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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

Can we help you?

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
Future Army Battle Uniforms - Wired, Lethal http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/0129256

Can't find what you're looking for?

ssyladin writes "CNN is running an article about [0] the future US army battle dress, code-named 'Scorpion'. It says that "..soldiers of 2011 will step into wired uniforms that incorporate all the equipment they need. The uniforms will monitor vital signs and plug them into a massive network of satellites, unmanned planes and robotic vehicles the military has planned." There will be sensors to monitor heartrate and blood-pressure, built-in tourniquets, a HUD to connect to GPS info, overhead maps, infrared and starlight cameras, and even the venerable M16 rifles are slated for an overhaul." Links

0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/06/04/soldier.future.ap/index.html

ArtBots - The Robot Talent Show
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/2328253

douglas repetto writes "Info on the participants in the [0]Second Annual International ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, to be held in New York this July, is now online. and there's lots of fun geek/tech/art candy. Participants include robots that [1]draw, [2]sculpt, and [3]play musical instruments, as well as many with talents that are a [4]bit harder to pin down."
Links

    0. 
http://artbots.org
    1. 
http://artbots.org/2003/participants/Fotron2000/
    2. 
http://artbots.org/2003/participants/Automated_Architecture_Robot/
    3. 
http://artbots.org/2003/participants/Scratchrobot/
    4. 
http://artbots.org/2003/participants/Tribblation/

Fast TCP To Increase Speed Of File Transfers? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/0038250

Wrighter writes "There's a new story at Yahoo about a new version of TCP called Fast TCP that [0]might help increase the speed of file transfers. Sounds like it basically estimates the maximum efficient speed of your network, and then goes for it, dumping a lot of time-consuming error checking." There's also [1]an article at the New Scientist with some additional information. Links

0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=6&u=/nm/20030604/tc_nm/technology_internet_dc_3

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993799

JBoss Group Developers Walk Out
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/2212228

Don't know where to look next?

An anonymous reader writes "According to The Inquirer, 'seven consultants for [0]The JBoss Group publicly [1]announced the immediate termination of their contracts and the foundation of their new company,
[2]Core Developers Network.'"

Links

    0. 
http://www.jboss.org
    1. 
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9850
    2. 
http://www.coredevelopers.net

Help Write An Open Data Format Bill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/2119235

[0]AdamBa writes "There has been a lot of discussion of open source
bills, but I think open data format bills have a much greater chance of actually becoming law. Over at the [1]Open Data Format Initiative site, I have written an article explaining [2]"Why Open Data Format Laws Are Better Than Open Source Laws". I also have a [3]sample Open Data Format bill; I invite comments from slashdot readers, in particular on how the sample bill could be improved."
Links

    0. mailto:adam@proudlyserving.com
    1. 
http://www.odfi.org/
    2. 
http://odfi.org/archives/000013.html
    3. 
http://odfi.org/archives/000014.html

Slashback: NIC, Dastar, Defects
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/0044237

Slashback tonight with a round of corrections and updates to recent (and not recent) Slashdot postings. Read on to find out more on the fate of Larry Ellison's thin-client Linux machine, OpenTV vs. GNU, getting satisfaction instead of defective hard drives, and more. Enjoy!

Sharp Zaurus SL-C750 English Conversion
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/1732224

[0]DavonZ writes "I have just released a small review/information on
the Sharp Zaurus SL-C750 and the [1]Dynamism English conversion. This is one sweet unit. You can [2]check it out at nvmax.com." Links

    0. 
http://www.nvmax.com
    1. 
http://www.dynamism.com
    2. 
http://www.nvmax.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?num=1054747425

Do Online Schools Provide A Quality Education? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/0051202

Confused? Frustrated?

An anonymous reader asks: "I am attending an online college for the first time Ã‚Â… and I am starting to get a bad taste in my mouth about the amount of effort that some of my professors are putting forward in my courses. I feel like some of them are Ã‚Â“skatingÃ‚Â” and all I am paying for is a book, a posted syllabus, and a final exam. Have any of you been to an online school, and what where your experiences like? How did you feel about the quality of education you were getting?"

