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Time to Rethink Your Help Flag
by Shlomi Fish (http://freshmeat.net/~shlomif/)
Section: Editorials
Saturday, August 10th 2002 00:00

It may come as a surprise to many of you, but sometimes, featuritis can be
a good thing. Sure, you may only use 20% or even just 10% of the features,
but, to quote Joel Spolsky, everybody uses a different 20%. Take 10 or 20
random people, and you'll get about 99%. You may happen to face the
situation in which your program has gained more commandline arguments than
GNU ls. How should you deal with the --help switch?

URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/519/

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (53) :::

[001] - AutoGen 5.4
[002] - AutoOpts 17.0.8
[003] - BitlBee 0.7
[004] - Blackbox 0.65.0beta5
[005] - BlackHole Spam/Virus Filter 0.9.131 (Stable)
[006] - Botan 0.9.1 (Stable)
[007] - CbDockApp 1.04
[008] - CG_spam_filter.pl 1.5
[009] - ExNihilo 0.2
[010] - flc 1.0.2
[011] - Gambas 0.37 (Development)
[012] - GnomeICU 0.99 alpha 1
[013] - GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.13
[014] - gSpinner 2.0 (Development)
[015] - GtkGLExt 0.5.0
[016] - gtkglextmm 0.5.0
[017] - HartMath 0.8pre2
[018] - HTun 0.9.3
[019] - ifinfo 0.5
[020] - irman-python 0.1
[021] - JChessBoard 1.4.1
[022] - JStateMachine RC1
[023] - Kanatest 0.1.1
[024] - KLuJe 0.7
[025] - libdvdcss 1.2.2
[026] - LibOFX 0.30
[027] - makefaq 2.3
[028] - Marbles 1.0.5
[029] - mICQ 0.4.9.2b
[030] - Mutella 4.0.1
[031] - MyDNS 0.8.3
[032] - Nitro Technologies Memory Checker 1.1
[033] - Pam_mount 0.3.6
[034] - php_writeexcel 0.1.2
[035] - ProcMeter3 3.3b
[036] - Pulsar 0.0.8 (Development)
[037] - Pyzor 0.3.1
[038] - Quantum GIS 0.0.3 (Development)
[039] - rarch 0.1.0
[040] - RealizationEngine 1.0.11rc1 (Development)
[041] - References for TeX and Friends 0.0.5
[042] - Shoutstats 0.7.1
[043] - Spread Extension for PHP 1.0
[044] - The Community OpenORB 1.3.0 beta2
[045] - Tksql 0.7.11 (Development)
[046] - VideoLAN::Client 0.4.4 (Ourumov)
[047] - Vstr string library 0.9.10
[048] - WeatherCheck 0.5
[049] - Web Noticias 0.5
[050] - XMMSd web control plug-in 0.3
[051] - xpad 1.4 (GTK+ 2.0)
[052] - ypserv 2.5
[053] - Zionist In Space 0.99.3

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[001] - AutoGen 5.4
by Bruce Korb (http://freshmeat.net/users/bkorb/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 21:16

Other/Nonlisted Topic
Software Development
Software Development :: Build Tools

About: AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that
contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. Its goal is to simplify
the maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious
text. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text
that must be kept synchronized. Output is specified with a Scheme-enhanced
output template. Input, if required by your template, may come from
AutoGen definitions, CGI data, or XML files.

Changes: Commandline options may now be embedded in the definition file
and in output templates.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[002] - AutoOpts 17.0.8
by Bruce Korb (http://freshmeat.net/users/bkorb/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 21:19

Software Development
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Libraries

About: AutoOpts is an integrated part of AutoGen. Based on a very simple
option description file, it will process configuration files, environment
variables, command line options, text strings passed by client programs,
and will make the results easily accessible to the client program. It will
also produce a man page and the info-doc invoking section automatically.

