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[osdn developer] April 16, 2003
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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April 16, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Cube Goodies: Nerf Air Tech 2000
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5e15/
Clearance: Shirt Grab Bag
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Gadgets: Powerball Gyroscope
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ea1/
Gadgets: 3D Green Laser Show
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5e80/
Electronics: Casio Exilim EX-M2 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5e6f/
Electronics: Panasonic DVD Player - DVDS35 http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5eaf/
Tshirts: Mostly IP Creeper & Toddler Tee http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/kids/5e09/
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
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d46/
Books: Pattern Recognition
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/scifi/5d4a/
Computing: Zalman CNPS7000-Cu CPU Cooler http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e55/
Computing: Multi-Fan Speed Controller
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Computing: Zalman Silent 400W Power Supply http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e4c/
Computing: Half Keyboard
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Computing: Zalman VGA Heatsink w/ HeatPipe http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e5e/
Cube Goodies: Portable Mini Fridge
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Gadgets: LightWedge Reading Light
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Gadgets: Binary Code Watch
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Books: High Score! The Illustrated History Of Electronic Games http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5e26/
Sourceforge
JML 3.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=267409
This release of JML has many improvements over the earlier (3.6) release. The Java Modeling Language (JML) is a behavioral interface specification language that can be used to specify the behavior of Java modules. It combines the approaches of Eiffel and Larch, with some elements of the refinement calculus. Highlights include: - Much better support for refinement (although refinement does not yet work with jmlc), - Three new specification expressions have been added to permit specification of time and space. - A new tool, jmlspec, which is a specification skeleton generator. It takes a Java source file and can produce a file that one could use to add specifications to in a way that would refine the original. - The syntax of the refine clause has been simplified to refine "A.java"; where only a file and no classes are mentioned. Thanks to Clyde Ruby for this and to David Cok for the suggestion. - The jmldoc tool is now compatible with JDK 1.4. Note that J2SDK 1.3 is no longer supported by the tools. See the release change log (or the NEWS.txt file in the release) for more details.
PHP Surveyor release 0.95 beta
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=267374
Project aims to develop a fully functional Survey development & dataentry system. Including dataentry screen, public dataentry script, method for issuing tokens, emailing invitations & recording responses, basic statistical analysis and export facility. This release includes some incremental improvements - a changelog covering most of these is available from the project homepage. The biggest enhancement is the addition of 'mandatory' questions. This allows you, on a question by question basis, to set a question as mandatory, and require the participant to answer it before they can move away from the question. In the data-entry screen, the question is marked as being 'mandatory', however the survey can be submitted without an answer. This is to deal with dataentry of hardcopy surveys where the mandatory question has not been answered. The other major enhancement of this release is the capacity to track surveys. When a new survey is created, you are given the option of making it Anonymous, or not. If the survey is not anonymous, each response keeps a copy of the participants unique token. Using this you can track the response of each individual participant. From the 'tokens' screen, you can view the participants response, and from the 'browse' screen you can view the participants token information. As was the case for release 0.94, this is another "on the way" release. There are a few features still to be addd prior to the release of Version 1, and some continued tidying and bug-checking of the script still to be done. I would appreciate it if you could let me know about any bugs you find, or even just 'difficulties' you come across in using the script. Planned developments underway but not yet finished include a "all-in-one" public survey screen - so you can choose to present the survey on one single screen, rather than question by question.
dom4j 1.4. released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=267091
Finally after a much longer delay than we expected the 1.4 release of dom4j is out. dom4j is a simple and flexible open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java platform using the Java Collections Framework with full integration with DOM, SAX and JAXP.
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).
Slashdot
NASA Wires Chips With Nanotubes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0034246
carstene writes "SpaceDaily reports that NASA has come up with a way to
[0]wire microchips with nanotubes instead of copper interconnects.
Aparently this could keep Moore's law a reality well into the next
decade."
Links
0. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/chip-tech-03g.html
Robotic Massage, Anyone?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/2250248
[0]Migraineman writes "[1]These folks have built a small robot designed
to [2]walk around on your back. The website includes a short video of
the machine roaming around. There's [3]another that's suspended from
the ceiling and performs 3-D solid mapping of the person beneath.
