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::: A D V E R T I S I N G :::

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Get insight into memory problems while you debug! Try it free!

http://www.etnus.com/index2.html

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (48) :::

[001] - AndroMDA 2.03 Final
[002] - Arbitrary Command Output Colourer 0.6.0
[003] - AudienceConnect 1.0.beta.26
[004] - Bash.Diff 1.8
[005] - Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid 0.96
[006] - C++ Elliptic Curve Cryptography library 0.6.0 (Development)
[007] - CCT Chinese TeX system 0.6.1.0-C
[008] - CommitMessage 2.0-beta-6
[009] - Common Lisp SQL 3.0.11
[010] - DOCSIS Config .3
[011] - Doodle 0.6.0
[012] - FlowDesigner 0.8.2
[013] - GNU miscfiles 1.4.2
[014] - grabinfo 1.71
[015] - InformationSpace 0.4.3
[016] - IPChat 0.1
[017] - JPEG Disk Optimizer 2.6
[018] - KShutDown 0.3.2 Beta
[019] - kwavencoder 2.3
[020] - libextractor 0.3.10
[021] - libferris 1.1.41
[022] - MetaStock Data Conversion Command Line Utils 1.4
[023] - Mixxx 1.4.2
[024] - Mozilla Afrikaans Language Pack 1.7.3
[025] - MySQL Backup Pro 1.0.8-PRE2
[026] - Netty 1.7.4
[027] - Ocrad 0.9
[028] - OpenOffice.org Tools 1.11
[029] - Phaos 0.84-TEST2
[030] - phpCodeGenie 3.0.2
[031] - phpCodeGenie 1.0 (Documentation)
[032] - PNGwriter 0.5.0
[033] - pyHTTPConn 2004-10-20
[034] - PyKota Print Quota System 1.20beta
[035] - Python Wrappers for Remote Access Tools 0.0.5
[036] - Qucs 0.0.4
[037] - ripMIME 1.4.0.1
[038] - Solunas 1.2.3
[039] - Spam Trainer 0.1.3
[040] - streamtuner 0.99
[041] - Tablix 0.1.0
[042] - Thunder&Lightning 041023
[043] - tntnet 1.1.1
[044] - Virtual Universe 0.47 (Unaverse Server)
[045] - Window Maker 0.90.0
[046] - xmms-curses 0.2
[047] - XO Wave 0.8 Beta
[048] - ZDoom 2.0.91

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

[001] - AndroMDA 2.03 Final
  by linux (http://freshmeat.net/users/brainless/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 01:08

Software Development :: Code Generators

About: AndroMDA is a code generation framework that follows the model
driven architecture (MDA) paradigm. It takes a UML model from a CASE-tool
and generates classes and deployable components (J2EE or other).

Changes: This release includes a change in the HibernateEntity.vsl
template to work around a regression in XDoclet's hibernate module.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[002] - Arbitrary Command Output Colourer 0.6.0
  by Ian Macdonald (http://freshmeat.net/users/ianmacd/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 06:50

Desktop Environment :: Theme
Desktop Environment :: Theme Resources :: Fonts
System :: Console Fonts

About: acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs
that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the
target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream. Optionally,
stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be manipulated.
acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output and applies
colours to those matches.

Changes: A user-definable config file may now be specified in $ACOCRC, and
new coloring specs were added for netstat, nmap, and other commands.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - AudienceConnect 1.0.beta.26
  by Richard Harris (http://freshmeat.net/users/goosequill/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 13:07

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: AudienceConnect is a revenue-generating Python CGI solution for
independent content providers. Requests for dynamic content are routed
through PayPal. Previews of that content are generated as static HTML for
search engines to harvest. Self-publishers can upload and publish
remotely, or the editorial CGI can be used to view and publish
submissions. Demo site content is plain text, but AudienceConnect can be
extended to deliver any digital content: sound files, image files, etc.
Installation is very simple; no database technologies are used. The
related modules are completely independent and require only access to
Python 1.5.2 in your cgi-bin.