Changes: AutoOpts can now produce a "tear-off" source tarball for
inclusion in client program source distributions. That means that if you
use AutoOpts, your clients no longer need to have the libopts library
pre-installed. You can distribute your own copy or download it from
SourceForge. The documentation that AutoOpts generates now includes a
"bug" email address, providing it was included in the copyright
information in the options definition file.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[003] - BitlBee 0.7
by Wilmer van der Gaast (http://freshmeat.net/users/lintux/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 02:28

Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Chat :: AOL Instant Messenger
Communications :: Chat :: ICQ

About: BitlBee emulates an IRC server. Everything that is said on this
server is forwarded to users on the MSN/ICQ/Jabber networks, and responses
are returned as well.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[004] - Blackbox 0.65.0beta5
by Stefan Ilivanov (http://freshmeat.net/users/ep98/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 09:08

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

About: Blackbox is yet another addition to the list of window managers for
X. It is written in C++, sharing no common code with any other window
manager (even though the graphics implementation is similar to that of
WindowMaker). It features small code size, a fast interface with simple
menus, multiple workspaces, decorated windows, built-in graphics code to
render solids, gradients, and bevels on the fly, and more.

Changes: Japanese nls has been updated. When CascadePlacement is selected,
the options for directions are now disabled because CascadePlacement is
always LeftRight, TopBottom. The workspace change code has been
streamlined; it should be slightly more efficient now. The window menu is
now created at the end of the Window constructor, thereby ensuring that
all of the data the menu needs is available; this fixes the broken window
names in the menus. Shape information is now dealt with later in the
constructor as well, for similar reasons.

License: BSD License

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

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[005] - BlackHole Spam/Virus Filter 0.9.131 (Stable)
by Chris Kennedy (http://freshmeat.net/users/getdown/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 09:00

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Security

About: Blackhole Spam/Virus Filter provides spam and virus filtering using
dot-files in all the major MTA/SMTP servers for UNIX and similar systems.
It is easy for an individual user to set it up with shell account access
and configure. It is different from other, similar programs, in that it
executes a minimal number of programs to do the filtering, is able to use
a MySQL database for the users' configuration files, can be set up as the
queue in Qmail, and have virtual users' configuration files be found using
the username/domain for the recipient. Multiple checks are available, and
there open options on how to treat flagged email. There is logging to
multiple entities, auto-expiration of flagged email, and scoring available
so that multiple checks require matches that add up before blocking.

Changes: Subject line tags can now be customized in the configuration.
Detailed logging configurability has been added, and you can log all
messages (including ok ones) and can add more information to the logging
for stats gathering. Reverse DNS checking has been broken into two
options; the old one gives normal reverse DNS checking on the relay IP,
and the new "strict_reverse" option adds a "helo" check and comparison of
the reverse and forward DNS matching. Postfix mode should be very stable
now; a bunch of bugs have been worked out.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - Botan 0.9.1 (Stable)
by Jack Lloyd (http://freshmeat.net/users/randombit/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 06:23

Security :: Cryptography

About: Botan (formerly OpenCL) is a library of cryptographic algorithms,
written in C++. It currently includes a wide selection of block and stream
ciphers, public key algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication
codes, plus a high level filter-based interface.

Changes: This release adds ElGamal encryption and the Whirlpool hash
function. In addition, public key algorithms are two to three times as
fast as previous releases. Various relatively minor changes were also
made, including more example applications.

License: BSD License

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

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[007] - CbDockApp 1.04
by Chris Briscoe (http://freshmeat.net/users/cbriscoe/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 23:05

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: Window Maker :: Applets

About: CbDockApp is a C++ class that makes it significantly easier to
create dock applications by hiding the X11 code necessary to create an
Xwindow. To make your own dock application, derive a class from CbDockApp,
and insert your application-specific code. An example application,
CbClock, is included. It also supports OpenGL.

Changes: OpenGL support, fixes for some memory leaks with Valgrind,
cleanups for some unused code, and use of antialiasing (when compiled with
OpenGL).

License: BSD License

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

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[008] - CG_spam_filter.pl 1.5
by Viraj Alankar (http://freshmeat.net/users/valankos/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 23:08

Communications :: Email :: Filters

About: CG_spam_filter.pl provides a content filter program for the Stalker
CommuniGate Pro mail server that seeks to limit the number of outgoing
spam your local users can send and incoming spam your system can receive.
In essence, it is a throttling script that starts rejecting mail once a
certain threshold is reached, such as X messages or recipients per minute.
It is difficult to catch spammers until after the fact (when they have
already done lots of damage and spammed many users); this is simply an
effort to stop them in their tracks in real-time so you can deal with them
later.