Warning - the website contains 'artsy' stuff, and doesn't include
technical tidbits. Dang."
Links
0. mailto:migraineman@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/index.html
2.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/tickle/TICKLEcat.html
3.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/TickleSalon/TickleSalon.html
AOL Sues Spammers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/003256
mabu writes "Prompted by what they're reporting as over eight million
complaints and the result of over a billion inbound junk e-mails,
according to [0]this press release, America Online is now stepping up
its battle against spam by initiating five lawsuits against over a
dozen companies and individuals. Let's hope this is the beginning of a
more aggressive effort on the part of ISPs to prove to their users that
they are seriously interested in addressing this issue, and at its
source. I've maintained that this has never been a freedom of speech
issue. It's more an issue of mail relay hijacking, forging header
information, and exploiting third-party networks and resources. Perhaps
if more ISPs took action, we might see the backbone providers doing so
as well?"
Links
0. http://media.aoltimewarner.com/media/newmedia/cb_press_view.cfm?release_num=55253129
Interesting and Educational Web Pages for Children? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/2139257
[0]watashiwananashidesu asks: "I am a teenager with no siblings and a a
good number of little cousins. Being something of a nerd, I'm
incredibly popular with these cousins, especially the ones who are
8-11. Recently, when my first cousin (female, 8) was over, I began a
collection of links that she might enjoy--sites that were appropriate
and fun. Now that the Cold/Flu season is over, I can expect more visits
from my first, second, and third cousins, and I'm left with a dismally
small collection of links (eight, to be specific) for them to peruse.
Also, the few I have are unsatisfactory; they're mainly corporate sites
like [1]Barbie.com and [2]Lego.com with a few non-corporate games mixed
in. None of the sites have any educational value, least of all about
the things that I really want to expose them to--science, math,
literature, and computers. In fact, I especially need sites that will
teach them about computers, so that they'll be able to better keep in
touch with me, when we're all older. What are some good sites I can
bookmark for my cousins that are: educational, appropriate for children
aged 5-11, (mainly three boys and two girls), fun, not a security
threat, non-corporate (though this last one is optional) Also, how can
I make my friends/protégé(e)s/cousins make the best of what few links
I have or manage to find?"
Links
0. mailto:turbinesmine69@yahoo.com
1.
http://barbie.com/
2.
http://lego.com/Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/2230252
FrzrBrn writes "Whitfield Diffie and Ronald Rivest raised concerns about Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (formerly Palladium) at the [0]RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. They are (naturally) concerned about vendor lock-in and having computers turned against their owners. See the [1]story at EE Times." Links
0. http://www.rsaconference.net/rsa2003/
DOS Attack Via US Postal Service
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/2027225
Phronesis writes "Bruce Schneier [0]reports in [1]Crypto-Gram about the
slashdot-inspired [2]Post-office DOS attack on SPAM-king [3]Alan
Ralsky. More interesting, Schneier writes, is a recent paper on
[4]Defending against an internet-based attack on the physical world,
which generalizes this attack and discusses how it could be automated
and how one might defend against it (you can't stop it, but you could
make it harder to effect). From the abstract of the article: 'The
attack is, to some degree, a consequence of the availability of private
information on the Web, and the increase in the amount of personal
information that users must reveal to obtain Web services.'"
Links
0.
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0304.html#1
1.
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html
2.
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/12/06.11.shtml
3.
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend22_20021122.htm
4.
http://www.avirubin.com/scripted.attacks.pdfTop Physicist Advocates Scientific Self-Censorship http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/186203
spamania writes "The [0]San Francisco Chronicle is running this article
about a new book by Britain's astronomer royal, Sir Martin Rees, that
advocates [1]restricting scientific research in certain fields in the
interest of public safety. In "Our Final Hour", Rees lends a sober,
respectable voice to the oft-irrational ranting about nanotech,
biotech, and other fields."
Links
0. http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle
The Post-OOP Paradigm
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1745243
[0]Kallahar writes "American Scientist has an article up about
[1]Computing Science: The Post-OOP Paradigm. The article has a great
overview of how OOP works, and then goes on to a brief outline of the
possible successors to OOP such as Aspect, Pattern, and Extreme
Programming. Also a [2]pretty picture of OOP Spaghetti."
