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[osdn developer] June 04, 2003
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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Sourceforge
Aleph One 2003-05-30 Mac OS X Carbon and Windows releases
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282073
Aleph One plays Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and third-party content on a wide array of platforms with numerous enhancements. The new Mac OS X Carbon and Windows SDL 2003-05-30 releases add significantly improved Internet play, Lua scripting, Speex compression for realtime network audio (making it much more practical in Internet games), an anisotropic filtering option on video cards that support it, and more.
Moodle 1.0.9 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282100
Moodle 1.0.9 was released recently, and contains a very long list of new features, performance improvements and fixes. Moodle is PHP software that aims to make quality online courses (eg distance education) easy to develop and conduct. Learning and development are guided using a social constructionist philosophy. Implemented on thousands of sites and in 30 languages. Release notes: http://moodle.com/doc/?frame=release.html Downloads: http://moodle.org/download/
MegaMek is June POTM
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281659
The good folks at SourceForge.net and Linux Magazine have declared MegaMek the June, 2003 Project of the Month! To celebrate, the project's developers are scrambling to kill all bugs (priority 4 and greater) and release the next stable version: v0.29. We ask all players to download the latest developement snapshot (currently v0.29.21) and help us find any bugs hiding in the code and confirm that the recent fixes have fixed the old bugs (see history.txt or the release notes to see what bugs have been fixed).
Gimp-Print 4.3.15 (development)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281411
Gimp-Print 4.3.15, released June 1, 2003, is a development release of this package. Like all development releases, this version is considered unstable and should only be used by those individuals tolerant of the likelihood of problems. Individuals desiring a stable release of Gimp-Print should use the latest 4.2 release. Gimp-Print is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2 and newer) and Linux systems in many cases equal to or better than proprietary vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for many of the most demanding printing tasks. This software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp, and Ghostscript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic data. This package requires libxml2 2.5 or above. You may need to install a package named "libxml2-devel" or the like on many distributions. The Print plugin for the Gimp requires the Gimp 1.2 (later versions of the Gimp are not supported). You may need to install a package named "gimp-devel" or the like on many distributions. The CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.15 or higher. You may need to install a package named "cups-devel" or the like on many distributions. The Foomatic data will work with either Foomatic 2.x or 3.x. Foomatic 3.x has additional capabilities that this package detects and takes advantage of. The IJS-based GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU Ghostscript 6.53 or later, ESP Ghostscript 7.05 or later, or APFL GhostScript 7.04 or later. It also requires that glib 1.2 be installed. You may need to install a package named "glib-devel" or the like on many distributions. Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2 and above can use this package, as the printing system is based on CUPS, which is supported by Gimp-print. Note that Macintosh OS X 10.0 and 10.1 (including 10.1.5) cannot use this package. Please read the README file for full instructions on installing this package. Gimp-Print 4.3.15 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.14: 1) The code for handling ink shades and drop sizes has been extensively overhauled; results should be much more consistent. In particular, the same balance between ink shades is now used at all resolutions for a given printer, and the driver always tries to use the smallest ink drop size it usefully can. The result is that colors should be much more uniform across different resolutions with the same printer (particularly with variable drop size printers), and output should be smoother. It is likely (although this has not been verified) that printing is faster, too. There may still be some issues; please report any problems. Internally, this is implemented by means of a new "channel" architecture, which is responsible for conversions of this type. 2) A long-standing build problem whereby the package will not build on systems that already have Gimp-Print 4.2 or earlier versions of Gimp-Print 4.3 installed has been fixed. 3) The existing Line Art image optimization has been renamed to Uncorrected, which is a better description of its effect. There is a new Threshold mode, which simply computes a threshold value (either on or off for each color). 4) The default image optimization mode is now Photographs (which has the best color correction) rather than the old Line Art (which as noted above is now called Uncorrected). 5) An experimental driver for the Olympus P-300 has been added. This driver has significant limitations; the size of an image much closely match the size of a print from this printer. 6) The Fast and Very Fast dither algorithms are significantly different from before. The Fast dither algorithm now uses the same dither pattern previously used by the Very Fast algorithm, and the Very Fast algorithm only uses the largest drop size. The Ordered algorithm should now run as fast as the Fast algorithm did before. 7) This package now uses gettext 0.11 internally.
phpMyAdmin 2.5.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281435
The development team is pleased to present you version 2.5.1, which aims to stabilize the 2.5.x series. 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.
