for Windows, Linux, and Tru64. No socket will be opened on the client, nor will SNMP be used for obtaining the data. im-ja 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127979/ im-ja aims to be a generic Japanese input module for GTK+ 2. Currently supported input modes are Hiragana, Katakana, Half-Width Katakana, Zenkaku, Canna, Wnn, and Kanji character recognition (based on Kanjipad). InfoCentral 1.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128053/ InfoCentral is a PHP/MySQL application to track a church congreation (people, families, and groups) and allow Web-based administration of the database. Users can run reports, print labels, and query the database for specific information from any Web browser. Infotrope ACAP Server 0.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127978/ The Infotrope ACAP Server is an implementation of RFC2244, complete with asynchronous notification of changes, stored search results, ACLs, and data inheritance, etc. It supports TLS and SASL encryption as well as almost the entire base standard, plus a few optional extensions. ACAP allows applications to store configuration data in a way that's standards based, fully interoperable, and easily managed by users, administrators, and technical support teams alike. Infotrope's key features include the ability to randomly crash the server without data loss, and backing up of data (even while it's being written) without losing integrity. Interlink Jukebox 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127563/ Interlink Jukebox is a jukebox daemon that was inspired by mserv. It uses MySQL for data storage and relies on external tools such as mpg123 and ogg123 to play files. It includes an intelligent tag scanner and a PHP frontend. iReport Designer for JasperReports 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127987/ iReport is a visual reporting tool based on JasperReports and written in pure Java. You can manage charts, images, sub-reports, etc. Data can be retrieved using JDBC, TableModels, JavaBeans, and XML. It supports output in PDF, XML, XSL, CSV, HTML, and Java2D. ispbs 2.3b8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128078/ ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts. Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail support, multiple customizable packages, and more. IT++ 3.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128035/ IT++ is a C++ library of mathematical, signal processing, and communication system routines and functions. Its is designed to be used in the simulation of communication systems, or for performing research in the area of communications. Jameleon 1_0-docs-RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127991/ Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into features and allows those features to be tied together independently, creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and executed against different environments. The goal is to create an automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that ties a series of features to a test-case, creating both the test script and the test-case documentation is in the works. Java Email Server 1.2.3 (1.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128058/ Java Email Server is a SMTP and POP3 email server written in Java. Java SOS 3.45 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128020/ Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site building, including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc. JPluck 2.0 pre8 (2.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128069/ JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld. jwhois 3.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128012/ jwhois is an Internet Whois client that contains an extensible configuration file, which defines its operation. The client supports queries to foreign hosts, either through the RFC 954 - NICNAME/WHOIS protocol, the RFC 2167 - Referral Whois 1.5 protocol, or HTTP using an external browser. Upon execution, it searches through its configuration to find the most specific whois server to query. Depending upon the reply from that whois server, it can assume the query was successfull and display the result to the user, or optionally redirect the query to another server to find more specific information. JXP 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127660/ JXP is a fast Java XPath 1.0-compliant API. It features a SAX-like event system, an inner expression tree for fast multiple document evaluation, syntax error location and cause, DOM support, FastParser lightweight node support, a customizable API with navigator, function libraries, a plugin for each node type system, and full samples with DOM. kbarcode 1.3.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128044/ 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. KricketScoreboard 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128019/ KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches. It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing, batting and bowling statistics, etc. Lame Node System 0.6-7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128072/ Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input. Landscapes by B. Kaemper 3.1b http://freshmeat.net/releases/128045/ Landscapes by B. Kaemper is a theme created with artworks of the painter B. Kaemper. It contains a KDE theme, an IceWM decoration, an icon set, images for the slide show screensaver, a console schema, a splash screen, and a KFM background image. LibXDiff 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128050/ The LibXDiff library implements