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[osdn developer] August 08, 2003
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 01:15:50 EDT
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August 08, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
FreeFrame 1.0 Release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=299439
Well after a lot of work, we're there - public release of FreeFrame 1.0
- the new realtime video effects plugin format for VJ software. FreeFrame allows plugin developers to develop one plugin that will work in a variety of video programs. Today's FreeFrame release coincides with the release of versions of VJamm and Resolume featuring native support for the standard. We are also releasing today plugin developer kits for C++ and Pascal developers, in addition to sample host code for application developers wishing to support the standard. For more general info on FreeFrame please visit the FreeFrame website: http://www.freeframe.org ... and for technical info / downloads the SourceForge FreeFrame site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeframe/ The FreeFrame file release package at this address is the general windows download for FreeFrame 1.0 - this contains the latest versions of Petes Plugins - a fully featured FreeFrame plugin set from Pete Warden and the Resolume plugin pack. Watch out for further FreeFrame 1.0 releases over the coming months. http://www.vjammpro.com http://www.resolume.com http://www.petewarden.com Russell VJamm
Release 0.3.5 now available.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=299671
The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform-independent SMTP Proxy server which implements whitelists and Bayesian filtering to rid the planet of the blight of unsolicited email (UCE). This release fixes two bugs. One affects all servers that support the CHUNKING directive (specifically MS Exchange) and causes the truncation of the last 100 bytes of each message sent by another CHUNKING server. The second is a very minor bug that could reduce spam detection in some circumstances. All Exchange (or other CHUNKING server) users are recommended to upgrade immediately. To upgrade, simply replace assp.pl and rebuildspamdb.pl. (The docs are updated too.) Hopefully, this will be the last release before 1.0.0. https://sourceforge.net/projects/assp/ John
PCGen 5.3.3 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=299732
PCGen is a Java-based RPG character generator and maintenance program
that works on all platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc). All
datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available
through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. We're very
pleased to announce that with this release we now include Sword and
Sorcery's Relics and Rituals! Thanks to all the volunteers who put the
data together and to Tir Gwaith who saw it through to completion and
got the publisher's approval on it! Mac OS X users - if you quit PCGen
using close or quit, your preferences will not be saved. The preference
files are only saved if you use the File->Exit menu item to exit PCGen.
This is a java issue (our thanks to Conor for finding the reason for
this long-standing issue!) This is a rather significant release - the
monkeys have been busy since the last release! Read over the lists of
changes to see what all has changed, but I'd like to highlight a few of
them. A *drastic* improvement in speed has been effected by Jayme Cox,
with some assists from Frugal and Scott Ettelsworth. Jayme made use of
code Greg Binglemen put in there quite some time ago - and the results
are wonderful! Felipe and Frugal maintain the Output Sheets excellence
by squashing every single bug that has been reported and continuing to
give the output sheet monkeys new toys to play with! Jonas has moved us
to using the latest pdf generation libraries, which has made the output
sheet monkeys even happier! If you use the pdf character sheets (which
are way cool!) you will need to download an updated pdf library:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pcgen/pdf_new.zip?download unzip the
above library into your pcgen's lib folder. We hope to have the 3.5 SRD
(System Resource Document) ready for PCGen in 3-4 weeks. After that
time we will move PCGen to be based upon java 1.4, which means that
releases after that will require users to download java 1.4. We've been
encouraging users to install java 1.4 since it runs faster than java
1.3. Those on Mac OS 9, Mac OS X (10 - 10.1) will need to upgrade to
Mac OS X (10.2 or higher) in order for their machine to handle java
1.4. For users who have trouble getting the 3 zip files to unzip
properly, we have some OS-specific installs that should help minimize
the chance of install related errors. Links to these installs can be
found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/files/Alternate%20PCGen%20Releases/
These are the same PCGen everyone else uses, just packaged with
installers which target Windows and Mac OS X users specifically.