Changes: Removing an author now deletes the author's directory, removes
all of the author's previews, and respawns the site. Deletion of property
data now deletes the property file, removes any previews, renumbers any
sets, updates the latest list, and respawns the author. Deletion of static
HTML files was moved to the admin-restricted list. Respawn aborts if an
author has no contact file. Latest-list handling now allows deletion of
multiple files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[004] - Bash.Diff 1.8
  by William Park (http://freshmeat.net/users/opengeometry/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 06:44

Database :: Front-Ends
System :: Shells

About: Bash.Diff is a patch against Bash that incorporates many useful
features from Awk, Python, Zsh, Ksh, and others. In the main core, it adds
the following: new brace expansion {a..b}, new parameter expansion
${var|...}, new command substitution $(=...), extended for, while, and
until loops, extended case statement, new try-block with integer
exception, and new here document <&lt+. As builtin commands, it adds the
following: sscanf(3), strcat(3), and strcpy(3) wrappers, a variety of
array and regex(3) operations, GDBM, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL
database interfaces, an HTML template engine (BASP), stack/queue
operations on positional parameters and arrays, Expat XML parser
interface, simple x-y character plot, DOS line support, and simple Awk
emulation.

Changes: Added shell versions of strcat(3), strcpy(3), strlen(3),
strcmp(3), toupper(3), tolower(3), and toascii(3), so that the user can
easily perform traditional string operations in shell script, and fixed
'tostring' to handle strings containing nulls.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid 0.96
  by Scarfy (http://freshmeat.net/users/Scarfy/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 06:55

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid is a 2D mission-based platform game.
Since their world was invaded by an alien race, the Blobs have faced a
lifetime of war. But now they have a chance to win the war once and for
all. In Episode I: Metal Blob Solid, you take on the role of a fearless
Blob agent, Bob. Bob's mission is to infiltrate the various enemy bases
around the Blobs' homeworld and rescue as many POWs as possible. But
standing in his way are many vicious enemies, other Blobs who have been
assimilated, and the evil alien leader, Galdov.

Changes: This version changes the temporary extraction directory to a
subdirectory of the users home directory, remembers the gore setting
between invocations, added all extreme mode time limits, updated graphics,
improved antialiasing in some cutscenes, and made various gameplay tweaks.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - C++ Elliptic Curve Cryptography library 0.6.0 (Development)
  by Carlo Wood (http://freshmeat.net/users/aleric/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 14:50

Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Libecc is a C++ elliptic curve cryptography library that supports
fixed-size keys for maximum speed. The goal of this project is to become
the first free Open Source library providing the means to generate safe
elliptic curves, and to provide an important source of information for
anyone with general interest in ECC.

Changes: This release adds a point class, representing a point on an
elliptic curve. The theory page about the polynomial field GF(2^m) has
been improved, and a new theory page about elliptic curves has been added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - CCT Chinese TeX system 0.6.1.0-C
  by linux (http://freshmeat.net/users/brainless/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 09:30

Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX

About: CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by
the Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Changes: This release adds a greatly-simplified installation update and
many improvements.

License: Freeware

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

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[008] - CommitMessage 2.0-beta-6
  by Matthew Jimenez (http://freshmeat.net/users/mjimenez/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 09:30

Software Development :: Version Control

About: CommitMessage is a modular, easy-to-use approach to CVS and SVN
commit emails. It consists of a controller for each supported system
(currently CVS and SVN), which populates a generic model with the entire
commit, and then passes the model to the configured views. The views are
written as Python classes, and are configured in the configuration file.

Changes: This release adds DEFAULT_MODULE and UNIVERSAL_MODULE support,
subversion fixes for spaces and properties, and user login name-to-email
address map functionality.

License: The Apache License

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

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[009] - Common Lisp SQL 3.0.11
  by Rene van Bevern (http://freshmeat.net/users/rvb/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 13:08

Database :: API

About: CLSQL is an SQL database interface for Common Lisp. It provides
object-oriented and functional access methods to the underlying database,
which can be one of MySQL, ODBC, PostgreSQL, or SQLite. It uses the
Unified Foreign Function Interface (UFFI) and thus supports the CMU Common
Lisp, Steel Bank Common Lisp, and Allegro Common Lisp implementations.

