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[osdn developer] February 04, 2003
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 04:15:50 EST
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February 04, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Computing: iGesture Pad
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5cca/
Electronics: SOCOM Navy Seals for PS2
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Electronics: PowerPad Pro XBOX Controller http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxhard/5bec/
Electronics: SI-5 Gen2 Speakers
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Electronics: Panzer Dragoon ORTA for Xbox http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5ce8/
Computing: PowerPad Extended Life Notebook Batteries http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cec/
Computing: Glow Wire PC Lights
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Gadgets: ER1 Personal Robot System
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Gadgets: Securikey Authentication System http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5cd6/
Electronics: Infoglobe Caller ID Display http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5c83/
Computing: NEC-Mitsubishi 18" LCD
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Electronics: PS2 Network Adapter
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Computing: Asylum GeForce Ti4600 AGP 4x
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Computing: D-Link USB/FM Radio Adapter
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Computing: Linksys USB 2.0/Ethernet Adapter http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5c97/
Computing: Logitech Cordless Freedom Joystick http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/gaming/5cc8/
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Interests: QuickKill
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Sourceforge
GPGrelay 0.91has been released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249447
GPGrelay is a small email-relaying server that uses GnuPG (the GNU Privacy Guard) to sign/encrypt (SMTP-Relay) or verifies/decrypts (POP3-Relay) emails. This enables many email-clients to send and receive emails that are PGP-MIME conforming. This release includes bugfixes and minor feature enhancements.
MPlayer OS X v1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249048
MPlayer OSX is multimedia player with playlist, supporting playback of all widely used media types (MPEG 1-4, DivX, AVI, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, RealMedia, QuickTime Movie, MPEG layer 1-3, AC3, WindowsMediaAudio and more) and movie subtitles of various formats (MicroDVD Player, Subrip and more). It is based on Mac OS X port of MPlayer - Movie Player for Linux. This new version includes latest build of MPlayer binary and few features distributed as standalone application without need of additional installation of binaries, libraries and other stuff.
leafnode 1.9.33 (stable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249049
This release comes with roughly a dozen fixes and one feature, "noread", to complement the "nopost" feature. Leafnode is a caching Usenet news proxy that enables online newsreaders to read news off-line. It is designed for zero (full-automatic) maintenance. Please see https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=137713 for details.
Fire 0.32.b.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248956
Fire 0.32.b is now available with three new localizations (Spanish,
Russian, and Danish) and many bug fixes. We have an all new smiley
parser built for speed and better consistency with official clients,
and improved MSN reliability. Fire is a multi-protocol instant
messenger client for Mac OS X based on freely available libraries for
each service. Currently Fire handles AOL Instant Messenger™, ICQ®,
MSN® Messenger, Jabber, limited IRC, and Yahoo!® Pager
communications. Thanks to Graham, Alan, Paul, Lasse, Matt, Alessandro,
Stephane, and Martin for their help on this release. Fire 0.32.b.2
corrects a nib corruption problem that prevented Fire from launching in
French. Download is here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.b.2.dmg?download
ReactOS 0.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249012
ReactOS 0.1.0 has been released. Among the new features and fixes, especially worth mentioning are booting from CD and self-hosting (ReactOS compiles ReactOS). ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.