Typically there is a lag between when the official release is done and
when these special installers are ready. We always recommend that users
install new versions of PCGen in a 'new' directory. Below is a list of
everything that has been addressed in this release. If you reported one
of these, please verify that it is was addressed properly. PCGen is
available at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net , and the main discussion
group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen . If you wish to
discuss making your own custom lst files for use with PCGen, the data
monkeys have made their home at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgenlistfilehelp and they pride
themselves in being able to field all questions about the data - from
very basic to very advanced. All three zips are required to run PCGen:
pcgen533_part1of3.zip, pcgen533_part2of3.zip and pcgen533_part3of3.zip.
Bugs 765749 Custom Class source field overwriting copied classes source
765591 cannot open LST editor with a PC open 780673 PRETYPE in eqmod is
only registering the primary type 781583 sorting of 's' and 'S' is
different 770608 dex doubling to PCs with a dex bonus 774986 Elf stat
bug 776391 BONUS:STAT|name|formula bug. was: Power Attack feat error
770574 What kind of class is this!? 733595 Warning: Could not find
class: Magical Beast 772036 [Bug] cML:Class not found: Blackguard
744497 PREAPPLY Calculation bug after restart 769304 [BUG] Still really
SLLLLOOOWWWW! (But better) 745491 PREAPPLY doubles AC for armor 766059
Custom Race - Natural Weapon Broken 751346 Class Lst Editor - Bonus
tags 709033 SPELL TAG - Need warning if spellbook = class name 775241
Tooltip setting not saved 767755 Bug with BONUS:DC|ALL|1 in 5.2 769823
PREREQs always true on Equip Customizer Features 784465 Update
permission.htm to d20stl v 4.0. 775048 Update to fop 0.20.5 744499
Temp. bonuses - Autoselect 744500 Temp. bonuses - Removing a bonus
744552 PREAPPLY adds to total value carried 741882 Choice of HTML
output sheets 744835 Temp. bonuses - Show calculated bonus 780582 point
buy methods unsorted 775390 ALTCRITMULT for Double Weapons 772964
PREFEAT: |CHECKMULT > ,CHECKMULT, at beginning 764727 Allow
PREFEAT:#,Feat name (TYPE=subtype) 764741 Allow TYPE= in PREWEAPONPROF
771274 PREAPPLY:ANYPC - allow spell Temp bonuses to non-casters 722050
Abilities as a window should have a "Close" button PCGenDM:Bugs 715159
Pouch (Belt) weight incorrect - should be 1/2 lb. 782790 rod and staff
missing as base types 755984 Psionic spell Compat Prescience has wrong
level 756762 srdclassescreaturespecific.lst references nonexistant file
760855 SRD spell error for Spellstaff 772016 Mythic Races - Siarran
Bladedancer needs to stack with Bard PCGenDM:New Source Material 780670
SSS, Relics and Rituals PCGenDM:List File Fixes 737669 seasofblood
PCGenDM:Tag Modification Requests 707325 PCC: GAME is now GAMEMODE
750217 Inner Strength feat consolidation 763868 Allow template tags to
overwrite tags from other files 626352 Uncanny Dodge to hidden feat.
