[osdn developer] March 08, 2003

Computing: Griffin PowerMate
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ca2/

Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ac8/

Books: GPF 2 - Gone With The Windows
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cad/

Books: BOFH 2 - Son Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca5/

Books: GPF 3 - And The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb0/

Books: BOFH 3 - Bride Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca8/

Books: BOFH 1 - Bastard Operator From Hell http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5c9b/

Books: User Friendly - Version 1.0
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb2/

Gadgets: Candela Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf5/

Electronics: Mustek MDC-3500 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5ca0/

Computing: iGesture Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5ccd/

Computing: Roll-Up Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5a7f/

Gadgets: InkLink Handwriting System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d08/

Sourceforge
bogofilter-0.11.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257794

The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam" . It is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X. Version 0.11.1 is available, including a number of enhancements and bugfixes. See the NEWS-0.11 file for details.

drjava-20030304-2327 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257786

Can't find what you're looking for?

DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. This development release of DrJava provides a significant number of bug fixes, in preparation for an upcoming beta release. The changes include improvements to saved Interactions histories, improved undo support, key binding fixes, and various user interface bug fixes. Please test this release by following the "more download options" link on our home page.

Tcl/Tk 8.4.2 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257762

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.2 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the second patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. See http://www.tcl.tk/ for details.

Axualize 1.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257007

After successful beta testing, version 1.1.0 is now official. Axualize is a language for building application from objects using an XML dialect. Axualize is schema driven and infinitely extendable. Axualize is currently implemented in Java but the Axualize schema does not dictate a specific platform. The 1.1.0 release adds support for Ruby, JavaScript and BeanShell scripting, as well as other enhancements. 1.1.0 Added: - Built in "Ruby" scripting support through BSF and JRuby

Built in "JavaScript" scripting support through BSF and Rhino - Built in "BeanShell" scripting support both through BSF and as the natively supported scripting environment. - MrRoboto class which aids in creating Axualize documents which implement simple java.awt.Robot actions. The MrRoboto class implements KeyListener, and MouseListener and is simply registered as such for each component which will be recorded. - new BSF schema so to aid creating documents which utilize both standard and BSF namespaces. changed: - ProcessHandler has been refactored to behave more like HttpHandler.

IlohaMail 0.7.10 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257047

IlohaMail 0.7.10 has been released. This version includes security fixes (also released in 0.7.9-2), three new languages (Korean, Standard Portuguese, Catalan), APOP support, improved handling of RFC822 attachments as well as minor fixes to the IMAP and SMTP libraries. This is the most recent update to the stable branch. IlohaMail is a PHP based lightweight full featured multilingual webmail program with IMAP and POP3 support.

gchch-1.9.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257203

This is a full port of the game to Gnome 2.0, along with numerous bug fixes and enhancements. It's a prelease before the actualy 2.0.0 release. Gnome Chinese Checkers is an networked implementation of the Chinese Checkers board game, supporting upto 6 players. The game includes added goodies like an integrated chat window, player rotation, etc. This has been updated for Gnome 2.0.

libmng 1.0.5 (final) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256928

This is the long-awaited major update of the MNG library. The MNG specification is now covered to near 100% and as an added bonus this release includes the new 'dynamic MNG' feature, that allows for easy roll-over (hover/click; w or w/o mask) effects with a minimum of fuss. libmng is the reference library for reading, displaying, writing and examining Multiple-Image Network Graphics. MNG is the animation extension to the popular PNG image-format.

pureIRCd release 2.7.1304
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257000

pureIRCd is a Win32 IRCd written in Visual Basic, that operates Fast and efficiently in networks as well as standalone. This release features better Server to Server linking, some statistics additions and Server - Server autoconnecting. Autoconnecting is new to pureIRCd and may have some glitches, so dont trust on it, it's alpha, really. You dont have to upgrade to this version of pureIRCd if you mostly use it standalone as most changes only affect server links. To download the new version, please go here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71720&release_id= 143841

Qixite 0.0.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256961

Qixite allows easy template based generation of web sites. It organizes the web site into a tree of nodes representing Pages, Text Sections, Images, and Links. It provides quick and easy way to publish your thoughts and information on Internet. The program generates links, style sheets and other things, the only thing user has to warry about is information. Changes in 0.0.8: - Possibility to use external editor
(eg. Mozilla) for editing articles in WYSIWYG mode was added - French,
Spanish and Lithuanian translations were updated - Several non-critical bugs were fixed To download, please go here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40222&release_id= 83910

Burn To The Brim v2.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256875

Don't know where to look next?

