Newsletter for Wednesday, September 25th 2002

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Newsletter for Wednesday, September 25th 2002

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (85) :::

[001] - A practical lambda-calculator 2.1 (Haskell)
[002] - aEGiS nanoweb 1.8.2
[003] - akpop3d 0.7.2
[004] - Bauk PI113 (Stable)
[005] - Broadway 0.6
[006] - b^2 0.6.1
[007] - C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) 1.6.1
[008] - chrpath 0.8
[009] - cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels 2.4.19-fnk8 (2.4)
[010] - CodeGuide 5.0 build 503
[011] - CTWM Themes System 0.0.2
[012] - db2ssd 0.1.1
[013] - DMI Gallery 1.3.2
[014] - DocBook Doclet 0.30
[015] - Dropline GNOME 1.1.1
[016] - ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.2.0
[017] - Enterprise Gantt 24-09-02 (Snapshot)
[018] - ERW 0.9.2
[019] - Firegate Server 7.1
[020] - FLAC 1.0.4
[021] - FSlint 1.13
[022] - Fuse CMS 0.5.2
[023] - gnuPod 0.1
[024] - GooSNES 0.5.1
[025] - GPLIGC 0.21
[026] - Grip 3.0.3
[027] - Group Editing and Authoring System 1.0.1
[028] - GtkFtpd 1.0.0 (Stable)
[029] - HotWayd 0.5 (Development)
[030] - Insight logger 0.2
[031] - IRC-Chess 0.1
[032] - IRCSocket 0.1
[033] - JPublish 1.3
[034] - Koha 1.3.0 (Development)
[035] - konserve 0.7.1
[036] - Launch.app 0.8.2
[037] - libSigC++ Extras 0.5.5
[038] - LILO 22.3.4-beta2 (Beta)
[039] - linetd 1.0
[040] - Logrep 1.1.2
[041] - Mailreader 2.3.31 (Stable)
[042] - Mecanica 0.5
[043] - MLton 20020923
[044] - Modular Access Control System 0.6pre2 alpha
[045] - mod_ifexists 0.10
[046] - Mozilla Exporter 0.1beta (Alpha)
[047] - MySQL Web-based Chat 5.2 (Stable)
[048] - netrate-text 1.0
[049] - Next Generation POSIX Threading 2.0.3 (Development)
[050] - p910nd 0.5 (Stable)
[051] - Package Structure Analysis Tool 1.0 Beta 3 (Beta)
[052] - Phoenix Browser 0.1 (Development)
[053] - PHPDNSAdmin 1.3b
[054] - phppdflib 1.8
[055] - PowerDNS daemon 2.4 (Development)
[056] - Prima 1.07
[057] - psmisc 21.1
[058] - QDox 1.0
[059] - QFaxReader 0.2-1
[060] - Samsung Contact 7.1.1 (Server)
[061] - Silva Web Authoring System 0.8.4
[062] - SIP 2002-09-25 (Development)
[063] - SISC b1.5.6
[064] - Six 0.3.2
[065] - smtm 1.5.1
[066] - Squid 2.5.STABLE1
[067] - SurveyMaker 1.1.3
[068] - Sweep 0.5.6
[069] - SWISH++ 5.9.6
[070] - SyncPOD 0.51beta
[071] - Syscriptor 1.5.7 (C)
[072] - Syscriptor 1.4.1 (Bash)
[073] - tk150 1.1
[074] - txt2tags 1.0
[075] - Uml2Daml Converter 0.1 (Development)
[076] - Voice XML php class 1.0.1
[077] - web2ldap 0.11.0
[078] - WebImage 1.0 (Stable)
[079] - xinetd 2.3.9
[080] - Xiqual 0.7.0
[081] - Xnee's not an event emulator 0.8
[082] - yahoo2mbox 0.10
[083] - ziproxy 1.1
[084] - ZoneMinder 0.01
[085] - ZynAddSubFX 1.0.0

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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::

[001] - A practical lambda-calculator 2.1 (Haskell)
by Oleg (http://freshmeat.net/users/olegk47/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 19:17

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: A practical lambda-calculator is a normal-order evaluator for the
untyped lambda-calculus, extended with convenient commands and shortcuts
to make programming in it more productive. Shortcuts are distinguished
constants that represent terms. Commands define new shortcuts, activate
tracing of all reductions, compare terms modulo alpha-conversion, print
all defined shortcuts and evaluation flags, etc. Terms to evaluate and
commands are entered at a read-eval-print-loop (REPL) "prompt" or
"included" from a file by a special command. A Haskell branch is an
embedding of the lambda calculator (as a domain-specific language) into
Haskell. The calculator can be used interactively within Hugs or GHCi.

Changes: This is the initial release of the Haskell version of the Lambda
Calculator. The calculator is a Domain-specific (sub)language embedded in
Haskell.

License: Public Domain

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lambdacalc/

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[002] - aEGiS nanoweb 1.8.2
by six (http://freshmeat.net/users/six0r/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 00:17

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: Nanoweb is a modular HTTP server written in PHP 4. It has decent
performance, an HTTP/1.1 implementation, CGI support, a nice configuration
system, name-based virtual hosts, server side includes, authentication,
gzip content encoding support, Apache combined format and MySQL logging,
and many advanced features.

Changes: Added user and group creation during installation, fixed a
serious security issue with the "AllowExtSymlinks" conf directive, fixed a
bug when defining a ServerAlias as the actual server name, optimized
memory usage, fixed a small reload bug in the access files handler, and
fixed the installation directory rights on some secure Linux
distributions. Keep-alive support is now automatically disabled in single
process mode, and the distribution now includes Windows default conf
files, install.bat, and README.windows.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/agsnanoweb/

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[003] - akpop3d 0.7.2
by Andreas Krennmair (http://freshmeat.net/users/akrennmair/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:46

Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3

About: akpop3d is a POP3 daemon aimed to be small and secure. Despite its
small size, it offers a lot of features. It is completely RFC 1939
compliant.

Changes: OpenSSL can now be disabled during the configure process. All
unnecessary calls to malloc and strdup have been removed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/akpop3d/

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[004] - Bauk PI113 (Stable)
by Vlajko (http://freshmeat.net/users/Vlajko/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 12:16

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: Bauk is a high performance HTTP server. It brings together a great
number of features with overall simplicity and speed. Some of its features
are virtual hosts, URL aliases, CGI script execution, GET, POST, and HEAD
methods of HTTP requests, HTTP authentication, directory browsing, server
hostname aliases, access restriction by IP address, multiprocess
organization, simple configuration, reliability, and flexibility.

