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[fm-news] Newsletter for Friday, October 03rd 2008
::: L I N K S F O R T H E D A Y :::
Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2008/10/03/
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (52) :::
[001] - Chromium B.S.U. 0.9.13.3
[002] - Claws Mail 3.6.0
[003] - Claws Mail 3.6.0 (Extra Plugins)
[004] - Connect Daily Web Calendar 3.4.0
[005] - Diakonos 0.8.5
[006] - EditiX 2008-SP5
[007] - ExtSQL 1.1
[008] - File-Picker 1.0.2
[009] - Flamerobin 0.9.0
[010] - Freeway 1.4.3.210 (Stable)
[011] - Gammu 1.21.0 (Stable)
[012] - Geomyidae 0.13
[013] - Gimp User Manual 2.4.2
[014] - grapcha 0.01
[015] - Gslist 0.8.6c
[016] - GSmartControl 0.8.0rc1
[017] - JSch 0.1.40
[018] - JURPE 0.3.9
[019] - Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API 1.41
[020] - lighttpd 1.4.20
[021] - LilyKDE 0.6.4
[022] - Maarch 3.0rc1
[023] - Maarch 3.0rc1 (AutoImport)
[024] - Makagiga 2.9.3 Beta
[025] - Mini SNMP Daemon 0.6
[026] - Nagiosgraph 1.1
[027] - Netty 3.0.0.CR5
[028] - OpenAFS 1.4.8pre1
[029] - OpenNHRP 0.8
[030] - openPlaG 2.6
[031] - p300 876
[032] - Prenda 0.1 BETA
[033] - Python bsddb3 4.7.3
[034] - python-gammu 0.27
[035] - python-rope 0.9
[036] - PyYAML 3.06
[037] - ropemacs 0.6
[038] - ropevim 0.2
[039] - Ruby Documenting Tool 0.045
[040] - Ruby/AWS 0.4.4
[041] - SAcc 1.81-rc2 (VMware Image)
[042] - Siglar 0.8.3
[043] - SVN Access Manager 0.3.0.2
[044] - TTFSampler 0.3
[045] - Tux Commander 0.6.50
[046] - UIF2ISO 0.1.6a
[047] - uni2ascii 4.11
[048] - Veusz 1.1
[049] - vitetris 0.52
[050] - wmjump 0.5
[051] - XWiki 1.6
[052] - YML 1.4
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Chromium B.S.U. 0.9.13.3
by Paul Wise (http://freshmeat.net/users/pabs3/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:42
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Playing
About: Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling
shooter. It uses OpenGL for graphics, OpenAL for sound effects, and FTGL
for text rendering.
Changes: Portability to Gentoo, Windows, and Mac OS X was improved.
Linking the GLUT window type was fixed. The configuration was documented in
the manual page. Desktop file improvements were made.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/chromium/
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[002] - Claws Mail 3.6.0
by Paul Mangan (http://freshmeat.net/users/daWB/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:17
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Usenet News
About: Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client.
Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many
features such as multiple accounts, POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP support, OpenSSL,
GnuPG, and LDAP support, a plugin system, spell checking, filtering,
Actions, spam and virus filters, an address book, internationalization, and
much more.
Changes: Support for client SSL certificates. Better support for SSL
certificate stores to be able to verify server certificates. Renaming of
newsgroups is possible. Unsaved server passwords can now be temporarily
saved for the duration of the session. Support for basic auto-indentation
in the Compose window. Support for animated GIFs in the message view. The
Spam/Ham flag is now stored on the IMAP server when possible, using "Junk"
and "NonJunk" keywords. All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced
with their non-deprecated equivalents.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/claws-mail/
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[003] - Claws Mail 3.6.0 (Extra Plugins)
by Paul Mangan (http://freshmeat.net/users/daWB/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:17
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Usenet News
About: Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client.
Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many
features such as multiple accounts, POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP support, OpenSSL,
GnuPG, and LDAP support, a plugin system, spell checking, filtering,
Actions, spam and virus filters, an address book, internationalization, and
much more.