Burn To The Brim is a utility for grouping files and folders together in the most efficient way to fill up an entire CD, DVD or other medium. Burn to the Brim version 2.5 now allows the user to directly create ISO 9660 files of the filled CD's, using mkisofs by Joerg Schilling. These files can then be burned by an arbritary burn-program that supports the ISO 9660 format. You can find the new version at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49999

Slashdot
Speeding up Evolution
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/218229

DaytonCIM writes ""We can rebuild him. Make him stronger... faster..." Slate.com has a great article on [0]next generation gene research that promises to build "Supermen" or "Superwomen" out of us all. Insulin-like Growth Factor genes to make us stronger without ever visiting a weight room. EPO to generate more red blood cells and enable us to run "forever." Engineered human "Blood" to speed up evolution, so that we become less susceptible to disease and injury." Links

0. http://slate.msn.com/id/2079406/

Interplanetary Superhighway
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/215211

rotenberry writes "The current issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science magizine contains the article "[0]Next Exit 0.5 Million Kilometers - A Caltech/JPL collaboration explores the 'Interplanetary Superhighway.'" which describes "...the Interplanetary Superhighway - 'a vast network of winding tunnels in space' that connects the sun, the planets, their moons, and a host of other destinations as well. But unlike the wormholes beloved of science-fiction writers, these things are real. In fact, they are already being used." However, it takes a very long time to get there."
Links

0. http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/EandS/articles/LXV4/exit.html

The US DoD and the GSA Join the Liberty Project http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1610252

Confused? Frustrated?

An anonymous reader writes "The [0]Liberty Alliance Project announced today that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) have joined the Liberty Alliance in its pursuit to develop open and interoperable standards for electronically managing identity information."
Links

0. http://www.projectliberty.org/

Dawn of the Airborne Laser
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/2047241

Yonzie writes "As you may have heard, there are a number of competing franchises working on a functional laser weapon. [0]Popular Science has an interesting story about `[1]The Wall of Fire', an airborne laser designed to fit in the belly of a [2]747. Apparently, this is powerful and precise enough to destroy enemy intercontinental and intermediate-range missiles in mid-flight. I can imagine the use of laser turrets as protection against missiles, but I really can't see the use of a laser mounted in a 747. IMHO, it's way too slow compared to the missiles, and will not be able to scramble fast enough." This is the big daddy of the [3]JSF laser that we've mentioned before. Links

    0. 
http://www.popsci.com/
    1. 
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,424266,00.html
    2. 
http://boeing.com/commercial/747family
    3. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/27/1455215&tid=126

Lofgren Introduces BALANCE Act to Modify DMCA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/2013228

Infonaut writes "Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D - CA) introduced H.R. 1066, [0]The Balance Act. It seeks to clarify 'that America's historic principles of fair use - protected under Section 107 of the Copyright Act - apply to analog and digital transmissions.' Apparently Lessig is on board, as are several associations and other organizations. If you like what you see, [1]encourage your representative to support the bill." Links

0. http://www.house.gov/lofgren/congress/digital_rights.htm

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Windows Rootkits
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1938225

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GuidoJ writes "[0]The Register is running an article by [1]Kevin Poulsen of [2]SecurityFocus Online about [3]rootkits in Windows NT. While rootkits are a well-known issue in Unix and Linux systems, they have rarely been found on compromised Windows machines. According to the article, Windows NT backdoors have always been 'trivial', and they have caused enough havoc already. Imagine what a stealthy rootkit could do!"
Links

    0. 
http://www.theregister.com/
    1. mailto:klp@securityfocus.com
    2. 
http://www.securityfocus.com/
    3. 
http://www.theregister.com/content/55/29638.html

Technologies that Have Exceeded Their Expectations? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/2111215

drfunch asks: "With the recent 'passing' of Pioneer 10 after over 30 years of service, I wonder what other technologies have far exceeded expectations. One example from my own experience is my trusty HP calculator, which is still going strong after 21 years. What technologies or devices have gone far beyond your expectations?"