Changes: SpamAssassin base64 decoding errors are now ignored, and a few
options have been added for testing SpamAssassin support. Non-persistent
SpamAssassin objects are now used by default for less memory consumption,
and other minor code cleanups have been done. A section on 'Finding Local
Users With Spam Dropboxes' has been added to the README.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cg_spam_filter.pl/

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[009] - ExNihilo 0.2
by binny (http://freshmeat.net/users/binny/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 21:00

Games/Entertainment
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering

About: ExNihilo is an Open Source 3D engine written in C++.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - flc 1.0.2
by Dirk (http://freshmeat.net/users/noisyb/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 09:38

Communications :: BBS
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet

About: flc lists information about files (in the current directory by
default). It shows the FILE_ID.DIZ of every file (if present). This is
very useful for FTP admins or people who have a lot to do with
FILE_ID.DIZ.

Changes: A bugfix has been made in the configfile for archives with spaces
in their names.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - Gambas 0.37 (Development)
by gambas (http://freshmeat.net/users/gambas/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 08:55

Software Development :: Interpreters

About: Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic
interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use
any other toolkit that a module is written for.

Changes: Thanks to a horrible and awful hack, Gambas is now able to use Qt
3.0.x. There is also a new component that can evaluate expressions at
runtime. These two major changes are a bit experimental, so please try
them wickedly and report your problems.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - GnomeICU 0.99 alpha 1
by Tester (http://freshmeat.net/users/tester/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 22:47

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
System :: Networking

About: GnomeICU is a Gnome application which allows one to communicate
with other GnomeICU users or others who use ICQ (Windows, Java, Mac, etc).
With GnomeICU, one can send and receive messages, change online modes,
chat in realtime, send and receive URLs, and much more.

Changes: This is the first release of GnomeICU for the GNOME 2 platform.
It contains lots of nice improvements like a GtkTreeView of the groups,
full group support, a nice GNOME 2 applet, customizable emoticons, and an
ability to connect to AIM.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.13
by Joris van der Hoeven (http://freshmeat.net/users/vdhoeven/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 06:24

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Office/Business :: Office Suites
Scientific/Engineering

About: GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by
both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured
documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program
implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also
possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems.
Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes
it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to
extend the editor.

Changes: A severe bug in the previous release has been fixed, where on
some systems the keyboard did not work at all.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - gSpinner 2.0 (Development)
by Jeremy Latt (http://freshmeat.net/users/jlatt/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 02:29

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: gSpinner is a horrible hack that uses trplayer, RealPlayer 7 and
up, and wget to simulate the interface of Spinner Lite, a Web-based
interface to the Spinner.com Internet "radio" service. It is an attempt to
save screen real estate and provide users with an alternative to running
Netscape for the task.

Changes: Instead of using wget, libcurl is now used for HTTP retrieval of
the Spinner channel page, and the code which extracts and displays the
information was cleaned up.

License: Public Domain

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

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[015] - GtkGLExt 0.5.0
by Naofumi Yasufuku (http://freshmeat.net/users/naofumi/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 02:29

Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Software Development

About: GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK 2.0 or later. It has
low-level OpenGL related objects with GLX like interface, and high-level
gtk_widget API add-ons which extends any GTK+ widget to an OpenGL-capable
widget.

Changes: This release includes some important feature enhancements and
lots of new API functions. Programmers can now use GdkDrawable API against
GLWindow and GLPixmap. The Win 32 implementation has been rewritten.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[016] - gtkglextmm 0.5.0
by Naofumi Yasufuku (http://freshmeat.net/users/naofumi/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 02:30

Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Software Development

About: gtkglextmm is C++ wrapper for GtkGLExt, an OpenGL extension to GTK.