Changes: This release contains 16 plugins.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/claws-mail/
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[004] - Connect Daily Web Calendar 3.4.0
by George Sexton (http://freshmeat.net/users/gsexton/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:23
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
About: Connect Daily is a Web calendar and resource management
application. Features include unlimited users, email reminders, public and
private calendars, AJAX support, RSS, CSV import/export, and iCal support.
Planner views and approvals prevent double-booking resources and make
managing your facility a snap. A powerful security system provides flexible
permission control. Authentication via LDAP or Active Directory is
supported.
Changes: This release adds an audit trail to track system changes. It adds
RSS import. Imports can now be marked as recurring for periodic automatic
re-import. Import screens support an undo function. A container-level
authentication provider has been added, including support for Windows
integrated security. The planner view now supports variable period display.
There are multiple other improvements in the import function. There are
some 18 or so minor bugfixes.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdaily/
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[005] - Diakonos 0.8.5
by Pistos (http://freshmeat.net/users/Pistos/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:24
Text Editors
About: Diakonos is a customizable, usable console-based text editor. It
features arbitrary language scripting, bookmarking, regular expression
searching, parsed ("smart") indentation, macro recording and playback, a
multi-element clipboard, multi-level undo, a customizable status line,
completely customizable keyboard mapping, and customizable syntax
highlighting.
Changes: 256 color support has been added. Support for opening files with
"filepath:linenumber" syntax has been added. The ability to position the
cursor with a code closer has been added. Code closers can now contain
newlines. Integration with Klipper (KDE clipboard) has been added. Support
for regexp match placeholders has been added. An eol_behaviour setting has
been added. Various minor bugs have been fixed. The MIT license has been
adopted.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/diakonos/
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[006] - EditiX 2008-SP5
by Alexandre Brillant (http://freshmeat.net/users/abrillant/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 13:32
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
Text Processing :: Markup :: DocBook
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
About: EditiX is a cross-platform and multi-purpose XML editor and XSLT
debugger (1.0 and 2.0), which helps Web authors and programmers use XML and
XML-related technologies, such as XSLT, FO, and XSD schemas. It provides a
lot of functionality within a refined IDE, which guides the user with
intelligent entry helpers, and has real-time XPath location and syntax
error detection. It allows the user to apply an XSLT or FO transformation,
and shows the result in a separate view. It includes default templates for
XML, DTD, XHTML, XSLT, XSD, XML RelaxNG, SVG, MathML, and XML FO. It can
generate schema W3C, DTD or RelaxNG from a document instance.
Changes: This release improves the schema validator and includes an XSLT
2.0 validator. The user can generate document instances from a DTD element
or a schema element. The diff system has been rewritten. The user can
easily navigate in the structure with various shortcuts. Drag 'n drop is
managed for the visual schema editor.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/editix/
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[007] - ExtSQL 1.1
by John Murtari (http://freshmeat.net/users/jmurtari/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:13
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
System :: Monitoring
About: ExtSQL is now a new database server. It is a significant set of
independently developed software additions and patches to the existing
source code of both MySQL and PostgreSQL. It provides a new set of SQL
language features that make it easy for a DBA to monitor and audit activity
on a busy server and account for activity by user, database, or even
connecting client host. It even includes the ability to store historical
usage data in amounts and time intervals specified by the DBA. It is not a
separate monitoring utility, but built into the core of both servers.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/extsql/
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[008] - File-Picker 1.0.2
by Hpyer (http://freshmeat.net/users/coolhpy/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 03:57
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion
About: File-Picker is a program to display and choose files from your Web
site. It supports multiple languages. It uses AJAX to allow the user to
interact with the server without reloading the page. You can pick several
files at the same time. Its visual interface looks like a file explorer.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/file-picker/
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[009] - Flamerobin 0.9.0
by mariuz (http://freshmeat.net/users/mariuz/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 13:30
Database :: Front-Ends
About: Flamerobin is a database administration tool for the Firebird
RDBMS. It features a small footprint, fast execution, cross-platform
compatibility, and only depends on other open source software.
