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Sourceforge
EVMS 2.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289226
The EVMS team is announcing the next major release of the Enterprise
Volume Management System. 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.
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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
Duct Tape Goes Minature
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/225206
[0]metal_llama writes "There is a story in the [1]Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel about a man, [2]Christopher Blummel, who "has a vision for a
better world - one where every man would carry in his wallet a small
cellophane packet containing a product that can come in handy in an
emergency. Duct tape." This is exactly what I've always wanted: an
ever-handy supply of duct tape."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.jsonline.com/
2. http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/may03/141675.asp
O'Reilly on the Commoditization of Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1955241
[0]Iorek writes "[1]International Data Group/Sverige has a great
[2]interview with Tim O'Reilly, CEO of [3]O'Reilly & Associates Inc.
From predictions of eBay's purchase of Oracle to discussions of the
failings of open source licenses, O'Reilly's certainly not reserved. I
couldn't help but be reminded of the rise of this site and
[4]slashcode."
Links
0. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/8536/
1. http://www.idg.se/
2. http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/idgnet.asp?id=4635
3. http://www.oreilly.com/
4. http://slashcode.com/
Microsoft Considers $10 Billion Dividend
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1923250
Dreadnougat writes "Microsoft is [0]considering paying out a $10
billion dividend, the largest corporate payout ever. Cynics (ok, anyone
reading /.) might note that Bill Gates stands to make $1.18 billion
himself off the $1 a share dividend, in comparison to the $95 million
he makes in a normal year off the regular 8 cents a share dividend."
Links
0.
http://business.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2003/07/03/microsoft_mulls_at_least_10_billion_dividend
Gnumeric Turns 5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1844203
[0]Jody Goldberg writes "Five years ago, Miguel [1]committed the first
code for Gnumeric to CVS. In a testament to the quality of the code
several lines are still in use. Since that time the project has grown
to more than 300,000 lines and now supports all 325 [2]worksheet
functions in MS Excel, plus almost 100 more. This seemed like a good
time to thank all the people who have contributed to Gnumeric over the
years. We're about to start the run up to the the next stable release
which will be out in a few weeks and we look forward to continuing work
with GNOME, and the community at large to produce the most powerful
spreadsheet in the world."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=gnumeric/src/sheet.c&rev=1.1&root=/cvs/gnome
2. http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/functions.shtml
NASA Benchmarks the New G5 Powermac
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1813255
sockit2me9000 writes "Well [0]NASA's Langley Research Center recently
[1]benchmarked the new G5 dual 2ghz Powermac against a dual 1ghz
Xserve, a dual 1.25 ghz Powermac, a Pentium4 2 ghz, and a Pentium4 2.66
ghz. To make things fair, the second processor in the G5 was switched
off, as well as the other dual sysytems. Then, they all ran Jet3d. Even
with un-optimized code and one processor, the G5 performance is
impressive."
Links
0. http://www.larc.nasa.gov/
1. http://members.cox.net/craig.hunter/g5/
Government Information Awareness
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1313222
gbjbaanb writes "Wired News is [0]reporting about the GIA, software
inspired by the TIA program. 'Researchers at the MIT Media Lab unveiled
the [1]Government Information Awareness, or GIA, website Friday. Using
applications developed at the Media Lab, GIA collects and collates
information about government programs, plans and politicians from the
general public and numerous online sources. Currently the database
contains information on more than 3,000 public figures. The premise of
GIA is that if the government has a right to know personal details
about citizens, then citizens have a right to similar information about
the government.'"
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59495,00.html
1. http://opengov.media.mit.edu/
Linus Says Pre-2.6 is Coming
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/138231
[0]gomoX writes "As seen on [1]C|Net , Linus has announced that the
pre-2.6 series will be starting in early July. Despite not having been
able to meet the release goal for 2.6 in June 2003, the next stable
version is not as far away as you may think. You can take your guess
based on the fact there was a 9 month period between first test version
of 2.4 and the official release of 2.4.0 on January 2001."
