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Video4Linux Grab 0.2.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246947

The v4lgrab project is a realtime capturing software for a Video4Linux device into an AVI file. This release fixes the errors and problems reported (audio/video sync problems) from the old version 0.2.1. This release also includes feature enhancements.

Gimp-Print 4.2.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246974

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    Gimp-Print 4.2.5, released January 24, 2003, is a stable release in the     Gimp-Print 4.2 series. Gimp-Print is a suite of printer drivers that     may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including     CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide high quality     printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2 and newer) and Linux     systems in many cases equal to or better than proprietary     vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for many of the most demanding     printing tasks. This software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp,     and GhostScript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic data. The Print     plug-in for the GIMP requires the Gimp 1.2. The CUPS driver requires     CUPS 1.1.9 or higher. 1.1.14 or above is highly recommended, as certain     translation-related bugs are fixed and it is possible to print true     CMYK. The Ghostscript driver requires GNU Ghostscript 5.10, 5.50, 6.51,     or any later GNU Ghostscript release based on 6.51 (e. g. 6.52). It may     also be used with GNU Ghostscript 7.05, or with ESP Ghostscript 7.05.     The IJS GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU Ghostscript 6.53 or     later, ESP Ghostscript 7.05 or later, or APFL GhostScript 7.04 or     later. Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2 and above can use this package, as     the printing system is based on CUPS, which is supported by Gimp-print.     Note that Macintosh OS X 10.0 and 10.1 (including 10.1.5) cannot use     this package. We recommend that Macintosh OS X users download the     precompiled installer package from
    http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3 rather than attempt to     build this package from source, as using the installer is much simpler.     We further recommend that Macintosh OS X users install ESP GhostScript,     to permit printing from Carbon applications (such as most Adobe     applications) that generate PostScript rather than PDF output.     Directions for that are also available at     http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3. Please read the README     file for full instructions on installing this package from source code.     Gimp-Print 4.2.5 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print     4.2.4: * Major bugs fixed: 1) (bug 625780) The Epson Stylus Pro 5000     now prints. 2) (bug 645895) The Epson Stylus Color 640 now prints     properly at all resolutions in color, grayscale, and monochrome. 3)
(bug 639356) The version of libtool used in building the release
    package has been upgraded to 1.4.3, which fixes compile problems on a     few platforms (this is primarily of interest to packagers). 4) (bug     659543) escputil now reports the ink levels correctly on the Stylus     Photo 950/960 and 2100/2200. 5) (bug 672692) A buffer overflow in     escputil, which permitted a local privilege escalation if it is     installed setuid, has been fixed. Note that Gimp-print does not install     escputil setuid, and we do not recommend explicitly setting the setuid     bit. 6) (bug 672846) A problem compiling rastertoprinter on Solaris     with the gcc compiler has been fixed. 7) (bug 672850) The Epson back     end in CUPS will no longer hang attempting to read back ink levels     under some circumstances, and it will also compute the ink levels     correctly. 8) (bug 646158) DESTDIR now works correctly with make     install (this is primarily of interest to packagers). * New     Functionality: 1) If Foomatic 2.9.x is installed, the Foomatic data     will be generated with additional features: Once the options are put     into groups ("General", "PrintoutMode", "Adjustment") and a new     "PrintoutMode" option will be added, which lets the user choose     pre-configurations for common printing tasks, but still adjust the     individual options. If an older version of Foomatic is installed, the     Foomatic data will stay as before. 2) (bug 596538) The automatic paper     cutter is now functional on the Epson Stylus Photo 925, 950/960, and     2100/2200. * Quality Improvements: 1) The Epson Stylus Photo     950/960/PM-950C and 2100/2200 are now tuned. The 950 and 960 are fully     tuned, while the 2100 and 2200 are fully tuned with Photographic Black     ink. Matte Black ink on the 2100/2200, and dark yellow ink on the     PM-950C, are not tuned at this point. 2) The Epson Stylus Photo     950/960/PM-950C and 2100/2200 now support double speed printing at 360     DPI in Four Color Standard mode (in color, grayscale, and monochrome).     For this reason, we recommend use of Four Color Standard for printing     text and low-resolution graphics on plain paper with these printers. 3)     Translations for Danish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, and UK English     have been updated. * Exceptions and Workarounds: 1) There have been a     number of reports that printing to a Windows-hosted printer from     Macintosh OS X results in only the first page of the job being printed