PCGenDocs:Bugs 784313 SPELLLIST format is wrong in datafilesclasses.htm
784280 SAVEINFO in datafilesspells.htm misspelled 721103 Spells.lst
TYPE tag example wrong 742115 HASSUBCLASS and COST 774175 Enhancements
to ADD:SPELLCASTER PCGenDocs:Features 756295 SPELLLEVEL:CLASS &
SPELLLEVEL:DOMAIN 772683 [DOC] Allow PREFEAT:#,Feat name (TYPE=subtype)
755524 PREFEAT with ability to exclude type of feat 771932
PREAPPLY:ANYPC for BONUS statements 750224 Docment CLASSES tag in
skills.lst 754549 New tag: PREDR 752255 PREVISION 774083 ISLICENSED and
LICENCE: tags need to be documented 741306 LICENSED: tag changed to
ISLICENSED: 746450 BONUS:DC|ALL now DC|ALLSPELLS 752956 PREMULT -
Multiple PREREQ PCGenDocs:Output Sheet Features 634040 SKILLSx.TOTAL
(where x=level) 770382 [FREQ] Would like output token for base Grapple
attack 769963 Expansion of |EQ....~..~..| token The PCGen Development
Team
NUNit 2.1 Beta 2 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=299686
NUNit is a Unit-testing framework for all .Net languages. This release includes separate configuration files for use with .NET versions 1.0 and 1.1. Both versions are copied and the correct config for the current system is installed ready for use. A sample config file for use with tests built against NUnit 2.0 is included. Substantial changes have been made to error and exception reporting. The exception type is listed along with all inner exceptions. In the console runner, this includes a full stacktrace. The full trace for exceptions that are caught by the GUI runner is now available under the Tools | Exception Details... menu item. This release has been verified to install and run under Windows 98. The feature of watching for changes in the assemblies and reloading them automatically is disabled in this environment. We haven't tested under Windows ME, but believe it will work in that environment as well. https://www.sourceforge.net/projects/nunit
ai.planet v0.9.4 released!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=299198
ai.planet is a virtual world for artificial intelligence. Developers can study and visualize algorithms in a versatile 3D environment. Version 0.9.4 Released August 5th 2003 http://aiplanet.sourceforge.net This new version of ai.planet includes multicolored trees, that evolve over time by producing varied fruits, which are randomly mutated by small degrees. Improved creature AI gives new predator/prey relationships. Interface improvements include a tool repeat button, jump button, new features on the populations form. There is a new Move tool to pick up objects with the mouse, reposition them, and throw them. Although the Ladybugs aren't always successful, if they are given a good environment they can last indefinitely, as this population survived well over 2.5 million ticks. Birds are now better at mating, and Hawks are better at catching the birds. Note: There is no selection pressure on the tree color, so they can and will change into any color. Also be aware of the known bugs, if you find a new one please report it. http://aiplanet.sourceforge.net
Slashdot
Windows 95 in 4.47MB
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/0437218
[0]Silvorgold writes "BOFH of [1]MSBetas.net has been able to [2]compress Windows 95 into 4.47 megabytes, making it the world's first sub-5mb bootable, registry editable, command-promptable, usable version of Windows 95. He has written a small description about what he did, and also included screenshots (with his digital camera), and don't worry, these aren't fake screenshots." Links
0.
http://www.neonerds.net/~silvorgold/
1.
http://www.msbetas.net/
2.
http://www.msbetas.net/V6/?postid=52
Novell Not Dumping Netware
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/2253243
jerel writes "[0]eWeek describes how [1]Novell will still develop and support NetWare. The eWeek article quotes Bruce Lowry, a top spokesman for Novell as saying, 'The bottom line is no. The whole thing with Linux is an additive thing. We're not dumping NetWare, we're adding Linux.' NetWare 7.0 will allow users to either upgrade to the latest version of the NetWare kernel or move to Linux." I guess this answers any [2]lingering doubts going around. Links
0.