xawdecode version 1.6.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249027
xawdecode 1.6.7, containing bug fixes, has been released. X11 TV application based on xawtv 2.x series which adds many enhancements like Xvideo rendering support, deinterlacing, real time divx recording, integrated alevt teletext browser and provides a plugin API to add any functionnality one might think of. here are the modifications: xawdecode-1.6.7 (02/02/03) - AC_PREREQ(2.5) added in configure.in to nsure autoconf greater than 2.5 is used and therefore prevents earlier autoconf version to generate buggy shell code - removal of acconfig.h et DEFINE templates added in configure.in - killing of "header not found" errors while compiling alevt with particular configurations - various warning killing in alevt with gcc-3.2 - detection of systems using the devfs file system and therefore /dev/v4l/video0 as video device - patch #644358: add of ffmpeg mpeg1 video codec - patch #651746: new debian packaging (fonts are now in an independant package)
- better handling of NET_WM compliant window managers (fullscreen and stay on top features) - aligned to new ffmpeg libavcodec API (LIBAVCODEC_BUILD >= 4641). Previous version of libavcodec are not any more supported. Builds fine with official ffmpeg 0.4.6 - now really find and use first available YUY2 Xvideo port in case one is already used by another application you can "apt-get" deb packages with: http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/debian/ bye Pingus ;-)
Native win32 port of the qt library started http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248232
In December 2002 a native win32 port of the qt library has been started. The port is completly based on the gpl'ed qt/x11 sources in the kde-cygwin cvs. See http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt2-win32 for further details, screenshots and other project relating things. Ralf Habacker Project Leader KDE-CYGWIN
bogofilter-0.10.1.4 - a bugfix/beta release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248266
The 0.10.1.4 release includes bugfixes for MIME and HTML processing, code clean-ups, and additional spam scoring algorithms. The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam". bogofilter is written in C and is supported on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.
spamprobe-0.8b released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248262
This release fixes a problem with crashes in the regex routines on RedHat 8 systems. SpamProbe is a fast, intelligent, automatic spam detector using Paul Graham-style Bayesian analysis of word counts in spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes automatically. No manual rule creation required.
openMosix 2.4.20-2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247894
openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering. Taking n PC boxes, openMosix gives users and applications the illusion of one single computer with n CPUs. openMosix is perfectly scalable and adaptive. This release fixes a bug, which affected SMP-kernels and caused the machine to hang when unmounting filesystems at reboot. RPMs are compiled with gcc-3.2 under RedHat 8.0. Also: This release features a new RPM: openmosix-kernel-source, which holds the kernel tree with the openMosix-patch applied, installed under /usr/src. Users compiling their own modules have requested this for a while. (You've got it :) Martin Downloads available from http://www.openMosix.org
Slashdot
Cognitive Dissident: Interview with John Perry Barlow
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/0348221
Bob Hellbringer writes "[0]Mother Jones Magazine has an online
[1]interview with John Perry Barlow of the EFF, on the things that all
slashdotters love: 'the Total Information Awareness project, online
activism, file sharing, and the prospect of a digital counterculture.'"
Links
0. http://www.motherjones.com/
Microsoft's Home Of Tomorrow Has No Bathroom http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/0033239
[0]Starman9x writes "Over at the [1]The Toronto Star reporter [2]
Rachel Ross got a tour of [3] Microsoft's home of the future. She
writes with an appropriate amount of humor, given all the easy targets
Microsoft has set up. While the writeup is light and witty, there is an
unspoken Orwellian undertone to it -- after all, do we really want
Microsoft to have that much control over things?"
Links
0. mailto:osnut@pacbell.net
1.
http://www.thestar.com/
2.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Render&c=Page&cid=968332188492&ce=Columnist&colid=974814650296
3.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035777395771&call_pageid=%20968332188492
Appreciation For All Things ASCII
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2354214
[0]AsciiRock writes "Sick of seeing those chunky pixel art logos
everywhere? Check out [1]AsciiBlog, [2]Contemporary ASCII, and [3]Ascii
Disko (no relation to me) for examples of artists inspired by plain
text. ...and also [4]click me! and [5]click me! which made their way
around the net some time back. Wonder how many other examples of BBS
design sensibility there'll be this year. There's already [6]Wired
illustrators. 2002, year of ASCII design?"
Links
0.
http://www.asciirock.com
1.
http://ascii.blog.pl/
2.
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/
3.
http://www.asciidisko.com/
4.
http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~helpme/flash/chinko_anesan.swf
5.
http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/
6.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/code.html
Linux Conference Australia Write-Up
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1220242
I've just recently returned from [0]Linux Conference Australia 2003, held in Perth, Western Australia. I've had an incredible time, and this has easily been the best technical/Linux show I've been to since [1]ALS was still operating. I've got a write-up below, and some notes on what happened, what's the plan for next year (It'll be in Adelaide, and I'm
greatly looking forward to it!), and a photo round up. A number of
other [2]articles have appeared, and Kate MacKenzie's [3]write up in
The Australian was good as well, in addition to Telsa Gwynne's
[4]excellent write-up and [5]Linux Magazine Au has some articles as
well. Update: 02/04 02:42 GMT by [6]T: ilovestuff points out [7]ZDNet Australia's coverage as well.