(see bugs 668342 and 672692). In at least some cases, connecting the
    printer directly to the Macintosh results in correct prints. There is     no known workaround short of connecting the printer directly to the     Macintosh. Investigation is continuing on this problem. 2) There are     longstanding reports of problems printing with certain USB-parallel     adapters on Macintosh OS X. In particular, many users have reported     problems with the Keyspan adapter; we recommend that users having     problems try different brands of adapters, and avoid using USB hubs.     Please check our web site
(http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3) for a link to a user
    feedback forum regarding these cables. 3) Mac OS X users who use the     Epson Printer Utility (provided by Epson with their standard driver     set) to check ink levels and perform maintenance tasks, such as head     cleaning or head alignment, may encounter print job failures when     attempting to print with the Gimp-Print driver after using the Epson     utility. The cause for this failure is currently unknown, but the     workaround is to completely power-cycle the printer, after which the     Gimp-Print driver should again print normally. Another option is to     disable the Epson Printer Utility. 4) The Mac OS X print dialog may     offer an "Autoselect" option as the default media source (input slot)     on some printers. This option may not be valid and can result in     nothing being printed. The workaround is to choose a different setting
(explicitly select the input slot you wish to use). 5) The new HP
    DesignJets have not been fully tuned. In particular, there are reports     that they print too light. This can be corrected with the Density     adjustment (try 1.5~1.7 or thereabouts). 6) The list of compatible and     potentially compatible Hewlett-Packard printers has been updated with     the latest available information. If a particular printer does not work     with the recommended driver, we recommend that you try other similar     drivers, check the Feature Requests at     http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=101537&group_id=1537&func=browse,     and if the printer is not listed please file a feature request (via the     Submit New button). 7) Borderless (full-bleed) printing is not quite     correct on the Epson Stylus Photo printers that support it (see bug     621668). Typically, the left or right margin is off by 1 mm or less,     resulting in a very fine white strip on that edge. This will not be     fixed in 4.2; it is expected to be fixed in 4.3 and beyond. There is no     workaround other than trimming the page. 8) Many Canon printers do not     print correctly at 720x360 DPI. The workaround is to use 360 or 720     DPI. The following bugs have been fixed in Gimp-Print 4.2.5: 596538     Epson Stylus Photo 925 etc. paper cutter is not functional 599029     Epson: Maximum speed printing not supported on 950, 960 625780 Epson     Stylus Pro 5000 does not print 639356 Build system: libtool 1.4.2 does     not work on all platforms 641628 QUALITY: Epson Stylus 2200 print     quality is low in 7-color 645895 Epson stc640 does not print at 720dpi     and above 646158 Build:DESTDIR broken in make install in print plugin     649253 QUALITY - Epson 950/960 problems in all resolutions 659543     escputil Epson Photo 950 Ink level wrong 672845 Buffer overflow in     escputil 672846 rastertoprinter does not compile on Solaris with gcc     672850 Epson back end in CUPS driver can lock up The following bugs are     currently open: 409612 Epson: Minor positioning problem on 4x6 glossy     470049 CUPS PPD files not translated on all systems 538097     QUALITY-Canon S400 dark and yellow cast 549677 Canon BJC-1000 functions     incorrectly at 720x360 DPI 557868 QUALITY-HP DeskJet 560 is washed out     581168 Canon BJC 250 just spits out pages 601767 Mac OS X: Canon BJC     2100 does not print multiple pages 602933 QUALITY-Canon S800 dark and     grainy 613054 Mac OS X: Printing from InDesign 2.0 on OS 10.2.1 614882     QUALITY - Canon BJC-55 is too pale and desaturated 621668 Epson Stylus     full bleed prints have slight margin 627266 Mac OS X: Autoselect option     incorrectly offered 627978 QUALITY: Canon BJC-6500 has magenta cast.     631937 HP DesignJet Sheet Cutter Problem 641981 QUALITY: HP DesignJet     455 too light 645116 QUALITY: HP DeskJet regression from 4.1.7 647035     QUALITY: Colors don't match OEM drivers 662988 HP DeskJet 970Cxi page     horizontally squeezed 668342 Canon S-450 prints only one page of a job     672692 Epson photo 700 single page of multi page job