basic and yet complete functionalities to create file differences/patches to both binary and text files. It uses memory files as file abstraction to achieve both performance and portability. For binary files, it implements (with some modification) the algorithm described in "File System Support for Delta Compression" by Joshua P. MacDonald. For text files, it follows directives described in "An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations" by Eugene W. Myers. Memory files used by the library are basically a collection of buffers that store the file content. LinRAR 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128051/ LinRAR is a Qt frontend for the command line rar program from RARLAB. It is inteded to be similar to WinRAR in appearance and functionality. LiteSpeed Web Server 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127997/ LiteSpeed Web Server is a full-featured, high-performance, secure, and easy-to-use Web server that runs on Unix and Linux. It supports HTTP 1.1, SSL, CGI, FastCGI, PHP, and JSP Servlets. It is easy to install and easy to configure or control through its Web interface. Looking Glass 1.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128031/ LG is a Looking Glass written in Perl as a CGI script. It can execute almost all BGP-related commands and do ping and traceroute in routers or relay these queries to other looking glasses. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6 commands, and is tested with Cisco, Zebra, and Juniper. It can connect to a router using SSH, telnet or rsh. MacXM 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128070/ MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection. MailScanner 4.22-4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128032/ MailScanner is an email virus scanner, vulnerability protector, and spam tagger. It supports the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim and ZMailer MTAs, and the Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, F-Secure, CommandAV, InoculateIT, Inoculan 4.x, Kaspersky, Nod32, AntiVir, RAV, Panda, and Clam anti-virus scanners. It supports SpamAssassin for highly successful spam identification. It is specifically designed to handle denial of service attacks. It is very easy to install, and requires no changes at all to your sendmail.cf file. It is designed to be lightweight, and won't grind your mail system to a halt with its load; a good PC can process over 1.5 million messages per day. It can be integrated into any email system, regardless of the software in use. Meringue 0.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128029/ Meringue is used to track which links are clicked on your site. It is simple to set up and accurate, counting both internal and/or external links. It presents recorded data as a graph with information regarding the last time a particular link was clicked, while also providing the IP address of the last computer to follow that link. The statistics table is also fully configurable, allowing sorting of all columns. MIMEDefang 2.35 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128077/ MIMEDefang is a flexible MIME email scanner designed to protect Windows clients from viruses. However, it can do many other kinds of mail processing, such as replacing parts of messages with URLs, adding boilerplate disclaimers, and so on. It can alter or delete various parts of a MIME message according to a very flexible configuration file. It can also bounce messages with unacceptable attachments. MIMEDefang works with Sendmail 8.11/8.12's new "Milter" API, which makes it more flexible and efficient than procmail-based approaches. mmftpd 0.0.17 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128081/ mmftpd is a secure FTP server that runs as a normal user, and supports virtual users only. Each user may have specific permissions, including the maximum home directory size limit and download/upload speeds. The daemon uses libpth for portable threads instead of fork(). It runs on both BSD and Linux systems, and is ideal for a setup with many Web virtual host customers. It was written from scratch, with no borrowed code. mmmail suite 0.0.23 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128082/ mmmail provides SMTP and POP3 daemons using MySQL, running as a non-root user. It also supports bandwidth shaping. Relaying is not supported, although it has been designed to handle many users on many virtual hosts. It is fast and secure, uses threads, and has been written entirely from scratch and does not rely on mbox or Maildir formats. mmstatd 0.0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128084/ mmstatd consists of a C library and server for applications to easily update counters and administrators to maintain them. It supports a crash recovery system using internal logs. MoviX 0.8.0rc2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128105/ MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly console menu will allow you to use MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play any DVD/VCD, video/audio files (most noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG/VORBIS), TV (provided you have a TV card), and radio stations on the Internet (if you are connected to a LAN). Since the entire operating system is loaded into RAM, you do not even need a hard disk to use MoviX. mpscan 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127940/ mpscan is a parallel network scanner that checks for open ports. It uses select() to increase its speed and was designed for rapidly scanning large networks, but also works with a single IP. MTX 1.2.18 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127975/ MTX is a set of programs for controlling tape drives and the robotic mechanism of autoloaders and tape libraries. myJCQ 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128022/ myJCQ (my Java ICQ Client) is a simple ICQ client written in Java. At the moment, only basic messaging is supported. MythTV 0.