Slashdot
Rescue Mission For European Space Industry
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2322221
[0]metz2000 writes "The New Scientist reports that the European Space
Agency (ESA) has pledged hundreds of millions of Euros [1]to guarantee
its independent access to space. Europe also looks set to co-operate
with the Russian Space Agency. Looks like the space industry is hotting
up again. How will NASA react to this news after being the dominant
space agency over the past three decades? A lot of money is going into
rocket technology also; with this and the 'European version' of GPS are
we heading towards a future conflict across the Atlantic?"
Links
0. http://www.xaprief.com/forums
Microsoft Plans An Overhaul For Patch System http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/0349240
[0]sckienle writes "ZD-Net has an article about Microsoft's [1]plans to
overhaul their patch system. 'Ninety-five percent of attacks happen
after a patch for a known software vulnerability has been issued' says
Scott Charney, chief trustworthy computing strategist at Microsoft.
Basically, Scott is promoting the idea that Microsoft can do a better
job, in many ways, so people will trust and be able to install patches
quickly. Microsoft has a [2]transcript of Scott Charney's talk on their
site." As reader [3]sweeney37 summarizes, " Microsoft's plan is to
reduce the patch installers from eight to two, they want to have one
patch installer specifically for the OS side and one specifically for
the applications." Sweeney37 points out this [4]InformationWeek article
on the planned change.
Links
0. mailto:steven.c.kienle@pfizer.com
1.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-1012689.html
2.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/teched/06-03charney.asp
3.
http://{sweene49} {at} {velotel.com}
4.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10300045
Microsoft Orange SPV Phone Review
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2326235
[0]Ian Bell writes "HowardChui.com just posted a [1]review on
Microsoft's new Orange SPV which is the first commercially available
Smartphone. The SPV stands for Sound, Pictures, Video and you can
download games like Doom or listen to MP3s on the speaker or even chat
to your friends using the built-in MSN Messenger. But for all that the
SPV features, there is no Bluetooth support. It still looks like a
killer phone and I like that it is smaller than the PocketPC phones
currently on the market."
Links
0. http://www.designtechnica.com
SCO SCO SCO!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2012255
Still more links on SCO's assorted allegations of copyright
infringement. They say they're going to [0]sue Novell. [1]Software
analysts refuse to be part of the hoax - also some good quotes from
Linus here. SCO and UNIX: a [2]Comedy of Errors. Salon has a story on
SCO too, but sadly it's not available to read freely. And Wired has an
[3]old story which I think sums up the SCO claims pretty well.
Links
0.
http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1011627.html
1.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,81695,00.html
2.
http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=514_0_3_0_C
3.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,57095,00.htmlRaiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1814245
[0]jonerik writes "[1]Ain't It Cool News has an article on one of the
more fascinating [2]fan film projects ever conceived: A shot-for-shot
remake of [3]"Raiders of the Lost Ark" filmed in Biloxi, Mississippi
between 1982 and 1988 by Eric Zala, Jayson Lamb and Chris Strompolis.
What's particularly amazing is that the trio began filming the project
when they were twelve and finished six years later when they were
eighteen. Now, fifteen years after the project was completed, word of
the film's existence has gotten out and audiences who have seen it have
reportedly been stunned by the trio's ingenuity, with none other than
"RotLA" director Steven Spielberg giving Zala, Lamb, and Strompolis a
big thumbs-up. The complete film isn't available online, but a
[4]trailer that gives a bit of the feel of the finished project can be
viewed. [5]The Austin Chronicle also has [6]a story on the project."
Links
0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
1.
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/
2.
