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Agile Practices
by Dean Margerison (http://www.dekam.net/)
Section: Editorials
Sat, Aug 28th 2004 00:00

There is a fundamental sea change happening in the industry around us, a
move away from prescriptive top-down mandates to implement a methodology
to a developer-led "viral adoption" of Agile Practices. But exactly how
widespread is this movement?

URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1279/

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (42) :::

[001] - Airline Operations and Maintenance Journal 1.1
[002] - AlternC Hosting Software 0.9.2 (Development)
[003] - AlteruPhono 0.1
[004] - Alvaro's Messenger 0.93
[005] - Ansel 2.0
[006] - AUCTeX 11.53
[007] - BASHISH 1.9.24
[008] - bf 20040828
[009] - dd_rescue 1.04
[010] - Drivel 1.2.0
[011] - DrPython 3.4.2
[012] - Enemies of Carlotta 1.1.1 (Development)
[013] - ePointPGP 0.5
[014] - Escape 200408272
[015] - Gaim 0.82.1 (Stable)
[016] - HereNow 0.3
[017] - IceS 0.4
[018] - IQ 0.9.2
[019] - Jeb Perl Ping Stats 1.4.5
[020] - KBeam 0.6
[021] - LiquidClassifiedsXML 1.4.3
[022] - mntd 0.4.2
[023] - mod_psldap 0.81
[024] - Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.8.5 (Stable)
[025] - Octoz GNU/Linux 0.1
[026] - phpVideoArchive 1.0RC3
[027] - Pre Make Kit 0.8.1-s6 (Snapshot)
[028] - pyrad 0.8
[029] - RBL Spam Daemon 0.0.4
[030] - ruby2shoes 28aug04
[031] - SafeSquid 3.1.1
[032] - Scout Tracker 0.10
[033] - Scribus 1.2 (Stable)
[034] - SlackIns 1.3
[035] - Spamikaze 0.2 (Development)
[036] - System Health Monitor 0.5.1
[037] - t-prot 1.41
[038] - tcpick 0.1.24
[039] - vqcc-gtk 0.4
[040] - wifiswitch 1.0
[041] - XawTV 3.94
[042] - Yet Another Radius Daemon 1.1.1 (Development)

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[001] - Airline Operations and Maintenance Journal 1.1
  by D. Scott Barninger (http://freshmeat.net/users/barninger/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 10:43

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Office/Business

About: Airline Operations and Maintenance Journal is a CGI script to run
on an intranet to maintain a daily operations and maintenance journal for
a scheduled airline. The day's journal can be emailed to a set mailing
list.

Changes: Pretty formatting of displayed dates was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ops-journal/

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[002] - AlternC Hosting Software 0.9.2 (Development)
  by Sonntag Benjamin (http://freshmeat.net/users/BenjaminSonntag/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 12:30

Internet
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: AlternC is automatic hosting software suite based on the Valentin
Lacambre hosting system and Debian. It features a PHP-based administration
interface and shell and Perl scripts that manage server contents. It can
manage email, Web, and list hosting. It is available in French, English,
and Spanish.

Changes: Migration from an LDAP database to a MySQL database for email
managment. Many bugfixes were made for translation, installation, and the
update process. The Debian package now complies with Debian policy.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - AlteruPhono 0.1
  by Tiago Tresoldi (http://freshmeat.net/users/tresoldi/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 13:56

About: AlteruPhono is a software for developing and testing models of
regular phonetic sound changes, simulating the diacronic evolution of a
word. Its rules are developed using the common combination of features
such as point of articulation and vowel roundness.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[004] - Alvaro's Messenger 0.93
  by Nazgul (http://freshmeat.net/users/airadier/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 11:21

Communications :: Chat
Internet

About: Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl/Tk client for MSN Messenger. Its
features include multi-language support, smileys, docking support for KDE
3 and GNOME 2 (FreeDesktop compatibility), logging, profiles support,
email notification, customizable sounds, group management, file transfers
with NAT support, and proxy support. Some special features include the
possibility of knowing who has deleted you from his/her list, connecting
"silently" (appearing invisible), and so on.