GDC: 10 Reasons NOT to Make MMOGs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/165210

[0]Warrior-GS writes "Gordon Walton, who helped create such games as Ultima Online and the Sims Online, is at the Game Developers Conference [1]giving a seminar on "Ten Reasons You Don't Want to Run a Massively Multiplayer Online Game". GameSpy has been [2]providing coverage of GDC, with several game previews and several conference reports. They also have a [3]hands-on report of the Nokia N-Gage from four of their editors, and a somewhat unorthodox report of the [4]Game Developer Choice Awards, where Metroid Prime was named Game of the Year. The convention continues through Saturday." Links

    0. 
http://www.gamespy.com
    1. 
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/top10mmog/
    2. 
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/
    3. 
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/ngage/
    4. 
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/awards/

RPG Sorcery PDA Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2256251

shiroi_kami writes "I finally received my long-awaited (and pre ordered) CD-ROM and immediately loaded the game up on my IPAQ (I didn't even look at the PC Extras)." shiroi_kami has written some other PC game reviews; here's his first of a Pocket PC game. Read on below for his thoughts on [0]Sorcery PDA.
Links

0. http://www.sorcerypda.com/

More on SCO vs. IBM Lawsuit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/187239

Colin Stanners writes "SCO has held a TeleConference and put up a [0]page with information on their lawsuit against IBM. The key phrase
(from their [1]complaint) is: 'It is not possible for Linux to rapidly
reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such as IBM.' Their page also includes a Q&A, presentation, and exhibits, although these are mostly licensing agreements and not code." Bruce Perens had an [2]interesting comment on the situation, more than one group is trying to [3]organize a boycott, and Newsforge has a [4]story based on SCO's press conference this morning. Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.
Links

    0. 
http://www.sco.com/scosource/
    1. 
http://www.sco.com/scosource/complaint3.06.03.html
    2. 
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=5456337&sid=56225&tid=123
    3. 
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/
    4. 
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1728239

Freshmeat
123mp3 2.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115443/

123mp3 is a frontend to BladeEnc and cdparanoia that produces MP3s from selected tracks on a CD in one automated process. Support for CDDB is also available.

Aldo 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115499/

Aldo is a Morse code tutor. It generates some strings of chars using a random number generator, and translates and sounds these strings in Morse code. You must catch the code and check what you have heard. It has 6 skills and 4 speeds.

ALT Linux 2.2 (Master)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115446/

ALT Linux is a set of Linux distributions which are based on Sisyphus, an APT-enabled RPM package repository which aims to achieve feature completeness, usability, and security in a sensible and manageable mixture.

apteryx 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115457/

apteryx is a shell script which acts as a simple wrapper for the commands apt-cache search and apt-get install which are used in the GNU/Linux distribution Debian to search for and install new packages. It uses apt-cache to search for the words given at the command line and then displays the results in a simple menu-based interface in the terminal. From this list, the user can select a package and install it.

Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.7.3RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115464/

    Arno's IPTABLES firewall script was originally derived from Seven's
(single-homed) IPTABLES script. The biggest differences are that this
    script has support for dual-homed machines, support for masquerading
(NAT), support for ethernet ADSL/DSL modems (for both static and
    dynamically assigned IPs), support for all IP protocols, and support     for VPNs like IPSEC (Freeswan). It also features (stealth) portscan     detection, extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to     prevent log flooding, port forwarding, optimizing the throughput of     your internet connection, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding (DoS     attacks), support for UPnP, and much more. It's easy to configure and     highly customizable. It additionally includes a filter script
(fwfilter) to make your firewall log more readable.

asciijump 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115441/

asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.