Changes: Besides several bugfixes, the MySQL backend of CLSQL now accepts
:blob as a result type.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[010] - DOCSIS Config .3
  by David Eder (http://freshmeat.net/users/pinhole/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 06:19

Internet
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
System :: Boot

About: DOCSIS Config is a PHP library to encode binary configuration files
for DOCSIS cable modems.

Changes: This release adds a firewall class to filter UDP and/or TCP
packets with the cable modem. The example shows filtering Windows NetBIOS
ports 137-139.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[011] - Doodle 0.6.0
  by Christian Grothoff (http://freshmeat.net/users/grothoff/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 15:41

Information Management
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Information Management :: Metadata/Semantic Models

About: Doodle is a tool that searches your hard drive for files using
pattern matching on meta-data. It extracts meta-data using libextractor
and builds a suffix tree to index the files. The index can then be
searched rapidly. It is similar to locate, but can take advantage of
information such as ID3 tags.

Changes: This release changes the database format, resulting in up to 20%
savings in database size and up to 25% savings in search time, under
certain circumstances. A new tool called doodled was added. doodled is a
daemon that sits in the background, watches for changes to files, and
updates the database immediately. This eliminates the possibility of stale
data and the need for periodic re-indexing.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - FlowDesigner 0.8.2
  by Jean-Marc Valin (http://freshmeat.net/users/jmvalin/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 01:02

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Speech
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence

About: FlowDesigner is a data flow-oriented development environment. It
can be used to build complex applications by combining small, reusable
building blocks. In some ways, it is similar to both Simulink and LabView,
but is hardly a clone of either.

Changes: Added the ability to create notes in the user interface,
implemented importing and exporting of existing networks, and fixed the
node parameter dialog.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[013] - GNU miscfiles 1.4.2
  by Roozbeh Pournader (http://freshmeat.net/users/roozbeh/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 20:35

About: GNU miscfiles is a collection of data files for freely available
information, like airport, country, currencies, city information, and
codes. It also includes the Unicode character database.

Changes: Updated the currency codes, removing old European currencies that
were replaced with the Euro, adding missing currencies for countries formed
out of the Soviet Union, and updating a few other currencies. Also removed
the unmaintainable currency subdivisions, and changed the language name
for 'Sinhalese' to 'Sinhala', according to latest ISO 639-2/RA Change
Notice.

License: DFSG approved

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

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[014] - grabinfo 1.71
  by Patrick LeBoutillier (http://freshmeat.net/users/patrick_leb/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 09:23

System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: grabinfo navigates the /proc filesystem and executes various
commands in order to gather information on the state of your Linux
machine. The data is generated in XML, which is easy to parse and extend.

Changes: This release adds the number of failed disks for software raids.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - InformationSpace 0.4.3
  by hybridmachine (http://freshmeat.net/users/hybridmachine/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 09:33

Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: InformationSpace is a causal set exploration tool. A causal set is
basically a set of simple rules that define the relationship between bits
in a space time. A common example of this is John Conway's game of life.
InformationSpace supports 3D space/time (2D of space, 1D of time).
Visualization is in 3D, with Z being time.

Changes: This release adds a simple control panel, Morphic UI. This
control panel simplifies the process of creating and visualizing new
explorations. Examples and documentation on using the new control panel
are available on the project site. VisualizeWhirledTea has also been
updated to work with the updates to the TeapotMorph. TeapotMorph has a new
openInWorld method. This new method calls initializeDefaultSpace. In order
to avoid starting with the full demo, VisualizeWhirldTea has overridden
this method with a version that starts with an empty teapot.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[016] - IPChat 0.1
  by Maximiliano Pin (http://freshmeat.net/users/BeatK/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 07:31

