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[osdn developer] April 08, 2003
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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Interests: Megatokyo Endgames - Pirogoeth Poster http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5e98/
Books: The Matrix & Philosophy: Welcome To The Desert Of The Real http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d52/
Books: The Book Of Overclocking
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Books: Pattern Recognition
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Sourceforge
YaBB SE 1.5.1 is out
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266399
YaBB SE is a PHP/MySQL port of the popular forum software YaBB (yet another bulletin board). Incorporating the same intuitive user interface, and several of the most popular modifications from YaBB's Boardmod program. After an extensive period of public beta testing, YaBB SE 1.5.1 final is out! Thanks go out to everyone who helped making this release possible.
TUTOS makes it to 1.1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266318
About 9 month after the last major release and 2 month beta testing, the OpenSource Grupware and Projectmanagement system TUTOS was released in a new 1.1. The new releasae features a lot of enhancments new tools and useful stuff. TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things.
Release 1.1.3 of DbForms available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266451
Dbforms is pleased to release version 1.1.3 final after two developer releases. DbForms enables developers to build sophisticated web-based database driven applications in very short time and with very little efforts via automatic generation of configuration files and JSP views. DbForms is a Java (Servlet,JSP/Taglib) - based Rapid Application Development environment which enables developers to build web based database applications in _very_ short time. New features since 1.1.2 include (but are not limited to): -enhanced query support offering increased flexibility and dynamic changeability, -extended search algorithms, -improved navigation and validation within subforms, -simplified connection pooling and use of jdbc properties, -compatibility with taglib pooling, -JavaScript Calendar support for dateField, -pluggable and customizable event system, -improved formatability for tableData and queryData tags, and -integration with JasperReports There is also initial support for: -multiple database connections, and -foreign keys Full documentation is included in the release!
Regina REXX 3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266496
Version 3.1 of the Regina REXX Interpreter has been released. This release makes Regina 100% compliant with the 1996 ANSI Standard for Rexx. The documentation has also been updated and is now available online in HTML and PDF, and dowloadable in HTML, PDF and OpenOffice Writer formats. Major functional enhancements include: - ANSI "ADDRESS WITH" now fully functional and consistent on all platforms - ANSI LOSTDIGITS condition implemented - thread-safe version built by default on platforms that support threads (simplifies support for Apache mod_rexx module) - all AREXX builtin functions added - new supported platforms; Mac OSX, AROS Source and pre-built binaries for many platforms are available from Regina's SourceForge ftp site: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28102
Informa 0.2.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266517
The Informa RSS Library provides a convenient Java API for handling news channels and metadata about them. Different syntax formats (like RSS 0.91 and 1.0 RDF) for channels are supported. It is planned to also support channel information descriptions. This release improves the flexibilty of channel parsing, the channel format defintion and contains also some bug fixes.
Gaim 0.60 released (Linux and win32)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266400
Wow. Almost 10 months in the making, Gaim v0.60 is finally released. Wow. 0.60. Wow. Gaim is an all-in-one IM client that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu, all at once. Gaim is NOT endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, MSN or Napster. This is our GTK+-2.0 port, with a ton of new features and an almost completely rewritten GUI. If you haven't been using this in CVS, you're in for some real shock and awe. This release is for Linux operating systems as well as Win32. There have been substantial changes in this release. Everyone should take a look at the ChangeLog. Enjoy!
phpPgAdmin: Third development version released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266122
The phpPgAdmin project is proud to announce a new development release of its 3.0.0 software. The biggest improvements have been in our foreign language support. As well as French, Japanese and Russian translations, all our translations work better and we've fixed a lot of small bugs. phpPgAdmin is a fully functional web-based administration utility for a PostgreSQL database server. It handles all the basic functionality as well as some advanced features such as triggers, views and functions (stored procs).
DataVision 0.7.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266061
DataVision is an Open Source reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports. Reports can be designed using a drag-and-drop GUI. They may be run, viewed, and printed from the application or exported as HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX2e, DocBook, or tab- or comma-delimited text files. The output files produced by LaTeX2e and DocBook can in turn be used to produce PDF, text, HTML, PostScript, and more. This is a bug fix release. SQL tables would still sometimes not load their columns. They should, now. The HTML layout engine now uses "font-family", not "font-name", when specifying a field's font.
