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[osdn developer] February 08, 2003
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 04:15:50 EST
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February 08, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
JFreeChart 0.9.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250290
JFreeChart version 0.9.5 has been posted. This release contains the much-requested dual axis charts, plus a host of other changes. JFreeChart is a class library, written in Java, for generating charts. Utilising the Java2D APIs, it currently supports bar charts, pie charts, line charts, XY-plots and time series plots.
POPFile v0.18.0 Windows and Cross Platform Release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250488
It has been close to 2 months since the last POPFile release and boy
have I and others been busy. POPFile v0.18.0 is a *major* change from
v0.17.9 and you'd do well to read the section entitled ESSENTIAL
READING before you install it. POPFile is an email classification tool
with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It
runs on most platforms and with most email clients. This version is
backwards compatible with previous versions (even autofixing some
errors that the old versions created) but there are some differences.
This is also the first release in which two additional developers
(additional to me that is) really contributed a lot of code to POPFile.
They are Stanley Krute and Sam Schinke. Stan and Sam worked on many of
the changes to POPFile (which you can read all about in the CVS logs)
including massive changes to the mail parser, whole new skinning
system, HTML 4.01 compliance, tons of testing, lots of user interface
changes. Guys, *you* made a big difference to POPFile, and I want to
say a big "Thank you" in public. This version of POPFile supports
unlimited numbers of connections, multiple natural languages, has a
much improved UI, has many improvements to help catch spam, has a new
Quarantine feature that lets POPFile automatically hide all the mail in
a specific bucket (each mail is replaced with a new mail stating that
POPFile quarantined a message with an option to see the original), and
incorporates features and bug fixes submitted by users. ESSENTIAL
READING 1. BACK UP YOUR OLD INSTALLATION: POPFile makes this really
easy, just copy the entire POPFile directory somewhere. You can then
safely install POPFile v0.18.0 on top of your current installation; I
just think a back up is a sensible precaution. 2. YOUR HISTORY WILL
CLEAR: I have changed the format of the History files used in this
version which means that the old History files will not be read by
POPFile and will in fact be deleted to save disk space. If you need to
do any reclassifications prior to installing v0.18.0 do them! POPFile
does NOT clear buckets, statistics or anything else on install of this
version, just the History files. To refresh the History view click the
History tab at any time; POPFile will check disk for new messages. 3.
IF YOU HAD BROKEN MAGNETS: I have added automatic update of broken
magnets. If you had a magnet like [foo] which POPFile mistakenly
changed to \[foo\] it should get magically fixed and start working. 4.
ACCURACY MIGHT DROP FOR A SHORT WHILE: because of some changes made in
the mail parser it is possible that you might see accuracy drop
initially and you may find yourself reclassifying a few messages that
used to work. This is unfortunate but necessary to make POPFile even
more accurate than before and v0.18.0 incorporates changes that make
POPFile's classification accuracy better; however old corpuses might
need a little retraining. DOWNLOADING You can obtain the latest release
of POPFile by visiting
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63137 UPGRADING
Just install POPFile on top of the currently installed version. But did
you read the ESSENTIAL READING above first? FAQ zonk3r has spent a
great deal of time on a POPFile FAQ. Please check it out as it covers
many questions that you might have:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14421&group_id=6313
7 THE GORY DETAILS 1. Total rearchitecture of the POPFile code into a
collection of loadable modules to allow for future expansion of POPFile
with different proxy services and different UIs. The major modules are
now: - popfile.pl: controlling process that loads the modules that
implement POPFile's main functionality; - Proxy::POP3 the original POP3
proxying code from POPFile separated into its own module. In future we
should expect to be able to have other Proxy:: modules such as
Proxy::IMAP. - UI::HTML contains the current HTML user interface. I
hope that we'll add other UI modules such as UI::XMLRPC or UI::SOAP in
future. - Classifier::Bayes is the module that does the Naive Bayes
classification. (Note this module also includes a method called
classify_and_modify that performs the classification and modification
of email messages that may be of use to other module writers) POPFile
now supports two process types: the top level process round robins
between the main modules listed above providing concurrent access to
the UI and POP3 proxy. The POP3 proxy itself (see below) forks to
provide multiple simultaneous connections. (That last part was
originally requested by sschinke) 2. Introduction of a scheme for
localization of the user interface using message catalogs stored in the
languages/ subfolder. Currently shipping with languages: English,
French, German, Danish, Dutch, Brazilian, and (for fun and for testing)
H4X0R. Translators can take the English.msg file and translate the
strings within to create their own language for the user interface.
