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[freshmeat update] July 21, 2003
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July 21, 2003
Freshmeat Latest Updates
6nome 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129891/
6nome is a theme loosely based on the background of the GNOME logo. The Metacity theme has embossed title text, and features the GNOME footprint as the menu button. The GTK theme has light and few colors, and its widgets have rounded corners.
Addns.pl 1.01d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129877/
Addns.pl is a self-contained DynDNS update client for DynDNS.org (and possibly others). It supports a variety of IP detection methods including external webcheck/router pages. It also supports multiple configurations and hostnames, smart abuse prevention, and custom/static/dynamic DNS, and can run as a daemon, commandline options only, or with a configuration file.
aliens-gkrellm 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129851/
aliens-gkrellm is a skin based on the original Aliens theme for Enlightenment. It has two alternate schemes.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129886/
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more.
Apache::App::Mercury 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129870/
Apache::App::Mercury is a customizable, extensible customer to customer store and forward messaging application for Apache mod_perl. It uses a relational database (accessed via DBI) to store and retrieve messages, and uses CGI.pm to display them in standard HTML. Its design closely resembles a MVC design pattern, and it handles all message box navigation, message composition, sending, replying, etc.
Armagetron 0.2.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129892/
In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are trying to do the same to you. If you are fast enough, you may be able to trap them, but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic preparations followed by action-packed close combat!
BBStatus 2.0 RC17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129911/
BBStatus is an IP accounting package and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool
for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its
database. It can be used for IP accounting (allows you to design
various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data
making SNMP requests), ICMP monitoring (stores and summarizes values
like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic
filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based
access so that every user can log in and visualize various data
(depending on access rights). It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with
mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool.
BG-Rescue Linux 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129871/
BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox 0.60.5 and uClibc 0.9.19 based rescue
system with kernel 2.4.21. It is loaded either from two floppy disks or
from one 2.8MB El Torito CD. The system runs entirely in RAM. It has
full IDE/ATAPI support (including disk, cdrom, tape, and floppy). NFS
mounts are possible. Support is included for several recent ISA/PCI,
USB, PCMCIA, and PLIP network adaptors. Supported Filesystems are
ext2/3, Reiserfs, cramfs, devfs, iso9660, minix, MS-DOS, NFS, NTFS
(read), proc, smbfs, tmpfs, UDF, UMSDOS, and vfat. Software raid (0, 1,
4, 5, and linear), LVM, and USB keyboards are supported. Additional
included programs are: e2fsprogs 1.33, reiserfsprogs 3.6.8, lilo
22.5.4, dosfstools, cramfs, umsdos-utils, fdisk, gpart, mdadm, lphdisk,
smbclient, bzip2, cabextract, zip/unzip, loadlin, and pcmcia-cardmgr.
bk_edit 0.6.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129896/
bk_edit is an easy to use bookmark manager and editor. The program can read, write, edit, create, manage, and convert the bookmarks of the most popular browsers. There is also a simple drag and drop interface for adding new bookmarks from a running browser in a very comfortable way. There are plugins for Mozilla, Opera, Galeon, XBEL, Netscape, and Links 2.
CHM decompiler 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129873/
CHM decompiler is a program that converts the internal files of CHM files back into the HHP, HHC, and HHK, etc. used to compile the documentation.
Citadel/UX 6.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129918/
Citadel/UX is an advanced client/server messaging and collaboration system for BBS and groupware applications. Users can connect to Citadel/UX using any telnet, WWW, or client software. Among the features supported are public and private message bases (rooms), electronic mail, real-time chat, paging, etc. The server is multithreaded and can easily support a large number of concurrent users. In addition, SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 servers are built-in for easy connection to Internet mail. Citadel/UX is both robust and mature, having been developed over the course of the past thirteen years.
ClairVoyanT SysAdmin 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129880/
CVTSA is a tool that allows a user to run arbitrary commands remotely on a Linux system by sending email to the system. It maintains security by requiring a password to be present in all email messages that provide commands. There is a command wrapper file where the user can set denied commands. It also uses a few other security techniques which are outlined in the documentation. CVTSA can use a local fetcher to download email, or it can create a connection to a remote mail server to download email by itself. There is also an option that allows a pseudo-random password to be created.
Corelian Mplayer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129839/
Corelian Mplayer is a simple, dark, and useful skin for Mplayer.
cwdaemon 0.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129872/
cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the PC parallel or serial port and a simple transistor switch to output Morse code to a transmitter from a text message sent to it via the UDP protocol.
eyeD3 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129931/
eyeD3 is a Python program and module that provides the ability to read
and write ID3 tags (v1.x and v2.3/v2.4). It also decodes MP3 headers
(bit rate, sample frequency, play time, etc.).
ffproxy 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129882/
ffproxy is a filtering HTTP proxy server. It is able to filter by host, URL, and header. Custom header entries can be filtered and added. It can even drop its privileges and optionally chroot() to some directory. Logging to syslog() is supported, as is using another auxiliary proxy server. Contacting IPv6 servers is supported and allows transparent IPv6 over IPv4 browsing.