Changes: An option in the alarm feature to send a message when the alarm
runs out was added. Issues with displaying pictures with Gaim was fixed,
as well as alarm and proxy problems. Variable substitution in alarm was
implemented. A custom chat style is now supported. An option to ignore
other users' font preferences, a global nick option to change everybody's
nick, a different friendly name (p4c) for each user, and the ability to
remove empty groups from the contact list were added. The ability to use
the Snack library for sounds (set to default for windows) and the ability
to block/unblock all the users from a group by the popup menu were added.
Many bugfixes for Mac OS X were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Ansel 2.0
  by Federico David Sacerdoti
(http://freshmeat.net/users/FedericoSacerdoti/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 01:06

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

About: Ansel is a picture gallery for web sites. It is a high quality,
information-rich photo gallery, designed to handle large numbers of images
and albums. It stores all its images in a database, making it both fast and
flexible. Ansel is similar in spirit to Shutterfly and Yahoo pictures, but
does not place restrictions on image size.

Changes: The program was enhanced to be able to handle larger galleries
with many albums. New per-user accounts and a stronger sense of album
creator facilitate the management of a large picture gallery. A new
security structure allows locked and private (hidden) albums. Finally,
new database indexes greatly speed page viewing for large albums.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[006] - AUCTeX 11.53
  by David Kastrup (http://freshmeat.net/users/dakas/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:34

Text Editors :: Emacs
Text Editors :: Word Processors
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX

About: AUCTeX is a much-enhanced (La)TeX environment for Emacs and part of
the GNU project.

Changes: Another bug in connection with XEmacs and PDF modes has been
uncovered. GTK versions of GNU Emacs will now use Unicode characters in
the LaTeX math menu. The installation process tries to detect a few more
things automatically. There are some performance fixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - BASHISH 1.9.24
  by arne (http://freshmeat.net/users/arnognulf/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:54

Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Application Themes :: Shells
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to
customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt, font,
background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to add
features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.

Changes: This version features major performance improvements, less
flicker in Eterm, fixes for visual glitches, and several other bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - bf 20040828
  by Stephan Beyer (http://freshmeat.net/users/sbeyer/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 05:31

Software Development :: Interpreters

About: bf is a simple, fast Brainfuck interpreter with some extra options
such as debugging.

Changes: bf is now faster.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[009] - dd_rescue 1.04
  by Kurt Garloff (http://freshmeat.net/users/garloff/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:53

System :: Recovery Tools

About: dd_rescue copies data from one file or block device to another. It
is intended for error recovery, so, by default, it doesn't abort on
errors, and doesn't truncate the output file. It uses large block sizes
to quicken the copying, but falls back to small blocks upon encountering
errors. It produces reports that allow you to keep track of bad blocks.

Changes: Some bugs have been fixed and some features have been added. The
avg CPU load does not overflow any more. The end report is written to the
log file even for -q and if no errors occur. -d/D can be used to use
O_DIRECT on input/output. -p copies the timestamp and file owner and
permissions. A larger soft block size (64k instead of 16k) is used by
default. The program now also aborts on ENXIO, ENODEV, and EPERM. There
were also minor code cleanups.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - Drivel 1.2.0
  by Todd Kulesza (http://freshmeat.net/users/tdk/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 13:11

Communications
Internet

About: Drivel is a LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop. It's designed
to utilize the powerful features of GNOME 2, such as GConf, GnomeVFS, and
GTK+, as well comply with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

Changes: This release adds syntax highlighting, spell-checking, enhanced
music detection, and a refined UI, as well as a host of other
improvements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - DrPython 3.4.2
  by Dan (http://freshmeat.net/users/drpython/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 12:40

Education
Software Development :: User Interfaces
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)

About: DrPython is a highly customizable, simple, and clean editing
environment for developing Python programs. It is intended primarily for
use in schools, and is a tribute to DrScheme.

Changes: A "Look In" mini dialog was added to the file dialog to
facilitate changing directories and drives on Windows. Some minor bugfixes
were made, and an option to "Save On Run" was added, so you don't have to
have a dialog ask to you to save every time you run a program.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - Enemies of Carlotta 1.1.1 (Development)
  by Lars Wirzenius (http://freshmeat.net/users/liw/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 13:22

Communications :: Email :: Mailing List Servers

About: Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to
mimic the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch
in Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is
smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman.

Changes: Problems with installation were fixed: it works without bash, and
it actually installs QMQP support. Problems with list names not in
lowercase were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - ePointPGP 0.5
  by Daniel Nagy (http://freshmeat.net/users/nagydani/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 05:35

Security :: Cryptography

About: ePointPGP provides limited OpenPGP functionality for Java
applications and applets, using the available crypto providers rather than
implementing its own. It is extremely lightweight, and functionality that
is not required can be safely left out.

