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RSSOwl ver. 0.6b released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=306147

RSSOwl is a RSS reader written complete in Java using SWT as fast graphic libary. Some features are saving of RSS favorites in different categories and a TabFolder that shows multiple RSS feeds. It supports reading of RSS from an URL or a local file. The RSSOwl development team is happy to announce a new release with a lot of new features and improved usability. You may now view RSS news in an internal browser tab and subscribe to feed-lists to share cool RSS news with others. RSSOwl now comes with a huge list of sample RSS feeds sorted into more than 30 categorys and subcategorys. Enjoy reading them and get daily news from a wide spectrum. See the changelog for a list of all changes :).

SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-08-29 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=306329

Can we help you?

0. Intro (CVS / Spam Filtering) 1. Project of the month: Boa Constructor 2. Asian Download mirror 3. Stats and Top Projects

Dear SourceForge.net User, The summer is almost over and people are going back to school. Historically SourceForge.net, and other OSDN sites, get a spike in traffic during the first half of September, as students return to their dorm rooms and hook up their broadband connections for the first time. We are looking forward to seeing some new faces around here and future Open Source developers. I wanted to give you a few updates on SF.NET. First, in the last sitewide email I described our CVS performance issues and the solution we are introducing to fix them. The performance increase I spoke of (600%+ increase) is just days away from being deployed. The new systems are now in place, additional electrical power has been added to our colocation cage, and the Linux boxes are in their final stages of configuration. Hang in there. Help is on the way. Second, spam and worms, such as the SoBig mess, have been a real headaches for sites such as SF.NET with large numbers of users. The SoBig worm, for instance, was sending the SF.NET mailserver over 20,000 emails every 10 minutes during it's peak. Spam volume on the site has also grown to unreasonable levels, as spammers have found new ways to target our 700,000 developers (and every other user on the internet). Last week, to assist with these issues, we deployed a new spam filtering technology on SourceForge.net. Now every email that is sent through our mail servers, either addressed to your SourceForge.net mail address or sent to a SF.NET mailing list, is being processed through our spam filter. Every email is now scored by the likelihood that it is spam (or worm/virus related email). You can view the scoring by viewing 'full headers' in any email you receive from SF.NET. Emails that are classified as having an extremely high certainty of SPAM are now being dropped from the system and not delivered to you. Emails that -may- be spam will be sent to you but you'll be able to filter them via your mail client with the header info we're providing. It is our belief that this solution will help. It may not completely fix the spam issue, but it will help a great deal. BTW: The filtering technology we've deployed, SpamAssassin and ClamAV, are two projects on SourceForge.net. The SF.NET team would like to thank the admins and developers of these two projects for their hard work and excellent software. As always if you have any questions or issues related to SourceForge.net, please email me directly at pat@sf.net Thank you. Pat- Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net email: pat@sf.net SF.NET Project of the

    Month: Boa Constructor ---------------------------------------------

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Python is arguably the most exciting and innovative programming language available for use today. Serious programmers, using any language, need powerful tools designed to support development in order to be successful. Boa Constructor, SF.net's August 2003 project of the month, is Python's serious tool. Boa Constructor is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that makes writing extensive Python code a snap. It provides an interactive debugger, text editor with highlighting, object inspector, integrated help and the ability to graphically view classes. Boa Constructor is written in Python and currently supports Linux and Windows. The project was founded on SF.NET in January 2001 and currently enjoys the top 10% activity ranking on the site. Project of the month:

    
http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-08.php Summary Page:
    
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boa-constructor/ Home Page:
    
http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/ Japanese Download Mirror
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new download mirror in Japan. This is the first SF.NET mirror in Asia and we're excited to give faster file access to the Open Source Community in this part of the world. 'Kansai Science City Internet Community', based in Keihanna, Japan, has been kind enough to host a system and provide bandwidth for the community. The SourceForge.net team would like to thank them for their support and participation. Their website: http://www.ksc.gr.jp/ Related to Japan, there is also an installation of SourceForge in Japanese, which is hosted and managed by our sister company OSDN Japan. (http://www.osdn.jp). SourceForge.jp is a site dedicated to Open Source developers in Japan. They currently have over 600 projects on the site. Check it out: http://www.sourceforge.jp Stats and Top Projects.

