[osdn business] April 02, 2003

0. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/top100.html

[0]Joe Barr writes " As soon as I saw the news that BioWare released a
beta of a Linux client for its popular and successful Neverwinter Nights title, I downloaded the beta (registration required) and went shopping for the prerequisite retail Windows version of the game. Before I proceed, let me offer this brief warning: Neverwinter Nights is the mother of all timesinks. Do not follow my path unless you have nothing important you want to get done for the next week or so.
[1]http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0331.barr.html"
Links

0. mailto:joe.barr@linuxworld.com

http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0331.barr.html

RotK Delayed Until May 2004
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/232258

An anonymous reader writes "New Line CinemaÃ‚Â’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, will be [0]held for domestic release until Wednesday, May 12, 2004. The effects work on this third and final film of the trilogy will surpass its predecessors in scope and intensity, and the producers as well as director Peter Jackson feel that the extra time will cement the filmÃ‚Â’s status as the king of fantasy films and the crowning jewel of New LineÃ‚Â’s massive effort to bring J.RR. TolkienÃ‚Â’s epic to the screen."
Links

0. http://www.theonering.net/

Top 100 Hoaxes of All Time
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/2154213

Kaz Riprock writes "Did you know that Taco Bell bought the Liberty Bell? Or that Spaghetti grows on trees?? Here is a pretty interesting website that compiles [0]100 of the best hoaxes perpetrated through the ages."
Links

0. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/25737

FSF Debuts "Shared Source" Initiative
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/2346202

[0]matty_x points to coverage at NewsForge of the [1]Free Software
Foundation's new 'Shared Source' program. Cynics might call this selling out, but it actually makes a lot of sense for the FSF to listen to customers about what they really would like and benefit from, rather than only to developers and freeloading users. Bravo! Links

0. mailto:matty_x@hotmail.com

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/03/24/1219237.shtml?tid=16

TCP/IP Header Bit Added to Improve Security http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/175255

J0e 1337 wrote in to tell us about a recent development in the TCP/IP header RFC. He says "According to the just-released [0]RFC, conveniently labeled number 3514 for easy rememberance, a new bit will be added to enhance security. This new evil bit will make it possible to route based on the evil status of any given packet. It's about TIme!!" You might want to read [1]A [2]Related [3]Slashdot [4]Story in order to more fully understand the scope of this exciting new RFC. Links

    0. 
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt
    1. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1440230&tid=172
    2. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1434209&tid=95
    3. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/133217&tid=95
    4. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/0218226&tid=172

GTA: Sin City Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/2051216

Anonymous Howard writes "According [0]to Shacknews, Rockstar has announced Grand Theft Auto: Sin City, a new GTA game that incorporates Frank Miller's Sin City universe. Sounds awesome to me." Links

0. http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/projects/stewardship/turkey120402.html

Technical Review for Red Hat Linux 9
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/2043227

[0]ewilts writes "Dax Kelson from Guru Labs has posted a [1]technical
review for Red Hat Linux 9. It's a definite read if you want to get away from the marketing fluff that focuses on eye-candy and instead read about the release from a sysadmin's point-of-view." Links

0. mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org

http://www.gurulabs.com/RedHatLinux9-review.html

>From Turkey Guts to Fuel Oil
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/184227

Untimely Ripp'd writes "The latest issue of Discover Magazine reports that any day now a plant will go online in Carthage, Missouri that processes turkey guts into high grade oil, natural gas, some minerals, and water. Unfortunately, the Discover article isn't online yet, but here's a [0]newspaper article. The system, developed by [1]Changing World Technologies uses thermal depolymerization and apparently works on almost any and every kind of organic waste. They assert that applying it to 100% of the US' agricultural waste would produce about 4 billion barrels of oil per year -- about the amount we currently import. It sounds too good to be true, it sounds like one of those fly-by-night-in-the-face-of-the-second-law deals, but it isn't happening in somebody's basement -- it's happening in a multi-million dollar facility developed with Con-Agra." Links

http://www.changingworldtech.com/techfr.htm

Newsforge Reports
How open source developers can get more U.S. government contracts http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1539222

By Alexander Perry - Why is government procurement a challenge for Open Source? Ironically, it is because the US government's acquisition policy has been shaped over many decades to try to get the best value for money. For-profit corporations with proprietary solutions are expected to try to make as much money as they can from a limited amount of development. Thoughtful tinkering and optimization, over many decades, has built stacks of ...