Changes: This release adds minor cleanup and bugfixes, more focused
exception handling, fixes for IO bugs, etc.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - Escape 200408272
  by Tom 7 (http://freshmeat.net/users/TomSeven/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:54

Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: Escape is a tile-based puzzle game in the style of "Adventures of
Lolo" or "Chip's Challenge." Unlike either of those games, Escape doesn't
rely at all on reflexes--it's all about your brain. Although it comes with
hundreds of levels, the game places an emphasis on the composition of new
puzzles. Thus it has a built-in level editor and facilities for
automatically sharing puzzles with other players.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - Gaim 0.82.1 (Stable)
  by Mark Doliner (http://freshmeat.net/users/thekingant/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:35

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

About: Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports
multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber,
IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in
other clients, as well as many unique features. Gaim is not endorsed by or
affiliated with AOL TimeWarner, Microsoft, or Yahoo.

Changes: This release fixes a crash when changing the preference for how
to display buttons on conversation windows.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - HereNow 0.3
  by Jdfr (http://freshmeat.net/users/Jdfr/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 05:37

About: Herenow is a small utility based on the locate system. It combines
commands and file types. You don't have to input the file's path, and you
don't have to input the desired command. You give a keyword or full file
name, and it finds the file for you and executes the command specified in
the config file. In a file of configuration, you can specify the commands
according to the types of files. (ex: command editor ; type text)." Also,
hn can be recived command as argument.

Changes: When the name of a directory corresponds, hn now specifies
clearly that it's a directory. The display of the contents of a directory
is now clearer. hn now checks the existence of files before displaying
them. Some bugs have been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - IceS 0.4
  by Brendan Cully (http://freshmeat.net/users/brendan/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 13:59

Internet
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: Ices is an mp3 streamer for the icecast system, and is developed by
the icecast team. It is a replacement for Shout, and its features include
embedded perl and python scripting, reencoding, and xml config files.

Changes: This release includes a crossfader and support for transcoding
FLAC and MP4/AAC to MP3.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - IQ 0.9.2
  by f0rked (http://freshmeat.net/users/f0rked/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:56

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: IQ is an intelligent IRC robot framework. It is modular, and can
dynamically load and unload modules. Writing modules for the bot is
simple, and any PHP developer should be able to write his or her own
modules to have the bot act as needed. IQ modules utilize a binding system
(modeled after that used by eggdrop) which creates triggers that can be
executed upon any regular event (msg, join, kick, nick, quit, part, etc.),
as well as other bot-specific events (idle, connect, disconnect), and call
a lambda-style function in the module to perform the desired action.
Several official modules are included: weather, Google searching,
gametiger.net searching, DNS, acronym finder, and an intelligent
auto-oping module.

Changes: This version dramatically increases mode support and gathering
of server information. Command line options and process control support
were added to allow alternate configuration files and forking into the
background. A new automode module was introduced to maintain all channel
user modes (+o, +v, +h, etc.).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - Jeb Perl Ping Stats 1.4.5
  by Jeb (http://freshmeat.net/users/Jeb/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 13:49

Internet :: Log Analysis

About: JPPS (Jeb Perl Ping Stats) is a Perl script which extracts
statistics from the output generated by the 'ping' command.

Changes: A fix was made for Mandrake ping output. The program can now work
if the first ping sequence number is not 0.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - KBeam 0.6
  by Georges A.K. (http://freshmeat.net/users/GeorgesAK/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 13:10

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)

About: KBeam is a KDE application that lets you send and receive files to
devices using an infrared port.

Changes: The status was changed from alpha to beta. Crashes which could
occur if file transfers were cancelled were fixed. New additions include
an autostart option, quit confirmation, a first time check, a check for
baud rate at startup, an option to force the display of icons, an "About"
dialog, user notification when the link is interrupted, new notifications,
an option to show or hide receiving and sending of files, an option to
autoclose receiving and sending files, "What's This" and Tooltip messages
for preferences, and Internationalization support. The session management
was disabled.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - LiquidClassifiedsXML 1.4.3
  by Ted Shieh (http://freshmeat.net/users/tedshieh/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:54

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Office/Business

About: LiquidClassifiedsXML is a PHP-Nuke and PostNuke compatible client
for a classified ad Web service. All ads are pooled in a centralized
database so that many small Web sites can combine their marketing power to
have, in effect, the classified ad system of a large Web site.