Changes: This release includes some important feature enhancements and
lots of new API functions provided with GtkGLExt 0.5.0.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[017] - HartMath 0.8pre2
by klaus (http://freshmeat.net/users/klaushartlage/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 22:44

Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: HartMath is an experimental computer algebra program written in
Java. It features big number arithmetic, symbolic and numeric evaluation,
plot-, polynomial-, vector, and matrix-functions.

Changes: This version depends on Java 1.4. The output window can be
printed. A HelpViewer was integrated, adopted from jedit.org's HelpViewer.
Pretty printing has improved, and Java 1.4's long-term persistence API is
used to create menus and the help tree entries.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - HTun 0.9.3
by Moshe Jacobson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jehsom/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 21:14

Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers

About: HTun is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) interface that allows you
to create a fully bidirectional IP-layer VPN over an HTTP proxy or just
over port 80, allowing you to bypass restrictive firewalls and use any
IP-based service you desire.

Changes: A refix for an HTTP/1.1 issue from the last release,
significantly-improved error handling in the config file parser, and
support for domain name resolution in the config file.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - ifinfo 0.5
by Joe Landman (http://freshmeat.net/users/landman/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 23:08

System :: Networking

About: ifinfo is a simple commandline network inquiry/formatting tool
specifically designed to output some useful information about your network
connection. It works by querying the relevant tables in /proc as well as
the output of various Unix commands. Its entire purpose in life is to tell
you what you want to know, hopefully in the format you wish to see it.

License: Artistic License

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

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[020] - irman-python 0.1
by Chouser (http://freshmeat.net/users/chouser/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 15:21

Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: irman-python is a set of Python bindings for libirman, an interface
to the IRman infra-red remote control receiver.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - JChessBoard 1.4.1
by Claus Divossen (http://freshmeat.net/users/cdivossen/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 15:19

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy

About: JChessBoard is a chess game and PGN viewer/editor written in Java
that can be connected to another JChessBoard via a direct TCP/IP
connection. No Internet Chess Server is required for playing.

Changes: The chess clock does not reset after each move when connected
anymore, and the clocks for the black and the white player can be set
separately.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - JStateMachine RC1
by Brian O'Byrne (http://freshmeat.net/users/bobyrne/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 06:24

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: The JStateMachine aims to allow user interface designers or
developers to design and control a UI using a UML statechart. The project
currently supports both Swing and servlet/JSP UIs, as well as exception
handling, access control, and I18N.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[023] - Kanatest 0.1.1
by pasp (http://freshmeat.net/users/pasp/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 20:59

Education :: Testing

About: Kana test is a simple, Gtk-based kana drill tool. It offers three
drill modes: hiragana, katakana, and mixed mode. The tester shows random
kana characters and waits until you enter the romaji equivalent in an
entry field. At the end, statistics are provided.

Changes: A new entry input filter and a statistics button.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - KLuJe 0.7
by Buddy Brewer (http://freshmeat.net/users/buddybrewer/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 22:46

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards

About: KLuJe is a KDE client for the online journal site LiveJournal
(www.livejournal.com).

Changes: Date/time editing in past events, friends-only/private posting,
and lots of GUI cleanup.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - libdvdcss 1.2.2
by Samuel Hocevar (http://freshmeat.net/users/sammy/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 23:03

Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries

About: libdvdcss is a cross-platform library for transparent DVD device
access with on-the-fly CSS decryption. It currently runs under Linux,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, BeOS, Win95/Win98, Win2k/WinXP,
MacOS X, HP-UX, QNX, and BeOS. It is used by libdvdread and most DVD
players such as vlc because of its portability and because, unlike similar
libraries, it does not require your DVD drive to be region locked.

Changes: This release fixes the "ioctl_ReadTitleKey failed" bug that many
users with RPC2 drives have been reporting. The library now has also
better error checking, better documentation, and was ported to OS/2.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - LibOFX 0.30
by Benoit Grégoire (http://freshmeat.net/users/benoitg/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 02:35

Office/Business :: Financial
Software Development :: Libraries

About: LibOFX is a generic library to allow financial software to easily
support the Open Financial eXchange specification. Two utilities are
currently included with LibOFX: ofxdump and ofxtoqif. ofxdump writes to
stdout, in human readable form, everything the library understands about a
particular OFX response file. ofxtoqif is an OFX response to the QIF
(Quicken Interchange Format) file converter. Much OFX information is lost
since the QIF file format is very primitive, but ofx2qif should allow
importation of bank statements in any software that support QIF until said
software supports the library directly. LibOFX was implemented from the
full OFX 1.6 spec and comes with a developers manual.