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127995/ MythTV is a project aiming to create a homebrew set-top box. The end goal is to have a nice interface for watching TV, recording shows, listening to music, etc., all displayed on a TV and controlled by a remote. Naken Chat 2.00 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127999/ Naken Chat is a port of Javachat to C. Javachat can be directly replaced with this server and the Java chat client or telnet client will talk to it as if it was Javachat. Naken Chat is multithreaded (like Javachat) and has all the features (channels, gagging, squelching, private messages, etc) and has been tested on: Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, and Win32. Network Auralization for Gnutella 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127921/ Network Auralization for Gnutella (N.A.G.) is an interactive software art tool that turns the process of searching for and downloading MP3 files into a chaotic musical collage. It searches for MP3 files that match keywords on the Gnutella network, and downloads and remixes them in real time based on the structure of the Gnutella network itself. It was commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. and was made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. NFS Commander 0.52 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128087/ NFS Commander is a Mac OS X tool for managing NFS mounts and exports. Nightfall 1.34 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128083/ Astronomy for fun (education, science, whatever). Nightfall is an interactive application to simulate eclipsing binary stars, and to produce animated views, synthetic lightcurves and more. Takes into account the non-spherical shape of close binary stars, mutual reflection, and some other effects. Comes with documentation, on-line help, and lots of observational data of real binary stars. Supports the Gnome desktop, but doesn't require it. notGNU 1.95 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128000/ notGNU is a small text editor with many of the features of Emacs. It has regular expressions, paragraph prefixes and filling, rectangle operations, an undo stack, and much more. It excels as a small, fast editor where you don't want the baggage of the full Emacs, but still want the familiarity of an Emacs environment. Nuke Bookmarks .5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127956/ Nuke Bookmarks is a module for PHP-Nuke which allows users to store and organize their own bookmarks on the server, much like Yahoo! Bookmarks. Optionally, the admin can modify PHP-Nuke so that users can bookmark news stories on the site. Nutation 3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127742/ Nutation is a powerful and intuitive music notation program that smooths out many tiring chores of the composition process. It includes printing functionality. obliquid 0.6.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128034/ Obliquid is a PHP/XML framework for building groupware Web portals. It provides Lego bricks that may be composed to build an Internet application. It has multilingual support and themes. Modules include user management, calendar, news, CMS, and messaging. Online Video Viewer Alpha 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127958/ Online Video Viewer (ovv) is a Web-based system that stores video files for users to view. It uses authentication to restrict access to the video files, and uses expiration dates to restrict how long a user's account exists. User account information is stored in a MySQL database. p(y)layer 0.1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127994/ p(y)layer is a jukebox style front end for mpg123 (or mpg321). Its main feature is the ability to search for songs and queue them up for play. If there are no songs queued, it will play a random song. p(y)layer runs under Python using ncurses, and will scale to a terminal window of any size. p(y)layer has been designed to run quite happily on a diskless Pentium 200 client. p(y)layer, although designed for MP3s, could be extended to play anything that supports mpg123's remote mode (for example, mpg321). PerPOJO 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128018/ PerPOJO combines a caching and a simple persistence layer for Java. Objects are stored in memory and are saved to a file using serialization. It is not a real persistence layer, but rather a really simple way to store your data. PHP SQLDiff 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128075/ PHP SQLDiff is a Web application that shows the difference between two SQL database tables. PHP SQLView 1.71 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128071/ SQLView provides a user friendly interface for browsing a SQL database and modifying SQL tables using a Web browser. This is strictly an application to give users access to view and modify their SQL tables. It is not a tool to help database administrators (other than perhaps getting users to manage their own data). phpLicenseWatcher 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128091/ phpLicenseWatcher is a Web frontend to the FlexLM lmstat and lmdiag commands. You can keep track of usage, health of license servers, get alerted when licenses are due to expire, and capture usage