Free Software Foundation debuts Shared Source program http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1219237

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Cambridge, MA, April 1 - "We've learned that only a few nut-case programmers ever alter source code, so we have developed a new license, the GSSPL [GNU Shared Source Public License] to meet the needs of the vast majority of computer users," said Free Software Foundation founder Richard M. Stallman at a press conference earlier today. He also said, "The fact that Microsoft is now the FSF's prime sponsor has nothing ...

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Dalai Lama announces Yellow Hat Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/213251

Dharamsala, India, 1 April 2003 - The Dalai Lama today announced the official release of Yellow Hat GNU/Linux. Produced by the Gelugpa or "Yellow Hat" sect of Tibetan Buddhism, this GNU/Linux distribution is designed to encourage benevolence and cooperation. The Dalai Lama said, "The experience of sharing free software will teach all human beings the principle of benevolence toward other beings. Software is formalized knowledge, and sharing ...

Newsforge Newsvac
Mozilla 1.4 Alpha Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/0513253

Asa Dotzler writes "Mozilla 1.4 Alpha is out. This release features dynamic image and table resizing in Composer, smooth scrolling (see release notes for enabling this feature), and usability improvements to spam filtering. In addition to these feature improvements, 1.4a also contains fixes for performance, stability, standards support and website compatibility. This is an alpha release, so expect bugs, and don't use it unless you are willing to ...

Opinion: As Good as It Gets for Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/201233

Remember the scene in that Jack Nicholson movie in which he opens the door to a psychiatrist's waiting room and says to the waiting crowd, "What if this is as good as it gets?" That question came to me in thinking about all the recent announcements from hardware and software vendors that are jumping on the Linux bandwagon.

The story behind the Linux operating system http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1910200

How a young student in Helsinki created a Unix system that has an eager and growing following across the globe.

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Free software gives hackers taste of own medicine http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1831204

IT security specialist Backfire Security today announced the availability of a software download as a discrete desk-top client application which wreaks revenge on those hackers and culprits attacking your network or infecting users with worms and/or viruses.

Eclipse.org introduces more open source tools http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1827215

Momentum toward an open source web-oriented integrated development environment for connected devices and systems continues to build as members of the Eclipse.org C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) project team on Monday (March 31) announced immediate availability of CDT 1.0.

Aonix: Linux version of Software through Pictures modeling tool http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1816248

Aonix announced the immediate availability of Software through Pictures (StP), version 8.3.1 for Linux.

Microsoft seeks tougher laws
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1730202

Microsoft has asked the Federal Government to take tougher steps against piracy following the Senate's approval of controversial parallel importation legislation.

Confused? Frustrated?

JBoss spreading faster than Linux?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/181215

Back in 1999, Marc Fleury was just another Java software engineer working at Sun Microsystems. When he got tired of his day job, he started exploring the idea of an open-source application server based on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification.

Sun: Linux desktop on track
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1617231

Sun Microsystems may be planning to drop its private-label version of Linux for servers, but the company is still on track with a Linux-based desktop system that should hit the market this summer, the company said.

Mainstream CRM: a foundation failure?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1623254

KenFu writes "In this article about the established CRM world leaders trying to enter the Asian Market wjue wrote: "... As I dug up further into the matter I was surprised in discovering that Mainstream Western Style CRM, the so called ultimate tool for managing clients' relationships had been simply ignoring the "relationship" in the very basic Chinese sense!" And he is proposing to rectify the very foundation of CRM Concept specifically for ...

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freshmeat Job Openings
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/786

The expansions of the past year have left us in need of some extra help. If you or someone you know would be interested in working at freshmeat, please read this article.

abcm2ps 3.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118187/

abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.

Active PHP Bookmarks 1.1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118157/

Active PHP Bookmarks (APB) is a web-based program that allows you to store your bookmarks and display them in many useful ways. It will sort your bookmarks with usability in mind, keeping often- used bookmarks at your fingertips. It has a bookmark search, private/public bookmarks, nested groups, usage rankings, popularity sorting, and a quick add feature.