New release 0.5.5 of tn5250j is available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=244952

tn5250J is an AS400 Telnet 5250 written in java. This will provide some of the more advance functions of the 5250 datastream such as edit masks, graphical windows, continued editing fields, etc. This release includes numerous feature enhancements, including improved file transfer capability, Jython scripting support, and the ability to export spool files to PDF or text file. Changes - wow where to start. There have been a lot since the last release. I will try to put a release out sooner from now on as there are so many changes it is impossible to keep up. This release features the following new functionality/fixes: 1. Scripting support via jython. See web page for details There is a script running indicator as well. You can define a script to run on connection This uses the jython project from http://www.jython.org 2. Reworked file transfer from host screen with the following: - Main screen has been reworked to make it less confusing - New filters have been added - Delimited and Fixed Width - Interaction with the Java Toolbox for AS400. See website for more details under file transfers. - A new sql query wizard has been implemented so you can graphically select and form your sql point and click with mouse. - E-mail your transferred file directly from the transfer screen 3. New SpoolFile export function to PDF or Text. You can also e-mail the exported file directly from the screen. This uses the itext project from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/itext When you download the itext-0xxx.jar make sure you rename it to itext.jar or it will not work 4. SSL socket support for users of JDK 1.4 and greater. 5. New applet support. Take the test drive with the live applet test from the website 6. Keyboard buffering fixes 7. New interaction of the popup menu with short cut keys automatically defined from you remapping. 8. Able to map keys to macros and scripts. See website for more information on macros and scripting in jython. 9. Printing fixes. 10. Better performance Lots and Lots of bug fixes. Thanks to all for helping with the testing of this release Enjoy Kenneth

Open For Business 2.0.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=245533

The Open For Business Project released version 2.0.0 of its business automation tools, components, and applications on Monday the 20th of January 2003. This is the first stable release of the project and offers a new option for organizations of all types that have asked the question of Build vs. Buy. More information about Open For Business can be found on the web site at http://www.ofbiz.org Organizations using OFBiz can shorten enterprise information project cycles by months through a well designed architecture and corresponding framework and through pre-built components and applications. The goal of the Open For Business project is to provide useful, standards compliant tools and applications. These standards will include: XML; J2EE; WfMC; BPML; ebXML; UNSPSC; GAAP & FASB; OMG's GL, Party, Workflow, etc; ArapXML; OAGIS; and many others. The OFBiz Core Framework consists of the following tools: Entity Engine, Service Engine, Workflow Engine, Rule Engine, XML Mini-Languages, and a web application framework. Applications and application components (including entities and services) in the project cover the following business areas: e-commerce, products, orders, parties, facilities, work efforts, content, marketing, accounting, human resources, and so forth. The most mature and deployed application in the suite is the e-commerce application with functionality that measures up to the largest available commercial alternatives and many live sites, including the award-winning ReturnBuy.com site (see http://www.internetretailer.com/article.asp?id=8137 ) Other OFBiz applications and components are stable and being used by various organizations and in various commercial products. More details are available on the website. OFBiz has received great attention in the open source and IT communities. The project has been featured on SourceForge and release notices have appeared on FreshMeat.net, TheServerSide.com, and JavaLobby.org. The SourceForge project site shows around 100,000 downloads and 700,000 page views. Dozens of users of the project have contributed feedback, new ideas and even code and designs. Special thanks to the many users who have contributed to the project. Without user contributions the project could not be what it is today. QUESTION: What is the scope of the OFBiz applications, and how will vertical markets be targeted? ANSWER: We realize that we cannot target all functionality that will be needed by all organizations, or even all markets or industries. Our goal for the applications and application components is to include as much generic functionality as possible. This will allow many medium and large size organizations to get something useful running quickly and make it possible to concentrate resources on organization specific customizations. Software companies will be able to affordably create products for narrowly targeted markets or industries and spend time and effort on the needs of that market or industry instead of all of the generic functionality and framework components that can be generalized among all users of the software. QUESTION: If there are no licensing fees or corporate backing for OFBiz, how is the development and support of the project financed? ANSWER: The project is financed by providing for the needs of users of the project. This is done by offering services such as analysis, design, implementation, customization, training, mentoring, support and even prioritization of planned features. Much of the functionality in the project has been paid for by commercial adopters of the project and the rest has been contributed by generous developers from their own personal time. For more information on services offered, see the OFBiz.org Services Page at http://www.ofbiz.org/services.html QUESTION: This seems like a pretty big project, how much of it is actually done, or rather how far along are the various components and applications? ANSWER: At this point all of the framework components are very stable, and many of the applications are too. This is why we have chosen to do the 2.0.0 final release. From here on out releases will be done more incrementally as the current framework and applications are improved. The e-commerce and related applications such as the Party, Order, and Catalog managers are the most stable and mature. Following close behind is the Facility Manager which handles all aspects of warehouse and inventory management. The Work Effort Manager has many useful pieces in place, but there is still a lot of work to do there. Other applications such as Accounting and Content Management have only recently been started. The Data Model is very complete and mature. It has been reviewed and improved dozens of times and by many different people. It is cleaner in the areas where corresponding applications and components are implemented, but we have put a great deal of effort into making sure that there was a master plan for the data model that would not have to change much as applications are added or improved.