Number of Projects: 67,183 Number of Registered Users: 688,530 Daily Stats for August 27, 2003 SF.NET : 1,864,674 pages served SF.NET project web space : 4,201,948 pages served Total Pages: 6,066,622 CVS updates: 18,889 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 465,418 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 1,687,474 Top 25 Projects: 1. Gaim https://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 features. 2. Tiki CMS/Groupware https://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) 3. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution https://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. 4. ScummVM https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for several point-and-click adventure engines. This includes Simon the Sorcerer by AdventureSoft, Beneath a Steel Sky by Revolution, and most SCUMM-based games used by LucasArts in titles such as: Maniac Mansion, etc. 5. WinMerge https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge A visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. Useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. 6. phpMyAdmin https://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. 7. Gallery https://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great for communities. 8. Alvaro's Messenger https://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... 9. guliverkli https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 10. JBoss.org https://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java 11. POPFile - Automatic Email Classification https://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. 12. Meteorologist https://sourceforge.net/projects/heat-meteo Meteorologist is the only free weather program for OS X. It's also the only weather program that allows users total control over their weather viewing experience, including simultaneous interlaced weather reports from multiple weather servers. 13. PCGen -- An RPG Character Generator https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen PCGen is a java role-playing game character generator and maintenance program. All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. 14. FileZilla https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. 15. AWStats https://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... 16. MegaMek https://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players. Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or infantry on a hex-based map. 17. TUTOS https://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 18. phpWebSite Content Management System https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwebsite Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. All client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. 19. Azureus - BitTorrent Client https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus A Java Based BitTorrent Client. 20. TightVNC https://sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-tight TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool. The improvements include new bandwidth-friendly "tight" encoding, local cursor support on the client side, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more. 21. JChatIRC https://sourceforge.net/projects/jchatirc IRC Java client with support of smileys 22. EvilHack https://sourceforge.net/projects/evilhack Evilhack is a Direct3D8 wrapper for use with Americas Army game. It analyses the objects that are drawn by the game engine and provides extended information like player locations and status to the user. 23. Fluxbox https://sourceforge.net/projects/fluxbox Fluxbox is a X11 windowmanager build for speed and flexibility. 24. Gimp-Print - Top Quality Printer Drivers https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print A very high quality package of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS. This project also maintains the Print plug-in for the Gimp from the same code base. 25. SquirrelMail https://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrelmail SquirrelMail is a PHP4-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It also has MIME support, folder manipulation, etc.,

NTFS 2.1.4b available for Linux kernel 2.4.22 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=306278

The goals of this project are: create a new Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (v1.2 and later 3.0), user space utilities (e.g. format, ntfs check, etc.) and a library to avoid code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPLed programs. This release is a new version of the patch for 2.4.21. There have been no changes to the NTFS code.

JGraph 3.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=306156

JGraph is the most powerful, lightweight, feature-rich, and thoroughly documented open-source graph component available for Java. It is accompanied by JGraphpad, the first free diagram editor for Java that offers XML, Drag and Drop and much more! This is a package renaming change and directory cleanup. More changes for 3.x are in the works. Changes: New package name org.jgraph.* for all classes; Cleaned up directory structure (ready for Ant)

Release 0.4.9
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305585

KGuitar aims to develop a free, full-featured guitarist helper program, focusing on tabulature editing and MIDI synthesizers support. Ported to KDE3 the first time officially, introduced basic KDE help center documentation. More usability features (zooming, navigation). Brand new tools - melody/solo editor, rhythm constructor, support for native Qt tabulature printing (with standard notescore notation). More complete MIDI playback feature, more complete MusicXML support. New Guitar Pro 3 import support. And, as usually, lots of refactoring and numerous bug fixes. The latest file release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7693&release_id= 180645

Slashdot
Halley's Comet Imaged As Transneptunian Object http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/0050245

Can't find what you're looking for?

