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[osdn developer] September 04, 2003
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 01:15:51 EDT
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September 04, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
Archetypes 1.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=306981
Archetypes is a framework for the development of new Content Types in
Zope/CMF/Plone. Schema driven automatic form generation, simple
integration with rich content types, and a lower entry bar to the
complex requirements Zope places on new content objects. Archetypes
1.0.1 was just released. This a bugfix release, which solves many
issues related to the use of ExternalEditor with TextFields, as well as
the PrimaryFieldMarshaller. There are going to be probably one or two
more releases before ceasing development on the 1.0 branch, but they
will be primarily bugfixes. From now on, development focuses Archetypes
1.1, which will contain many improvements on the i18n field. The HEAD
will be undergoing deep changes in the next days, were we will be
working at the "Castle
Sprint":http://plone.org/events/sprints/castlesprint/wiki/FrontPage on
a tentative to make "Archetypes":http://sf.net/projects/archetypes use
"Ape":http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/Ape as a storage layer. See
"here":http://plone.org/events/sprints/castlesprint/wiki/ArchetypesTeam
for more info. We are probably going to be breaking python 2.1
compatibility on the 1.1 release as well. The latest version of the
docs is available at the "usual place":http://plone.sf.net/archetypes,
as well as included on the
"tarball":http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/archetypes-1.0.
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QuantLib 0.3.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=307007
Version 0.3.3 of QuantLib (http://quantlib.org) has been released. QuantLib is a cross-platform free/open-source quantitative finance C++ library for modeling, pricing, trading, and risk management in real-life. A tool for derivatives and financial engineering. Major additions of this release are an extensive test suite, a partial port to the new Pricing Engine framework, and the support of low-discrepancy Monte Carlo simulation. The first release of QuantLibXL - a tentative Excel addin - is also available. The Python/Ruby/Guile/MzScheme wrappers are also released in their 0.3.3 versions. RPM and Debian packages of QuantLib, QuantLib-docs and some wrappers are available. Feedback welcome Ferdinando Ametrano
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
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
--------------------------------------------- This month we've added a
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.
Slashdot
Ian Clarke, Ernie Miller On Free Speech, Privacy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/226243
[0]mpawlo writes "I am still pursuing my new pastime, interviewing
interesting Internet policy individuals for [1]Greplaw. Fresh catches
include [2]Freenet creator [3]Ian Clarke on his decision to leave the
USA, free speech and Freenet and former [4]Lawmeme editor-in-chief
[5]Ernest Miller on DRM and privacy, copyright and the First
Amendment... and, of course, why blogs matter. Maybe this will provide
some food for thought."
Links
0.
http://www.pawlo.com/
1.
http://grep.law.harvard.edu/
2.
http://freenetproject.org/
3.
http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/0125236&mode=flat
4.
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/
5.
http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/1235248&mode=flat
How Much Does A Cloud Weigh?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/04/0439224
MyNameIsFred writes "ABC News is running an article revealing
[0]unexpected facts about weather formations. Ever wonder how much a
cloud weighs? What about a hurricane? A meteorologist has done some
estimates and the results might surprise you..." Reports that include
the phrase "more than all the elephants on the planet" are always
welcome.
Links
0. http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/SciTech/clouds_krulwich030902html
VideoNOW PVD Reverse Engineering
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/232219
Zoc_All_Alone writes "In mid-July, Hasbro released the [0]VideoNOW, a portable media player for kids. The disks are specially encoded ~3 inch audio CDs. We have [1]started a project to reverse engineer the format, and have made considerable progress. More information about the player can be found [2]at the Hasbro website." Links
0.
http://www.hasbro.com/videonow/
1.
http://www.wsu.edu/~zocher/
2.
http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.viewproduct/product_id.13275/dn/default.cfm
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/2352242
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 is out! For
those who haven't heard about it yet, Mozilla Thunderbird is
[1]mozilla.org's new standalone mail client and sister product to
[2]Mozilla Firebird. According to [3]MozillaZine's [4]article on the
release, new features include 'a redesigned Options dialogue, spell
checker improvements, enhancements to the default theme and better
performance and stability'. More information can be found at the
[0]Mozilla Thunderbird Project Page and in the [5]release notes (which
include the important information that a clean install is vital).
Builds are available for [6]Windows (7.3Mb), [7]Mac OS (11.1Mb) and
[8]Linux (9.5Mb) or you can [9]download the source (29.1Mb) and build
it yourself for extra geek points."
