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[osdn developer] July 08, 2003
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 01:15:50 EDT
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July 08, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
EVMS 2.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289226
The EVMS team is announcing the next major release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. Package 2.1.0 is now available for download. This release is for the new EVMS design, which is based on user-space volume discovery and communication with existing kernel drivers, such as MD/Software-RAID and Device-Mapper. Downloads at the project page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evms/ Please see the INSTALL file in the 2.1.0 package for information about installing and getting started with the new EVMS. Since this new design is based on user-space discovery, there will no longer be boot-time volume activation. Please see the INSTALL file for information about how to activate your volumes using the EVMS user-interfaces and utilities. The INSTALL file also contains instructions for how users may easily "upgrade" an existing 2.4 kernel with Device-Mapper and EVMS 2.0.1 patches. Please see the README file in the 2.1.0 package for more detailed notes concerning this release and it's new features. EVMS 2.1.0 is supported on 2.4.21, 2.4.20, 2.4.19, and 2.5.73 kernels. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evms-devel@lists.sf.net) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). Please see the notes and changelog at: http://www.sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=168707
NDoc version 1.2 beta released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289572
A beta of the latest version of NDoc, the .NET Code Documentation Generator, has been released. The new features include: - new HTML Help 2 documenter (beta version), - new HTML Linear documenter (alpha version), - the MSDN documenter can now generate CHM or Online documentation, - option to link to the .NET Framework SDK v1.0, v1.1 or MSDN Online - support for Visual Studio 2003 and the .NET Framework 1.1, - plus many improvements and bug fixes... The NDoc v1.2 beta source code is available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36057&release_id= 168934
Columba 0.11.0 (unstable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289631
A new unstable version of Columba is now available. Columba is an email client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface with wizards and internalionalization support. Its a powerful email management tool with features to enhance your productivity and communication. So, take control of your email before it takes control of you! This version contains numerous new features we want you to testdrive. http://columba.sourceforge.net/downloads_unstable.php For more information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/news.php
Python 2.3b2
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=288768
Python 2.3b2 has been released (29-Jun-2003). We encourage you to test your applications with this release, as we plan on a final Python 2.3 release by early August.
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-06-20 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289543
0. Intro. 1. Improved Search. 2. Project of the month: Megamek. 3. Updated Project Registration System. 4. New RSS Feeds. 5. Stats and Top Projects.
Dear SourceForge.net, One of our biggest challenges in managing SourceForge.net has been handling our growth. With approximately 70 new Open Source Projects and 700 new registered users being added to the site each day, it can be quite a trick trying to stay ahead of the curve. This month I want to mention two improvements that are noteworthy. The first is project search. You can read about it below, but essentially the average time for searching for projects (using the left navbar) been reduced from 30 seconds to 1 second. The second is the beginning of the process of weeding out "dead" projects. These are projects that haven't had any real activity in the past 6 months and have never released any files. This is a big change for us. When SourceForge.net was started over 3 1/2 years ago, the vision was that it would be the permanent record of Open Source Software - Nothing would be deleted. We held on to the mission so strongly that we never developed internal tools to delete projects. Now with over 63,000+ projects and 70 new ones being added daily, we do realize that not -every- project has taken root. The real crusty/vacant ones (haven't released files and have zero activity) will be put in a queue for removal. This process will be done very carefully; we will give the registered admins of the project ample warning and the ability to 'opt-out' of the removal. The upside for the SourceForge.net community is that soon things will be a bit cleaner around here. Search results will list less dead projects and the software map will be easier to traverse. We still have some growing pains, but I hope you enjoy these latest improvements. I want to thank you for supporting SourceForge.net and the Open Source community. As always if you have some feedback or issues related to the site, please feel free to email me directly at pat@sf.net. Patrick McGovern Director, SF.NET Pat@sf.net Improved
Project Search --------------------------------------------- As
SourceForge.net continues to have significant growth in the size of its
user base, count of hosted projects, and daily activity, a significant
amount of work is done by the SourceForge.net team to ensure suitable
site performance and to work to resolve existing performance problems.