Active Spam Killer 2.3.beta3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/118233/

Active Spam Killer (ASK) protects your email account against spam by confirming the sender's email address before actual delivery takes place. The confirmation happens by means of a "confirmation message" that is automatically sent to all "unknown" users. Once the sender replies to that message (a simple reply will do), future emails from that person will be delivered immediately. You can also specify (regexp) addresses to be immediately accepted, rejected (with a nastygram) or ignored. The package also includes a utility to scan your old mailboxes and generate a list of emails to be accepted automatically.

AMaViS &quot;Next Generation&quot; 0.1.6.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/118189/

AMaViS-ng is a modular rewrite of amavisd and amavis-perl. It scans email for malicious code inside attachments and archive files, stopping delivery if malicious code is found. It supports integration of several third-party virus scanners and integrates nicely into several MTA setups. Unlike amavis-perl and amavisd, there is no need for build-time configuration.

ArX 1.0pre7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118174/

ArX is a distributed revision control system that features distributed repositories, fancy merging, support for renaming, unobtrusive operation, a Web interface, and revision libraries. It consists of a collection of shell scripts and C code, and brings together many shell utilities, SSH, HTTP, diff, and patch.

Babeldoc 1.0RC4 (1.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118205/

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.

BASH Debugger 0.37
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118245/

BASH Debugger provides a patched BASH that enables better debugging support as well as improved error reporting. It also contains the most comprehensive source code debugger for BASH that has been written. It can be used as a springboard for other experimental features (such as adding hashtables), since development is maintained openly and developers are encouraged to participate.

BBBike 3.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118199/

BBBike is a geographical information system including a route-finder for cyclists. While specialized for use in Berlin and Brandenburg, the software may be tailored for other cities and regions, too.

Booby 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118240/

Booby is a multiuser, multilanguage, fully themeable Web-based desktop application which provides online management for bookmarks, contacts, todo's, and notes. It is written in PHP and is mostly database independent by using the database abstraction layer 'ADOdb'. It is fully themeable (using Smarty).

Borges Documents Management System 0.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/118183/

Borges is an open-source project aimed at XML-aware documentation projects which care about internationalisation, reusable contents, teamwork, etc. The system currently support the DocBook DTD.

boson 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118126/

Boson is a real-time strategy game, like Command & Conquer(tm) or StarCraft(tm). It uses the QT Toolkit and the KDE libraries. A minimum of two players is required, since there is no artifical intelligence yet. Boson is still in late development and not yet playable.

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CCM Tools 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118179/

The CCM Tools are CASE tools used for generating CORBA components, test components, and test programs based on source IDL files. Various target languages can be generated. Scripting language wrappers can also be generated to enable rapid prototyping.

CCT Chinese TeX system 0.4.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118181/

CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

cdrtools 2.01a.08 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118194/

cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.

CGI Contact Form 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118169/

CGI Contact Form is an extremely simple Perl contact form manager for Web sites. It accepts a visitor's name, company, e-mail address, phone number, and any comments or questions. It features intelligent handling of errors such as invalid e-mail addresses and missing input. After submission, it forwards the information to an e-mail address along with the date, time, host name or IP address, operating system, and browser version. Examples and thorough instructions are included.

ChessBrain-MOC 0.6.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118208/

CB-MOC is used to monitor ChessBrain.net peer nodes. Short for "Chess Brain Peer Node Monitoring Operations Center," this program aims to offer full monitoring and statistics generation for each peer node that an operator runs. It offers tabular information and graphs to allow an operator to quickly assess the performance and status of each node.

Code striker 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118190/

Codestriker is a Perl CGI script that is used for performing code reviews in a collaborative fashion, as opposed to using patches sent in unstructured emails. Authors create code review topics, and the nominated reviewers are automatically notified by email. Reviewers can view the proposed diff in colored-diff mode, and can also view the original and new files that comprise the review in their entirety when Codestriker is linked with CVS or Subversion. Comments are made on a per-line basis, and comments submitted by the other reviewers can be viewed as they are created. Emails are sent to the appropriate parties when comments are created. The author is free to submit comments against the review comments. The end result is a structured set of review comments instead of a pile of unstructured emails. Codestriker also features the ability to search over existing topics in a variety of ways.

Contact_Vcard_Parse 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118236/

Contact_Vcard_Parse is a PHP class that allows you to parse vCard files and text blocks, and get back an array of the elements of each vCard in the file or text.