Links
0. mailto:kallahar@quickwired.com
1.
http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci03/03-03Hayes.html
2.
http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci03/03-03Hayescap3.html
Review: QCast Tuner for PS2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1925250
With TiVo's release of the much anticipated [0]Home Media Option
(anticipated by me, anyway), I renewed my quest to find a way to
integrate my computer's media files with my TV. TiVo's solution is not
an option for me, because I don't have a Series2, and even if I did,
the TiVo solution doesn't work with DirecTV units (for now, anyway). So
I looked into something I saw a few months ago on ThinkGeek: [1]QCast
Tuner for PlayStation 2.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/183216&tid=129
Analyzing the Microsoft Tablet PC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1517203
An anonymous reader writes "[0]ZDNet UK has an amusing - but accurate in my view - [1]review of the Microsoft Tablet PC. It may not be the first, but it is the most incisive because of the way it dissects the many fundamental flaws in Microsoft's latest creation." Links
Freshmeat
Compact Disc Input and Control Library 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119674/
This library encapsulates CD-ROM reading and control. Applications wishing to be oblivious of the OS- and device-dependent properties of a CD-ROM can use this library. Some support for disk image types like BIN/CUE and NRG is available, so applications that use this library also have the ability to read disc images as though they were CDs. A sample utility for displaying CD info is included.
acarsd Beta 1 (Client)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119726/
acarsd is the first ACARS decoder for Linux. ACARS stands for Communications Addressing and Reporting System. acarsd tries to decode ACARS transmissions from aircrafts. Some features include Type of Aircraft, Flight, and Operator.
AquaLess 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119685/
AquaLess is a text pager for Mac OS X that is intended to replace the less command. It allows you to browse lengthy text output from Unix command line tools in a separate window, so you can keep working in the terminal while you read.
Astro::Aladin 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119758/
Astro::Aladin is a an object-oriented interface into the resources provided by the CDS Aladin project. The Aladin Java application is driven in script mode using an anonymous pipe, while high level access to resources is provided by the module which disguises the mechanics of the data access.
Asymptopia BlackJack 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119764/
Asymptopia BlackJack is a full-featured casino-style blackjack game written in Python using PyGame for graphics. You play with up to 6 robots against the dealer. You can specify which player is you. It is dynamic, addictive, and you don't lose real money!
blueflops 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119702/
blueflops is a Linux distribution that fits on two floppy disks, but includes a graphical Web browser (links 2.1pre9 using svgalib 1.4.3) and a popular IRC client (BitchX 1.0c19). The kernel is 2.4.20 with most of the Ethernet drivers compiled as modules. The C library is uClibc 0.9.16, busybox is a slightly modified version of 0.61.pre. The 'links' and 'BitchX' binaries are statically linked and compressed with UPX 1.90. The distinguishing feature of blueflops is its configuration procedure. The scripts are all accessible through a 'setup' script, and they all have a nice 'dialog' front-end.
Botan 1.1.12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119744/
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.
cgic 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119757/
cgic is an ANSI C-language library for the creation of CGI-based World Wide Web applications. cgic performs the following tasks: It parses form data, with browser correction, Transparently accepts both GET and POST form data, Handles line breaks in form fields in a consistent manner, Provides string, integer, floating-point, and single/multiple-choice functions to retrieve form data, provides bounds checking for numeric fields, loads CGI environment variables into C strings which are always non-null, and provides a way to capture CGI situations for replay in a debugging environment.
Consultant Communicator 3rc1 (Testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119748/
Consultant Communicator (ConsultComm) is a lightweight, cross-platform program that allows anyone managing multiple projects, clients, or tasks to effectively keep track of exactly how much time has been spent on each project.
cursCPU 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119737/
cursCPU is an ncurses CPU monitor. It displays statistics about CPU usage and has a number of color schemes.
cutmp3 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119741/
cutmp3 is a small commandline MP3 editor. It lets you select sections of an MP3 and save them to separate files without quality loss. It uses mpg123 for playback. It mostly works with VBR files, but they are treated as CBR files.