http://www.eweek.com/
1.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1212135,00.asp
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/2241249&tid=190Oracle's Infrastructure Now Fully Linux-ized http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/2233214
mbadolato writes "An article over at [0]InformationWeek reports
[1]Oracle is aggressively adopting Linux both internally and for its
products, despite SCO Group's threats earlier this week that it may sue
those who don't pay licensing fees to the company. Chuck Rozwat, an
Oracle executive VP, says the company has moved its IT infrastructure
to Linux, a year after CEO Larry Ellis issued the mandate. In the
coming year, Oracle will move its base development platform to Linux,
including putting the open-source operating system on the workstations
of 8,000 developers"
Links
0. http://www.informationweek.com/
Disclosure of Major Software Exploits by Students? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/2243214
school-hacker asks: "I am a U.S. university student who has recently come across 2 remote exploits for a homework program used by colleges nationwide. Both vulnerabilities allow students to give themselves arbitrary scores, and possibly execute arbitrary code. To further emphasize the scope of this vulnerability, I have written and -selftested proof-of-concept exploit code. Naturally, I want to share this information with their software engineers, and would even be nice enough and suggest a means to fixing it. However, with the state of current intellectual property and reverse-engineering laws, I hesitate to do so out of fear of litigation or academic disciplinary action. As an ethical geek, what do -you- do?" While [0]the responses from an earlier story might prove useful, here, there is always the possibility of the university making things harder for the person reporting the problem. How can students avoid both legal and academic trouble, when trying to notify their university of security problems? Links
0. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/14/0338219&tid=99
Slashback: Picnic, Pistol, Doggedness
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/2337250
Slashback tonight brings you updates on low-power hardware, unauthorized music distribution by buymusic.com, and more, including a reminder of the upcoming (now annual) Linux picnic at the conclusion of LWCE. (If you're not there, start your own local chapter ;)) Read on for more!
An Enlightened Look at an Over-Lighted World http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/1519236
[0]Saige writes "Every night, as darkness descends, countless street
lamps and lights turn on to keep the darkness at bay, bathing countless
square feet of the planet in light that sometimes rivals daytime. But
has anyone stopped to consider what effect all this light may have on
people and animals that have evolved to fit an environment where a
significant part of the 24 hour day is spent in lightless conditions?
Some scientists have, and they are claiming that [1]all this light is
causing numerous problems."
Links
0. mailto:pwiffle@nOsPaM.hotmail.com
Bluetooth Headset Roundup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/1942244
Faeton writes " HowardChui.com has 5 nifty [0]Bluetooth cellphone headsets reviewed. Looks like we're moving towards the StarTrek Comm unit (check out the size of the Nextlink Bluespoon Digital headset!)" Links
0. http://www.howardchui.com/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=142
Real Money Inside in MMORPGs?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/1938238
Cranial writes "Sony Interactive [0]expressly forbids the selling of
Everqest or Everquest II ingame items or characters for money, but why?
Imagine Massively Multiplayer Games where you can actually cash out
your loot in the real world. What if that jewel in the dragon hoard was
actually a digital title for the Hope Diamond or a [1]real ancient
artifact? This article on Programmers Heaven [2]proposes a new economic
model for MM games allowing free exchange of game money and items in
the real world. Essentially it is a hybridization between online gaming
(casino) and MM roleplaying games. Fascinating concept."
Links
0.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294828
1.
http://www.ancient-art.com/artifact.htm
2.
http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Art_MultiplayerGames
Phone or Tracking Device?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/1935237
[0]Red Wolf writes "The first major commercial service that [1]traces people's locations using their mobile phones -- [2]mapAmobile -- is designed more to ease the minds of worried parents and suspicious bosses than to enable unauthorised spying." Links
0.
http://redwolf.com.au/column/
1.
http://www.iht.com/articles/105503.html
2.
http://www.mapamobile.com/
EBay Fined $29.5M in Patent Case
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/1830214
[0]pigreco314 writes "As reported by [1]Washington Post and [2] many others a federal judge Wednesday ordered online auction house eBay to pay $29.5 million to a Virginia inventor (former CIA engineer) who accused the company of stealing his ideas." This case has been going [3]going on for awhile, but this looks to have some finality. Patenting "Buy it Now" is almost as stupid as One Click Shopping. Links
0.
http://spazioinwind.libero.it/thedarkstar/
1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24895-2003Aug6.html
2.
http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&edition=us&q=cluster:australianit.news.com.au%2Farticles%2F0%2C7204%2C6877769%255E15319%255E%255Enbv%255E%2C00.html
3.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2351250&tid=155
Freshmeat
AePro 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131881/
AePro is a compilation manager for programs written in progres4gl. It compares modification times and will only (re)compile the programs whose source code has changed. It is intended to be used in combination with Aegis, a transaction-based software configuration management system that provides a framework within which a team of developers may work on many changes to a program independently.