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=15348
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http://www.indianajones.com/chapter24.html#
4.
http://www.drafthouse.com/trailers/raiders.mov
5.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/
6.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-05-30/screens_feature4.html
Copyright Defeats?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1843226
Uruk asks: "Over the last few years, we've seen what looks like the victory of copyright and business interest at the expense of the consumer. There's been [0]The DMCA, the [1]UCITA, all of the legal wranging over DeCSS, and so on. Copyright holders can even [2]shut your website down without doing the research about whether or not it was appropriate. Johansen did seem to be acquited of some of what was brought against him as a result of [3]the DeCSS situation, but that was in Norway. Does anyone know of any copyright or consumer victories on the net in the last few years? Something that limits the abilities of these laws, or otherwise acts in the copyright spirit of free use? My hat is off to [4]GNU and [5]EFF, even [6]Project Gutenberg. What is the status of this ongoing battle? I'm looking for the sunny side to a situation that seems littered with defeat." Links
0.
http://anti-dmca.org/
1.
http://www.cpsr.org/program/UCITA/ucita-fact.html
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30943.html
3.
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DeCSS_prosecutions/Johansen_DeCSS_case/
4.
http://www.gnu.org/
5.
http://www.eff.org/
6.
http://www.promo.net/pg/Violent Video Game Restriction Struck Down http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2031206
[0]Nutsquasher was the first to submit news that a ban on selling
violent video games to minors has been [1]struck down, reversing an
earlier decision in this case that held that video games were not a
constitutionally protected form of speech. The [2]decision (pdf) is
available. Since the Federal government has been considering a
[3]national law along these lines, these decisions on local laws may be
important soon.
Links
0. mailto:dave_gallagher@hotmail.com
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030603/ap_on_re_us/video_games_1
2.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/8th/023010p.pdf
3.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/196249&tid=153
Interview With Ximian's Nat Friedman
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1952222
Sheepish writes "OSNews features a [0]long and interesting interview
with Nat Friedman, of [1]Ximian fame. Nat tells all and talks about the
upcoming Ximian Desktop 2 and its differences from Gnome 2, the
difficulties of developing the MS Exchange Connector, Linux as a
desktop, Mono and plans for Gnome integration, the hundrends of
OpenOffice.org changes made to make OOo like a Gnome2 app, and how
Ximian feels... about Apple's business. Four screenshots of Ximian
Desktop 2 are included too."
Links
0. http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3705
More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1715257
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Wired has an [1]update on Oregon's
proposed replacement for their gas tax. Currently two candidates are in
development, the first a GPS based system that tracks where a car goes
to determine the number of miles driven. The other is a odometer-like
device. Both would transmit the data to base stations periodically to
determine the tax on a vehicle. There was a [2]previous slashdot
article."
Links
0.
http://www.wired.com/
1.
http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,58616,00.html
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/1855259&tid=126
Public Domain Enhancement Act petition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1641229
[0]EricEldred writes "Please sign the [1]petition and support the
proposed Public Domain Enhancement Act. See [2]eldred.cc for details.
'This statute would require American copyright owners to pay a very low
fee (for example, $1) fifty years after a copyrighted work was
published. If the owner pays the fee, the copyright will continue for
whatever duration Congress sets. But if the copyright is not worth even
$1 to the owner, then we believe the work should pass into the public
domain.'" See the [3]brief description of the Act if you aren't
familiar with what Eldred and Lessig are proposing.
Links
0.
http://eldred.cc
1.
http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition.html
2.
http://eldred.cc/
3.
http://www.eldred.cc/eablog/EldredActOnePage5.htm
Freshmeat
Addendat 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124917/
Addendat is a weblogging (blogging) program that can accept updates from either a CGI interface or a shell interface. Additions are stored in the 'blogs pages HTML, so you can edit both entries and design in any ordinary text editor. Addendat is configured using a simple HTML-like config file format. Addendat supports multiple blogs; if you want, you can even put them on the same page. It does not require Java or Javascript. Addendat can publicize additions on a central hub, so web users can readily find recently-updated blogs.
AFMF 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124696/
AFMF (another freakin mail filter) provides mail filtering specifically designed for maildir or IMAP. It will read each message in the message store, apply the rules that have been defined, and then take the requested action when a rule hits. Rules are stored in a flat file as a list of regular expressions.