Links
0. http://www.gomox.com.ar
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1023130.html
Project Gutenberg's 32nd Birthday
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/134216
[0]David Moynihan writes "July 4th marks the 32nd anniversary of that
day in 1971 when [1]Michael Hart first sped an all-caps version of the
[2]Declaration of Independence to anyone and everyone then on what
later became the web, thus founding [3]Project Gutenberg. Thanks to an
army of volunteers and the [4]Distributed Proofreaders, this is the
last year PG will have fewer than 10,000 titles. Strangely,
[5]Microsoft picked this dual anniversary of literacy and freedom to
re-launch their [6]Reader product, with three [7]free bestsellers a
week, if you activate the new version with Passport, sign a EULA, etc.
Real reason for the upgrade might be that the DRM on MS's old Reader
was [8]cracked. If you're not into giving away data, or are running a
system other than Windows, maybe you could take the time to tell a
friend about free books online, or even help out by visiting the
[4]Distributed Proofers and editing one page per day."
Links
0. http://www.blackmask.com
1. http://www.promo.net/hart
2. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext90/when11.txt
3. http://www.promo.net/pg
4. http://www.pgdp.net/
5. http://www.microsoft.com/reader/
6. http://www.microsoft.com/reader
7. http://www.microsoft.com/reader/promotions/free_shop.asp
8. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979778.html
Hubble Catches Some Cosmic Fireworks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/136218
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "On this Fourth of July, it's usual -- at
least in the U.S. -- to watch fireworks. But I want to invite you to
see very special ones, celestial fireworks discovered by the Hubble
Space Telescope. [1]Astronomy Magazine has the story. "In a newly
released image, the Hubble Space Telescope peers into a neighboring
galaxy to capture a gorgeous view of a supernova remnant called LMC N
49. Also known as DEM L 190, the nebula lies within the Large
Magellanic Cloud approximately 160,000 light-years away." Read [2]this
summary for more details and a nice illustration from the Hubble
Heritage Team. You can find additional tons of information at this
[3]Hubble Heritage Project page."
Links
0. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1. http://www.astronomy.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/001/400qhcjc.asp
2. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/07/04.html
3. http://heritage.stsci.edu/current/00/index.html
A Game of Thrones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1445206
[0]Dark Paladin writes "Recently, I asked readers to recommend some
good books that were out there. There were crows for the usual crowd,
like Terry Pratchet, Nail Gaiman, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, so on
and so forth. But one name that kept coming up over and over again as a
"must read" was R. R. Martin and the book "A Game of Thrones". So after
the umpteenth "you've got to check it out or I'll burn your hat", I
decided to give it a shot. And discovered one of the best read fantasy
novels I've read in a decade. The story is your base fantasy stuff -
"long ago, some bad things happened, but things are good - but watch
out - the bad times are coming again!" Read on for the rest of his
review.
Links
0. http://www.gameforms.com
Freshmeat
A-A-P 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128276/
The goal for A-A-P is to make it easy to locate, download, and install
software. Additionally, it supports making changes to a program and
managing different versions that exist in the world, making it useful
both for users and for developers. It uses a recipe that is similar to
a Makefile, but with many enhancements, such as integrated Python
script support, support for Internet access, and version control. An
IDE will be provided that integrates your favorite editor, debugger,
and other tools.
Acrobat Reader 5.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128267/
The free Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader allows you to view, navigate, and
print PDF files across all major computing platforms. Acrobat Reader is
the free viewing companion to Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and to Acrobat
Capture(R) software.
adcfw-log 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128258/
adcfw-log is a tool for analyzing firewall logs in order to extract
meaningful information. It is designed to be a standalone script with
very few requirements that can generate different kinds of reports,
such as fully formatted reports of what had been logged, with summaries
by source or destination host, the type of service, or protocol. There
are also options to filter the input data by date, host, protocol,
service, and so on.
Ajaqs 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128290/
Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is
designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It
aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism
for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to
product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a
Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information
related to products and services.
AnnotateIt! 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128294/
AnnotateIt! is an open source electronic response system targeted at
composition instructors and students. It allows annotation of 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.
Asymptopia Linux Process Tool 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128284/
Asymptopia Linux Process Tool is a script which runs from a terminal
and accesses the /proc filesystem through a simple text interface. It
has a menu of commands for monitoring and getting information about
processes. If installed in your path, you can also simply issue the
command "proctool [program2kill]" and all instances of the
specified program are killed.
Athene 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128268/
Athene is a multi-platform OS environment. Based on XML and an object
oriented foundation, it literally builds itself at runtime from
user-editable XML scripts. It is X11-compatible and capable of
functioning as a stand-alone desktop environment or as an X client.