Changes: Ads now sort by date inserted rather than date modified, and the
Post an Ad image was replaced with text (internationalized by
language.php).

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[022] - mntd 0.4.2
  by Stefan Bambach (http://freshmeat.net/users/sbambach/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:35

Software Development
Software Development :: Libraries
System

About: mntd is an automount daemon and shared library written for
automatically mounting hotplug devices such as USB sticks, Compact Flash
cards, or other mountable devices on Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels. You
only have to plug in your hotplug device and wait a little bit. The
library can be used for user mode programs that want to be informed when
devices are mounted and unmounted. It will use now devfs to get the
device changes. So no need for hal and udev any more.

Changes: This release adds more options to the config file. It now
reconnects to dbus if disconnected. A security fix was added that will
escape options from the config file. Memory leaks were fixed. A signal
handler for SIGHUP was implemented.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[023] - mod_psldap 0.81
  by David Picard (http://freshmeat.net/users/dpicard/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 12:36

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

About: mod_psldap is an Apache module that performs authentication
authorization against an LDAP server using several different means of
managing the authentication and authorization processes. This
implementation can also manage records through a Web interface, and
authenticate against an LDAP server that restricts the user from reading
the password and the implementation of Kerberos-based authentication to
connect to the LDAP server itself.

Changes: The authentication form internal redirect was changed to send a
302 response. This fixes processing of pages with relative references to
other resources and client handling of authenticated directory requests.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.8.5 (Stable)
  by EdsipeR (http://freshmeat.net/users/EdsipeR/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:56

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

About: Monkey HTTP Daemon is a small, powerful, and fast Web server for
Linux written in C. Its features include language support, GET, POST, and
HEAD methods, CGI, PHP4 as CGI, a config file (optional for every user), a
mime.types file, virtual hosts, the ability to deny URLs and IPs, to run as
a different user (such as nobody), serve users home directories, resume,
and more.

Changes: This release works on NetBSD and fixes a lot of memory leaks.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - Octoz GNU/Linux 0.1
  by phildar60 (http://freshmeat.net/users/phildar60/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 13:48

About: The goal of Octoz GNU/Linux is to create a simple and reliable
Linux distribution that is accessible to beginners and to people who have
little or no knowledge in data processing. The system will be designed for
beginners, with the intention of making access to this OS a real pleasure
and not another "OS created by engineers for engineers". Octoz GNU/Linux
will be mainly directed at multi-media, office automation, consumer
networks, and Internet.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - phpVideoArchive 1.0RC3
  by helmut__ (http://freshmeat.net/users/helmut__/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 12:49

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search

About: phpVideoArchive is an advanced Web-based video archiving system.
Functions include multiple language support, the ability to
add/change/remove movies/categories/formats, hiding of movies, IP
blocking, multiple user support, and more.

Changes: The "edit movie" bug was fixed. Old theme images were removed.
The default MySQL user was changed to "mysql" and a Dutch translation was
added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[027] - Pre Make Kit 0.8.1-s6 (Snapshot)
  by Damien Couderc (http://freshmeat.net/users/cdaemon/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 13:51

Software Development :: Build Tools
System :: Software Distribution Tools
Utilities

About: Pre Make Kit (PMK) aims to be a BSD alternative to GNU autoconf,
GNU libtool, and pkg-config. It uses data files instead of scripts to
limit the spreading of trojans in software packages. It's designed to be
easy to use for users and developers. For better portability and
efficiency, all of the components are written in C. Requirements are a
POSIX system, a C compiler, the Bourne shell, and a make tool.

Changes: This snapshot replaces the previous snapshot, which was released
too quickly. The config file parsing was fixed, but at the same time an
improvement that broke pmkfile parsing was added. This is now fixed.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[028] - pyrad 0.8
  by Wichert Akkerman (http://freshmeat.net/users/wichert/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 13:54

Internet
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
System :: Networking

About: pyrad is an implementation of a RADIUS client and server as
described in RFC2865, 2866, and others. It takes care of all the details
like building RADIUS packets, sending and receiving them, and en-/decoding
responses.