Airport Control 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124905/
Airport Control is a Unix command-line utility to control an Apple Airport Base Station.
at76c503 linux driver 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124881/
at76c503 is a Linux driver for the wlan USB adapter based on the Atmel at76c503 chip. It currently supports ad-hoc mode, infrastructure mode, and WEP. It supports adapters from Atmel, the Belkin F5D6050, Netgear MA101, and others.
BIE 5.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124913/
BIE (Business Integration Engine) is an open source integration system that makes it easy for organizations to exchange data with external trading partners regardless of their native applications. It competes in the same space as applications like Microsoft Biz Talk except that it is truly cross-platform since it written in Java.
broken.miho 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124861/
broken.miho is a blue-grey theme based on artwork by Megatokyo artist piro. It includes an Xwm menu screen and backgrounds for 800, 1024, and 1152 screen resolutions.
Catviz 0.1.0-beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124619/
Catviz is a content manager with a clean, object-oriented approach, full API documentation, a powerful security system (document security and application security), templating, Web pages with free layouts, and unlimited images/multimedia files. It is W3C XHTML 1.0- and CSS-compliant.
CCT Chinese TeX system 0.5.0 Beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124843/
CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
CGI::Application 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124868/
CGI::Application is intended to make it easier to create sophisticated, reusable web-based applications. This module implements a methodology which, if followed, will make your web software easier to design, easier to document, easier to write, and easier to evolve. CGI::Application builds on standard, non- proprietary technologies and techniques, such as the Common Gateway Interface and Lincoln D. Stein's excellent CGI.pm module. CGI::Application judiciously avoids employing technologies and techniques which would bind a developer to any one set of tools, operating system or web server. CGI::Application works exceedingly well under Apache/mod_perl. It is also fully compatible with any other web server (UNIX or NT) which implements the Common Gateway Interface.
CodeViz 0.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124922/
CodeViz is a call graph visualisation tool which uses a variety of different data collection methods to generate its call graphs. Using a modified version of the GNU Compiler, very accurate call graphs that precisely reflect the compiled code may be created. If using a compiler is undesirable, CodeViz is able to directly parse C/C++ code itself, and even analyse binaries with objdump, so it will work if the source isn't available.
Comanche HTTP Server 6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124916/
Comanche is a Web serving platform for Smalltalk. It currently available for the Squeak dialect, but could be ported to other Smalltalk dialects without too much effort.
Cone 0.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124887/
Cone (COnsole Newsreader And Emailer) is a text-based email client. It seamlessly handles multiple POP3 and IMAP accounts and local mail folders. It is also a simple newsreader. It is designed to be foolproof enough to be used by inexperienced users, but also offers advanced features for power users.
Coriander 0.33 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124853/
Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394 digital video camera interactively. It features SDL display, FTP image posting, file saving, and Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for consumer grade DV cameras.
DaveDAP 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124877/
DaveDAP is a PHP LDAP administration tool which allows you to browse your LDAP tree, create, delete, edit, and copy objects, and perform searches. You can even copy objects between two LDAP servers and recursively delete/copy entire containers.
DSPAM 2.6.0.65
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124872/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns SPAM using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning Anti-Spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.5% success rate with only 0.03% chance of false positives.
Enrapture 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124912/
Enrapture is an OpenGL-based 3D space/RPG game. It takes its influences from the old master piece Elite.
F-Script 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124856/
F-Script is an Open Source scripting environment for Mac OS X. F-Script is based on Smalltalk syntax and concepts, but instead of using Smalltalk's object model and frameworks, it uses Apple's Cocoa object model and frameworks to provide interactive and scripting access to Cocoa objects. It also introduces a brand new model for high level object oriented programming (including sophisticated object query capacities), based on an advanced integration between object techniques and array technology. Finally, it sports an innovative object browser for graphical interactions with Cocoa objects: interactively invoke methods on Cocoa objects, or on your own custom Objective-C objects, without writing a line of code.
File::Scan 0.55 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124855/
File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and signatures database.