POPFile detects available languages on start up and they are available
from the Configuration page. (Originally requested by pfaelzerchen) 3.
Rework of much of the user interface to make pages shorter and clearer.
This is mostly limited to look and feel and no items have changed tab
in the UI. 4. Total rewrite of the history caching code for clarity
with a change from multiple arrays to a single hash containing all the
cached information. 5. Automatic update checking now defaults to off
and there's a large explanation of what it does in the user interface
to allay the fears of many people concerning the possibility that
programs like POPFile are spying on them. (Requested by quite a few
people) 6. When creating the user interface password the password is
now hidden when typing it. (Requested by kraelen, pfaelzerchen) 7. The
Proxy::POP3 now forks after a new connection is accepted from a valid
client and calls a special child() method that handles the connection
between a client and mail server via POPFile for the life of the client
connection. This is the beginning of a version of POPFile that supports
a very large number of clients. (Requested by many people) 8. A new
command line parameter -test_language can be set to 1 for UI
translators. The UI will show the language identifiers used for each
element rather than the strings associated with the identifier. 9.
Rework of the History page to take into account ideas and suggestions
from many people: Search now operates on From and Subject, From and
Subject have popup windows to show the full text of each, you can sort
by ID, From, Subject or Classification, you can filter by magnet
classified mail, navigation is at the top and the bottom, state is
remembered so that you can sort/filter and remove pages and reclassify
and stay in the same place, many small improvements. 10. Major work on
the MailParse.pm for dealing with improved mail parsing and the
handling of spammers tricks (like S P A C E D out words etc.). Switch
to using the Base64 and QuotedPrint modules from CPAN for improved mail
cracking. (Work done mainly by sschinke) 11. Automated test suite now
part of POPFile. (Suggested by aziegler) 12. Rework of all the HTML and
CSS so that everything can be skinned and so that the complete UI is
HTML 4.01 compliant. (Work done mainly by stanley_krute; there was a
request from nobody for this) 13. You can now filter the History page
by magnet filtered mails to look at them or delete them. (Requested by
jarmstro, tcdk, msc_buff, fitzsimons, dyoungmcwicom) 14. The UI
password no longer appears in URLs in plain text (requested by gribnif)
- You can do multiple classifications at a time by selecting multiple
messages and changing the drop down and hitting any Reclassify button.
(Requested by dave823; implemented by sschinke) 16. You can now sort
the History page by message ID, From, Subject and Classification
(bucket). (Requested by jerometremblay, tomvoss, biobear) 17. When you
remove a page the History no longer goes back to the start but stays at the same place in the History if it can. (Requested by ajweiner) 18. After you reclassify a message the History page stays at the same position (at the reclassified message). (Requested by harleythebrave, transit) 19. The installer now picks up old settings from a current POPFile install to fill in the options on the final dialog. (Requested by harleythebrave) 20. Added two new options -logdir and -msgdir to specify the location of the log directory (default to ./) and the messages (where the history is stored; defaults to messages/).
(Requested by nobody) 21. Search in History now works on From as well
as Subject. (Requested by transit) 22. The navigation from page to page in the History is now at the top and at the bottom of the page.
(Requested by transit, nobody, nobody, nobody) 23. There are new
[Remove] buttons on each message in the History to let you remove messages one by one. (Requested by nobody) 24. The X-POPFile-Link: repositions the History page at the message selected when you click the link. (Requested by zonk3r) 25. There is a new filter for unclassified messages. (Requested by nobody) 26. New -toptoo command line option enables classification on the POP3 TOP command and is only recommended for people on fast connections. (Requested by jberkes) 27. When viewing a colorized message there is a blank line between the header and the body of the message. (Requested by whiteg) 28. Message IDs (and History filenames) are now globally unique per POPFile install. (Requested by helphand) 29. You can now control the inclusion of the X-Text-Classification and X- POPFile-Link headers. (Requested by nobody) 30. Refreshing a page does not repeat the action any more.