The SourceForge.net team is happy to announce that the "Software/group
search" facility is now operating in a more proper and functional
manner. Searches are now performed in real time and last only seconds.
Search users should no longer encounter the dreaded "search server is
overloaded" messages previously offered during peak traffic hours. The
SourceForge.net team expects to further expand the search facility in
the near future, and to increase the frequency of search updates
(currently twice-weekly) to better meet the needs of our hosted
projects. Your patience has been appreciated; we hope you enjoy your search results... http://sourceforge.net/search/ Project of the Month:
MegaMek --------------------------------------------- The
SourceForge.net team loves games. Our favorites are online, net-based
games that offer the ability to battle friends and foes from all over
from world. SourceForge.net's June 2003 project of the month, MegaMek,
is a Java based networkable game for 2 or more players. It's a
strategic game that features brains over fast reflexes. The Software,
licensed under the GPL, has enjoyed a position in the top 25 SF.net
most active projects since it's founding in February 2002. With new
features being added daily, MegaMek is a project to keep an eye on.
http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-06.php Updated Project
Registration System ---------------------------------------------
SourceForge.net provides hosting for Open Source software development
projects. Each day, SourceForge.net evaluates more than 100 new
projects for hosting. Historically, there have been a number of
pitfalls in this process. In particular, ensuring that each new project
registration contains enough information to be properly considered by
the SourceForge.net team without the added delay of asking the
submitter for more information. Delays due to lack of information
previously impacted roughly 15% of our new project registrations,
causing these registrations to take more than our ideal two business
days to be processed fully. The project registration system on
SourceForge.net has recently been completely rewritten, integrating
fixes for all previously-reported issues (in the past couple of years)
and generally making the process more seamless for the submitter. Based
on information collected during the early stages of the project
registration process, the project registration system automatically
advises you as to what should be included in your project description,
and helps to bring potential pitfalls to your attention before the
registration request is submitted. Users of our past project
registration pages will note a larger amount of integrated
documentation, the ability to easily return to earlier stages in the
process without losing entered data, and the capability to review the
information you have provided (and make necessary changes) before
submitting it to the SourceForge.net team for consideration. We hope
these changes will help make the process of registering a project on
SourceForge.net easier to understand, and help us to further improve
the turnaround time on hosting requests. New RSS Feeds.
- This is information from
the last sitewide email, but we think it's worth repeating. A
convenient way to keep up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site,
project news, activity information, and new projects is now available.
SourceForge.net provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed
using an RSS reader or aggregator (some content management systems also
allow you include data from an RSS feed on your website, much as
Slashdot and Freshmeat do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using
these RSS feeds, you can keep up-to-date with the latest project news
and file releases, Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics
(such as top projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed
using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1 Stats and Top Projects. --------------------------------------------- Number of Projects: 63,569 Number of Registered Users: 642,495 Daily Stats for June 11th, 2003 SF.NET : 1,762,941 pages served SF.NET project web space : 4,037,233 pages served Total Pages: 5,800,174 CVS updates: 15,017 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 310,666 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 124712 Top 25 Projects: 1. GAIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique feature. 2. phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ 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. 3. JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java 4. AWStats http://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats/ Advanced Web Statistics
(AWStats) is a free powerful and featureful web server logfile analyzer
that shows you all your Web (but also FTP or Mail) statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords, robots, etc. 5. Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 6. guliverkli http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 7. BZFlag http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/ OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag. 8. Tiki CMS/Groupware http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is a powerful CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) 9. ScummVM http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 10. Freecraft http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecraft/ This is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game engine. It is possible to play over LAN, internet or against the computer and to build C&C, W*rCr*ft, St*rCr*ft or AOE like RTS games with it. Currently only a W*rCr*ft 2 compatible theme is available. 