Changes: Improved performance, rational resource usage, and feature
enhancements.

License: Other/Proprietary License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bauk/

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[005] - Broadway 0.6
by Marty Schoch (http://freshmeat.net/users/mBoner/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 10:23

System :: Networking
Utilities

About: Broadway aims to be an easy way for a user (with administrative
rights) to IP multicast enable their LAN via a tunnel. The nature of this
tunnel is such that it is tuned specifically for receiving broadcast-style
multicast transmissions.

Changes: Many nasty but subtle bugs were fixed. The code now compiles
cleanly with -Wall. Libpcap failure detection was made more resilient.
MacOS X project files were added. The Win32 port builds cleanly and runs,
but is still very buggy. Overriding the IP address from the configuration
file now works, and the outgoing multicast IP address is now correctly
assigned.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/broadway/

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[006] - b^2 0.6.1
by Josh Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/codefuhrer/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 10:12

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards

About: b^2 (B Squared) is a PHP bulletin board system that runs off of a
MySQL database. It comes with an installation script and is easy to get
running in minutes.

Changes: Close to a dozen bugs were fixed. The TOS and FAQ were added to
the language directory, which is where all the text files will be, so that
people can easily translate the board to another language. There were also
a number of miscellaneous text changes throughout the board.

License: Artistic License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bulletinboard/

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[007] - C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) 1.6.1
by Hovik Melikyan (http://freshmeat.net/users/hovik/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:14

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: The C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) is a simple alternative to
the STL that includes multithreading and networking. It defines dynamic
strings, character sets, lists, and other basic data types along with
threads, synchronization, and IP sockets. It is portable across modern
Unix and Windows systems, and includes a sample HTTP daemon showing the
full power of the library.

Changes: The read/write lock (rwlock) algorithm has been improved to be
"fairer" with respect to both readers and writers. The trigger algorithm
has been fixed to be fully compatible with the Win32 event interface.
psleep() has been fixed on Solaris to be reentrant (multithreaded).

License: zlib/libpng License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ptypes/

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[008] - chrpath 0.8
by Petter Reinholdtsen (http://freshmeat.net/users/peretdorguitno/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 04:18

Software Development :: Build Tools

About: chrpath allows you to modify the dynamic library load path (rpath
and runpath) of compiled programs and libraries.

Changes: This version handles platforms without runpath support (ie, a
missing DT_RUNPATH) and fixes a compilation problem on Solaris 2.6.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/chrpath/

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[009] - cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels 2.4.19-fnk8 (2.4)
by Paul Drain (http://freshmeat.net/users/ultrafunk/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 02:30

Security
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

About: cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels provide patchsets that focus on
optimizations, bugfixes, and security enhancements to the current stable
Linux Kernel. They are suitable for workstation or high-end server use in
both production and development environments.

Changes: This release updated the grsecurity patch to the 1.97 release
code.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fnk/

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[010] - CodeGuide 5.0 build 503
by Omnicore (http://freshmeat.net/users/omnicore/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:58

Software Development
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)

About: CodeGuide is an IDE that detects errors in your code as you type,
offers powerful code completion features, maintains a structured view of
your program, has an integrated visual debugger, supports the latest Java
technologies, and works together with virtually all JDKs.

Changes: Minor bugs in the compiler and debugger have been fixed. Problems
running CodeGuide on Mac OS X have been fixed.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/codeguide/

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[011] - CTWM Themes System 0.0.2
by Reivax (http://freshmeat.net/users/Sourezo/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 12:37

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: CTWM
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: CTWM :: Themes

About: CTS is a set of scripts and configuration files that add basic
themes capability to the ctwm window manager. It allows you to change the
ctwm theme and your desktop wallpaper from an automatically generated
menu.

Changes: This release cleans up the file layout, includes the menu and key
bindings configuration in separate files, and keeps themes in a common
directory (like the wallpaper images).

License: BSD License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cts/

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[012] - db2ssd 0.1.1
by boesswetter (http://freshmeat.net/users/boesswetter/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 19:14

Database
Documentation
Software Development :: Documentation

About: db2ssd is a simple Perl script that connects to a database,
extracts its structure, and produces a diagram readable by TCM's "Static
Structure Diagram" (UML) editor.

Changes: Support for PostgreSQL has been added by using Alzabo as an
abstraction layer for the database. Native MySQL is still included.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/db2ssd/

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[013] - DMI Gallery 1.3.2
by KBrown (http://freshmeat.net/users/sandino/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:08

Artistic Software
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: DMI Gallery is an editor-oriented image gallery application based
on DMI. The editor just needs to FTP full-sized pictures into the
directory and small and medium-sized thumbnails are automatically
created. If a text documents with the same name as the picture is
uploaded, it will be inserted as a description. DMI Gallery provides a
complete set of navigation controls, and allows designers to create
templates in their favorite HTML editor to customize the look and feel of
the image gallery.

Changes: This version fixes broken JPEG images that were uploaded from old
Macs with old versions of MacOS, and removes the resource.FRK from the
beginning of JPEGs. It also fixed file uploading.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dmi-gal/

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[014] - DocBook Doclet 0.30
by Michael Fuchs (http://freshmeat.net/users/mfuchs/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:17

Software Development :: Documentation
Text Processing :: Filters
Text Processing :: Markup :: SGML

About: The DocBookDoclet creates DocBook SGML 3.1 or 4.1 and XML 4.1.2
code from Java source documentation. It is helpful if you want to print
reference handbooks of your API. It can also be used as standalone
application to convert HTML to DocBook.

Changes: This release has support for the big, small, and strike tags.
They are represented by the docbook tag phrase with a corresponding remap
attribute. Several major bugs in the handling of the <at> param tag were
fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbdoclet/

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[015] - Dropline GNOME 1.1.1
by todd kulesza (http://freshmeat.net/users/tdk/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 03:15

Desktop Environment :: Gnome

About: Dropline GNOME is a version of the GNOME Desktop that has been
tweaked for Slackware Linux systems. It is available in Slackware's
standard .tgz package format, in addition to the usual source code. The
current release is based off of the latest GNOME 2 distribution from the
GNOME Project.