Changes: In this release, there are major improvements to ofx2qif, which
should now be usable with any software that supports QIF. The library is
now compatible with OpenJADE's version of OpenSP and GCC3.2 (the
__dso_handle problem is fixed), and now comes with a full developer's
manual. With integration in GnuCash and this release, LibOFX is now out of
alpha.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[027] - makefaq 2.3
by Dan York (http://freshmeat.net/users/dyork/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 23:06

Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: makefaq is a Python program that creates a Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ) HTML page or text file from a specially formatted text
data file.

Changes: This release includes the minor enhancement of a new commandline
option to add a "Return to top" link after each FAQ entry. Additionally,
the HTML FAQ page now links to a CSS stylesheet by default.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - Marbles 1.0.5
by kulkanie (http://freshmeat.net/users/kulkanie/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 04:28

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: Marbles is very similiar to Atomix and was heavily inspired by it.
The goal is to create a more or less complex figure out of single marbles
within a time limit to reach the next level. Sounds easy? Well, there is a
problem: If a marble starts to move, it will not stop until it hits a wall
or marble. Teleports, arrows, and crumbling walls make it even more
interesting.

Changes: With this release Marbles is compilable for Win32, uses SDL_mixer
for better sounds and provides a bunch of memory leak fixes. A Win32
pre-compiled binary is also available now.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - mICQ 0.4.9.2b
by Tadu (http://freshmeat.net/users/Tadu/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 22:50

Communications
Communications :: Chat :: ICQ
Internet

About: mICQ (Matt's ICQ Clone) is a portable, small, yet powerful
console-based ICQ client. It supports password changing, auto-away,
creation of new accounts, and other features that makes it a very complete
yet simple client. It is able to send and receive messages from the ICQ
network, list users that are offline and online (including their online
status), search for users by email address, and look up basic (name, UIN,
email) information.

Changes: Translated man pages (German, Russian), a bunch of smaller bug
fixes, fixes for huge memory leaks, a new ability to download the
server-side contact list, and some improvements in the direct connection
stuff.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - Mutella 4.0.1
by Ernest Beinrohr 'OERNii' (http://freshmeat.net/users/oernii/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 09:03

Communications :: File Sharing

About: Mutella supports all the functionality required to participate as a
full-featured node in the Gnutella network (which implies support for file
search, download, and sharing). It is optimized for a high-bandwidth
connection where it sets standards for the server performance and
stability, but it can also run on a modest-speed line. It features real
multiple search support, passive search (all query-reply packets are
checked against local search list), automatic re-submission of the
queries, unlimited download retry, automatic search for alternative
locations when download fails to start immediately, auto-get function for
broken downloads, and much more.

Changes: This release adds support for user auto-get searches,
blacklisting (by IP), clever removal of ineffective connections (which
send no results), Cygwin fixes (this now seem to be working again), memory
and CPU use optimizations, a modified (more agressive) results grouping
algorithm, very accurate and efficient bandwidth limiting for connections,
an option to share a download directory (with no subdirectories), a fix
for possible crash situations, and a wordfiler to ignore certain types of
content. Approximate size matching is now possible for user searches.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[031] - MyDNS 0.8.3
by Don Moore (http://freshmeat.net/users/bboy1001/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 22:46

Database
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
System

About: MyDNS is a free DNS server for UNIX which was implemented from
scratch and is designed to utilize the MySQL database for data storage.

Changes: Numerous minor bugfixes, numerous requested configuration
enhancements, French and Brazilian Portugese native language support, and
updated utility programs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - Nitro Technologies Memory Checker 1.1
by Nitro Technologies (http://freshmeat.net/users/nitrotech/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 09:15

Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: Nitro Technologies Memory Checker makes tracking down memory leaks
in C programs simple. It wraps strdup/malloc/free and tracks memory usage,
allowing a report containing information on all allocated memory (and what
function allocated it, which line, which file, etc.) at any time during
the running of your program.