Changes: This release brings new features like Firebird 2.1 support,
tab-based property pages for database objects (like the Firefox browser),
the ability to load and save BLOB data in the DataGrid to files, and an
improved dialog for inserting new rows.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flamerobin/
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[010] - Freeway 1.4.3.210 (Stable)
by Damian Hickey (http://freshmeat.net/users/damianhickey/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 03:49
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Financial
About: Freeway is an advanced eCommerce platform selling services events,
subscriptions, and products. It is backed up with E and SMS marketing, a
CMS, and solid CRM features. The admin tool is AJAX-based.
Changes: This release see the complete eradication of register_globals
from Freeway. There are a couple of fixes for SQL injection vulnerabilities
on the security front. Other changes include improvements to the Store
membership subscription, upgrade notifications inside Freeway, and
downloadable products. There is also a new PayPal Payflow payment gateway,
as well as many minor improvements and bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freeway/
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[011] - Gammu 1.21.0 (Stable)
by Michal Čihař (http://freshmeat.net/users/nijel/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 14:45
Communications :: Telephony
Utilities
About: Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is a cellular manager for
various mobile phones/modems. It supports a wide variety of Nokia, Symbian,
and AT devices (Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, Samsung, SE, and
others) over cables, infrared, or BlueTooth. It contains libraries with
functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm,
calls, and more (used by external applications like Wammu). It also
includes a command line utility that can make many things (including
backups) and an SMS gateway with full MySQL and PostgreSQL support from the
PHP interface.
Changes: This release fixes a lot of problems related to the AT engine,
SMS encoding, and compatibility with some Nokia phones.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gammu/
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[012] - Geomyidae 0.13
by Zwansch (http://freshmeat.net/users/Zwansch/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:13
Internet
System :: Networking
About: Geomyidae is a generic daemon for the Gopher protocol written in C.
It supports dynamic content, logging, privilege separation, and automated
file/directory indexing.
Changes: The license was changed to MIT/X.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geomyidae/
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[013] - Gimp User Manual 2.4.2
by Roman Joost (http://freshmeat.net/users/romanofski/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 20:31
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
About: The GIMP User Manual is a user manual for the GIMP. It is written
for the GIMP Help Browser, but can produce help pages for other formats as
well.
Changes: This release features mostly bugfixes as well as new content in
the following languages: German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Korean,
Russian, and English.
License: GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gimp-help/
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[014] - grapcha 0.01
by alxtoth (http://freshmeat.net/users/alxtoth/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 20:37
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Security
About: grapcha is a captcha generator based on Graphviz. It produces
diagrams that are big and easy to read by humans but hard to break with
bots. A person reads the diagram by starting at the green "diamond" and
stopping at the red "square", while ignoring the eventual random padding at
the beginning and end for short texts.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/grapcha/
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[015] - Gslist 0.8.6c
by Luigi Auriemma (http://freshmeat.net/users/Bugtest/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 22:51
Games/Entertainment
About: Gslist is a console game server browser which is able to retrieve
the online servers by contacting the master server, master.gamespy.com. It
supports over 800 games for different platforms and has many options and
features, including the sending of heartbeats, the filtering of the servers
list (country, name, port, players, and more), the launching of a specific
application for each server found, the querying of a server, an update
option for the latest supported games, an output selector, a GUI accessible
through any Web browser, and more.
Changes: A new protocol and decryption algorithm compatible with both
little and big endian processors allows you to get server information
directly in the list received from the master server. An option to retrieve
all the Peerchat IRC rooms assigned to a specific game name. Some bugs in
the update function have been fixed, and the Gamespy NAT negotiation
component has been updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gslist/
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[016] - GSmartControl 0.8.0rc1
by Alexander Shaduri (http://freshmeat.net/users/alex_sh/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 22:46
System :: Hardware
About: GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl. It allows
you to inspect the hard drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well
as run various tests on it.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gsmartcontrol/
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[017] - JSch 0.1.40
by ymnk (http://freshmeat.net/users/atsuhikoyamanaka/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:13
Security :: Cryptography
About: JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to
connect to an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file
transfer, etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java
programs.