An anonymous reader writes "The European Space Observatory has [0]imaged Halley's Comet at the farthest point (past Neptune) in which such a 10-kilometer diameter iceball has ever been observed. To image a comet as a raven-black object, without its bright [1]dust tail (coma), is equivalent to seeing a lump of coal at the distance between the Earth's poles and to do so in the evening twilight. The last gasp seen from [2]Halley's Comet was 1991, when a [3]gigantic explosion happened, providing it with an expanding, extensive cloud of dust for several months. It is not known whether this event was caused by a collision with an unknown piece of rock or by internal processes (a last 'sigh' on the way out). Halley has an orbital period just over 76 years and will return in 2062."
Links

    0. 
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article579.html
    1. 
http://www.astronomysight.com/as/images/halley.gif
    2. 
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/picsol/halleynuc.jpg
    3. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2153650.stm

Reinventing The Transistor For Molecular Computing http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/0059232

unnique writes "MIT's [0] Technology Review, has an article on HP's research into finding [1]a new way to make transistors smaller, and further stretching Moore's law." The article has some nice illustrations of the nano-componentry they're working on, too. Links

0. http://techreview.com/

http://techreview.com/articles/tristram0903.asp

Spammer Hangout's Membership Roster Left Exposed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/0044242

[0]MikeCapone writes "According to an [1]article at Wired News, spammers feel the need to be part of a community too. [2]The Bulk Club is one such community. A [3]message on the site states that it offers, for a $20 monthly fee, a variety of how-to articles, spamming software, a members' message board area, and 300,000 FRESH e-mails/week. Unsurprisingly, the 'Law & Ethics' section is 'Members Only.' The good part is that, because of a glitch, the membership list of this charming organization was left exposed on the website." Links

    0. 
http://www.MusiqueMachine.com
    1. 
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60224,00.html
    2. 
http://www.thebulkclub.com/
    3. 
http://www.thebulkclub.com/benefits.asp

How Do You Organize Your Data?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2321248

[0]kpellegr asks: "After returning from a well deserved holiday, I was faced with an exploding inbox. While organizing and deleting my mail, I realised I was having trouble classifying each mail into one specific folder. I had the feeling I should be able to link to one email from several folders (e.g. product information should be linked to from the 'vendor' folder, as well as from a specific project folder where this product is used). The more I thought about this, the more I realised that trees (such as the Windows filesystems) are not really ideally suited for organizing data. On UNIX-like filesystems, symbolic links allow the creation of simple graphs for organising data, but I have the feeling data could be organized more efficiently. How does the Slashdot crowd organize their data? How do you manage files, email, contacts, meetings and all the relationships that might exist between them?" Links

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Fuel Cells To Appear In Laptops In 2004
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2316205

[0]prostoalex writes "The overhyped fuel cells will finally be delivered to the portable computing market. [1]Toshiba and NEC will incorporate fuel cells into the laptops by 2004. Sony, Hitachi and Casio are expected to follow the suit. The tests show a fuel cell lasting 10 hours. With the form-factor of a Bic lighter, it allows the laptop user to carry a few extra cells in the laptop bag all the time. Battery prices are expected to run at about $200." Links

0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/

http://news1.iwon.com/tech/article/id/58731%7Ctechnology%7C09-02-2003::17:06%7Creuters.html

A Galaxy of Possibility: Mandrake 9.1 ProSuite http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2257253

[0]uninet writes "Our [1]last consideration of Mandrake Linux was early this year when my colleague Eduardo Sanchez thoroughly reviewed Mandrake 9.0. In that review, Sanchez noted the numerous advances made in 9.0, but also reported some serious flaws that somewhat limited his enthusiasm. With that considered, we were anxious to find out if 9.1 could again return Mandrake to the amazing quality achieved in release 8.2. [2]See what we found (including a look at features exclusive to the ProSuite edition)."
Links