BASHISH 1.9.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115525/

Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt, font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.

Can't find what you're looking for?

BHL 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115474/

BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain TXT files into HTML, LaTeX, and SGML (Linuxdoc) files. The BHL mode handles common font-styles, three levels of sections, any kind of lists, tables, URLs and horizontal rules. BHL handles a table of contents: you can browse the toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the sections' numbers with one keystroke.

Bluebeard 1.0b6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115511/

Bluebeard locates and downloads single- and multi-part file attachments on the Usenet forum network. It is robust, able to handle between 1-4 simultaneous downloads, and supports however many queued downloads you want to throw at it. It is able to piece together multi-part attachments and handle popular encoding formats, including UUE and yEnc. Decoding is automatic and quick.

Camino 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115454/

Camino (formerly Chimera) is a Web browser that has a Cocoa user interface, and embeds the Gecko layout engine. It is intended to be a simple, small, and fast browser for Mac OS X.

Connect 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115467/

Connect is a GNUstep frontend to pppd.

Crystal Space 0.96r003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115447/

Crystal Space is a free and portable 3D engine written in C++. It supports a large number of 3D features.

DoctorJ 4.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115470/

DoctorJ is a set of applications that analyze Java code. Documentation is verified for compliance with the standard and for accuracy against the code, beyond what javadoc does. Statistics for a file or project can be generated, including the number of lines of code per class and method, and the overall total. A syntax analyzer is in development.

Dragon Lair alpha_build_07_03_2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115514/

Dragon Lair is a knowledge base system based on Topic Maps Technology. Data Elements are represented as topics and subjects and put into relationships with each other. Since these relations are data independent, Dragon Lair can be put on top of an existing database or be used as a graphical representation of a new data source. Dragon Lair "sits" directly upon the Dragon Breath framework for reliable and easy data manipulation, sanity check, and data exchange.

Ganglia 2.5.3 (Monitoring core)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115534/

Ganglia provides a complete real-time monitoring and execution environment that is in use by hundreds of universities, private and government laboratories, and commercial cluster implementors around the world. It can be used to easily monitor hundreds of computers in real-time across a university campus or across the world.

Don't know where to look next?

gperiodic 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115487/

gperiodic is a program for browsing the periodic table and looking up data for different elements. It also features a non-graphical interface.

Graphical certification authority 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115450/

Graphical certification authority is an interface for managing RSA keys and certificates, and the creation and signing of PKCS#10 requests. It uses the OpenSSL library and a Berkeley DB for key and certificate storage. It supports importing and exporting keys and PEM DER PKCS8 certificates, signing and revoking of PEM DER PKCS12, and the selection of x509v3 extensions. A tree view of certificates is presented.

gtk2-ssh-askpass 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115495/

gtk2-ssh-askpass is a small ssh-askpass replacement written in GTK 2. It features a fullscreen ask dialog and a translucent background.

isp4you 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115488/

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

Confused? Frustrated?

Java Aspect Components 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115469/

JAC is a Java framework that provides some facilities to achieve Aspect-Oriented Programming and to separate concerns when programming
(distributed) applications (for instance, the persistence or
authentication aspects can be considered independently from what the application is doing). It provides a runtime execution environment that supports Aspect-Oriented applications written with the JAC framework that provides visualisation, administration, and configuration tools for the applications and for their aspects.

JPluck 0.9 beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115484/

JPluck allows users to convert Web sites to Plucker documents. It creates Plucker documents ready to be installed and read.

jRSVP 1.1.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115518/

jRSVP is a Java 1.4 tool for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, a technique for extremely fast reading. It uses the Multivalent library for parsing input documents, and is able to read PDF, PS, HTML, man pages, and other documents. It displays texts on a word-by-word or sentence-by-sentence basis and features a file history and bookmarks.

junkie 0.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115521/

Junkie is a stable GTK2 FTP client for the X Windows system. It has features such as queueing files, downloading/uploading of whole directories, caching of directories, drag and drop, a site manager, preferences (and a configure library), and an event-based FTP library, which means that the client should be stable and not slow the user interface down much.