(Reported by nobody) 31. Fixed a bug where magnets with certain
characters in them (e.g. [ or <) did not work and could not be deleted.
(Reported by nobody, nobody, nobody, alanmuk, boneill, bana-sea-) 32.
Fixed a bug where you could make POPFile exit with a divide by zero error if you started it with no corpus and then tried to Lookup a word's probability. (Reported by sunshine, gribnif) 33. Fixed a bug where the Shutdown link on the POPFile Control Center did not work if the UI password had been set. (Reported by actoews, nobody) 34. Fixed an embarassing bug where any POP server that contained the word 'stat' would not work with POPFile. (Reported by nobody, markabcxyz) 35. Fixed a bug where To magnets did not work correctly in the presence of other To style email headers. (Reported by dyoungmcwicom) 36. Fixed a bug where a specific email was causing the History page to lock up when you tried to view the colorized version. (Reported by ajweiner) 37. Fixed a bug where having pages in POPFile automatically refresh every ten minutes could cause POPFile to repeat an action (such as Reclassification) every 10 minutes. (Reported by mayfoev) 38. Fixed a bug where parts of a > attribute could appear in the From or Subject lines on the History (Reported and fixed by sschinke) 39. Fixed a bug where some CLS and MSG files were not getting deleted from the History when they were no longer needed. (Reported by helphand) TRANSLATIONS Thanks to the following for helping to make POPFile a global piece of software: Brazilian Adriano RG Danish Nicki Brøchner Nielsen Dutch Jilles Oldenbeuving French Antony Boucher German Matthias Deege Norweigian Jo Inge Fjellstad Russian Alexander Saltanov Please translate the UI and the manual into your language. DONATIONS Thank you to everyone who as clicked the Feed Me! button and donated their hard earned cash to me in support of POPFile. Thank you also to the people who have contributed patches, feature requests and bug reports. Keep the ideas and bug reports coming. John.
samba-vscan 0.3.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250483
The new release offers some performance improvements, a basic ICAP client to re-enable Symantec support, some fixes for F-Prot daemon and updates for mks. samba-vscan is a proof-of-concept module for Samba, which uses the VFS (virtual file system) features of Samba 2.2.x/3.0 alphaX to provide on-access virus scanning. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients
HP Inkjet Linux Driver 1.3.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250494
The Hewlett-Packard Co. Linux Inkjet Driver Project is a add-on to the GNU Ghostscript application. This driver is based on the Hewlett Packard Appliance APDK for deskjet printers. This HP Inkjet Linux Driver (HPIJS) release includes support for custom paper sizes, and a number of bug fixes. The complete list of changes in this release include: 1. Added data compression to DJ3320. 2. Changed the default black pen vertical alignment value for the DJ3320. 3. Added support for custom paper size. 4. Removed 3425-COVER paper size, this is now a custom paper size. 5. Added Printable Area documentation. 6. Fixed a Officejet hang problem (ie: Officejet 500/600/700 and PSC 300). The Officejet would hang after printing a job. See hpinkjet.sourceforge.net and the hpijs_readme.html file for more information.