11. XboxMediaPlayer http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/ The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2, MP3, JPG & other supported video/audio/picture formats via your TV so it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports streaming media over a network. 12. wxWindows http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/ wxWindows is a free C++ framework that facilitates cross platform software development, including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc.- POPFile http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients. 14. moregroupware http://sourceforge.net/projects/moregroupware/ Web-based groupware written in PHP4. Including modules like webmail, notes, todo, contacts, project management, calendar and others. 15. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 16. TUTOS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ 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. 17. filezilla http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. 18. Armagetron http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetron/ Armagetron is a simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron. The main focus lies on the multiplayer mode, which has already made Armagetron a popular warmup game on LAN parties. 19. ffdshow http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ ffdshow is DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX and XVID movies using libavcodec or xvid with rich set of video postprocessing filters. ffdshow can also be used as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders. 20. TV-Browser http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvbrowser/ TV-Browser is a java-based TV guide which is easily extensible using plugins. It is designed to look like a paper based tv guide. 21. Mobicq http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobicq/ Mobicq is a native ICQ client for mobile devices, such as celluar phones. It is written using Java 2 Micro Edition (MIDP 1.0) and uses ICQ protocol version 8. 22. Alvaro's Messenger http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn/ Alvaro\'s Messenger is a MSN messenger clone for linux/unix/windows/mac. It features multilanguage support, file transfers, new graphical interface, emoticons, multiple profiles support, dock icon, sound events, email notification, url processing... 23. MAMEoX http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameox/ MAMEoX is a port of the popular MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) system to the XBOX. The main goals of the project are to provide a well documented port with a consistent coding style. 24. WebCalendar http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar/ WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for a single user or an intranet group of users. 25. TortoiseCVS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/ TortoiseCVS is an extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer that makes using CVS fun and easy. Features include: colored icons, tight integration with SSH, and context-menu interactivity.
Slashdot
Hardware-Based Commute-Map Gadget
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/0037222
coreymetrics writes "Anyone have one of [0]these things? While it's no substitute for an improved mass-transit solution in the Puget Sound area, [1]TrafficGauge's new gadget sure looks like it beats any PDA or cell phone auto traffic map I've used. It uses the same data that powers the Washington State DOT's indispensable [2]website. Now why can't auto makers put this kind of thing in a dash instead of mostly worthless GPS navigation and DVD units?" Links
0.
http://www.trafficgauge.com/product.html
1.
http://www.trafficgauge.com/
2.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/PugetSoundTraffic/
RFID Industry Confidential Memos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/229216
An anonymous reader writes "Cryptome has learned www.autoidcenter.org
(RFID flak) has made [0]internal memos available for perusal at their
site. Those RFID people sure have some interesting plans for the
future. Who needs conspiracy theories, when you can hear it from the
horses mouth? Weeeeee!
"
Links
0. http://cryptome.org/rfid-docs.htm
Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2333243
tassii writes "In [0]this article from Reuters, Massachusetts' DA's office told the judge in the Microsoft Anti-trust trial that it was looking into Microsoft settlement complaints. Among complaints being examined by Massachusetts was whether Microsoft had violated portions of the settlement prohibiting pacts requiring exclusive support of Microsoft software. Massachusetts was also examining whether the company had properly offered communications protocols allowing non-Microsoft software to work well with Windows." An [1]Associated Press article covers the same story; the non-Microsoft software mentioned in both stories is Linux, but it's not clear which company's promotion of Linux is drawing the attention. Links
Michigan's Proposed Spam Law Called Toughest In U.S. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2157215
[0]goats_in_boats writes "A new bill ([1]PDF or [2]HTML) was presented
to the [3]Governor of Michigan that would require spam sent to
residents of the State to be identified as such. Highlights include the
requirement that unsolicited email 'Include in the e-mail subject line
"ADV:" as the first 4 characters' and that 'a person who violates this
act is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more
than 1 year or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both.' An
[4]article in the Detroit Free Press calls the bill 'the most stringent
anti-spam law in the nation.'"
Links
0. mailto:goats_in_boats@hotSPAMmail.com
1.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4519.pdf
2.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/htm/2003-HNB-4519.htm
3.
http://www.michigan.gov/gov
4.