Changes: Updated the Dropline Installer to support CD installs, rebuilt
Freetype using the new automatic hinters, rebuilt GDM to fix issues with
anti-aliasing, missing files, and incorrect permissions, added GHex,
Rhythmbox, Xine (including support for encrypted DVDs), GnomeICU, and
GNet, and three background images from digitalblasphemy.com. GStreamer was
also added, along with the Lame and Mad plugins. The latest version of
Metacity is now included. The webfonts package was also rebuilt to allow
TrueType fonts to be used in all X apps.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dropline-gnome/

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[016] - ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.2.0
by Stefan Ritt (http://freshmeat.net/users/stefanritt/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 08:25

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web
interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with
the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be
categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on these
classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new entries
based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C program,
which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in plain ASCII
files for easy and fast access.

Changes: The default view was switched to page-wise listing instead of
last message. A "Show last xxx" facility was added to display messages
from a certain time interval.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/elog/

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[017] - Enterprise Gantt 24-09-02 (Snapshot)
by Keith Long (http://freshmeat.net/users/keithlong/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 07:26

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors

About: Enterprise Gantt is a Gantt chart library, and is becoming a
generic charting library to support a variety of charts. The library
strongly conforms to the Model View Controller architecture recommended by
Sun. A lot of effort has been put into this library, from the design
perspective rather than the feature perspective, to make this the most
flexible library of its kind.

Changes: A minor bug regarding the propagation of scroll bar events was
fixed; 1.4.1 requires changeEvent.source to be a boundedRangeModel.
Creating a buffered image using the swing GraphicsConfiguration does not
now create a transparent image resolved by creating an image of type
BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB. The ScrollBar for the right hand chart is now
placed under the right JScrollPane, instead of within, as JScrollPane now
listens to the scrollbar which is added (which is not what is wanted).

License: Q Public License (QPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/egantt/

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[018] - ERW 0.9.2
by Sebastiano Vigna (http://freshmeat.net/users/vigna/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 09:15

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: User Interfaces

About: ERW (Entities and Relationships on the Web) is an innovative system
for handling complex databases using a Web browser. It uses the most
recent standards endorsed by the W3C to offer to the user a sophisticated
environment, similar to a dedicated client. Moreover, the user interface
is generated in a completely automatic way starting from a conceptual
description of the database by means of an XML-based description language
for entity-relationship schemata. ERW can be used for content management,
in particular when the data is structured along complex relations.

Changes: ERW now supports multiple inheritance in the entity-relationship
schema, and has a consistent way of handling row-based authorization along
type hierarchies.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/erw/

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[019] - Firegate Server 7.1
by wiresoft (http://freshmeat.net/users/wiresoft/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 00:18

Adaptive Technologies
Communications :: Email
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: Firegate Server is a self-managing server operating system designed
for small and mid-sized businesses. It securely connects offices to the
Internet and to each other, protecting valuable electronic information.
Office staff can securely surf the web, send and receive email, host the
company Web site, share files, host a customer database, and more. It is
controlled through a simple Web browser or mobile telephone interface and
managed by an artificial intelligence-based administration service.

Changes: This version contains a new Linux kernel, which will be
automatically installed on existing Firegate Server platforms with ANA
Intelligent Management Services enabled.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/firegate_server/

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[020] - FLAC 1.0.4
by Josh Coalson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcoalson/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:35

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion

About: FLAC is a Free Lossless Audio Codec. The FLAC format supports
streaming, seeking, and archival, and gives 25-75% compression on typical
CD audio. Input plugins for Winamp and XMMS are also provided.

Changes: This release has support for Vorbis comments, ID3v1 and v2 tags,
and 24-bit playback in the plugins. There is UTF-8 support for Vorbis
comments in metaflac, reduced memory requirements, an encoder speedup, a
new --tag option for adding Vorbis comments while encoding, and AIFF input
support in flac.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flac/

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[021] - FSlint 1.13
by pixelbeat (http://freshmeat.net/users/pixelbeat/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:54

Security
System :: Filesystems
System :: Systems Administration

About: FSlint is a toolkit to find various forms of lint on a filesystem.
At the moment it reports duplicate files, bad symbolic links, troublesome
file names, empty directories, non stripped executables, temporary files,
duplicate/conflicting (binary) names, and unused ext2 directory blocks.

Changes: There is a new tool to report invalid [ug]ids, an option to
delete duplicates found (leaving only one), and an option to only report
changes done by findup.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fslint/

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[022] - Fuse CMS 0.5.2
by Roberto Natella (http://freshmeat.net/users/domine/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 10:06

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: Fuse is a Content Management System, born as a PHP-Nuke clone,
designed to take advantage of mod_perl and HTML::Mason's features,
including template and theme creation, compilation and caching of code,
and extendability.

Changes: Some improvements were made in the search engine, in the links
directory, and in the authentication system, with some bugfixes and code
cleanup. The language is now automatically chosen based upon the browser's
preferences.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fusecms/

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[023] - gnuPod 0.1
by broccoli (http://freshmeat.net/users/broccoli/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:35

About: gnuPod is a collection of tools which allow you to use your iPod
under Linux and other UNIX- like operating systems. HFS+ and FAT32
formatted iPods are supported.

Changes: This prototype release supports adding and removing of songs, and
allows you to search your iPod for files using regular expresstions.
Playlists are not yet supported, but ID3 tags are.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnupod/

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[024] - GooSNES 0.5.1
by Levi Bard (http://freshmeat.net/users/tak/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 03:50

Games/Entertainment

About: GooSNES is a simple but featureful GTK frontend for SNES9x. It
supports configuration saving and loading, and can be built with GTK 2.

Changes: GooSNES now supports the selection of the initial conf file from
command line. It is now compliant with Gtk 2.0, and a minor bug with file
selection dialogs has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/goosnes/

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[025] - GPLIGC 0.21
by Hannes Krueger (http://freshmeat.net/users/kruegerh/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:11

Other/Nonlisted Topic
Utilities

About: GPLIGC is a program to analyze IGC flight data from GNSS flight
data recorders used by glider pilots. It can be used to optimize flights
for the online contest (2003 rules). It uses Perl/Tk and gnuplot. The
openGLIGCexplorer (written in C++) allows one to view the data in 3D with
OpenGL, and can also be used as a digital elevation model terrain viewer.

Changes: openGLIGCexplorer can now use Digital Elevation Model and
Textured Maps at the same time. A downscaling option was added for viewing
larger areas.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpligc/

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[026] - Grip 3.0.3
by Mike Oliphant (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikeolipha/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 12:03

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Playing
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping

About: Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME
desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can
also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an
automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc,
xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it
easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported.
Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from
disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified,
"computerized" version of your music collection.

