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[osdn developer] April 19, 2003
Date: Sat Apr 19 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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April 19, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Computing: USB 2.0 Kit
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Computing: Bay-Mounted 6-in-1 Card Reader http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5ee4/
Electronics: PRISMIQ MediaPlayer
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Cube Goodies: Nerf Air Tech 2000
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Gadgets: 3D Green Laser Show
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Gadgets: Powerball Gyroscope
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ea1/
Electronics: Panasonic DVD Player - DVDS35 http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5eaf/
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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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Computing: Half Keyboard
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Computing: Zalman VGA Heatsink w/ HeatPipe http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e5e/
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Computing: Multi-Fan Speed Controller
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Cube Goodies: Portable Mini Fridge
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Gadgets: LightWedge Reading Light
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Sourceforge
Fire 0.32.d released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=268397
Fire 0.32.d is now available for download! Fire is a multi-protocol
instant messenger client for Mac OS X based on freely available
libraries for each service. Currently Fire handles AOL Instant
Messenger™, ICQ®, MSN® Messenger, Jabber, limited IRC, and Yahoo!®
Pager communications. Many thanks to Alan for helping out with this
release. Also thanks to Ken for two new localizations (Simplified and
Traditional Chinese). This brings our total to 11 languages. Fire
0.32.d is a bug fix release. All users of 0.32.c and earlier are
encouraged to update. With all 11 languages:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.d.dmg?download
English only:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.d.english.dmg?down
load 0.32.d ------ Application ----------- - Updated Spanish, French,
and German localizations - Added localizations for Traditional Chinese
and Simplified Chinese thanks to Ken Tsang for this - Fixed
inconsistency between the conversation browser and buddy list which
could occur in some cases (bug 683777) (jt) - Fixed the chat window
toolbar icon sizes for when the size is set to small (gb) - Fixed issue
with names of preference panes in German localiation (ah) Services
- MSN® - Fixed extra typing notifications that were sent when using return or enter to send messages. This would result in the other side thinking you were typing when you weren't. Thanks to Mark Rowe for the pointer on what was going wrong (bug 688412) (mr/jt) - Properly notices when you are disconnected (bug 682382) (jt) - When receiving files, properly notifies the sender of success (bug 689088) (jt) Yahoo!® - Fixed problem with crash when Yahoo was first connecting. (ah) (bugs 709812, 710998, 705309, 700575, 699107, 683174, 657744)
phpMyAdmin 2.5.0-rc1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=268421
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. Here is the first release candidate for version 2.5.0. There are lots of new features, see http://phpmyadmin.net or the ChangeLog for details.
Fink 0.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269018
Fink is proud to announce that the Fink binary distribution 0.5.2 is
available from the download page at
http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/. With over 190 new binary
packages, KDE, KOffice and KDevelop binaries amongst other various
improvements this is a recommended download for any new and all
existing Fink users. The full announcement can be read at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1971738&forum_id
=2022
Firebird 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is available for download http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269045
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. Release Notes: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=152919
Crystal Space 0.96r004 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269309
Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL or software and features curved surfaces, volumetric fog, dynamic colored lighting, terrain engine, LOD, procedural textures, portals, etc. This is a maintenance release to Crystal Space 0.96. In the mean time a lot more exciting things are happening with the CVS version of CS :-) - Lots of fixes to configure for better project configuration on various flavors of operating systems. - Bug fix in milk2spr. - Some fixes in OpenGL renderer and canvas. - Fixed a huge amounts of bugs and problems in the ensockete driver. - Fixed some bugs in the socket driver too.
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.