Vorbis Encoder Plugin for LameFE released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246410

A new OGG/Vorbis Encoder plugin for use with LameFE 2.2 RC 1 has been released. This plugin features Ogg/Vorbis 1.0 support, Quality based encoding, ABR / VBR / CBR encoding, and support for standard Ogg Tags. You can download both LameFE and the plugin at http://lamefe.sourceforge.net/index.php?showpage=download Thees Winkler

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DWSII 1.2 Beta Release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246417

Can't find what you're looking for?

DelphiWebScript is a scripting language for use in Borland Delphi(tm) projects. The programming language is similar to Delphi. It's HTML features are optimal for web applications and report modules. A beta release of DWSII is available. Most important new feature: Garbage collector for DWSII objects. See forum messages for more information.

Streamsicle 1.2Beta+
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246437

The Streamsicle is a stand-alone webserver and streaming MP3 server. You can request songs, view what the server has to play, etc. New installer version released with later JVM support, should allow much larger MP3 collections to be loaded.

pmd-1.02 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246108

PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. This release includes a number of new rules and bugfixes. ...with a slew of new rules (ImportFromSamePackageRule, SwitchDensityRule, NullAssignmentRule, UnusedModifierRule, ForLoopShouldBeWhileLoopRule) and plenty o' bug fixes and new features. See the changelog - http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=135420 - for all the details. Thanks to the many folks who contributed, most of whom are listed here: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/credits.html Thanks, Tom

RCSoccerSim 9.2.2 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=245751

The RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a research and educational tool for multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence. It enables for two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robotic players to play soccer
(football). RoboCup Soccer Simulator is licensed under a combination of
the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL. The latest stable release adds goal posts with "real" collision detection and modelling as well the remaining official changes requested for the new RoboCup World Cup. But that's not all, to make your life easier (and mine more difficult), the various rcsoccersim modules are now available as RPMs for i386. If anyone else is willing to provide RPMs for other architectures, let us
(sserver-admin at users.sf.net) know and we'll tell you how.

tinyproxy 1.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=246109

Don't know where to look next?

After a month of being in the "Release Candidate" state, tinyproxy 1.5.2 has been released. There have been a bunch of usability improvements since 1.5.1. Anyone using 1.5.1 or previous is recommended to upgrade. tinyproxy is a GPLed, lightweight HTTP proxy. Designed from the ground up to be fast and yet small, it is an ideal solution for sites where a full featured HTTP proxy is required, but the system resources for a larger proxy are unavailable.

Slashdot
Mono - 'Breaking Down the .Net Barriers' http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/1316204

ceejayoz writes "MSNBC has an [0]interesting article about the [1]Mono project, saying that the 'volunteer effort could oblige Microsoft to work with Linux'."
Links

0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/864039.asp

http://www.go-mono.com/

KDE 3.1 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/125216

    [0]Ashcrow writes "KDE 3.1 was released early this morning and boasts
    [1]new usability enhancements, [2]VNC-compatible [3]desktop sharing,
    [4]tabbed browsing, and a new [4]download manager, among other
    [5]enhancements. You can read the [6]release anouncement here and start

downloading from the closest [7]mirror. Kudos to the [8]KDE Team!" Links

    0. 
http://www.gnulinux.net
    1. 
http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php?page=7
    2. 
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
    3. 
http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php?page=3
    4. 
http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php?page=4
    5. 
http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php
    6. 
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.1.html
    7. 
http://www.kde.org/ftpmirrors.html
    8. 
http://www.kde.org/people.html

OpenBSD (Still) Seeks UltraSparc III Docs From Sun http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/0329254

An anonymous reader writes "There is a very interesting article on kerneltrap regarding OpenBSD's lingering [0]battle with Sun over UltraSparc III documentation (that's right ... it still hasn't been resolved). Jeremy Andrews relates his efforts to get a position from Sun on the matter. In summary, he was completely stonewalled ... and that is exactly what makes the article so noteworthy." Links

