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[osdn developer] February 11, 2003
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 04:15:50 EST
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February 11, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
AOLserver 4.0 beta 2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250769
The second beta release of AOLserver 4.0 is available. In addition to bug fixes, this includes enhancements for international and Win32 support. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic page scripting language.
Tiny COBOL Compiler release 0.60
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250879
The Tiny COBOL compiler project is developing a COBOL compiler for use on Linux; it generates GNU x86 assembler code. With this release, improvements have been made in the following areas: locking for relative files, better support of print files (write after and before advancing) and better compatibility with 85 Standard for some indexed file I/O operations.
Mailman 2.1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250930
This is the the first patch release of GNU Mailman 2.1.1 Mailman is free software that enables users to manage email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Its integrated web interface provides easy-to-use access for list members and list administrators. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more. Mailman 2.1.1 is a bug fix release, including the patching of a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
Marathon 0.12 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251022
Marathon runs gui based acceptance tests against swing applications. It is composed of a runner, and recorder, and an editor, and its tests scripts will be stored using a simple python based language. This release includes bug fixes, feature enhancements and is more readily usable (a single .JAR contains everything you need). details at http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=46616&release_id= 139116
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
Slashdot
Clamshell Sharp Zaurus Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2326216
[0]Bill Kendrick writes "[1]The Gadgeteer has a review of the new
clamshell-style [2]Sharp Zaurus SL-C700 Linux-based PDA. This new
model, currently only officially available in Japan, sports a larger
keyboard than the SL-5500 we have in the US, as well as a full 640x480
screen and 400MHz XScale CPU. The review mostly compares it against the
HP200. The reviewer got his hands on an 'English version,' made
available by [3]Dynamism for a hefty pricetag of USD$700." (See [4]this
earlier story for more screenshots from the English conversion of this
device.)
Links
0.
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/
1.
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/
2.
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/sharp-c700-review.html
3.
http://www.dynamism.com/
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/22/1647236&tid=100
Microsoft Applies For .NET Patent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/0048208
Wojina writes "Microsoft has applied for a [0]comprehensive patent on
what appears to be the entire implementation of the .NET CLR (Common
Language Runtime) and the framework APIs. Microsoft's CLR is an
implementation of the CLI (submitted to ECMA for standardization). Does
this bode ill for the [1]Mono project? See the [2]CNET News story." And
a chaser: Nept points to this interesting Microsoft-funded [3].NET
obfuscation project.
Links
0.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/20030028685
1.
http://www.go-mono.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984052.html
3.
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/progtools/projects/dotnet.html
Why Do Google Hit Numbers Vary?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2336239
[0]Supa-Fly writes "I have a question about some conflicting results with the search engine google. I did a search for "pictures of mountains" and got exactly 1 million results. My friend did the same search (from the same office)and got 1,010,000 results. A second friend did the same search as the last 2 and got 1,020,000. These have not changed and every person gets the same results each time. My question is what is up with the discrepancies on google's search results?" Since this question is hard to answer from the outside, Craig Silverstein of Google kindly supplies his best answer to this question, below. Links
0. mailto:andrew@nicozone.net
Slashback: Cooperation, Gravity, Petite
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/1715224
Slashback with more (below) on KDE/GNOME cooperation (hint -- they're not renaming it "GNOMKDE"); the desert parachute nuts, a tiny P4 machine, and another chance to Ask Kevin Mitnick, at least if you're near Pittsburgh. Enjoy!
Mining Asteroids@Home
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1635208
An anonymous reader writes "Like the [0]lively discussion on mediation
strategies for exterminating asteroids, a six-person expert panel is
[1]debating today whether humans exist because of big collisions or in
spite of them. Interestingly Mexico's oil (and most of the rest of the
world's resources) seem to have arisen from later mining of these
byproducts: the luck of geography or the price at the pump for dead
dinosaurs."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/1755211&tid=160
NASA: Evidence Favors Infinitely Expanding Universe http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/222219
[0]Chris Gondek writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has a story here
about how [1]NASA is [2]expected to announce this week that it has
proved the existence of "dark energy," a cosmic force that counteracts
gravity and will keep the universe expanding forever. The announcement
will effectively demolish the theory that life will be wiped out in a
[3]"big crunch" when the universe collapses, and should end decades of
academic dispute. Scientists ranging from [4]Stephen Hawking, the
Cambridge University physicist, to Albert Einstein, have argued that
the universe eventually will stop expanding and then implode under the
force of gravity, destroying all life. The Chicago Sun Times has
[5]also got some info."