history. PHProjekt Backup Addon 0.4.1-RELEASE http://freshmeat.net/releases/128113/ PHProjekt Backup Addon is an addon for PHProjekt to backup the MySQL database of PHProjekt, including the upload directory. It also contains a backup management feature to restore, view, download, and do other things with backups. It's available in different languages. Posadis 0.60.0pre4 (Pos6 development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/127962/ Posadis is a Domain Name Server for Unix and Win32 systems. Its main target currently is to create a useful and stable DNS server. Posadis Master file editor 0.60.0pre4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127961/ Mfedit is a graphical editor for DNS master files based on GTK+ and Poslib. Using this tool, you can add, modify, and remove resource records, and run syntax checks on your DNS zones. It supports standard DNS master files as well as some BIND extensions. Powermanga 0.77 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128040/ Powermanga is an arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites. It runs in 320x200 or 640x400 pixels, with Window mode or direct to screen (DGA) and support for 8, 15, 16, 24, and 32 bpp. pwdutils 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128021/ pwdutils is a collection of utilities to manage the passwd and shadow user information. The difference to the shadow suite is that these utilities can also modify the information stored in NIS, NIS+, or LDAP. PAM is used for user authentication and changing the pasword. It contains passwd, chage, chfn, chsh, and a daemon for changing the password on a remote machine over a secure SSL connection. The daemon also uses PAM so that it can change passwords independent of where they are stored. pyFind2 1.99.16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128107/ pyFind2 is a simple Find File utility. PyKota Print Quota System 1.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128037/ PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) and LPRng. It features per-printer user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP backends, and much more. QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127842/ QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. It is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API. QtMixer 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128026/ QtMixer is a small and nice volume mixer. RedLeaf 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128030/ RedLeaf is simple mailing list management software. If you interested in sending periodic email messages to a group of opt-in subscribers (people who are interested enough to subscribe to your newsletter), then it will help you maintain that list. RFID C library 2.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127930/ The RFID C library is a set of C functions for communicating with RFID devices, which are the small flat things typically found in books that ring bells if you walk through doors without paying for them. The library is intended to help people investigate privacy threats associated with RFID technology. RLPlot 0.98b http://freshmeat.net/releases/128062/ RLPlot is a scientific plotting, charting, and drawing program. Data is entered into a spreadsheet manually or by copy from a spreadsheet program (Excel, KSpread, etc.) and pasted to RLPlot. Plots are created and modified by a fully-interactive graphical user interface. RLPlot is fully vector-oriented, ensuring high-quality outputs. rssh 2.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128086/ rssh is a small shell that provides the ability for system administrators to give specific users access to a given system via scp or sftp only. Salvare 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128043/ Salvare (from the Latin "to rescue") is a small Linux distribution designed for small, credit-card sized CDs which typically hold around 34MB. More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, it aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk. In addition to providing a rescue environment similart to tomsrtbt, it adds OpenSSH, a graphical and text mode Web browser (Links), security tools such as chkrootkit, nmap, and tcpdump, the ability to apt-get install additional software from Debian into tmpfs, the ability to run entirely from RAM, and much more to come It's also customisable using a simple source-code based package management system. Show 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128028/ Show is a fast, flexible, extensible, and bloat-free image viewer for X11 that can fade images in, display them, and fade them out to black according to user-specified values of fade speed and delay. It features an extremely small executable footprint (about 20KB), support for well over a dozen image formats, variable scaling, magnification, window positioning, clockwise and counterclockwise image rotation, X/Y axis flipping, wildcard support, and logging abilities. It can also be easilly incorporated into multimedia presentations, shell scripts, and other utilities. Slacker ToDo Lists 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128009/ Slacker ToDo Lists is a to-do list, outliner, calendar, and notepad for Mac OS X that helps you to get organized. SmoothWall 2.0 beta 5 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128074/ SmoothWall is a popular Internet Security software package (based on Linux) offering automated modem/advanced ISDN autoprobing, ethernet ADSL/cable, USB ADSL (Alcatel Speed Touch Home only in 1.x; additional support for USR, Fuji, ECI, etc in 2.x), and multiple ethernet card support within 5 minutes of install. Web managed and with full facilities normally only seen in expensive commercial offerings, it also offers SSH, DHCP, and full firewall logging and auditing functionality. Snownews 1.0-beta2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128111/ Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS feeds that comply to W3C's RDF 1.0 specification and Radio Userland's 0.9x and 2.0. Snownews depends on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing. stoned 1.1.