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/des3_20030703.htm
Teach An Old Athlon New Tricks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2219216
[0]budn3kkid writes "Seems like [1]Upgradeware have a new [2]gadget out
for those overclockers looking to upgrade their age old Athlon mobo
(KT133, KT266 etc.) with a spanking new AMD Barton CPU. Also, saw an
article [3]at ol' Tom's about it right here as well."
Links
0. mailto:edmund_wong@pacific.net.sg
1.
http://www.upgradeware.com/
2.
http://www.upgradeware.com/english/product/xptmc/xptmc.htm
3.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030703/index.html9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2141216
[0]mark_wilkins writes "A photographer named Leslie Kelly had sued
Arriba Soft Corporation for infringing his copyrights to photos when
they made thumbnails of his pictures and stored them in a public image
search engine. Today the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
[1]affirmed the district court's ruling that making these thumbnail
copies of images for the search engine was 'fair use.' Since the
applicability of fair-use defenses to copyright infringement touches on
all kinds of common uses of the Internet as well as rulemaking related
to the [2]scope of the DMCA, this decision will probably have an effect
on the discussion. (Note that this case was decided by a 3-judge panel
and thus isn't binding precedent.)" Note that the court also reversed
in part the lower court's ruling, specifically saying that the lower
court should not have ruled on "whether the display of the larger image
is a violation of Kelly's exclusive right to publically display his
works."
Links
0. mailto:azotic@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/8E22982657C96BE188256D5C00518BF5/$file/0055521oop.pdf?openelement
2.
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
Trustworthy Software For The NSA?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2054249
[0]Janus Daniels writes "There's a new story from the New York Times,
as reprinted at CNET News, about [1]security concerns for Government
agencies buying software from overseas. According to the article, a
whistle-blower who helped sell software to the National Security Agency
says that much of the development work is subcontracted to China,
raising serious national security risks. He also discovered in the
sales-support database... the names of more than 30
[identity-classified] employees of the United States National Security
Agency...'"
Links
0. mailto:janus@nOSpaM.rapidconnections.com
SCO Taking Linux Discussion To Japan
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1914248
levin writes "EETimes is carrying a new story about our good friend Darl McBride, CEO of SCO. His [0]latest escapades include a trip to Japan in response to the [1]CE Linux Forum initiative undertaken by several big-name Japanese tech firms such as Sony and Toshiba. He's putting his famous tainted code dog-and-pony show on parade, trying to influence some of the major CELF founders." Links
0. http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030703S0026
Distributed Computing Economics
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/183256
[0]machaut writes "In a ClusterComputing.org article, Jim Gray,
director of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Lab, provides an
[1]interesting economic analysis for building distributed systems. When
do you choose a grid over a cluster or a supercomputer? When does it
pay off to move a task to the data vs moving the data to the task? He
takes current hardware and networking costs into account to answer
those questions."
Links
0. mailto:fsommers@autospaces.com
Freenet Creator Debates RIAA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1733230
[0]smd4985 writes "Over at CNET News.com, there's a [1]good coverage of
a debate between Ian Clarke of [2]Freenet and Matt Oppenheim of the
RIAA." In discussing whether it's "legal and moral to create and use
Freenet", which is "a radically decentralized network of file-sharing
nodes tied together with strong encryption", the RIAA's Oppenheim
suggests: "Other than the fact that most infringers do not like to use
Freenet because it is too clunky for them to get their quick hit of
free music, it is no more of a threat than any of the popular P2P
services."
Links
0.
http://www.susheeldaswani.com
1.
http://news.com.com/2010-1027_3-1023325.html?tag=fd_nc_1
2.
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Freshmeat
Arbitrary Command Output Colourer 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128479/
acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream. Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be manipulated. acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output and applies colours to those matches.
ARIA Business Management 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128549/
ARIA is business class management (ERP) software. It lets you manage inventory levels, maintain payroll, and process orders. It is written primarily in PHP and incorporates the ADODB database abstraction layer.