Links
0.
http://www.gondek.net
1.
http://www.nasa.gov/
2.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/10/1044725732451.html
3.
http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Physics/Cosmology/p00719c.html
4.
http://www.hawking.org.uk/
5.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-energy09.htmlRIAA Unveils Net Tracking Tag for Online Sales http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/2026248
openbear writes "A [0]story over at MSNBC talks about the Global
Release Indentifier (GRid). It is a code akin to the Universal Product
Code (UPC) bar code found on a CD or cassette tape in stores. Each
track will be distributed online with an individual GRid serial number
and will be reported back to rights societies and collection agencies
sold or transferred."
Links
0. http://famulus.msnbc.com/famuluscom/reuters02-10-055656.asp?sym=MSFT
California EULA Lawsuit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/190242
[0]burgburgburg writes "[1]News.com has this story about a California woman [2]suing Microsoft, Symantec and others, seeking class-action status on behalf of all Californians who've bought software including Norton Antivirus 2002, Norton Systemworks and Windows XP Upgrade. She claims that the companies have devised a scheme to sell software licenses without allowing purchasers to review the license prior to sale. She also claims that people who reject the license cannot return the software to the store. She bases this on her rejecting the EULAs for the software mentioned above, going back to CompUSA and being told she couldn't return them because the boxes were opened." Links
0.
http://.moc.liame. .ta. .60neksilps.
1.
http://www.news.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983988.html
Castle Denies GPL Breach
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1940225
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Castle Technology, who were accused of breaching the GPL in RISC OS 5, have made a press release denying the allegations. This story has been covered on [1]The Iconbar RISC OS news and resource site." We've given [2]Castle some [3]loving here on slashdot recently. Looks like this one isn't going away quietly. Links
0.
http://www.iconbar.com
1.
http://www.iconbar.com/
2.
http://www.castle.uk.co/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225224&tid=106
Sci-fi Channel's Children of Dune
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1653239
jazdogg writes "Caught the [0]trailer last night on the [1] Sci-fi Channel for the new [2]Frank Herbert's Children of Dune mini-series. I only hope this series is better than the previous one." I dunno - I liked the last Dune series, and am looking forward to this one. Links
0.
http://www.scifi.com/dune/trailers/index.html
1.
http://www.scifi.com/
2.
http://www.scifi.com/dune
Freshmeat
AlsaPlayer 0.99.74
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112521/
AlsaPlayer is a new PCM player written with the ALSA sound system in mind. It also includes support for JACK, OSS, NAS, and ESD. It makes extensive use of multi-threading and supports OGG, MP3, WAV, CDDA (CD Digital Audio), MOD, S3M, IT, and many other input types. Features include a real- time effects stream, variable speed/pitch control, multiple active visual scopes, command line mode, playlists, plugin architecture, low-latency mode, and more.
Artwork Eye 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112311/
Artwork Eye is a theme based on a Sandman-style image.
Ayam 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112512/
Ayam is a free 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface. It features good RIB export, CSG (all RenderMan primitives supported), and NURBS modelling. Features instancing, arbitrary number of modeling views, object clipboard, independent property clipboard, n-level undo, console, and Tree-View with Drag-and-Drop support.
Babeldoc 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112551/
Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications. It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.
Bluebend 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112515/
Bluebend is an aromatic blend of the IceBlueCurve and microGUI themes. A handful of the Bluecurve PNG icons were converted to XPM icons for use in Icewm, but many of them did not convert very well into 16x16 or 32x32 XPM images. These icons, and a few of the author's other favorites (including the Qtopia icon), are in the icons folder. The Bluecurve folder_blue.png was used as the basis for the folder icon that appears in the menu. The default.theme options settings are minimal, allowing users to control most of their own settings from ~/.icewm/preferences. Both of the parent themes included the "TitleBarCentered" option, which was removed because it is obsolete.
Bonita Generic Version
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112503/
Bonita is a flexible cooperative workflow system based on the workflow model proposed by the ECOO Team, which incorporates the anticipation of activities as a more flexible mechanism of workflow execution. This flexibility allows a considerable speed increase in the design and development phases of cooperative applications. The workflow engine is built on EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), using Jboss as the application server. The system offers a comprehensive set of integrated graphical tools for performing the process conception and definition, the instantiation and control of this process, and the interaction with the users and other applications.
CourseForum 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112514/
CourseForum provides a painless, straightforward and flexible solution for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and student collaboration. It can be used for lecture notes, Q&A, class discussions, research, student portfolios, projects, and more. The easy Web browser interface and quick installation lets you get started in minutes, and everyone can easily create, read, and contribute.
cvsdelta 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112505/
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.