Changes: This release fixes a problem in using the SOCS4 proxy and an NPE
in closing the session in some cases.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsch/
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[018] - JURPE 0.3.9
by Alessio Saltarin (http://freshmeat.net/users/axsaxs/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:53
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: JURPE (Java Universal Role Playing Engine) is a Java API to support
the development of computer RPG games based on a skill-based, three dice
RPG system. It comes with a small Swing demo featuring a medieval warrior
exploring randomly generated 2D dungeons.
Changes: The UI was redesigned to be more cross-platform. The dialog
manager has been developed and it's featured in the new Mages Guild. A shop
now indicates if you can use or afford an item. The source code GUI now
supports the Netbeans Matisse editor. A new log system was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jurpe/
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[019] - Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API 1.41
by David Hook (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidhook/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 03:50
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API provides a
lightweight cryptography API in Java, a provider for the JCE and JCA, a
clean-room implementation of the JCE 1.2.1, generators for Version 1 and
Version 3 X.509 certificates, generators for Version 2 X.509 attribute
certificates, PKCS12 support, and APIs for dealing with S/MIME, CMS, OCSP,
TSP, OpenPGP, and TLS. Versions are provided for the J2ME, and JDK 1.0-1.6.
Changes: This release adds a faster and smaller version of Camellia. The
ECDSA implementation is now compliant with X9.62-2005, OpenPGP, S/MIME, and
CMS now support passing of providers as well as provider names, S/MIME
handles a wider range of special cases for signature verification, and a
range of other improvements have been made to the J2ME, CMS, S/MIME, and
OpenPGP APIs. A regression from 1.38 for handling PKIXCertPathCheckers on
intermediate certificates is fixed.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bouncycastlecryptoapi/
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[020] - lighttpd 1.4.20
by ostborn (http://freshmeat.net/users/ostborn/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:36
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
About: lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible Web server
which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very
low memory footprint compared to other Web servers, and it takes care of
CPU load. It has an advanced feature set that includes FastCGI (load
balanced), CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting, SSL, and much
more.
Changes: A possible DoS in the SSL support and memleaks that can be
triggered from the outside were fixed. More than 50 more bugs were fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lighttpd/
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[021] - LilyKDE 0.6.4
by Wilbert Berendsen (http://freshmeat.net/users/wbsoft/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 22:47
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
Utilities
About: LilyKDE is a set of tools to integrate the LilyPond music
typesetter into KDE. It consists of icon and MIME type information for
LilyPond files, a Kate plugin to run LilyPond and embed a preview with
clickable notes and error messages, and a Konqueror service menu.
Changes: A new Quick Insert Panel has been added. It currently contains
one handy tool to insert articulations, one by one or to a group of notes
at once.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilykde/
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[022] - Maarch 3.0rc1
by aerdhyl (http://freshmeat.net/users/aerdhyl/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 13:34
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Information Management :: Records Management
About: Maarch is a DMS infrastructure dedicated to the legal archiving of
high volumes of static documents. Unlike most DMS tools, it's a toolbox
approach that allows one to build highly integrated custom applications. As
a proof of concept, Maarch comes with two business applications: Maarch
LetterBox for mail management and Maarch PeopleBox for HR document
management.
Changes: A new modular architecture is used to enhance usability, access
rights to documents, integration, and adaptation. New modules were added to
implement indexing and searching, folder management, physical archive
management, autofoldering, and basket management. Ergonomy was improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/maarch/
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[023] - Maarch 3.0rc1 (AutoImport)
by aerdhyl (http://freshmeat.net/users/aerdhyl/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 14:45
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Information Management :: Records Management
About: Maarch is a DMS infrastructure dedicated to the legal archiving of
high volumes of static documents. Unlike most DMS tools, it's a toolbox
approach that allows one to build highly integrated custom applications. As
a proof of concept, Maarch comes with two business applications: Maarch
LetterBox for mail management and Maarch PeopleBox for HR document
management.