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Katie snapshot-18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115479/

    Katie is a revision control system, somewhat like a cross between CVS     and NFS, that was inspired by Rational ClearCase. The three most     interesting features are that the repository is mounted as a filesystem
(rather than being copied to a local workspace), that all versions of
    all files (even deleted ones) are accessible through this filesystem
(so the "katie diff" command is a convenience rather than a
    necessity like "cvs diff"), and that directories are     versioned (just like files are). It is functional enough to be     self-hosting, but there is much work still to go before it will be a     generally useful tool. Features that are implemented already include     VOBs, elements, branches, dynamic views, view-extended pathnames,     config specs (including auto-make-branch rules), labels, hard links,     and symbolic links.

KMLDonkey 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115520/

KMLDonkey provides integration for the MLDonkey P2P software and KDE 3, in the form of a Kicker applet, ed2k protocol handling for Konqueror, and a control panel applet to bring it all together.

Launch.app 1.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115453/

Launch.app is a small program for executing applications, based on the WINGs library (a part of WindowMaker). It features a command history, executing applications as different users (e.g. root), and tab completion.

Mambo SiteServer 4.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115449/

Mambo SiteServer is a dynamic Web content management tool that is capable of building sites from several pages to several thousand. It comes complete with 10 built-in modules, a WYSIWYG editor, site statistics, an admin interface, multi language support, custom module support, and more.

Mono Project 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115455/

Mono Project is an Open Source implementation of the various ECMA and .NET framework technologies for Unix and Windows. The project includes a compiler, a class library, and a CLI runtime engine.

motion 3.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115509/

motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes snapshots of the movement which can be converted to MPEG movies in realtime (or later for low CPU usage), making it usable as an observation or security system. It can take actions like sending out email and SMS messages when detecting motion.

MyAddressbook 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115458/

MyAddressbook is an address book in C for the console. It is simple enough, but has all basic functions of usual addressbook and it is quite comfortable in use. The output format can be easily changed to fit a user's needs.

MyDNS 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115497/

MyDNS is a free DNS server for Unix which was implemented from scratch and is designed to serve DNS data directly from a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

Netjuke 1.0b17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115490/

Artekopia Netjuke is a cross-platform Web-based audio streaming jukebox powered by PHP 4 and an increasing choice of databases. MP3, Ogg Vorbis, ASF/WMA, and other music file formats are supported. Artekopia Netjuke aims to enable small organizations or communities run a private "mp3.com-like" Web site to access the music they legitimately own, distribute, or are granted access to. It supports most audio players, language packs, optional file downloads, media protection schemes, multi-level security, shared and private playlists, random playlists, images, etc. It also features an unusual, easy-to-use installer module to get you started in minutes.

OSSP mm 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115481/

OSSP mm is a 2-layer abstraction library which simplifies the usage of shared memory between related processed under Unix platforms. It both hides all platform dependent implementation details (allocation, locking, etc.) when dealing with shared memory segments and provides a high-level malloc-style API for a convenient way to work with data-structures inside those shared memory segments.

Packet Excalibur 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115475/

Packet Excalibur is a multi-platform graphical and scriptable network packet engine with extensible text-based protocol descriptions. It is a network tool designed to build and receive custom packets. Packet Excalibur allows you to decide packet attributes from the physical layer to the top, to sniff and spoof packets with a single interface, to build scripts in the GUI, and to define additional protocols in simple text files.

Pathalizer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115463/

Pathalizer is a tool for visualizing the paths most users take when browsing a Web site. This information can be used to decide how to improve the navigation of the site, and for determining which parts are most worth improving and keeping up to date. It generates a directed, weighed graph from an Apache log, but could easily be modified to analyze any list of events.

Can't find what you're looking for?