Slashdot
Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/0344251
An anonymous reader writes "As many readers will know, [0]mozilla.org
was asked to change the name for their standalone browser, [1]Phoenix
as [2]another browser had the same name. After [3]months of discussion,
the new name was [4]announced as [1]Mozilla Firebird. Despite the new
name being approved by [5]AOL Legal, supporters of the [6]FirebirdSQL
database were quick to object (though the name is also used by [7]many
other people). A coincidentally named supporter of FirebirdSQL,
[8]IBPhoenix, put up a slightly immature [9]request for their readers
to participate in mass posting campaign targetting mozilla.org
developers' email accounts, newsgroups and even forums at independent
sites such as [10]MozillaZine and Slashdot. FirebirdSQL's official site
later [6]reiterated this message. However, IBPhoenix have now declared
this shock-and-awe stage of their campaign over, heralding it a
success. Their [11]second stage calls for a more focussed email protest
at just two of mozilla.org's members: Mitchell Baker (mozilla.org's
leader) and Asa Dotzler (announcer of the name change). In addition,
they ask their readers to move away from 'derogatory messages' and to
show more 'courtesy'. Unsurprisingly, the beleaguered admins of
affected sites such as MozillaZine have [12]welcomed this change of
direction. This is getting very interesting!"
Links
0.
http://www.mozilla.org/
1.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/
2.
http://www.phoenix.com/en/solutions/connect/
3.
http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=291
4.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3075
5.
http://www.aol.com/
6.
http://www.firebirdsql.org/
7.
http://www.google.com/search?q=firebird
8.
http://www.ibphoenix.com/
9.
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_Mozilla0
10.
http://www.mozillazine.org/
11.
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_Mozilla2
12.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3086
Should You Hire a Hacker?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/0211238
[0]fabioj writes "[1]Business Week has an article about [2]today's
debate at the RSA Security Conference held at the Moscone Center
attended by Kevin Mitnick and his 1995 trial prosecutor, Christopher
Painter. Interesting to note that Painter doesn't see Kevin Mitnick's
experiences as a deterrent for the 'up-and-coming technology workforce'
to criminally hack."
Links
0.
http://poemata.com
1.
http://www.businessweek.com/
2.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2003/tc20030416_7638_tc029.htm
Genderplay in Videogames
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/0127234
[0]thenovacrisis writes "[1]Game Girl Advance has an interesting
article about the [2]various female characters in videogames. She talks
about the important balance between alienation and identification, the
Aesthetics of Sexy Girls, and various MMORPGs. An interesting read for
all." A lot of games are compared, and issues raised. Good food for
thought for character design.
Links
0. mailto:thenovacrisis@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.gamegirladvance.com/
2.
http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2003/04/16/genderplay_successes_and_failures_in_character_designs_for_videogames.html
Build Your Own Bar Stool Racer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1128255
[0]angkor sends in this site about the new and fascinating sport of
[1]bar stool racing.
Links
DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2332233
Starrider writes "It seems the [0]DARPA grant for [1]OpenBSD and for
[2] University of Pennsylvania has been cancelled (?) immediately and
without warning. See the full story in [3]Theo's email and on
[4]deadly.org." Theo is left to only speculate why funding was suddenly
pulled. One also has to wonder what this means for the University of
Pennsylvania, since they were also in for a piece of the pie.
Links
0.
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html
1.
http://www.openbsd.org/
2.
http://www.upenn.edu/
3.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2
4.
http://64.90.164.50/article.php3?sid=20030417181810
Are Rebates Scandalous?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2236211
[0]theodp asks: "Motley Fool offers a dead-on take on the [1]computer
mail-in rebate fulfillment process--Once I receive your 'claim,' I will
begin to 'process' it. Assuming that you filled out all the information
correctly, and assuming nothing is missing, and assuming your claim
doesn't get lost somehow, and if you call or write a few times to check
on your claim's status, then I will mail your check within 10 to 12
weeks. Maybe. Or maybe it'll be four to six months. Or never." What are
your thoughts on rebates, and have any of you noticed who, at least in
the computing industry, is more trustworthy with rebates than others?
Update by [2]J: Here's the [3]short version of the article.
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2003/commentary030410JF.htm
2.
http://jamie.mccarthy.vg/
3.