Changes: This release adds compatibility with Maarch Framework 3.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/maarch/
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[024] - Makagiga 2.9.3 Beta
by kdt (http://freshmeat.net/users/kdt/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 11:41
Internet
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
Office/Business
About: Makagiga is a free, easy-to-use, cross-platform application for
doing a variety of tasks, such as text editing, todo listing, RSS reading,
and simple image viewing. Plugins are used to implement its various
capabilities. It can perform file import/export, backing up files, Internet
searching (Google, Wikipedia), and more.
Changes: This release fixes minor bugs and adds some new features and
improvements.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/makagiga/
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[025] - Mini SNMP Daemon 0.6
by Robert Ernst (http://freshmeat.net/users/erobert/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 20:32
System :: Monitoring
About: Mini SNMP Daemon is a minimal implementation of an SNMP daemon. It
is targeted for usage in embedded systems with limited disk and memory
resources. All configuration is done using commandline arguments. It
supports basic CPU, memory, disk, and network interface statistics.
Changes: This release adds an install target, developer documentation, and
patches for FreeBSD support. It has minor bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/minisnmpd/
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[026] - Nagiosgraph 1.1
by Alan Brenner (http://freshmeat.net/users/alanbbr/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 20:27
System :: Monitoring
About: Nagiosgraph is an add-on for Nagios. It collects service perfdata
in RRD format, and displays the resulting graphs via CGI.
Changes: This release fixes a bug where it would only process one line
when used via service_perfdata_file. It moves all subroutines into
ngshared.pm and adds more tests. It separates graph creation from show.cgi
into showgraph.cgi (now show.cgi, showhost.cgi, and showservice.cgi just
build HTML and call showgraph.cgi). It updates configuration documentation
for upgrades to hopefully clarify that the only configuration change in the
executable scripts is done via the 'use lib ....' line at the beginning of
each script.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nagiosgraph/
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[027] - Netty 3.0.0.CR5
by Trustin Lee (http://freshmeat.net/users/anoripi/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 13:36
Communications
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous,
event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development
of maintainable, high-performance, high-scalability protocol servers and
clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework that
enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol
servers and clients. It simplifies and streamlines network programming such
as TCP/IP socket servers.
Changes: A significant performance improvement was made. API usability was
improved. The race conditions related to SSL and thread pool were fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/netty/
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[028] - OpenAFS 1.4.8pre1
by Edgester (http://freshmeat.net/users/edgester/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 03:48
Communications :: File Sharing
System :: Filesystems
About: AFS is a distributed filesystem which offers a client-server
architecture, transparent data migration abilities, scalability, a single
namespace, and integrated ancillary subsystems.
Changes: AIX 6.1 support. FreeBSD 7.0 client support. OpenSolaris/Nevada
support for newer versions. Support for Linux 2.6.26. A -nojumbo command
line option for jumbogram support. A bug where jumbograms were still sent
when they were disabled has been fixed. A -noresolve option has been added
to all vos commands. This permits the display of servers by IP address
instead of DNS name. Updated and expanded man pages.
License: IBM Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openafs/
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[029] - OpenNHRP 0.8
by Timo Teräs (http://freshmeat.net/users/fabled/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:34
Internet
Security
System :: Networking
About: OpenNHRP implements the NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (as
defined in RFC 2332). It makes it possible to create a dynamic multipoint
VPN Linux router using NHRP, GRE, and IPsec. It aims to be Cisco DMVPN
compatible.
Changes: The license was changed to "GPLv2 or later". Improvements were
made to the initial connection so that it now purges the redirect cache.