Pebrot 0.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115486/

Pebrot is an MSN messenger text client implemented with Python 2 (not 1.5). It also has a pretty curses-based interface.

picoSQL 1.3beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115468/

picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.

picoSQL 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115466/

picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.

Poco 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115478/

Poco is a very small content management system for small-scale websites. It allows you to manage a site for other people in the following way: you give trusted users password-protected write access to some parts of some pages (for example, for blocks of text or small chunks of HTML) but you still manage the main pages yourself.

Project-based Calendaring System 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115526/

PbCS is a calendaring system which is very useful for project managers or managers that plan time for other people. Plain overviews of scheduled appointments make it easy to schedule new appointments.

PXL 2000 fonts 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115491/

pxl2000 is a dot matrix font for the X Window System (X11). It is designed to make text readable and eye-pleasing in (reverse color) xterm/rxvt terminal windows. By providing visually distinct glyphs for L, l, 1, 7, |, I, i and 0, O, Ø, o, ø, it is particularly well-suited for displaying program code. It is also suitable for ASCII art and code poetry and text-based net.art. pxl2000 is ISO 8859-15 (ISO 8859-1 with the Euro symbol) encoded and available in four different sizes: 9x18, 10x20, 11x22, and 12x24 pixel sizes, thus providing 113, 102, 91, or 85 characters per line on a 1024x768 display.

PyKota Print Quota System 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115528/

PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). It features per-printer user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, and much more.

Python Desktop Server 0.4.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115460/

The Python Desktop Server is a combined Weblog authoring tool, XMLRPC/SOAP server, and news aggregator. It allows one to read RSS news feeds, post to a community server (such as Radio Userland or any Python Community Server installation), and includes tools for Weblog and homepage management. It features a Web interface, a built-in Web server, extensibility through scripts that connect via XMLRPC or macros, and a plugin architecture.

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Rolo 003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115440/

Rolo keeps track of contacts and displays with a text-based menu. It strives to be a well-constructed tool for complementing text-based email programs. It utilizes the vCard version 3.0 format for storing its contacts and interfaces with the end-user through an NCurses front-end.

rubrica 1.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115473/

rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows you to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used to store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export to HTML.

Ruby FormValidator 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115508/

FormValidator is a Ruby port of Perl's Data::FormValidator library. It makes it easy to validate data coming in from HTML forms by providing a robust set of methods to handle required fields, dependent fields, filtering, constraints, tainting, and defaults. Its modular design allows you to easily add your own filters and constraints and also lets you to keep validation data outside of your CGI scripts.

Ryth(M)Aid + GUI 0.0.1a10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115502/

Ryth(M)Aid + GUI generates a drum, bass, and piano track according to a given set of chords. It is useful for instrument players who want to practice playing to certain harmonies. It uses tse3 for MIDI sequencing and GTK+ for a GUI.

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salias 0.3.0 (C)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115529/

salias is a wrapper for programs that allows arguments to those programs to be aliased. For example, salias could expand "gpg -r friends --encrypt" to "gpg -r bob -r frank --encrypt". This is more useful than using simple environment variables, as other programs calling the wrapped-program don't have to worry about searching environment variables. Also, salias deals well with things needing repeating prefix options, such as with GnuPG's "-r" option (as shown in the example stated).

ShowImg 0.8-Beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115461/

ShowImg is a feature-rich image viewer which can display numerous formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF (animated) and MNG. It consists of a tree view frame, a directory/preview frame, and a view frame. The
(larger) view frame can be exchanged with the (smaller)
directory/preview frame. It can preview and display images from multiple directories and search for identical images. ShowImg also features a full-screen mode, zooming, sorting, drag'n'drop with Konqueror, and support for images in compressed archives (.zip).

Simple File Manager .022
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115434/

Simple File Manager is a PHP-based file manager that allows files to be uploaded, renamed, edited, and deleted. It can also create sub-directories, require authentication, restrict the files and directories that can be edited, specify disk space quotas and maximum file sizes, and more.