Links
0.
http://conf.linux.org.au/
1.
http://www.linuxshowcase.org/
2.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/28/1043534039219.html
3.
http://australianit.news.com.au/article2/0,7237,5901974%5E15301%5E%5Enbv%5E,
00.html
4.
http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/Trips/lca2003.html
5.
http://www.linmagau.org/index.php
6.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
7.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/builder/program/unix/story/0,2000034968,20271425,00.htm
Slashback: Slammer, Frames, Pop-Ups
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/0430208
Slashback tonight with more on SBC's claim to own patents covering basic Web navigation techniques, an eyebrow-raising look at Slammer's spread, bad news for Ogg streams from the BBC, and more. Read on for the details. Update: 02/04 00:13 GMT by [0]T: And late-breaking good news from SDF regarding its Public Access UNIX System. Links
0. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/239238
SlashChick writes "From a [0]discussion on the freebsd-chat mailing list, it appears that one of the FreeBSD core developers, Matt Dillon, has been barred from committing any changes to the FreeBSD kernel. Dillon was one of the developers 'responsible for making FreeBSD 4.x the most rugged and stress-proof free operating system in existence,' and also contributed to fixing the Linux VM. Unfortunately, there has been [1]little explanation from the FreeBSD core team about why Dillon was thrown out, leading to [2]speculation and [3]worries about the future of the FreeBSD kernel. Does the Slashdot community have any more insight into this situation? Would someone from the FreeBSD team care to elaborate and assuage our worries?" CD Update: Greg Lehey from the core team has infact elaborated in this [4]comment. Links
0.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=71105+0+current/freebsd-chat
1.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=92148+0+current/freebsd-chat
2.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=87295+0+current/freebsd-chat
3.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=95075+0+current/freebsd-chat
4.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=5219480&sid=52722&tid=122
A Sound Server For X
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2137213
An anonymous reader writes "[0]X.org, the organization that governs the
evolution of the X11R6 specifications, has released a sound server for
X, called [1]MAS. According to their site: 'MAS integrates with a
compatible X11 server on your desktop. It processes graphic information
locally, alleviating the need for network transmission of uncompressed
graphical content. Graphic events are easily synchronized with audio
events for professional-quality multimedia and accessibility-enabled
applications.'" The X.org site describes MAS as an "[2]affiliated
technology" rather than "official," but it is released under the same
[3]license. "MAS" stands for "Media Application Server," and it's
developed by [4]Shiman Associates.
Links
0.
http://www.x.org/
1.
http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/
2.
http://www.x.org/X11_technologies.html
3.
http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/licensing.html
4.
http://www.shiman.com/
Shell Simulation Via CGI
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1531246
[0]mischi writes "[1]CGI-Shell simulates a shell using CGI. So
everybody who has a CGI-directory on a web-server, also has its own
shell on it -- comparable with Telnet or SSH. That's really practical,
because most webhosters don't offer a shell (for free) -- but do offer
CGI. With [1]CGI-Shell you can execute commands, copy files or just
explore your webserver. Even a history and auto-completion with
tabulator are included. "
Links
0. mailto:michael@binaervarianz.de
Xbox Losses Double, Xbox Shrinks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2019249
[0]seldo writes "According to ITWorld, losses in the last quarter at
Microsoft's Home and Entertainment segment [1]have doubled. From the
article: 'The segment, which also includes Microsoft's TV platform and
PC games, posted a quarterly operating loss of US$348 million, compared
with $180 million in the same period a year ago.'" An anonymous reader
points to [2]similar coverage at news.com, pointing out that the
company also reports "profits for Office, and one small note about an
undisclosed presumably Japanese company that Microsoft if propping up.
So, the big question on my mind is, who is Microsoft secretly holding
above water, and why? The fact that they are presumably Japanese, seems
to point towards an XBox partner. Could this explain the sudden flood
of Sega exclusive games?" Another anonymous reader writes "Microsoft
[3]will be showing a smaller sized Xbox at E3 this May. In addition to
the smaller size of the hardware, the Xbox Lite will also be integrated
with Media2Go allowing Xbox users to download digital content such as
music and movies. Wonder what this means for all the current Xbox Mod
Chips?"