Changes: This release tracks the use of calloc and realloc, along with the
original function tracking (malloc, strdup, and free). Output is now
redirectable to any file. The source files have been renamed to be more
unique.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - Pam_mount 0.3.6
by W. Michael Petullo (http://freshmeat.net/users/flyn/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 06:25

System :: Networking

About: The pam_mount module allows users to have NCP (Netware), SMB
(Windows/Samba), or loopback-encrypted volumes mounted upon login, using
the same passwords they typed to log in. A remote volume can even be used
as a user's $HOME. Volumes mounted this way are automatically unmounted on
logout.

Changes: This version adds support for encrypted filesystem keys: now
users can change their system password without changing the passwords
protecting their volumes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam-mount/

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[034] - php_writeexcel 0.1.2
by Jonny (http://freshmeat.net/users/jonnyh/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 15:12

Office/Business
Office/Business :: Office Suites
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: php_writeexcel is a port of John McNamara's excellent
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel Perl package to PHP. It allows you to generate
Microsoft Excel documents on your PHP enabled Web server without any
other tools.

Changes: The date/time utility functions have been fixed. Some cleanups
have been made. For people it didn't work at all up to now, chances are
good that it works now due to a small workaround for a bug in older PHP
versions.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[035] - ProcMeter3 3.3b
by amb (http://freshmeat.net/users/andrewmbishop/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 15:21

System :: Logging
System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: ProcMeter3 is a program for monitoring the system status and other
information and displaying it in a series of graphs or as text. Most of
the information comes from the /proc filesystem (cpu usage, load average ,
processes information, memory usage, network traffic, interrupts etc.).
Other information is available for other sources (date, time, email
status, log file length, disk status etc.). The program is modular and
highly configurable.

Changes: New modules were added for Transmeta Crusoe longrun performance
level, wireless network link quality, ACPI temperatures, and battery
status. It is now possible to record the information to a file instead of
displaying it in a window.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/procmeter3/

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[036] - Pulsar 0.0.8 (Development)
by Rok Papez (http://freshmeat.net/users/rokwell/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 23:04

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

About: Pulsar is a POP3 mail server featuring an intuitive configuration
file, multiple authentication mechanisms (PAM, MySQL, Unix, and database
file), realms, and TCP wrappers.

Changes: A fix for a compile error in the MySQL user authentication
database, and completing the port to FreeBSD.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[037] - Pyzor 0.3.1
by Frank J. Tobin (http://freshmeat.net/users/ftobin/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 02:32

Communications :: Email :: Filters

About: Pyzor is a collaborative, networked system to detect and block
spam using identifying digests of messages.

Changes: This version fixes a bug where the client would send
reports/whitelists to each server multiple times. The server now keeps the
database file open, instead of re-opening on each request, and pyzord.log
now includes the response code.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[038] - Quantum GIS 0.0.3 (Development)
by Mrcc (http://freshmeat.net/users/mrccalaska/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 20:34

About: Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) for
Linux/Unix. It will offer support for vector and raster formats. It
currently supports spatially enabled tables in PostgreSQL using PostGIS.
Due to the complexity of creating a feature-rich GIS application, support
for various data stores will be added in a phased approach. Ultimately, it
will be able to read and edit shape files, display geo-referenced rasters
(TIFF, PNG, and GEOTIFF), create map output, and support database tables.
A plugin feature to dynamically add new functionality is planned.