ATutor 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128531/
ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System
(LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind.
Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes. Educators can
quickly assemble Web-based instructional content. Students learn in an
adaptive learning environment.
Bandwidth alarm 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128563/
bwalarm lets you know by SMS or email if the bandwidth usage on your Unix machine goes above "normal". It's configured very simply, and can monitor either an iptables chain or interface counter, packets, or bytes. It runs as a daemon process and is intended to be obvious and reliable enough to warn you of expensive bandwidth bills before they arrive.
BBStatus 2.0RC15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128439/
BBStatus is an IP accounting package, and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its database. It can be used for IP accounting (using iptables, you can design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data making SNMP requests), IP monitoring (using ping, it stores and summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based access so that every user can log in and check the traffic from/through his/her IP addresses. It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool.
Bibkeeper 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128579/
Bibkeeper is a Java graphical interface for working with BibTeX (.bib) databases. The intention is to provide a user-friendly tool for accessing and editing your bibliographical databases.
bigloo 2.6a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128495/
Bigloo is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. It relies on an optimizing compiler from Scheme to C. Bigloo enables connections between Scheme code and C code. It proposes many extensions to Scheme such as a regular parser compiler, an lalr parser compiler, pattern matching, an object layer, etc.
Biglook 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128492/
Biglook is a graphical toolkit for the Bigloo Scheme system. Even if the current Biglook implementation relies on the Tk library, Biglook proposes a high programming level by mapping low level Tk widgets to Bigloo classes. In that, Biglook programs resemble STk programs. Biglook enables graphical user interface for Bigloo programs. It is implemented by the means of a Bigloo library. Programs making use of Biglook widgets are compiled into native code on the major Unix versions.
Bubble Shooter 2 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128508/
Bubble Shooter 2 is a game mini-pack which includes Strategic, Arcade, Sniper, and Marathon games. The goal of these games is to pop all the colored bubbles that fill the board. It's a bit like Bust-a-Move or Bubblet, but with rather different and varying gameplay. It is highly addictive. There is an online contest for the best players. Versions for PalmOS 5 (hi-res) and for older devices are both available.
Callflow 20030707
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128562/
Callflow is a collection of awk and shell scripts that will take a capture file that can be read by Ethereal and produce a callflow sequence diagram. The scripts have been primarily tested with SIP call flows, but should work for other network traffic as well.
Cavepilot 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128541/
Cavepilot is another cave-flying game like the old classics, Turbo Raketti and Gravity Force You fly a small rocket in a 2D cave and try to shoot down your opponent. It currently supports one or two local players.
Chemtool 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128538/
Chemtool is a GTK+-based 2D chemical structure editor for X11. Drawings can be exported in XFig format for further annotation, or as Postscript files (using xfig's companion program transfig). A set of sample molecular structure drawings is included in the archive.
CVSGnome 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128513/
CVSGnome is a build environment for the GNOME project which allows a systems administrator to install GNOME from either released source Tarballs or from bleeding edge CVS depending on what is wanted. This script also works as a general building wrapper around other sources. When started, it shows an interactive self-explanatory menu.
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse 1.1.42 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128575/
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) is a system of clients and servers that collect and count checksums related to mail messages. The counts can be used by SMTP servers and mail user agents to detect and reject bulk mail. DCC servers can exchange common checksums. The checksums include values that are "fuzzy", or constant across common variations in bulk messages.
doc2xml 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128482/
doc2xml converts Microsoft Word files to XML, which can in turn be converted to something more useful.
Dolibarr 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128556/
Dolibarr is a small and simple Web interface with ERP and CRM capabilities. It is designed for small companies and freelancers, and can be used to deal with the bills and documentation required for company management.
edit-on JavaBean SDK 1.0.47
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128519/
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 3.1.200 (3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128518/
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.
eNetwizard Matrix Server 0.0.1 (Core)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128477/
eNetwizard Matrix Server is a content management system with a rich set of features that rival the expensive proprietary counterparts. It can satisfy the content management and application serving requirements of the individual to the largest of enterprises. Best of all, it can manage and render an unlimited number of domains from a single running copy of the distribution. eNetwizard Matrix Server is platform-independent, robust, scalable, highly customizable, and fully supported. It includes complex user security measures, complete worldwide language capabilities, comprehensive logging abilities, thorough session management functions, and an array of Web applications and management wizards.
