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[freshmeat update] June 02, 2003
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 06:00:05 EDT
OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK DAILY EDITION * NEWSLETTER ----------------------------------------------------------------------This newsletter is sponsored by ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven http://www.thinkgeek.com
June 02, 2003
Freshmeat Latest Updates
Abbot 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124647/
Abbot is a framework for testing Java GUIs. It lets you launch an application or GUI component, play back user actions on it, and examine its state. Tests may be coded or scripted. The editor supports recording user actions into a script, exploring the component hierarchy, running the script, and other features you'd expect from a script editor. Test scripts are JUnit extensions.
AFT 5.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124679/
AFT (Almost Free Text) is a document preparation system. It is mostly free form, meaning that there is little intrusive markup; AFT source documents look a lot like plain old ASCII text. It has a few rules for structuring your document, more to do with formatting your text than embedding lots of commands, and it produces all types of output (HTML, XHTML, LaTeX, roll-your-own XML, etc.). All that needs to be done is to edit a rule file. You can even customize your own rule files for specialized output.
Alana 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124648/
Alana is a highly responsive Turing Machine simulator. The documentation contains an introduction to Turing Machines as well as some interesting theoretical information (halting problem, busy beaver) and pointers to further literature.
Alleyoop 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124665/
Alleyoop is a GNOME frontend to the Valgrind memory checker. Its features include a right-click context menu to intelligently suppress errors or launch an editor on the source file, jumping to the exact line of the error condition. A searchbar at the top of the viewer can be used to limit the viewable errors to those that match the regex criteria entered. A fully functional Suppressions editor is also included.
Aquativo 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124642/
Aquativo is a combination of ideas from many themes.
avidemux 2.0.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124623/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
Bluecurve Oroborus 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124640/
Bluecurve Oroborus is a port of the Metacity theme Bluecurve.
Calendrian 0.24.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124672/
Calendrian is an enhanced calendar application for the Agenda VR3 Linux PDA. It is a lot faster than the original schedule application, and it has multiple alarms, free alarm intervals, and faster navigation.
calmth 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124618/
calmth is a smooth theme. It goes especially well with the H2O GTK 2 theme.
Chronicle Lite 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124614/
Chronicle Lite provides a friendly client application for Blogger.com. It also aims to satisfy the needs of "power users" who want a local copy of their journal, as well as the copy that is published on an external Website.
cwISPy 1.2.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124671/
cwISPY is an ISP billing and management system. It features automatic generation and emailing of invoices and statements, a customer interface, a ticket system, DNS management, and much more.
DCTC 0.85.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124659/
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.
dnspython 1.0.0a1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124610/
dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports all of the common record types, and will support all types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0. dnspython provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records.
Dustbowl Clan Tools 0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124634/
Dustbowl Clan Tools is a community system for e-sport teams and gaming clans, providing an integrated forum, scheduler, voting system, and lots of other features. It is PHP/MySQL-based and supports multiple languages.
DVB Driver Project 2003-05-24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124652/
The DVB Driver Project has very good drivers for DVB cards by many manufacturers (e.g., Hauppauge WinTV DVB-s and WinTV Nova, Siemens, Technotrend, Galaxis, and Technisat). It supports DVB-s, DVB-t, and DVB-c.
gimp-print 4.3.15 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124661/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
GNU Lightning 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124646/
GNU Lightning is a library that generates assembly language code at run time. It is very fast, making it ideal for Just-In-Time compilers, and it abstracts over the target CPU, as it exposes to the clients a standardized RISC instruction set (inspired by the MIPS and SPARC chips).
Grutatxt 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124621/
Grutatxt is a plain text to HTML converter. It successfully converts subtle text markup to lists, bold, italics, tables, and headings to their corresponding HTML tags without having to write unreadable source text files.
Hardware Monitor applet 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124669/
The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.
HTML::TextToHTML 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124629/
HTML::TextToHTML converts plain text files into HTML. It supports headings, tables, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML. This Perl module can be used inside Perl scripts or called from the commandline, making it versatile and easy to use.
incident.pl 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124677/
incident.pl is a small script that, when given syslogs generated by snort or other tools, can generate an incident report for events that appear to be attempted security attacks, gather information on the remote host, and report the attack to the appropriate administrators.