DeskNow 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119671/
DeskNow is a free mail and collaboration server. In addition to standard SMTP and POP3, it offers Web-based collaboration tools such as advanced Webmail with spam filtering, document management to let users store and share documents online, unlimited Web calendars with sharing and combined views, message boards, and address books. All the services are tightly integrated to improve productivity and semplicity. DeskNow can integrate with an existing qmail, or run as a standalone SMTP and POP3 server.
disktype 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119752/
The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.
FAM 2.6.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119676/
FAM, the File Alteration Monitor, provides an API which applications can use to be notified when specific files or directories are changed. It comes in two parts: fam, the daemon which listens for requests and delivers notification, and libfam, a library which client applications can use to communicate with fam.
FELIP 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119745/
FELIP (File Editing and Listing In PHP) is a Web-based file editor. It was designed to allow remote editing and compiling of Java source files on a Linux server without the need for a terminal login, however, it can be used to edit any text file. It provides a directory browser to easily view files along with creating, uploading, copying, deleting, moving, renaming, and Java compiling features. All functions except Java compliation are completed in PHP to maintain standardization.
Fink 0.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119658/
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.
FLP-i18n 1.053
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119751/
FLP-i18n (Flaimo's Little Package) is a collection of PHP classes for internationalization. It formats date and time strings, replaces keywords, converts measurement units between SI and the US Customary System, and more.
Freetype 2.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119759/
FreeType 2 is a high-quality and portable font engine that is capable of supporting several font formats (be they bitmapped or scalable) through a simple and uniform interface. Its design is modular and allows independent "font driver" modules to be added, even at runtime, to support additional formats. It also provides a high-quality anti-aliasing renderer, an innovative auto-hinting engine, and support for the following font formats: TrueType Type1, CID-Type 1, Multiple Masters Type 1 OpenType/CFF, pure CFF, and CEF Windows FNT/FON.
Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119715/
Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast Linux distribution for x86, PowerPC, Sparc, and Sparc64 that's geared towards Linux power users. Unlike other distros, it has an advanced package management system called Portage. Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based and sports a number of advanced features including dependencies, fine-grained package management, "fake" (OpenBSD-style) installs, path sandboxing, safe unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages, config file management, and more.
geskoctrl 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119692/
geskoctrl is an application to download/upload firmware for GESKO PBXes. geskoctrl is also useful for controlling these PBXes.
GKrellM 2.1.9 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119669/
GKrellM is a GTK-based stacked monitor program that charts SMP CPUs, disks, load, active net interfaces, and internet connections. There are also builtin monitors for memory and swap, file systems with mount/umount feature, mailbox checking including POP3 and IMAP, clock/calendar, laptop battery, sensors (temperatures, voltages, and fans), and uptime. It has LEDs for the net monitors and an on/off button and online timer for PPP. There is a GUI popup for configuration, plugin extensions can be installed, and many themes are available. It also features a client/server monitoring capability.
gnocl 0.5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119742/
gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support. It is loosely modeled after the Tk package.
Gnome Swallow 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119765/
Gnome Swallow is a GNOME 2 implementation of a very useful feature of the orignal GNOME panel--the ability to "swallow" other programs, to embed small applications in the panel even if the application was not specifically written for GNOME.
Gringotts 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119698/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data (passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string, giving additional choices.
HTML Family Tree Generator 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119714/
HTML Family Tree Generator is a pair of CGI Perl scripts that will create views of a family tree from a supplied data file. The data file is a simple text file, listing the family members, parents, and other details. It is possible to show a tree of ancestors and descendants for any person, showing any number of generations. Other facilities are provided for showing email directories, birthdays, and more.
iCommune 2.0a1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119713/
iCommune is an application that extends Apple's iTunes to share music over the network. It allows you to share the music in your iTunes library and access other iCommune music collections. iCommune music collections appear as playlists in your iTunes window. You can browse through them, and choose to stream or download the music they contain.
im-ja 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119700/
im-ja aims to be a generic Japanese input module for GTK+ 2. Currently supported input modes are Hiragana, Katakana, Half-Width Katakana, Zenkaku, Canna, Wnn, and Kanji character recognition (based on Kanjipad).