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20030318.html
Phreaking Not Dead Yet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2210227
[0]santos_douglas writes "From [1]Wired comes this article about an
[2]exploit involving weak voicemail passwords and automated voice
recognition systems for accepting collect calls. The providers
involved, SBC and AT&T, don't seem too concerned about their customers
receiving tens of thousands in fraudulant charges from places like
Saudi Arabia and the Phillipines."
Links
0.
http://www.msu.edu/~santosdo
1.
http://www.wired.com/
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58517,00.html
Nokia 3650 Released in US Market
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2028238
A Swing Dancing Dork writes "Check out the new [0]Nokia 3650! Video and
still imaging, MMS support,Bluetooth,Triband, and polyphonic bliss all
wraped up in a uber-modern package." I was looking phones all morning
so I'm glad this showed up. Anyone have advice on cel phones? I'd like
IMAP, HTTP, and IM, as well as PDA functionality that can sync via
bluetooth to a Mac. I was looking at the Sony Ericsons, but this may
work as well.
Links
0. http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,2273,00.html
Spiderman, Sony vs Marvel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/1856247
An anonymous reader writes "It now looks like Marvel has a dispute with
Sony over Spiderman. This short [0] report tells how Sony is trying to
take over Spiderman. First we saw the [1] dispute between Marvel and
Stan Lee, and now this."
Links
0. http://www.drudgereport.com/marvel.htm
Real-time PC access on your PDA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/189205
[0]Brooks P. writes "As seen in [1]this story on [2]The Register,
[3]Sproqit Technologies creates software that allows you to access your
desktop apps in real time over the Internet. No more synchronization.
This is accomplished with a Desktop Agent that runs on your (Windows
for now) PC, and a 200k Companion running on the PDA. The Desktop Agent
uses plug-ins to connect to the apps running on the PC, and the SDK
used to develop plug-ins is free. Oh, and the whole thing uses 128-bit
SSL for security and works over any connection method: 802.11, modem,
cell phone, etc."
Links
0. mailto:pantsb4shoes@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/30322.html
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
3.
http://www.sproqit.com/
Freshmeat
4tH compiler 3.3d release 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120039/
4tH is a Forth compiler with a little difference. Instead of the standard Forth engine it features a conventional compiler. 4tH is a very small compiler that can create bytecode, C-embeddable bytecode, standalone executables, but also works fine as a scripting language. It supports over 85% of the ANS Forth CORE wordset and features conditional compilation, pipes, files, assertions, forward declarations, recursion, etc. It comes with an RPN calculator, line editor, compiler, decompiler, C-source generators, and a virtual machine.
Advanced Assembler 0.9.0alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120064/
Aasm is an advanced assembler designed to support several target architectures. It has been designed to be easily extended, and should be considered as a good alternative to monolithic assembler development for each new target CPU and binary file format. It should make assembly programming easier for the developer by providing a set of advanced features: symbol scopes, an expressions engine, big integer support, numerous and accurate warning messages, filter modules, and more. Its dynamic modular architecture enables aasm to extend its set of features with plug-ins. asm-x86, out-elf, out-binary, and out-intelhex modules are available. An asm-sparc module is under development.
aseqjoy 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120085/
aseqjoy monitors a joystick device of your choice and maps each axis to a MIDI controller. Joystick motion triggers corresponding MIDI controller messages. The MIDI events are sent through an ALSA sequencer output port.
BlogPluck 0.9.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120021/
BlogPluck is a Java Web Start application that converts blogs in RSS/RDF format to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
CinePaint 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119998/
CinePaint is image retouching software with features similar to GIMP or Photoshop. However, two significant enhancements set CinePaint apart. It handles 16-bit per channel color (48-bit RGB) and has a sequence manager that facilitates moving through numbered images. That makes it very useful for manipulating scanned 35mm film. It was used in the production of Harry Potter, Scooby-Doo, Stuart Little, and other feature films. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry.
comic-icons 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120060/
comic-icons are a set of icons in PNG format with a size of 64x64 pixels.
cutmp3 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120040/
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.
cvsdelta 1.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120043/
cvsdelta helps manage a CVS project, identifying the local files that have been added, changed, or deleted. The relevant files can be automatically added to and removed from CVS. A list of files is produced, with a summary of content differences, i.e. the number of lines of code that have been added, changed, and deleted.