Links
0.
http://www.gaygeeks.org
1.
http://www.itworld.com/App/4201/030203xboxlosses/
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983083.html?tag=fd_top
3.
http://www.funxbox.com/news.php?newsid=619KDE And Gnome Cooperate On Interface Guidelines http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1758253
An anonymous reader submits "Competing infrastructures may foster
improvement in each desktop, but the [0]Gnome and [1]KDE hackers still
know how to work together when needed. The [2]Free *nix desktop has
been improving quickly. [3]Red Hat's unified desktop was controversial,
but obviously the right decision for regular users. Now that KDE and
Gnome have decided to [4]combine their Human Interface Guides, it can
be done right--by the developers themselves. Note: they also want to
involve 'people working on other non-KDE non-GNOME HIGs.'" Update:
02/03 20:19 GMT by [5]T: Apparently not everyone's browser can read
[6]http://freedesktop.org, so the initial link up there now sports a
"www" as well. And it's .org -- sorry.
Links
0.
http://gnome.org/
1.
http://kde.org/
2.
http://www.freedesktop.org/
3.
http://redhat.com/
4.
http://gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=908&mode=thread&order=0
5.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
6.
http://freedesktop.org
Freshmeat
255 Magic Animating Buttons 5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111656/
255 Magic Animating Buttons is a Java applet providing navigation button menus with mouse-sensitive animation and pulsing effects. Transition effects include classic fades, rainbow fades, folding page effects, ripples and waves, sweeps, and wipes. It is highly user-configurable, and includes loads of parameters to design your own transition effects. For fast download times, attractive and configurable internal graphics are optionally available. Buttons can trigger Javascripts, audio, and simultaneous multiple page loads targeted into different frames. Buttons can be stacked as vertical sidebars, horizontal topbars, or placed in grids.
Advanced Scrolling Text 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111637/
This Advanced Scrolling Text applet reads a text file and displays the contents within a Web page in a scrolling format. It supports many advanced features and is efficiently written.
Advanced Slide Show Software 3.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111641/
Advanced Slide Show Software is a Java applet which can be used for product display, as an advertising tool, as a photo album, or for any other form of presentation. It features a range of changeover effects and multiple link areas within a slide.
AllTasks.net 1.36
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111718/
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.
Apollo CMS 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111585/
Apollo CMS is a content management system written in Python, using PostgreSQL as a backend. It is written in a modular way allowing for new types of content, and new database backends.
Archangel 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111736/
Archangel is a client for the RGTP bulletin board transfer protocol which uses Mozilla as a back end. Eventually, it will be possible to run it both as a standalone application and as an extension to Mozilla's functionality.
Axualize 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111661/
Axualize is a tool for creating applications by actualizing Java objects using XML. Axualize is based on JSR-57, and is intended to allow developers to create Java applications dynamically using XML. To understand how this could be useful, imagine a J2EE application with multiple client UIs being generated from Web applications. Using Axualize, you can present multiple form-based GUI front ends to your application by dropping in a Web application which builds your GUI applications using Axualize XML generated with JSP and whatever application framework you please.
BioCoRE 20020203
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111686/
BioCoRE is a collaborative work environment for biomedical research, research management, and training. It offers scientists (working together or alone) a seamless interface to a broad range of local and remote technologies such as discipline-specific and general tools, data, and visualization solutions. It features powerful yet easy-to-use tools, among them co-authoring papers and other documents, running applications on supercomputers, sharing molecular visualization over the Internet, notifying project team members of recent project changes by email, chatting, keeping a lab book, and other practical features.
BitTorrent++ 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111712/
BitTorrent++ is a client for the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing solution. Based on the original BitTorrent software, it is also written in Python using wxPython for the GUI, thus allowing it to run on Win32 as well as Linux-like platforms. It improves (or will improve) many parts of the original software, like downloading of multiple files at once, configuration of upload and download speeds, as well as other behaviours. The GUI and usability is also to be improved greatly.
bogofilter 0.10.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111683/
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
Cayenne 1.0a6 (Alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111584/
Cayenne is a free object-relational persistence framework written in Java. Its goal is to make development of database Java applications faster and more consistent with the Object Oriented Programming concept. Some of the ideas used in Cayenne have been inspired by the persistence mechanism of NeXT's (and now Apple's) WebObjects application server.