Ephox EditLive! for Java 2.0.2.361
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128559/
EditLive! for Java is a cross-platform, browser-based Web content authoring tool. It enables business users to edit HTML, XHTML, and XML content via an easy-to-use WYSIWYG interface. It includes advanced table editing, CSS support, spell checker, and integrated image and hyperlink browsing via WebDAV. It is designed for use with Web content management, knowledge management and e-learning applications.
fingerdvd 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128478/
fingerdvd is a Python module and commandline tool which can fingerprint a DVD and use the fingerprint to submit or retrieve disc information.
FireStorm 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128488/
FireStorm is a powerful development tool that reduces the amount of coding required for a typical business application by automatically generating the persistence tier. It reverse-engineers existing data sources and generates a Java persistence framework that is independent of any specific persistence technology, and then offers the choice of generating implementation logic based on JDBC or EJB. The generated source code conforms to the widely accepted Data Access Objects (DAO) design pattern and has no dependencies on any proprietary runtime libraries.
flexbackup 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128578/
flexbackup is a configurable and easy to use Perl-based backup tool, that can backup local files as well as remote machines (using ssh). It allows the backup itself to be made with afio, cpio, tar, dump, star, or pax. It can work with tape drives, or can easily archive to on-disk files.
FreeMarker 2.3pre6 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128546/
FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more.
FScript 0.6 (J2ME)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128530/
FScript is an extremely simple scripting language. Its intended use is as an embedded language in other Java programs. It is very simple to embed; it can be as simple as sub-classing one class to add your own functionality. However, it is not a complete programming language, as it has no library of standard functions (such as IO and string processing). FScript supplies base functionality (such as flow control, variable handling, and basic math operations) that can extended by the host application. The only requirement is a Java 2 runtime environment.
fwlogview 0.3.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128580/
fwlogview is a graphical, realtime, colorized logviewer for netfilter and other logs written in Java. It displays the logentries which are related to the firewall action. You can hide unimportant columns or change the order in which columns are shown.
galculator 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128542/
galculator is a GTK 2 based scientific calculator supporting algebraic
mode as well as RPN. Features include arithmetic operations plus
precedence handling, full keypad support, trigonometric functions,
power, square root, natural and common logarithm, constants (e, PI),
and inverse and hyperbolic functions. It supports different number
bases (decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary) and angle bases
(radiant, degree, and grad).
Gerwin 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128544/
Gerwin is a tool that aid you in creating data models and then
(perhaps) implementing them in a relational database. You can draw your
data model via an entity-relation diagram, generate the tables from it
(another graphical diagram), and then generate the SQL that creates
such relational tables. Several SQL dialects are supported (for most
popular free software database systems) and it is very easy to patch
the sources to support more.
Getleft 1.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128569/
Given a URL, Getleft will try to download all links. As it goes, it modifies the original HTML pages so that the absolute links get changed to relative links, and links to active pages get changed to the resulting pages. It supports thirteen different languages.
ggcov 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128534/
Ggcov is a GTK+ GUI for exploring test coverage data produced by C programs compiled with gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage. It's basically a GUI replacement for the gcov program that comes with gcc.
gmorgan 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128523/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128510/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
Graphico 1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128487/
Graphico is a 3D graphics API for Java and/or C++, based on OpenGL.
Grisbi 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128504/
Grisbi is personal accounting software for that can manage multiple accounts, multiple currencies, and multiple users. It manages third parties, expenditures and receipts categories, and also budgetary lines, financial years, and other information. It is adapted for personal use as well as for associations.