Changes: Quantum GIS now supports shapefiles and other vector formats
supported by OGR. Handling of extents and layers has been improved. There
is a primitive legend that allows the user to control the visibility of
the map layers. An About Quantum GIS dialog is now available and includes
version information, URLs, and recent changes to the application.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[039] - rarch 0.1.0
by Mattias Nordstrom (http://freshmeat.net/users/mnordstr/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 15:01

System :: Archiving

About: rarch (Removable Archive) is a program that keeps a database of
archives on removable media (i.e., CDs). It can be used to keep an archive
of backup CDs, etc. It comes with a search function, easy archive creation
functionality, and other archive management functions. It does not create
and manage the archives themselves; it only keeps a database of what files
are on what archives, so that they can be searched.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - RealizationEngine 1.0.11rc1 (Development)
by havoc (http://freshmeat.net/users/imhavoc/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 15:19

Communications
Communications :: BBS
Communications :: Conferencing

About: The RealizationEngine is a Web-based group communication tool which
presents information in a highly intuitive, time-delineated style. It
allows authorized individuals to have access to information, which can be
compartmentalized, restricted, or published openly, all from the same
system. Ideas are coherently threaded, and every message is searchable in
a single location, and in the context of the messages related to it. Being
a "closed system", the RealizationEngine eliminates spam, and still makes
the information available to users or visitors as appropriate even when
they are away from their "home" computer. The RealizationEngine can be
accessed from any Web browser or Web-enabled device, and can be integrated
with SSL when secure connections are required. The server requires a Web
server, MySQL, Perl, DBI, Digest::MD5, POSIX, and CGI.pm.

Changes: A fix for a 'false cookie' problem with MS Internet Explorer
6.0.26 that resulted in intermittent login problems for those users.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - References for TeX and Friends 0.0.5
by Michael Wiedmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/miwie/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 15:17

Text Processing :: Markup :: LaTeX
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: References for TeX and Friends is an ongoing project which provides
a help file for LaTeX (and its friends like ConTeXt, Metapost, Metafont,
etc.) using a state-of-the-art source format, DocBook/XML. Various output
formats can be generated from the source file. Anyone can write a
converter for any desired output format. Because the source file is XML,
the easiest way to do this might be to use XSLT.

Changes: Switching to DocBook XML 4.2, and completion of sections
'Bibindex' and 'xindy'.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tex-refs/

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[042] - Shoutstats 0.7.1
by aNa|0Gue (http://freshmeat.net/users/analogue/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 15:01

Internet :: Log Analysis

About: Shoutstats is a fast, free Shoutcast server statistic analysis
program. It produces instant and dynamic usage reports in HTML format, for
viewing in a standard browser.

Changes: A fix for the listener count when a server is down.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[043] - Spread Extension for PHP 1.0
by George Schlossnagle (http://freshmeat.net/users/gschlossnagle/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 23:08

About: Spread Extension is a PHP extension to allow PHP-level access to
the full Spread client API.

Changes: Full support for spread client API and exported clients.

License: The PHP License

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

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[044] - The Community OpenORB 1.3.0 beta2
by Jesper Pedersen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jep/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 09:04

Software Development :: Object Brokering :: CORBA

About: The Community OpenORB is a fork of OpenORB that tries to make the
evolution of the OpenORB CORBA project more transparent and allow the
community to take part in making decisions about its future.

Changes: This release adds support for JDK-1.4, better support for
Windows, and bugfixes.

License: BSD License

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

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[045] - Tksql 0.7.11 (Development)
by Sandro Dentella (http://freshmeat.net/users/sdtcl/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 20:58

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Build Tools

About: Tksql allows you to edit the tables of PostgreSQL databases. You
can use it from the shell prompt, specifying the name of a table, or an
SQL satement, or just the name of a database. It has filter capabilities
which are very easy to use. Two views are possible (tables and form) and
both views can coexist. Tksql can edit a join of two tables (limited to
the first of such tables). Totals and subtotals can be done quickly, and
displayed inline with the data or in a separate window. It uses the sdsql
package for Tcl/Tk.

Changes: Bugs have been fixed in the code that adds queries. Now it is
also backportable to Tcl 8.0 and PostgreSQL 7.0. Forms work better when
representing a join of more table. The look has been enhanced so that
should be easier to customize or understand possible actions for the end
user. The mask layout is now easier to setup due to drag&drop facility.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[046] - VideoLAN::Client 0.4.4 (Ourumov)
by Samuel Hocevar (http://freshmeat.net/users/sammy/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 23:08

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Video :: Display

About: The VideoLAN Client (VLC) is an MPEG, VCD/DVD, and DivX player for
Unix, Windows, MacOS X, BeOS and QNX. It can play video streams from a
file, from a network source, or directly from a VCD or DVD. There is video
support for X11/XVideo, GGI, SDL, the Linux framebuffer device, DirectX,
BeOS, and QNX, audio support for OSS, Esound, ALSA, and GNOME, GTK+, Qt
and KDE interfaces.