SandBoss_1_2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266060
sandboss is a free Structs And Nodes Development environment (sandbox) built on JBoss and other open source tools. The goal is to provide a working project management system as an example distributed enterprise application built using SAND. In addition to assorted bug fixes and minor enhancements, this release greatly extends the SANDForms UI structures and related processing. It is now possible to handle query operations on persistent message information (in addition to the existing add/update/delete processing) within a single unified form environment. Forms can also be named, to support control of multiple forms in a single display. See the UIGen.html documentation in the top level docs for details.
SquirrelMail 1.4.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266055
SquirrelMail is a PHP4-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It also has MIME support, folder manipulation, etc. Today, after a very long wait, the first stable child of the past development series, 1.4.0, has seen the light! It includes enhancements for stability, performance and compatibility, plus new features and many bugfixes. We consider this the best version of SquirrelMail available.
Slashdot
Windows Key Leak Threatens Mass Piracy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0457201
lou_soyur writes "A key code for installing Microsoft's Windows Server
2003 has [0]leaked onto the Internet. Rampant piracy sure to follow
fears Microsoft, so it's a safe assumption that their lawyers "would
scour the Internet looking for the leaked code". The joy of closed
source security at work."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1009-995879.html
VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0133212
An anonymous reader writes "[0]VIA has added a [1]hardware random
number generator to its Nehemiah C3 CPU. I found a [2]recent review of
its security. Interesting how it's done at the instruction level as
opposed to the chipset level used by the i810 RNG (also reviewed
there)."
Links
0.
http://www.via.com.tw/
1.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR030122Nehemiah.jsp
2.
http://www.cryptography.com/resources/whitepapers/index.html
Analysis of RIAA vs Princeton Student
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0145252
An anonymous reader submits: "Joe Barillari, a computer science student
studying under [0]Prof. Ed Felten, posted an analysis on [1]his blog of
the [2]lawsuit filed by the RIAA against a Princeton college student
for running [3]"Napster-like" networks. He argues that the case doesn't
quite live up to its contributory infringement claim due to limitations
in the [4]DMCA. A good read!"
Links
0.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/125215&tid=158
1.
http://barillari.org/blog/2003/04/07#riaa-vs-peng
2.
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/riaa/arcopeng40303njcmp.pdf
3.
http://www.riaa.org/PR_story.cfm?id=629
4.
http://barillari.org/papers/peng/peng.html#dmcadefenseWhat Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/1749246
LosManos asks: "A call for help to the Everyday Heroes that are out there: I have just returned from a 4 months scientific expedition to some of the more remote parts of the South Pacific. As soon as people we met found out that I was a computer guy they asked me to help them and all to often I had to reply that I didn't have the tools.This got me thinking; what should a software toolbox consist of? OS, patches, digital books, compilers, sniffers, servers, harddisk restore apps...? Please remember that the computers I met where often old and slow. The answers to this could be interesting also when you are not several days away from nearest inhabited island. I mean, what is it that most often break? How is it usually fixed? Are more fancy solutions more error prone?" If you were to create a "first aid kit" consisting of CDs, disks, books and other technical utilities you have used to resurrect dead systems, what would you put in it?
Sandia Labs Takes First Steps Toward Fusion http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/2320227
robosmall writes "Sandia Labs has [0]successfully demostrated the
emission of neutrons (a side effect of thermonuclear fusion) from a
BB-sized capsule of deuterium using using their venerable [1]Z-Machine
(eye-candy!). With this achievement they enter the race to create
sustained fusion reactions."
Links
0. http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2003/nuclear-power/Zneutrons.html
Windows Media Format Could Hit Linux-Based Devices http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/225206
An anonymous reader writes "[0]LinuxDevices.com reports that Microsoft
has licensed InterVideo Inc. to supply Windows Media Technology to
makers of Linux-based consumer devices. Under the agreement, InterVideo
is licensed to take the components of the Windows Media Format, port
them to Linux, and provide them to manufacturers who are interested in
running Windows Media Technology on Linux-based consumer devices such
as set-top boxes, personal video recorders, and other hybrid multimedia
devices."
Links
0. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8421395858.html
Open Node In A Bag
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/2225241
[0]adelayde writes "You're a wireless network engineer and you work on the run. You need a kit that gives you flexibily yet is light and portable. Style is also important to you. [1]This article ([2]mirrored here) describes just the kit you need, based on modifying the [3]Apple AirPort base station with suggestions for a range of handy antenna attachments and includes component part numbers and prices as well as a complete set of range test results. Just the Jobs for the wireless engineer on the go." Update: 04/08 00:06 GMT by [4]T: Here's [5]another mirror, thanks to the story submitter ;) Links
0.
http://www.psand.net/mike/
1.
http://flakey.info/airport/
2.
http://mirror1.flakey.info/airport/
3.
http://www.apple.com/airport/
4.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
5.