FreeVMS 0.0.45 (Unstable kernel)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124896/
FreeVMS is an OpenVMS-like operating system which can run on several architectures like i386, PPC, Alpha, and many others. It consists of a POSIX kernel and a DCL command line interpreter. The only architecture currently supported is i386.
g4u 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124869/
g4u ("ghost for unix") is a boot-floppy/CD that allows one to easily clone PC harddisks by using FTP. This is often done to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs. The floppy/CD offers two functions: it uploads the compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server, and then it can retrieve that image via FTP, uncompress it, and write it back to disk. Network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the harddisk is processes as a image, any filesystem and operating system can be deployed using g4u.
GAUL 0.1844
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124842/
The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library (GAUL) is a programming library for evolutionary algorithms. Both steady-state and generation-based evolution is supported, together with the island model. GAUL supports the Darwinian, Lamarckian, and Baldwininan evolutionary schemes. Standard mutation, crossover, and selection operators are provided, while code hooks additionally allow custom operators. It provides data structures and functions for handling and manipulation of the data required for a genetic algorithm. Additional stochastic algorithms are provided for comparison to the genetic algorithms. Much of the functionality is also available through a simple S-Lang interface.
gm4lin 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124894/
gm4lin is a Linux driver for the serial port GM-45 (and GM-10, but calibration is wrong for that one) radiation detector. The driver is able to handle virtually any number of detectors connected to a single computer and to log data to the screen, to ASCI files or to a MySQL database (local or remote). Average activity and pulse mode with a fake RC decay are available in order to come as close as possible to common analog radiations detectors. This is console-only software.
Group-Office 1.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124848/
Group-office is Web-based office suite written in PHP that is extensible with modules. It features user management (optionally synchronized with system and Samba), module management, an e-mail client, a file manager, a scheduler, and project management.
gSoko 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124927/
gSoko is GTK+ clone of Sokoban, a puzzle game where you have to push boxes over special squares.
Gwget2 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124858/
Gwget2 is a Gnome2 front-end to wget.
Horgand 0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124813/
Horgand is a graphical FM real time organ. It is jack capable, with DSP effects to emulate and store organ sounds.
icoutils 0.20.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124885/
The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have the extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables and libraries (.dll-files). Icoutils can also create icon and cursor files.
initscripts-generic 7.14-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124727/
initscripts-generic is a modified version of the initscripts package included in Red Hat's Linux distribution. It is modified to allow more versatile usage of ppp interfaces, such as with different tunneling systems. It isn't very useful by itself, but is a prerequisite for some other packages.
initscripts-vpn 1.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124728/
initscripts-vpn is a "plugin" for Red Hat Linux systems that allows you to easily create secure, encrypted tunnels between routers. It uses SSH for the encryption and PPP for the tunnel. These two pieces of software are almost always installed on any Linux system. The package integrates into Red Hat's initscripts and won't work without it. The modified initscripts-generic package is needed to use initscripts-vpn.
Inside Systems Mail 1.5.3a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124924/
Inside Systems Mail is a Webmail system that is programmed in PHP, makes heavy use of Javascript/DOM, and is designed to work with any IMAP server (including Microsoft Exchange). It aims to be quick and easy to use, with an interface that most users will find familiar and several options that help fine tune the Webmail experience.
Interactive Television Publishing System 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124911/
The Interactive Television Publishing System (ITPS) offers a simple way to produce ATVEF-A compliant ETV features. At the heart of the system is a database that separates form (in this case, device-specific markup code) from content (text and images appropriate to show segments). Database content is published to HTML via Perl using device-specific modules. A handful of additional static HTML pages, such as the search form, make up the remainder of the code required to support a particular client device. Devices are routed to appropriate pages via a "sniffer" page, implemented using the XSSI syntax available in Apache 1.3 or higher.
ipkungfu 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124906/
IPKungFu is an iptables-based Linux firewall. It aims to simplify the configuration of Internet connection sharing, port forwarding, and packet filtering.
ispbs 2.3.7b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124824/
ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts. Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail support, multiple customizable packages, and more.
jGnash 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124857/
jGnash is a personal finance application written in Java. A JVM of 1.4 or greater is required. jGnash supports basic account types and simple investment accounts at this time. jGnash has support for split transactions, nested accounts, and currencies. jGnash can import QIF files excluding investment accounts and transactions. Data is stored in an XML format so it is easy to manipulate and read the data external to the program.