New administrative interface commands were added to flush the redirect
cache and to show the internal schedule. An important memory leak was
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/opennhrp/
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[030] - openPlaG 2.6
by jurii (http://freshmeat.net/users/jurii/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:10
Education
Multimedia :: Graphics
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: openPlaG is a function graph plotter for use on Web sites. It
allows the display of up to three function graphs, their derivatives, and
their integrals. It can compute several different functions, with a focus
on probability functions.
Changes: Differential/integral functions D2, D3, S2, and S3, the function
mo, an improved gamma function, constant pi2, and some fixes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openplag/
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[031] - p300 876
by Markus Goetz (http://freshmeat.net/users/guruz/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 14:46
Communications :: File Sharing
About: p300 is a P2P application that allows you to share directories with
other computers on a LAN or VPN. Other hosts running p300 are automatically
discovered using IP Multicast. Bandwidth limiting is supported. You can
configure which hosts may access your shared directories. You can use an
integrated browser and download manager to download files from other p300
programs on your network, or use your Web browser. You can also use WebDAV
to mount the directories from other computers. A search function and an
integrated chat (instant messenger) are available.
Changes: This release adds a search function that searches all p300 hosts
on the network.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/p300/
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[032] - Prenda 0.1 BETA
by Joebert S. Jacaba (http://freshmeat.net/users/joebertj/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 13:15
Office/Business :: Financial :: Point-Of-Sale
About: Prenda is a Web-based pawn shop system. It thus supports an
unlimited number of branches for the shop, since each branch only needs Web
access. All data is centralized and monitored at the server, with
fine-grained access control. Pawned items are automatically aged by the
database. Interest rates can be configured for each branch on a daily
basis. Items can be pulled out from a branch securely through a Liaison
account. Inter-branch cash replenishments are supported. Foreclosed items
are available for auction. Pawn renewals are supported.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/prenda/
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[033] - Python bsddb3 4.7.3
by jcea (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcea/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 13:37
Database
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: Python bsddb3 is a Python module that provides a nearly complete
wrapping of the Oracle/Sleepycat C API for the database environment,
database, cursor, sequence, and transaction objects, and each of these is
exposed as a Python type in the bsddb3.db module. The database objects can
use various access methods: btree, hash, recno, and queue. It has complete
support for Berkeley DB distributed transactions and complete support for
Berkeley DB Replication Manager. The goal is to mirror most of the real
BerkeleyDB API.
Changes: This release is bundled in Python 2.6, and it is compatible with
Python 3.0rc1.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bsddb3/
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[034] - python-gammu 0.27
by Michal Čihař (http://freshmeat.net/users/nijel/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 14:46
Communications :: Telephony
About: python-gammu is a set of Python bindings for Gammu, the GSM mobile
manager for various cellular phones. It can work with any phone that Gammu
supports, including many models by Nokia, Siemens, and Alcatel.
Changes: This release adds support for new Gammu features and fixes
several coding errors.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/python-gammu/
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[035] - python-rope 0.9
by Ali Gholami Rudi (http://freshmeat.net/users/aligrudi/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:38
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Software Development :: Refactoring
About: Rope is a Python refactoring library. It can be used in other IDEs
to provide features like refactoring and coding assistance.
Changes: The Darcs VCS is now supported. Mac line-endings are handled. The
function to inline a variable was changed so that it does not search all
files when inlining a local variable. Cygwin path problems were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyrope/
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[036] - PyYAML 3.06
by Kirill Simonov (http://freshmeat.net/users/xitology/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 20:30
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Text Processing :: Markup
About: PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for Python. PyYAML features a
complete YAML 1.1 parser, Unicode support, pickle support, capable
extension API, and sensible error messages. PyYAML supports standard YAML
tags and provides Python-specific tags that allow the representation of an
arbitrary Python object. PyYAML is applicable for a broad range of tasks
from complex configuration files to object serialization and persistence.
Changes: The setup.py script detects LibYAML and builds LibYAML bindings
automatically. Building LibYAML bindings no longer requires Pyrex
installed. 'yaml.load()' raises an exception if the input stream contains
more than one YAML document. Exceptions produced by LibYAML bindings have
been fixed. A dot '.' character being recognized as !!float has been fixed.