Links
0.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
1.
http://www.mozilla.org/
2.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/
3.
http://www.mozillazine.org/
4.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3662
5.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/0.2-release-notes.html
6.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.2/thunderbird-0.2-win32.zip
7.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.2/thunderbird-0.2-macosx.dmg.gz
8.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.2/thunderbird-0.2-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2
9.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.2/thunderbird-source-0.2.tar.bz2
Managing Linux and Virtual Machines?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/227257
[0]deijmaster asks: "For a couple of months we have been hearing (as a
major consulting firm) IBM people pushing the possibility of installing
a Z/Linux VM setup at one of our biggest clients (financial). To a
Linux user such as myself this sounds great, at first. Now, I am a bit
reluctant when it comes to managing this kind of infrastructure, with
little or no local expertise at IBM. Has anyone gone through a Z/Linux
VM corporate installation and lived through the management of such a
solution?"
Links
0. mailto:deijmaster@hotmail.com
Universal Music To Cut CD Prices
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/2223206
phlack writes "CNN Money has an article about Universal Music Group's plans to [0]slash their CD prices to $12.98 SRP, in an effort to combat piracy and bring consumers back into stores. It makes me hope the other giants will follow suit, and wonder if the music industry is finally listening to some of the consumer's complaints." Links
0. http://money.cnn.com/services/tickerheadlines/djh/200309031515DOWJONESDJONLINE001239.htm
Samsung Yepp YP-55V Review
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/2054243
daanger0us writes "RAM based MP3 players are still pretty popular. As
hard drive based MP3 players get larger storage capacity, the RAM based
MP3 players have to add new features to keep themselves compelling to
customers. The Samsung Yepp YP-55V is one of the RAM based MP3 players
that's added some pretty cool features at a reasonable price. 256MB of
RAM, FM Tuner, ability to record from a line-in, from the FM Tuner and
voice recording, USB Drive capabilities, upgradeable firmware, weighing
in at 2.2 ounces all for around $160. [0]Designtechnica has a full
review. How many people still consider a RAM based audio player when
shopping?" Update: 09/03 22:11 GMT by [1]T: That should be "MB," not
"MG" as it originally read.
Links
0. http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review426.html
Where Is The Broadband?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/1843201
[0]gouldtj writes "[1]First Monday is running an article in its current
issue entitled: [2]The many paradoxes of broadband. It discusses some
of the issues and ideas behind broadband, but seems to focus on: Where
is it? There is also a really nice discussion on the telecom industry
in general, along with the .com boom."
Links
0.
http://gould.cx/ted
1.
http://www.firstmonday.org/
2.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/current_issue/odlyzko/index.htmlTesting The Right To Resell Downloaded Music http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/1823202
[0]David Gerard writes "A man has bought a song from Apple iTunes and
has [1]put it up for sale on [2]eBay. "I only spent $0.99 on it but I
bought the song just as legally as I would a CD, so I should be able to
sell it used just as legally, right?" Does the Right of First Sale
still exist?" The seller says he's seeking attention, but not to
himself. Rather, he calls this "an experiment in property rights in the
digital age," and promises not to keep a copy once the sale is done.
Links
0.
http://velvet.net/~fun/
1.
http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/geekery/does_the_right_of_first_sale_still_exist.php
2.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2555673237Virginia Tech Announces Supercomputer Plans http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/1829205
[0]CousinVinnie writes "Previously noted in [1]this Slashdot story, the
administration of Virginia Tech has announced [2]they're puchasing 1100
G5's ([3]another story) in hopes to build a top-10 supercomputer by
October 1. Tech will be spending $5.2 million over five years on the
project, which should help it pull in more research money." Maybe VT
can use the new computers to beef up their web site.
Links
0. mailto:vrivelli@NOTSPAM.vt.edu
1.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1838222&tid=137
2.
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story154706.html
3.
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=1748
Freshmeat
AltioLive Studio 3.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134725/
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.
Amber Light 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134781/
Amber Light is a theme with a golden sunset over a still ocean. The background is by applwoods.
Aqua Strawberries 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134782/
Aqua Strawberries is a theme with glassy fruit on a strawberry-coloured background. The background is by weboso (Jairo Boudewyn).