FmPro Migrator 1.46
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129907/
FmPro Migrator migrates FileMaker databases to MySQL, Oracle, Access, SQL Server, Sybase, and DB2. Perl CGI scripts are generated for each FileMaker layout within the database, and include customized data entry and data validation for each layout field (MySQL and Oracle).
FoodClub 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129866/
FoodClub (the package) contains modules that were written specifically for facilitating the administration of an organic food-buying club over the Web. They were designed to run under Apache. If you are also running mod_perl, this software takes full advantage, and you will notice substantial performance benefits. The main intended audience for this software is end-users (non-programmers). It is not meant to be a component for use in other software.
g-page 2.14 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129933/
g-page is a client/server application designed to send text messages to
pagers or SMS enabled PCS phones. It supports the SNPP, WCTP, and SMTP
(email) protocols, and works on a stand-alone workstation or across a
network.
Goanseech 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129902/
Goanseech is a spinoff of the leverlada IRC leech script. One of its core parts was extracted and refunded into a standalone server. This server holds information about the basic pattern specifying the base name of a TV series, which epsiodes were already fetched, and what is the maximum number of episodes. Connecting through SSL to this server, there is a curses client and a GTK shell, a script that parses Web pages for Bittorrent links, matches them against the information on the series server, and issues a batch file with ready Bittorrent retrieval command lines to retrieve files that are wanted by the user (it also controls the Bittorrent client), and a directory watcher which scans a given set of directories and updates the series server with newly found files.
Gtkboard 0.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129887/
Gtkboard is a board game architecture and implementation. It implements all the common aspects of board games, such as the user interface, move parsing code, AI (i.e., game tree search) and file format. It has a simple API which makes it very easy to write a new game. Games are fitted in as plugins. Currently more than 15 games have been fully or partially implemented.
gURLChecker 0.5.5 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129876/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.
help2man 1.33.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129875/
help2man is a tool for automatically generating simple manual pages from program output. It is intended to provide an easy way for software authors to include a manual page in their distribution without having to maintain that document. Given a program which produces reasonably standard --help and --version outputs, help2man will attempt to re-arrange that output into something which resembles a manual page.
HTML::Tagreader 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129893/
HTML::TagReader is a Perl module which allows you to read HTML/XML files by tag. Its package contains some application programs which are very useful for Webmasters. They all start with the prefix "tr_" to make it easy to remember their names. tr_blck is a utility to check for broken links in Web pages. tr_llnk is a utility to build tar archives. tr_xlnk can process HTML files and expand links on directories. tr_mvlnk modifies links in HTML files with Perl commands.
tr_staticssi expands the SSI directives #include virtual and #exec cmd.
tr_tagcontentgrep greps for a tag (e.g., "img src").
tr_imgaddsize adds "width" and "height" to
"img src=...".
install_latest_kernel 07_20-16_29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129890/
install_latest_kernel automates the process of fetching, patching, configuring, building, and installing Linux kernels and updating bootloaders. It is designed for people that often install the latest kernel and get a little bit bored by the standard routine. It is not suitable for newbies and requires a working setup, a kernel configuration file, and the ability to read scripts and apply patches.
kcd 7.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129881/
kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you.
Lame Node System 0.6-8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129929/
Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input.
LiquidIRCd 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129898/
LiquidIRCd is the irc daemon used on LiquidIRC. It is based on Bahamut with many powerful features including CRC or MD5 hostmasking, SSL, channel owners, protect, halfop, etc.
mcron 0.99.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129901/
Mcron is a 100% Vixie cron replacement written in pure Guile. As well as accepting traditional crontabs, it also accepts configuration files written in Scheme for infinite flexibility in specifying when jobs should run (it could take the system load into account, for example).
Mini-XML 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129889/
Mini-XML is a small XML parsing library that you can use to read XML
and XML-like data files in your application without requiring large
non-standard libraries. It only requires an ANSI C compatible compiler
(GCC works, as do most vendors' ANSI C compilers) and a
"make" program. It supports reading and writing of UTF-8
encoded XML files, and provides a hierarchical view of the file via a
linked-list tree structure of typed nodes and functions for managing,
traversing, and searching the tree.
MoviX2 0.3.1pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129885/
MoviX2 is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. Using the GUI version of mplayer to play audio/video files, after booting your PC with MoviX2 you will be able to play any DVD/VCD, most video/audio files (most noticeably DivX but generically any AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG), and also radio stations on the Internet if you are connected to a LAN. And since all systems will be completely loaded in RAM, you do not even need a HD to use MoviX2.