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/psand/airport/
Samba Exploit Discovered, Fixed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/2135238
An anonymous reader submits: "Digital Defense [0]reported a remote root
vulnerability in [1]Samba that has existed in Samba source code for
over 8 years. If it hadn't been caught from a wild packet capture, who
knows how many more years it might have gone on. Fixes for this, and at
least three other vulnerabilities have been fixed today. This is a
serious threat to many thousands of people.. Did you plan to spend your
Monday upgrading to Samba 2.2.8a?" elijahao supplies some more
information: "All stable versions are affected (2.x), but the 3.0
series is not. Here is a [2]link to the News page. Check out a
[3]mirror near you to get the Source or Security patches from 2.2.7a,
2.2.8, or 2.0.10."
Links
0.
http://www.digitaldefense.net/labs/advisories/DDI-1013.txt
1.
http://www.samba.org/
2.
http://samba.org/samba/samba.html
3.
http://samba.org/samba/index.htmlDiamonds As Room-Temperature Superconductors http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/1957251
Stormalong writes "This article describes research into using
[0]diamonds as room-temperature superconductors. If successful, perhaps
one day you could give your love a diamond engagement CPU instead of a
ring!"
Links
0. http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/4/5
Red Hat Linux 9 Release And Interview
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/1820219
Gentu writes "Red Hat Linux 9 [0]has been released to the official mirrors, brace for impact! Additionally, OSNews [1]features an interview with Red Hat Linux's manager, Matt Wilson and they discuss everything from mp3/dvd playback, to Randr, dependancy policies and more." Also on the Red Hat front, [2]DdJ writes "So, I noticed that Red Hat's stock price jumped up a bit this morning, and checked the news to find out why. It turns out they've released a new [3]portal product and a new [4]CMS product. Both appear to be based on Java/Tomcat, which would mean it's not Zope-based or Zend-based. But, they're supposedly open source. Anyone have any further info on this stuff yet?" Update: 04/08 05:24 GMT by [5]T: Don't forget that the new Red Hat release is [6]available through BitTorrent, too. Links
0.
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/shrike-list/2003-April/001031.html
1.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3219
2.
http://www.aisb.org/~ddj/
3.
http://redhat.com/software/rhea/portalserver/
4.
http://redhat.com/software/rhea/cms/
5.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
6.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1256236&tid=110
Freshmeat
Ace Operator 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118867/
Ace Operator is an instant messaging call-center solution that can be accessed from Web pages. Using this product, online service providers can easily add a "live help" button to any or all of their Web pages, which gives online customers access to company representatives and allows them to exchange information in real-time.
ADODB 3.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118875/
ADODB is a set of advanced PHP database abtraction classes. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere, Oracle, MS SQL 7, Sybase, DB2, FrontBase, Foxpro, Access, ADO, and generic ODBC. A metatype system is built in, making it possible to figure out that types such as CHAR, TEXT, and STRING are equivalent in different databases. It also features an SQL to HTML popup menu and SQL to HTML table support. It has code to support record paging and blob/clob support.
Agata Report 5.0 beta 001 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118859/
Agata Report is a database reporting tool and EIS tool (graph generation), like Crystal Reports. It is written in PHP-GTK, and allows you to edit and get SQL results from several databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, MsSql, Informix, InterBase, Sybase, and Frontbase). It connects to a database, lists its tables and fields, and allows you to link among tables, make constraints and orders, apply functions, and make queries. The result is exported to PostScript, plain text, HTML, or spreadsheet (CSV) format. Its interface has English, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, and Swedish support. There is a Merge tool that allows you to write any document and insert variables from the database, a Dia tool that allows you to generate ER diagrams, and a label tool that allows you to generate address labels. You can also create multi-level reports, with subtotals by group, and a grand total, besides run-time parameters.
akpop3d 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118912/
akpop3d is a POP3 daemon aimed to be small and secure. Despite its small size, it offers a lot of features. It is completely RFC 1939 compliant.
Arping 1.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118900/
Arping is an ARP level ping utility. It's good for finding out if an IP is taken before you have routing to that subnet. It can also ping MAC addresses directly. A rewrite that supports Libnet 1.1.x is included.
bogofilter 0.11.1.7 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118869/
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
Botan 1.1.11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118856/
Botan is a library of cryptographic algorithms written in C++. It includes a wide selection of block and stream ciphers, public key algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication codes. It has an easy-to-use filter interface and supports many common industry standards, including X.509v3.