Changes: Numerous bugs were fixed. The UI was modified to change
references to "MP3" to the more generic term, "Encoder". The translations
were updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/grip/

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[027] - Group Editing and Authoring System 1.0.1
by CodeFuries (http://freshmeat.net/users/CodeFuries/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 23:04

Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: GEAS (Group Editing and Authoring System) provides a Web portal for
a group of people to work on a set of documents together. It is optimized
for RPG communication (campaign background, between-session summaries and
details, online gaming) but is useful for any group that needs to manage
an evolving collection of shared documents. It supports multiple forums
(i.e. campaigns) managed by moderators (i.e. GMs) with a flexible yet
intuitive privileges model that enables users (i.e. players) to safely
view, add, and edit content. It is based on a MySQL and Perl backend.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geas-rpg/

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[028] - GtkFtpd 1.0.0 (Stable)
by kendo (http://freshmeat.net/users/kend0/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 19:22

Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

About: GtkFtpd is an FTP server designed to provide a personal, convivial
interface.

Changes:

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtkftpd/

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[029] - HotWayd 0.5 (Development)
by David Smith (http://freshmeat.net/users/courierdave/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 12:32

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3

About: HotWayd is a POP3-HTTPMail gateway. HTTPMail is an undocumented
WebDAV-based protocol used by hotmail. This gateway allows any Unix email
client to downlaod messages from the hotmail server.

Changes: The TOP command has been implemented. There are minor cookie
handling corrections. Clearing of global variables has been improved at
login termination. The UIDL has been corrected to correspond to RFC1939
specs. Configure/makefile scripts have been improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hotwayd/

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[030] - Insight logger 0.2
by cjn (http://freshmeat.net/users/cjn/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:45

Internet :: Log Analysis

About: Insight aims to be an easy to use, GUI-based Web server log file
analysis tool, providing professional-looking graphical reports that
distinguish "robot" traffic from real visitors.

Changes: All reports have been converted to use the Chart2D library,
either Pie Charts or Line Graphs. It looks a bit more professional, but it
cannot be configured yet. Support has been added for the Sun JPEG encoder
(available in JRE 1.2/1.3). This means any Sun JRE version 1.2 or newer
can be used.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/log-insight-j/

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[031] - IRC-Chess 0.1
by kodgehopper (http://freshmeat.net/users/kodgehopper/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 10:37

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
Games/Entertainment

About: IRC Chess is a 2-player chess game for IRC. It consists of a Java
chess server, with frontend scripts to convert an IRC client into a chess
bot. Players then communicate with the bot using standard IRC commands,
and don't require any special software to play. Frontend scripts are
available for IRSSI and X-Chat.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/irc-chess/

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[032] - IRCSocket 0.1
by Janus N. Tøndering (http://freshmeat.net/users/janus03/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:44

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: IRCSocket is a C++ implementation of the IRC protocol (RFC 2812).
It uses an event-driven design using libsigc++. Currently, it has
support for most basic IRC commands and CTCP, and is well-suited for IRC
bots.

Changes: The old codebase wsa completely rewritten. IRC events are now
handled by libsigc++ and the STL string class is used.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ircsocket/

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[033] - JPublish 1.3
by Anthony Eden (http://freshmeat.net/users/anthonyeden/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 00:23

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: JPublish is an open source web publishing framework which merges
the Velocity template engine from the Jakarta Apache group with a content
repository and application control framework. It features flexible
programmatic actions which can be written in Java or any Bean Scripting
Framework-supported scripting language (such as Python or JavaScript),
Velocity templates for layout, a repository abstraction layer, optional
Velocity-parsed content, search engine friendly URLs, and more.

Changes: Added a virtual file system for all subsystems and replaced the
StaticResourceLoader with StaticResourceManager. A
FileSystemStaticResourceManager was added, along with a
FileToPathIterator. getPageConfigurationWriter() has been implemented, and
methods for getting, putting, and removing script actions were added.
Pre-evaluation and post-evaluation actions were also added.

License: The Apache License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jpublish/

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[034] - Koha 1.3.0 (Development)
by pate (http://freshmeat.net/users/pate/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:41

Education
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: Koha is a library and collection management system. It is designed
to manage physical collections of items (books, CDs, videos, reference,
etc.). It provides cataloguing, searching, member/patron management, an
acqusitions system, and circulation (issues, returns, and reserves).
Circulation is handled with a full screen curses interface or a Web-based
interface, and the rest of the system is Web-based.

Changes: This release has no user visible changes, but adds support for
the new MARC based database schema.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/koha/

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[035] - konserve 0.7.1
by Florian Simnacher (http://freshmeat.net/users/herakles/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 23:19

About: konserve is a small backup application for KDE 3. It lives in the
system tray and is able to create backups of several directories or files
periodically. Konserve uses standard KDE network transparency to upload
your backups to wherever you want. Also it is possible to restore a
incidentally-deleted file or directory from a backup file with just one
mouse click. A nice wizard helps you with the first steps in using
Konserve.

Changes: The compilation error is fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/konserve/

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[036] - Launch.app 0.8.2
by Serg Stoyan (http://freshmeat.net/users/stoyan255/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:22

Utilities

About: Launch.app is a small program for executing applications, based on
the WINGs library (a part of WindowMaker). It features a command history,
executing applications as different users (e.g. root), and tab completion.

Changes: An Irix segfault was fixed. A cleaup was made in the environment
setup code.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/launch.app/

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[037] - libSigC++ Extras 0.5.5
by Andy (http://freshmeat.net/users/andreasrottmann/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:23

Software Development :: Libraries

About: libSigC++ Extras is a library consisting of new features built on
top of libSigC++ and features that formerly were in libSigC++ and were
removed from it. The new features focus on thread support and provide type
safe inter-thread communication.

Changes: Versioned shared library names and include paths were introduced
to allow parallel installation with future versions, and the pkg-config
file name has been changed to sigcx-0.5. The ThreadTunnel constructor was
changed to allow for the creation of three different types of tunnels:
multithreaded and create a new thread for the dispatcher, multithreaded
and use the current thread for the dispatcher, and single threaded.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libsigcx/

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[038] - LILO 22.3.4-beta2 (Beta)
by John Coffman (http://freshmeat.net/users/johncoffman/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 23:18

System :: Boot

About: Lilo is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems.
Lilo is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or
a hard drive and giving it control of the system. It can also be used to
boot many other operating sysetms, including the BSD variants, DOS, and
OS/2. The Lilo distribution includes full source, documentation and
support files, but no pre-compiled binaries. Lilo is capable of booting
beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call
extensions to the int 0x13 interface.