MoxQuizz 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129895/
MoxQuizz is a multilingual IRC quiz/trivia script for eggdrops which acts as a game master. A question is posted to the channel, and all chatter is searched for the answer. If something matches an answer or an optional regular expression, the user who said it receives a point. Highscores and an allstars table are managed. Users can ask their own questions, too. A large set of German and English questions are provided, but you can easily run MoxQuizz with your own set. There are numerous fun commands like !hug, !roll, and others.
myJCQ 0.32-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129920/
myJCQ (my Java ICQ Client) is a simple ICQ client written in Java. At the moment, only basic messaging is supported.
navTemplate 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129884/
navTemplate is a parser that parses any HTML template and produces HTML output from the template. This system can be useful in Web development when you need to separate design from actual code.
Open64 Compiler Tools 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129899/
Open64 is a suite of optimizing compiler development tools for Intel Itanium(TM) systems running Linux. The Open64 project is the continuation of the SGI Pro64(TM) compiler suite which was released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The Open64 compiler suite currently includes compilers for C, C++, and Fortran90/95 compilers for the IA-64 Linux ABI and API standards.
OpenSymphony Cache 2.0 Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129925/
OSCache is a high performance J2EE caching solution that can cache
portions of JSP pages, entire HTTP responses (including dynamically
generated images), and arbitrary Java objects. It can provide your J2EE
application with huge performance gains and graceful error tolerance
(e.g., in the event of a DB failure, cached content is served).
oplaty 1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129935/
oplaty is a simple payment system for users in a LAN. It provides a Web-based interface that shows a user's charge and info about the user. It is currently only available in the Polish language.
Oracle Perl Procedure Library 1.02 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129912/
extproc_perl is an Oracle external procedure library that allows Oracle functions and procedures to be written in Perl. A Perl interpreter is embedded in the external procedure, and remains persistent for the life of a client session.
Orpheus 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129869/
Orpheus is a text-mode menu- and window- driven audio player application for CDs, Ogg, and MP3. It can retrieve CDDB information for compact discs with HTTP (even through a proxy), read ID tags from MP3 and Ogg files, and save and load playlists. The color schemes are configurable.
Perl Webmail 3.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129903/
Perl Webmail is a CGI/mod_perl application that interfaces with external POP3 and SMTP services. It provides all the expected functionality of a mail client, such as read, reply, forward, delete, as well as sending and receiving attachments, storage for mail folders, contacts, and calendar notes.
Pretty Make 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129883/
Pretty Make beautifies make output. It colorizes it, groups options together, and hides uninteresting stuff.
Qastrocam 3.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129922/
Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.
RSSCreator 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129914/
RSSCreator is a PHP class that provides an easy way to create RSS feeds from within PHP. RSS 0.91, 1.0, and 2.0 are supported.
rssh 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129923/
rssh is a small shell that provides the ability for system administrators to give specific users access to a given system via scp or sftp only.
SearchAssist 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129867/
SearchAssist is a simple but practical search engine application that uses a ternary search tree. It uses Java's dynamic loading feature to make the search engine highly customizable, and uses takes Mozilla bookmarks as input. A Swing UI allows users to enter search words and view the results.
Slim Mplayer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129840/
Slim Mplayer is a small and cute skin for Mplayer.
Stitch 0.8.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129924/
Stitch is a utility for making backups from many computers to a large storage array. It is written completely in Python and requires SSH and rsync be installed on the clients.
The Distribulator 0.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129915/
The Distribulator is an SSH-based command execution and file transfer utility. It includes support for both batch and console mode, XML configuration, multiple server enviornments, and auditing via syslog. The Distribulator is meant to be distributed computing for the rest of us.
txt2graph.pl 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129897/
txt2graph.pl is a tool (written in Perl) to visualize structures and dependencies between words in a text document via graphviz-tools (you can get graphviz at http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/). It runs on Windows, MacOs, Solaris, OSF, Irix, Linux. Feedback is welcome.
uncc 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129926/
uncc is a C decompiler which helps reverse engineers and programmers improve their understanding of assembly code.
VideoDB 2003-07-20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129874/
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.
WebShop 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129916/
WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as well as a sample servlet/JSP implementation of a shop.
WindowLab 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129906/
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It is click-to-focus, shares its window depth policy with the Amiga, and has a window resizing/reshaping method similar to that of 8-1/2 from Plan 9. It maintains the illusion of direct manipulation by constraining the mouse pointer when appropriate (i.e., when a window cannot be dragged any further in one direction). The pointer is also constrained vertically (effectively making the target menu items infinitely tall according to Fitts's law) when it is in the menubar to reduce pointing time.
Xaraya 0.9.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129934/
Xaraya is extensible, Open Source software written in PHP. It utilizes robust permissions, data management, and multilingual systems to dynamically integrate and manage content. Its modular, database-independent architecture introduces tools which separate form, function, content, and design.
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