Changes: This is a bugfix release for two problems. Time-handling in the
client packet sending code which would loop forever since the now time was
updated at the wrong moment was fixed. Passing of the dict parameter when
creating reply packets was fixed.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[029] - RBL Spam Daemon 0.0.4
  by John J. Jordan (http://freshmeat.net/users/JohnJordan/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:57

Communications :: Email :: Filters

About: rblsd is a small, fast, SpamAssassin-compatible spam filter. It
filters messages by performing a series of RBL lookups on the path of the
message. These lookups are quick, require minimal processing power, and
are updated in real time. This can be set up to work alongside
SpamAssassin to increase mail throughput.

Changes: This version adds configuration file, SpamAssassin- compatible
email white/blacklist support, network access rules, and new
documentation.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - ruby2shoes 28aug04
  by Richard Harris (http://freshmeat.net/users/goosequill/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:36

Text Editors :: Emacs
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX

About: ruby2shoes is writer's software for low-resource computers. The
ruby2shoes files are created using Ruby's emacs fiction and screenplay
modes. These files are converted with Python scripts to well-formatted
text, html, LaTeX, DVI, or Postscript. ruby2web generates a writer's Web
site from the manuscript files and simple text files that use an easy
markup language. The result is professional manuscripts or spec scripts.

Changes: This release improves the word count in ruby2html. The LaTeX
conversion no longer bombs on comment lines in the header, and asterisks
now work with fc2sp conversion markers.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ruby2shoes/

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[031] - SafeSquid 3.1.1
  by mcjason (http://freshmeat.net/users/mcjason/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 00:52

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

About: SafeSquid is an antivirus and content filtering proxy server. It
has many advanced features such as URL blacklists, bandwidth management,
regular expression substitution on Website content and requested URLs,
ICP and CARP support for interoperating with other proxy servers,
configuration synchronization to ease management in a cluster, ICAP
support for using third-party content adaptation software, image and link
prefetching, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic authentication,
and an intuitive Web interface for configuration.

Changes: An option to output logs in Squid format was added. Download
bandwidth can now be throttled, and several bugs were fixed.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[032] - Scout Tracker 0.10
  by JazerNorth (http://freshmeat.net/users/jazernorth/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:34

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Religion

About: Scout Tracker tracks Boy Scout advancements towards their Eagle
Scout. Scouts can monitor their camping nights, service hours, and
leadership. Scoutmasters can let the boys know about incomplete
requirements without affecting advancement records. Worksheets created for
the scouts are stored in a database for easy view and hide access. Scouts
can view the progress of all scouts to enable them to find other scouts
who need to work on the same requirement or merit badge. Only leaders and
administrators can change data on the site. The best part is that parents
and scouts can access their information anytime they want without having
to call the Scoutmaster.

Changes: This release fixes some major security bugs regarding passwords
and user groups. It fixes date fields to accept multiple types of date
formats and reformat them for MySQL date format. It changes main.css to
accommodate a more updated look to pages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - Scribus 1.2 (Stable)
  by Schmid (http://freshmeat.net/users/Schmid/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 14:00

Text Editors

About: Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an
easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as
professional as possible.

Changes: This is the culmination of over 1 year of hard work since last
year's 1.0 release. A new EPS/PS importer, which imports EPS/PS files as
native Scribus Objects, was added. A new enhanced Story Editor, which is
custom designed to speed text editing and style application was added.
Scribus now features a "Create from/Save as Template" plug-in, which
enables end users to quickly generate pre-formatted documents. Many
enhancements to text frames were made, including multi-columned text,
baseline grids, tabs, and drop caps.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[034] - SlackIns 1.3
  by |BranD| (http://freshmeat.net/users/BranD/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 11:12

System
System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: SlackIns is a Qt-based pkgtool interface that lets Slackware users
install, remove, and upgrade tgz packages.

Changes: A new tool for library checking, a "where is" tool, and a tool to
convert RPM to TGZ were added. A bugfix was made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - Spamikaze 0.2 (Development)
  by Rik van Riel (http://freshmeat.net/users/riel/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:57

Communications :: Email :: Filters

About: Spamikaze is an automated spam blacklisting system that attempts to
make it as annoying to send spam as it is to receive spam, while at the
same time making it possible for anybody to get legitimate email through
to its destination. Spamikaze implements MTA and DNSBL level filtering,
but unlike open proxy or open relay lists it doesn't rely on any
vulnerability tests. It simply tries to turn the tide against spam by
introducing a system that doesn't scale for people who send unsolicited
bulk email but should work fine for everybody else.