Dancers 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118193/

Dancers is an abstract green-yellow theme. The background is by Ilona Rankovic Maras.

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Duke Nukem Forever 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118214/

Duke Nukem Forever is part four in a series of PC games featuring Duke Nukem as the hero. Parts one (Duke Nukem) and two (Duke Nukem 2) were sidescrollers/platform games, and part three, Duke Nukem 3D, was an FPS. Duke Nukem 3D became one of the top-selling games of all time, and is a very important part of FPS gaming history; it is one of the few "legendary" titles, together with Quake and Doom. The game is one of the most sophisticated FPS games ever. It features everything the Unreal engine has, but also features things like LOD, skeletal animation, and motion capture, for an optimal playing experience.

dvd::rip 0.50.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118251/

dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools.

E-Cell System 3.1.93 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118184/

E-Cell System is an object-oriented software suite for modelling, simulation, and analysis of large scale complex systems such as biological cells. It allows many components, driven by multiple algorithms with different timescales, to coexist.

Eazel Extensions Library 2.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118160/

The Eazel Extensions Library is a collection of widgets and extensions to many modules of the GNOME platform that were developed by hackers working on Nautilus.

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elmo 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118223/

elmo is an efficient console mail user agent. It supports POP3 and SMTP, uses the Maildir storage format, and sends 8-bit MIME messages regardless of the server's ehlo response (although it is able to decode qp and base64 encodings). Additionally, when replying to email, elmo makes an attempt to determine the sex of the person being quoted so that it can choose the appropriate words to use in the quote's attribution.

Evolution 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118163/

Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager, and communications tool. Evolution represents the next step forward in GNOME applications. The tools which make up Evolution will be tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information-management tool.

FetchYahoo 2.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118178/

FetchYahoo is a Perl script that downloads mail from a Yahoo! webmail account to a local mail spool, an mbox file, or to procmail. It is meant to replace fetchmail for people using Yahoo! mail since Yahoo!'s POP and email forwarding services are no longer free. It includes all parts and attachments within the email. It can also forward the email to a specified address.

FFTW 3.0-beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118161/

FFTW is a fast C FFT library. It includes complex, real, symmetric, multidimensional, and parallel transforms, and can handle arbitrary array sizes efficiently.It is typically faster than other freely available FFT implementations, and is even competitive with vendor-tuned libraries (benchmarks are available at the homepage). To achieve this performance, it uses novel code generation and runtime self optimization techniques (along with many other tricks).

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flicp 0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118210/

flicp is for users who have a fli4l router in their LAN. With it you can upload and download any file you want. This is especially useful if you want to update your system.

Foggy Dawn 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118192/

Foggy Dawn is a green-gold theme with water, fog, and rushes. The background is by sir-valiant.

frowns 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118239/

frowns is a chemoinformatics toolkit geared toward rapid development of chemistry-related algorithms.

Generic JTAPI and JCC 1.6pre
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118250/

Generic JTAPI and Jcc is a framework to allow for the rapid development of Java telephony specification implementations. It does this by reducing the "service provider" coding requirements by an order of magnitude and by providing common services. Also included are sample service providers, including layered providers that can be combined with others to support multiplexing, JCC support, and remote access.

Genuts Cheese Indigestion Puzzle 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118188/

Genuts Cheese Indigestion Puzzle is a pathfinding puzzle. The goal is to help the mouse to eat all the pieces of cheese in each of the puzzle's 18 rooms. Move the mouse with arrow keys. You can't move on wall or move back on an already visited square. You can undo moves with the DEL key and restart with the ESC key. Finally, you can reset the puzzle with the Q key.

gmencoder v0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118182/

Gmencoder is a GNOME 2 frontend to mencoder. It supports an output codec for video (lavcodec) and one for audio (lame). It support postprocesing, cropping, scale, subtitles ripping, and multiple encoding passes.

Goben 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118215/

Goben is a GTK+ 1.2 GUI for playing Go. It allows any combination of human vs computer, computer vs computer, or human vs human play, and supports any board size from 5x5 to the full 19x19. Computer players are controlled via GTP for compatibility with GNUGo and other GTP talking Go programs.