CARRANZAFAX 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118883/
CARRANZAFAX is a Linux-based program that makes faxing quick and easy. It is completely written in C and uses GTK. It is a frontend GUI for EFAX, a binary faxing utility.
cdrtools 2.01a09 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118836/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.
Cherokee 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118868/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.
CustomChat Server 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118895/
The CustomChat Server is for novices and advanced programmers. It requires only a browser for an Administrator to manage chat rooms. There is no hardware or software for the end user to download or install, and the system is intuitively set up for Administrators to maintain community features through a fast Web interface. Use the Room Creator to design and create a totally customized conference area with multiple chat rooms in minutes. Embed Audio and Video or presentations.
darcs 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118904/
Darcs is an advanced revision control system along the lines of CVS or arch. It has two particularly distinctive features which differ from other revision control systems: each copy of the source is a fully functional branch, and underlying it is a consistent and powerful theory of patches (the latter being darcs' most important feature).
dccserver 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118864/
dccserver is a standalone program that aims to provide the
functionality of MIRC's /dccserver command. Currently, Chat and Send
(including resume) modes are supported. Fserve and Get mode are not yet
supported.
DiaCanvas2 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118852/
DiaCanvas2 is a flexible diagramming widget. It is based on GnomeCanvas. It uses its own constraint solver to maintain relationships between items on the canvas. It is Model/View/Controller-based and makes full use of GnomeCanvas' features.
DPROG 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118834/
DPROG is a domain-specific language for specifying dynamic programming algorithms; given a recursive definition of the problem, the compiler generates code for solving the problem using dynamic programming.
dwerg's gtk theme 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118805/
dwerg's gtk theme is a theme engine based on a design by Everaldo for Trillian.
Engauge Digitizer 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118837/
Engauge Digitizer converts an image showing a graph or map into numbers. The image file can come from a scanner, digital camera, or screenshot. The numbers can be read on the screen, and written or copied to a spreadsheet. Highlights include compensation for image distortion, cartesian and polar coordinates, linear and logarithmic coordinates, automatic scanning, graphical previews, and browser help.
execline 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118899/
execline is a very light, non-interactive scripting language, which is similar to a shell. Simple shell scripts can be easily rewritten in the execline language, improving performance and memory usage. execline was designed for use in embedded systems, but works on most Unix flavors.
Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118888/
Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE (fou4s) is a bash script that provides the functionality of YOU (YaST OnlineUpdate), but can also work in background and check for updates every night. It supports resumed downloads and proxies by using wget. GPG signatures are also checked.
foocache 2003-04-07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118881/
foocache is a simple caching system for PHP4 which optionally uses HTML-tidy to clean up the generated HTML Code. Instead of processing the whole page, a cachefile is loaded, assuming that it exists and is younger than a defined age. The name of the cache file is generated with the MD5 sum of the Request URI and the HTML post variables.
Gaphor 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118853/
Gaphor is a UML modeling tool written in Python (2.2). It utilizes the GTK+ widget library, and is designed to be very extensible.
ggcov 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118847/
Ggcov is a GTK+ GUI for exploring test coverage data produced by C programs compiled with gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage. It's basically a GUI replacement for the gcov program that comes with gcc.
gGo 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118845/
gGo is a Go board and SGF editor and client for the Internet Go Server. Go is an ancient board game, very common in Japan, China, and Korea. gGo was formerly named qGo for Java.
gmencoder 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118884/
Gmencoder is a GNOME 2 frontend to mencoder. It supports an output codec for video (lavcodec) and one for audio (lame). It support postprocesing, cropping, scale, subtitles ripping, and multiple encoding passes.
GtkHx 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118911/
GtkHx is a GTK+ version of Hx, a UNIX Hotline client.
GTKsubtitler 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118887/
GTKsubtitler is a tool for editing and converting subtitles for DivX films. It allows you to move subtitles, change their format, convert them to ISO-8859-1/2, and merge two sets of subtitles.
Highlight 2.0b-7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118851/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.5-dev-20030407 http://freshmeat.net/releases/118860/
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) provides an XML schema for historical events and a Java Web app which transforms conforming documents into hyperlinked timelines, maps and tables. It aims to provide a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add a historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.'
Java Serialization to XML 2 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118841/
Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing "ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream" with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable" interface.
kcd 6.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118844/
kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you.