0. http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568

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Australia May Adopt DMCA-Style Copyright Regime http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/0021222

beaver1024 writes "Australia, desperate to garner more U.S. trade, has [0]indicated that it is willing to follow a more stringent regime for protecting copyright. This follows [1]attempts by MediaForce to force Australian ISPs to comply with U.S. DMCA provisions. I fear that due to the current Australian government's weak spineless nature, the harsh provisions of the DMCA will soon arrive in the land down under." Links

0. http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5896759%255E15306,00html

http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1055

Kazaa Fights Back
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/0556245

[0]Cracula writes "CNET [1]is reporting that tonight Kazaa filed a lawsuit against the major record labels and Hollywood studios, asserting that they are attempting to stifle a legitimate and potentially profit-cutting business model. Sharman Networks (owner of Kazaa) says that their model is fundmentally different than Napster because their major goal is to make money off their companion program Altnet that delivers authorized, paid content. While this may sound like a shot in the dark, last year a federal judge actually ruled that the record labels' current efforts to provide online access to their music may run afoul of anti-trust laws. Kazaa may actually have a hope."
Links

0. http://www.benandbarb.com

http://rss.com.com/2100-1023-982344.html

Why We Refactored JUnit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/237245

Bill Venners writes "In [0]this article, three programmers tell the story of how their frustration with [1]JUnit's API led to the creation of [2]Artima SuiteRunner, a free, open source test toolkit and JUnit runner. These programmers simply wanted to create a small add-on tool to JUnit, but found JUnit's design non-intuitive and API documention poor. After spending time reading through JUnit's source code and attempting to guess at the API contracts, they gave up and rewrote it." Links

    0. 
http://www.artima.com/suiterunner/why.html
    1. 
http://www.junit.org/
    2. 
http://www.artima.com/suiterunner/index.html

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P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/0142209

geekee writes "CNET posted an article claiming [0]you could be liable for $250,000 in fines and up to 3 years in prison for p2p file sharing. This is due to an obscure law called the No Electronic Theft ([1]NET) act passed in 1997 (signed by Bill Clinton). Although the Justice Department has not prosecuted anyone under this new law, some members of congress have asked John Ashcroft to begin prosecuting. In response to the request, John Malcolm, a deputy assistant attorney general, said to expect some NET Act prosecutions." Links

0. http://news.com.com/2010-1071-982121.html?tag=fd_nc_1

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2265.ENR:

Preserving the Sound of America
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/0030228

[0]jonerik writes "The Associated Press (by way of MSNBC) has [1]this article on [2]the Library of Congress' [3]National Recording Registry, which 'seeks to ensure even greater protection for some of the most notable songs, speeches and other utterances.' To that end, the library's extensive collection of recordings and photos will soon be moved to a massive 41-acre complex built into the side of a mountain in Culpeper, Virginia. When construction on the site is completed - in about three years - anything stored in Culpeper should be available via computer at the library's Madison Building on Capitol Hill. The Library of Congress has been collecting recordings for almost 100 years, the first being a recording of a speech by German Emperor Wilhelm II. Since then the library has collected recorded speeches by every American President since Theodore Roosevelt, oral histories, music, radio broadcasts, and other examples of recorded sound." This sounds like a collection which will become more valuable as more people have access to the actual content of the collections. Links

    0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
    1. 
http://www.msnbc.com/news/864552.asp?0cv=CB10
    2. 
http://www.loc.gov/
    3. 
http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-nrr.html

Red Hat Announces Product EOL Calendar
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/239231

[0]BrunoC writes "Looks like Red Hat is getting a little Microsoftish and is quietly introducing its brand new 12-month-only [1]Errata. Quoting The Reg: 'Red Hat's current death list EOLs RH 7.1-8.0 at the end of this year, while 6.2 and 7.0 get theirs as of the end of March.' You can read the [2]whole article here." I don't see how this is "Microsoftish" -- the code Red Hat creates or includes is still GPL, and you can pay anyone willing to fix it. They're not required to support it forever :)
Links

    0. 
http://brunoc&easynet,com,br
    1. 
https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/
    2. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29053.html

Google vs. Boilerplate Activism
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/2147246

Do you need help?

[0]ArmorFiend writes with this [1] NYTimes article which "details the efforts of journalists to discern real reader-written letters from boilerplate form letters. Seems like there should be a centralized searchable DB of letters to the editor." Links

0. http://www.speakeasy.org/~morse/email.jpg

http://nytimes.com/2003/01/27/technology/27LETT.html

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abcm2ps 3.3.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110810/

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.