Three GUIs are included, including Windows and Amiga interfaces that
are accurate clones of their counterparts. Athene features a highly
responsive interface, high quality icons, translucency and alpha
blending effects, unicode support, and Windows/Linux compatibility.
aWebDap 1.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128299/
aWebDap is an easy to use and flexible Web front end to OpenLDAP
version 2. It allows one to query, view, create, delete, and modify
LDAP entries. It is written with address book suppport in mind. It also
supports VCARD, LDAP URL address book interfaces, Web-enabled
cellphones, and multiple domains. Its capabilities are driven by a
configuration file. aWebDap can interface with Web servers with https
support. aWebDap includes the option for an update trigger shell
script, which may be used for e-mail notification, external database
update, etc., and support for multiple binding methods to the LDAP
server to allow more security flexibility. A demo version of aWebDap is
available as a single Intel binary CGI compiled on Red Hat 9.0 and 7.1
(gcc 3.2.2 and 2.96). A preconfigured example is included.
ayttm 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128245/
Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols
such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is a fork of Everybuddy,
and initially aims to address its problems. It should not segfault when
you use it, and should be almost instantly usable by your mother.
Almost useless prefs should be hidden, reserved for
"advanced" users, and things have to work without wondering
what this or that will produce.
Babeldoc 1.0.2 (1.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128215/
Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents
for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications.
It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but
supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a
sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and
reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to
combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It
has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and
monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data
to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan
various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.
Boost.Build 2.0-m5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128256/
Boost.Build is a build system with a simple and high-level language. It
supports build variants, and several different compilers and tools.
Botan 1.2.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128277/
Botan is a library of cryptographic algorithms written in C++. It
includes a wide selection of block and stream ciphers, public key
algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication codes. It has an
easy-to-use filter interface and supports many common industry
standards, including X.509v3.
Broadcast Oracle Select 0.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128278/
Broadcast Oracle Select is a simple and powerful Python (and previously
Ruby/Perl) utility. It is useful for sending an SQL statement to many
Oracle instances. It can also generate several kind of charts (line,
bar, bar3d, etc.) with the result of the SQL queries.
Bubbling Load Monitor Applet 1.2.10 (Gnome 1.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128280/
The Bubbling Load Monitor (or "Bubblemon" for short) is a
system load monitor for the GNOME panel. It looks like a vial
containing water. The water level indicates how much (electronic)
memory is in use. The color of the liquid indicates how much swap space
is used. The amount of bubbles reflects the system CPU load. A message
in a bottle indicates there is unread mail. A reed-like graph shows
network load.
Catty 2+c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128264/
Catty is an interesting chatter bot that uses Google.com to build its
knowledge database, and, having no information about the language,
tries to establish a conversation. Results are not always on topic, but
never predictable.
Cavepilot 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128233/
Cavepilot is another cave-flying game like the old classics, Turbo
Raketti and Gravity Force You fly a small rocket in a 2D cave and try
to shoot down your opponent. It currently supports one or two local
players.
CGraphs 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128271/
CGraphs is a class that draws bar graphs as PNG images. It can be used
to show many different types of data using associative arrays.
ChangePassword 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128204/
ChangePassword modifies the passwords of passwd, Samba, and Squid
through the Web. All passwords are syncronized and changed in real time
over a browser like Mozilla, Netscape, IE, Opera, and others.
CLIP 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128225/
CLIP is a Clipper/XBase compatible compiler with initial support for
FoxPro, Flagship, and CAVO syntax. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
and Win32 (via Cygwin). It features support for international languages
and character sets, including two-bytes character sets like Chinese and
Japanese. It also features OOP, a multiplatform GUI based on
GTK/GTKextra, all SIX/Comix features (including hypertext indexing),
SQL and ODBC drivers, a C-API for third-party developers, a few
wrappers for popular libraries (such as BZIP, GZIP, GD, Crypto, and
Fcgi), a multitasking client and server based on TCP/IP sockets, and
more.
Cornice 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128293/
Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, wxPython,
and PIL.
cpufreq daemon 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128274/
cpufreqd is meant to be a replacement of the speedstep applet you can
find in Windows. It monitors battery level, AC state, and running
programs and adjusts the frequency governor according to a set of rules
specified in the config file.