Changes: Fixes to 'mem=' to recognize kernel 2.4 syntax, and code
cleanups.

License: BSD License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo/

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[039] - linetd 1.0
by idsa mailbox (http://freshmeat.net/users/idsa/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 19:13

Internet
System :: Networking

About: Linetd is a compact TCP superserver. All settings are controlled
from the commandline. It is similar to tcpserver or sinetd.

Changes: This release adds more sanity checks, a revised access/audit
schema, several bugfixes, and a manual page.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linetd/

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[040] - Logrep 1.1.2
by Tevfik Karagulle (http://freshmeat.net/users/tevfik/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 08:28

Internet :: Log Analysis
System :: Logging
System :: Systems Administration

About: Logrep is a framework for extraction and presentation of
information from various logfiles. Currently Snort, Squid, Postfix,
Apache, Trend Micro VirusWall, and Microsoft IIS are supported. HTML
reports, 2D analysis, overview page, secure communication, and bar charts
are available.

Changes: A new module was added for Apache weblogs (a.k.a. the W3C httpd
Common Logfile format). The treatment of graph elements fewer than 10 was
corrected.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/logrep/

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[041] - Mailreader 2.3.31 (Stable)
by Kim Holviala (http://freshmeat.net/users/holviala/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:44

Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Mailreader is the fully-featured, MIME-compliant, Web-based POP3
email client that powers Mailreader.com. It should work with any browser,
including Lynx.

Changes: A special case where the session cookie didn't get sent was
fixed. Some ancient leftover chmods were also removed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mailreader/

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[042] - Mecanica 0.5
by Rogerio Acquadro (http://freshmeat.net/users/racquad/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:34

Education
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: Mecanica is simulation software for classical mechanics. It's
written in Portuguese and should help physics students to solve their
exercises.

Changes: Some bugs were fixed. The user was able to enter negative values
for constants. The way the program shows the results of the simulation was
changed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mecanica/

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[043] - MLton 20020923
by Stephen Weeks (http://freshmeat.net/users/sweeks/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:32

Software Development :: Compilers

About: MLton is a whole-program optimizing Standard ML compiler that runs
on x86 machines with Linux, FreeBSD, or Cygwin/Windows. MLton generates
excellent code, has a fast C FFI, profiling, and many useful libraries.

Changes: This release runs on FreeBSD. There are significant garbage
collector improvements. The garbage collector now uses mark-compact and
generational collection in addition to the copying collection that was
there before.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mlton/

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[044] - Modular Access Control System 0.6pre2 alpha
by Mario D. Santana (http://freshmeat.net/users/msantana/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:52

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Security
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: Modular Access Control System (MACS) is a system for global
authentication, authorization, user/group/resource management, and
application services.

Changes: The LIA, LOA, RMA, and Apache modules are working with the
refactored core servers and clients, making for a fairly usable system.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/macs/

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[045] - mod_ifexists 0.10
by IKEBE Tomohiro (http://freshmeat.net/users/ikebe/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 00:30

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: mod_ifexists provides Apache conditional configuration support by
checking for the existence of files.

License: BSD License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_ifexists/

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[046] - Mozilla Exporter 0.1beta (Alpha)
by footprints (http://freshmeat.net/users/footprints/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:25

Communications :: Email
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
System :: Archiving

About: Mozilla Exporter is a utility that converts the configuration files
of the Mozilla Web browser from the format used by the Linux version to
the format used by the Windows version. This allows you to use the same
Mozilla configuration data in both Windows and Linux.

Changes: The code was revised. Both the Windows version and the Linux
version can now convert profiles from Linux to Windows and from Windows to
Linux.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mozexp/

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[047] - MySQL Web-based Chat 5.2 (Stable)
by Murley (http://freshmeat.net/users/murleynet/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 23:16

Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
Communications :: Conferencing

About: MWChat (MySQL Web-based Chat) is a Web-based chat system that uses
PHP4 and MySQL It has support for multiple rooms and languages, a large
number of IRC-like commands, private messages and rooms, message
encryption, buddy lists, logging, registered users, chat profiles, file
sharing, and more. It is a very lightweight, full-featured, and secure
chat room. It also supports PostgreSQL, Sybase, Oracle, and MySQL.

Changes: The text input frame was modified to no longer refresh every time
text is entered, the licensing engine was updated, and support was added
for upgrading serial numbers.

License: Other/Proprietary License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mwchat/

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[048] - netrate-text 1.0
by coder1024 (http://freshmeat.net/users/coder1024/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 08:29

About: netrate-text is a simple text-mode Perl script which uses
/proc/net/dev to monitor network data rates in either units of kbits/sec,
bytes/sec, or packets/sec.

License: Public Domain

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/netrate-text/

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[049] - Next Generation POSIX Threading 2.0.3 (Development)
by Bill Abt (http://freshmeat.net/users/billa/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 23:32

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

About: Next Generation POSIX Threading (NGPT) is a project which
introduces an M:N threading model to the Linux system. This model will
provide better performance for multi-threaded applications that utilize
the POSIX pthreads library functionality. This will be particularly true
on SMP machines. The goal of this project is to make threading on Linux
more robust, more POSIX-compliant, and more in line with the services
provided by commerical Unix operating systems.

Changes: This is primarily a bugfix release. The kernel patches have also
been updated with IA64 and futex changes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ngpt/

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[050] - p910nd 0.5 (Stable)
by Ken (http://freshmeat.net/users/kenyap/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:12

Printing
System

About: p910nd is a small non-spooling printer daemon that is suitable for
diskless hosts, particularly hosts that have been booted via the network
but have a printer attached. It accepts jobs from a spooling host over a
TCP connection.

Changes: This version can be compiled with libwrap, allowing the server to
be more selective about who can connect to it.

License: OSI Approved

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/p910nd/

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[051] - Package Structure Analysis Tool 1.0 Beta 3 (Beta)
by Edwin Hautus (http://freshmeat.net/users/ehautus/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:47

About: The Package Structure Analysis Tool is a tool for analyzing and
refactoring the structure of Java programs. It takes Java sources as
input and visualizes the dependencies between packages and classes with
UML class diagrams, detects cycles in the dependency graph, recovers an
intended architectural layering from a polluted implementation, suggests
which dependencies should be removed to improve the structure, allows
refactoring of the source model, immediately shows the effect of the
refactoring on the dependency structure, allows the refactoring to be
applied to the source code, and allows source code to be verified against
a design model.