Centipaid phpnuke module 1.3.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111609/
The Centipaid PHPNuke module allows administrators of PHPNuke sites to charge their users nominal fees to access certain sections of their site. It allows for groupings of modules in zones with their own rates and duration, and supports unlimited zones and modules.
Cherokee 0.4.0 Beta 8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111580/
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.
Consultant Communicator 3 Beta 4 (Testing) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111706/
Consultant Communicator (ConsultComm) is a lightweight, cross-platform program that allows anyone managing multiple projects, clients, or tasks to effectively keep track of exactly how much time has been spent on each project.
Crimson Fields 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111618/
Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle. The player decide which units are sent to the front lines, and when to unleash the reserves. Mission objectives range from defending strategically vital locations to simply destroying all enemy forces in the area. Tools are available to create custom maps and campaigns. The original Battle Isle maps can be played if the player has a copy of the game files.
Cyrus IMAP Server 2.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111729/
The Cyrus IMAP server is generally intended to be run on sealed systems, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to Cyrus. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server large advantages in efficiency, scalability, and administratability. Multiple concurrent read/write connections to the same mailbox are permitted. The server supports access control lists on mailboxes and storage quotas on mailbox hierarchies, multiple SASL mechanisms, and the Sieve mail filtering language.
Cyrus SASL 2.1.12 (SASLv2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111715/
The Cyrus SASL library is a generic library for easy integration of secure network authentication to any client or server application. It supports authentication via standard plaintext methods as well as CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 shared secret methods and KERBEROS_V4 and GSSAPI Kerberos methods. The SASL protocol framework is used by SMTP, IMAP, ACAP, LDAP, and other standard protocols.
DC-GUI 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111622/
DC-GUI is a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
DiaCanvas2 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111619/
DiaCanvas2 is a flexible diagramming widget. It is based on GnomeCanvas. It uses its own constraint solver to maintain object relationships. It is Model/View/Controller-based and makes full use of GnomeCanvas' features.
DIBS 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111678/
Since disk drives are cheap, backup should be cheap too. Of course it does not help to mirror your data by adding more disks to your own computer because a fire, flood, power surge, etc. could still wipe out your local data center. Instead, you should give your files to peers (and in return store their files) so that if a catastrophe strikes your area, you can recover data from surviving peers. The Distributed Internet Backup System (DIBS) is designed to implement this vision.
dobackup.pl 4.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111594/
dobackup.pl is a flexible Perl script to handle unattended incremental backups of multiple servers. It handles multiple media sets with automatic media preparation and rotation, configurable 'what-to-backup', global per-host exclusion patterns, and user settable 'don't-back-this-up' metafiles. Its design goal is zero-maintenance, nothing to do except change the media when told.
domainrobot 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111635/
domainrobot is a Webmin module that can be used to order, update, administer, and transfer domains. It can be used with the 1und1, http.net, and provider4you registrars.
DoXFS 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111669/
DoXFS (pron. docs-eff-ess) is a document management system that uses the XFS filesystem to store both content (files) and meta-data (file attributes), bypassing the traditional architecture of filesystem and database, and leveraging the built-in advantages of XFS. Currently, it offers a Web frontend based on PHP and standard management functionality (create, delete, attributes add/delete, etc.) as well as extras such as versioning and Full Text Indexing (using Namazu).
Dwnl 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111668/
Dwnl is a download manager for the console to manage multiple downloads.
Enterprise Gantt 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111724/
Enterprise Gantt is a Gantt chart library, and is becoming a generic charting library to support a variety of charts. The library strongly conforms to the Model View Controller architecture recommended by Sun. A lot of effort has been put into this library, from the design perspective rather than the feature perspective, to make this the most flexible library of its kind.