Modern Day Gamer Documentary
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/1832225

[0]Simon Bysshe writes "I'm a UK film student, and have recently
released a [1]freely downloadable video documentary called 'Modern Day Gamer'. In it, I use interviews from a LAN party I went to in Brighton to try to address the main pre-conceptions people have about gamers, ie: is it really anti-social? is it only for geeks? is it a non-productive use of time?" We've also rustled up a [2]BitTorrent link at Gametab and [3]another BitTorrent link courtesy Jamuraa for this 75mb DivX file.
Links

    0. mailto:sb3102@soton.ac.uk
    1. 
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=404253
    2. 
http://www.gametab.com/files/torrents.php?fuse=27
    3. 
http://207.44.232.38/~jamuraa/modern_day_gamer.avi.torrent

Microsoft Patents Interactive Entertainment http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/188215

An anonymous reader writes "Embedded-Watch is carrying a story regarding the award of patent number [0]6,571,390 to [1]Microsoft. The patent would seem to cover pretty much [2]any implementation of a video-on-demand system that you (or at least I) can think of. Read for yourself to decide whether this patent either is not original work or is blatantly obvious to the most casual observer. The patent could certainly be invalidated by the courts on either point, but that'd take a fight in court that won't be cheap." Links

    0. 
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6571390.WKU.&OS=PN/6571390&RS=PN/6571390
    1. 
http://www.microsoft.com/
    2. 
http://www.embeddedwatch.com/wolfemicrosoftexclusivemay31.htm

Freshmeat
A-A-P 0.900
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124984/

The goal for A-A-P is to make it easy to locate, download, and install software. Additionally, it supports making changes to a program and managing different versions that exist in the world, making it useful both for users and for developers. It uses a recipe that is similar to a Makefile, but with many enhancements, such as integrated Python script support, support for Internet access, and version control. An IDE will be provided that integrates your favorite editor, debugger, and other tools.

Abeni 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124955/

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Abeni is a Gentoo Linux ebuild GUI editor written in Python/wxPython. It helps users create syntactically correct ebuilds efficiently. It incorporates the Scintilla editor for syntax highlighting and Lintool for syntax checking.

Album Cover Art Downloader 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124973/

Album Cover Art Downloader will go through your collection of music albums and for each one download a set of matching cover images for you to choose from. It makes the selected image usable for programs such as KDE, Windows Media Player, etc.

Aldo 0.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125006/

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

Auto Directory Index PHP Script 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124931/

autoindex is a PHP script that makes a table that lists the files in a directory and lets users access the files and subdirectories. It includes searching, icons for each file type, an anti-leech feature, bandwidth limiting, access logging, and more.

Bambookit GUI 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124934/

Do you need help?

Bambookit GUI is a completely XML-scriptable user interface to build real-time interactive Web application front-ends. Applications occupy 100 Kb of device memory and run on any Java-enabled browser. Users can move windows, resize containers, scroll and sort tables, lists, trees, see real-time data display, use a layout manager, and more. All rendering and event handling is managed in the XML scripts.

Bifrost Firewall iptables GUI 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125047/

Bifrost is a firewall management interface to iptables (iptables GUI). The system is inspired by Checkpoint, Cisco PIX, and Watchguard firewall management. With Bifrost you are able to work with incoming and outgoing traffic flows rather than focusing on interfaces. The system supports both IPSEC and High Availability. It is even possible to manage HA from the GUI. Bifrost has an advanced anti-spoofing function. There is also a very easy-to-use log watch function where you can apply filtering. Logging is controlled per rule. You can turn on/off logging for a rule on the fly, and there is built-in protection against log flooding. All firewall changes are made without interrupt already established connections. There is also support for traffic marking (mangle), very useful when you are working with QOS (bandwidth management) and advance routing such as policy-based routing. If you for some reason need something extra, it is possible to add your own commands.

blojsom 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124992/

blojsom is a lightweight blog package written in Java that was inspired by blosxom. It aims to be simple in design while adding user flexibility in areas such as the flavors, templating, and plugins.

Blood: The Last Vampire 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124988/

Blood: The Last Vampire is based on a short Anime film of the same name. The background is overlaid with proverbs from the Ethiopian Amharic language from a utf-8 demo file.

boxmenu 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124969/

Do you need more help?

boxmenu is a Python module for reading, writing, and editing menus in HackedBox, BlackBox, and related window managers.

Bugzero 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124994/

Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software, hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.