Debian GDM Greeter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128310/
Debian GDM Greeter features icons taken from "guiss-gdm" by
Guido Sanchez and the "deb-rosey" background by Jason
Joerges.
distccKNOPPIX 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128208/
distccKNOPPIX is a directly bootable and self- configuring Linux system
on a small ISO running a distccd daemon. It is a simple remastering of
Damn Small Linux running a distccd daemon and some general cleaning
up/removal of unneeded packages/ apps.
DKMS 0.32.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128172/
DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) is a framework where device driver
source can reside outside the kernel source tree so that it is very
easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This allows Linux
vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel
releases (as a stopgap before the code can make it back into the
kernel), while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting
to recompile modules for new kernels. For veteran Linux users it also
provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops
will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing
code.
dom xml class 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128247/
dom xml class implements the DOM XML standard without using
special-purpose PHP extensions. The properties and methods in the class
are based on the properties and methods of the Flash Actionscript XML
object.
Elgaard Positioning System 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128257/
Elgaard Positioning System (EPS) is a moving map application for use
with GPS (Global Positioning Systems). It can handle waipoints, routes,
and tracks. It can import and export data and communicate with Garmin
GPS units. It can use charts scanned from paper charts. A version for
the Sharp Zaurus is available.
Ewe Programming System 1.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128183/
Ewe is a programming system that allows users to write applications,
using Java, which run exactly the same on desktop systems, on mobile
systems, and even in a Web browser as an applet. The same deployment
can be run on Mac OS X, Windows 9X, Windows NT, Linux, Palm, PocketPC,
and any system using the Java runtimes.
fastutil 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128230/
fastutil provides type-specific maps, sets, and lists for Java with a
small memory footprint and much faster access and insertion. The
classes implement their standard counterpart interfaces (e.g., Map for
maps) and can be plugged into existing code. Besides the usual
features, fastutil provides reference-based containers (which do not
use equals() to compare objects) and linked structures. Most iterators
provided by fastutil classes are bidirectional, or even implement the
standard list iterator interface.
fax4CUPS 1.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128207/
fax4CUPS is a very simple shell script that acts as a CUPS backend for
a serial fax modem. Essentially, you print with lpr and the fax is
sent. The nice thing is that you have CUPS around, and this means, for
instance, that you can check whether your fax has been sent just using
your favorite browser (as you would do for any other printer), even if
the fax modem is really on a remote server. It supports efax, HylaFAX,
and mgetty-fax.
FreeWRLduneInputDevice 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128244/
FreeWRLduneInputDevice together with FreeWRL allows users to retrieve
3D VRML/X3D data with 6DoF input devices. It is based on FreeWRL's
"/tmp/inpdev" extern sensor input interface and white_dune's
input device mechanism.
GestPayCrypt-PHP 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128288/
GestPayCrypt-PHP is an implementation in PHP of the GestPayCrypt and
GestPayCryptHS Italian bank Banca Sella Java classes. It allows you to
connect to the online credit card payment system GestPay.
Glows 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128196/
Glows is a simple theme which uses colors rather than symbols or icons
for window management. Hypothetically, the colors themselves should be
intuitive enough for anyone to work with, without having their
functionality described. Whether or not this actually works remains to
be seen.
GSBench 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128286/
GSBench is a GNUstep and PS benchmark application.
gspi 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128307/
gspi is a Guile-based interface to the GNOME AT-SPI. It allows querying
of the GNOME desktop via a Scheme evaluator.
GtkAtlantic 0.2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128234/
GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd
servers.
hdparm 5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128213/
hdparm is a Linux shell utility for viewing and manipulating various
IDE drive and driver parameters. Most drives can benefit from improved
performance using a command similar to "hdparm -qm8 -qu1 -qc1 -qd1
/dev/hda".
Hircules 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128239/
Hircules is an IRC client using GTK 2 for its tabbed user interface,
written in the functional programming language Haskell. It features a
couple of virtual channels: an "all channels" virtual channel
and an alert virtual channel to warn one of personal messages.
IDABench 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128217/
IDABench is a Web interface to many intrusion analysis tools. By the
use of simple plug-ins, it allows an analyst to twist and turn hourly
packet logs through such utilities as tcpdump, ngrep, tethereal, etc.