SISC 1.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115482/

SISC is an extensible Java-based interpreter of the algorithmic language Scheme. It uses modern interpretation techniques and handily outperforms all existing Java interpreters (often by more than an order of magnitude). In addition, SISC is a complete implementation of the language. The entire R5RS Scheme standard is supported. This includes a full number tower including complex number support and arbitrary precision integers and floating point numbers, proper tail recursion, hygienic macros, and full support for first-class continuations (not just the escaping continuations found in many other systems).

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SlackCheck 2.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115477/

SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of non-standard packages for every machine.

SoQt 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115480/

SoQt is a GUI toolkit for using Coin/Open Inventor with Qt. The design focus is on RAD (Rapid Application Development) for 3D graphics applications.

Spotter 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115504/

Spotter is software that can check students' answers to symbolic and numerical problems in math and science. It recognizes an answer regardless of the form it's in, and the instructor can put in helpful hints as responses to frequently-occurring mistakes. Symbolic answers can be input in a notation closely resembling normal human math notation (e.g., xy rather than x*y, and sin x instead of sin(x)). Spotter runs as a Perl CGI application on a Web server; the student doesn't need to install any software.

TBFirewall 3.1 (Iptables)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115503/

TBFirewall is a front-end created to control firewall rules. Its config files are constructed in the form of tables. TBFirewall is designed to connect one or more local networks to another, forming an internetwork, but it can also run without problem in other network models.

trickle 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115445/

trickle is a lightweight, portable, per-application bandwidth shaper. It works in collaboration, has peak detection, and does smoothing. trickle works entirely in userland and does not require root to run. It has been developed on OpenBSD and is known to run on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.

Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 4.0s-rc2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115444/

The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides stable and development kernels for either server or testing purposes. These kernels provide a server kernel and also a service for developers and end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request.

Xplanet 0.95a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115496/

Xplanet is a C++ program which is similar to xearth, but draws the earth or another planet with user-supplied maps. It renders the image in the root window or an X window. Azimuthal, Mercator, Mollweide, orthographic, and rectangular projections can be drawn, and clouds can be optionally overlaid.

Xrefactory 1.6.0.pre0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115459/

Xrefactory is a refactoring browser for Emacs and XEmacs providing multiple projects support, source browser, intellisense code completion, refactorings for safe symbol renaming, parameter manipulations, function/method extraction, field encapsulation, moving of fields/methods, etc. It is based on full pre-processing, parsing, and static analyzing of sources. It works for C and Java languages, and contains stand-alone cross referencer, and a generator for HTML documentation.

yaws 1.01 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115506/

Yaws is a high performance, light-weight, threaded HTTP 1.1 Web server targeted for the generation of dynamic content. It is written in Erlang, and the server side dynamic content is generated by Erlang code embedded in the HTML code.

Slashcode
Privatized user journals?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1824248

Is there any way to privatize user journals? I've noticed on the new slashdot site that the ability to privatize your journal is offered if you're a paid subscriber, is this a feature available in slashcode? If not, any ideas on how to implement this? --TorinEdge

Changing Boxes in a Template
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1758241

A similar question to my one about templates earlier, but I've created specific QuickLinks boxes and things I'd like to make part of my template. Is there any way these can be grabbed from the database as well, and used as my boxes? Actually, now that I think about it, would it be better to just delete any (perhaps all) of the boxes, and just create my own, putting them in appropriate locations myself. If I choose to do the latter, can I make specific boxes a part of my template? Or would I need to create a new Boxes plugin or something that can put them in my site for me? I know I keep firing questions off to you guys about what probably seems to be simple stuff, but if nothing else it's at least providing some info about what might be handy to have available in the future for simpler customisation.

Mandrake.Net
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1841236

It took 6 years to update my code after I handed rob the set of perl code I hacked out to run my site, but finally I changed mandrake.net over to running slash. I'm still working on bringing over the last of the content from the old site, and still tweaking everything (I still have the default slash color scheme) but it looks pretty good so far.