Archaic Cow 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134780/
Archaic Cow is a theme with the stylized, ornamented head of a cow on a blue background. The background is by Rian Krull of Rian's Fantasy World.
autopackage 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134756/
autopackage is a package manager for Linux that is intended to sort out RPM hell by making it much easier to create distribution-neutral packages that can be downloaded and run, a la InstallShield. It has several advantages over both the RPM approach and the Windows installer-stub system. Although the packages are "smart" and can adapt to the computer on which they are installing, there is minimal overhead involved on the package itself. Using autopackage, you can create .package files and link them to the autopackage network for easy installation using a distributed apt-style system. These packages also have many other powerful features not found in other systems.
Battosai.pm 1.0.4d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134787/
Battosai.pm allows you to simply open, write, rewrite, and read configuration files with your Perl scripts.
Be4gle 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134676/
Be4gle is a Web services layer for relational databases. It allows applications to access data via SOAP, without having to program a single line of code. If the SOAP client is a Web browser, it also serves HTML, generated from meta-data, in parallel with the XML so that unfamiliar data can be browsed effortlesly. For updating data, XML templates are parsed and served as Web forms.
bigFORTH/MINOS 2.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134692/
bigFORTH is a native code Forth. It was originally developed on the Atari ST for the Motorola 68k processor and was recently ported to Intel 386, running under a DOS extender (GO32). bigFORTH is available for Linux and Windows 95/98/NT in pre-beta-test. This version is available under GPL. The most striking new feature is the graphical user interface MINOS and the form editor Theseus. MINOS is a graphic user interface (GUI) for X, written for bigFORTH-Linux and bigFORTH-Win32. It includes a rapid GUI developement editor (Theseus).
Booby 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134719/
Booby is a multiuser, multilanguage, fully themeable Web-based desktop application which provides online management for bookmarks, contacts, todos, notes, and news. It is written in PHP and is mostly database independent by using the database abstraction layer 'ADOdb'. It is fully themeable (using Smarty). It is based on a generic MVC design pattern/framework that uses items with a potential hierarchical relationship as its base.
BookmarkBridge 0.70
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134788/
BookmarkBridge is a small, easy to use, multi-platform, GUI-based utility that allows the user to share bookmarks between all their browsers. The user runs it periodically to synchronize between the browsers.
BugPort 1.037
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134722/
The BugPort system is a Web-based system to manage tasks and defects throughout the software development process. It is written with the PHP language, using its object-oriented capabilities, and is in use by INCOGEN for internal management of software development and QA.
CircleMUD 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134762/
CircleMUD is a multi-user dungeon game system (MUD). It is a derivative of DikuMUD Gamma 0.0. A MUD (Multiple User Dimension or Multiple User Dungeon) is a computer program which allows Internet users from around the world to connect to it, create fictional characters for themselves, and then interact with other real users as well as computer-generated entities in a virtual environment.
Coherent Mail Gateway 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134754/
Coherent Mail Gateway is intended to be a very easy to set up MTA using SMTP and POP3. Greylisting is used on the SMTP daemon to reduce spam. In addition, quite a lot of checks on the validity of information from the SMTP client (such as claimed server name and sender) are carried out, and anyone caught telling lies is disconnected. As well as greylisting, black and white listing is also supported. The target market is small offices and home users with static IPs. Others can use the system but its value will be limited.
Connect Daily Web Calendar 2.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134715/
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.
Contemplate(tm) Web Templating System 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134748/
Contemplate is a Web templating system that allows writers, front-end developers, and Web programmers to focus on what they do best. It's available for servers running ASP, PHP, or Perl, and uses identical content and template formats so that your sites can be fully cross-compatible.
CxxTest 3.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134737/
CxxTest is a JUnit/CppUnit/xUnit-like framework for C++ that doesn't require RTTI, member template functions, exception handling, or any external libraries (including memory management, file/console I/O, or graphics libraries). It is distributed entirely as a set of header files which makes it extremely portable and usable.
CyTV 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134718/
CyTV is a streaming solution for the elgato EyeTV USB tuner. It allows you to watch a video stream of the currently active channel over a wired or wireless network. You can also change the channel and start/stop recording from the remote computer.
Deadman's Redirect 7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134741/
Deadman's Redirect is designed to replace whatever is loaded when you click on the Home button in your browser. It is a Web surfer's power tool that can be completely customized, using HTML, to fit the needs of the user. It allows for URL redirection as well as an interface to various search engines through its aliasing system. It also supports user-set aliases with functional arguments, RSS headlines, and a history of all the URLs that pass through it.