Output is textual web pages, gnuplot graphs, and downloadable composite
binary dumpfiles. Based on the US Navy's SHADOW intrusion detection
system, IDABench simplifies the writing of tcpdump filters, allows
regular- expression context matching, and through a simple plugin API,
can be extended to include other libpcap- based analysis tools, such as
Snort, p0f, etc.
Info-Zip 2.3 (Zip)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128223/
Info-Zip is a collection of high quality, standards compliant archiving
and compression tools.
Infotrope ACAP Server 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128302/
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.
iPodEject 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128295/
iPodEject adds an iPod icon to the Mac OS X menu bar that eject your
iPod volume so that it can be safely disconnected.
JaxMe 1.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128218/
JaxMe is a Java/XML binding framework based on SAX2. It consists of a
set of code generators that read an XML schema and generate code for
parsing conformant XML documents into corresponding Java objects,
saving those objects into a database or, vice versa, reading such Java
objects from a database and converting them into XML. JaxMe supports
namespaces, relational databases, and Tamino. JaxMe comes with an
integrated application framework and a generator for EJB entity beans
with BMP (bean managed persistence).
JEXT 3.2 pre 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128231/
Jext is a source code editor that support Java and many other types of
source code including C, C++, C#, ASP, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, TeX,
XHTML, XSLT, Eiffel, JSP, etc.
jPOS 1.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128303/
jPOS is a Java based, production grade ISO-8583 library/framework that
can be used to implement financial interchanges, protocol converters,
payment gateways, credit card verification clients and servers
(merchant/issuer/acquirer), etc.
JSP TestRunner 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128261/
JSP TestRunner is a tag library for performing JUnit test cases/suites
from a JSP page. This can be used for testing the deployment staus, or
for testing test cases in the same environment as the deployment
environment.
KAlarm 0.9.4 (KDE 3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128212/
KAlarm lets you configure personal messages to be displayed, commands
to be executed, or emails to be sent, at scheduled times. It allows you
to choose the message font and color, how often to repeat, whether to
display an advance reminder, whether to play a sound when the message
is displayed, and whether to cancel the alarm if it can't be triggered
on time (e.g. if you are logged out at the time). As well as using the
graphical interface to configure alarms, you can use the command line,
and there is a DCOP interface for other applications.
KBVT 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128291/
KBVT is a tool for small libraries. It consists of a couple of Java
programs and uses a MySQL database. It allows you to manage books,
users, events, etc. The GUI and documentation are written in German.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.74_001 (For Linux 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128253/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user
programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can
access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user
programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege
level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it
seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such
methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so
forth.
Kleanux 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128275/
Kleanux is a clean theme that inherits all its colors from the active
GTK theme. It works with dark and light GTK themes.
Kyro Linux Tools 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128301/
Kyro Linux Tools allows owners of the Kyro 1/2 graphics cards to
configure and tweak it to get the most out of it. It is currently
translated into English, Catalan, Spanish, French, German, and Dutch.
LibTomMath 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128229/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast
majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including
public key cryptography).
makeself 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128312/
makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable
compressed TAR archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as
a shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will then
uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an arbitrary command
will be executed (for example, an installation script). This is pretty
similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows
world.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128283/
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 and MySQL.
myJCQ 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128238/
myJCQ (my Java ICQ Client) is a simple ICQ client written in Java. At
the moment, only basic messaging is supported.
NanoBlogger 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128221/
NanoBlogger is a simple blogger written in bash that's completely
command-line driven. It features easy editing and management of
entries, customizable templates, archiving, and RSS syndication. It
keeps "clippings" of all your entries for extra portability
and modularity. It doesn't require any kind of Javascript, server-side
scripting, or server-side includes. Updating your Weblog is as simple
as uploading the appropriate Weblog's (self-contained) directory to
your Web site.
NetHogs 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128201/
NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down
per packet type or per subnet, like most similar tools do, this groups
bandwidth by process, and does not rely on a special kernel module to
be loaded. So if there's suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can
immediately see which PID is causing this, and, if it's some kind of
spinning process, kill it.
nut 8.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128209/
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals
for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference, Release 15, which contains 6,220 foods
and 117 nutrients. This database contains values for vitamins,
minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and
includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6.
Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the
familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can
be fully customized. Recipes can be added, and graphs drawn. The
program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
Pandora Engine 2003/6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128269/
The Pandora Engine SDK is an object-oriented development environment
that is specially designed for multi-platform use. It allows you to
create truly object-oriented programs without being restricted to
object-oriented languages like C++. The environment is fully
self-contained, which allows for easier porting. It can be used for
creating both applications and games. The SDK is also required to write
programs for Athene, a multi-platform operating system that is based on
the engine.
phpGroupWare 0.9.14.004
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128219/
phpGroupWare (formerly known as webdistro) is a multi-user groupware
suite written in PHP. Its provides a Web-based calendar, todo-list,
addressbook, email, news headlines, and a file manager. The calendar
supports repeating events. The email system supports inline graphics
and file attachments. The system as a whole supports user preferences,
themes, user permissions, multi-language support, an advanced API, and
user groups.
PHPTestManager 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128272/
PHPTestManager allows you to create and maintain school tests through a
Web interface.
phpVideoPro 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128210/
phpVideoPro is a program to manage your collection of DVDs, Video CDs,
and video tapes. It stores all data in a database, and provides you
with features for adding/changing entries, displaying lists, printing
labels and lists, and more. An online help system is built-in to guide
you when necessary. Support for multiple languages is provided
(English, German, French, Polish, Bulgarian, Swedish, etc.), and
supported databases include MySQL and PostgreSQL.
PIne Web View Attachment 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128296/
PIne Web View Attachment (piwva) uses the Pine functionality of viewing
files and copies the file to a Web page, where it shows a URL and an
scp commandline which is easy to copy and paste. The Web page is
automatically protected with a .htaccess file.
pinsh 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128236/
pinsh is a router-style interface for Linux. It provides a simplified
environment for users that are "Linux-phobic" to access a
system and manage it without being overwhelmed by the entire Linux
experience.
Poppassd-ceti 1.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128216/
Poppassd-ceti is a Qualcomm password changer daemon with PAM support
and several other improvements. This program is intended to be a secure
way to change system passwords via the Web. Methods that involve
calling SUID programs directly from the Web are especially avoided.
Poppassd strictly isolates the Web interface from actual password
manipulations. The program contains no known security bugs that could
be reported since it was released several years ago. This version uses
PAM, which means you can do anything PAM can. Currently, there are PAM
modules for almost all known authentication methods available.
Project LRNJ: Slime Forest Adventure (Debigulator)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128220/
The goal of Project LRNJ is to create an entertaining console-style RPG
that teaches Japanese. Slime Forest is the prototype line: a simple
NES-like CRPG using graphics from the upcoming katakana adventure and a
training set of 1000 kanji. Its purposes are to attract interest and
funding, and to gather data and feedback on compatibility and
effectiveness.
python-crack 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128243/
python-crack is a module that provides to Python programs the ability
to evaluate password strength. It uses the well known cracklib toolkit,
hence the name.
PyWiew 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128228/
PyWiew is an image viewer/editor written in wxPython using PIL (Python
Imaging Library) as the imaging API.
py_ecc 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128262/
py_ecc is an implementation of Reed-Solomon codes, which are used for
erasure correction, and a collection of routines for finite field
arithmetic and generic matrix operations. Erasure correcting codes let
you divide information, such as a file or a packet, into n pieces, of
which k are required for reconstruction. It provides a clear, easy to
understand reference for other implementations of linear error
correcting codes, and contains extensive documentation and a number of
detailed examples and tests.
Quick Spam Filter 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128305/
Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning
to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than
non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email
as being possible spam.
RASS 3.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128227/
RASS is a tool that enables programming, modeling, and simulation. It
features smooth transitions from interactive modeling and simulation to
batch oriented simulation experiments of any complexity. Users can
model and interactively solve non-linear differential equations,
difference equations, and discrete event systems in any combination;
size and complexity of your model is only limited by your computer's
resources.
replimenu 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128309/
replimenu is a small menu program mainly for configuration/installation
scripts. It's not as powerful as "dialog" but it's small,
does the job, and is very customizable. replimenu does not use curses.
retawq 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128298/
retawq is a multi-threaded Web browser for text terminals on computers
with Unix-like operating systems. It is fast, small, nicely
configurable, and comfortable; e.g. the low-level network
communications are performed in a non-blocking way, and you can keep
open as many "virtual windows" as you want and work
simultaneously in two of them in a split-screen mode.
ripOLE 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128254/
ripOLE extracts embedded attachments/file-objects out of OLE2 streams
(i.e. Microsoft Office documents).