Changes: This version has a new scriptable command line interface, a
global imports clean up function, and some bugfixes. Furthermore, the tool
has been made compatible with all JDK versions of 1.3.1 and higher.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pastatool/

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[052] - Phoenix Browser 0.1 (Development)
by Arthur H. Johnson II (http://freshmeat.net/users/bytor4232/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 10:37

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: Phoenix is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component. It is
similar to Galeon, K-Meleon, and Chimera, but it is written using the XUL
user interface language, and is designed to be cross-platform.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phoenix-browser/

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[053] - PHPDNSAdmin 1.3b
by bjoern (http://freshmeat.net/users/hacker23/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:48

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)

About: DNSAdmin is PHP frontend for creating and editing DNS zone files.
It can also handle multiple domains. All data is stored within a MySQL
database, and zonefiles and reversefiles are created automatically. It
also has a little feature to inventory your system by capturing username,
MAC address, and the location. This frontend supports A, TXT, HINFO, MX
records, and CNAMES

Changes: This release has multiple nameserver support per zone.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpdnsadminmysql/

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[054] - phppdflib 1.8
by Bill Moran (http://freshmeat.net/users/wmoran/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 23:34

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: phppdflib is a PHP class that allows dynamic generation of PDF
files. It focuses on being simple and easy to use but currently only
supports a small subset of the full capabilities of PDF files. It was
developed to provide predictable printing capabilities to Web-based
applications written in PHP.

Changes: Incorrect calculations for metric page sizes were corrected, and
additional common page sizes were added (executive, taboid, a3, a4, a5).
Compression has been incorporated into the library, with reduction of
resultant sizes to 20% of that before compression. Previous difficulties
with compression appear to have resulted from bugs in PHP, so the the
authors would be interested to hear feedback on how well compression works
(or doesn't).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phppdflib/

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[055] - PowerDNS daemon 2.4 (Development)
by ahu (http://freshmeat.net/users/ahu2/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 08:31

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)

About: PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with
a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads
information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases.
Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend
is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a Web-based DNS
maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.

Changes: An audit of the packet parsing code revealed some possible
stability issues, so upgrading to this version is advised.
Recursion-desired packets are now also cached, leading to much lower
database load in recursing setups. Work on unified a MySQL/PostgreSQL
backend has been completed. The ability to change settings at runtime was
added, starting with the new 'query-logging' flag. The Web server now
shows peak query load.

License: Free for non-commercial use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdns/

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[056] - Prima 1.07
by Dmitry Karasik (http://freshmeat.net/users/uint32/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:19

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Printing
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI
development. Supported platforms include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2,
and UNIX/X11 workstations (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, and others). The
toolkit contains a rich set of standard widgets and has emphasis on 2D
image processing tasks. A Perl program using Prima looks and behaves
identically on X, Win32, and OS/2 PM.

Changes: The toolkit documentation has been completed.

License: BSD License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/prima/

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[057] - psmisc 21.1
by seeS (http://freshmeat.net/users/craigsmall/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 23:24

System :: Systems Administration

About: Miscellaneous proc FS tools: fuser, killall, pidof, and pstree.

Changes: This is essentially a bugfix release, catching up on things that
were missed with the 21.0 release. However, it also now works on Hurd and
has the SELinux patches from the cloak and dagger folks. The author is
also looking for new translators for as-yet unsupported languages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/psmisc/

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[058] - QDox 1.0
by Joe Walnes (http://freshmeat.net/users/joeretro/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 19:23

Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Documentation

About: QDox is a high speed, small footprint parser for extracting
class/interface/method definitions from source files complete with JavaDoc
<at> tags. It is designed to be used by active code generators or
documentation tools.

License: The Apache License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qdox/

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[059] - QFaxReader 0.2-1
by Serghei Amelian (http://freshmeat.net/users/aserghei/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:44

Communications :: Fax
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: QFaxReader is a monochrome multipage tiff files visualization
utility.

Changes: This release has persistent settings (stored in
$HOME/.qfaxreader/preferences), "Sender" and "Time" on the status bar, a
files view list (sidebar), autorefresh and notification for new
facsimiles, and an entry menu for KDE (in Utilities).

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qfaxreader/

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[060] - Samsung Contact 7.1.1 (Server)
by Richi Jennings (http://freshmeat.net/users/richi/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:47

Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office

About: Samsung Contact is Samsung SDS's Linux/Unix unified communication,
business messaging, and collaboration system. It supports desktops running
Microsoft Outlook, including support for calendaring, wide-area
scheduling, public folders, and delegation.

Changes: This release supports older versions of HP-UX.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/samsungcontact/

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[061] - Silva Web Authoring System 0.8.4
by Martijn Faassen (http://freshmeat.net/users/faassen/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:36

About: Silva is a Zope-based Web application designed for the creation and
management of structured, textual content. It allows users to enter new
documents as well as edit existing documents using a Web interface. It
stores the content in a structured format (XML) and keeps a strict
separation between the way the content is used and the way it is
presented.

Changes: This release incorporates (among other things) an improved access
tab, optional support for groups (assign a local role to a group instead
of a user), and a new object for file uploads.

License: BSD License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/silva_authoring/

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[062] - SIP 2002-09-25 (Development)
by Ricardo Fabbri (http://freshmeat.net/users/rfabbri/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 03:17

Education
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Raster-Based

About: SIP is the SciLab Image Processing toolbox. It provides image
processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision routines for SciLab,
a Matlab-like matrix-oriented programming environment. SIP is able to
read/write images in almost 70 major formats, including JPEG, PNG, BMP,
GIF, FITS, and TIFF. It includes routines for filtering, segmentation,
edge detection, morphology, curvature, fractal dimension, distance
transforms, multiscale skeletons, and more.

Changes: The C code now implements many functions. A mogrify command was
added for resizing, rotating, and filtering, along with a skel command for
skeletonization, distance transforms, and discrete Voronoi diagram. A new
xgetpixel command gives the pixel coodinates from the mouse posistion, and
the edilate command performs exact Euclidean dilation. percol does image
percolation, and drawline draws a line in an image. The documentation was
updated, bugfixes were made to imwrite, and many other fixes were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/siptoolbox/

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[063] - SISC b1.5.6
by Scott G. Miller (http://freshmeat.net/users/scgmille/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:49

Software Development :: Interpreters

About: SISC is an extensible Java-based interpreter of the algorithmic
language Scheme. It uses modern interpretation techniques and handily
outperforms all existing Java interpreters (often by more than an order of
magnitude). In addition, SISC is a complete implementation of the
language. The entire R5RS Scheme standard is supported. This includes a
full number tower including complex number support and arbitrary precision
integers and floating point numbers, proper tail recursion, hygienic
macros, and full support for first-class continuations (not just the
escaping continuations found in many other systems).