Abstract Enigma 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110778/

Abstract Enigma is a clean looking theme. It is designed for Openbox, and should work in [Flux|Black]box, but the menu bullets may not display correctly.

AllTasks.net 2.00 alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110769/

AllTasks.net allows a company to manage all parts of a task from idea to execution and evaluation. Work together on big projects and/or gather daily tasks into one common system.

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Aranha 0.0.276
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110826/

Aranha is a piece of software written to allow Web applications to be written more cleanly and more easily. It is a Local FastCGI Responder, although work is in progress to allow it to work as a FastCGI Authoriser and a FastCGI Filter. It is based on the programming language Lua, and contains many extensions to enable easy Web site development and maintenance.

Biaroza 0.5 (Biaroza)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110874/

Biaroza is a multi-dictionary system for human languages which aims to set a standard on such type of software. It works internally (and externally if you want so) in UTF-8. The software itself supports querying by particles, customizable in/out filtering, and interface mode (for using with another software) among other features.

CASM 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110690/

CASM is an offline content management tool. It is ideal for creating and maintaining dynamic or static Web, WAP, or XML sites. CASM is implemented as an integrated command-line application which contains the Content Assembling Language compiler, an optimizer for HTML, CSS, and XML, HTML tidy integration, a powerful site file structure builder, and more. Content Assmebling Language (CAL) is a markup language designed to separate site content from display properties. CAL has a comfortable templating mechanism, if-then-else structure, variable substitution, file including, recordset handling, looping functions, and more.

cgi-exec 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110792/

cgi-exec preprocesses data from an HTML form and redirects the data to a CGI script specified in a database located next to cgi-exec. It acquires the input from the browser, regardless of method; decodes the input into plain text; places that input into environmental variables corresponding to the fieldnames designated in the HTML form; searches a database to determine the name of the script to be executed to process the form data; spawns the script, after appropriate headers are emitted; and prints out footers after the return of the script. The environment is protected by disallowing the overwriting of existing variables.

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Cherokee 0.4.0 Beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110890/

Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It provides only the most basic HTTP functionality, but is extremely fast and small.

cvsdelta 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110865/

cvsdelta helps manage a CVS project, identifying the local files that have been added, changed, or deleted. The relevant files can be automatically added to and removed from CVS. A list of files is produced, with a summary of content differences, i.e. the number of lines of code that have been added, changed, and deleted.

Damascus 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110791/

Damascus is a GTK+ 2.x client for the Gale communication protocol. It is somewhat modelled after IM/ICQ-style interfaces. If you don't know what Gale is, this client probably won't be very useful; you need a valid Gale key to send anything, and Damascus can't generate them
(yet). Gale is also scary and confusing.

Dav 0.7.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110799/

Dav (Dav Ain't Vi) is meant to provide a stable text editor that is efficient in both memory and processor usage. Its user interface is designed to be intuitive and to increase productivity.

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Deadman's Redirect 7.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110873/

Deadman's Redirect is designed to replace whatever is loaded when you click on the Home button in your browser. It is a Web surfer's power tool that can be completely customized, using HTML, to fit the needs of the user. It allows for URL redirection as well as an interface to various search engines through its aliasing system. It also supports user-set aliases with functional arguments, RSS headlines, and a history of all the URLs that pass through it.

Downloader for X 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110851/

Downloader for X is a tool for downloading files from the Internet via both HTTP and FTP with a powerful but userfriendly interface. It supports reconnecting and resuming on connection timeouts, has a download queue for multiple files, support for simultaneous downloads, and many other features for powerful downloading.

dvd::rip 0.49.9 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110847/

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-Xoops Beta 1.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110825/

E-Xoops is a content management system written mainly in object oriented PHP. It includes everything you'd expect from a portal system, including downloads, links, sections, polls, forum, news, a FAQ, RSS feeds, members lists, and customizable blocks and themes. It also integrates XMLRPC and the ability to manage users as groups with module- or block-specific access permissions.