SableVM 1.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128289/
SableVM is a portable bytecode interpreter. Its goals are to be
reasonably small, fast, and efficient, as well as providing a
well-designed and robust platform for conducting research.
Scratchy 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128263/
Scratchy is an Apache log parser and report generator which can produce
charts of the log statistics.
Secure FTP Bean 2.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128203/
The Secure FTP Bean allows FTP connections to be made over SSL,
including both implicit and explicit SSL connections, and passive and
active data transfers with or without encryption.
Smart Common Input Method platform 0.5.1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128311/
Smart Common Input Method platform is a development platform that
significantly reduces the difficulty of input method development. SCIM
splits input method into three parts: FrontEnd, which handles user
interface and communication with client applications, Server, which
handles the key event to string conversion work, and BackEnd, which
manages all of the Servers.
SMATCH 0.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128232/
SMATCH is a neat program designed to locate programming errors in any
open source software project. Right now it is actively used to screen
out errors inside the Linux kernel. There are two main parts to Smatch.
The first is a patch to the gcc sources to screen out a lot of useful
information. The second part is a collection of Perl scripts and
libraries to analyze the information and report the findings.
Sniffdet 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128255/
Sniffdet is an implementation of a set of tests for remote sniffers
detection in TCP/IP network environments. It is composed of a flexible
and easy to use library and a console application to run the tests.
Major features include several tests for sniffers detection, config
file support, output plugins, dropping of root privileges, and general
documentation.
SoftballStats 1.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128205/
SoftballStats is a collection of PHP scripts and a MySQL database that
track the stats, games, players, and every play made in multiple
softball/baseball seasons. It also compiles statistics for each player.
There two groups of scripts, stat scripts (which display stats, player
info, and game info for the current season) and admin scripts (through
which the Stat Master enters the season info, game info, player info,
and every play made in all games).
sparse July-04-2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128281/
Sparse is a semantic parser of source files. It's neither a compiler
(although it could be used as a front-end for one) nor a preprocessor
(although it contains a preprocessing phase). It is meant to be a
small, simple, easy to use library. Its function is to create a
semantic parse tree for some arbitrary user for further analysis. It's
not a tokenizer, nor is it a generic context-free parser. Context
(semantics) is what it's all about: figuring out not just what the
grouping of tokens are, but what the types are that the grouping
implies.
Srapeh 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128195/
Srapeh is a library, form resource, and macros that aid in runtime
error handling of Palm OS applications. It supports wrapping around
most built-in functions to handle errors nicely, and it maintains a
"backtrace" so multiple layers of errors can be reported.
Then the error can either be handled and the backtrace freed or a
dialog displaying the error with the backtrace to the user can be
displayed.
stresslinux 0.1.5b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128180/
stresslinux is a minimal Linux distribution that runs from a bootable
CDROM or via PXE. It makes use of some utitlities such as stress,
cpuburn, hddtemp, lm_sensors, etc. It is dedicated to users who want to
test their system(s) entirely on high load and monitor the health of
these systems.
Sylpheed 0.9.3 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128235/
Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost
all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many
features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display,
and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully
internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll
be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.
Thy 0.6.285 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128279/
Thy is a lightweight HTTP daemon that is designed to be clean and fast,
yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day. Despite its small size,
it supports CGI, IPv6, SSL/TLS, and on-the-fly compression.
Tiger Envelopes 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128260/
Tiger Envelopes makes cryptography work with almost any email software.
It is a personal mail proxy server with automatic encryption. Tiger
uses SMTP and POP3 to work with almost any mail client, CORBA and
crypto plugins to work with almost any type of cryptography, and Java
to run on almost any operating system. Plugins for PGP and GPG are
included.
TinyButStrong 1.81
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128308/
TinyButStrong is a template class for PHP that allows you to generate
HTML pages using MySQL, ODBC, SQL Server, or ADODB databases. It is
possible to design templates using any visual HTML editor (like
Dreamweaver or FrontPage). It features simple block management, useful
display formats, conditional displaying for blocks and locators, a
cache system, and the ability to include other HTML pages and execute
associated scripts.