Ajaqs 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131923/
Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information related to products and services.
allegro-sprite-editor 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131859/
ASE is a program specially designed with facilities to create sprites that can be used in some video games. It has its own features to optimize the control with the Allegro game development library. This program let you create characters with movement, textures, patterns, backgrounds, logos, color palettes, etc. from static images.
AltioLive Studio 3.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131883/
AltioLive Studio enables users to quickly build interactive front ends to complex Web based applications. Included are a Visual GUI builder, a backend integration tool, and other development tools, which allow developers to build the interface for their applications quickly, remotely, and without touching an XML or Java editor, so that they can get on with the real nuts and bolts of the business logic on the backend.
Ant Shell 20030807
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131959/
Ant Shell is a project that extends Apache Ant to provide a command shell that exposes ant tasks. In Ant Shell, you can run ant tasks in an interactive mode much the same way you can run commands in a command shell such as bash, csh, or DOS. Currently, most of the ant core tasks are enabled. Ant Shell is developer code and is not expected to remain stable or consistent.
at89prog 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131909/
at89prog is a command-line serial port programmer for the AT89* series microcontrollers. Both single bytes in the code and data memory can be written and read and complete files can be written and read. Support is available for erasing the code and data memory, resetting the device, and locking the memory.
BEJY V1.2.1.47
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131870/
BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and other useful things.
BlueJ 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131897/
BlueJ is an interactive Java development environment. It provides a unique user interface that presents a graphical display of the application classes and their relationships, and it lets users interactively create objects of any class. Once objects have been created, users can interact with them directly. This interaction mechanism allows for much greater testing and experimentation than in conventional environments. BlueJ is suited for teaching and learning OO and Java.
bpsbackup 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131860/
bpsbackup is a tool to backup Nortel Networks BPS-2000 switches. This tool uses Perl and Expect along with a tftp server to download the configuration file. All configuration files are date-stamped and gzipped. You can also configure bpsbackup to run at a scheduled interval using cron.
CascadeSoft W3Mail 1.0.8 (Version 1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131927/
W3Mail is Webmail server application. It allows an organization to give its email users Web access to their POP3 and IMAP4 email. It provides support for address books, MIME attachments, spell check, folders, remote accounts, and more.
CECID 0.7b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131887/
CECID (The CEnsorship CIrcumvention Device) is a PHP script designed to anonymize and filter HTTP requests, especially for users behind restrictive firewalls (e.g. workplaces, schools, etc.). It remotely loads a page that a user specifies, and filters it for words on its 'weighted phrase list', a list of words commonly blocked by network administrators. It alters these words to avoid detection, and displays the page requested. It can also be used for anonymizing HTTP requests, for situations where cloaking and security are required.
CentralNic Toolkit 0.0.1 (PHP Demonstration System) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131875/
The CentralNic Toolkit is CentralNic's system for instantaneous Registry-Registrar Communications. Registrars can use this system to register and modify CentralNic domain names in real time, with no delays for human intervention or e-mail processing. The Toolkit also provides advanced and efficient methods for searching for and querying domain names and whois records, and retrieving account information.
CinePaint 0.18-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131919/
CinePaint is image retouching software with features similar to GIMP or Photoshop. However, two significant enhancements set CinePaint apart. It handles 16-bit per channel color (48-bit RGB) and has a sequence manager that facilitates moving through numbered images. That makes it very useful for manipulating scanned 35mm film. It was used in the production of Harry Potter, Scooby-Doo, Stuart Little, and other feature films. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry.