Changes: This release adds support for SRFIs 19, 26, 28, and 29, and
support for SLIB v2d4. A safe source-level optimizer, fast binary I/O, and
binary buffers have been added. There is support in S2J for field name
mangling and access to Java Beans. Source file tracking for arbitrary
ports has been added. There are numerous fixes for edge-case complex
number math routines.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sisc/

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[064] - Six 0.3.2
by Gabor Melis (http://freshmeat.net/users/mega74/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:46

Games/Entertainment

About: Six plays Hex, a game with very simple rules and deep tactical
complexity. Two players, one with black and one with white pieces,
alternate placing marks on a rhombic board of hexagonal cells. Black's
goal is to connect the two opposite black sides of the board with black
pieces. White's goal is to connect the white sides of the board with white
pieces.

Changes: This release includes bugfixes for PBEM game support, icons, and
toolbar configuration. The AI is improved as well: it has better move
selection and a slightly tuned position evaluator, making it a bit faster
and tougher.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/six/

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[065] - smtm 1.5.1
by Dirk Eddelbuettel (http://freshmeat.net/users/eddelbuettel/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 23:39

Office/Business :: Financial :: Investment

About: smtm (Show Me The Money) is a Perl/Tk ticker, profit/loss
calculator, and chart tool. It can display up to ten fields per share,
among them company name, price, absolute and relative price changes as
well as net wealth change (if the number of shares held is supplied).
Other assets such as options, mutual funds, currencies are also supported.
Foreign stocks are treated via cross-currency pairs that translate into
domestic units. Charts can be launched with one click, and all the charts
available at Yahoo!, including all of the advanced moving average and
technical analysis features, can be displayed. Stocks can be added and
deleted, and the selection can be stored. smtm has been used with US,
Canadian, European, Asian, Australian/New Zealand, and South American
stocks. Firewalls are fully supported, including user/password support.

Changes: A few more tests for numeric arguments prior to numeric ops were
added to make smtm more robust with respect to holes in the datafeed. A
small contributed patch to suppress a Perl 5.8.* gripe was also applied.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smtm/

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[066] - Squid 2.5.STABLE1
by Krzysztof Oledzki (http://freshmeat.net/users/Ole2000/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:33

Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: Squid is a high performance Web proxy cache that can be arranged
hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction in
bandwith usage. Squid runs on all popular Unix and Windows platforms.

Changes: This is the first stable release for Squid 2.5.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/squid/

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[067] - SurveyMaker 1.1.3
by newtoncie (http://freshmeat.net/users/newtoncie/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:16

Education :: Testing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: SurveyMaker is a powerful Web-based application designed to
generate and handle surveys, polls, sets of questions, or MCQ. Features
include easy set up of surveys and questions, many different widgets and
input controls, authentication, multi- editor support, and localizations.

Changes: New features in this version include published results, CSV and
plain-text export, external authentication support for editors, a main
menu, and many more.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/surveymaker/

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[068] - Sweep 0.5.6
by Conrad Parker (http://freshmeat.net/users/konradd/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:08

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion

About: Sweep is a sound wave editor, and it is also a flexible recording
and playback tool. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called
Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.

Changes: Changes in this release include the monitoring of file
modification, "are you sure" dialogs, file reverting, and many minor
bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sweep/

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[069] - SWISH++ 5.9.6
by Paul J. Lucas (http://freshmeat.net/users/pjl/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 00:24

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Text Processing :: Indexing

About: SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine
(typically used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on
SWISH-E although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite. SWISH++ is at least 10
times faster and can handle much larger numbers of files. Additionally, it
has unique features such as selective non-indexing, on-the-fly filters,
user-selectable stemming, and more.

Changes: LaTeX command parsing and whitespace handling were fixed (the
mete-name handling was broken).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/swish/

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[070] - SyncPOD 0.51beta
by Armin Obersteiner (http://freshmeat.net/users/fonkie/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 23:28

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: SyncPOD syncs a local directory with your iPod. If the directory is
larger than the space on your iPod, you can sync this larger directory
with a master playlist.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/syncpod/

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[071] - Syscriptor 1.5.7 (C)
by TiCaN (http://freshmeat.net/users/sirnordnes/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 19:19

About: Syscriptor is a little program that displays information about your
hardware.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/syscriptor/

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[072] - Syscriptor 1.4.1 (Bash)
by TiCaN (http://freshmeat.net/users/sirnordnes/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 19:20

About: Syscriptor is a little program that displays information about your
hardware.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/syscriptor/

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[073] - tk150 1.1
by Bob Parnass, AJ9S (http://freshmeat.net/users/parnass/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 23:36

Communications :: Ham Radio

About: tk150 is a multiplatform programming and cloning utility for the
portable Standard (Yaesu) VR-150 receiver. It can read the memory image
from the radio, display the information graphically, and save it to a
file. Memory channels may be exported to or imported from a .CSV
(comma-separated values) file.

Changes: Radio version choices are now USA and Other. The user will be
warned of blocked frequencies only if he has chosen the USA model radio.
This version of tk150 reads the radio version information directly from
the radio, saves it in the .tk150rc (or t150.ini) file, and uses it when
writing back to the radio, independent of what the user identifies as the
version. Serial Communications fields are now visible at all times.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tk150/

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[074] - txt2tags 1.0
by aurélio marinho jargas (http://freshmeat.net/users/verde666/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 19:12

Other/Nonlisted Topic

About: txt2tags is a format conversion tool written in Python that
generates HTML, SGML, man page, MoinMoin, Magic Point, and PageMaker
documents from a plain text file with little marks. Different from other
conversion tools, it is generic, and not target-specific (as a txt2html
tool). This way, you can keep just one source text file and one tool for
all your formatting needs.