Examplotron 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111679/
Examplotron is a XML schema language based of examples: instead of using a specific syntax to say that there should be an element "foo" here, you just write the element: "<foo/>".
EzManage 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111600/
Ezmanage provides a simple WWW interface to managing multiple ezmlm mailing lists. It is designed to enable ISPs to provide their clients with easily administrable mailing lists, and to create virtual domains for mailing lists, etc.
FieryFilter 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111597/
FieryFilter is an interactive desktop firewall for Linux. It will ask the user every time a new network connection is made if they want to allow or deny it. In future versions users will be able to generate rules from connections and thus minimize the amount of questions asked.
Fire.app 0.32.b.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111625/
Fire is a multi-protocol instant messenger client that can handle simultaneous connections to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo IM, IRC, MSN, and Jabber.
ftpcopy 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111664/
ftpcopy is a small mirror-like utility to copy files or directory trees with FTP. ftpcopy understands EPLF and traditional listing formats.
FUDforum 2.3.8RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111672/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.
Gambas 0.44 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111582/
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
gGo 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111614/
gGo is a Go board and SGF editor and client for the Internet Go Server. Go is an ancient board game, very common in Japan, China, and Korea. gGo was formerly named qGo for Java.
GneleMixer 3.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111629/
Gnelemixer is yet another OSS mixer. It has a good looking GUI, and supports loading/saving settings.
gnokii 0.5.0pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111716/
gnokii is a Linux/Unix tool suite for Nokia (GSM) mobile phones. It provides a virtual Hayes-AT compatible modem to allow data calls to be made to a modem or ISP as well as providing a phone book, and SMS and ringtone management. Phones supported include recent models such as the 6310, 6510, and 6210, and older phones like the 3110, 3810, 8110, 5110, 6110 and their derivatives.
Gnome Attacks 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111723/
Gnome Attacks is a GNOME 2 game which involves bombing a city into oblivion to leave a flat surface for your falling spaceship to land.
GNOME Clipboard Manager 2.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111703/
GNOME Clipboard Manager (GCM) makes copying and pasting easier and more productive. It will automatically synchronize the mouse selection (the primary selection) with the clipboard (the clipboard selection) and store the contents of the clipboard, making it possible to go back to a previous clipboard. You can save and load clipboards, edit them, and convert them to another format.
GNU nano 1.1.99pre2 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111671/
GNU nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.
GNU xhippo 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111692/
GNU xhippo is a simple GTK-based playlist manager, designed to play music using mpg123, xmp, or most other commandline-based players while providing a friendly, clean X interface. It is localised in both English and German. Its interface is based upon the Amiga program HippoPlayer. It supports drag-and-drop, has optional GNOME support, and has a simple text-based playlist format compatible with many other players.
google search 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111665/
google search gives users the ability to search the Google database with Webmin.
GStreamer 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111627/
GStreamer is a streaming media library and set of tools that enable applications to share a common set of plugins for things like video decoding and encoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio and video filters, audio visualisation, Web streaming and anything else that streams in real-time or otherwise. It is modelled after research software worked on at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
GTagger 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111707/
GTagger is an ID3 tag editor designed for easy and efficient usage. Features include directory listing, viewing and editing ID3 tags, converting ID3 tags into several versions, filename suggestions appropriated from tag information, live filename suggestion alteration while editing the ID3 tag, the ability to rename and delete files, and short cuts for every function.
GTK+ Dictionary 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111628/
GTK+ dictionary is a frontend to dictionaries stored in a MySQL server.
GTKsubtitler 0.2.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111657/
GTKsubtitler is a tool for editing and converting subtitles for DivX films. It allows you to move subtitles, change their format, convert them to ISO-8859-1/2, and merge two sets of subtitles.
Gubby 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111697/
Gubby is a small program that continually shows where Procmail has placed new email. It runs both in commandline and in an ncurses environment with colors, and will update the overview in real time, while using very low resources. Users can launch a specified mailreader by selecting a folder and pressing enter.
Hawaii Aglet Server 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111640/
Hawaii Aglet Server is an aglet server and viewer with an attractive and intuitive user interface built with Swing. Hawaii features easy installation, a logging facility, a browser for aglet classes, and sound support for events. Hawaii is intended to be a complete platform for deploying and managing aglets, designed for normal users, administrators, and developers. It includes support for managing and viewing the runtime, contexts, and aglets in a very easy-to-use graphical interface.