Damn Small Linux 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120065/
Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Linux distribution. Despite its miniscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.
DansGuardian 2.7.0 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120002/
DansGuardian is a Web content filtering proxy that uses Squid to do all the fetching. It filters using multiple methods including, but not limited to, phrase matching, file extension matching, MIME type matching, PICS filtering, and URL/domain blocking. It has the ability to switch off filtering by certain criteria including username, domain name, source IP, etc. The configurable logging produces a log in an easy to read format. It has the option to only log text-based pages, thus significantly reducing redundant information (such as every image on a page).
door 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120049/
door is a password storage system. It allows you to securely store as many passwords as you need in an encrypted file not easily accessible to the general public.
Dropbear 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120017/
Dropbear is an SSH 2 server, designed to be usable in small memory environments.
Dump/Restore 0.4b34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120023/
The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups.
DynamicRelay 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120063/
DynamicRelay automatically refreshes sendmail's access.db file as users get authenticated via POP. Users connecting from anywhere may be allowed to send email using your SMTP server. Also, you can set a LIMIT to the number of messages that can be sent from an IP address per day. This is really nice when you have users infected by viruses that send thousands and thousands of spam messages, or send spam deliberately, so your server won't get listed on spamcop or other RBLs so easily. You can also control how long users are allowed to send email after their last POP authentication. Abuses get logged, and you can put your own static entries in the access file.
Epiphany-browser 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120056/
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine.
Its goals are simplicity, standards compliance, and integration with
GNOME.
Eshida Instant Embedded Linux 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120010/
Eshida Instant Embedded Linux is an embedded Linux distribution for people who want to deploy embedded Linux technology immediately. Because the system runs directly on CD-ROM users spend zero effort to explor embedded systems.
FCKeditor 0.9.5 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120090/
FCKeditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and JavaScript that brings to the Web much of the powerful functionality of known desktop editors like Word. It's very lightweight, and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.
Freedoom 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120054/
Freedoom is a project to create a complete, free Doom IWAD file. Combined with the GPLed Doom source code, it creates a completely free Doom-based game.
FreeGuide TV Guide 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120035/
FreeGuide TV Guide is a TV guide program which grabs listings for many countries from the Internet and allows you to view them and construct a personalised guide to print out. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings, and requires Java 1.4 or above.
gCVS 1.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120012/
gCVS is a GTK port of WinCVS, a Windows-based CVS client.
Gemini Unified Datamining System 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120061/
The Gemini Unified Datamining System is a set of tools for performing automated searches on the Internet or an intranet using a customizable and extensible set of information sources, including private databases, subscription search services, and public search engines. It includes a flexible and open plugin architecture that can be used to analyze content for specialized searching, research, and information retrieval tasks.
gimp-print 4.3.13 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120036/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
GKrellM Mailwatch 2.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120016/
GKrellM Mailwatch is a GKrellM plugin which monitors mailboxes. It can monitor multiple mailboxes with extra counters and supports the mbox, maildir, and MH formats.
GNU Smalltalk 2.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120033/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
Gnusto 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120068/
Gnusto is a Mozilla-based application which lets you play adventure games--specifically, the hundreds of games both modern and ancient available in the Z-machine format. It features a just-in-time interpreter which compiles Z-machine code to Javascript on the fly for speed.
gURLChecker 0.3.8 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120059/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.
Helix Python Player Extension 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120069/
The Helix Python Player Extension (pyplayer) is a Python interface for the Helix DNA Client. The Helix DNA Client is the media playback engine used by the RealOne Player. pyplayer allows for scripted playback and other automation tasks using the Helix media engine.