Communications :: Chat

About: IPChat is a small ncurses-based chat program, which operates peer
to peer, identifying partners by IP address. It features colors, terminal
window resizing, line editing, recalling of previously written lines, and
mantains a persistent contact list. Like an IM application, it notifies
the user when a contact connects.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - JPEG Disk Optimizer 2.6
  by linux (http://freshmeat.net/users/brainless/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 07:30

Artistic Software
Multimedia :: Graphics
Utilities

About: JPEG Disk Optimizer is a JPEG optimizer / compressor. It can remove
spots, or dead pixels, and gaussian noise from the image, significantly
improving both the appearance and file size.

License: Shareware

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

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[018] - KShutDown 0.3.2 Beta
  by kdt (http://freshmeat.net/users/kdt/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 01:16

Utilities

About: KShutDown is an advanced shutdown utility for KDE. It has 4 main
commands: Shut Down (logout and halt the system), Reboot (logout and
reboot the system), Lock Screen (lock the screen using a screen saver),
and Logout (end the session and logout the user). It features time and
delay options, command line support, wizard, and sounds. It requires KDE
and MDK/KDM.

Changes: Implemented standard KDE notifications, added an option to
re-enable all messages which have been disabled, changed the wizard image
and statistics default colors, improved the installation script, and fixed
various bugs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - kwavencoder 2.3
  by labrum (http://freshmeat.net/users/labrum/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 12:21

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion

About: kwavencoder is a small utility to easily convert between OGG, MP3,
FLAC, and WAV files in Konqueror by right-clicking on them. It needs
oggenc, oggdec, FLAC, and LAME to work. id3lib is optional, but needed for
full functionality.

Changes: ID3 tags are now copied for MP3 to MP3 reencoding. A destination
directory for MP3 and OGG reencoding can be chosen. A bug in Ogg-to-MP3
directory conversion has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - libextractor 0.3.10
  by Christian Grothoff (http://freshmeat.net/users/grothoff/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 15:35

Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Multimedia

About: libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files of
arbitrary type. It is designed to use helper-libraries to perform the
actual extraction, and to be trivially extendable by linking against
external extractors for additional file types. The goal is to provide
developers of file-sharing networks, file managers, and WWW-indexing bots
with a universal library to obtain meta-data about files. libextractor
contains a shell-command "extract" that, similar to the well-known "file"
command, can extract meta-data from a file and print the results to
stdout. Currently, it supports the formats HTML, PDF, PS, OLE2 (doc, xls,
ppt), StarOffice, OpenOffice, MAN, DVI, MP3 (ID3v1, ID3v2), OGG, WAV,
JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), ZIP, Real, QT, MPEG, RIFF (AVI),
ASF, and ELF. Various additional MIME types are detected. libextractor can
also be used to compute hash functions (SHA-1, MD5, ripemd160). A Java
binding (JNI) is available.

Changes: This release adds support for ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4. It also fixes
bugs in the tar, man, deb, mp3, and ole2 extractors.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - libferris 1.1.41
  by Ben Martin (http://freshmeat.net/users/monkeyiq/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 12:16

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Filesystems

About: libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of
all kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each file or
directory to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various
data sources and expose them as filesystems and to generate interesting
EA. Current implementations include native (kernel disk IO with event
updates using fam), XML (mount an XML file as a filesystem), DB4, xmldb,
LDAP, HTTP, FTP, eet, sockets, RDF/XML, RDF/bdb, and mbox. EA generators
include image, audio, and animation decoders.

Changes: New Xapian and TSearch2 fulltext indexing modules were added.
XML::readMessage() was uncommented. The default etagere and EA and
Fulltext indexes were updated. Relative time strings are now case
insensitive and handle ctime(3) formatted strings. ferris-capplet-index
now also sets defaults for new EA and Fulltext indexes. A symbol clash
between some PCCTS based modules was fixed. A new ferris-search tool was
added for combined EA and Fulltext queries. The schema for some EXIF EA
were fixed. The manpage as-text EA handler now uses the "col" tool for
formatting. Many other minor fixes were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - MetaStock Data Conversion Command Line Utils 1.4
  by Mansoor (http://freshmeat.net/users/mimansoor/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 12:44

Office/Business :: Financial :: Investment

About: The MetaStock Data Conversion Command Line Utils are utilities to
convert from MetaStock binary data (MASTER and Fxxx.DAT) format to
MetaStock ASCII (8 Field) format and back.