imgv 2.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119697/
imgv is free Image Viewer that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MS-Windows, Mac OS X, and more. It includes standard features such as a file/directory browser, slideshows, zooming in and out, flipping, and rotating. It also has special features such as the ability to view 4 images on the screen at once, adjustable thumbnail sizes, image playlists, remote image loading, MPEG movie support, a customizable interface, and much more.
ipsvd 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119694/
ipsvd is a set of "internet protocol service daemons". It includes daemons for TCP/IP and UDP/IP. An internet protocol service (ipsv) daemon waits for incoming connections on a socket. For new connections, it conditionally runs an arbitrary program to handle the connection. ipsv daemons can be told to read and follow pre-defined instructions on how to handle incoming connections. It's possible to run different programs, set a different environment, deny a connection, or set a per host concurrency limit that depends on the client's address or hostname. ipsvd can be used to run services usually run by inetd, xinetd, or tcpserver. Normally the ipsv daemons are run by a supervisor process, such as runsv from the runit package, or supervise from the daemontools package.
Ismo 0.0.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119739/
Ismo is a Web application framework written in PHP.
JBoss 3.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119719/
JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans application server implemented in pure Java. JBoss provides JBossServer, the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure, JBossMQ for JMS messaging, JBossMail for mail, JBossTX for JTA/JTS transactions, JBossSX for JAAS based security, JBossCX for JCA connectivity, and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. It integrates with Tomcat Servlet/JSP container and Jetty Web server/servlet container, and enables you to mix and match these components through JMX by replacing any component you wish with a JMX-compliant implementation for the same APIs. The goal is to provide a full J2EE stack in the Free/Open Source software world.
Jin client for chess servers 2.07b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119691/
Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. While it currently only supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org), it is written to be flexible enough to support any chess server. It is based on the Swing UI toolkit and runs on any Java 1.1 compatible JVM.
JXTA Instant Messenger 0.1e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119704/
JXTA Instant Messenger (JIM) aims to establish a server-free instant messaging system with various options. It features encrypted messaging, presence awareness, and sophisticated search for users.
kcmdhcpd 0.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119746/
kcmdhcpd is a configure program for the ISC DHCP-Server for the KDE-project.
Kodos 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119743/
Kodos is a regular expression designer, tester, debugger, and validator that allows a developer to create and modify regular expressions against a test string. The intuitive interface allows the developer the ability to modify the regular expression (regex) and to see the effects against their test string in real-time.
libGringotts 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119696/
libGringotts is a small, easy-to-use, thread-safe C library originally developed for Gringotts. Its purpose is to encapsulate data in an encrypted and compressed file. It uses strong cryptographic algorithms (RIJNDAEL 128/256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST256, SAFER+, LOKI97, and 3DES for encryption, and SHA1 and RIPEMD-160 for hashing) to ensure the data are as safe as possible, and allow the user to have the complete control over all the encryption, hashing, and compression algorithms used in the process. It also provides functions for encrypting temporary files and to securely manage memory. It is based upon libmcrypt and mhash, and supports pkgconfig.
libSigC++ Extras 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119732/
libSigC++ Extras is a library consisting of new features built on top of libSigC++ and features that formerly were in libSigC++ and were removed from it. The new features focus on thread support and provide type safe inter-thread communication.
LJChk 0.0.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119733/
LJChk is a script for working with livejournal servers via the XMLRPC over HTTP protocol. Functions include continous checking for friends' updates, monitoring changes in a friends list, posting both in your own journal and in community journals, with the ability to use all the options available through the livejournal Web interface, and auto-posting quote lists with references to other users' posts.
LKL 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119684/
LKL is a userspace key logger that runs under Linux on the x86 architechture. LKL sniffs and logs everything that passes through the hardware keyboard port (0x60). It translates keycodes to ASCII with a keymap file.
mailsync 5.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119681/
Mailsync is a way of synchronizing a collection of mailboxes. The
algorithm is a 3-way diff. Two mailboxes are simultaneously compared to
a record of the state of both mailboxes at last sync. New messages and
message deletions are propagated between the two mailboxes. Mailsync
can synchronize local or remote mailboxes in many formats including
IMAP(S).