Cerberus Intrusion Detection System 0.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124947/

CIDS is an intrusion detection system, not based on packets, but rather based on actual intrusion recognition (as in a remote login from root, etc). It also logs scanning attempts and all remote attempts. It is good for private users looking for some form of security on their box.

changedfiles 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125032/

changedfiles is a framework for filesystem replication, security monitoring, and/or automatic file transformations--essentially any application where you'd poll files or directories and either do something to them or send them somewhere else (or both). The difference is, the kernel tells you when they change, instead of you having to poll. Besides which, it's an easy real time FTP push mirror to one or multiple sites. The changedfiles system consists of two parts: a kernel module (works with Linux kernel version 2.4) which reports to a device whenever a file on the filesystem changes, and a daemon which runs in user space and can be configured to do almost any action when a change to a file matching the one of the patterns it looks for is reported. The kernel module is SMP safe and has been tested on Intel, PowerPC, and Alpha.

Configuration File Library 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124976/

Can we help you?

The Configuration File Library (CFL) is a collection of routines for manipulating configuration files. It is a portable library fully written from scratch in pure ANSI C. It is designed to offer C programmers common routines for manipulating configuration text files.

Coyote Linux 2.0.0-pre4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125023/

Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for people who have an Internet connection that they wish to share with other computers on a LAN. In addition to connection sharing, it also provides firewall services to help protect the internal network. The goal of the Coyote project is to make it as quick and easy as possible to share an Internet connection.

crget 0.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125031/

crget provides a Unix-based data access utility for Campbell Scientific dataloggers, namely the CR10X. It supports multiple methods of datalogger access, including serial line, modem, and network.

CRM Call Tracking 1.8pre1-04062003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125029/

CRM allows you to create entities to which you can attach files, place alerts, prioritize, etc. It is multi-lingual and customizable. Installation is done using a simple script.

CSound 4.24.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124954/

Can't find what you're looking for?

Csound is a powerful and yet easy to use musical synthesis package. Csound was constructed in the tradition of so-called music-N languages, among which the best-known is Music V. It consists of an orchestra- and score-driven executable, written in C for portability. Since Csound is a computational language, it is highly flexible and efficient; complexity is gained only at the expense of computation power. Basically, Csound reads some files and creates the result as a sound file on disk or, on faster machines, in real time through a DAC.

Cubex Rubik's Cube Solver .414
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125054/

Cubex is a Web-based Rubik's Cube solver that produces a highly-detailed solution for any mixed-up Rubik's Cube in seconds.

db4oBrowser 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125004/

With db4oBrowser, you can browse through a db4o database, execute S.O.D.A. queries in an SQL-like syntax, and perform object value updates in your Web browser. It's based upon a servlet/bean architecture.

DKMS 0.31.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125020/

DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) is a framework where device driver source can reside outside the kernel source tree so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This allows Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases (as a stopgap before the code can make it back into the kernel), while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels. For veteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code.

Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124974/

Don't know where to look next?

The Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver provides ODBC 3.5 access to Oracle databases for ODBC compatible applications running on Windows, Linux, and major Unix platforms. It supports Oracle 8.1.6 or higher and Oracle 9. Data can be hosted locally or on any remote server accessible with the Oracle Net8 protocol.

edit-on JavaBean SDK 1.0.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124971/

The edit-on JavaBean SDK is a customizable, feature-rich JavaBean that allows developers to add WYSIWYG editing functionality to their AWT- or Swing-based applications. It features an intuitive word processor-like user interface that enables XHTML content authoring with XML markup, and has a royalty free run-time license.

edit-on Pro 3.1.188 (3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124959/

edit-on Pro is a cross-platform, in-browser, WYSIWYG editor Java applet which enables XHTML content authoring with XML markup. The editor is compact, powerful and requires no special libraries or client plugins. It includes CSS support, table editing, a spelling checker, multi-language support, and features an API that allows full customisation and seamless integration into Web-based applications. It perfectly complements content management systems, e-learning, knowledge management systems, and CRM. A free trial version is available for download and includes complete developer samples and a comprehensive integration manual.

edit-on Pro 2.1.119.FIX.4 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124960/

ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124999/

Confused? Frustrated?

ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.

ElyCA 0.23d (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124995/

ElyCA is yet another implementation of a Certification Authority and a Registration Authority. It is written in Python and uses MySQL as its database.

EMS MySQL Manager 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124997/

EMS MySQL Manager provides powerful tools for MySQL Server administration and object management. Its Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows you to create/edit all MySQL database objects in a simple and direct way, run SQL scripts, manage users and administer user privileges, execute SQL queries, extract, print, and search metadata, and export/import data. It also supplies many more services that will make your work with the MySQL server as easy as it can be.