Graphical Voter Interface 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118172/

GVI is a voting GUI. It can potentially be used for any private or public election, and it comes with a demonstration package based on an actual general election. It can handle write-ins and multi-language elections, and it can automate voting along party lines. It can be used for advanced election methods, such as Condorcet voting and Instant Runoff Voting, which allow each voter to rank the candidates (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). It can also be used for Approval Voting, which allows each voter to select more than one candidate (without ranking them). It can also be "downgraded" for conventional plurality elections. It provides scripts for counting the votes and determining the winner based on plurality, Approval, or Condorcet rules.

Gwget2 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118216/

Gwget2 is a Gnome2 front-end to wget.

ImageMagick 5.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118204/

ImageMagick (TM) is a package for the automated and interative manipulation of images. It supports the display and interactive manipulation of images when used with the X Window System. Although the software is copyrighted by ImageMagick Studio, it is available for free and can be redistributed without fee. ImageMagick may be used as a component of both open source and proprietary applications. ImageMagick compiles and runs under Unix, Linux, Windows '95 and later, Apple MacOS, and Compaq VMS. Binary packages are available for most operating systems. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided to support development of image processing applications in the C, C++, and Perl languages.

InfView 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118228/

InfView is an easy-to-use info files viewer with load of features.

JSch 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118209/

JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer, etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.

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Libxml 2.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118206/

Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, Relax NG, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress. It includes xmllint, a command line XML validator.

LiteWebServer 3.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118166/

LiteWebServer (LWS) is a small, modular Web server and Java web container. It is based on code from Apache's popular Tomcat server, tweaked and extended for easier installation and management. It consists of a set of modules that can be installed separately, so you can install and manage exactly the features you need. The base module provides basic Web server features (HTTP/1.1 support) and support for the Servlet API. Add-on modules provide additional features, such as JSP support. Installing new modules and upgrading or removing existing modules is as easy as can be with the bundled JustGetIt module manager.

MrPostman 1.0RC5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118167/

MrPostman is a Java program that acts as a POP mail server to interface your favorite mail client with Web Mail services like Yahoo! or Hotmail. It is designed so that new Webmail services can be written and used as plugins.

NullLogic Groupware 1.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118146/

NullLogic Groupware is a multi-user web-based groupware package designed for contact management and event scheduling which includes additional features such as private messaging, public discussion forums, shared hyperlinks, file bases, a web e-mail client, and a simple order processing system. The main goal is to make your data accessible to you from anywhere at any time without the need for special software to be installed on the client computer. Linux and Windows are both supported, and NullLogic Groupware has been thoroughly tested with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC.

Odyssey 0.2.2a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118219/

Odyssey is a PIC programming application which can erase, read, and write a variety of PIC microcontrollers. It was originally written to work with the EPIC programmer but it should work with any parallel port programmer.

OMNI Driver Model for Ghostscript Printing 0.9.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/118226/

The OMNI printer driver provides support for over 450 printers using the Ghostscript framework. In addition, it provides a model for dynamically loading printer drivers and creating new devices by editing device description files, and simplifies new printer driver development by allowing for the subclassing of previous device features.

OpenUPSd 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118145/

OpenUPSd is a UPS monitoring daemon for some Belkin UPSes that speak the "regulator pro smart protocol" over serial (RS232), such as the F6C625-220V.

Pan 0.13.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118224/

Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.

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PHP File Upload Class 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118247/

fileupload-class.php extends PHP's native support for uploading files through a Web browser. It can clean up the file's name, detect its mime type, and add the proper extension. Special characters in the file's name get deleted and spaces get replaced with underscores. The new "cleaned up" name is then returned by the class for use with a database or link management. There is also the ability to add your own mime-types and corresponding extensions. Other customizable variables include the path to the directory where files will be uploaded, maximum file size, maximum image width, maximum image height, acceptable file types, and whether or not uploaded files can be overwritten.

phpIntranet 2.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118220/

phpIntranet is a PHP/SQL intranet application. It includes a front end for managing a staff database, an inventory database, modular calendars, a tournament engine (round robin, single elimination), SpamAssassin configuration integration, birthdays, image storing, etc. phpIntranet also includes a session -> SQL based shopping cart and an orders database to integrate into an e-commerce Web site.

phpreports 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118257/

phpreports is a PHP report generator that uses XML report layout files to generate PHP code and show a report.