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Easta 1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110817/

Easta is a Napster-inspired peer to peer filesharing system, built to operate entirely over email (POP/IMAP+SMTP). More people have access to email than any other service, and in addition it gives easy access to file-sharing for the 90% of the planet stuck behind a firewall without a SOCKS connection. There's some nice side-effects too, such as asynchronous downloading, even when you're offline.

edit-on Pro 3.0.168 (3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110829/

edit-on Pro is a cross-platform, in-browser, WYSIWYG editor Java applet which enables XHTML content authoring with XML markup. The editor is compact, powerful and requires no special libraries or client plugins. It includes CSS support, table editing, a spelling checker, multi-language support, and features an API that allows full customisation and seamless integration into Web-based applications. It perfectly complements content management systems, e-learning, knowledge management systems, and CRM. A free trial version is available for download and includes complete developer samples and a comprehensive integration manual.

Emergency CD 2 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110807/

Emergency CD 2 is a is console-only mini live Linux CD distribution based on RedHat 7.3. It features kernel 2.4.19-xfs(i586), and many console tools and utilities.

EnderUNIX spamGuard 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110850/

spamGuard is a collection of small applications that automagically monitors spammer activity in mail server logs. The program supports qmail (multilog/syslog), sendmail, and postfix.

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EOS Image Manager 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110785/

EOS Image Manager is a pure Cocoa application that enables users to quickly view, rename (add and remove chars, change case), and manage
(move, copy, and rename) all of their images from a single, uncluttered
interface. With this application users can organize thousands of downloaded images and digital photos in minutes.

EvilEntity Linux DR-0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110846/

EvilEntity Linux is a multimedia-focused desktop OS designed for desktop home computers and professional multimedia productivity. EvilEntity Linux flaunts high performance, and a "Nothing Like Windows" philosophy. EvilEntity uses a simplified method of installation and deployment. The installation is designed to be easy, fast, stable, and simple.

EXT2IFS 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110805/

EXT2IFS is an Installable File System for Windows NT4, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. The driver can read both the EXT2 and EXT3 filesystems. A simple installation program makes using the driver easy.

FreeMarker 2.2pre2 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110831/

FreeMarker allows Java servlets to keep graphic design separate from application logic, by encapsulating HTML in templates. Templates generate HTML dynamically, using data provided by the servlet. The template language is powerful and intuitive, the compiler is fast, and the output approaches the speed of static HTML pages.

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gimp-print 4.3.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110794/

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.

GiNaC 1.0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110872/

GiNaC (GiNaC is Not a CAS (Computer Algebra System)) is a C++ library for symbolic calculations. It is designed to allow the creation of integrated systems that embed symbolic manipulations together with more established areas of computer science (like computation-intense numeric applications, graphical interfaces, etc.). Contrary to other CASes it does not try to provide extensive algebraic capabilities and a simple programming language but instead accepts a given language (C++) and extends it by a set of algebraic capabilities.

GNU Simple Authentication and Security Layer 0.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110802/

GNU SASL is a library that implements the IETF Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) framework and some SASL mechanisms. SASL is used in servers (e.g. IMAP, SMTP, etc.) to request authentication from clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers.

GNU Transport Layer Security Library 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110820/

GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It implements the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols. GnuTLS is available for beta testing.

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gPHPEdit 0.0.24 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110822/

gPHPEdit is a GNOME2 editor that is dedicated to editing PHP files and other supporting files, like HTML/CSS. It has support for drop-down function lists, hints showing parameters, and syntax highlighting.

gpsdrive 1.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110833/

Gpsdrive is a map-based navigation system. It displays your position on a zoomable map provided from a NMEA-capable GPS receiver. The maps are autoselected for the best resolution, depending of your position, and the displayed image can be zoomed. Maps can be downloaded from the Internet with one mouse click. The program provides information about speed, direction, bearing, arrival time, actual position, and target position. Speech output is also available.

hk_classes 0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110800/

hk_classes is a set of C++ libraries for rapid development of database applications with all features a modern database application should have, like forms and reports. hk_classes is database and GUI independent. It also includes command line tools to use hk_classes in scripts.

IMAP Proxy 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110875/

The IMAP Proxy server is a caching IMAP proxy server. It was written to reduce the load that Webmail clients put on an IMAP server by keeping server connections alive for reuse, thus avoiding a new server connection for each Webmail transaction.

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isp4you 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110824/

isp4you is a Webmin module that creates a virtual Apache Web server and a user (with a random password). It automatically creates DNS entries, up to 100 mail accounts, a MySQL database, quotas, etc. You can also create a new Webmin user that will only have access to its own new account. The supported languages are English, Dutch, Spanish, German, Turkish, and French.