HelpViewer.app 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111654/
HelpViewer is an online help viewer for GNUstep applications. It uses XML files, and its goal is to be fast and easy to use.
Hspell 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111581/
Hspell is a Hebrew linguistic project. It features a Hebrew spell-checker, and aims to use the databases and algorithms developed as a morphology engine (for example, for search engines), and in the future for advanced things like Hebrew speech synthesis.
IDX-DocBook2LaTeX 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111638/
IDX-DocBook2LaTeX is a stylesheet which translates DocBook documents into LaTeX. It is written in Perl, using the XML::XPathScript package from AxKit. It features the ability to handle tables, indices, figures, footnotes, and more. The XSLT-like templating philosophy built into XPathScript makes it easy to extend.
IDX-PKI 1.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111681/
IDX-PKI is an Open Source implementation of a Public Key Infrastructure which aims to be IETF-compliant for PKIX recommandations.
iGal 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111726/
iGal is a Perl program for making online image galleries (static HTML slides, index page, and thumbnails) quickly and easily, "out of the box". The output is highly customizable, but it generates a pretty good-looking set of slides even with its default settings. It supports JPG, PNG, and GIF, image captions, JavaScript image preloading, and doesn't rely on non-standard packages for image processing.
Independent Coffeeshop Access Manager 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111631/
Independent Coffeeshop Access Manager (ICAM) provides a Web interface to the NoCatAuth Internet access system. It supports account activation, timeouts, and password management, and is perfect for use in both wired and wireless access scenarios.
Jaffer 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111693/
Jaffer is a Java implementation of an Appletalk File Server over TCP. Jaffer is only concerned with the latest AFP specifications and supporting OS X and OS 9 clients. It is mainly focused on a tight, clean, fast codebase that is very portable and embeddable.
jBASE multi dimensional database system 3.4.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/111639/
jBASE is an Application Development and Database Independent Management System that enhances and extends the UNIX, Windows NT and Windows '95 Operating Systems. jBASE also facilitates easy migration, and therefore to those Operating Systems, from other DBMS's, including Pick and Reality. jBASE consists of run-time, development and administrative components and is designed with Open Systems and Open Software in mind. jBASE allows the most flexible overall computing environment possible by allowing multiple Operating Systems and multiple Databases to interact together in one overall heterogeneous solution.
JSX2 0.1.4 (Object Export)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111630/
In one line, JSX2 externalizes object data as XML, so it can be distributed, stored, and processed independently of the code that created it. In another line, that data can be deserialized back into objects. JSX uses the JOS API, and so works for all objects, complex object graphs, dynamically adjusts to recompiled classes, and enables classes to customize their serial form for evolution. The XML format for JSX2 is much easier to process than that of JSX.
Kalyp 0.3-alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111620/
Kalyp is a fantasy-based roguelike game written in Java. Its design is based on traditions set by popular roguelike games, especially Nethack. It is single player and runs in a text terminal. The project focuses mostly on the Artificial Intelligence engine for the non-player characters. Most of the game design will be done in scripting, as the core engine written in Java will handle user interface, rulesets, basic actions, and try to hold it all together.
kbarcode 1.1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111673/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
Leafnode 2.0.0.alpha20030203a (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/111599/
Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up.
Leafnode 1.9.33.rel
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111598/
Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up.
libdvdcss 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111658/
libdvdcss is a cross-platform library for transparent DVD device access with on-the-fly CSS decryption. It currently runs under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, BeOS, Win95/Win98, Win2k/WinXP, MacOS X, HP-UX, QNX, and OS/2. It is used by libdvdread and most DVD players such as VLC because of its portability and because, unlike similar libraries, it does not require your DVD drive to be region locked.
libdvdplay 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111660/
libdvdplay is a cross-platform layer over libdvdread that provides low-level functions for DVD reading and seeking, as well as access to the DVD data (subtitles, languages, chapters). It also provides the virtual machine required for DVD navigation to the client application.
libGenome 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111626/
libGenome is a development libra