PKS 0.9.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250516
PKS is an OpenPGP Public Key Server. It allows users to store and lookup public keys from the server's database. It can also synchronize with other servers. This release is intended to be a solid, stable bugfix and feature upgrade to 0.9.5. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to announce that PKS 0.9.6 has been released! The file can be downloaded from the SourceForge Download Area for the "pks" project. (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61738) 19427b543972c23fbc1c167d5408d3a9 *pks-0.9.6.tar.gz I just uploaded the tarball to SourceForge, so don't be surprised if it isn't available on SF mirrors yet. See the release notes (NEWS file) and ChangeLog for more information on the changes since 0.9.5. BE SURE TO READ THE UPGRADING FILE! IMPORTANT NOTES FOR INSTALLATION: * READ THE UPGRADING FILE! The database format has changed slightly, and backwards compatibility is NOT the default. * If you want to be able to add keys via HTTP, make sure to uncomment this line in your pksd.conf: www_readonly 0 * If you want to be able to download keys, make sure to uncomment max_reply_keys. Also, you'll probably want to change this from -1 (unlimited) to a more sane value. * BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD): PKS should work on these platforms. However, no current ports of PKS exist. (FreeBSD's and NetBSD's ports of pks-0.9.4 should NOT be used for security reasons.) * Debian Linux users: The Debian package should catch up to pks-0.9.6 very shortly. * RedHat Linux users: Running "rpm -ta pks-0.9.6.tar.gz" should build you the required RPMs. This release is intended to be a solid, stable bugfix and feature upgrade to 0.9.5. Bug reports and patches are always welcome. Richard Laager rlaager@bigfoot.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBPkNB3W31OrleHxvOEQKRjQCfQ1N+lOFlMqc+nGZ1eytf9Lm6Io4AniF6 dSOVAHBfdWGWCIF/+mNp6uD0 =wgmA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
libxml2-pas-2.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249975
libxml2-pas is pascal bindings for the libxml2 library from GNOME
project, a high-performance XML parser supporting also several related
technologies, like XML-Include, X-Path, XML Schema etc. libxslt-pas is
pascal binding for the libxslt library from GNOME project. It
implements a standard XSLT processor compliant to the W3C XSLT
standards. Also, the implementation supports standard XSLT extensions -
exslt. This part is now also translated and included in the
distribution. New versions of header translations is out. This package
contains translations of: libxml2-2.5.2 libxslt-1.0.24 libexslt-0.7.15
For more info, look at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas
http://xmlsoft.org Besides that, do not hesitate to post your feedback
or questions to our mailing list:
libxml2-pas-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
QuantLib 0.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249594
Version 0.3.1 of QuantLib and QuantLib-docs have been released. QuantLib is a quantitative finance C++ library for modeling, pricing, trading, and risk management in real-life. A tool for derivatives and financial engineering. SWIG generated wrappers are also released in their 0.3.1 versions: QuantLib-Guile and QuantLib-MzScheme are included for the first time, joining the existing wrappers QuantLib-Python and QuantLib-Ruby. Another new package is the first official QuantLib.NET release. This is a port of the original QuantLib (C++) to the .NET Framework. The port has been done in C#, providing full compatibilty with the CLI. QuantLib.NET can also use existing native libraries (eg. BLAS, MKL, ATLAS) to speed up computation and random number generation. Debian packages of QuantLib, QuantLib-docs and some wrappers will be available shortly. Feedback welcome ciao -- Nando
DrJava stable release (20030203)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249913
A new stable release of DrJava is now available, providing key bug fixes for the Interactions Pane. DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. It is primarily intended for students, but it has features useful even for advanced users. This release includes several bug fixes to the RMI code that allows the main portion of DrJava to communicate with the Interactions Pane. These fixes should resolve the recent problems users have experienced with resetting the Interactions Pane. For more detailed information, please see the Release Notes.
Crystal Space 0.96r002 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=249604
A new release of Crystal Space is now available. The 0.96r002 release fixes a few bugs and also adds a major optimization in the OpenGL renderer (some levels go more than twice as fast now). Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL or software and features curved surfaces, volumetric fog, dynamic colored lighting, terrain engine, LOD, procedural textures, portals, etc.
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.
Slashdot
Benford on Space Exploration
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2131241
gid-goo writes "Gregory Benford [0] looks at what we should do in the
aftermath of the Columbia accident. Is the shuttle, or the
International Space Station for that matter, useful? Or just payola to
aerospace interests and a means for keeping Russian rocket scientists
employed?" Benford's comments about the necessity of a closed biosphere
and of some way for astronauts to stop muscle and bone loss are far
more insightful than the usual discussions about where our space
exploration priorities should lie.
Links
0. http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001554.html
Priest Brews in Washing Machine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1726219
An anonymous writer sends in this story about a priest who has made a
[0]brewery out of his washing machine. See [1]his website for recipes
and pictures.
Links
0. http://realbeer.com/news/articles/news-001834.php
Do-Not-Email Registries?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2129206
prgrmr writes "Wired has an article about Colorodo and Missouri's
latest [0]legislative proposals to deal with spam and with spammers.
There appears to be actual consumer-protective teeth in these bills
which mirror the telephone 'do not call' lists. A nice example of a
government perpetuating a working concept instead of trying inventing
new ways to break things."