Changes: A traverse destination folder option was added in the asc2ms
utility. This will enable the conversion of more than 256 symbols by
splitting them into different directories.

License: Freeware

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

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[023] - Mixxx 1.4.2
  by Tue (http://freshmeat.net/users/haste/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 01:12

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Mixers

About: Mixxx is a digital DJ system, where wave, Ogg, and MP3 files can
be mixed on a computer for use in live performances. Filters, a
crossfader, and speed controls are provided. It is controlled by mouse
and/or MIDI events.

Changes: This version fixes a startup problem on some Linux distributions,
MIDI, Beat synchronization, and the Kill button widgets.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - Mozilla Afrikaans Language Pack 1.7.3
  by Dwayne Bailey (http://freshmeat.net/users/dwaynebailey/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 06:15

Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Software Development :: Localization

About: The Mozilla Afrikaans Language Pack provides translations of the
Mozilla suite's Web browser, email program, and editor into Afrikaans. All
functions, errors, menus, and buttons are translated into Afrikaans.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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

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[025] - MySQL Backup Pro 1.0.8-PRE2
  by Hatem (http://freshmeat.net/users/hatemben/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 13:00

Database
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: MySQL Backup Pro provides backup and restore services for MySQL
databases. It provides a friendly tab-based user interface that lets
users create backups of given MySQL databases to files, list previously
generated backups, restore a given backup, and delete backup files.

Changes: A small bug was fixed to allow downloading archives.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[026] - Netty 1.7.4
  by Trustin Lee (http://freshmeat.net/users/anoripi/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 01:07

Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: Netty is an event-driven network application framework. It provides
an easy event-based API (like Swing) for developing high-performance,
maintainable TCP/IP server/client applications. It provides many essential
features such as readiness selection, thread pooling, and buffer reuse,
which are required to build high performance and high capacity network
applications in Java.

Changes: This version fixes a bug that caused Session.write() to fail when
maxQueuedMessages was set, prevents IoProcessor.stop() from throwing
NullPointerException, and solves large file transfer issues by changing
the socket read/write buffer.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[027] - Ocrad 0.9
  by Antonio Diaz Diaz (http://freshmeat.net/users/ant_diaz/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 13:35

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Text Processing

About: Ocrad is the GNU OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program,
implemented as a filter and based on a feature extraction method. It reads
a bitmap image in PBM format and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8
formats. It also includes a layout analyzer that is able to separate the
columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages. Ocrad can be
used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to other
programs.

Changes: A new "--transform" option was added for rotating or mirroring
the image file before processing it. The mekefile variable "DESTDIR" now
works as it should.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - OpenOffice.org Tools 1.11
  by EricW (http://freshmeat.net/users/tox6sed8u/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 15:58

Office/Business :: Office Suites
Other/Nonlisted Topic

About: OpenOffice.org Tools is a GUI-based Java program that complements
OpenOffice. The tools include a Writer file properties viewer, a modified
word counter, and a bibliography converter. The file properties viewer
reads, displays, and searches the properties (title, subject, keywords,
and comments) of all OpenOffice Word Processor documents in a directory.
The view can be customized and auto-loaded on program start-up. The word
counter counts words bounded by spaces. This is different from the word
count provided by OpenOffice, which counts hyphenated words as more than
one word. The bibliography converter imports bibliographic information
from BibTeX and OpenOffice files and exports them to a database format
supported by OpenOffice to be used as a bibliography database.

Changes: The Preferences tab (formerly the Configure tab) was changed in
several ways. The layout was modified, auto-maximize was added, size
adjustments were made for the Bibliography Converter, and the ability to
refresh views without restarting the program was added.