Meta-CVS 1.0.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119673/
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.
MIMEDefang 2.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119729/
MIMEDefang is a flexible MIME email scanner designed to protect Windows clients from viruses. However, it can do many other kinds of mail processing, such as replacing parts of messages with URLs, adding boilerplate disclaimers, and so on. It can alter or delete various parts of a MIME message according to a very flexible configuration file. It can also bounce messages with unacceptable attachments. MIMEDefang works with Sendmail 8.11/8.12's new "Milter" API, which makes it more flexible and efficient than procmail-based approaches.
Mozilla Starter Script 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119724/
mss is a wrapper for Mozilla. Its main purpose is to open a new Mozilla window in an existing process rather than starting a new Mozilla process each time "mozilla" is called. It can also convert to and from command line switches and -remote commands as necessary (if supported by Mozilla).
mrtg 2.9.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119730/
The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF/PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic.
mtop 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119740/
mtop (MySQL top) monitors a MySQL database showing the queries which are taking the most amount of time to complete. Features include 'zooming' in on a process to show the complete query, 'explaining' the query optimizer information for a query and 'killing' queries. In addition, server performance statistics, configuration information, and tuning tips are provided.
NAT Monitor 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119655/
NAT Monitor is a graphical monitor to keep tracks of hosts' bandwidth usage in a Linux-NAT local network. NAT Monitor draws a stacked graph with a different color for every LAN host. It autodetects hosts and has a nice summary statistic.
ntop 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119675/
ntop is a network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes. In interactive mode, it displays the network status on the user's terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a Web server, creating an HTML dump of the network status. It sports a NetFlow/sFlow emitter/collector, an HTTP-based client interface for creating ntop-centric monitoring applications, and RRD for persistently storing traffic statistics.
Package DataBase View 2.0.2 (2.x.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119695/
Package DataBase View generates an HTML view of an RPM or a dpkg database. Its modular design allows support for other database formats and other output formats (like XML).
palito 2003-04-13a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119762/
palito is a real-time strategy game inspired by Total Annihilation.
Pan 0.13.94
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119711/
Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.
Pancho 9.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119708/
Pancho is a utility that allows network administrators to make changes to the configuration for a single node or group of nodes through SNMP and TFTP. It also provides archiving functionality by allowing you to copy the device configurations to a remote server through a scheduled cron or at job.
Pebrot 0.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119683/
Pebrot is an MSN messenger text client implemented with Python 2 (not 1.5). It also has a pretty curses-based interface.
phpBandwidth Monitor 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119728/
phpBandwidth monitors a particular network interface (eth0, eth1, ppp0, etc.) and provides a realtime graph showing bandwidth consumption on a server.
PHPlist 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119709/
PHPlist is a mailing list system that allows posting via a Web page. It works well when used for announcements, and can handle very large email address lists. Users can sign up to multiple lists, but will only receive a single copy of cross-posted messages. When signing up, users can identify their geographical location, and messages can be targetted to these. You can add place holders in your email that will be replaced with personal details (such as the person's name). Users can update their own information, and unlike many other mailing list systems, they can change their email address. HTML emails are supported.
phpWebSite 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119693/
phpWebSite provides a complete Web site content management solution. All client output is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Features include articles, page creation, menu management, an event scheduler, a form generator, and much more.
Python Desktop Server 0.4.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119722/
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.
ratpoison 1.2.0-beta4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119672/
Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no large library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It is largely modeled after GNU Screen, which has done wonders in the virtual terminal market. All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes. ratpoison has a prefix map to minimize the key clobbering that cripples EMACS and other quality pieces of software. All windows are maximized and kept maximized to avoid wasting precious screen space.
Remote Tea 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119707/
Remote Tea is a pure Java implementation of Sun's ONC/RPC protocol. Complete client and server functionality is available, as is client access to the portmapper. The package contains an rpcgen-like precompiler for converting .x files into Java classes. Also included is a Java-based portmapper.
rexima 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119686/
rexima is a curses-based interactive mixer which can also be used from the command-line. It's intended to be a simple, general, usable mixer without all the chrome usually present in other mixers.