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57585,00.html
Japan Subsidizes Linux Development, Considers Switch http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2125218
TheAB writes "Japan is [0]betting 50 million yen ($450k US) that the
next-generation of high-tech products and computer networks will rely
on open-source software. The money is to develop an 'operating system
for consumer electronics goods'."
Links
0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030205/ap_wo_en_bu/as_tec_japan_linux_1
Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225224
[0]Jonathan Riddell writes "`It would appear that [1]Castle Technology Limited, UK, have taken some of the Linux 2.5 code, and incorporated it into their own product, "RISC OS", which is distributed in binary ROM form built into machines they sell. This code is linked with other proprietary code.' Full details from [2]Russell King on lkml." Links
0.
http://jriddell.org/
1.
http://www.castle.uk.co/castle/front.htm
2.
http://lkml.org/archive/2003/2/7/55/index.htmlCommand-Line Crypto From Phil Zimmermann, Again http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/1936221
A few months ago, PGP creator Phil [0]Zimmermann became a reseller for
the [1]current graphical version of the software he originally spawned,
produced by PGP Corporation. Now, Zimmermann has just started selling
through [2]his own website a modern command-line encryption product
called [3]FileCrypt, which has its roots in an older version of PGP.
Confusingly enough, this software is produced by a company called
([4]Veridis), and doesn't say PGP on the box, because legally it can't.
Network Associates, which acquired PGP Inc. in 1997, still holds the
rights to that name; when NAI spun off PGP to PGP Corporation in 2002,
they held onto the command-line version. PGP Corporation, for whom
Zimmermann serves as a technical advisor (as well as a reseller), is
contractually unable to sell a command-line version. (He is on the
board of Veridis as well.) But why introduce a text-only version of
utility software, anyway, when the GUI-fied desktop version has been
maturing for years and costs less? Update: 02/07 23:07 GMT by [5]T:
Here are three instant clarifications: PGP Corporation was misrendered
as "Open PGP" in this paragraph; Veridis' command line product was
inspired by PGP but independently created; its codebase is separate
from NAI's version of PGP; and the rights holder to the PGP name is PGP
Corporation, not NAI.
Links
0.
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/1850209&tid=99
1.
http://www.pgp.com/display.php?pageID=2
2.
http://www.philzimmermann.com/sales.shtml
3.
http://www.veridis.com/openpgp/en/index.asp
4.
http://www.veridis.com
5.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1849243
[0]wilko11 writes "There have been two cases recently where websites have requested the removal of modules from CPAN. These modules could be used to access the websites ([1]EuroTV and [2]Streetmap) from a PERL program. The question being asked on the mailinglists (threads [3]about EuroTV and [4]about Streetmap) is 'can companies dictate what software you can use to access web content from their server?'" Links
0.
http://www.wilko.com
1.
http://www.eurotv.com/
2.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
3.
http://www.mail-archive.com/advocacy%40perl.org/msg01755.html
4.
http://penderel.state51.co.uk/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20030203/016588.html
Gamers, Upgrade your Systems
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1736207
jbischof writes "Looking to upgrade your aging PC? [0]Ace's Hardware has a new [1]upgrade guide tailored specifically to gamers. The data shows exactly which upgrades - processor, motherboard, gfx card, or combination of the three - will give the best performance boost on all the latest and most popular games (according to their recent [2]poll)." Links
0.
http://www.aceshardware.com/
1.
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000356
2.
http://www.aceshardware.com/polls/results.jsp?poll=3Negative Effects of Workplace Net Monitoring http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1719255
Masem writes "Business2.com [0]reports that while many corporations
have monitoring tools and restrictions on Internet usages for non-work
related activities, these can have negative effects on the productivity
of the workplace. The report notes that people have to take days off
from work to deal with personal business that could have been done in a
few minutes or hours from a work net connection, and that employee
morale is generally down when net controls are in place." A related
study suggests [1]employees spend more time doing work from home than
playing at work.
Links
0. http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,46179,00.html
Demand More From Your Copper
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1717239
[0]D3 wrote in with a submission about [1]fiber to the home, or the
lack of it, and the reasons behind this, and ways to work around the
Bells to provide high-speed access despite them. A pretty decent
article, which actually goes beyond the Baby Bell PR-speak that
deregulation is the solution to everything. Maybe at some point state
and Federal regulators will realize that the Bells are the problem, not
the solution.