Herdtools A1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120083/
The Herdtools are a set of Perl scripts which perform various "job parallel" functions so that can control a "herd", or cluster, of machines from one connection. In most cases, the Herdtools use rsh or ssh to actually do the work. In other cases, they may connect to procstatd to collect some information, or they may simply read a file on disk and report information back. A "tag" system is used to allow arbitrary logical tests for machine selection (i.e., all machines that have tag "foo" and "bar" but not "baz").
hidefile 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120081/
Hidefile is an LD_PRELOAD library which hides several directory entries from directory listings. These hidden files are still accessible with regular file operations. It can be useful, for example, to hide your CVS, .cvsignore, and .svn entries.
Human Activity Logger 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120067/
Human Activity Logger allows you to keep track of your time. It lets you add, edit, and delete log entries, which are classified according to categories of your choosing. You can quickly browse around old log entries, and maintain separate logs accessible from the same installation of the program (e.g., for separate projects). There's a rudimentary stats function and various other functions.
iGor 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120027/
iGor, the mosquito hater, stars in a Java game that features native accelerated 2D graphics for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
Information Sharing System 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120052/
Information Sharing System is a CORBA Component Model-based distributed document sharing network. It supports meta descriptions of documents.
instantRSS 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120046/
instantRSS takes an appropriately-"tagged" Web page and spits out an RSS feed. The tags are simple and easy-to-use HTML comments. instantRSS may be used locally or remotely, alleviating the need for users to have PHP on their servers (or even having to know PHP).
IPA 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120075/
IPA allows one to perform IP accounting based on FreeBSD IPv4/v6 Firewall (including IPFW2), OpenBSD Packet Filter, and IP Filter accounting rules on Free/Net/OpenBSD. It supports limits for accounting rules, and limits events such as "limit is reached" and "reached limit is expired." It also has a flexible configuration file with many sections and options.
ISMail 1.0d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120037/
ISMail is a Webmail system that is programmed in PHP, makes heavy use of Javascript/DOM, and is designed to work with any imap server. ISMail aims to be quick and easy to use. The layout, complete with address book and folder options, is relatively simple and familiar to most users.
japach 0.4.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120041/
Japach is simple Web server, providing simple support for CGI scripts, virtual hosts, and static pages serving. It could be useful for sites for which Apache is an unnecessarily "big hammer", and is really easy to configure.
jpgind 0.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120089/
Jpgind is commandline tool for generating Web galleries from JPEG/Exif files. Each image's page can be supplemented with EXIF info and HTML metadata from a separate text file.
JPluck 0.9 RC 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120019/
JPluck lets you convert Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld computer.
KDE Interactive Geometry 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120077/
KDE Interactive Geometry (KIG) is a program for use in math classes in high school, much like KGeo, KSeg, Dr. Geo, and Cabri. It allows students to interactively explore geometric concepts.
KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120045/
KDevelop is an integrated development environment which makes the creation and development of GNU Standard Applications an easy task even for beginners. Highlights of the current release are: an application wizard for easy creation of KDE 2&3, Qt 2&3, GNOME, and terminal C/C++ projects, full project management, a syntax-highlighting editor, an integrated dialogeditor for the Qt/KDE GUI libraries, an internal debugger, a full-featured classbrowser with classtools, CVS support, an integrated HTML-based helpsystem offering manuals and class-references, and extensive search mechanisms to browse sources and documentation.
Knoppix 3.2-2003-04-15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120015/
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.
Krename 2.6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120053/
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.
KrotchyDay 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119979/
KrotchyDay is a theme based on the Krotchy Mascot from the game Postal2.
LinuxTrade 3.38 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120092/
LinuxTrade is a curses (text-based) implementation of the Scottrader Java application, plus additional features inspired by the excellent MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own set of unique features. It is lightweight, yet full featured. It can save a session to a file and replay it. It has portfolios, real time quotes, charts with live updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical indicators, top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, and Level 2 market depth indications from Archipelago and the Island Book.