JSVN 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124866/
JSVN is a Java graphical front-end to the Subversion revision control system. It uses the svn CLI instead of JNI for repository access, and includes Ant tasks for accessing Subversion repositories and a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. It is 100% Java, very small, and very portable.
JZlib 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124889/
JZlib is a re-implementation of zlib in pure Java. The first and final aim for hacking this was to add packet compression support to pure Java SSH systems.
KDE Interactive Geometry 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124864/
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.
KGSueMe 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124765/
KGSSueMe aims to provide a sample implementation of a client for the popular Kiseido Go Server. The project stresses documenting the protocol by giving developers code, so that they can write their own clients, rather than to provide a featureful client.
KRconLinux 0.1RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124899/
KRconLinux is a KDE tool for querying and managing game servers like Half-Life mods (Counter Strike, Dod, etc.), Quake series, and more. It features a console to send rcon commands, a server log receiver, an (incomplete) IRC bot to monitor the games, and a chat console to interact with the players inside the game. It is capable of listing the available server maps and changing them, establishing server settings via configuration files, changing the current server password, updating and modifying the server ban list, kicking and banning players, and changing server variables.
Ktctool 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124878/
Ktctool is a graphical user interface to tc, a commandline program for network bandwidth management in Linux. With Ktctool you can view information about tc objects (qdiscs, classes, filters), create and change qdiscs (CBQ, DSMARK, FIFO, PRIO, RED, SFQ, TBF, Ingress), create and change classes, create filters (fw, route, tcindex, u32), add police info, delete tc objects, get help about any parameter, view and edit the logfile of executed tc commands, view a hierarchical structure of all tc objects, and more.
Libckpt 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124862/
Libckpt is a portable checkpointing tool for Unix. It provides a mechanism for enabling fault-tolerance for long-running programs. Libckpt implements most optimizations that have been proposed to improve the performance of checkpointing. Additionally, it implements "user-directed" checkpointing, a new optimization unique to Libckpt.
libSigC++ Extras 0.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124900/
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.
log4cxx 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124907/
log4cxx is a port to C++ of the log4j project.
Mamory 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124926/
Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client.
Meltdowns Anti Advertise 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124655/
Meltdowns Anti Advertise is an anti-advertising script that checks for public and private messages, notices, and onjoin messages, and kicks and bans offenders that aren't known to the bot. Each "forbidden" word can be associated with its own kick message and can be listed, added, and deleted on the fly. It also provides statistics that can be calculated by month, week, day, or hour.
microCODE PHP encoder 0.98 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124875/
microCODE allows you to encode your PHP script before publication. This allows you to protect your code against unauthorized viewing or modification by third parties. This is in particular required with commercial applications where protection of intellectual property is important.
midriff 1.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124892/
MIDRIFF is an easy-to-understand, CGI-based tool for implementing dynamic Web forms, data views, and other content. It includes an embedded SQL database and can also be linked with embedded charting package (ploticus). The result is fast development of active, graphically rich Web content, with low administrative burden. It allows you to download, install (without root privileges), and build real dynamic Web-based database applications and prototypes quickly, and deliver applications with no dependencies on other systems such as MySQL or PHP. It has minimal administration requirements, and requires no control over a Web server and no special server modules.
Mini-XML 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124914/
Mini-XML is a small XML parsing library that you can use to read XML and XML-like data files in your application without requiring large non-standard libraries. It only requires an ANSI C compatible compiler (GCC works, as do most vendors' ANSI C compilers) and a "make" program. Mini-XML was created to support the basic hierarchy provided by XML and some simple data types, but doesn't do validation or other types of processing on the data.
mod_auth_any 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124909/
mod_auth_any is an Apache DSO module that allows arbitrary authentication mechanisms. It allows users to specify a command line program to use for Apache's basic server security authentication.