Easyval 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134678/
Easyval is a very basic implementation of interval arithmetic, using hardware doubles as interval bounds. The first target of this library is that the interval arithmetic containment criterium is respected.
ELinks 0.5pre5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134768/
ELinks is an enhanced version of Links, a Lynx-like text Web browser with support for tables, frames, background downloads, etc. It has a menu-fashioned user interface and is smaller and more lightweight than Lynx. ELinks adds many valuable features, like HTTP auth, proxy auth, reasonable cookies support, Lua scripting, etc.
Email address validation component 2003.09.03 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134773/
This is a PHP class that attempts to validate a given e-mail address at three levels: matching the address against a RFC compliant regular expression, verifing the existence of the destination SMTP server by verifying the respective DNS MX record, and connecting to that server to see if the given address is accepted as a valid recipient. The class also features a debugging output option that lets you see the remote SMTP server connection and data exchange dialog to see the real cause why an apparently valid address may not be accepting messages.
eMotion Player II-rc0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134765/
eMotion is a Qt frontend to mplayer.
esound 0.2.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134731/
EsounD mixes multiple digitized audio streams and samples together for playback by a single audio device. It also allows monitoring of mixed output, and recording. Network connections to the daemon are supported as well.
eZ publish 3.2 Beta 2 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134716/
eZ publish is an open source content management system and development framework. As a content management system (CMS) it's most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customizable, and extendable content model. This is also what makes it suitable as a platform for general Web development. Its stand-alone libraries can be used for cross-platform, database independent PHP projects. eZ publish is also well suited for news publishing, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), portals, and corporate Web sites, intranets, and extranets. eZ publish is dual licenced between GPL and the eZ publish professional licence.
Fake Lib 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134724/
Fake Lib is a library that's intended to ease the creation of self-contained executables. It can read linked-in data. It also contains a simple PNG loader, which eliminates problems with libpng dependencies. There is also a simple .OIA loader (a special 3D model format).
FauBackup 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134757/
FauBackup uses a filesystem on a hard drive for incremental and full backups. All backups can easily be accessed by standard filesystem tools. Later backups to the same filesystem will automatically be incremental, as unchanged files are only hard-linked with the existing version of the file.
File Service Protocol 2.8.1 beta 12 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134738/
FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years).
fix-mime-charset 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134704/
Fix-mime-charset automatically detects character sets of email message and modifies the Content-Type header appropriately. It can be used as mail filter in mailing lists where users often set the charset of their messages incorrectly. It processes messages fast and accurately, ignoring attachments, and correctly interprets transfer-encodings. None but the Content- Type header is changed.
Frosted 0.1 (Sawfish)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134630/
Frosted is an ice cold theme from the arctic zone.
Fugu SSH 1.1.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134776/
Fugu SSH is a Mac OS X graphical frontend to OpenSSH's Secure File Transfer application (SFTP). SFTP is similar to FTP, but, unlike FTP, the entire session is encrypted, meaning no passwords are sent in cleartext form, and it is thus much less vulnerable to third-party interception. Fugu allows you to take advantage of SFTP's security without having to sacrifice the ease of use found in a GUI. Fugu also includes support for SCP files transfers, and the ability to create secure tunnels through SSH.
g3data 1.4.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134723/
g3data is a program for extracting data from graphs (i.e., scanned graphs from scientific publications). It can read many different image formats and outputs the extracted data through stdout or to a file.
GAI Album 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134714/
GAI Album is an applet/dockapp which shows the cover image (if available) of the album that is played by XMMS.
GAI Blobs 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134706/
GAI Blobs is a dockapp and GNOME 2 panel applet that shows a bunch of moving blobs.
GAI Leds 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134707/
GAI Leds is a GNOME panel applet and a dockapp that shows the status of the keyboard LEDs.
GAI Pager 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134709/
GAI Pager is a pager applet for Enlightenment and Waimea. It supports both the GNOME 2 panel and the dock.
GAI Pal 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134710/
GAI Pal is a dockapp and GNOME 2 panel applet that gives you a friend that always has something wise or funny to say.