LTI-Lib 1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120011/
The LTI-Lib is an object oriented library with algorithms and data structures frequently used in image processing and computer vision. It was developed at the RWTH-Aachen University as a part of many research projects on computer vision dealing with robotics, object recognition, sign language, and gesture recognition. It provides an object oriented C++ library that includes fast algorithms, which can be used in real applications.
man-pages-ja 20030415
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120066/
man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU tools, and ones for various opensource applications.
myStats 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119760/
myStats is a full statistics system for Web sites, giving a lot of information about people who visit your site, about search engines, keywords, etc.
Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.11beta8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120029/
Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. The distribution ships with modules for ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression, and NIS. The API for modules is open, allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access to any data store. Perdition can be used to create large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, to integrate different mail systems together, to migrate between different email infrastructures, and to bridge plain-text, SSL, and TLS services. It can also be used as part of a firewall.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.1-dev (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120038/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
phpMySQLDiff 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120051/
phpMySQLDiff is a PHP script which generates an SQL-ALTER-Script for the differences between two databases.
pipebench 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120071/
Pipebench shows the current throughput and amount of data going through a pipe. It can be used to show the progress of a large md5sum process: cat bigfile | pipebench | md5sum.
PLies 1.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120026/
PLies is a Perl script used to split an input HTML file into multiple slides which are then presented using CSS. Slides can be navigated using the keyboard, the presentation can be packed as zip file for distribution, and arbitrary Perl code (like the included example to create HTML bar graphs) can be executed while creating the presentation.
PolarViewer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120050/
PolarViewer is a viewer application for exercise files recorded with Polar heartrate monitors (S710 and S610). It displays all of the recorded exercise data (except power) and creates diagrams. It is written in C# using the Gtk# toolkit.
pretendroot 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120086/
Pretendroot is an LD_PRELOAD library which overrides some glibc calls, pretending you are root while doing file system operations. The main difference from Debian's fakeroot is that no daemons or other processes are involved, fake ownership and group are stored on the file system, and not in memory, hence it can survive even reboots. This library has been successfully used when building packages for the UHU-Linux distribution. All of its applications are compiled and installed as an unprivileged user. However, there's no need to patch Makefiles; commands such as "install -o root -g mail thisfile ${DESTDIR}/here" work perfectly, and the final packages will have the desired ownership and group.
QuickRip DVD 0.6-rc1 (Testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120034/
QuickRip is a basic DVD ripper for GNU/Linux written in Python and PyQt. It lacks options to fine-tune how you want to rip your DVD, but it makes ripping quick and easy, and so is ideal for those who aren't bothered about framerates, clipping, and other unecessary options. It uses mplayer and transcode to retrieve DVD info and rip the tracks.
RPGD 2.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120072/
Role-Playing Game Daemon is a multi-user dungeon game that allows local and remote telnet connections to play. It can use standard VT or color ANSI emulation. An extended ANSI emulation client is available for background music and sound effects. It features arena fights and jousts, a 100-level dungeon with 10 planes, gang parties, naval battles, thieving, etc.
Simple File Manager .024
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120018/
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.
SlackCheck 2.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120028/
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.
sortdir 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120084/
Sortdir is an LD_PRELOAD library which sorts directory entries before supplying them to your applications. Sorting order is controlled by the current locale settings, however, other directory sorting locales can also be specified. (glibc >= 2.3 is required.) Sortdir can be especially useful as a wrapper for "tar" or "find". It's been used for creating packages for the UHU-Linux distribution; all of its deb packages contain their entries in alphabetical order so that better user feedback is provided when hitting F3 in mc on a package or querying its contents with "dpkg -L".
Structured Document Validator 0.6.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120048/
Structured Document Validator implements a generalized method for validating both the structure and content of structured documents. Any data format that can be deterministically divided into tags and data is classed as a structured document. This definition applies to a wide array of data formats, including XML, Java properties files, and delimited value files. The application performs validations based on user-defined Structured Document Definitions (SDDs). It provides an environment for validation, SDD development, and document editing.
terminatorX 3.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120078/