    0. 
http://www.ofb.biz
    1. 
http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=189
    2. 
http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=262

The Business Case for Reusable Launch Vehicles http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2150207

An anonymous reader writes "Remember the failures of "shuttle replacements" like [0]VentureStar? A [1]Space Review article argues that even if VentureStar succeeded technically, it and other proposed big RLVs would never have made it financially: they cost too much to develop and wouldn't have made it up through increased launches. What's the solution? The author says that suborbital RLVs, like what [2]Carmack, [3]Rutan, and the other [4]X Prize contenders are working on, will create a business cycle that will eventually lead to orbital vehicles."
Links

    0. 
http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/rlvs/venturestar_sum.shtml
    1. 
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/44/1
    2. 
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home
    3. 
http://www.scaled.com/
    4. 
http://www.xprize.org/

Confused? Frustrated?

Games and the 'Geek Stereotype'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/2056213

ChinoH81 writes "Video games are never going to be as popular as films or music unless the people who make them [0]concentrate on making them fun, says a leading game expert."
Links

0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3197911.stm

Current Thoughts in String Theory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1918210

DrLudicrous writes "The NYTimes is running a nice little synopsis of the [0]current ideas in string theory. Apparently, there is still quite a bit of disagreement about how to interpret the various theories, with some string theorists supporting a semi-deterministic worldview a la Einstein (God does not play dice), while others believe our universe is just one possibility among many, with respect to various physical parameters."
Links

0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/science/space/02STRI.html

Facial Recognition Fails in Boston, Too
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1849210

[0]bryan writes "Only a few weeks after cameras were found to be ineffective in catching criminals in Tampa, FL, a test of a facial-recognition system in Boston's Logan airport also [1]came up disappointing. The cameras which were given photos of employees to detect, were only successful in 153 out of 249 random tests over the past year (about 61%). The article did not say how many false positives the tests generated. The companies involved were Indentix and Visage." Links

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Freshmeat
acpi4asus 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134662/

acpi4asus is a Linux kernel module and user-space daemon that handles special keys, LEDs, and extra ACPI features found on Asus laptops. It has been reported to work on Asus A1X/D1/L1X/L2X/L3X/M2X/S1X, but other models should also be supported.

Ammerum 0.5-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134615/

Ammerum is a PHP and MySQL based forum similar to the popular German newsticker "Heise Online". Neither cookie nor frames support is needed. It is fully CSS themeable but still works in any browser
(even in those without CSS support) including text browsers. It
features good quoting support.

Ampoliros 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134574/

Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface. It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast deployment of Web solutions.

Anthill Pro Build and Release Management Server 2.1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134603/

Do you need help?

Anthill Pro is a build management server for the enterprise. It makes the build and release process easy and efficient. Your entire team can be greeted each morning with build reports from the overnight build. The QA team can review the automated test runs, the development team can start using the new build artifacts, the documentation team can review the revision log listing newly implemented features, and the management team can measure progress more readily. It supports many reposistory adapters, including CVS, Visual Source Safe, Perforce, Clearcase, PVCS, StarTeam, MKSIntegrity, and FileSystem.

Apache Toolbox 1.5.67
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134601/

Apache Toolbox provides a means to easily compile Apache (IPv4/6) SSL, PHP(v3/v4), MySQL, Jakarta, a large number of modules (61 3rd party modules and 36 default Apache modules, static or as DSOs), and GD libraries with PNG+JPEG+Freetype2+zlib support. It is fully customizable and menu-driven. Everything is compiled from source, and wget is used to download any missing modules. It can also check for RPMs that might cause problems and create an RPM with your selections.

Argus Monitoring System 20030902 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134624/

Argus is a system and network monitoring application. It will monitor nearly anything you ask it to monitor (TCP + UDP applications, IP connectivity, SNMP OIDS, etc). It presents a clean, easy-to-view Web interface. It can send alerts numerous ways (such as via pager) and can automatically escalate if someone falls asleep.