License: Other/Proprietary License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ooo-tools/

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[029] - Phaos 0.84-TEST2
  by Zeke Walker (http://freshmeat.net/users/eproductions3/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 15:23

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: Phaos is a browser-based RPG. Current features include character
creation, the ability to purchase/sell potions, weapons and armor,
traveling, inter-player chat, the ability to fight in the arena, an admin
system, random encounters, the ability to trade with other players, and
the ability to fight other players. Future releases will include a
storyline and quests.

Changes: This release has minor bugfixes and an updated admin panel.

License: Open Software License

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

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[030] - phpCodeGenie 3.0.2
  by Nilesh Dosooye (http://freshmeat.net/users/nileshd/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 09:22

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: phpCodeGenie (PCG) is a code generator for database driven
applications. PCG can talk to different databases and generate entire
applications for you. While the core version generates mostly PHP code,
phpCodeGenie can be modified via user plugins to generate code in any
programming language. It will build data entry forms, insert scripts,
database lister scripts, edit record forms, update record scripts, delete
confirmation scripts, delete scripts, search forms, search scripts, and
other frontend/database interaction code. Basically, it provides a basic
code base which you can build on.

Changes: This release fixes a security risk in PCG simple application
generation. If users put arbitrary code in the headers and footers, they
could execute it by going to Web/generatedCode/simple/applicationName.
Although PCG is an application used for developers and as such should not
be put on production or public machines, the author has decided to remove
the custom header and footer textbox from full simple application
generation to prevent this. This release also adds a tool to translate the
PCG user interface and save a new language file.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[031] - phpCodeGenie 1.0 (Documentation)
  by Nilesh Dosooye (http://freshmeat.net/users/nileshd/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 06:12

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: phpCodeGenie (PCG) is a code generator for database driven
applications. PCG can talk to different databases and generate entire
applications for you. While the core version generates mostly PHP code,
phpCodeGenie can be modified via user plugins to generate code in any
programming language. It will build data entry forms, insert scripts,
database lister scripts, edit record forms, update record scripts, delete
confirmation scripts, delete scripts, search forms, search scripts, and
other frontend/database interaction code. Basically, it provides a basic
code base which you can build on.

Changes: This release adds "Introduction to the PCG PHP framework", a PDF
document which provides an overview of the PCG framework and the major
components and which is generated using the phpCodeGenie advanced
generation.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - PNGwriter 0.5.0
  by individual61 (http://freshmeat.net/users/individual61/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 07:33

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
Scientific/Engineering

About: The PNGwriter library, which requires libpng, allows you to plot to
a 48-bit PNG file, saving it directly to disk. Plotting is as easy as
specifying the red, green, and blue values and the x, y coordinates of the
pixel. It includes functions for plotting simple geometric shapes (circle,
rect, line), plotting text (UTF-8 support for Asian languages), reading
the colour of a pixel, reading in a whole PNG file (great for image
analysis), plotting and reading in HSV colourspace, and many others that
might come in handy.

Changes: This version adds a function for fast plotting of triangles,
fixes a serious bug in readfromfile() affecting versions compiled on
Windows, and adds another example to the included pngtest program.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - pyHTTPConn 2004-10-20
  by Bob (http://freshmeat.net/users/bigbadbob0/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 06:17

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: pyHTTPConn is a Python module that builds upon httplib with the
goal of being wrapped up in a unit test framework to allow the testing of
Web applications. However, it functions just fine outside of a unit test
framework and allows developers to quickly write scripts that can, for
instance, login to a Web site and gather interesting information.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[034] - PyKota Print Quota System 1.20beta
  by Jerome Alet (http://freshmeat.net/users/jalet/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 20:31

Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
Printing
System

About: PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the
Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) and LPRng. It features per-printer user
and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator,
commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, PostgreSQL and
OpenLDAP backends, and much more.