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128060/ Stoned is a simple but fully functional curling simulation. It features 3D graphics, network play, and funky sound. Sxtem for Blosxom 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128007/ Sxtem is a Ruby-powered XML-RPC implementation of the Blogger API for the Bloxsom weblog software. Not all of the methods are currently working, but it's enough to create new posts. Syntext Dtd2Xs 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128057/ Dtd2Xs allows you to convert complex, modularized XML DTDs and DTDs with namespaces to XML Schemas. As an example of Dtd2Xs conversion check out DocBook XML Schema generated from XML DocBook DTD 4.2, and XSL-FO Schema generated from XSL-FO DTD. Text Trix 0.3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128118/ Text Trix is a text tinkering tool that comes laden with both practical and goofy tools for making text just right, or humorously wrong. The graphical text editor can be employed for tweaking, or one-stop editing can be performed from the command line. The Cocktail Compiler Toolbox 9309 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127993/ The Cocktail Compiler Toolbox is a set of program generators and compiler construction tools for nearly all phases of a compiler. It was developed by the German National Research Center for Information Technology. ToscanaJ 1.1RC1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128008/ ToscanaJ is a Java reimplementation of the classic Formal Concept Analysis frontend Toscana. It was built using software development techniques like MVC architecture and XML based files to provide more flexibilty for implementation of new features. Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128090/ Trustix Secure Linux is a project to make a hardened Linux distribution for servers. It features FreeS/WAN, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Apache w/SSL & PHP, Postfix, POP3 and IMAP with SSL support, ProFTP, ftpd-BSD, and PostgreSQL. Tunez 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128079/ Tunez is an MP3/Ogg jukebox that works with a voting system. You can vote for your favorite tracks via the Web interface, and the Tunez daemon will take care of the rest. Tunez features a 'smart' songs database update system, a top 10 list of most played songs, support for multiple users, and support for streaming via Icecast v1 (with shout) or Icecast v2 (with ices-0.2.3). uncc 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128036/ uncc is a C decompiler which helps reverse engineers and programmers improve their understanding of assembly code. Web shell 2.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128047/ Wsh is a remote Unix and Windows NT shell that works via HTTP. The client script provides a shell-like prompt, encapsulating user commands into HTTP POST requests and sending them to the server script. The server script extracts and executes commands and returns STDOUT and STDERR output. Features include command line history support, file upload/download, and it can work through an HTTP proxy server. webCDwriter 2.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127992/ webCDwriter can be used to make a single CD-writer available to all users in your network. It consists of the server CDWserver and the clients webCDcreator and rcdrecord. CDWserver stores the files transmitted by the clients, reserves the CD-writer and controls the CD-writer using cdrecord. webCDcreator is a Java applet that runs within your browser (Netscape or IE), assists you when putting together a CD, and transmits the files. Finally rcdrecord is a command line client that trys to offer the functionality of cdrecord over the network. WebGUI 5.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127996/ 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. WeBSET 2.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127941/ WeBSET is a special education management system that operates within EzEnterprise, a cross platform middleware environment. It is a full-featured IEP reporting system and screening and evaluation system, and provides applications that automate all aspects of the IEP process using a forms builder, report builder, and data dictionary. It provides solutions specifically designed for teachers, administrators, and special education staff, can be accessed over the Web, and meets federal, state, and local reporting needs. wmCalendar 0.4.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127980/ wmCalendar is a calendar dockapp with a monthly view and an interface to iCal-based calendars like Evolution or Mozilla. It features Gregorian, Persian, and Islamic calendar support, moon phases, variable start of the week, popup detail info about a day's events, and app.launcher. xMule 1.5.3 (Testing) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128010/ xMule is an easy-to-use multi-platform synchronizing fork of the popular eMule P2P file sharing client built upon the wxWindows library. It incorporates the best features of eMule along with optimizations, fixes, and support for multiple operating systems. Yahoo Mail Sucker Prototype 33 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128066/ Yahoo Mail Sucker allows you to fetch Yahoo Mail messages to your local inbox (after the free POP3 service has been suspended). Yet Another Community System 0.