Connect Daily Web Calendar 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131916/
Connect Daily, a Web-based calendaring system, allows multiple users to add and edit calendar events using a Web browser. The calendar display can be directly integrated into your Web site. It provides advanced capabilities for managing resources and facilities. The approval processes allow many users to edit calendars, with the assurance that all items added are approved. It supports event download to MS Outlook and Palm OS PDAs. Authentication to LDAP directories is also supported.
CoverViewer 0.1.10pre3 (Prerelease)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131918/
CoverViewer is an XMMS plugin that displays images related to the files being played. The displayed image can be a copy of the cover of the album you are playing or anything else you want. It creates a personalised skin for itself using the current XMMS skin, and you can control song playing from its interface. It includes a function that can automatically retrieve covers you don't have from the Internet, using file tag information to get the artist and album name.
cx_OracleTools 7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131793/
cx_Oracletools contains a number of Python scripts that handle Oracle databases in a cross platform manner. Some of the scripts included manage executing scripts with error checking, describing existing objects in the database in the format needed to recreate them, dumping data into a platform-independent format, and debugging PL/SQL.
dark fagga 1.1 (GTK)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131882/
dark fagga is a theme which tries to be not too dark but also not too bright.
dialog-mp3-list 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131826/
dialog-mp3-list generates an organized list of your directory of MP3 CDs. It shows a numbered list of MP3s with information on their encoding speed and track lengths. It uses Dialog/XDialog and Latex to create lists in .tex, .ps, and .pdf formats, and uses Brazilian Portuguese.
dillo Web browser 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131903/
Dillo Web browser is a very fast, extremely small Web browser that's completely written in C. The source and binary are less than 300 kilobytes each. It is a graphical browser built upon GTK+, and it renders a good subset of HTML, excluding frames, JavaScript, and JVM support.
Dogfood 2.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131806/
Dogfood is an groupware and CRM system based on phprojekt. It featues an improved mail module and tightened relationships.
DRT 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131861/
DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications running under the X Window System. The tool automatically captures actions performed while using such an application. Functions particularly relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the action itself is described visually from fragments of the application display. One can search and browse these actions to learn about the design of an application.
Evolution 1.4.4 (GTK 2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131892/
Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager, and communications tool. Evolution represents the next step forward in GNOME applications. The tools which make up Evolution will be tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information-management tool.
Exchanger XML Editor 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131896/
The Exchanger XML Editor is a Java-based XML editor that offers a broad spectrum of functionality to help XML authors, business analysts, and software developers. It features schema-based editing, tag prompting, validation against a DTD, XML schema, RelaxNG, tree view and outliner for tag free editing, XPath and regular expression searches, schema conversion, XSLT and XSLFO transformations, comprehensive project management, an SVG viewer and conversion, easy SOAP invocations, and more.
Freevo 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131865/
Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set-top box. It uses MPlayer and other apps to play and record audio and video. It is optimized for use with a TV and remote, but can be used with a monitor and keyboard. It is very easy to install since the binary release package has no external dependencies.
gameping 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131898/
Gameping is a command-line utility used to monitor games servers. It returns the average player's ping and loss. These two pieces of information are useful for evaluating the quality of a server.
GMime 2.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131858/
GMime is a set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME).
gmorgan 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131917/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
Graphical certification authority 0.4.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131878/
Graphical certification authority is an interface for managing RSA keys and certificates, and the creation and signing of PKCS#10 requests. It uses the OpenSSL library and a Berkeley DB for key and certificate storage. It supports importing and exporting keys and PEM DER PKCS8 certificates, signing and revoking of PEM DER PKCS12, and the selection of x509v3 extensions. A tree view of certificates is presented.
Group-Office 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131899/
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 email client, a file manager, a scheduler, project management, and Web site management.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet 2138 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131872/
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet is a German introduction to the technical aspects of the Internet. This book explains both the low-level protocols like IP, TCP, and UDP and the high-level protocols SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, NNTP, HTTP, Gopher, FTP, IRC, DICT, Finger, Daytime, and DNS.