Changes: SNMP and PJL over TCP queries are now handled internally to
reduce CPU load, a powerful data dumper is included, the Page Description
Language parser now recognizes more languages, general reliability and
handling of locale settings are improved, and more messages are
translated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - Python Wrappers for Remote Access Tools 0.0.5
  by Jonas Bardino (http://freshmeat.net/users/jonasfm/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 06:14

Internet
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: pywrat (Python Wrappers for Remote Access Tools) is a set of
wrappers that can be used for accessing remote hosts. They use ssh and scp
for remote shell and file system access and can be used as a generalized
access method with a single configuration file for all host, user, and key
setups. The wrappers are intended to simplify remote access in shell
scripts, but it is also possible to use the wrapper modules directly from
Python programs.

Changes: This release mainly adds changes to the installation procedure.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - Qucs 0.0.4
  by Stefan Jahn (http://freshmeat.net/users/ela/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 20:51

Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

About: Qucs is a circuit simulator with a graphical user interface. It
aims to support all kinds of circuit simulation types, e.g. DC, AC, S
parameter, and harmonic balance analysis.

Changes: This release includes an internal help system, with Portuguese
and Spanish translations. It adds new paintings and components, allows
subcircuits to have a user-defined symbol, improves zooming, adds a
progress bar during simulation, implements ideal AC, DC, and S-parameter
models for microstrip t-junctions and cross-junctions in the simulation
backend, and adds support for transient analysis of linear and non-linear
components.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[037] - ripMIME 1.4.0.1
  by Paul L Daniels (http://freshmeat.net/users/pldaniels/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 01:16

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Software Development :: Libraries

About: ripMIME extracts attachment files out of a MIME-encoded email pack.

Changes: OLE2, UUE decoding and filename hardlink issues rectified.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[038] - Solunas 1.2.3
  by Marc Isemann (http://freshmeat.net/users/isemann/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 13:38

About: Solunas helps the user manage small to medium-sized hotels, holiday
flats, guest houses, or car rentals. Online booking and visual indication
of availability is provided. Grouping of active members gives communities
the ability to provide an online booking service.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[039] - Spam Trainer 0.1.3
  by ashtong (http://freshmeat.net/users/ashtong/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 01:19

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Desktop Environment :: Gnome

About: Spam Trainer makes it easier for GNOME users to train spam
filtering software (e.g. SpamBayes or SpamAssassin) that "learns" how to
tell the difference between real email (ham) and unsolicited messages
(spam). Not all email clients have spam filtering (and training) built
in, and training external filtering programs can be fiddly. Spam Trainer
provides easy (drag and drop) training from the Evolution mail client, and
should work just as well with any email client that supports the drag and
drop protocol implemented by the GTK+ toolkit.

Changes: This version fixes ham training with Evolution 2.0.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - streamtuner 0.99
  by Jean-Yves Lefort (http://freshmeat.net/users/jylefort/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 01:04

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: streamtuner is a stream directory browser. Through the use of a
plugin system, it offers an intuitive GTK+ 2.0 interface to Internet radio
directories such as SHOUTcast and Live365.

Changes: This release includes the plugins in the core distribution, and
adds the ability to disable them in user preferences. It also fixes a
number of bugs.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[041] - Tablix 0.1.0
  by Tomaz Solc (http://freshmeat.net/users/Avian/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 13:01

Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: Tablix is a high school timetable generator. It uses a
coarse-grained parallel genetic algorithm to construct sensible timetables
from XML-formated school information files. It can run on a single host as
well as on a heterogenous parallel virtual machine using PVM. Its features
include a number of possible restrictions for teachers or classes,
HTML-formatted output, and configurable genetic parameters.

Changes: Several optimizations were made. This version is approximately
10% faster than the previous one. A new framework was added for testing
modules and kernel. The path to modules is now determined automatically.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[042] - Thunder&Lightning 041023
  by Jonas Eschenburg (http://freshmeat.net/users/indyjo/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 20:32

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Simulation

About: Thunder&Lightning is a futuristic action flight simulator game that
lets you fly around in your airplane and fight against tanks and other
aircraft in a 3D environment.