GAI Visual Audio 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134711/
GAI Visual Audio displays the spectrum or scope of the audio that is played by XMMS. It works with the GNOME panel and most window mangers that support a dock.
gEDA 20030901
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134789/
gEDA is a GPLed toolset to aid electronic design. Currently it consists of a schematic capture program, a netlist generator, a symbol checker, and a bunch of utilities. The initial goals are to satisfy the electronic hobbyist needs, but the usefulness of gEDA does not have stop there. gEDA has the future potential to be used for serious EDA work.
General Applet Interface Library 0.5.0pre2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134712/
The goal of the General Applet Interface Library is to give programmers a simple yet powerful applet interface. This library supports both dockapps and GNOME 2 panel applets. The applet programmer doesn't have to care about if the applet will be used on the Gnome panel or in the dock. The library handles that. Over 50% of the code in a dockapp and a GNOME 2 Panel applet does only one thing, setting up the applet window. With GAI, this can be reduced to just a few lines of code.
Gforth 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134693/
Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct threaded. Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC.
gLabels 1.92.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134785/
gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you'll find at most office supply stores.
GNU CLISP 2.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134726/
GNU CLISP is an ANSI Common Lisp implementation with an interpreter, compiler, debugger, object system (CLOS), and foreign language interface which runs on most UNIXes, Win32, OS/2, Atari, Amiga, etc.
grunka 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134772/
grunka is a tiny app monitoring the wavelan signal strength, suitable for inclusion in the screen hardstatusline.
gtranslator 1.0 (HEAD)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134761/
gtranslator offers a comfortable, colored, and easy way to edit gettext po files and all other flavours of po files (po.gz, mo/gmo) with many comfortable function like find, replace, autoaccomplishment, query capability and personal learn buffer (TM). The GUI also offers you a very nice messages tree to see the translations grouped by status (untranslated, fuzzy) and with customizable colors for the rows.
HBCI4Java 0.4 (Passport Editor)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134697/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented, so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
HBCI4Java 2.4.3 (Package)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134696/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented, so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
ID3 Tag Framework 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134691/
ID3Tag.framework is a Cocoa-based framework for reading and writing ID3 tags. It supports 1.1 and 2.0 - 2.4 tag types.
imgSeek 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134695/
imgSeek is a photo collection manager capable of searching through an image database, in which the query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. You simply draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for you a thumbnail view of the best matches. You may also find duplicate images automatically, generate Web photo albums, edit image metadata including EXIF JPEG data, organize images into a keyword hierarchy, and more.
Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.80.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134749/
JACK is a low-latency audio server. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (i.e., as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (as a "plugin"). JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work. This means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation.
Jags 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134751/
Jags (just another GTK+ Samba client) and Jagsmm (just another GTK-- Samba client) are two GUI frontends running over Samba and Smbmount using the GTK+/GTK--/GNOME-- toolkits.
jDip 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134786/
jDip is an adjudicator and mapping program for Diplomacy-type games. Currently, 19 variants are supported. Orders are viewed graphically, and may be entered using the mouse, typed in directly, or imported from a Judge. Extensive undo/redo and editing support is included. Maps are detailed, zoomable, and may be exported to several formats, including PDF and SVG.
JGraphpad 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134673/
JGraphpad is a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more. With JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and networks with thousands of nodes. JGraphpad is available with sourcecode, which may be used to develop new (commercial) applications.
jsPro R2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134686/
jsPro is a set of libraries that extend the core Javascript classes and provide a number of new classes. The aim is to provide a rich set of object-based functionality to the Javascript language.
K Executable Viewer 0.1-09032003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134733/
This program allows users to view (and eventually modify) details of ELF (and other) executables with a nice KDE interface.
Kahakai 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134677/
Kahakai is a fork of the Waimea window manager, adding scripting support for many languages through SWIG.
Kleanux 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134720/
Kleanux is a themepack consisting of a clean Metacity theme, which inherits all of its colors from the active GTK theme, and matching GTK 1.x/GTK 2.x themes.
Krecipes 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134736/
Krecipes is a MySQL based KDE recipe tool, designed to be highly configurable and extensible. It features configurable ingredients, shopping lists, daily recipe suggestions based on calories/diets, and much more.
Ladybird 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134779/
Ladybird is a theme with a ladybird (or ladybug). Background by Per Sommer.
libcff 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134721/
libcff provides a kind of C++ continued fractions toolkit. It lets you easily create continued fractions and estimate truncation errors. It also offers reliable continued fraction evaluation and approximating functions using continued fractions.
libmplite 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134680/