Impact 0.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131940/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.
Inti 1.2 Release Candidate 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131901/
Inti is a set of integrated C++ foundation classes for developing GTK+ applications on Linux. It comes with more than 330 classes that wrap most of the objects found in the GTK+ libraries. It has its own system of signals and slots, and has a standard string compatible UTF-8 string class, a full set of example programs, a C++ version of the GTK+ demonstration program, and an extensive tutorial. It unleashes the power of GTK+ with a state-of-the-art C++ GUI toolkit. It makes developing applications easy, intuitive, and efficient, and is designed to work nicely with the GNU toolchain, and take advantage of the standard C++ features provided by the GNU compiler.
ipsvd 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131937/
ipsvd is a set of "Internet protocol service daemons". It
includes daemons for TCP/IP and UDP/IP. An Internet protocol service
(ipsv) daemon waits for incoming connections on a socket, and for new
connections, it conditionally runs an arbitrary program to handle the
connection. ipsv daemons can be told to read and follow pre-defined
instructions on how to handle incoming connections. Based on the
client's IP address or hostname, it's possible to run different
programs, set a different environment, deny a connection, or set a per
host concurrency limit. ipsvd can be used to run services usually run
by inetd, xinetd, or tcpserver. Normally the ipsv daemons are run by a
supervisor process, such as runsv from the runit package, or supervise
from the daemontools package.
JCTerm 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131904/
JCTerm is an SSH2 terminal emulator written in pure Java. It supports port forwarding, X11 forwarding, etc.
JWall 0.7.4 (alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131866/
JWall is a Java-based application for graphically building and installing rules for one or more firewalls, local or remote.
kaffe 1.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131926/
Kaffe is a complete, PersonalJava 1.1-compliant Java environment. As an independent implementation, it was written from scratch and is free from all third-party royalties and license restrictions. It comes with its own standard class libraries, including Beans and Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), native libraries, and a highly-configurable virtual machine with a just-in-time (JIT) compiler for enhanced performance.
kbarcode 1.4.0 RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131895/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
libintl-perl 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131933/
libintl-perl is a library that supports message translation for Perl, written in pure Perl (version 5.004 or better). Its interface is very similar to the gettext family of functions in C, and it uses the same file formats as GNU gettext does, making it possible to use all tools available for gettext itself and to seamlessly integrate internationalized Perl code into mixed-language projects.
Libstk 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131957/
Libstk is an object-oriented graphical widget set optimized to meet the needs of today's emerging class of embedded media platforms, such as Set-top Boxes, and vehicular media systems. Libstk abstracts the graphic and event systems, allowing it to be used on any platform with a recent C++ compiler.
LilyPond 1.8.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131874/
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
Linux 2.4.22-rc1 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131873/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
MemAid 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131944/
Memaid is a software designed to predict optimal time of repetitions
(computes best possible intervals between reviews, using an Artificial
Neural Network). It may be used in learning anything. It makes your
learning process much more effective: less time wasted, more things you
remember.
MindsEye 20020617
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131924/
MindsEye is a project to develop a freely (in terms of the GPL) available 3d modeling program for Linux. It features a modular design, Multi-scene/user concept, Kernel-system view instead of Modeler-system view, Object oriented modelling design, and network support in a MindsEye-kernel way.
mnemo memorization tool 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131941/
mnemo is an application that helps the user memorize large amounts of arbitrary information and retain it indefinitely. Items are drilled at progressively longer intervals to allow for new ones.
Night Light IRC Proxy 1.2.41d.pl1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131932/
Night Light IRC Proxy is an Internet Relay Chat Proxy, which works as a layer between your IRC client and the IRC server. It features bouncer capability and has more features, flexibility, and configuration options than other tools. It also includes an option to use the system password list instead of requiring a separate password database.