Jacob Oberon-2 Compiler 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124615/
Jacob is a stand-alone Oberon-2 compiler. It compiles a single Oberon-2 module together with its imported modules and links everything together to form an executable. It implements the full Oberon-2 language specifications. External modules allow developers to write library modules in other languages. Instead of an explicit dispose function a garbage collector is implemented using the mark-and-sweep algorithm. There are command line options for enabling and disabling NIL, index, range, and assertion checks.
jCIFS 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124695/
jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes, batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication, and more.
Joone 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124649/
Joone (Java Object Oriented Neural Engine) is an artificial neural network Java framework. It is used to build and train neural networks with a powerful visual environment. It has a modular design and can be easily extended by writing new modules to implement new learning algorithms or architectures.
KnowIt 0.9alpha3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124613/
KnowIt is a simple KDE tool for managing notes in a manner similar to TuxCards. Notes are organized in tree-like hierarchy and can store data in a rich text format, so that bold, italics, and lists are supported, as well as any character set.
Lame Node System 0.5-7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124639/
Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124670/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and time of day controls can be set.
Luola 1.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124666/
Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game is simply to destroy all other players.
MailScanner 4.21-8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124633/
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.
MemCheck Deluxe 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124687/
MemCheck Deluxe is a memory usage tracker and leak finder. It allows developers to find memory leaks quickly, as well as providing some memory usage information.
MIMEViewer 2003.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124693/
MIMEViewer is a cross-platform GUI utility for viewing MIME message structure. It can find internal content in Microsoft TNEF (Microsoft Exchange), as well as extract text from RTF, PDF, and HTML, and perform expansion of ZIP files. Other features include extracting and decoding of message parts, a hexadecimal part viewer, and BeanShell support.
Moosic 1.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124691/
Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.
MRX PPP 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124632/
MRX PPP is a simple configuration tool for pppd. It is a subproject of the Murix Linux distribution.
netcat 2.0-alpha1 (IPv6)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124645/
Netcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable backend tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.
NumericalChameleon 1.5.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124650/
The Numerical Chameleon converts numbers with a precision of up to 1000 significant figures. It supports more than 2300 units in 78 categories,
including lengths, areas, volumes, durations, bits & bytes, angles,
temperatures, exchange rates, Roman numerals, spoken numbers, all 35
radixes, unicode, colorcode, int. dial codes, and more. You have
unlimited access for adding, modifying, and deleting categories, units,
and icons. Update exchange rates with the GUI or at the commandline
(filters for 12 Web services are supported). All configuration data are
stored in flat files.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.3-dev (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124635/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
PTlink Services 2.23.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124658/
PTlink Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC daemon, it includes features like channel logging, oper management, helper management, AJOIN user list, memo read acknowledgement, rotated logs, autoidentify on ghost, and ChanServ PROTECTED level. It also integrates NewServ for real time news delivering.
pyDDR 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124617/
PyDDR is a clone of DDR ("Dance Dance Revolution") written in Python. The idea of DDR is simple. There's a mat with four directional arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.
Python 2.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124663/
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language. It combines remarkable power with very clear syntax, and
isn't difficult to learn. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very
high level data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many
system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems
(Tk, Mac, MFC, GTK+, Qt, wxWindows). Newbuilt-in modules are easily
written in C or C++. Python is also usable as an extension language for
applications that need a programmable interface.
Qixite 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124638/
Qixite is a program for creating Web sites. The user has to provide the information and structure of the site, while Qixite does the rest. It uses predefined templates for site generation, and it is possible to create or edit them using XSL.
Razor! Gaming Engine 0.9.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124620/
Razor! is a C++ gaming engine for Palm devices. It supports sprites, three voice music, sfx, double buffering, hard key polling. It accelerates many gfx operations through the use of optimized assembly code.
ROX-Filer 2.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124627/
ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background.
SAROS 1.1.05 / 1.1.04-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124651/
SAROS enables you to find the date of any solar eclipse in between 2500 BC and 3500 AD. After entering a period of time, the program will output the dates of every solar eclipse for that period. You may then decide to get more detailed information about a specific solar eclipse and a graphical display of the central line drawn on a world map which can be saved as a JPEG or PNG image file. In addition, you can save a complete report about the solar eclipse as a PDF document. The program uses a GUI and should be very easy to use.