DAME 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112542/
DAME (Database Access Made Easy) is a tool that generates C++ and Java code from SQL statements. When used with Java, it supports any database that can be accessed through JDBC. C++ libraries for Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL are also included.
DataVision 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112528/
DataVision is a reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, written in Java. It supports multiple data sources (JDBC, text files) and output formats (HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX, comma- and tab-separated data files, and DocBook). It lets you design reports with a drag-and-drop GUI. Report descriptions are stored as XML.
Dataxi 1.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112510/
Dataxi is a database access system that uses a single form to query, view, and modify data spread to one or more tables in a true relational manner. In addition, Dataxi provides a platform to build database-oriented applications of any size that can be accessed through a Web interface.
DIBS 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112539/
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.
Dump/Restore 0.4b33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112502/
The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups.
dvd::rip 0.50.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112506/
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.
ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112573/
ESP Ghostscript is a customized version of GNU Ghostscript that includes an enhanced autoconf-based configuration script, the CUPS raster driver to support CUPS raster printer drivers, and additional patches and drivers from various Linux distributors.
Exmh 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112507/
Exmh is an X user interface for MH mail. MH provides a set of UNIX commands that manage folders and mail messages. MH has a zillion features as a result of several years of availability. Exmh provides a graphical interface to many of these features, as well as MIME, PGP/GPG support, NNTP, and more.
FormProc 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112555/
FormProc is an open source Java library designed to make handling and validating forms (including Web forms) easy. Forms are represented as objects which manage a collection of form elements. Submitted data can be validated through several mechanisms including regular expressions, BSF-supported scripting languages, and custom Java classes.
Freecell Solver 2.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112519/
Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use within third-party applications.
FScript 1.11 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112530/
FScript is an extremely simple scripting language. Its intended use is as an embedded language in other Java programs. It is very simple to embed; it can be as simple as sub-classing one class to add your own functionality. However, it is not a complete programming language, as it has no library of standard functions (such as IO and string processing). FScript supplies base functionality (such as flow control, variable handling, and basic math operations) that can extended by the host application. The only requirement is a Java 2 runtime environment.
geektalkd 1.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112534/
geektalkd is a simple chat server designed for use with thin clients
(like telnet, netcat, or one of the avaliable Perl clients). It
features multiple channels, private whispers, and everything else you'd
expect from a chat server. Additionally, all of the parser code can be
rewritten and reread, so you can install new functions on the fly
without restarting the server or kicking users off.
Genius 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112541/
Genius is an arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floating point calculator. It includes its own programming language similiar in some aspects to C,bc or pascal. It can deal with rational numbers and complex numbers. It has matrix support as well. It uses the gmp library so it is very fast for calculations of large numbers. It has a command line and a GNOME interface.
getmail 3.0.0 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112527/
getmail is intended as a simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves mail (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more POP3 servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into qmail-style Maildirs, mboxrd files, and external MDAs (command deliveries) specified on a per-account basis. getmail also has excellent support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes.
GreenIcos Icons 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112454/
GreenIcos is a green-colored icon set for KDE 3.x.
grsecurity 1.9.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112518/
grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that implements a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most forms of address space modification, confines programs with least privilege via its process-based MAC system, hardens syscalls, and provides many of the OpenBSD randomness features. It was written for performance, ease-of-use, and security. The MAC system has an intelligent learning-mode, and all of grsecurity supports a feature that logs the IP of the attacker that causes an alert or audit.
hdup 1.6.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112562/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
JACK Rack 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112552/
JACK Rack is a LADSPA effects rack for the JACK audio API. It supports arbitrary channels, LRDF XML plugin descriptions, and the LADCCA session management system.
Java SOS 3.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112487/
Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site building, including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc.
JIGS 1.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112508/
JIGS (Java Interface for GnuStep) allows Java programmers to use the GNUstep libraries from Java, but it is more than a set of bindings for GNUstep from Java: it takes advantage of the fact that Objective-C and Java are very similar languages to make it possible to use Objective-C classes from Java using exactly the same API (and vice versa). Moreover, JIGS can generate automatically wrappers for your own Objective-C GNUstep libraries.
JPublish 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112558/
JPublish is an open source web publishing framework which merges the Velocity template engine from the Jakarta Apache group with a content repository and application control framework. It features flexible programmatic actions which can be written in Java or any Bean Scripting Framework-supported scripting language (such as Python or JavaScript), Velocity templates for layout, a repository abstraction layer, optional Velocity-parsed content, search engine friendly URLs, and more.
JSX2 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112561/
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.
Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.0-pre1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112564/
Just For Fun Network Management System features an integrated syslog, Tacacs, TFTP configuration download, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journal, autodiscovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more. Everything uses a database MySQL/PostgreSQL) backend. It works in Linux and Windows.
K3b 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112480/
K3b is a CD-burning program designed for people who are used to using Windows to burn CDs. It has a user interface similar to Ahead's Nero. It currently allows you to create filesystem trees via drag'n'drop, and to burn audio CDs from WAV and MP3 files.
kbarcode 1.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112556/
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.
Kile 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112497/
Kile is a LaTeX source editor, TeX shell, and gnuplot frontend for KDE 3.
KMyIRC 0.2.8 (Alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112501/
KMyIRC is an attempt to provide an IRC client for KDE which is high-quality and easy to use, but not bloated. It was created because it was felt that the other KDE-based IRC clients were either not user-friendly or burdened with features that are not useful to the average IRC user.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112486/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an indefinite number of filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs, socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application. It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility is most important.
MagCon 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112489/
MagCon reads tracks from a Magellan GPS. It was tested on a SporTrak Pro, but should work on all SporTraks, all Meridians, the 315/320, and other devices.
maitretarot 0.1.98 (mt_gtk_client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112500/
MaitreTarot is a French Tarot card game. It is a game like Freecell or poker, and has nothing to do with astrology. It has a server and various client software.
maitretarot 0.1.98 (mt_ncurses_client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112499/
MaitreTarot is a French Tarot card game. It is a game like Freecell or poker, and has nothing to do with astrology. It has a server and various client software.
Markov Chain Random Name Generator 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112420/
Markov Chain Random Name Generator provides a simple example of how a Markov Chain (MC) can be used to capture the dynamics of a series. It shows how a single text file can be used to adapt the parameters of the MC so that it reflects the properties of the text. You can use it to create random words derived from a particular text. For example, to generate names for RPGs, you can create one file named "Dwarves" and another named "Elves" and place a number of appropriate names in each file, and MCRNG will create names similar to those given. The MC code is completely separate from the random name generation and can easily be used in other projects.
Maxima 5.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112524/
Maxima is a Common Lisp implementation of MIT's Macsyma system for computer based algebra. It features plotting over the network via netmath, computations over the network, extensive testing on a large array of problems, a source level debugger for maxima code, ease of extension in fundamentally new ways, access to Common Lisp and portability to many systems.
Meta-CVS 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112554/
Meta-CVS is version control system created around CVS. It retains most of the features of CVS while adding support for first class directory structure versioning, storage of symbolic links, and versioning of execute permissions and user-defined properties. Meta-CVS greatly simplifies branching and merging by keeping track of what is merged where. It records file types and automatically assigns a CVS keyword expansion mode to newly added files whose suffixes match previously recorded types. Meta-CVS also has an importing feature that automatically figures out renames and moves, making it possible to easily keep up with patches from multiple sources in spite of directory structure changes.
Minimum Profit 3.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112547/
Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features small memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file editing, ctags support, word wrapping, and more. It can be compiled for Linux / Unix (console), GTK, and MS Windows.
mod_security 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112537/
Mod_security is an intrusion detection and prevention module for the Apache Web server. Its purpose is to protect vulnerable applications by detecting and (optionally) rejecting attacks. In addition to request filtering, it also can create Web application audit logs. Requests are filtered using regular expressions. Mod_security can analyse POST payloads, unlike other similar projects.
MPlayer 0.90-rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112532/
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of
codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows
Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It
has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs,
but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and
Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality,
including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats
too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported.
It's also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI
(pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.
nn Newsreader 6.6.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112522/
nn Newsreader is a curses-based USENET news reader. The motto of nn is its expanded name, "No News is good news, but nn is better". The nn newsreader is designed to let you minimize the amount of time you spend reading news (or, more realistically, to allow you to follow even more newsgroups). Nn allows you to quickly select articles of interest and skip the rest. It also supports efficient article killing and selection of articles by author and subject.
O-Kiraku Nikki 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112491/
'O-Kiraku Nikki' is Japanese for 'A Nice Calendar'. It is a simple PHP program that displays a calendar on a Web site, with the ability to add as many annotations as desired to any day, and have these annotations displayed on a Web page. It can be used as a diary, a Weblog, or a scheduler, etc. It comes with full multilanguage (Unicode) support, and includes by default English, Japanese, and Spanish translations. It has been designed with both security and simplicity in mind.
Open POSIX Test Suite 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112575/
The Open POSIX Test Suite is a test suite with the goal of performing conformance, functional, stress, and performance testing of the functions described in the IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 System Interfaces specification. Eventual testing of the full specification is desired.