PimpBNC 0.9.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118248/

PimpBNC is an IRC bouncer written to be easy to use and still have many powerful features. It supports Perl modules, runs on almost any platform, supports multiple clients sharing the same nick (IRC-NAT), and has a Web-interface to ease configuration, feedback forms to ease reporting comments or bugs, many detailed configuration options, an away system with logging, feature to automatically update whole or parts from the Web while running, and the ability to notify the user when updates are available.

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Pink 0.8-20030401
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118231/

Pink is a Dutch IRC bot which has a lot of standard bot-features (nick-links, greets, google searching), and also some more interesting features like a freshmeat searcher, a Debian/Gentoo/FreeBSD package/port info command, teletext, and what's-on-TV-right-now. It is also easy to extend.

Pixory Beta 2.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118268/

Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums, and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most digital cameras and scanners.

popsneakerconfig 0.10-rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118211/

popsneakerconfig allows you to comfortably manage the configuration file popsneakerrc. It allows you to create rules with a wizard, and can optimize your rules and highlight invalid rules. It can precheck whether your rules are doing what they are supposed to do. Searching in rules and importing new rules is also very easy.

PortaBase 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118168/

PortaBase is a database program for creating, browsing, and editing single-table data files. Originally developed for the Sharp Zaurus PDAs, it can also be run as a Linux, Unix, and Windows application. Notable features include an ability to change the columns at any time, views of column subsets, multi-column sorting, multi-condition filtering, CSV import and export, XML import and export, and column summary statistics. Typical uses are media inventories, reference charts, shopping lists, TODO lists, etc.

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predator_Finn13 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118255/

predator_Finn13 is a theme inspired by an old bouncer's favorite quote.

Project Manager X 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118235/

PMX is a simple project management tool for OS X. It allows you to track, group, and manage project items and resource allocation. It displays the project in a nice Gantt Chart that can be printed.

pythonchess 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118222/

pythonchess is a small program for playing chess against the computer and, more importantly, for practicing computer chess programming.

qconfirm 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118186/

qconfirm is an implementation of a delivery confirmation process for a mail address or ezmlm mailing list. It is invoked by qmail-local through a .qmail file, and can reduce the amount of junk mail hitting a mailbox or the mailboxes of mailing list subscribers.

QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118244/

QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. It is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.

Request Tracker 3.0 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118262/

RT is an industrial-grade trouble ticketing system. It lets a group of people intelligently and efficiently manage requests submitted by a community of users. RT is used by systems administrators, customer support staffs, NOCs, developers, and even marketing departments to track issues, outages, bugs, requests, and all kinds of other things at thousands of sites around the world.

Resume 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118158/

Resume is a PHP script that uses include files and CSS to build and format an online resume. It does not require a database.

SandWeb 1.0RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118173/

SandWeb is a Web-based Sandbox Management Client. Since we currently only support CVS, it could also be described as a Web-based CVS client. It can be used to check out modules from a VCS such as CVS, manage files, edit, commit, and much more.

SCons 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118237/

SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make) implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically and maintain a global view of all dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through user-defined builder and scanner objects.

Setedit 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118213/

Setedit is a text editor specially designed for programmers. It has a nice interface with mouse support, menus and windows (text mode). The editor is a very good choice for people with DOS background, especially people accustomed to Worstar and Borland editors. The editor has overlapped windows so you can see more than one file at the same time, configurable syntax highlighting, macros, rectangular selection, block indentation, as well as customizable keyboard shortcuts and menus.

slashem 0.0.7E0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118198/

Slash'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack -- Extended Magic) is a variant of the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack. It adds more monsters, more objects, more dungeon levels, more roles, and more races, shopkeeper services, and techniques for you to use, and invisible objects and gypsies for those who feel lucky. It also comes with a GTK windowing interface and higher resolution tile sets as options.

Smooth GTK2 Theme Engine 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118218/

Smooth GTK2 Theme Engine is a simple GTK2 theme engine intended to be smooth, fast, and highly configurable, to the point that it could eventually be capable of mimicking most, if not all, major theme engines to high degree of acuracy, while still retaining a small footprint. It is in an early stage of development, so it is buggy, incomplete, and still missing many features.