TinyCA 0.4.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128304/
TinyCA is a simple GUI written in Perl/Tk to manage a small
certification authority. It is based on OpenSSL and Perl modules from
the OpenCA project. TinyCA lets you manage x509 certificates. It is
possible to export data in PEM or DER format for use with servers, as
PKCS#12 for use with clients, or as S/MIME certificates for use with
email programs. It is also possible to import your own PKCS#10 requests
and generate certificates from them. TinyCA is available in English and
German.
TPL Compiler 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128313/
TPL Compiler compiles a phpBB-style template into a Python module,
which can be called with a data dictionary to apply that data to the
template.
Ultra-Performance UDPForwarder 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128285/
UDPForwarder forwards incoming UDP datagrams from a client to a
specified server and forwards the server's response back to the client.
This works 100% transparently, so clients think they are talking to the
forwarder and the server does not notice the clients' real IP. It was
initially designed to work as a transparent relay for online game
traffic (static routing). It might be useful for hiding IPs or tricking
firewalls. Its motivation and advantage over existing tools is its
uncompromising focus on performance, which is crucial when dealing with
hundreds and thousands of datagrams per second without allowing any
rise in response time.
Uncle Unc 0.25.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128237/
Uncle Unc is a framework for working with trees of objects. Existing
services such as filesystems, code libraries, networks, log files,
mailboxes and directories can be mapped onto this object tree, as can
some traditional desktop applications. User interfaces work directly
with the object tree, offering best of breed interface design (e.g.
filtering, breadcrumb bars, paging, sorting, and file-explorer-like
views) across the full range of services. The framework promotes clean
design, completeness of representation, and reusability of both front
end and back end code.
UPPAAL Timed Automata Parser Library 0.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128241/
The UPPAAL Timed Automata Parser Library (libutap) is the parser
library used by UPPAAL. It includes a type checker and supports the TA,
XTA, and XML file formats.
valtz 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127816/
Valtz is a simple tool that can be used for validating and filtering
tinydns-data (djbdns) zonefiles. It can be used both as an
error-finding tool by end users and by automated scripts to filter out
errors. Additionally, it can be used to filter out domain-specific data
that does not belong in a given file. Thus, importing zone information
from third parties, semi-trusted parties, and sloppy users can be done
without fear.
Velosurf 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128306/
Velosurf is a thin but efficient database abstraction layer meant to be
used with Jakarta Velocity. Its aim is to provide template writers a
set of context variables that automatically map database tables and
relationships.
WaMCom 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128297/
The WaMCom project tries to create versions of Mozilla that are more
stable and correct than official Mozilla milestones. In order to
achieve that, stable Mozilla releases are extended with backported
correctness fixes from the ongoing Mozilla development. In addition, it
contains some selected enhancements not yet available in the official
Mozilla project, mostly in the areas of security and cryptography.
white_dune 0.25beta36 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128242/
white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor. VRML97 (Virtual Reality
Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the
Web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime
interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). White_dune can read
VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields,
and load and store x3d (the next generation VRML XML format) files if
configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has
support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo
visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball,
or magnetic tracker.
Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 4.3s-Final (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128246/
The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides stable and
development kernels for either server or testing purposes. These
kernels provide a server kernel and also a service for developers and
end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but
want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request.
xcw 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128211/
xcw is a small utility that makes it possible to input text into any
X11 program with a Morse key. It reads Morse from a straight or iambic
key connected to a serial port, decodes it, then sends the decoded text
to the X window currently in focus. The Morse code sound is played
through the sound card.
Xeuphoric 0.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128265/
Xeuphoric is a port of Euphoric, Fabrice Francès' Oric emulator,
to the X window system. It emulates the Oric-1, the Oric Atmos, and the
Telestrat.
XINA 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128266/
XINA is a dynamic Web database package. For Web database functions such
as membership databases, job posting databases, and client databases,
as well as simple or complex content management functions, it has the
functionality to be a complete Web site solution. It is weighed heavily
in the direction of creating strong relational database management
facilities in an integrated package that also includes authentication
and authorization, Web logging, messaging, content and information
management, data analysis, and import/export facilities.
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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