Links
0. mailto:dhenning@speakeaHORSEsy.net minus herbivore
Freshmeat
AccWhizz 0.0.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112241/
AccWhizz is a multilingual accounting application for small business companies and accounting offices. It is modular, written in PHP 4.x, and operates on top of PHP GroupWare. It runs as a Web application with Apache and phpgroupware serving as a middle layer. Internal data is managed by PostgreSQL/MySQL databases. The SQL server can either be local or remote.
Apache File Manager 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112234/
The Apache::FileManager module is a simple HTML file manager. It provides file manipulations such as cut, copy, paste, delete, rename, extract archive, create directory, create file, edit file, and upload files. It also has the ability to rsync the server htdocs tree to another server with the click of a button.
apcupsd 3.10.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112224/
apcupsd provides UPS power management under Linux and BSD systems for APC Products, including most BackUPS series models (including USB), SmartUPS V/S, SmartUPS(NET/RM), and Matrix series.
apcupsd 3.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112220/
apcupsd provides UPS power management under Linux and BSD systems for APC Products, including most BackUPS series models (including USB), SmartUPS V/S, SmartUPS(NET/RM), and Matrix series.
APSR 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112202/
APSR is a network testing tool designed to send and receive arbitrary network packets. Its main purposes are firewall, security, routing, and a lot of other tests. It can also be used to analyze your network. The project is split into three main programs: apsend to create and send packets, aprecv to dump the network traffic, and the apsrlib which provides the appropriate low-level functions. A very wide range of protocols are supported by the aprecv program. The application layer is implemented through modules using a simple API. Modules can be written in Perl, Ruby, C, or PCL (a special-purpose packet construction language).
Ariadne 2.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112188/
Ariadne is a multi-language Web Application Server and Content Management System built with PHP. It has a rich user interface which includes wizards, pulldown menus, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Data is stored in a structured object store and can be accessed via filesystem-like calls (ls, find, get). It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MSSQL.
avidemux 0.9pre32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112230/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit AVI. It allows you to multiplex and demultiplex audio to/from video. It is able to cut video, import BMP, MJPEG, and MPEG video, and encode them. You can also process video with included filters. It requires divx4linux and GTK/GDK.
blib 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112192/
blib is a library full of useful things to hack the Blinkenlights. If you need to read the various formats for Blinkenlights movies, want to implement the network protocol, or aim to develop a viewer/editor or simulator for the Blinkenlights, this is what you need.
Chipcard::CTAPI 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112172/
Chipcard::CTAPI is a Perl module for accessing chipcard terminals based on the standardized CTAPI library. It provides not only the CTAPI functions but also a complete set of convenience methods for easy reading and writing of memory cards. Chipcard::CTAPI comes with a couple of demo applications, including a tool to create encrypted file systems with randomly-created passwords which are then stored on a memory card.
DB Web Admin Build 04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112209/
DB Web Admin provides simple access to an Oracle database and
(optionally) Oracle applications through the Web using PL/SQL. It shows
existing users, processes, and system locks, and also allows users to
kill sessions and execute SQL queries.
db-backed 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112195/
db-backed is a Ruby library providing a convenient mechanism for describing objects bound to a backing database. This relieves the programmer from much of the tedium associated with writing programs with DB access. Instead of spending a lot of time working on code that reads data from the database, code that stuffs it into useable objects, remembering whether a particular piece of data lives in the database or not, etc., db-backed allows the programmer to simply design their database schema (with a few constraints), and write a very simple class definition which describes the mapping between database fields, class methods, and foreign key mappings.
Debt Minder 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112187/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files
DjVuLibre 3.5.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112225/
DjVu is a Web-centric format and software platform for distributing documents and images. DjVu content downloads and displays faster than competing formats. DjVu images can be smoothly zoomed and panned. DjVuLibre is an open source implementation of DjVu, including viewers, browser plugins, decoders, simple encoders, and utilities.
Dustismo 1.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112248/
Dustismo contains a standard sans-serif TrueType and a serifed Roman TrueType font good for most applications. It contains most common glyphs (about 360 for the sans-serif and 470 for the Roman). The sans-serif font has associated italics, bold, and bold italics.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112201/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
evolvotron 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112157/
Evolvotron is an interactive "generative art" application to evolve images/textures/patterns through an iterative process of random mutation and user-selection driven evolution. If you like lava lamps, and never got tired of the Mandelbrot set, this could be the software for you. It's implemented using Qt, and is multithreaded.