A Python 2.3 compatibility issue in constructing !!timestamp values has
been fixed. The attributes 'yaml.__version__' and 'yaml.__with_libyaml__'
have been added.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyyaml/
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[037] - ropemacs 0.6
by Ali Gholami Rudi (http://freshmeat.net/users/aligrudi/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:41
Software Development :: Refactoring
Text Editors :: Emacs
About: Ropemacs uses the rope refactoring library to provide features like
Python refactoring and code-assists in emacs.
Changes: rope-find-occurrences sets next-error-function to enable emacs
compilation mode keys. A patch is included for the pymacs interrupt bug.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ropemacs/
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[038] - ropevim 0.2
by Ali Gholami Rudi (http://freshmeat.net/users/aligrudi/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:39
Software Development
About: Ropevim is a Vim mode that uses the rope library to provide
features like Python refactorings and code-assists.
Changes: The quick fix error format was fixed. The ropevim_guess_project
variable was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ropevim/
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[039] - Ruby Documenting Tool 0.045
by saks (http://freshmeat.net/users/saks/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:51
About: The Ruby Documenting Tool application enables you to view, edit,
and write comments in Ruby source files in a more convenient way, and mark
up comments for generating RDoc documentation using shortcuts.
Changes: Multilevel lists were added. Recognition of method names like
"<=>", "[]=", and others was fixed. Correct displaying of opened file names
was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rudoto/
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[040] - Ruby/AWS 0.4.4
by Ian Macdonald (http://freshmeat.net/users/ianmacd/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 13:38
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules
About: Ruby/AWS is a high-level Ruby language interface to the Amazon
Associates Web Service API v4. It aims to automate and remove the grunt
work of interacting with the Amazon API and, in so doing, make it much
easier to use. Ruby/AWS is the successor to Ruby/Amazon.
Changes: It's now possible to have Ruby/AWS use a user configuration file
with a name other than .amazonrc. This is achieved by defining
$AMAZONRCFILE. If left undefined, the default of .amazonrc is used.
Locations other than $HOME were not being checked for .amazonrc. This bug
has now been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ruby-aws/
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[041] - SAcc 1.81-rc2 (VMware Image)
by slavik (http://freshmeat.net/users/alienvirus/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 06:01
Internet :: Log Analysis
System :: Systems Administration
About: SAcc is an access control system for Squid. It provides Web based
account managment and restrictions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sacc/
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[042] - Siglar 0.8.3
by Bit Alley (http://freshmeat.net/users/jfernandes/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 22:53
Text Processing :: Linguistic
About: Siglar is a simple and lightweight program, yet powerful and fast.
It automatically creates many suggestions for new acronyms using the
initial letters of words or word parts in a phrase or name. Siglar has
many options to configure how it creates the acronym suggestions. The
suggested acronyms can be copied to another application or saved in a text
file (UTF-8 format).
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/siglar/
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[043] - SVN Access Manager 0.3.0.2
by Thomas Krieger (http://freshmeat.net/users/tom_krieger/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:45
Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion
About: SVN Access Manager is a powerful tool for managing access to
subversion repositories. The tool provides user and group management and
access rights (read/write) to dedicated paths in a repository as well.
Changes: This release fixes issues with Windows installations of SVN
Access Manager. For example, using the HTTP(S) protocol for repository
access is now working. The other problem fixed is MD5 crypting of passwords
under Windows.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/svn-access-manager/
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[044] - TTFSampler 0.3
by DLitz (http://freshmeat.net/users/Dwonis/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:13
Text Processing
Text Processing :: Fonts
About: TTFSampler takes a list of TrueType fonts on the commandline and
generates a sample sheet in PDF format. The sample sheet contains several
lines of text with each line demonstrating the appearance of a different
font.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttfsampler/
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[045] - Tux Commander 0.6.50
by Tomas Bzatek (http://freshmeat.net/users/tbzatek/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 22:45
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
About: Tux Commander is a GTK2 file manager with two side-by-side panels.