MPEG Menu System Version2 0.73
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124933/
MPEG Menu System Version2 is a menu system for easy movie and audio playback. It is controlled using a remote control or keyboard. It supports dxr3 output and framebuffer output.
MUSCLE 2.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124841/
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is a messaging server and networking API. It is portable to any OS with a sockets API and a C++ compiler. It lets programs communicate via streams of PortableMessages (very similar to BeOS's BMessage class) layered over TCP streams. The included server program ("muscled") lets its clients message each other, and/or store information in its serverside hierarchical database. The database supports queries via regex and "live" updates via a subscription mechanism, and may be subclassed to if application-specific logic is needed.
myDVDs 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124873/
myDVDs is a complete personal Web-based graphical DVD inventory database based fully upon PHP with a MySQL backend and the master Region1 DVD database. Additionally, it makes use of the :CueCat: barcode reader for database Adds and Searches. It represents an easy and efficient way of managing that ever-growing collection of DVDs.
NSD 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124920/
NSD is a complete implementation of an authoritative DNS nameserver.
OutGoing 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124860/
OutGoing is a Perl script that is designed to aid with financial planning. It takes a list of your regular monthly outgoings and generates an HTML file that details the total amount of money going out for the month, a week-by-week breakdown, and a list of the payments left during the remainder of the month.
OZradio 0.9.5.2d beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124865/
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording.
PAM/NSS-DCE for Linux 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124890/
PAM/NSS-DCE for Linux is a nice and portable way to integrate Linux clients into existing DCE/DFS environments. The basic idea is to make use of PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) and NSS (Name Service Switch). DFS access is gained using the so-called NFS to DFS gateway that comes with DCE/DFS. A PAM module is used to authenticate against the DCE registry and to set up the appropriate NFS/DFS mappings. A separate NSS module is responsible for the name service lookups.
porn.pl 0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124910/
porn.pl gets a list of domains from hosts linking to porn sites. The list is used by squid to block the hosts. There's also a whitelist feature.
prometeo 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124839/
Prometeo is a modular, extensible proxy. It comes with HTTP, FTP (with SSL support), POP3, and SSL modules. Modules can be added or removed at runtime and everything can be configured through a Web interface.
Python Desktop Server 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124852/
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.
RabbIT 2.0.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124923/
RabbIt is the mutating, caching webproxy which is used to speed up surfing over slow links like modems. It does this by removing advertising and background images and scaling down images to low quality JPEGs. RabbIT is written in Java and should be able to run on any platform. It does depend upon an image converter if imagescaleing is on. The recommended image converter is "convert" from the ImageMagick package.
Retro Native Forth Release 6 (Build 8a) (RETRO6) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124863/
Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system. It attempts to be a simpler and easier-to-use alternative to more complex operating systems.
RPL/2 4.00pre6k (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124895/
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.
SAOL 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124838/
The Structured Audio Orchestra Language is a powerful, flexible language for describing music synthesis, and integrating synthetic sound with "natural" (recorded) sound in an MPEG-4 bitstream. It is not only a method of synthesis, but a streaming format appropriate for WWW-based (or any other channel) transmission of audio data. The 'saolc' package contains a program for encoding score and orchestras into the streaming format, and facility for decoding this format (so it can be used as a WWW helper app).
SCMxx 0.6.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124918/
SCMxx is a console program that allows you to exchange certain types of data with mobile phones made by Siemens. Some of the data types that can be exchanged are logos, ring tones, vCalendars, vCards, phonebook entries, and SMS messages. It works with the following phones: S25, C35i, M35i, S35i, ME45, S45, SL45, M50, and probably some others, too. It basically uses the AT command set published by Siemens (with some other additional resources).
Serveez 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124915/
Serveez is a server framework which provides routines and help for implementing IP-based servers (TCP, UDP, and ICMP). It is also possible to use named pipes for all connection-oriented protocols. The package includes a number of servers that work already: an HTTP server, an IRC server, a Gnutella spider, and some others. One of the highlights is that you can run all protocols on the same port. The application itself is single-threaded, but it uses helper processes for concurrent name resolution and ident lookups.