Erlang SDL 0.93.0526
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124978/

Esdl is library for accessing SDL and OpenGL through Erlang. SDL handles 2d graphics, user events, and audio while OpenGL handles 3d graphics. SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer and audio device. It also does event handling from mouse, keyboards, and joysticks. OpenGL is a cross-platform standard for 3D rendering and 3D hardware acceleration.

Fade to Blue 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124939/

Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365

Fade to Blue is a blue fade-in, fade-out animated cursor scheme for XFree 4.3. All included cursors fade in and out once every 1.2 seconds, from a brilliant blue at 100% opacity all the way down to 50% opacity. There are 20 frames of fading goodness per cursor.

Firebird Relational Database 1.0.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/125030/

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.

Flames 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124952/

Flames are algorithmically-generated images and animations. MetaCreations incorporated the flame code into Kai's Power Tools (KPT) version 5 and dubbed it FraxFlame. It was updated in KPT6 and eventually sold to Corel. It's now available from most retailers under their procreate brand as KPT Effects.

Free Realty 2.7-pre7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124950/

Free Realty is a PHP/MySQL set of scripts based upon Jon Roig's original Open Realty project. Jon's description of the package, "... so easy even a real estate agent can use it.." is the ultimate goal of this project.

FUDforum 2.5.0RC4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124981/

Do you need help?

FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.

getniouze 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125049/

getniouze is a Python script that permits you to download messages from an NNTP server and save them in an mbox file. You give the server and a list of news groups, and the program will download every messages exept those downloaded last time (last downloaded article ID is saved in a file so that an article is downloaded only one time). This is useful if you want to save messages from a private news server and put them on a Web page using hypermail.

Gherkin 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124930/

Gherkin is a Web-enabled, multi-threaded, centralized security scan manager that incorporates Nessus vulnerability scanning, DNS and nmblookup name resolution, and nmap fingerprinting and scanning.

Gled 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125005/

Gled is an implementation of a hierarchic server/client model written in C++, having an outside form of an object oriented framework. The master server exposes its object space to its first-level clients, which in turn provide mirroring facilities to second-level clients and also export their own object spaces. Each client therefore plays a role of a client, a proxy, and a server. Infrastructure for propagation and broadcasting of method invocation requests is provided and is general enough to allow for an efficient access control. Synchronization of object spaces is achieved via streaming of object graphs and a time-ordered delivery of method invocation requests. Objects can acquire their own threads to perform different tasks such as computation, data acquisition & analysis or dynamic visualization. The obtained results can be pushed to other computing nodes or storage devices. As threads are spawned and controlled by standard method invocation requests, schedulers & job control mechanisms spawning across a whole Gled cluster can easily be implemented. On viewer level, Gled features automatically generated GUI widgets (using FLTK) and a sophisticated 3D rendering infrastructure (OpenGL).

GSwitchIt 2.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125050/

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gswitchit is a simple keyboard state indicator for the GNOME panel. It supports up to 4 keyboard groups and has customizable images for each group.

GWintree 0.9.1-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125033/

GWintree is a genealogy chart program for Linux, which produces 2 styles of compact full charts from GEDCOM data, showing all blood relatives. Options are available to show ancestors only or descendants only. Charts can be printed across multiple pages or saved as image files, and can display over 1000 families, showing all links, optionally colour-coded, and formatted so families are not split by page breaks. It also produces birth brief (pedigree) charts and selective ancestor charts, and incorporates a simple data entry interface to create/edit/view GEDCOM files.

Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.6-20030604 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124982/

Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) provides an XML schema for historical events and a Java Web app which transforms conforming documents into hyperlinked timelines, maps and tables. It aims to provide a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add a historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.'

host 20030604
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125059/

Host is a complete and powerful command-line based DNS query and testing tool. It has many of the same basic features as other similar tools such as nslookup and dig, but it has more extensive testing and test automation features. Host also has a much more standard (i.e. Unix-based) command-line user interface.

HTML::PopupTreeSelect 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124945/

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HTML::PopupTreeSelect is a Perl module which creates an HTML popup tree selector using HTML::Template. The HTML and Javascript produced will work in Mozilla 1+ (Netscape 6+) on all operating systems and Microsoft IE 5+ on Windows and Mac. The design for this widget is based on the xTree widget from WebFX and resembles a Windows Explorer directory tree.

J-Bird 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125045/

J-Bird is a record keeping system for observations of birds. In the parlance of birders, it is bird listing software. J-Bird is oriented toward birding trips. Information recorded includes region, trip date, locality, keywords, notes, species observed, and notes on individual species.