Some of its functions are inspired by Total Commander. The main goal of
this project is to create a powerful user-friendly file manager for Linux.
Changes: This release is focused on resolving most annoying long-standing
issues. A new GVFS plugin has been introduced, replacing the obsolete
gnome-vfs2 subsystem.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tuxcmd/
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[046] - UIF2ISO 0.1.6a
by Luigi Auriemma (http://freshmeat.net/users/Bugtest/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 22:51
Utilities
About: UIF2ISO is a program for converting UIF files (Universal Image
Format, used by MagicISO) to ISO. On Windows, it works from both the
commandline and a GUI (double-click and use).
Changes: The OpenSSL dependency has been removed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uif2iso/
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[047] - uni2ascii 4.11
by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 03:58
Software Development
Software Development :: Internationalization
Text Processing :: General
About: uni2ascii and ascii2uni provide conversion in both directions
between UTF-8 Unicode and more than thirty 7-bit ASCII equivalents,
including RFC 2396 URI format and RFC 2045 Quoted Printable format, the
representations used in HTML, SGML, XML, OOXML, the Unicode standard, Rich
Text Format, POSIX portable charmaps, POSIX locale specifications, and
Apache log files. It can also convert between the escapes used for Unicode
in languages such as Ada, C, Common Lisp, Java, Pascal, Perl, Postscript,
Python, Scheme, and Tcl.
Changes: This release adds support for the
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uni2ascii/
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[048] - Veusz 1.1
by Jeremy Sanders (http://freshmeat.net/users/xiox/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:54
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: Veusz is a scientific plotting package, designed to create
publication-ready Postscript output. It features GUI, command-line, and
scripting interfaces. Graphs are constructed from "widgets", allowing
complex layouts to be designed.
Changes: Veusz can now automatically rescale axes when plotting functions.
Labels on plots can be dragged around using the mouse. Many plotting
symbols have been added to the program. Plots can be exported in SVG
format. A lot of code behind the axis scaling and the plot window has been
rewritten and several minor bugs have been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/veusz/
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[049] - vitetris 0.52
by Victor Nilsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/vervex/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:26
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
About: vitetris is a Tetris clone for the terminal that doesn't need
ncurses. It features configurable keys, a high score table, and 2-player
mode on the same computer or over network. Joysticks/gamepads are supported
on Linux. Gameplay is much like the early Tetris games by Nintendo.
Changes: This release fixes makefiles on OS X, and tries to avoid a
certain 1 second timeout that would close the connection during network
play.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vitetris/
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[050] - wmjump 0.5
by Andrei Mikhailov (http://freshmeat.net/users/a_mkhlv/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:26
Desktop Environment :: Tools
About: wmjump provides keyboard navigation for the Linux desktop. Use the
keyboard to switch between windows and workspaces. A menu is shown with the
colored list of windows, marked by the letters a-z. Pressing the key a-z
"teleports" to that window. The colors of the buttons are configurable.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wmjump/
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[051] - XWiki 1.6
by Jean-Vincent Drean (http://freshmeat.net/users/jvdrean/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 18:25
Information Management
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: XWiki is a WikiWiki clone written in Java that supports many
popular features of other Wikis like the Wiki syntax, version control,
attachments, security, and searching, but also many advanced features like
templates, database and dynamic development using the velocity or groovy
scripting language, a plugin system and skinability, J2EE scalability,
XML/RPC remote API, Portlet integration, statistics, an RSS feed, PDF
exporting, and WYSIWYG editing.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xwiki/
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[052] - YML 1.4
by Volker Birk (http://freshmeat.net/users/fdik/)
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 12:42
About: YML (Why a Markup Language?!) is an easy language to compile into
XML. YSLT is an easy language for code generation, automating your software
development tasks.
Changes: Some major bugfixes and some feature enhancements were added. The
new body() and xbody() functions allow you to insert content into tag
bodies using one-liners.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yml/
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