Krename 2.6-rc1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118877/
Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.
Lepton's Crack 20030404 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118858/
Lepton's Crack is a generic password cracker. It is easily-customizable
with a simple plugin system and allows system administrators to review
the quality of the passwords being used on their systems. It can
perform a dictionary-based (wordlist) attack as well as a brute force
(incremental) password scan. It supports standard MD4 hash, standard
MD5 hash, NT MD4/Unicode, Lotus Domino HTTP password (R4), and SHA-1
hash formats.
Liferay 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118558/
Liferay is an enterprise portal. It handles users and portlet drawing, has a full administrative interface, supports all the major databases and the main J2EE application servers, and has single sign-on capabilities and multiple language support. It uses Apache Lucene for document searching. A number of portlets are included, including a guestbook, a calendar, a mapping utility which uses Expedia, news, polls, a document library, and live stock information.
Makin' Bakon Typing Tutor 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118855/
Makin' Bakon Typing Tutor is a terminal-based typing tutor game written in C++ (with STL) and Curses. It contains both structured and fortune-based lessons. Learn to type to a professional standard while you're saving Pig's bacon! Warning: Includes material that may offend.
Megamek.NET 0.307
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118874/
Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight against other players online. The game's community is already quite large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025 timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060.
Metalog 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118879/
Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd. The logged messages can be dispatched according to their facility, urgency, program name, and/or Perl-compatible regular expressions. Log files can be automatically rotated when they exceed a certain size or age. External shell scripts (e.g., mail) can be launched when specific patterns are found. Metalog is easier to configure than syslogd and syslog-ng, accepts an unlimited number of rules, and has (switchable) memory bufferization for maximal performance.
Mioga 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118862/
Mioga is a groupware application suitable for intranet use. All the functionality of Mioga can be reached through any HTML browser. The interface is designed with HTML templates which allow the look and feel and the ergonomics of Mioga to be fully and easily customizable. It is written in Perl and uses a PostgreSQL database. It uses DAV for file management, providing you with a complete DAV workspace with Mioga user access controls (ACLs). Mioga includes the followig applications: file manager, organizer, todo tasks, shared folders (with version control), forms, intranet search, and administration tool.
mldonkey 2.045rc1-13 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118828/
MLDonkey is a clone for the eDonkey 2000 network, a network with more than 100000 users, specialized for transferring big files like videos. Current version of MLdonkey is a daemon that can be accessed through telnet (for commands), HTTP (for Web pages), and a nice GTK GUI. It is written in Objective-Caml and released in binaries for many Unix platforms (Linux/i386, Linux/alpha, Linux/ppc, FreeBSD, Digital Unix, Mac OS X). Support for accessing several networks, such as Direct Connect, Open Napster, Gnutella, and Soulseek is under development.
mnoGoSearch 3.2.9 (3.2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118863/
mnoGoSearch (formerly known as UdmSearch) is a full-featured Web search engine which you can use to build search engines over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and NTTP servers, local files, and database big text fields. It supports Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, miniSQL, Solid, Virtuoso, InterBase, SAPDB, iODBC, EasySoft ODBC, and unixODBC database backends. mnoGoSearch is also known to work with MS SQL, SyBase, and Oracle through ODBC. It has text/html and text/plain built-in support, and external parsers support for other document types. An automatic language/charset guesser for more 70 language/charset combinations is included, along with basic authorization support, and you may index password-protected intranet HTTP servers with proxy authorization support.
Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.6.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118886/
Monkey HTTP Daemon is a small and fast Web server for Linux written in C. Its features include language support, GET, POST, and HEAD methods, CGI, PHP4 , a config file (optional for every user), a mime.types file, virtual hosts, the ability to deny URLs and IPs, to run as a different user (such as nobody), serve users home directories, and more.
MP3 STATION alpha1 rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118842/
MP3 STATION is a plain text Linux/Unix tool set for managing MP3 playback in a car with as little user interaction as possible. It can restart the last playlist at the last played track, transparently load directories, transparently recompile playlists, and keep a repository of all the playlists. It also has a simple ncurses client for comunicating with cm3s. All programs run under a non-privileged user account.
multitail 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118909/
multitail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail
program. The difference is that this program creates multiple windows
on your console (with ncurses). It can also use colors while displaying
the logfiles for faster recognizing which lines are important and which
are not. It is optimized for terminal-sessions through slow links
(compared to 'that other' multi-tail).