EzSDK 4.0 (EzPageBuilder)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112175/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
EzSDK 4.0 (EzCalendar)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112148/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
File access statistics 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112186/
File access statistics is a Perl script that can check the last access time of your files. The script sorts the files in packages (packages by file type). In a Debian Linux system it can sort the packages using the Debian PacKaGe (DPKG) groups. The main usage of this script is to detect which Debian packages are not used for a long time, so they can be removed from the system.
Firewall Builder 1.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112149/
Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely independent, and support for a new firewall platform can be added to the GUI without any changes to the program (only a new policy compiler is needed). This provides for a consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, and OpenBSD pf.
Football Manager 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112223/
Football Manager is a rewrite from scratch of Kevin Toms' famous Sinclair Spectrum Football Management game. It uses the SDL library for graphics and sound. Graphics are quite simple, being based on the original. Football Manager is not the most complicated or prettiest game in the world, but it is one of the most fun.
Forest Web Application Builder 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112226/
Forest is a Web-based IDE for Web applications. It's in the alpha stage, but you can use it to create your XML files already. For now, it has four frames: the "Add Component" frame which allows you to add a new component to your page, the "Object Inspector" which allows you to add/edit properties and delete components, the "Preview" which will show how your XML is looking, and the "Component Tree" frame that show the hierarchy of components in your page.
fpted 4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112178/
fpted is a very small and fast text editor. It has many features and a rich keyboard command-set including automatic word completion, auto-indent, search and replace, regular expressions, parenthesis matching, macros and interactive key definitions, mouse support, the ability to pipe to external commands, horizontal scroll, online help, multiple files, etc.
Gauche 0.6.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112173/
Gauche is an R5RS Scheme implementation that aims to be a handy tool for daily work. Quick startup, a built-in system interface, and native multilingual support are some of its goals. It has an OO system similar to STklos and Guile. It supports UTF-8, EUC-JP, and Shift-JIS multibyte encodings natively.
GImageView 0.2.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112251/
GImageView is a GTK+ based image viewer. It supports tabbed browsing, thumbnail table views, directory tree views, drag and drop, reading the thumbnail cache of other famous image viewers, and a flexible user interface. It also support movies using the Xine library.
GKrellM Timers 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112184/
GKrellM Timers is a plugin for GKrellM that lets you define timers and stopwatches. It supports visual alarms, popups, and alarm commands for multiple timers and stopwatches.
glitch killer 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112162/
glitch killer solves the problem of protected CD rips sometimes having scratchy noises by analysing the recorded .wav file and removing all "clicks".
Glubs 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112194/
Glubs is a clubbing system similar to Yahoo! or MSN Groups. Users browse through a category-hierarchy and create clubs to share news, files, pics, links and a calendar with friends. Some of the core features are multi-language and -timezone support, and custom HTML templates/skins.
Gnofract 4D 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112203/
Gnofract 4D is a Gnome-based program to draw fractals. What sets it apart from other fractal programs (and makes it "4D") is the way that it treats the Mandelbrot and Julia sets as different views of the same four-dimensional fractal object. It can draw a variety of fractal types, including Barnsley, Newton, Mandelbar, Nova and Burning Ship fractals, using numerous coloring and bailout function options.
GNU texinfo 4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112232/
"Texinfo" is a documentation system that uses a single source to produce both on-line information (info, HTML, XML, Docbook) and printed output (DVI, PDF).
GTetrinet 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112257/
GTetrinet is a clone of the popular Windows game Tetrinet. It is written for Gtk/GNOME, and is designed to be fully compatible with the original Tetrinet, as well as being identical in gameplay.
GTKWave 2.0.0pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112213/
GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ v1.2 based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which can view industry standard VCD/EVCD files as well as Synopsys (EPIC) TimeMill and LXT format files.
gzip Recovery Toolkit 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112206/
The gzip Recovery Toolkit attempts to automate the recovery of data from corrupted gzip files through a program called gzrecover and from corrupted tar files through a new --recover option to GNU tar. This package is very experimental at this point.