Astaro Security Linux 4.012 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134572/

Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, spam protection, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, Wireless LAN, VLAN, PPPoE, PPPoA, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.

Bauk 1.83 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134575/

Do you need more help?

Bauk is a high-performance HTTP server for Unix-like operating systems. It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, virtual host aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic method, directory browsing, network traffic per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format and location, multiprocess architecture, simple configuration, easy administration, flexibility, and much more.

Bibkeeper 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134635/

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.

Binc IMAP 1.2.1-1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134629/

Binc IMAP is a modular IMAP4rev1 server for Maildir. It strives to be stable, fast, flexible, and RFC compliant. It is designed to be familiar for qmail-pop3d users, uses checkpassword to authenticate, and it is very easy to set up.

C-Arbre 0.6 PR2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134611/

C-Arbre is an integrated Web software suite. Some of its key features include a CMS, work flow processing, handling of collaborative work and editions, templates engineering, support for DocBook XML and Wiki style, online documents redaction, a search engine with indexing, a Webmail client, a cache system, groupware tools (calendar and Webmail), and internationalization and localization of the interface.

CalcChecksum 1.5-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134602/

Can we help you?

CalcChecksum is a simple utility for calculating various checksums easily with a graphical user interface.

CGIScripter 1.48
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134527/

CGIScripter automates the development of Perl CGI scripts for MySQL and Oracle databases. Perl CGI scripts are generated for each form specified within CGIScripter and include customized data entry and data validation for each Web form. The Perl CGI scripts generated by CGIScripter also provide support for insert/update/view/delete of GIF/JPEG images via a Web-based interface. Critical Web form processing parameters are hard-coded within each script instead of being accepted via POST or GET operations in order to prevent Web form hijacking.

Coldtags suite 1.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134559/

The Coldtags suite is a collection of custom JSP tags that provides 90+ custom JSP tags for common programming tasks faced by JSP developers. It also includes custom tags similar to the Web controls in the .NET framework.

Columba 0.12.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134576/

Columba is a highly multithreaded Java email client. It supports multiple POP3/IMAP accounts, message filtering, the common basic features you would expect, and an address book.

crackalaka 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134614/

Can't find what you're looking for?

Crackalaka is a small, standalone IRC server. It does not implement the inter-server portions of the IRC protocol, and is meant for use by a small workgroup, preferably behind a firewall.

daemon 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134578/

daemon turns other processes into daemons. There are many tedious tasks that need to be performed to correctly set up a daemon process; daemon performs these tasks for other processes. This is useful for writing daemons in languages other than C, C++, or Perl (e.g. sh, Java). If you want to write daemons in languages that can link against C functions
(e.g. C, C++), see libslack, which contains the core functionality of
daemon.

DC Maintenance Management System 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134618/

DC Maintenence Management System is a Web-based application to record and analyze customer complaints and repairs in water supply networks. It uses PHP, mapserver, and PostGIS.

Debt Minder 1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134604/

Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files.

Divmod Quotient 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134560/

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Quotient is a conversation server which is part personal information manager and part messaging server. It provides services such as full text indexing and structured information extraction. It currently supports POP3 and IMAP4 with IRC/IM and SIP coming soon.

DNS Flood Detector 1.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134640/

DNS Flood Detector was developed to detect abusive usage levels on high traffic nameservers and to enable quick response in halting (among other things) the use of one's nameserver to facilitate spam. DNS Flood Detector uses libpcap (in non-promiscuous mode) to monitor incoming dns queries to a nameserver. The tool may be run in one of two modes, either daemon mode or "bindsnap" mode. In daemon mode, the tool will alarm via syslog. In bindsnap mode, the user is able to get near-real-time stats on usage to aid in more detailed troubleshooting.

Docco 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134553/

Docco is a personal document retrieval tool based on Apache's Lucene indexing engine. It allows you to create an index for files on your file system which you can then search for keywords. It is not only a lot faster than searching by recursing through your file system every time, it also offers you extended query options like wildcards and fuzzy search as well as a visualization of result set intersections.