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/127938/ YaCS is a community system, written in C++. It is fully multi-threaded and uses heavy I/O multiplexing to get maximum performance and the lowest CPU load. This system actually supports a chat system comparable to Cassiopaia (GiMiX) with some very useful features. zire-photo 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128014/ zire-photo is a simple gpilotd plugin conduit for synchronizing images captured by the builtin camera on Palm's new Zire 71. Images and thumbnails are placed in a user-specified directory. Slashcode 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 section as subdomain (2.2.5 based install) http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1444236 Hello, I have a slashcode version 2.2.5(*) based site under my command, for which an extension is planned, that would fit well in an isolated (isolate=1) section with a few modified templates put in the section-page (like header;etc;default). I managed to configure a second virtual host that uses the same SlashVitualUser directive as the main-server with the sectionname as subdomain (etc.myslash.company), overriding the rootdir-variable using SlashSetVar and enforcing the section using SlashSetForm: SlashSetVar rootdir //etc.myslash.company SlashSetForm section etc Everything works fine so far... I just wondered if it is safe to use the same slash-site (db and all) within two virtual-hosts. And I wondered the more if there isn't an easier way to accomplish this. As far as I understood mod_perl there shouldn't be any problem, but asking the masters seldom hurts but the professional pride... * I did fix the released security-holes!. tia,kind regards tomte Barrapunto.com see the light with 2.2.6 http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/150251 It has been hard, but after playing a little with all the configuration, we have reached a good balance in Barrapunto.com and now our users are very happy, the journals start to be filled with contents and the editors now are more active. We feel that the key was to serve the images from a differente machine, something that points to saturation in the connections for our main machine. Now the performance is very good with 70.000 pages/day and a PIII with 1 GB RAM with Slash and MySQL and a simple PC serving the images. Translation Guide? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/198224 Is there any guide on how to translate slashcode (interface, at least the one seen by the users) to some other language? Is the slashcode written so that can be easily translated to some other languages (UTF-8 not required) ? Thanks! Yet Another Security Site http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/174230 YASS should probably stand for "Yet another Security Site" LOL. I've been playing around with slash for about a week now, and finally have the beginnings of a site running. Feel free to pop in, drop some comments, break stuff and generally see what goes. The more participation I see, the more work I'll put into making it a nice site. A good name might help... now there's an idea for a poll. Democracy Now! http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/22/176211 Democracy Now! a U.S. based morning TV and radio news program launched it new site, based on a heavily modified cvs version of slash. (Hacked together and hosted by openflows.) As they become more comfortable with the system, and people on staff there get the hang of how slash works, we hope to add in the more community/interactive features of slash. For now it is simply a content management system, in the future it will become much more. In just the first few days the traffic and audience response has been overwhelming. stats from the second day the site was live: IPIDs Pages 11193 55190 Advice on setting up a new site http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/20/1512203 I am trying to use Slash to set up an events-based discussion forum. Ideally I'd like it to be hosted by a turn-key hosting company with fairly punctual customer support. My internet connections are either behind a firewall or 56k modem, so speedy shell access is out of the question. Ideally the host would be friendly towards freedom of information and healthily disrespectful of authority (the site will NOT contain anything illegal, links or insight to anything illegal, but will be acting against the policy of a well-funded British institution whose ground-floor members support and are behind it). I would rather the host didn't drop me just because 'someone' asked them to. Who would you recommend for this? I'd like to modify Slash slightly by arranging it around the date of the event, rather than the posting date. Would it be as simple as an extra data entry and changing a couple of lines of code, or would that go against everything Slash is designed to do? Thanks for your help. Request for BLOB/Image Modifications http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2227225 I'm really happy with how the BLOB support in slash is working. I can now add images and files, and I move the select level up so registered users can only access files. It's great. I'd like to see how hard it would be to have Krow or someone add in placement tags for images. So you can "ALIGN=LEFT" or Right images and the like. Thanks! 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