High Level Assembly Language 1.52
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128500/
The High Level Assembly Language (HLA) was designed to allow advanced assembly language programmers to write more readable and powerful assembly language code. It makes it possible to write code by leveraging knowledge of high level languages like C, C++, Pascal, and Delphi. HLA compiles into 80x86 assembly language, which is assembled by MASM, TASM, or Gas.
Horgand 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128517/
Horgand is a graphical FM real time organ with auto-accompaniment. It is jack capable, with DSP effects to emulate and store organ sounds.
IlohaMail 0.8.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128540/
IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to
use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require
databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library
(it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It supports all
essential functionality, including a full contacts list and a user
customizable interface. Other features include support for multiple
domains (virtual hosts), built-in spam prevention, and activity
logging.
invoicebot 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128526/
invoicebot is a custom time tracking, quotation, and invoicing system for consulting firms. It is used in house for all of thoughtbot's invoicing. It is written in Perl and MySQL.
Jacquard 1.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128527/
Jacquard is a Web-database integration toolkit, written as a Java
Servlet package. It is designed to make it extremely easy to build twoand
three-tier client-server applications which will be completely
portable to any hardware platform and operating system which supports a
Java 1.2-compliant JVM or a JDBC 2.0-compliant database management
system, or any Web server or Web Application Server which supports the
JSDK 2.0 API.
Jameleon 1_0-docs-HttpUnit-RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128525/
Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into features and allows those features to be tied together independently, creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and executed against different environments. The goal is to create an automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that ties a series of features to a test-case, generating both the test script and the test-case documentation is in the works.
jEdit 4.2pre3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128473/
jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. jEdit also includes a powerful plugin architecture that allows more than 80 plugins to be downloaded and installed from within the editor.
JProfiler 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128503/
JProfiler is a fully dynamic profiler based on the Java virtual machine profiling interface (JVMPI). It is targeted at J2EE and J2SE applications, and features CPU profiling, memory profiling, thread profiling, and VM telemetry information.
JRat 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128557/
JRat is a Java runtime analysis toolkit that enables developers to better understand the runtime behavior of their Java programs. This includes but is not limited to performance profiling.
kcd 7.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128536/
kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you.
Least 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128476/
Least is a tool for fitting generic data to a user-specified function using the least squares method. It supports multidimensional and multiparametric fitting, linear or non-linear functions in the parameters, and error in the independent variable(s).
libdaemon 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128455/
libdaemon is a lightweight C library that eases the process of writing UNIX daemons. It contains a daemonizing fork() wrapper, a powerful syslog() wrapper, PID file management, and signal serialization.
LibTomMath 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128493/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography).
Libxml 2.5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128522/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, Relax NG, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress. It includes xmllint, a command line XML validator.
libxml++ 0.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128547/
libxml++ is a C++ interface for working with XML files, using libxml
(gnome-xml) to parse and write the actual XML files. It has a simple
but complete API.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 1.0 (Guide)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128520/
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 content blocking.
Linux Virtual Server 1.1.7 (IPVS for kernel 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128481/
The Linux Virtual Server Project is an Open Source project to cluster many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance virtual server. The LVS handles connections from clients and passes them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP, DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client accessing the virtual service.
LoadBar 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128512/
LoadBar is a simple CPU load graph, shown as a thin line on the left side of the desktop.
MacXM 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128565/
MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection.
MainBrain School 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128553/
MainBrain School is a Web-based information portal for schools which allows parents to log in to view their students' assignments, grades, attendance, class Web sites, school calendars, and updates; it can also alert parents of potential problems before they become real issues. It helps schools use the Internet to improve parent-teacher communication.
MicroBlogger 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128558/
MicroBlogger is a fast, flexible, secure, reliable, and bloat-free weblog engine written entirely in Bash script. It is designed to have absolutely no dependencies on any outside programs--no PHP, no SQL, no CGI, no CSS, no JavaScript, no Perl, no XML, no DHTML, nothing. MicroBlogger is completely self-contained and self-regulating, and is &n