JWall 0.7.1 (alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125013/

JWall is a Java-based application for graphically building and installing rules for one or more firewalls, local or remote.

Kalpa 0.0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125021/

Kalpa is a full-featured multi-user client-server cross- platform accounting, management, market support, and CRM system for Russian enterprises.

Krename 2.7.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124965/

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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.

LANforge FIRE &amp; ICE 3.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125014/

The LANforge is a unified multi-protocol network traffic generation and WAN simulation application. It allows testing and verification labs to simulate real world customer traffic. The WAN simulator allows the injection of latency and other network oddities like dropped, duplicated, and re-ordered packets. The LANforge provides a scriptable command line interface with Perl libraries as well as a graphical user interface.

Languenet 1.2rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124979/

Languenet is a PHP application originally written for Language departments of Universities, allowing users to register for educational courses online and administrators to manage course data, add grades, print certificates, and more. The whole program is accessible by a simple browser. It is currently only available in German.

Lavengro 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125044/

Lavengro is a vocabulary test engine that uses text files as its tests. It reads up these text files and then tests you by using one field of each line of the file for the question, another for the answer. The tests themselves are created by you.

LBreakout 2.5beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125036/

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LBreakout is a breakout game with nice effects, graphics, and sounds. It's got a menu to configure a lot of things and a high score chart. It can be played either by mouse or keyboard. New levels can also be created, and most other aspects of the game can be customized.

libcddb 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125011/

Libcddb is a library that implements the different protocols (CDDBP, HTTP, SMTP) to access data on a CDDB server (e.g. http://freedb.org). It tries to be as cross-platform as possible.

libmplite 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124996/

libmplite is a library which provides a minimal C++ interface around the mpfr library for multi-precision floating point arithmetic.

libnewmail 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125042/

libnewmail is a generic mail checking library for Unix/Linux and other operating systems. It supports a simple API, an extensible plugin architecture, and asynchronous queries among other features. It is intended to be a replacement for all the crappy and incomplete code in all those mail checking utilities available.

Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 4.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125018/

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Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and time of day controls can be set.

Linux User Management System .96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125001/

The Linux User Management System allows an organization to centrally manage their Linux users. It works with all distributions of Linux and in conjunction with GeKL's KDE User Desktop Management System (UDMS). Admins can use it to create groups, import large numbers of users and establish system profiles, and easily maintain profiles.

LoopLinux 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124990/

LoopLinux (a.k.a. loopslak) is a way to install and run Slackware Linux from a DOS/Win9x system without repartitioning. It can also be installed to its own Linux partition.

Mah-Jong 1.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125027/

Mah-Jong is a set of three programs comprising a networked Mah-Jong game, a graphical client for humans, and a basic computer player. The game can be played by four humans, by a human and three computer players, or any other combination. The version of Mah-Jong is that generally called Chinese Classical. It should not be confused with the solitaire games such as xmahjongg.

Mamory 0.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125035/

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Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client.

MasqMail 0.2.20 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124961/

MasqMail is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) designed for hosts that are not permanently connected to the Internet. It handles outgoing messages specially and delivers them only when explicitely told to do so in the ip-up script. It can also retrieve mail via pop3. It has support for multiple providers. When offline, it behaves like any MTA (like, for example, sendmail, though it's not as powerful as sendmail).

MEDICI 0.1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125010/

MEDICI is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) library. EDIFACT (ISO 9735), ASC X.12, and TRADACOMS syntaxes are currently supported. MEDICI provides a parser for EDI streams and functions to query EDI guidelines for validation information, reference information, and design notes. MEDICI does not dictate how EDI guidelines should be implemented, but provides an interface which can be used to interrogate external implementations and an example guideline implementation for internal use.

Meta-CVS 1.0.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125003/

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.

MyCSV 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124970/

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MyCSV is a PHP library that provides a fast and simple text database. The project includes an API, a blueprint, and a frontend application.

naim 0.11.5.8 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125040/

naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports IRC, ICQ, and Lily CMC. For AIM and ICQ, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving naim's classic look and feel.

netcount 0.8a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125034/

netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly basis. Also part of the package is nstat, an X utility to display connection status, to hang up, and to start and terminate pppd.

nut 8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124962/

nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient

    Database for Standard Reference, Release 15, which contains 6,220 foods
    and 117 nutrients. This database contains values for vitamins,
    minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and

includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Recipes can be added, and graphs drawn. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.

O-Zone's EDITor 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124985/

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