MusE 0.6.0pre8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118870/
MusE is a Qt 2.1-based MIDI sequencer for Linux with editing and recording capabilities. While the sequencer is playing you can edit events in realtime with the pianoroll editor or the score editor. Recorded MIDI events can be grouped as parts and arranged in the arrange editor.
MyDNS 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118833/
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.
netrik 1.7.0 (alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118827/
Netrik is an advanced text mode WWW browser. Its purpose is to give access to as much of the Web as possible in text mode, without forsaking any comfort.
nInvaders 0.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118916/
nInvaders is a Space Invaders clone for ncurses.
NSA Security-enhanced Linux 2003040708
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118914/
NSA Security-enhanced Linux is a set of patches to the Linux kernel and some utilities to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. It provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. It includes a set of sample security policy configuration files designed to meet common, general-purpose security goals.
oxygen XML editor 2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118861/
Oxygen is a Java-based XML editor with support for XML, XSL, TXT, XSD, and DTD documents. It has FOP and Unicode support and the interface messages have been translated to English, French, German, Italian, and Romanian.
Palantir 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118843/
Palantir is a client-server streaming system designed to transmit live video, audio, and data over a TCP/IP network. The server runs on a Linux box. The supplied Java client can display the live video stream as well as interact with hardware devices connected to the server. A native Windows client also allows full-duplex audio communications with the server.
Pebrot 0.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118857/
Pebrot is an MSN messenger text client implemented with Python 2 (not 1.5). It also has a pretty curses-based interface.
Pen 0.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118889/
Pen is a load balancer for "simple" TCP-based protocols such as HTTP or SMTP. It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside. It automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance.
phpLicenseWatcher 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118898/
phpLicenseWatcher is a Web frontend to the FlexLM lmstat and lmdiag commands. You can keep track of usage, health of license servers, get alerted when licenses are due to expire, and capture usage history.
Project Assistant 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118873/
The Project Assistant (prass) is a Web tool designed for use in the
software change management process. It provides a Web interface for
feature/support/change and bug requests support for projects that are
separated from each other. Each project has its own list of developers
(with different roles and permissions). The developer can perform
operations depending on his permissions and role in the project.
RoadMap 1.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118832/
RoadMap is a GIS program for Linux that displays street maps. The maps are provided by the US Census Bureau, and thus only cover the US. Specific areas are displayed by selecting a street address (street number, street name, city, and state). It interfaces with gpsd to track a GPS position, and has been designed to be usable on both a desktop or laptop computer, or on a PDA.
RPL/2 4.00pre6f (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118846/
RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL made by Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions (preprocessor, compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can draw graphics.
Samba 2.2.8a (2.2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118872/
The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol.
sgml2x converter 0.99.9 (sgml2x-1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118878/
sgml2x is a script designed to help applying a DSSSL stylesheet to an SGML or XML document. It already has a couple of interesting features, such as multiple possible stylesheets per document class, easy integration of new stylesheets by adding a simple new definition file in a configuration directory (system-wide, per-user, or per-project), and automatic selection of a default stylesheet to be used. It is already set up for DocBook SGML/XML.
Shapefile C Library 1.2.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118865/
Shapefile C Library is a C library for reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles and their related DBF files. All geometry types are supported, with robust DBF support. Shapelib is widely used for commercial and free projects. Shapelib includes command line utilities for dumping, subsetting, clipping, shifting, scaling, and reprojecting shapefiles.
skadns 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118903/
skadns is an asynchronous DNS client library. It was designed for simplicity of use and light resource usage, and can even be used on an embedded system. Unlike other DNS client libraries, skadns leaves the asynchronous work to a daemon, making the client API easy to understand and use.
skalibs 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118897/
skalibs is a set of general-purpose, low-level C libraries, all in the public domain. It can replace or hide the standard C library to some extent. It is designed to allow building of small static binaries. It is used in building all skarnet.org software, including execline and skadns.
SMTP client class 2003.04.07 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118891/
SMTP client class is a class that connects to a SMTP mail server to send messages. It can relay message delivery to a defined SMTP server or directly deliver messages to a recipient's SMTP server, allows a programmer defined server address, server port, connection timeout, origin host address, user/realm/password authentication credentials, setting sender and recipient address as a separate step from the sending the headers and the body of the message, returns message delivery success, detects extensions supported by the SMTP server, and takes advantage of the SMTP PIPELINING extension to buffer SMTP commands, providing much faster queueing of messages when delivering to &nb