DrJava 20030822
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134643/

DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. It is under active development by the JavaPLT research group at Rice University, but it is also stable and is currently being used by students, teachers and other developers. A Java 2 v1.3-compliant Java virtual machine is required.

DSPAM 2.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134622/

Confused? Frustrated?

DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.

EAST 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134565/

EAST (Errand & Administration System Tool) is a Web-based errand and administration system for tracking errands from users to administrators. It allows users to post errands into the database to be handled and resolved by the administrators. Users and administrators can track and search through the errand database. Errands can be organized into different categories, with a default administrator for each category.

Eternal Lands 0.8.0 Alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134660/

Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D isometric MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2.

FireSite Alpha 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134583/

FireSite is a content management system in PHP targeted at web developers needing a fixed framework for handling information and access to that information. The access model is based on roles and users. The system has an API to access information stored, hiding the access management completely. Through modules it is easy to add handling of specific information needs.

flphoto 1.1rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134659/

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flphoto is a basic image management and display program based on the FLTK toolkit. It can read, display, print, and export many image file formats, and supports EXIF information provided by digital cameras.

FreeMarker 2.3pre13 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134598/

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.

Fremtris 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134657/

Fremtris is a J2ME implementation of the well-known Tetris game. It works on every Java (J2ME) compatible mobile phone and PDA.

Gaim 0.68 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134631/

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 features. Gaim is not endorsed by or affiliated with AOL TimeWarner, Microsoft, or Yahoo.

ganttproject 1.9.8-rc2 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134580/

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Ganttproject is a pure Java application thats lets you plan project using Gantt charts. It lets you easily breaks down a project into tasks, show dependencies, and manage resources. It uses a file format based on XML and can export into HTML Web pages or PNG images.

gnome-python 2.0.0 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134591/

gnome-python is a set of interfaces to gnome-libs. It also contains a copy of PyGTK, so you don't have to worry about gnome-python getting out of sync with your copy of PyGTK. The bindings cover almost all of the APIs in gnome-libs.

GNU 8085 Simulator 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134666/

GNUSim8085 is a graphical simulator for the Intel 8085 microprocessor. It contains an inline assembler and a debugger.

GNU Anubis 3.9.93 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134556/

GNU Anubis is an outgoing mail processor. It goes between the MUA (Mail User Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent), and can perform various sorts of processing and conversion on-the-fly in accordance with the sender's specified rules, based on a highly configurable regular expressions system. It operates as a proxy server, and can edit outgoing mail headers, encrypt or sign mail with the GnuPG, build secure SMTP tunnels using the TLS/SSL encryption even if your mail user agent doesn't support it, or tunnel a connection through a SOCKS proxy server.

Gnusto 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134544/

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Gnusto is a Mozilla-based application which lets you play adventure games--specifically, the hundreds of games both modern and ancient available in the Z-machine format. It features a just-in-time interpreter which compiles Z-machine code to Javascript on the fly for speed.

Gorm 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134654/

Gorm is a clone of the NeXTstep `Interface Builder' application for GNUstep. Major features include drag-and-drop creation of GUI elements from palettes, run-time loading of additional palettes, direct on-screen manipulation of GUI elements, manipulation and examination of objects via inspectors, drag-and-drop creation of connections between objects, and saving data in a format loadable by GNUstep applications.

GProFTPD 8.0.8 (GNOME 2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134606/

GProFTPD is a GNOME frontend for the ProFTPD standalone server.

Guis widget server 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134593/

Guis widget server is a Gtk2 widget server. It listens on pipes for widget requests (in the Python or Ruby scripting languages), and emit replies or events in textual lines (e.g. Lispy, XML or plain token syntax). It is useful for programs (in particular setuid programs) and scripts that don't or can't link the Gtk2 libraries and need to delegate the user interface to another process.

Gv4l 2.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134609/

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Gv4l is a v4l (Video4Linux) frontend of transcode used to watch and/or record from a v4l-capable device. The v4l device streams can be recorded in both raw and encoded format, such as DivX.