Changes: This release starts the new 1.x series, which aims to spread the
program out. It adds a graphical Tk interface, compatibility with
Unix/Windows/Mac, and handling of linebreaks and other platform-specific
issues.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/txt2tags/

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[075] - Uml2Daml Converter 0.1 (Development)
by wendlers (http://freshmeat.net/users/wendlers/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 08:28

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: The Uml2Daml Converter is a GUI application for automated
transformation of UML 1.4 class-diagramms (in XMI 1.1) into DAML+OIL
ontologies. It is also possible to visualise the ontologies as directed
graphs. Since transformations are based on the XMI 1.1 standard, DAML+OIL
ontoligies can be modelled by using any UML tool which is able to produce
XMI 1.1/UML 1.4 compilant exports (such as TogetherJ 6.0).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ju2d/

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[076] - Voice XML php class 1.0.1
by Dynamix Solutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/hatemben/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 19:15

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Speech
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
Text Processing :: Markup

About: The Voice XML PHP class allows you to easily generate VXML
documents on the fly based on the W3C Working Draft, 23 October 2001
(VoiceXML) Version 2.0.

Changes: This release removes multiple echo, adds the functions generate()
and addscript(), and lets you add a small welcome message using welcome().
All samples have changed.

License: Free For Educational Use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vxml_php/

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[077] - web2ldap 0.11.0
by Michael Stroeder (http://freshmeat.net/users/stroeder/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 00:19

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
System :: Networking

About: web2ldap is a full-featured LDAP client written in Python and
designed to run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web
server with FastCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi).

Changes: Added LDAPv3 subschema handling, a comfortable schema browser,
support for LDAP over SSL (ldaps://) and LDAP over Unix domain socket
(ldapi:///), and support for running as an SCGI server. Some changes to
configuration are not backward compatible. Support for SSL in stand-alone
mode based on M2Crypto was dropped. Many more cleanups, small changes, and
fixes were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web2ldap/

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[078] - WebImage 1.0 (Stable)
by John McCreesh (http://freshmeat.net/users/jpmcc/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 19:31

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: WebImage reads a digital photo library and produces a standalone
photo album that can be burned onto CDROM or uploaded to "static HTML
only" Web hosting sites.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webimage/

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[079] - xinetd 2.3.9
by Steve Grubb (http://freshmeat.net/users/stevegrubb/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 08:25

About: xinetd is a replacement for inetd, the internet services daemon.
Anybody can use it to start servers that don't require privileged ports
because xinetd does not require that the services in its configuration
file be listed in /etc/services. It can do access control on all services
based on the address of the remote host, time of access, connection
attempts, or process limits. Access control works on all services, whether
multi-threaded or single-threaded and for both the TCP and UDP protocols.
xinetd supports both internal access control, and the use of the libwrap
library. IPv6 with access control is also supported. It can redirect
service requests to other machines, and has the standard built in
services, including tcpmux.

Changes: Bugs in the parser were fixed. Service names can now be used
rather than port numbers. Problems in access controls were fixed. Time
service output is now in network byte order. tcpmux was updated. A race
which occurred if only 1 wait service was specified was fixed.

License: BSD License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xinetd/

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[080] - Xiqual 0.7.0
by EvilIdler (http://freshmeat.net/users/EvilIdler/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:14

Games/Entertainment
Multimedia
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Xiqual is a collection of frequently used functions for games and
game-related utilities. It includes functions for IFF handling, loading
configuration settings, initializing SDL and SDL_mixer, a simple
select()-server system, and CGI-related tools.

Changes: A tileset tool has been added, which can be used to paste
together previously created images. New functions were added to xigfx to
load and display tiles easily. Some outdated code was removed, and many
points in the code where memory was not being cleared were fixed. The make
install target has been improved, a Debian package and RPM was created,
and more documentation has been added.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xiqual/

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[081] - Xnee's not an event emulator 0.8
by Henrik Sandklef (http://freshmeat.net/users/sandklef/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 17:54

System :: Emulators
System :: Monitoring
Utilities

About: Xnee can record, distribute, and replay X protocol data. This is
useful for automated tests of applications or benchmarking of
applications. Think of it as (almost) a video recorder for X11.

Changes: This release has minor bugfixes. copyright years and the depcomp
script have been added. It compiles and runs on Solaris8 (intel) and
Windows98/Cygwin/Xfree86. The order of libs to be linked has changed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xnee/

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[082] - yahoo2mbox 0.10
by VZ (http://freshmeat.net/users/vadz/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 11:51

Internet

About: yahoo2mbox retrieves the messages from Yahoo! Groups archive and
stores them in a local file in mbox format.

Changes: Another embarrassing bug in the --country option handling was
fixed. Support for --country=br was added.

License: Public Domain

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yahoo2mbox/

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[083] - ziproxy 1.1
by Juraj Variny (http://freshmeat.net/users/rini/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:16

Internet :: Proxy Servers

About: ziproxy is a forwarding (non-caching) proxy that gzips text and
HTML files, and reduces the size of images by converting them to low
quality JPEGs. It is intended to increase the speed for dial-up Internet
connections. Most browsers support gzipped content, so Web pages appear as
normal, but as they are only a fraction of their original page size, pages
are much quicker to load. Even for browsers that don't support it, hints
how to overcome it using SSH port forwarding are included. Images are
reduced in size by an average of one third, with only marginal visible
image quality loss. It should be used with inetd/xinetd, but if you can't
use them, a simple replacement "netd" is provided.

Changes: This version allows GIF or PNG images to be converted JPEGs,
contains an inetd replacement (netd), and includes hints on how to use it
with SSH port forwarding. libgd is no longer required.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ziproxy/

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[084] - ZoneMinder 0.01
by Philip Coombes (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcoombes/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 09:13

Multimedia :: Video :: Capture
Multimedia :: Video :: Display

About: ZoneMinder is a set of applications which support capture,
analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from cameras
attached to a Linux system. It features a user-friendly Web interface
which allows viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies
captured by the cameras. The image analysis system is highly configurable,
permitting retention of specific events, while eliminating false
positives. ZoneMinder is built around the definition of a set of
individual 'zones' of varying sensitivity and functionality for each
camera. This allows the elimination of regions which should be ignored or
the definition of areas which will alarm if various thresholds are
exceeded in conjunction with other zones. All management, control, and
other functions are supported through the Web interface.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zoneminder/

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[085] - ZynAddSubFX 1.0.0
by Paul Nasca (http://freshmeat.net/users/paulnasca/)
Wednesday, September 25th 2002 06:21

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis

About: ZynAddSubFX is a powerful real-time, multi- timbral software
synthesizer for Linux. It has microtonal capabilities, and the
instruments it creates sound like those from professional keyboards. It
includes effects like reverb, echo, chorus, and phaser.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zynaddsubfx/

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