NVRAM WakeUp 0.91 (New (Default))
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131945/
NVRAM WakeUp can read and write the WakeUp time in the BIOS (via /dev/nvram on recent 2.4.x kernels). On this WakeUp time the computer will be powered on automatically from the soft-off state.
PHP 4.3.3RC3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131938/
PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available.
PHPEmaillist 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131920/
PHPEmaillist is a Web-based one-way announcement system that allows you to send emails to your subscribers. Visitors to your Web site can easily subscribe and unsubscribe to multiple lists. Each email can be personalized with the recipients name, logs of all emails are kept, and large lists can be processed.
phpVideoPro 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131921/
phpVideoPro is a program to manage your collection of DVDs, Video CDs,
and video tapes. It stores all data in a database, and provides you
with features for adding/changing entries, displaying lists, printing
labels and lists, and more. An online help system is built-in to guide
you when necessary. Support for multiple languages is provided
(English, German, French, Polish, Bulgarian, Swedish, etc.), and
supported databases include MySQL and PostgreSQL.
phpWX 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131954/
phpWX is a small PHP script that displays current weather conditions. It can display up-to-date weather information, active advisories, and more, based on a Zip Code. It can also display Windchill, HeatIndex, and improved condition vars. Visitors on your site can enter their zipcode for their own weather conditions, too.
PIKT 1.16.1pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131894/
PIKT is a cross-platform, multi-functional toolkit for monitoring systems, reporting and fixing problems, and managing system configurations. It consists of an embedded scripting language with unique, labor-saving features, a script and system config file preprocessor, a scheduler, an installer, and other tools.
Pogo 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131889/
Pogo is a lightweight, customizable application launcher for X11.
qconfirm 0.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131915/
qconfirm is an implementation of a delivery confirmation process for a mail address or ezmlm mailing list. It is invoked by qmail-local through a .qmail file, and can reduce the amount of junk mail hitting a mailbox or the mailboxes of mailing list subscribers.
QDist 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131934/
The QDist package implements the O(n log^2 n) time method for computing the quartet distance between unrooted evolutionary trees.
qjackctl 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131960/
Qjackctl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon, specifically for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. It is written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way to control of the status of the audio server daemon.
QTViewer 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131857/
QTViewer is designed to be a replacement for the default Quicktime Movie Player that ships with Mac OS X. Its features include the ability to keep a player window on top of all other windows. You can remove title bar information so only the movie shows. It allows you to play a movie at different speeds, adjust audio up to 200% for quiet movies, and play movies at any size desired.
quicktables 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131862/
quicktables is an iptables firewall/NAT (gateway) script generator. It was created to quickly provide a secure set of iptables rules. It will ask you to answer a small handful of questions, and generates your very own personalized firewall script. It supports NAT and no NAT (firewall only) options, default policy of DROP on INPUT and FORWARD chains (all packets dropped), TCP and UDP ACCEPTs on INPUT chain (open ports to the firewall machine), TCP and UPD port forwarding with NAT (forward ports to multiple internal hosts--NAT only), multiple ICMP (ping) options, multiple logging options (syslog - kern.info), explicit host drops, and multiple port forwards for multiple external IP addresses.
S tar 1.5a19 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131868/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives. Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags, automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the only known platform independent "rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The "rmt" server from the star package implements all Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to contact any OS as server.
SAP DB 7.3.00.40 (Maintenance)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131908/
SAP DB is an open, SQL-based, relational database management system that provides high availability and performance scaling from small to very large implementations. It supports open standards including SQL, JDBC and ODBC, as well as access from Perl, Python, and PHP. SAP DB is platform independent, so users can deploy it for a wide array of projects.
SashXB 1.1-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131939/
SashXB is an application environment that exposes native functionality to JavaScript. It's useful for Web developers with HTML and JS skills who want to write full-featured native applications, as well as for &nbs