Changes: VLC can now read AVI files created with ffmpeg. Binary packages
are linked with libdvdcss 1.2.2, which allows you to read DVDs on an RPC2
drive even when there is a region mismatch. The thread implementation, the
IPv6 support, and the message queue were fixed in the Win32 port, and DVD
subtitles are now rendered with the right colours under MacOS X.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[047] - Vstr string library 0.9.10
by Nevyn (http://freshmeat.net/users/nevyn/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 02:31

Software Development :: Libraries

About: Vstr is a string library designed for network communication, but
applicable in a number of other areas. It works on the idea of separate
nodes of information, and works on the length/ptr model and not the
termination model a la "C strings". It can also do automatic referencing
for mmap() areas of memory, and includes a portable version of a
printf-like function.

Changes: This version adds some test cases (almost every function has a
test case now), and fixes the errors these found. The functions were
expanded so that you can now use empty Vstr strings. A couple of probably
lesser used functions were added to balance out the API.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[048] - WeatherCheck 0.5
by Teri (http://freshmeat.net/users/tekniklr/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 22:59

About: WeatherCheck is a program that uses Java Swing to prompt for a US
zip code and display the local forecast from the National Weather Service.
It also provides the extended forecast and dBZ radar information.

Changes: Parsing out a table with info for the extended forecast, a fix
for a bug involving zip codes that don't provide a Heat Index, a new
capability to display Wind Chill, and new (limited) severe weather
conditions functionality.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[049] - Web Noticias 0.5
by Paco Brufal (http://freshmeat.net/users/pbrufal/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 08:53

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary

About: Web Noticias is a series of small PHP scripts that put your latest
news in a Web page. It's very easy to install and administer through its
Web interface.

Changes: This release adds multilanguage support (via a single file with
all phrases), a lot of bugfixes, a single configuration file, and
documentation updates.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[050] - XMMSd web control plug-in 0.3
by Fredrik Rambris (http://freshmeat.net/users/boost/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 21:13

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: The XMMSd web control plug-in allows XMMS to be controlled with a
Web browser. It makes it easier for languages like PHP to remotely
control XMMS.

Changes: The configure script now checks which functions are available to
enable build with older versions of XMMS. The RPM is now built with GCC
2.96-112.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[051] - xpad 1.4 (GTK+ 2.0)
by Michael Terry (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikix/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 21:19

Desktop Environment
Utilities

About: xpad is a paperless substitute for leaving sticky notes, index
cards, or "post-it" notes all over your desk. It opens small text boxes on
the X display so that notes can be written and then left to be read later.

Changes: Some memory leaks were fixed, and memory consumption reduced in
general. Scrollbars now appear if text is too large for the window,
multiple xpad process now play nice, the cursor icon changes appropriately
when in edit lock mode, and portability was increased. Compilation in
Windows or BeOS should now be possible.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[052] - ypserv 2.5
by Thorsten Kukuk (http://freshmeat.net/users/kukuk/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 02:35

System :: Networking

About: The Network Information Service (NIS) provides a simple network
lookup service consisting of databases and processes. It was formerly
known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality of the two remains the
same, only the name has changed. Its purpose is to provide information,
that has to be known throughout the network, to all machines on the
network.

Changes: This release fixes a minor memory leak.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[053] - Zionist In Space 0.99.3
by Cherniavsky Beni (http://freshmeat.net/users/cben/)
Saturday, August 10th 2002 21:17

Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy

About: ZIS (Zionist In Space) is a text-mode (curses) multiplayer game
like Konquest. It has an "autosend" and save/load features.

Changes: A fix for djgpp compilation so the new menu/popups interface
works on Windows and DOS too.

License: BSD License

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

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