GWhere 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134547/

GWhere allows you to manage a database of your CDs and other removable media. GWhere makes it easy to browse your CDs or to quickly search without having to insert each of your CDs into the drive.

Hastymail 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134592/

Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform IMAP/SMTP client application providing a clean Web interface for sending and reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away from their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text based and even PDA browsers like Blazer).

Helix DNA Producer 9.2 Milestone 6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134610/

The Helix DNA Producer is a multi-format media-encoding engine for creating streaming broadcasts, on-demand streaming content, and downloadable audio video files. It supports RealAudio, RealVideo, and Ogg Vorbis, and includes many input and output filters, variable bitrate encoding support, option for two-pass encoding, audio gain control, and Firewire support.

HotViewer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134597/

Can't find what you're looking for?

HotViewer is a rich Hotmail client for Java-capable (J2ME) mobile devices with support for reading/sending from a Hotmail account, attachments, images, HTML and plain- text email, and more.

IMP 3.2.2 (3.x Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134663/

IMP allows universal, Web-based access to IMAP and POP3 servers and provides an addressbook, LDAP directory searches, full support for sending and receiving attachments, and many other features normally only found in desktop email clients. It is being actively developed.

Ion 20030814 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134558/

Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows. These features help keeping windows organized and quickly switching between them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive window manager for users who prefer the keyboard.

IRCG 4 Gamma 23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134623/

IRCG is a solution for delivering XML messages to huge numbers of clients in real-time. IRCG leverages the power of established IRC products and the PHP programming language for providing low-latency message streams over persistent HTTP connections. The use of time-proven technology and an easy-to-adapt scripting language is designed to reduce development time and to maximize the value of existing hardware investments. Typical applications of IRCG include online gaming communities and chat systems. IRCG is fully compatible with the ActionScript XMLSocket technology found in Flash-enabled clients.

Irrlicht Engine 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134545/

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The Irrlicht Engine is a high performance cross platform 3D engine for creating realtime 3D applications. Its main aims are to be easy to use, extremely fast, extensible, and crash safe.

Java Email Server 1.2.4 (1.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134595/

Java Email Server is a SMTP and POP3 email server written in Java.

JaxMe 0.10-alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134647/

JaxMe is a Java/XML binding framework based on SAX2. It consists of a set of code generators that read an XML schema and generate code for parsing conformant XML documents into corresponding Java objects, saving those objects into a database or, vice versa, reading such Java objects from a database and converting them into XML. JaxMe supports namespaces, relational databases, and Tamino. JaxMe comes with an integrated application framework and a generator for EJB entity beans with BMP (bean managed persistence).

JGraph 3.0 (For Java 1.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134551/

JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.

JMP 0.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134620/

Confused? Frustrated?

Java Memory Profiler (JMP) uses the JVMPI interface to track objects and method times in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). It uses a GTK+ interface to display statistics. The current instance count and the total amount of memory for each class is shown as is the total time spent in each method.

Klicker 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134566/

Klicker is a KDE/QT based metronome that supports from 30 to 240 beats per minute, duple, triple, and quartal time, and has DCOP interfaces for interprocess control.

Liferea 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134664/

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse through their items, and show their contents using GtkHTML.

Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134608/

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. It also comes with denial of service protection.

LTI-Lib 1.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134589/

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The LTI-Lib is an object oriented library with algorithms and data structures frequently used in image processing and computer vision. It was developed at the RWTH-Aachen University as a part of many research projects on computer vision dealing with robotics, object recognition, sign language, and gesture recognition. It provides an object oriented C++ library that includes fast algorithms, which can be used in real applications.

Lupy 0.1.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134555/

Lupy is a full-text indexer for Python. It is a port of Jakarta Lucene to Python, and reads, writes, and searches indexes in Lucene binary format. Like Lucene, it is sophisticated, scalable, and Unicode aware.

make_uninstall 2.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134621/

make_uninstall is used to monitor a command like 'make install', so a record of the install can be created, which will allow you to completely remove the package from your system later.

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