SCREEM 0.7.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124643/
SCREEM is a tag-based Web page editor which aims not only to aid in creating Web pages, but also to provide useful site maintainance facilities, including automatic link updating and site upload facilities. SCREEM has more than just the usual HTML tags, with features for including Javascript, PHP, cascading style sheets, etc within your site.
Screenhack 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124660/
screenhack lets you animate static RenderMan scenes (e.g., scenes created by programs such as Moonlight, AC3D, or Mops) using formulae. Currently you can move, rotate, and resize "actor" objects.
ServDoc 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124684/
ServDoc describes your system with just one command without the need to configure the documentation of every piece of software on your system. The idea is to provide a documentation module for every (or at least for many) standard software packages.
Slackware Live CD 2.9.0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124636/
Slackware Live CD is a 200MB live Linux distribution on CD that is based on Slackware. It features many add-ons, including the scripts required to create your own live CD.
StarDict 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124653/
StarDict is a powerful Chinese-English / English-Chinese dictionary with many dict data files. It has powerful features such as glob-style pattern matching, fuzzy queries, and much more. When the user selects a word in other software, it can pop up a floating window showing the selected word's meaning, with optional audio output.
The Hunting of the Snark Project 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124688/
The Hunting of the Snark Project contains a client for downloading and sharing files distributed with the BitTorrent protocol. It is mainly used for exploring the BitTorrent protocol and experimenting with the GNU Compiler for Java (gcj), but it can also be used as a regular BitTorrent client. Snark can also act as a torrent creator, a tiny HTTP server for delivering metainfo.torrent files, and has an integrated tracker for making the sharing of files as easy as possible. When you use the --share option, Snark will automatically create a .torrent file and start a very simple Web server to distribute the metainfo.torrent file and a local tracker that other BitTorrent clients can connect to.
ThinkSQL RDBMS 01.00.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124628/
ThinkSQL is a powerful, cross-platform, multi-threaded relational database management system. It supports Core ISO SQL, transactions, sub-selects, views, stored procedures, functions, comprehensive constraints, large objects, multi-version concurrency control, on-line backups, and a statistical optimiser that uses constraints and relationships to improve plans. The SQL server is simple to install and bloat-free. It runs under Windows and Linux and includes native ODBC, dbExpress (Delphi/Kylix), and JDBC drivers.
Tk Ecasound 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124611/
Tk Ecasound is a frontend for Ecasound. It has the look of a multitrack recorder. It supports Ladspa plugins, multiple devices inputs/outputs, and multiple effects.
txt2html 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124630/
txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML. It supports headings, lists, tables, simple character markup, hyperlinking and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout) and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML.
ULN - User Level Networking 20030601
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124654/
User Level Networking is software designed to allow the dynamic allocation of IP addresses. The basic idea is to give different IP addresses to different users, thus identifying the UID-HOST pair with an IP address. It includes a patch to the kernel which must be applied to every client in the LAN, a suid executable which will be used by the users to get their IP address from the server and activate it on a virtual interface (like eth0:*) on the local computer, and an executable which will be launched by sshd on the server host.
VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.8.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124664/
The VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.
Video Disk Recorder 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124625/
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more.
VideoDB 2003-06-01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124662/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.
vimdrop 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124631/
vimdrop is an Applescript droplet that allows you to open up and edit files in your favorite editor by dragging them to the vimdrop icon. The dropped file will be opened in a new Terminal window with the text editor defined in the $EDITOR environment variable. A binary compiled under 10.2.6 and the Project Builder files are included in the distribution.
wdm 1.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124622/
Wdm is a modification of the X11 xdm package for graphically handling authentication and system login. Most of xdm has been preserved with the login interface based on a WINGs implementation using Tom Rothamel's "external greet" interface.
WebGUI 5.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124686/
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.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.4.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124641/
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages.
Zope Group Calendar 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124644/
The Zope Group Calendar is an effort to create a standards-compliant group calendar in zope.
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