Changes: This release simplifies configuration, improves the flexibility
of the expiry policy, implements a new database layout, and cleans up the
code.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - System Health Monitor 0.5.1
  by Brian C. Lane (http://freshmeat.net/users/nexuscompu/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 07:16

System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: System Health Monitor is a program that handles the work of setting
up monitoring of network interfaces, memory, load, drive space, and running
processes. It generates graphs and HTML files when called via cron every 5
minutes. It requires Round Robin Database to store the information and
generate the graphs.

Changes: This release adds more overview pages and links to them from the
main index.html page. It fixes some bugs in the creation of subpages. The
HTML can be regenerated by running system_health.py --html as long as you
have not hand-edited the pages (all changes will be lost).

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[037] - t-prot 1.41
  by Jochen Striepe (http://freshmeat.net/users/jstr0051/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 05:37

Communications :: Email :: Filters

About: t-prot (TOFU Protection) is a filter which improves the readability
of email messages and Usenet posts by hiding some of their annoying parts.
The annoyances it handles include mailing list footers, signatures, TOFU,
sequences of blank lines, and repeated punctuation. TOFU is an acronym
that stands for "Text oben, Fullquote unten", a German reference to the
practice of adding just a few lines of original text and quoting a
complete message below them.

Changes: A new option for better MS-style TOFU treatment has been added.
GnuPG locales have been updated to match the new gnupg-1.2.6. Some minor
fixes have been applied.

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/t-prot/

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[038] - tcpick 0.1.24
  by Francesco Stablum (http://freshmeat.net/users/DuskDruid/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 05:33

Communications
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: tcpick is a textmode sniffer that can track TCP streams and saves
the data captured in files or displays them in the terminal. It is useful
for picking files in a passive way. It can store all connections in
different files, or it can display all the stream on the terminal (using
colors too).

Changes: This release adds the option "-Enum" to exit when "num"
connections are marked as CLOSED (which differs from "-Efnum", which exits
when all the first "num" tracked connections are marked as CLOSED), the
option "-Tfnum" to stop tracking new connections when "num" is reached, a
balanced AVL tree to the IP lookup engine, and several bugfixes. It now
works successfully under OpenBSD and NetBSD.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[039] - vqcc-gtk 0.4
  by Saulius Menkevicius (http://freshmeat.net/users/razzmatazz/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 12:50

Communications :: Chat

About: vqcc-gtk is a featureful chat client for LAN environments. It is
modeled after quickChat/VypressChat, and hopefully 99% compatible.

Changes: More features, refinements, and bugfixes were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vqcc-gtk/

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[040] - wifiswitch 1.0
  by f0rked (http://freshmeat.net/users/f0rked/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:54

System :: Networking

About: wifiswitch is a script to greatly aide in switching between
multiple configured wireless environments for Wireless Tools-enabled wifi
cards. wifiswitch will run iwconfig, ifconfig (or dhcpcd if configured),
and route to configure the connection's settings, as well as configure
/etc/resolv.conf if desired. Settings are unique for each environment (or
 access point). A string of post-configuration commands can also be
executed after the necessary tools have been run (useful for shutting
down an ethernet interface).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - XawTV 3.94
  by SvR Marty (http://freshmeat.net/users/svrmarty/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 19:56

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

About: XawTV is a simple Xaw-based TV program which uses the bttv driver
or video4linux. It also contains various command-line utilities for
grabbing images and AVI movies, tuning in TV stations, etc.

Changes: This version is a bugfix release.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[042] - Yet Another Radius Daemon 1.1.1 (Development)
  by Francesco P. Lovergine (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiavik/)
  Sat, Aug 28th 2004 07:15

System
System :: Systems Administration
Utilities

About: Yet Another Radius Daemon (YARDRADIUS) is a free RADIUS
RFC-compliant daemon for accounting and authorization. It is derived from
the original Lucent (formerly Livingston Enterprise Inc.) RADIUS daemon
release 2.1. It adds a number of useful features to the Lucent daemon,
such as use of GNU autoconf/automake, control of simultaneous logins, the
ability to control user access by username, groupname, GECOS field, or
shell, support for Ascend, Cisco, and USR boxes in VSA mode, and much
more. It also supports all features of the most recent LE daemon, and it
is compatible with the original Lucent configuration files.

Changes: This release enables Ascend binary filters support and adds a few
minor refinements to the code and autotools scripts.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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