Jess 6.1b1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110867/

Jess is a fast, light rule engine and scripting environment written entirely in Java. You can build Java software that has the capacity to "reason" using knowledge you supply in the form of declarative rules. It is supplied as a programmer's library, making it ideal for embedding in larger applications. It is free for academic use and can be licensed for commercial use.

Kismet 2.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110795/

Kismet is an 802.11b network sniffer and network dissector. It is capable of sniffing using most wireless cards, automatic network IP block detection via UDP, ARP, and DHCP packets, Cisco equipment lists via Cisco Discovery Protocol, weak cryptographic packet logging, and Ethereal and tcpdump compatible packet dump files. It also includes the ability to plot detected networks and estimated network ranges on downloaded maps or user supplied image files.

KVocabulary 0.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110819/

KVocabulary is a vocabulary trainer for one or more foreign languages. Lessons are comprised of questions, which can be presented according to different criteria and edited.

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latex4jed 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110809/

latex4jed is an S-Lang file for the Jed editor which provides a greatly enhanced LaTeX mode, similar to AUC TeX. It features menus, shortcuts, templates, syntax highlighting, document outlines, integrated debugging, symbol completion, full integration with external programs, and more. It was designed with both the beginner and the advanced LaTeX user in mind.

mminstance 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110857/

The mminstance package creates instances of PostScript Type1 multiple master fonts. (An instance is a version of the font as it looks at one point in its design space.) Mminstance lets you use multiple master fonts with programs that don't handle them directly, such as afm2tfm, ps2pdf, ps2pk, and X Type1 font servers. Mminstance contains two programs. Mmafm creates AFM font metrics from multiple master AMFM and AFM files, and Mmpfb creates a single-master font outline file (PFA or PFB) from the multiple master font itself.

MRTS 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110793/

MRTG RRDtool Total Statistics is a PHP script that uses MRTG and RRDtool to sum up traffic monthly and yearly.

MuseScore 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110838/

MuseScore is a WYSIWYG musical score typesetter for Linux. It uses TrueType fonts for display and printing.

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Mutella 0.4.3 RC3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110852/

Mutella supports all the functionality required to participate as a full-featured node in the Gnutella network (which implies support for file search, download, and sharing). It is optimized for a high-bandwidth connection where it sets standards for the server performance and stability, but it can also run on a modest-speed line. It features real multiple search support, passive search (all query-reply packets are checked against local search list), automatic re-submission of the queries, unlimited download retry, automatic search for alternative locations when download fails to start immediately, auto-get function for broken downloads, and much more.

myBeasties 0.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110864/

myBeasties is a highly flexible evolutionary programming module. It is designed to be extendable and customisable for maximum use by the Perl developer. Many species of genotypes can be evolved, and these can be used to build phenotypes of any size or complexity. These can be as simple as a list or as large as a whole class of objects.

nALFS 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110860/

nALFS is interactive, ncurses-based application used for parsing the ALFS profiles (simple instructions in XML) and doing various things
(like executing commands), one by one, to compile some packages from
source.

Network Dumper 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110789/

Network Dumper is a multi-platform socket sniffer, creating a local socket and dumping whatever it is pointed at to disk.

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Nive 3d 0.1.2pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110801/

Nive 3d is an object oriented portable 3D engine. The library is built in C++ and uses OpenGL for 3D rendering. Its main features include terrain rendering, character animation (via its bones system), some special effects, and an OO design. The engine is shipped with a custom 3ds Max 4 exporter which can also handles Character Studio models.

Presenting XML 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110804/

Presenting XML is an extendible component-based framework for XML/XSLT applications that aims to achieve a complete separation of content and presentation. It supports various kinds of content including XML files, dynamic content, and flat files, and can perform XSLT transformations in a SAX pipeline. It also supports filtering a stream of XML content in a pipeline without requiring the construction of a tree representation of the document, serialization to PDF using the Apache fop processor, user defined serializers and instructions, and different kinds of media with different flavors of markup (such as HTML and WML).

pwdutils 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110848/

pwdutils is a collection of utilities to manage the passwd and shadow user information. The difference to the shadow suite is that these utilities can also modify the information stored in NIS, NIS+, or LDAP. PAM is used for user authentication and changing the pasword. It contains passwd, chfn, chsh, and a daemon for changing the password on a remote machine over a secure SSL connection. The daemon also uses PAM so that it can change passwords independent of where they are stored.

RealizationEngine Desktop Status Checker 0.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/110868/

A stand alone desktop client to alert you to new messages in one or more RealizationEngine accounts.

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