Changes: This release features significant performance enhancements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[043] - tntnet 1.1.1
  by Tommi Mäkitalo (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmaek/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 15:26

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: Tntnet is a Web application server for generating Web applications
in C++. HTML pages with some additional tags for inclusion of C++ code are
compiled into shared libraries and served from tntnet. It resembles PHP,
JSP, or Mason, but the programming language used is C++, and the pages are
compiled into native code before serving.

Changes: The autoconf/automake-system is working, so installation is
easier now, since the customary "configure && make && make install"
command can be used. Some features were also added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[044] - Virtual Universe 0.47 (Unaverse Server)
  by Oxygenic (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxygenic/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 06:14

Communications :: Chat
Games/Entertainment
Multimedia :: Graphics

About: The "Virtual Universe" is a 3D cyberspace which offers more
possibilities than just chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and
instant messaging within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here
people can meet, interact with each other, and build houses and whole
worlds. The "Virtual Universe" is a virtual reality environment which runs
on top of the Internet.

Changes: This release fixes bugs in signal handling, mutex handling, and
thread management, and adds automatic reloading of the configuration.

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[045] - Window Maker 0.90.0
  by Alfredo K. Kojima (http://freshmeat.net/users/kojima/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 23:16

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

About: Window Maker is an X11 window manager designed to give additional
integration support to the GNUstep Desktop Environment. In every way
possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NeXTSTEP[tm] GUI.
It is fast, feature rich, easy to configure, and easy to use. In addition,
Window Maker works with GNOME and KDE, making it one of the most useful
and universal window managers available.

Changes: This version adds NetWM support, meaning it should work with
GNOME 2.x and KDE 3.x. It also includes UTF-8 support, antialiased text
support via Xft2, Xinerama support, enhanced Alt-Tab window switching,
font configuration in WPrefs, and various bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[046] - xmms-curses 0.2
  by Knut Auvor Grythe (http://freshmeat.net/users/knuta/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 13:42

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: xmms-curses is a simple application for controlling XMMS from the
command line. It is designed to make common, simple tasks fast and easy to
do. It is operated using arrow keys and standard XMMS keys, to make it easy
and intuitive to learn.

Changes: xmms-curses now supports resizing the window. Several new runtime
options for tweaking performance and appearance were added. Configuration
files may be located in /etc/xmms-curses.conf and ~/.xmms-curses. There
has also been some major code cleanups.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmms-curses/

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[047] - XO Wave 0.8 Beta
  by bjornbjorn (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjornbjorn/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 13:29

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording

About: XO Wave is a digital audio workstation which offers powerful
features and an intuitive cross platform user interface. It provides
simple yet powerful recording, editing, mixing, CD Burning, and scripting
(via the XML session file) as well as basic effects, including reverb,
compression, and EQ, and flexible real-time cross fades. The audio engine
is separate from the GUI, which allows for intelligent management of
background tasks and the ability to use separate machines for the
interface and for playback.

Changes: This release includes improvements to help with file management,
especially importing audio files. On the Mac, files can now be imported
easily from audio CDs. Support for some of the more common AIFC file types
has also been added. This release also includes a number of small
enhancements and bugfixes, especially for the Mac.

License: Freeware

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

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[048] - ZDoom 2.0.91
  by Schneelocke (http://freshmeat.net/users/schneelocke/)
  Sat, Oct 23rd 2004 20:45

Games/Entertainment :: First Person Shooters

About: ZDoom is an enhanced port of the official DOOM source. It features
support for all Hexen editing features (including ACS, hubs, etc.),
support for most BOOM editing features, freelook, jumping, and
translucency support, a Quake-style console, high screen resolutions,
removal of the original DOOM's limits, support for many more music formats
(including MOD, IT, XM, S3M, MIDI, MP3, and MUS), better mouse support, UDP
networking, and more.

Changes: Major changes include full Strife support and extensive support
for custom monster definitions.

License: Freely Distributable

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

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