Hird Of PHP Parts 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112032/
HOPP is a function-oriented, programmer-friendly PHP library. It provides libraries for a custom static cache, WYSIWYG editable templates, database abstraction, authentication, calendar-based directory navigation, common MIME types, custom debug and error logging, and featureful and abuse-resistant poll generation.
HPC Cluster autosetup scripts 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112179/
These are multiple scripts to setup HPC cluster server and client nodes. They are used in the CLIC distribution.
Ice Sound Manager 0.2beta-2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112160/
Ice Sound Manager was designed to ease the management of sound events, sound themes, and the IceSound server in the IceWM window manager. It is also intended to be an improvement upon the noble but primitive icesndcfg. The main improvements over icesndcfg include a support for sound event "themes", more comprehensive help, easy management and configuration of the IceSound server, a cleaner GUI interface, automatic starting of the IceSound server, and a more conservative approach to disk space usage.
IcePref2 2.0-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112165/
IcePref2 is an updated, overhauled, improved, and perfected version of the original IcePref (which was abandoned by the original author). This new version includes many new features and bugfixes, and is a sub-project of the IceWM Control Panel project. It is optimized for IceWM 1.2.2 and better.
IceWM Control Panel 0.1beta-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112168/
IceWM Control Panel is the first full-featured, GTK-based control panel for IceWM. It features such tools as Ice Sound Manager (for managing IceWM sound events), IcePref2, a wallpaper manager, and many other tools bundled into a familiar Windows-like Control Panel interface.
IDMS Database Mail Agent 0.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112150/
IDMS Database Mail Agent is an effort to develop a highly-scalable, plugin-based, database-driven mail agent, hopefully replacing the commercial ones used by large ISPs today. It is cluster-friendly and easily configurable. Web-based frontend support is available.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112247/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple
(external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading,
synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, upload limits
(experimental), VPNs, ToS, denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list
IP, log options and more. It is able start and shut down the firewall
without deleting your other iptables rules (optional). The
configuration of the firewall is assisted by a optional, interactive,
curses-based Perl script.
JDiskReport 1.1 Pre (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112191/
JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders. The tool analyses your disk drives and collects several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details tables.
JDiskReport 1.0.7 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112189/
JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders. The tool analyses your disk drives and collects several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details tables.
KickPIM 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112256/
KickPIM is an applet for KDE's Kicker panel which displays your KAddressbook entries in a popup menu. You can view and edit address data and send email messages very easily. It will also remind you about birthdays.
Lesstif 0.93.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112166/
LessTif is an LGPL'd implemention of the OSF/Motif standard GUI toolkit for X11. LessTif aims to be source compatible with the OSF/Motif versions 1.2 and 2.1. Currently 1.2 support is almost complete and most Motif 1.2 apps should compile and run out of the box, whilst 2.1 still has very little functionality.
LJChk 0.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112153/
LJChk is a script for working with livejournal servers via the XMLRPC over HTTP protocol. Functions include continous checking for friends' updates, monitoring changes in a friends list, posting both in your own journal and in community journals, with the ability to use all the options available through the livejournal Web interface, and auto-posting quote lists with references to other users' posts.
LyX 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112154/
LyX is an advanced document processor for Unix. It encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance, allowing you to concentrate on writing rather than visual layout. It automates formatting according to predefined rule sets, yielding consistency throughout even the most complex documents.
Mesh Viewer 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112170/
The Mesh Viewer is an easy to use lightweight application to display
triangular meshes from a variety of file formats. It uses the OpenGL
API to render the models. Triangular meshes can be displayed texture
mapped (optional with bilinear filtering), solid, or as a skeleton
(full or just the front lines). The surface normals of the triangles
can optionally be displayed. Loaded models can be rotated, translated,
and scaled (all done with the mouse). The model is lighted by multiple
light sources. Viewpoints can be saved. Screenshots of the model can be
taken (as BMP, JPEG, PNG, etc.).
MRX PPP 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112180/
MRX PPP is a simple configuration tool for pppd. It is part of the Murix distribution.
MURIX Linux 2003-01-14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112185/
MURIX Linux is a distribution based on LFS for building bootable CDROMs.
MySQL Database Server 4.0.10 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112252/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.
naim 0.11.5.4 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112249/